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[Narilka]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "So I just went through the paperwork my job sent me that they want me to sign. It's a resignation. So if I sign it I won't be eligible for unemployment. That's such utter bullshit. It's not enough ..."

That is complete bullshit. I hope your lawyer friends have some good advice.

[Zaara]

Where is Ron?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I just pick a shirt/team color and yell them out anytime someone asks me who I support, or there is a sports game on in the break room at work... I'm oblivious to sports... altho I've read some books with sports in them...

[Zaara]

Haha @Abster...while I appreciaet the Harry Potter curveball, truly I do....I see what you really want, is that you are totally craving soccer talk...and...uh...you chose me? Are you confusing me with my brother, the gorilla maniac soccer fan?

Flattered of course, taaaa daaaahlin' but if I talk much about this I would quickly expose my gaping ignorance + bore you to death. See...gone are the dim yesterdays when I ran with an uncoutf crowd who used to maniacally support Arsenal. Nowadays the closest I come to televised sports is supplying my boys with bucketloads of beer + catrloads of salty snacks and gently patting them on the head before closing the door on all the whooping testosterone and heading for a night out with my gals.

But I do admit it will be a refreshing change if them Latinos don't jezzt lift the cup like the entire tournament was a mere formality...otherwise I'm strictly neutral.
So I will just join you (and Siobhan and Shai and Hailee) and cheer for England...
But ONLY bcuz the Netherlands isn't playing 😉😉

Meanwhile I suppose you must be bug-eyed from the lack of sleep? Staying up to watch every minute of every match? I wish I could indulge you with much detailed sports talk with all the creepy statistics and stadium lore...but the truht is that all the hardcore soccer fans will not now be *snort* on Goodreads. Not that the two species are mutually exclusive but (generally speaking) you would find them either in front of their TV sets or rabidly surfing the sports forums. So you should take your chat craving to those places and make it purrrrrrrr....

And ooo look, another phantastically ugly picture! Dontcha jezzt love it when @Ab gets totally charged up and goes random? The best one was that surgebind thing on the Obscurity thread. For the longest time I didn't even know what it meant...and then I read WoK and I was all 😂😂😂 this boy will bring my white hairs tottering to the grave...

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O whom I kidding? I TOTALLY want them Latinos to lift the cup like the entire tournament was a mere formality...
Take it home, boys!
Ahem...like I said, Abhay. I am strictly neutral.
😁 (hide spoiler)]

[Siobhan]

Abhay wrote: "

Conversion
Software version 7.0
Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub
Eating seeds as a pastime activity
The toxicity of our city, of our city

You!
What do you own the world
How do you ..."

What an amazing song! ♥

[Siobhan]

I don't care about football whatsoever, and get a bit annoyed by all the patriotism that comes with it, so I'm supporting Iceland! Yay, go Iceland! 🇮🇸
(I'm pretty bad at it though, don't even know if they won yesterday?)...

[Anni]

The World Cup is a pretty big thing over here and everyone is so excited, I don't think I'm able to avoid every match while spending time with friends, so I'm gonna cheer a little for Germany but actually I don't really care :D

[Zaara]

See Ab...
Vox populi....
You WILL do better on the sports forums...

EDIT Warning....
@Shivorn do not siscourage the musical flood that is Ab...
Ok now even I'm confunded abt the meaning of this word...

[Siobhan]

I'll do a little cheer for Germany too, Anni! I can support them and Iceland xD
So far I've avoided every match by being at work and not having TV at home... 😂

[Anni]

Siobhan wrote: "I'm pretty bad at it though, don't even know if they won yesterday?"

Pretty bad! :D But Google say it was a draw 1:1 ;)

[Zaara]

I just don't turn the damn thing on...bcuz I am always behind on the BRs...😂😂😂

[Anni]

Zaara Gut Siscourator wrote: "I just don't turn the damn thing on...bcuz I am always behind on the BRs...😂😂😂"

I feel you, me too! Horribly behind! :/

[Siobhan]

Haha thank you! That's not so bad.

Ha Zaara, I'll try to refrain from siscouraging xD

[Siobhan]

Zaara Gut Siscourator wrote: "I just don't turn the damn thing on...bcuz I am always behind on the BRs...😂😂😂"

That works too! 😅

[Virginie]

Zaara Gut Siscourator wrote: "I just don't turn the damn thing on...bcuz I am always behind on the BRs...😂😂😂"

Same here. But, as I work in the construction field, I hear 'football talk' all day long. I work in Monaco so there's supporters of Italy, France and Portugal (most of our workers are Portuguese). Lunch conversations are scary :o

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Anni wrote: "Zaara Gut Siscourator wrote: "I just don't turn the damn thing on...bcuz I am always behind on the BRs...😂😂😂"

I feel you, me too! Horribly behind! :/"

Even I'm behind... too many spur-of-the-moment romance-BRs... not that I'm stopping...

[[deleted user]]

I don't tend to do that many Br's because I'm in too many challenges. I mainly keep it to one group. The only sport I really care about is baseball and I watch some reality tv. I tend to read instead of watching tv.

[Zaara]

I just deleted my comment, bcuz I didn't want to derail your sports updates...
I don't do the stars thing anymore Ab...nor review books...but this one Manu nagged me to rate and review....and I will do anything that woman asks...so yeah duh...five...
Yup Peter and Tink are adorable too.
But like I said...

[Zaara]

Abhay wrote: "Iain wrote: "too many spur-of-the-moment romance-BRs... not that I'm stopping..."

Romance BRs? I didn't know you read much romance :D"

Oh god, the pain...the pain of resisting the pressure from the five evil commemts that are fighting for space at the front of my head...
*crushes them down ruthlessly*
Ab, I think I will go now. Gnite...

[Anni]

Abhay wrote: "And yes the Latinos are certainly on fire. Mexico just caused the biggest upset so far by beating the defending champs Germany 1-0! Loved it :)
"

Boooooooh!!! 🙁

... Ah right, I don't really care 😂

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Siobhan wrote: "I don't care about football whatsoever, and get a bit annoyed by all the patriotism that comes with it, so I'm supporting Iceland! Yay, go Iceland! 🇮🇸
(I'm pretty bad at it though, don't even know ..."

The Netherlands didn't qualify this year so I'm also cheering for Iceland!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I read all sorts of things... I've just been focusing on SF/Fantasy this year and the end of last year... in the last 4 years, I've had UF/PNR years, PNR/Romance years, Mystery binges, and now SF/Fantasy years...

[Zaara]

See I didn't even know you read mystery, Iaim...bcuz can you believe until now I haven't even gone and chkd your shelves??
😂 i should do this now...

edit: there are a lot of shelves
Edit 2: And I just noticed the really ugly series pages which everyone have been cribbing abt. I don't use them so often...but...why is everything so...big?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Zaara Gut Siscourator wrote: "See I didn't even know you read mystery, Iaim...bcuz can you believe until now I haven't even gone and chkd your shelves??
😂 i should do this now...

edit: there are a lot of shelves
Edit 2: And I ..."

Because Goodreads is pushing book covers, book blurbs, and ads... we've been complaining in the Feedback group/thread, but people that don't read books with 5/10/20/30/40/50+ books or 200+ comics seem to like the layout... the "focus group"... those of us that read long series aren't happy... better off doing a book search with series & author name in the top bar... at least then you can see more at once, again...

I used to shelve my books by series/author... I shifted to genre when I broke 100 shelves and it became multiple pages...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I was at work today, stocking in the pillow aisle, and found this pallet of kids shaped pillows and throw blanket set... it had all these innocent shapes, like rainbows and cars and cupcakes and trucks and spaceships... and this really suggestive pink castle tower with a golden roof... it even had smaller castle-y buildings on either side of the main tower, making it worse.................................

[Anni]

😂😂😂

I'm always wondering if Designers do something like this on purpose 😂 If I were, I totaly would!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

And that's why old Disney movies are Dens of Iniquity... from the penis on the Little Mermaid cover (tower in background)... to the word SEX in the clouds in the Lion King, when Simba is communing with his father... to the subliminal "Take off your cloths" in Aladdin (dunno when that happens)... and the split-second porno in a background window of The Rescuers when the Albatross is running down the rooftop to take off...

[idiffer]

It is supposed to be SFX i think. Read it somewhere

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Yea... I read that today, too, after posting this and running a google search... hard to tell if true or not... it is obviously the best way to damage control the scene... like they do with the Little Mermaid cover art being outsourced to external artists, apparently...

[Sarah]

I'm a Germany fan (honestly I root for Germany even when the US qualifies because we just suck at soccer), but after yesterday's performance I am seriously irked at them.

[Shaitarn]

I'm curious: how do people feel about sex in fantasy novels? I know it's practically a necessity in UF, but I'm thinking more about traditional epic/high fantasy.

Does it bother you if the subject comes up or do you not mind at all?

[Lena]

Good sex is always welcome.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Shaitarn wrote: "I'm curious: how do people feel about sex in fantasy novels? I know it's practically a necessity in UF, but I'm thinking more about traditional epic/high fantasy.

Does it bother you if the subjec..."

So long as it's done well and doesn't feel like it's just some gratuitous nonsense to pander to certain audiences.

[Virginie]

Lena wrote: "Good sex is always welcome."

Ditto

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Lol what Lena said.

It has to make sense for the story for me, either by building character or advancing plot (or even creating an atmosphere). I haven't come across too many authors who throw it in just for kicks and giggles.

[Diana Stormblessed]

Lena wrote: "Good sex is always welcome."

This ^

[Bea]

It usually doesn't bother me if it's well-written and not totally cheesy (in the end it's something normal, so why should it not be included in fantasy?)
However I don't like overly explicit scenes because that's just not what I read fantasy for :)

I'm kinda hoping that Germany doesn't get to far in the Worldcup because my neighbourhood went totally crazy with partying the last time and I don't need that again (I've got exams in July...). So I was actually quite pleased with the fiasco against Mexico (sometimes I'm a wicked person :p)
Still rooting for Iceland though

[Anni]

For me it depends... I can't stand cheesy sex scenes with lots of paraphases. For example the Outlander series were just cringe worthy and eye rolling for me.
But I won't complain if it's well written and suits the story.
I also like the the sex scenes in Abercrombie's books, they aren't erotic at all, maybe a little more realistic and very funny :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm fine with it, but I'm sure a lot of it comes down to whether or not you already willingly read genres where it's more common/expected...

[Diana Stormblessed]

Anni wrote: "For me it depends... I can't stand cheesy sex scenes with lots of paraphases. For example the Outlander series were just cringe worthy and eye rolling for me.
But I won't complain if ..."

He's great at realistically awkward sex scenes lol

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

You're not looking for majestic phalluses?... or velvet helmets? (Christine Feehan used this in a Carpathians book, I think)... or frothing? (I still shudder when I think about Tempting the Beast)

Edit: Best thing about that book page is this creepy GIF I'd forgotten existed:

[Diana Stormblessed]

😂😂😂😂 and now I added it to my tbr just because of that hilarious gif

[Ahdam]

Hi guys yes I know I’ve been silent for a week I think sorry about that my mood for reading books hasn’t been high lately and it annoys me this is happening I hope to get back to it eventually now that eid has finished and all that so we shall see and it seems some shit has happened here lately and from what I read hope all is well for you Iain and Diana

In other news not to sound egotistical I think to cheer up the mood I’ve decided to post on YouTube a video of something so random that only I would think of do it so here’s a link to a video when you have time to sweeten your day and see me as a whole and moving I guess so enjoy please 🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwCG-KH...

You know I know o keep saying it but this year I’ve grown a bit of an ego I’m sorry but not sorry but hey it seems I might as well cheer you guys up with something stupid to watch

[Anni]

Iain wrote: "You're not looking for majestic phalluses?... or velvet helmets? (Christine Feehan used this in a Carpathians book, I think)... or frothing? (I still shudder when I think about [book:Tempting the B..."

Urgh! NO! 😂😂😂

Another good example for horrible paraphrases is S. J. Maas... I don't know if velvet-wrapped steel make me laugh or shudder (and not in a good kind of way! )

[Shaitarn]

Iain wrote: "You're not looking for majestic phalluses?... or velvet helmets? (Christine Feehan used this in a Carpathians book, I think)... or frothing? (I still shudder when I think about [book:Tempting the B..."

I... must admit that wasn't what I had in mind, Iain! Terms like that tend to make me snigger.

And that gif... can't unsee...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I KNEW the Notifications had to be broken... this groups has been hoppin' 24/7 lately, and to suddenly go 3hrs with no updates...

[Beste]

Same here.
I was just shaking my PC :) #oldschoolstyle

[Virginie]

Oh, and I was surprised the Fluffers were silent for half a day...
Should have known it was a notifications problem x)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Best solution at the moment is to peruse all unread discussions from the chat bubble dropdown menu options...

[idiffer]

@Shaitarn

you should read some Keely reviews here on GR. Great fantasy reviewer - very smart. He says sex in fantasy by male authors is a problem most of the time cause the authors just let loose all their fantasies warped by nerddom, geekyness, what have you. + they don't know how to write a proper sex scene from a more technical point of view either. I recently read smth like "she impaled herself on his manlihood". I cringed.
But personally I don't notice it most of the time. Or I haven't read that much fantasy. Generally I like a hot sex scene (hint: I read romance novels).