carpecarp: What is with all these posts about how you

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carpecarp:

What is with all these posts about how you shouldn’t hate children? Like who the fuck ya’ll following that you see this children hating so much and need to make posts about it?
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m–ood: So cold, that tide instantly freezes on

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m–ood:

So cold, that tide instantly freezes on impact with the beach.
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So the time but last that I was at home, my dad was asking my brother-in-law for good scifi recs....

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So the time but last that I was at home, my dad was asking my brother-in-law for good scifi recs. He’d loved Heinlein, back in the day, but he felt like they didn’t write them like that now. 

B-I-L admitted that he reads a fair number of novels but tends not to read a ton of sci-fi. I overheard at this point, and was like, “Oh gosh, I follow a number of contemporary speculative fiction authors on Twitter, I bet I could put together a rec list for you,” and then forgot about it. 

I remembered it just now, though, on my twentieth re-read (or so) of Martha Wells’s Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, when I hit the point where one character says, of his daughter, “If you raise your daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, then you have to expect that at some point your control over her actions will be at an end” or something to that effect, which. I mean, fair point, Dad, right? [For anyone who hasn’t read that series, dude not to be spoilery but you cannot possibly top that father/daughter relationship, it is the pinnacle of all father/daughter relationships in fiction forever and ever amen.]

So I’m definitely going to loan him that series. But I wonder if anyone has any other good recs.

He’s a vaguely Libertarian-leaning slightly-racist white man in his seventies, who was in the Army for nearly four decades, is completely disinterested in organized sports of any kind, has an odd unholy passion for fixing antique Jeeps, and has not owned a pair of jeans since the 1960s when he bought one to see what it was like and found them inadequate. In other words, not much care for fashion, not a great deal of investment in traditional trappings of American Masculinity, but not as nonconformist as he really thinks he is. 

So I’m looking for recs that will not only be entertaining but possibly do him good. And I’m realizing that I haven’t read a novel by a man in several years. 

(Is John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War any good? For some reason that sounds like something Dad will either love or hate.)
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aimmyarrowshigh replied to your post: So the time but last that I was at home,...

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aimmyarrowshigh replied to your post: So the time but last that I was at home, my dad…

what… what kind of non-business-suit dad-pants are there that aren’t jeans?

He owns literally a dozen pairs of these at any given time, and… actually I don’t think he owns anything else. (They used to be different brands, but now I think they’re just all Dickies because everything else has become Too Fancy. He also for the first time in his adult life had to go up a waist size because cancer treatments made him put on about ten pounds, so all his old pants had to go.)

He also has a rotation that all his clothes go through, where they’re first work clothes, then home clothes, then messy-outdoor-work clothes. They all go through this, excepting only very fancy formalwear. So he dresses exactly the same at all times, excepting the condition of the clothes, which means you’ll find him re-coating the roof wearing a button-down shirt with a big tear in it and missing half a sleeve. It’s utterly ridiculous and also very practical, and a woman could never do it because we’re expected to wear different-shaped clothing, and he completely can’t understand this. (I can’t reuse a work dress that’s gone too shabby as the outfit I wear to change my car’s oil, Dad, because it doesn’t have legs, Dad, also some of us gain and lose a lot more than ten pounds in fifty-five years, Dad.)
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I just remembered the chicken story that reminded me of you! I recently had a meet & greet for a nig

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I LOVE THIS thank you so much for sharing this with me. 

Now I want to make a sign for the eggmobile that says “Nasty Bitches” on it. 
They’d never let me, customers see the eggmobile sometimes, but. I just. I love it!
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Cookies farrowed!!! This is a post from my

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Cookies farrowed!!! This is a post from my sister’s instagram. She says they’re moving too much for a proper count, but she thinks twelve. 
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