Speaking of Doorknobs

When you think of it in terms of Murderbot’s entire existence until Preservation Station being one long job in customer service with no personal rights or ability to quit, its attitude towards random humans makes perfect sense.

oh my god they really acknowledged that ribombee is based on a brood parasite!?!

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

if you complete one task off your to do list you should be allowed 3 days of chilling afterwards as a reward

If you want to write in the classic high fantasy mould, you don't have to be hung up on food specifically, but there must be some very mundane thing you're prepared to cultivate a sincere interest in and describe in excruciating detail every single time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

(The trick is, it needs to be something you can touch or hold. If you're infodumping about trade routes, you've crossed the line into the venerable "worldbuilding bible with a fantasy story stapled to the side of it" genre, which often overlaps with classic high fantasy but is not identical with it!)

no matter how normalised it gets I will die on the hill that it is rude to record strangers in public without their consent

Sometimes my little cat will approach me all "what if there was a little cat now" and it's always an excellent idea I love when there's a little cat

So, okay. It turns out that a “truffle” is some sort of edible fungus spore, and does not always refer to the chocolate treat. And these sorts of truffles grow underground, which is why they have pigs to sniff them out. Which makes a lot more sense than scattering chocolate treats around outside and asking pigs to find them, which is what I assumed a “truffle-hunting pig” was tasked with. I could not quite figure out what the point of this would be.