And they’re smart enough to take people when they aren’t able to do “2A people” type stuff. It’s hard for an illegal to own a gun in the first place, much less have it at work when your boss will use any excuse to crack the whip at you to keep the others oppressed and in line.

You could set your story in a historical setting in which the countess and the gardener are truly forbidden from passion, or a fantasy world where the ogopogos and sasquatches are sexy rivals.

The amount of pirates on the covers of romance novels is the direct result of this.

Or just have a lukewarm type of forbidden-ness, like “his family’s greeting-card store is in competition with my family’s greeting-card store” or “we’re coworkers.”

And the hallmark channel answer. I had a coworker who would watch those every single day. I vomit at the visuals (how do they get them so consistent and apparent? You can tell just from the opening shots and title!) of a hallmark to this day.

I mean, that was bad, but I hated the movie more for turning it into feel-good drivel about the boss actually being kind and caring about her employee(s). The book ending, where the character realized her own self worth and started making her own decisions, was so much better than the american bullshit about putting up with a boss’ bullshit because they’re actually such good people and will throw a few dollars off the balcony for you to catch.

Yes, thank you! I’d extend it to more than just being stupid. That sentiment applies equally to just about every fictional work. Using atlas shrugged to cheer whatever the fuck rand was trying to push is just as foolish as using a separate peace for examples of codependence.

Fiction can highlight things, but when any author can make gay space communism and super-straight ™ capitalism equally viable and good for the individuals operating under their systems by simply writing a sentence like, “The super-straight capitalismo empire had citizens every bit as happy and fulfilled as the gay space communitarians across the river,” then maybe all the english language arts teachers should take a deep breath and step back from their fart sniffing on the soap box.

I wonder if we are going to be able to truly study the effects of plastic. We’ll surely be able to point at certain effects, but like porn, you just won’t be able to find people who can be the control group.

I enjoy it, but not nearly as much as helluva boss. It was too much like children’s programming, where the solution/chekhov’s gun/learning-through-song experience didn’t feel like it naturally flowed.

Why would you think they were ever on?

you are a slut

but will you treat me like one?

This actually happened to me with Jade from Beyond Good & Evil

Mine was loona from helluva boss. I wondered what the fuck this wolf thing that kept cropping up in random places was, then found the show and thought it was brilliant.

I think there’s an entire generation of us that thinks tubgirl, goatse (I remember reading the guy’s story, or at least someone pretending to be that guy and writing the story), beheadings, and hatchet vs. genitals are completely normal experiences. Who didn’t watch all those, right?

Oh, damn. Are you trying to tell me that the reason I’ve been slowly getting happier over the last few years is because of COVID/5G-brain-chips/spoon-in-brain-plastic destroying my ability to reason?!?!

I know that it’s probably a sign of impending ecological doom, but where I live used to have scorpions coming in all the time. I don’t think I’ve even seen evidence of them outside for close to a decade. I guess I can appreciate the silver lining of the giant mushroom cloud.

Something, something, biology.

And here I was, thinking my lemmy feed was the sign of me being hip and youthful…

Yeah, but I think I saw some trivia about the attack that made it seem like it was a personal thing due to relationship issues.

I’m happy that you’re taking the account’s claim seriously, but there’s no way that there’s someone who would be able to determine what instance is largest as the criteria, AND then choose it, AND be unable to “switch instances or access .ml.”

That’s either a chatbot posing as a person, or a troll.

Remember that the united states and russia were routinely inspecting the nuclear arsenals of each other. They may have been hiding how bad things were, but we can be certain they do have functioning nuclear weapons at a scale large enough to matter.

Sounds like a good business plan, honestly. Sell the idea to people that they get their massage by doing the person in front of them. You sit back and rake in the money as your customers do all the work, and you only have to do the last person of the day.

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You’ll have to correct him 500 times for it to stick.

I loved her character in the comic. And just in case anyone doesn’t want to do the furaffinity signup, here’s another link: https://e621.net/pools/14921