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3 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Shephe... · 0 replies · +9 points

As far a Geoffrey goes, Pratchett always had Sams and Esmes and Moists, but Carrot is probably a better analogue to Geoffrey and he goes back pretty far (IIRC Pratchett planned for him to be the protagonist of the Watch books, but decided Sam worked better). Characters like Carrot and Geoffrey don't really work as main characters, but they can do pretty well as something for the protagonist to bounce off of.

4 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Raising St... · 0 replies · +5 points

I'm with you on the "hard" characters breaking down - it's one of my favorite tropes. And I think this TV tropes page might be of interest to you: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotSo...

4 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Snuff': Pa... · 0 replies · +8 points

I don't know anything for sure, but my reading of it is that he knew he didn't have long at this point, so he decided to let loose anything he'd kept pent up in his earlier works.

4 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Snuff': Pa... · 0 replies · +17 points

PG rated sex scenes are the only ones I've ever enjoyed. If it gets any more into the mechanics I get bored (or uncomfortable, if people such as my parents are in the room during a movie). But scenes like the bathtub scene when I was younger occasionally gave me hope that sex could be a romantic and tender thing, instead of something we're just forced into by biological desires.

(Maybe I'm just close to asexual. Definitely demisexual.)

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Wee Fr... · 0 replies · +9 points

I actually loved these parts of Snicket's books - I assumed the definitions for simpler words were done as a joke. Also, it allowed me to feel smug if I already knew a word that I wasn't expected to know.

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Fifth ... · 1 reply · +20 points

The trip is brief because it's a swift death, I'm assuming.

I don't know that Margalotta is overly cruel - it's not a nice thing to do, but Vimes regularly has to refuse booze at banquets or whatever, and she probably knows this about him, what with her spies and everything. She was trying to feel him out, though, so she wasn't particularly interested in being kind at that time.

7 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Fifth ... · 0 replies · +8 points

Interesting...in my experience 'jam' and 'jelly' can sort of be used interchangeably in America, but they refer to different things - jelly has a smooth texture, while jam is chunkier with bits of fruit in it (then there are preserves, which just have the whole fruit - annoying when you're trying to spread it on bread).

I work at a local bakery/chocolate shop/coffee shop and the scones we have there are usually mildly sweet with fruit or chocolate or nuts (or any combination of the three) in them, but not as sweet as a danish or most other sweet pastries. I have experienced savory scones, though (I once made them with bacon and onions for my husband's birthday).

7 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Fifth ... · 8 replies · +15 points

Okay, I'm gathering from the comments that correct pronunciation in the UK is a much bigger thing than it is in America - there are a bunch of words we have with several 'correct' pronunciations (coupon being either koo-pon or q-pon for example). There's some good-natured debate, but it's never very serious, and they might reveal which region you're from, but it's not really tied to class (except for words like ain't).

Also, I've never heard an American pronounce scone to rhyme with gone.

Further, the picture of the two round food-items at the bottom of this picture are what we would call biscuits - scones over here are pretty much always triangular, with a texture like one of those mated with a cookie (or...what you would call a biscuit).

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