T'Pala Vulcangirl

Oh, are they now? Statistically, you say? Are you a statistician? Are you a pollster? Are you in the Disney marketing department and have done massive amounts of market research? How big is your representative sample? What steps have you taken to offset the margins of error given nonresponses, misleading questions, confusing questions, or just outright lies to screw with people? Are you an observer of fandom circles? Do you join in cosplay communities - particularly Star Wars and superhero ones? Are there microchips inside every toy, movie ticket, blu-ray, and streaming app that tracks who buys them/rents them/observes them/accounts for family accounts? Are you familiar with fandom history, like T.J. Burnside-Clapp, a 16 year-old girl in 1977 who went to see Star Wars multiple times JUST so she could make an accurate X-Wing pilot costume for herself that she proceeded to wear over the years, including to the premiere of Empire Strikes Back? Are you familiar with the history of women in science-fiction? Whether it be the genre's creation or how women over the years have kept sci-fi going, be it on the production side via Lucille Ball or the editing Marcia Lucas or the fandom side with Star Trek slash fiction and convention organization? Are you a powerful telepath or at least possess sufficient empathic abilities to read the emotions of everyone on the planet and are able to say "MEN ARE OVERWHELMINGLY THE AUDIENCE FOR THESE THINGS?" Or do you just need to pull your finger out of your ass?

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

Source:

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

on survival

Well actually YES but also:

Restricting food Does Stuff To Your Brain. "Restricting" doesn't mean stopping when you're full. I feel like this is what gets misunderstood a lot. It means placing rules and limits on food that supercede what your body is signalling that it wants. Let's use cookies as an example. Restricting would be:

- I can only have cookies when I deserve them.

- I can only have cookies when I'm alone.

- I can only have two cookies.

- I can only have low-calorie cookies.

- I can only have cookies on set days, or so-called cheat days.

- I can't have cookies.

- I can't have cookies in the house.

- I'm bad when I eat cookies.

- Cookies are a bad food and I must compensate for having eaten them.

Whether or not you stick to the restrictions you set, your brain is learning to be an anxious mess around cookies. It might want to avoid anywhere that has cookies. It might feel shame for wanting or eating cookies. It might get exhausted from suppressing the craving and decide to binge. It might go into binge mode every time you eat cookies because you've taught your body that This Will Not Be Available Whenever. It might feel ridiculously important to eat all the cookies while you can.

I know we're all so used to constantly talking about food, diets, weight and bodies, and it's completely normalised to look at absolutely everything you eat and assign it the level of guilt you're gonna feel for eating it, and to brag about not eating this and that, and to announce that you know it's a Naughty Indulgence when you eat anything sweet.

But oh my god, it's such a huge weight off your shoulders to just let yourself eat cookies because you wanted cookies and stop when you feel satiated and know that the cookies will be available next time you want cookies because you don't need to earn them in any way. Because a brain that knows it can have cookies whenever it wants cookies, doesn't crave cookies all the time. Nor does it feel any self-loathing when it does crave cookies.

The first book is also a murder mystery and political thriller

The second book is a classic fantasy adventure

The third book is a dungeon crawler which then turns into a medical drama

The fourth book is a spy thriller and action adventure, and a little military fiction too

When that happened, his paladins all went into an uncontrollable frenzy. At the end of which all but 7 paladins ended up dead or in a coma. Now they serve the temple of the White Rat, a god of altruism and good deeds, to try to atone for the damage they've done.

When the Saint was alive, the paladins had control of their berserker state, but without him each time they go berserk is extremely dangerous to themselves and everyone around them.

“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.