One Annoying Thing, One Good Thing, and One Crazy Thing:

[moon_custafer]

The restaurant around the corner from my workplace has changed their curry recipe to be much spicier. I can never deal with spicy things – it’s not even the heat. It’s that for some reason my tastebuds register spice as intensely bitter. Do other people get this?

 

Rewatched Rear Window last night. Checking AO3 today, found a Yuletide fic from a few years ago that retells the story from the PoV of Miss Lonelyhearts and the Songwriter: https://archiveofourown.org/works/292692

 

 

Also from AO3: Indiana Jones/The Mummy crossovers aren’t surprising; Indiana Jones/Marvel Universe crossovers make sense in terms of Steve being roughly contemporaneous with Indy; but I never expected to see an Indiana Jones/A la Recherche des Temps Perdus crossover (in French, at that): https://archiveofourown.org/works/8330890

The author admits the timeline had to be stretched a little. Alas, it’s only a vignette, or a first chapter to an adventure never expanded upon.

Comments

[sovay]

It's that for some reason my tastebuds register spice as intensely bitter. Do other people get this?

I don't—most spices taste good to me, so I complain when a spicy dish focuses on the capsaicin at the expense of flavor—but it makes sense to me, epecially if it's pepper-based. I don't have the cilantro-as-soap thing, but I have some vegetables that taste terrible to me unless I cook them in specific ways, or sometimes they just taste terrible. I know someone who finds carbonation unpalatably acrid rather than neutrally tangy. Different people have chemically, physiologically different taste.

Checking AO3 today, found a Yuletide fic from a few years ago that retells the story from the PoV of Miss Lonelyhearts and the Songwriter

I love that story.

[kore]

That Rear Window story is amazing!