Is a nice site if you want to expand into Nordic/Swedish books in your collection
I know, I’ve even heard of pages missing from paperbacks published by reputable print houses here in sweden
I like the ringantasy over romantasy any day. Sometimes I also read sword-and-sandalsantasy.
+Old man grumbles over the youths word usage+
At least when I grew up in the late 80s and 90s both boys and girls read the books and watched the movies with Pippi.
I agree that Hollywood is a blight on the cultural landscape, and you basically have to disregard their movies if you want to find something deeper than a puddle, with exceptions few and far between
I saw that as parental instinct since protection of young are not gender coded, but you can read it as maternal for sure as a mirror to the Queens hatred after the egg burning
Ellen Ripley’s gender doesn’t matter until Resurrection, which isn’t the highlight of the movie.
A lot of media have strong female characters but their gender or sex does matter for the story so can’t easily be replaced
Susan in the book Soul Music (plus some others) as well as the Witches, Tiffany Achings and more from Pratchett
Death from Sandman (even though the author is very controversial, but you could check the books out from sources that doesn’t give him a kick back)
Was a long time since I read them but the Polgara books feature a strong female protagonist
We got classic youth/kids media that shows strong female characters even if some stuff are coloured by weird takes (Such as Xander Harris): Xena, Buffy and Pippi Longstockings
I very much prefer CO2 in my drinks, some other carbon captures get you CO and I’ve heard that’s not as good as a drink carbonator
You save quite a lot of time when working on a database if it’s stored in RAM compared to tape, so it does make sense to use that technology
Ah, okay. Thanks for the explanation
What’s bedrotting? Q
Yeah, it’s may-may
So Bloodhound Gangs Uhn-Tiss song is a party stopper for you?
It’s horrible when taking the bus for example. Just sitting minding your business and the BAM spontaneous sex with the busdriver and everyone gets late for work
Good thing to do together while discussion boundaries and safety ;)
I got a Kobo epub reader, made it way easier to just pick up a book when I have some spare time
For the universe start with the “First and Only”, for space marines I recommend “Brothers of the Snake” or “Horus Rising”
Maybe make them white and black as an homage to the old controller Duke or S controllers
Just don’t use ordinary shrink tubing, it doesn’t seal properly in the front and may tighten too hard for comfort