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TankVet t1_iyazuuh wrote
Reply to [WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. by veriverd
“Love?”
“Yes, dear?”
“Why are explicit details about our sex life in what was supposed to be a young adult novel about unicorns accepting a troubled rhinoceros.”
“Ah. Yes. That. The publisher thought a different direction maybe.”
“This seems a very different direction. Although opportunities for a ‘horny’ joke abound.”
“Very adult of you to refrain.”
“She says, yet abstaining from offering an explanation.”
“She is working on that.”
“He’s listening.”
“The book sucked. I threw together a romance at the last minute to meet a deadline. And they say write what you know so I…”
“Wrote about my ‘magnificent throbbing-‘“
“Okay! So I was in a mood and we’d just gotten back from vacation and we’d had a lot of fun and it very much on my mind and, well, it was all I could come up with.”
“Us? Cast as a mysterious traveler possibly a spy and a disenchanted heiress looking for love?”
“It’s selling very well.”
“I imagine it is, it’s pornography with a dust jacket.”
“You’re for real? Not happy for me? For us?”
“You’re better than this. You’re better than unicorns and rhinos too! You’re as good as Madeline Miller, as Amor Towles, as Richard Powers! You can write like that! Why do you write drivel when you could write that?!”
“So what if I am? So what if this is it? Isn’t this enough? Isn’t this good enough? It’s selling so who cares? The deadline’s met, the thing is published, so who cares?”
“I care that the love of my life is scribbling with crayons on a silly placemat when she could be changing the world!”
“I’m not good enough for you.”
“No. You’re just better than this. It’s not about me. It’s about you treating your enormous talent like you’re somehow unworthy of it.”
TankVet t1_iwzblaq wrote
Reply to comment by asrialdine in Allentown becomes 2nd city in Pa. to make declawing cats illegal by fireside_blather
You make a good point.
As a person in the industry, I see declawing of cats to be a bad thing that happens infrequently while I see the results of puppy mills as a bad thing that happens all the time.
Just my perspective.
TankVet t1_iwxwq1o wrote
Reply to comment by VilleIn97 in Allentown becomes 2nd city in Pa. to make declawing cats illegal by fireside_blather
As a veterinarian, I don’t think it’s necessary to legislate against it. I don’t know any veterinarians who do it any more. Hell, I haven’t even had five people ask about it in the last five years? And none of them pushed back after being educated about the procedure.
Public resources could be better spent elsewhere. Do something about puppy mills, for example.
TankVet t1_ivaw5fq wrote
Reply to comment by Zmoser1794 in To the person who defaced all the Mastriano campaign signs in my neighborhood by phasechanges
I know the sign guy. He’s decent. Don’t mind seeing his business do well.
TankVet t1_isjs3ce wrote
Reply to comment by deputy_commish in An AirTag led police to a dumpster filled with more than 100 stolen Democratic campaign signs in Pennsylvania. by CQU617
Yeah, you’re right, that would definitely happen
TankVet t1_isjompy wrote
Reply to An AirTag led police to a dumpster filled with more than 100 stolen Democratic campaign signs in Pennsylvania. by CQU617
I think candidates should be fined for every one of these that is on public property more than a week past Election Day.
TankVet t1_irmrmwl wrote
Reply to [NBC News] Philadelphia apologizes for decades of medical experiments on Black inmates that involved a component of Agent Orange by Minneapolitanian
“Will this make me popular?” -Kenney
TankVet t1_jdorafo wrote
Reply to comment by ScareJessica2Death in No more goat snuggles: Local family farmers pull out of events due to backlash by Sandstorm400
I mean it IS a vegan festival. What do you expect?