...I wish I could say I couldn't imagine them doing that for a cliffhanger.
I love unconventional materials challenges, but it looked like there's going to be a long of stringy stuff, which means there's going to be more dresses that are just a harness with a bunch of strings hanging from the neck. Sigh.

How does 3 years performing + 1 year rehearsing only = five?
The horns would alternate who played each repeat so our faces didn't fall off. It was a painful thing.

I haven't looked at the kindle options at all. Don't you still have Prime too? Have you tried it?

No need to be all elitist. Hrumph. DVDs are hardly the past. I still buy DVDs. The quality difference between them and Blu-Rays is inconsequential.
I dunno, I know you like Steins;Gate, but the only time I saw it the characters were really off-putting. They just didn't seem pleasant to watch. Maybe I got an unfair impression of them.

Don't you want to look like a feather duster? Don't you?

Three years performing, plus one year rehearsing with wind symphony but not performing, plus one year rehearsing with the freshmen but not performing. Equals five rehearsal cycles. I alternated with the other bassoons during performances. There were zero other bassoons.

I downloaded Kindle and promptly read a Hellboy teaser and downloaded a romance novel that seems to feature a werebear. I'm assuming the protagonist is a larger woman. That's how that works, right?

I love the characters. I don't know what you didn't like about them.

Either a featherduster or they lost a fight with a streamer factory. It's not good. No one wins.

Sounds like a bassoon problem. Maybe if your instrument had more sex appeal you wouldn't have to be alone all the time.
On that note, our 130-person band has exactly zero bassoons. Instead we have seven oboes. This is why we suck.

WerebearxBBW is one of the fundamental laws of the universe. All writers instinctively understand this. If you don't want BBW, you write about "dragon-shifters" or "were-octopodes" or something. Never read about a were-octopus, though. Now I want to. The cephalopods are underserved in the romance genre.

Maybe I got a bad first impression? They annoyed me.

I'm eavesdropping on my office-mate talking to someone and this person just said, "I'm really single. I'm listening to an audiobook about Ruth Bader Ginsburg right now." and that was probably the most single-woman thing I've ever heard.

It's not a lack of sex appeal. It's so beautiful, people are intimidated. Also the reed is confusing and the finger holes are really far apart and the fingerings are not intuitive and tuning is mostly a guideline because it's so easy to change with your face. And it's expensive.

They're under-served because nobody who reads romance wants to romance Cthulhu. I haven't read more of it yet, and I'm not sure how they're going to let me know she's a BBW, but it was my immediate expectation when the title was "Bearly in Control."

How many episodes did you watch? The first episode is confusing and makes people uncomfortable. It does not engender fondness for the characters.

What do you think of the audiobook, then?

Literally all of the problems you just described have an exact equivalent on the french horn, minus "finger holes are really far apart", yet we have no shortage of horns. I must conclude that the distance of the finger holes is the real reason.

I believe you are incorrect about romance readers who want Cthulhu, at least if the highly disturbing tumblr page I found recently is any indication. These people were writing cutesy fluff about pairings involving questionably-sentient faceless balls of tentacles. The word "consentacles" came up so, so often.
Ah yes, bear puns, the other standby of the genre. BBW/Werebear/Puns OT3.

Have you noticed an upswing in the number of one woman/multiple men romance novels in the free ebooks? I didn't think there used to be this many.

I only saw the first episode. That's probably the problem. Why would you lead your series with something confusing that alienates the audience from the characters?

Hey now. I'm single, but not in the "I don't have a boyfriend" sense. I'm single in the "Romance is for solids" sense.

Low early adoption leads to low number of players overall. Early adoption is hampered by few bassoons available in middle schools, few band directors who can play bassoon, difficult reaches on finger holes, expensive reeds, and bassoon being one of the instruments where you start out sounding really bad (like oboe and horn and violin). But really, the finger distances are a huge problem for young players. They make smaller bassoons just to address that (but of course, they're no less expensive, and you invariably grow out of them).

Okay, fine. I clearly have no idea what romance readers want. Except for Werebear/BBW/Puns.

I haven't looked at the current offerings in a while. Are the men competing for the woman, or is it a stable configuration of multiple men?

It all makes sense in the end. Very satisfying.

You are neither a liquid nor a gas. Nor a plasma, nor a Bose-Einstein Condensate. Not that I don't want to call you a diffuse gas of bosons.

Tiny bassoons sound adorable, though. I'm imagining teeny tiny little bassoonlets. Why don't schools just stock one or two of those? Are they actually impossible for full-size humans to play?

The ones I've seen have a stable configuration of multiple men, usually something like an entire construction crew or team of firefighters or, for some bizarre reason, a pair of werewolf alphas who are required by law to mate with the same woman (???). The blurb usually contains a line about how good the men are at sharing. Sometimes it starts out as a love triangle or square or whatever and then the men work out their differences.

Being liquid isn't so much a physical state as it is a state of mind.

I don't know what they're like. I think they're extremely rare. If somebody buys a bassoon, they want one that doesn't suck and won't be too small for them in a few years. Why spend just as much money for less bassoon?

Sounds like sharing would be extremely important. Why don't they do it as M/M/F instead of M/F/M? So much easier. More fair. Better.

Also, how do you find this stuff? It sounds worse than fanfic.

How is liquid less likely to be romantically involved? Sounds completely irrelevant.

That's why I said schools should buy them. Let tiny childrens rent the tiny bassoons, and then once they've been suckered in, they can buy their own full-size bassoons. Everybody wins, except the people who have to listen to the tiny children.

The M/F/M (+M+M+M) seems to be catering to an incredibly specific fantasy. I don't think fairness enters into the equation. The authors tend to specialize, too.

I spend an unreasonable amount of time paging through the free romance novels on ibooks. There are two ways to search that category, and one of them gives mostly boring standard stuff, while another turns up utter garbage that has worse writing than the average fanfic. I never remember which is which until I'm looking through it.

Ask Star Trek: DS9. They established that fact, and I trust their judgment. Have you ever met a liquid with a significant other?

Nobody wants to hear that. Don't start kids on oboes and don't start them on bassoons. I'd rather be alone than listen to that.

So, just like any other romance sub-genre. Ever.

Yes. I have. What do you say to that?