I read Tomes and Tea a while back and while I absolutely loved it, I felt like I was kinda robbed of the pirate themes I was hoping for. There were maybe 2-3 scenes where they spent time on a ship on the sea and that was it, that was all.
I want moooore, especially if it's cozy and loving and maybe maybe a very mild spice?
I'd like to read some more queer romance and this is a pairing I'm particularly curious about.
Besides the romance, fantasy and sci-fi are my go to genres so they'd make for the best overall settings
I'm in the early stages of experimenting on what I enjoy reading still, and the one example I have of this (currently reading Signal Lost by Onyx Sullivan) is so far really good.
I am enjoying the yearning, I am absolutely giggling when she's pinning him to the wall or putting her hand under his chin and I am a big fan of the slow-burn. I like the gentle loving dome kind of vibe she gives off.
I am okay with spice but I don't want it to take over the book. I'd rather have a few impactful scenes of it than having it on page 3 and every few pages after until the end (Don't remember the title but I started reading a book a long time back and it came to a spicy scene in the first few pages while I barely knew who was who and the uninterest of that just turned me away from reading for like a year and a half).
But at the same time... >!I am halfway through this story and the closest they've gotten to beyond clearly desiring eachother has been a short "Hey, I just want to be upfront here, I really like you" scene!<. I want slow-burn more than immediate scenes, but... Maybe let's not wait to the end of the book before something happens?
More than that though, I'd like the romance to be a sub-plot or secondary aspect to the story. I am generally a big fan of fantasy and sci-fi. I like Cozy themes (the kind of story where you just know everything is gonna be alright) without a rocky romance.
One example that I've had in mind for this post has been a scenario where a man and a woman is out at a restaurant. Food is delivered and he gets the order wrong or something, but says it's okay, it's fine, don't worry about it. She looks past that to what he really wants, stops a waiter and tells them to go get what he actually ordered. Meanwhile, he's just sitting there staring lovingly at his lady, saying thank you.
New member, never really subscribed to any streaming service but considering it now when I've bought a Amazon Fire Stick.
My question is the title. I don't understand what could possibly be the point of paying regularly for the opportunity to pay for these movies individually? I thought paying a monthly fee was;
Pay money - Watch movies/shows
Have I misunderstood something? Did I get the wrong subscription? I am paying for Prime, which I think gives access to the basic version of Prime Video (with ads), and then there's an addon of like half the prime cost to remove ads... But neither of these options said anything about "Hey, here's a bunch of movies. Can't watch em without paying even more money, but uh... You could... Read the descriptions and look at the pretty cover atleast?"
Frustration aside, yeah, just genuinely asking. Is this normal? Is this what Prime Video is or did I do something wrong maybe? Selected the wrong subscription or something?
New member, never really subscribed to any streaming service but considering it now when I've bought a Amazon Fire Stick.
My question is the title. I don't understand what could possibly be the point of paying regularly for the opportunity to pay for these movies individually? I thought paying a monthly fee was;
Pay money - Watch movies/shows
Have I misunderstood something? Did I get the wrong subscription? I am paying for Prime, which I think gives access to the basic version of Prime Video (with ads), and then there's an addon of like half the prime cost to remove ads... But neither of these options said anything about "Hey, here's a bunch of movies. Can't watch em without paying even more money, but uh... You could... Read the descriptions and look at the pretty cover atleast?"
Frustration aside, yeah, just genuinely asking. Is this normal? Is this what Prime Video is or did I do something wrong maybe? Selected the wrong subscription or something?
A simple concept I've really enjoyed for the past few books I've read.
I'm a bit less interested in the type of "cozy" where they settle down, swear off violence and bakes cookies for the rest of their life, and more so in the adventure type story where they travel the realm together and fight injustice and it always keeps that hopeful optimistic tone like "things may look rough right now, but I know things are gonna turn out alright".
I've just finished the 4th book of Tomes and Tea and I've absolutely loved every reading session I've had with it
A plot similar to this is the focus of my very favorite visual novel, and up until recently, I hadn't really considered that this type of plot can exist elsewhere but I found another visual novel with a different type approach to this topic and well, I'd like to read more like it.
To be clear, not looking for a visual novel, I am looking for a book, but I will clarify some details about the initial one I referenced;
>The MC is a young adult, moving to take over his grandfather's café after his passing. In time, he learns of an elite set of families, essentially modern nobility, who rules this region. Every week they gather to vote on issues the public brings up, and while only the head of the family is allowed a vote, a spouse may vote on behalf of a family head. This, and the thought that a spouse will have some general influence, has normalized both arranged marriages and a type of political polyamory. Turns out that while the MC knew his grandfather as the man who raised him, before he did that, he was the head of his family... A mantle that has now been passed down to the MC.
>Political intrigue, shifting factions, strategic favour trading with lofty ambitions and trying to learn who to trust in a world where everyone has learned to lie and manipulate as easily as breathing are common themes in this story.
There's lot more to it, there's a heavy "found family" type of friendships/romance going on but I don't expect that to be a native part of this type of story... Though I really enjoyed it, so I wouldn't mind it.
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In general, I like fantasy and sci-fi, but I'm open to a more drama filled slice of life type of story. I like romance, but preferably as a sub-genre, like it shouldn't be the main focus. I've really loved the "cosy" type of stories recently (Legend and Lattes, Tomes and Tea), the kind where you'll know everything will be alright from the start because it's just that kinda story. I'm very partial to WLW type of romance, but I would not be opposed to straight or another type of queer romance
I've been hearing a lot of praise regarding Jeff Hays for his narration of Dungeon Crawler Carl recently, to the point where I'm holding off reading it just because I might rather want to listen to it.
The last Harry Potter Full-Cast Edition released not too long ago and well, it's a whole different experience hearing it like this than it's reading it on paper. Not a single narrator but still very impressive.
So what other narrators have done this for various books in your opinion?
Preferably sci-fi, because I've read no books in the cosy/sci-fi crossover yet.
As for the violence comment, what I mean by that is that I don't really like the forced "no violence" rule.
Cozy theme is not a theme I've explored much, but I'll use "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldtree as a negative example of what I mean. Light spoilers ahead; >!The FMC is a former mercenary who decides to hang up the sword and start a coffee shop. All good there really. But in her attempt at a second life, she completely swears off violence, even the situation very much calls for it and it's all justified by one or another that it'll basically spiral out of control until she's a villain if she ever picks up the sword again" which I think is... really dumb reasoning, especially given the adversities she ends up facing in this attempt at a peaceful life!<. Choices were made and I just wasn't really happy with them, is how I'll end that. Great book all in all, I really liked the characters and maybe 80% of the story still.
But as a positive example rather, I'll showcase Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne. Light spoilers ahead; >!Two FMCs, two girlfriends, decide to up-end their lives and settle down together, far away from their former life and profession. One a former Queensguard, the other the Mage of Ages, so both are quite capable of violence if need be. And while settling down for a peaceful life is still generally the goal, they're entirely willing to defend themselves or those they care about using violence and threats or subterfuge and skulduggery if need be or attack preemptively when it's reasonable to do so!<. Basically, they're not the aggressors but they're willing to escalate to violence when the situation calls for it. Oh and, fantaaaastic series so far. I'm at 2/4 and I am excited to start reading every day due to these books.
I like Fantasy, perhaps very obvious heh, but I'd be curious to read a Sci-Fi cosy story. Both are great genres!
Oh and gimme that gay romance - Not sure what it is but it's sweeter than any M/F romance I've ever read
I am working on my first "big" project that I intend on releasing on GitHub eventually and I realized that the GUI is getting somewhat large. Not for a standard 1920x1080p screen (Sitting at 900x950 currently) but it may be too big for some laptop users? I assume 1920x1080p is standard for most PCs these days but I don't know how big the minority of monitors less than that is, and if it's worth either adapting the full GUI for them or adding a "laptop mode" maybe where I just scale down everything about 60% (1280×720) and it's available as a toggle.
I don't know if this is overthinking, trying to reach too far or if I should just walk away from that idea.
First time user, just started today so I'm in the very early processes of learnint about this software.
I managed to get Zimit up and running, which has the purpose of archiving websites for offline reading. I ran it 5 times, each time adjusting the settings to get it done better than the last time and I eventually got the end file I was looking for and was happy with the result.
But a 50GB file uses by Docker had been created while I was doing so. I figured it was temporary files, so I found a prune command which I thought would help me remove the temp files but, but all it removed was 20 MB of data according to the terminal.
I ended up doing a full reset inside Troubleshoot settings and just reinstalled Zimit, but I figure for the future it'll be more inconvenient than today, so how doq
