One of my favorite authors killed off one of the major characters at the end of his series and I broke down and cried. This series and that character saved my life in a very real way by giving me a place fictional or not that I could go. I wrote him an email telling him what it all meant to me and he wrote a very nice email back.

Authors are people just like the rest of us treat them how you would anyone else and be respectful.

I watched Knight Rider in the 80s and grew up with Boy Meets World in the 90s (Me and Ben Savage are same age) and I didn't make that connection until my 20s.

As long as I can still measure the trunk space of a car by how many bodies I think would fit into it then we're good.

I'm not just talking about reddit. I have never in any circle had someone bring up the series or know what I was talking about when I did

That's good to know. I never hear people talking about them

The entire Deverry Saga. I'm legit surprised I don't hear about it as often as Wheel of Time. It's a brilliant series of 15 books with interweaving storytelling that uses different time periods, incarnations and the like to tell it's stories. Katharine Kerr is hands down one of my favorite authors of all time.

Stoned Souls by Mercedes Lackey and Joshua Sherman. It was meant to be part of the SERRAted Edge novels but was never published.

My trick with books that aren't getting me is to jump to the last chapter and read a few pages. If it's interesting enough that I want to know how it got there I'll go back and keep reading. If it's not I'll give up on the book.

It actually helped me understand the way my mom treated my Uncle. As a kid he had that cool uncle vibe. As an adult it was like oh he's a flake who job hops, moves a lot (During a time when it wasn't due to economic reasons) , does coke etc.

I read On the Road twice. Once at 16 and once at 26. Not intentionally. I just hadn't read it in 10 years was feeling nostalgic and re-read it. The experiences were night and day.

At 16 I saw adventure and exploration and how cool this Kerouac guy was. At 26 I realized what a flaky asshole he was. I saw how he tended to be judgmental and make false promises to people in shitty situations that he never intended to keep.

There's a passage where he talks about this single mother he's been dating. How he's been trying to get them money to get them back to his home so that they can get married and he can be the father to her son. Then he talks about how he split off from them so he could go get money and send for them.

As soon as he's away from them he wires his aunt for money and leaves the area. When I was 16 I missed how that played out. At 26 I was appalled.

This is what surrealism does for me and why I love it so much.

My daughter gives me huge lists of Manga she wants so that I know what to choose from for gifts.

The reverse is true. Selective breeding is "Hoping" the genes you want to become dominant do. GMO is knowing which ones will.

Selective breeding is to a saw removing a limb as GMOs are to a surgical scalpel removing gangrene. The latter technique allows you to be much more specific and to have more of an idea of what's going on.

I mean yeah. This is what selective breeding is. It's why I snort when people complain about GMOs (for the same reasons they should object to selective breeding)

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No but I think that it would be a way to get more specific fan fiction. I can look for fan fic and I'd still prefer human written stuff but if I'm looking for a specific idea and no one's written it I wouldn't mind telling an AI program to do so.

Twenty Bucks. I'm sure someone's going to point out that the 20 dollar bill is the "main" character I would argue that it's not a character merely the connecting thread that ties all of the vignettes together.

I don't think he knows about no umbrellas.

I was bored for most of the movie. I was at the "Wow I've wasted my life" point. The last 3 minutes made the slog worth it though.

Perks of Being a Wallflower. The main character and me experienced a lot of the same events in life but there's a big one that's concealed in nature until the end of it.

The whole time his behavior is familiar but it didn't really click why until the ending. Rewatching it was like "okay yeah I see it now"

When Harry Met Sally - Sally faking an orgasm and the woman saying "I'll have what she's having"

What truly elevates the moment is that the woman in question is Rob Reiner's mom and Meg Ryan wasn't faking it right.

Rob Reiner sat down acted out the scene and faked an orgasm himself completely forgetting he had his mom on set.

Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers 2022 film feels like a spiritual successor to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

For me it's all about the stories in the books. When I was a kid my backpack was full, I had books in my jacket sleeves and everywhere I could stuff books had books. Now I have one device for all of thm.

I was 11 when I saw this one and it gave me nightmares awesome movie but damn

Sixth Sense. I was told the twist as we entered the theater. Never seen it while not knowing.