Safe havens for all. I remember going there for hours on end and playing runescape with kid friends. I remember not recognizing how enamored I had become by the books and the rungs on the ladders, that place seemed so fun.

Read it in high school and enjoyed it. Years later read The Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson and I felt like it was the same writing. Turns out Hunter S Thompson often used to type out the Great Gatsby from start to finish to make himself a better writer...

I use my blue book of the month bag and I can fit 3 in there easily

I think we've only begun to scratch the surface really. Most space horror is just being stuck in a place with a monster. It's just a reskin of fantasy, not that different from being stuck in a labyrinth with a minotaur.

Very little space horror explores just how horrific the sheer difference between us and whats out there can be. Stuff like Blindsight or Annihilation.

Or even just contamination horror. You are literally made out of food. Every single moment of your life a horde of microbial life is trying to eat you alive, parasitise you or highjack your cells to force your body to create copies of itself until your body simply fails.

The only reason you're not a failing mind in a decomposing living body right is that your immune system has learned to fight off most other Earth life from eating you alive.

Any life you encounter out there will be unfamiliar to your immune system.

I do everything on social media. Tag them in posts about the book or comment on their posts. I go to a lot of book signings too.

It's one of the themes of the franchise really humanity and the xenomorph are both monsters.

I agree

I’m not lost I’m just allot

Can I have your number ? I like honest outspoken people

I would never confront anyone about it , I’m not harming anyone , it’s just an intrusive thought something’s that’s been on my mind . It’s just something I keep to myself because Ik people would react this way . I want to kiss my homie but I would never because then my other homies would hate me

When I was maybe 12 I read all the Little House on the Prairie books and had a complete meltdown when I finished

Hey Casual! Love your series

However, in a long running series, surely you must have written yourself into a corner with various details. What would you say is the plot event you would most like to retcon in your story, and why?

I have read it for the purpose of teaching it four out of the last five years and still find new things in it to discover and to talk about. It’s familiarity and otherness are still an essential part of the experience of re-reading it.

This doesn’t affect me or interfere with my life

It appears to have affected you and interfered with your life. Don't worry about it, get on with your own life let other people get on with theirs.

The book can't fit in the bag. The bag can't handle that much weight (mostly this in my case). I don't want that much weight on my shoulder at a time. Easy access after immediately sitting down...Also BECAUSE WE F CAN!!!

Because what else can you do about it? Take it from me??? "Pet peeve" lol tiktok is something else...

I am definitely carrying 3 books instead of 1 on way to work today out of spite for this post...

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This has nothing to do with books.

The movie makes fun of the times, the book makes fun of America.

I thought the book was funny. I still can not believe the movie beat Shawshank Redemption at the Oscars.

Reading threatens the ruling class.

This reminded me of the fact that him and Ghandi were penpals

So cute :,)

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Probably in order, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey

Hey CF, I know I'm late to the post, but I wanted to know if you have any tips for writing dialogue. Also I love your work. It's always the highlight of my day when a new chapter drops. Thanks!

I've emailed a few authors over the years. Most only once, one fellow twice. You have to be a little patient, these folks have other things to do than clear their email backlog every few hours, but I almost always get a reply within a week, and the replies have always been positive.

Only once did I fail to get a gracious reply, and I feel that was my fault. A favorite author has about 50 short stories spread across half a dozen print collections, all but one decades out of print. I suggested he put together some master collection in ebook form to make it easier for fans to collect all of the stories. He didn't reply.

I feel I should have known better, because on his website he kind of vaguely but firmly mentions he is not interested in revisiting old work and updating it. I was disappointed, but not surprised when he ignored the suggestion and sent no reply.

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.