Given the body shape and stilettos, she’s probably sore too.

And those grams should be counted via how much a rubber duck weighs.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Body.

I’ve read most of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood stories and don’t like any of them, even though they’re probably his most recommended works. His novels are all worth reading, and some of them are quite fantastic. I particularly love Imajica and Coldheart Canyon.

Thank you for the suggestion, I’ll look into it.

Do you know of one? I don’t know how to shop for a game based on so many specific mechanics. The rules changes have emerged organically over several years of playing and have been trial and error. Also I just really love birds.

We play Wingspan almost every day and we’ve added so many rules. We write in new point values and rules on individual cards. There aren’t enough turns for us, so we each have one extra player, then a second extra for the final round. We each start with four bonus cards, and get to keep two of them. We deal 7 cards, you can keep 5. Or you can keep a 6th if you pay the nectar you’d normally start with. We seed the feeder with nectar for the first round. If you really hate either the bird cards or bonus cards you were dealt, you can trade in the entire hand for a new one, one time. Also, one time per game, if the bird feeder is really not working for you, you get a free reroll.

Iron repels fairy magic.

OP said “always” and “never.” So I’m not really sure what the purpose of this discussion is beyond refuting those superlatives. Is the idea that there needs to be more physically abusive women in fiction? Or fewer men? What is the ideal?

I’ve only just started reading this, so I can’t guarantee that it fits the brief, or that it’s good: look into The River by Peter Heller.

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip–a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence

Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival

A Wrinkle in Time.

The other books in that series were also great.

CLAMPS

Understandable, I appreciate you.

Excellent point, thank you for fleshing that out.

I’ve always said my mom is not the black sheep of the family, because that was definitely Uncle Jimmy; she is the Purple polkadotted sheep of the family. Sounds like that’s what you might be.

I’m not comfortable with the gender exclusion we currently have. It’s one thing to have a space that is just for one group of people (women). But that’s not what we have. The group welcomes nonbinary and trans men; everyone who is not a cis man. So instead of being exclusionary in favor of one group, it’s exclusionary against one group, and that doesn’t sit right with me.

You can point to the abusive and inappropriate comments we get as proof of why this is necessary - but we’re getting those anyway. At this point, the only people being excluded are our allies.

Just my two cents. I know I’m in a minority.

Thank you, I am also a fan of your work.

They also don’t sell Halloween decorations.

Thank you! I do not, I’m a complete amateur.