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Come on, tell me that's not tempting enough as it is! :P

I accept your apology for being forceful in your latest e-mails.

However, I can't bury the hatchet while you continue to insist that my treatment of you in 2014 was abuse. I understand that you didn't like it, and that it upset you very much, but that does not ipso facto mean that my behavior was unjustified or inappropriate to the situation. A parent insisting that their teenager do their homework completely and correctly before going out to party is not abusive, even if the kid yells and screams about it until their face turns blue. In the same way, me (and everyone else) insisting that you follow the Permission process completely and correctly before doing whatever you want with our universe was not abuse, no matter how upset you got over it.

Maybe I could have expressed my objections to your requests better. All right. I apologize for my ignorance, and I am sorry for your distress. It was never my intent to give you pain. However, saying that I abused you is insulting, offensive, hurtful, and false. If you want me to bury the hatchet, you're going to have to change your mind about that and take it back. You've said you want to be friends, but a few shared fandoms alone isn't enough of a foundation for friendship. Trust and respect have to exist on both sides, and right now, that is not possible.

One more thing. I want to talk about the word "like," since that seems to have been a serious bone of contention for you. "Like" is a real workhorse of a word. It does a lot of different jobs in this language. It's a preposition, an adjective, a noun, a verb, and an interjection. It's got at least 40 definitions, according to Dictionary.com.

I was using it in the second form, third definition, "to prefer." You did not prefer any of the prompts. You did not find any of them suitable for your purposes. You did not wish to use any of them. Right? Therefore, you did not like them. It is a completely normal and expected use of the word to which no reasonable person should have any objection. It's you who keeps insisting it carries emotional weight. Sure, it can, but it doesn't have to.

I used a simple, common word in a way that most people understand perfectly well. The fact that you have a problem with it reflects on you, not on me. Please adjust your perspective accordingly.

~Neshomeh

He got scars on his arms in OotP, when he summoned a brain from the Department of Mystery and it went all boa constrictor on him.

(Maybe we should invite Dumbledore with us to the Gathering?)

I bet it shows the Circle Line as a proper circle, not the horrifying Lasso Line they turned it into. >:( Still mad about that.

I can confirm all of these except Ron, mostly because I have no idea what you mean by 'brain attack'.

hS

These are Warriors characters (Author is Erin Hunter).

Would I be correct in guessing that Brokenstar or Tigerstar could come but Puddleshine couldn't?

Mad-Eye Moody?

Albus Dumbledore? (He has a scar above his left knee that is a map of the London underground.)

Ron, post-brain attack?

The Phantom?

And, by extension, Agent Derik?

He is very much Not Amused.

Between my earlier observation that Bramandin and our community can't communicate effectively, and the points Phobos and Miah have made about Bram's lack of progress, I also support a permanent ban. It is, unfortunately, the best thing for everyone involved.

—doctorlit

We all know Kylo is a geeky fanboy at heart.

hS

You can invite Kylo Ren from The Last Jedi, though.

hS

Can I invite Vriska Serket? (Homestuck)

Or how about Father Alexander Anderson? (Hellsing , gore warning for searching images, and probably Wiki-diving too. If need be, just pretend I never asked.)

I promise he won't kill Lord Vader... Again.

Also, can I invite Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver?

(Both from Marvel, Earth-616, the main continuity.)