A lot of desk jobs in the military too, though. Especially Army, I’d say.

I was hoping for a funnier headline from the Post, but idk if a serious headline makes the story any more legit.

What would the hook be for a WG story?

I didn’t say anything close to that. I said some people have a genetic/hereditary predisposition to conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Although there is definitely a genetic component to some kinds of cancer, too.

I’m really glad you liked it! And I hope you read the rest. I don’t give away the complete mystery completely but I hope I leave enough clues to follow that it comes together.

Just to wax poetic, this started out as a spooky Halloween kinky story last fall, so what you read is basically that. There might have been one more morning after chapter. But I liked the characters so I took it in a different direction. I think it really starts getting good with the next chapter.

I appreciate the feedback on their sizes. They’re definitely not meant to be very overweight (at least in the early chapters), but they’re big for them. Claire might feel bigger (or want to feel bigger) than she actually is. But I’ll look at that if it’s confusing. Thank you for the note on the spider, too. That’s a little on the nose, I agree.

And thanks for liking story club! I think it’s fun. Tell your friends! We need a November story too

I saw the best bods of my generation enhanced by fatness

It’s clearly peanut butter cups and everything else is playing for 2nd place, but an almond joy is always good and I only ever see Mr Goodbars and Krackles in the assorted Halloween bags, and those are ok for the novelty

Again, everyone is different. I put salt on my food until I can see it and eat a very unhealthy diet for the most part and have perfect blood pressure. My parter eats a low fat, low sodium diet and has hypertension and high cholesterol. Fortunately, blood pressure and cholesterol issues are two of the easiest things to diagnose at annual checkups. And treatable (although losing weight is often the easiest fix).

Genetics and age play into things like high blood pressure and cholesterol. Everyone is different

The Gainers tab doesn’t work most of the time on mobile. It spits back an error string. Sometimes it will show the graph but also have the error at the top, usually just a blank page with the code. I haven’t tried on desktop, using safari for mobile.

We spoke, but this is the distillation of the whole thread. So either (as you defend) the blame lies predominantly with Northern European women, who fail to fall into the VERY narrow slot of “sparking your interest”, or the blame lies with you, who has created a situation where you can only be attracted to a tiny subset of the population. Most everyone in this thread has offered (good) advice, and for the most part, instead of being thoughtful and humble, you have tried to rebut the advice and build defenses around your current lifestyle.

If the status quo in your lovelife bothers you (and maybe it doesn’t, really, with how hard you defend it) you’re the only one who can change. You don’t have power or influence over millions of Scandinavian women. They won’t change for you.

You need to change.

(Please don’t try to equate this to homosexuality again. Queer folks don’t usually have trouble finding parters that meet their standards unless they have shame about their preferences or they construct such artificially high standards that there’s nobody who can meet them. The path to happiness, in both situations, is therapy).