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I don't have much to say beyond the fact Laurel indeed isn't the worst Sue out there, and I wish you a great journey in your writing endeavors.

My self-improvement goal this year is to not be afraid of my feelings. After some recent soul-searching, I find that a lot of my less useful coping mechanisms involve running away from things I don't want to feel: anger, anxiety, hurt, sadness, and so forth. Intentionally or not, my upbringing and society in general have taught me that those are to be avoided, either by denying them or by not doing whatever triggered them, so I've basically learned to just ignore all feelings until they go away.

I believe that approach is incorrect.

I may want to do things that stress me out due to fear of failure, for instance. Being afraid doesn't mean I shouldn't try things I actually want to do, and that fact that I am afraid isn't a character flaw or some sign of weakness, either. It means I care about doing well. That is a good thing, and I don't need to run and hide from it. It's okay for me to be afraid and do the thing anyway. I don't have to feel perfect all the time in order to do things. That's a completely unreasonable expectation, and it results in doing nothing, which leads to depression.

I've been approaching my mental health from the angle of needing to feel less depression/anxiety, but I think what's actually happened is that I've been feeling less everything—I just shove it all in a box. That's okay for just sort of existing, but I don't call it living. It's not enough.

So... I'm gonna try accepting the feelings. It's going to be difficult for a while, because I'm not used to working with them rather than against them, but ultimately I hope they will be assets. 'Cause they're supposed to be tools, right? Feelings motivate us to behave in certain ways, to make necessary changes to respond to our environment. Like any tool, they have to be used responsibly so as not to harm oneself or others... but they're no good at all sitting on a shelf gathering dust.

~Neshomeh can use anger to motivate herself sometimes (because f*** you dirty dishes go f*** yourselves), but suspects there are better ways.

Thank you! I am blown away by the community here! It’s all in good spirit and very fun here :)

So I remember thinking about these between Christmas and New Year, realising it hadn't been a month yet at that point and then forgetting about them. I don't quite no what prompted me (pun fully intended) to remember them again tonight.

But that's irrelevant for now, because have three more prompts to have a go at for January:

- One of your characters turns over a new leaf.

- A Report has to be written. But no one wants to write it.

- A return to normal.

Well, have fun. I might even write out a response to one of them this month. I meant to last month but then one thing and another and I don't know, I might take my own advice and post a response to one of last months prompts here instead.

Nova

Since the Chamber doesn’t have a big danger noodle and was being used for different purposes in this setting, of course the second year mystery is a little bit different! But I hope to touch on some of the same themes and moments anyway :P

Glad you like it so far!

If it's a burden, it's one that I've chosen for myself freely—and TBH I tend to get on editing jags like this when my brain is climbing the walls and I just need to give it something pseudo-constructive to chew on, so it's actually a bit of self-medication in a way. ^_^;

This thread was mostly for transparency. If it gets some folks interested, cool, but I definitely didn't intend to call anyone out for not participating on the wiki. Anyway, given the choice, I'd much rather have a story review, whenever it happens. {= )

~Neshomeh

Just want to say, I'm sorry I haven't been helping out on the Wiki much any more. Between work, home chores, and maintaining family, friend, and coworker relationships, there isn't much time left for the PPC afterwards, and most of that I spend on reading and reviewing all the stories that get posted. (Speaking of which, I'm looking forward to yours, and will get to it whenever I have the time! I'm slowly catching up!)

So yeah. I'm glad you've found these nifty features, but I'm sorry I'm not taking up much of the Wiki burden. : (

—doctorlit, trying

Oof! You really got across how bored and fed up with that mission the agents got. That's what they got for not bringing Kaguya! They needed some antics to spice things up! I also liked that the Suvian is only ever referred to as "male name." I was picturing a prerecorded voice interrupting the narration whenever it occurred.

Kaguya! What has happened?! However this resolves, I hope Inasuke and Urato learn to appreciate their teammate better!

—doctorlit, wearing a hydrocolloidal band-aid

And I dare say this is becoming intriguing. It looks like this will be a completely different incident than the Chamber of Secrets - and quite fittingly, too!

Mostly I want to see what the AI is capable of as well as what its limitations are. It can get weird sometimes. (For example, it thinks Pinkie Pie is Irish for some reason.) Plus, it can be fun to mess around with it.

Like, SCP-682!Bot told me his name was Steve. You don't hear something like that every day.

Such are the joys of life.

So as to be the first to give kudos. Also, forgot to say it earlier, but I loved the “taunt waste” gag.

—Ls

Other than that, the fic looks a bit more than I’d rather handle. I wish you luck, though.

—Ls

It's done well the entire time I've had it, but I'm hoping to get a new phone sometime, because this thing can be really slow.

and what its brand of "learning through pain" would be.

They register as boxes on my device. How am I supposed to know what it says?

Yay!

So not only does the Sue strut around sans clothing, she also can't be bothered to do basic research on realistic speeds for flight craft. That is concerning.

On the other hand… we got the Derik Singing Incident.

I designed my site to be read on a desktop screen, so that's my first recommendation, but here's what I do to view it on mobile:

Turn the device sideways, center the content column on the screen, and zoom in until it fills the screen. Be careful not to scroll horizontally and muck it up.

Or read on AO3 instead. They have professional coders (which I am not) who know how to optimize everything for everything (which I don't).

Either way, thanks for reading!

~Neshomeh

Behold the quintessential Wattpad badfic with CSM dressing: a bland OC with seemingly little purpose beyond tagging along being useless, weird formatting (all dialogues are bolded), minis (Makina and Benji), and since I've neither read the manga or seen the anime, I can only suspect there might be canon regurgitation as well.