I think it’s perfectly reasonable to decide not to continue a series at any point for any reason. But I also think that with some meta knowledge about the series and the genre, it may not be reasonable to analyze or evaluate it. For a series like Evangelion (or Utena, or Princess Tutu, or Madoka), the episodes build…

Oh, that’s interesting. That’s around the time I stupidly left a can of Pam on the stove while using the oven. It was hot when I picked it up, so I dropped it on the floor and it exploded. I had a bruise covering about a quarter of my thigh where it hit me while heading for the ceiling (it left a dent there), and…

Not to “well, actually” you but… well, actually, chickens only have one orifice that they use for both defecation and copulation. And yes, it’s the same one eggs come out of. The eggs don’t get covered in feces, but only because their uterus inverts to protrude beyond the hole. Seriously.

Yeah, former racing greyhounds, in particular, are notorious for needing to run flat out for a minute or so a couple times a day and then being entirely happy lying on the couch the entire rest of the time. For them, it’s partly that having discovered the wonders of cushions, they never want to leave.

Yeah, my newborn, who can’t be vaccinated for measels for six months per standard medical policy, really deserves to get horribly sick and possibly die because she’s part of a “self-created community.” My other kid’s only had the one dose recommended at his age, with his booster still in the future, and he’s not as…

Yeah, a display cake +sheet cakes for serving is already a thing sometimes. Apparently it’s way, way more economical.

Yes, but there often is in the best/tenderest cakes as well. Usually, it’s buttermilk, but dump cakes will use white vinegar, and classic red velvet can include both.

It was never clear because the specific identity/role doesn’t have a direct equivalent in the West and it’s not easy to make a direct comparison to familiar identities. Lala may be closer to what we think of as trans, closer to a drag queen, or somewhere in the middle, and probably just calls herself an okama (which…

My mother always added diced onion and shredded rotisserie chicken to make this more of a main dish. We also only ever made it up in the northern Maritimes in Canada where fresh produce could be hard to come by and expensive when I was a kid, so the number of prepackaged ingredients was a plus. (Usually had to use the…

So, having also done this twice now, from what I’ve been able to gather reading a lot about why things are safe as well as what is and isn’t, unaged soft cheese made with pasteurized milk: fine. Aged soft cheese whether made with pasteurized milk or not: risky. The aging can allow bacteria to grow anyway. Feta is an…

My kid is the problem! Our dog, who I’d easily kept at the same healthy weight for two years, has put on a stubborn couple pounds since the toddler wont stop feeding him people food. It’s getting worse right now, too, since I’m 7 months pregnant and completely wiped out after two and a half miles.

No.

Hey, I think you may have gone to college where I went to college. The only thing I miss about the pizza there is the gyro pies. For anything else,  I’ll take NY style any time, but you really need the Midwestern tavern style (with a small party cut, no more than two or three bites a piece, for better dip to pizza…

I much prefe the raw egg version that’s more like a boozy mousse, best exemplified by the 1950s Craig Claiborne recipe. https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/1958-eggnog-403524

Raikou’s art is by a notorious hentai artist with extreme anatomy issues. He also did Shuten Douji (not coincidentally one of the other censored characters), Kintoki, and Moriarty.

“I feel like that type of phrase must not have been widely used in those times”

Our pediatrician said the same thing. The only caveat is that spice tolerance does take time to build up, so if you’re fire eaters it’s worth keeping that in mind. I absolutely cannot feed my toddler some of the things I eat because he will cry with pain, but he likes the milder versions just fine. But other than…

Not a protein, but there are the people who can’t absorb non-heme iron, for one.

Oh my god, it’s an omegaverse vampire BL VN, this is amazing. (Omegaverse started in English-language Supernatural fandom almost a decade ago and has slowly cross-pollinated first into pro-M/M novels in English and then into BL. And I’ve read one het omegaverse romance novel published by a Harlequin imprint. It’s been…

She went back to ambiguously gay vampires again and has not dialed back on the weird in that series a jot.