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Have a snek with a birthday hat!

And congrats on the promotion!!

I've successfully managed to get around the Sun 28 times now! So go me!

The past year was rather hectic, but positively so. I got promoted at work (which has been good overall but hasn't been the best for swinging by here extensively), got a short story into an anthology, and moved back to Seattle, among many other exciting adventures (including an eye surgery that seems to have gone well).

So here's to many more years hanging out around y'all!

• Tomash

Harry deals with the fallout of his actions after the Debate Association meeting, and discovers a plot against his mum. Warning for dissociation related to a near-death experience, so please take care!

You did comment about the overemphasis on romantic pairing having a detrimental effect on kids' development! Nesh wrote an entire thing in conjunction wrt ace identity, and I totally agree--the overemphasis on True Love in Purityworld messes with ace/aro folks too. The OG worldbuilder has tried to write "platonic bonding" for supposedly ace-friendly narratives but it's still within the rigid confines of "pair off, ask Mother Magic to give you babies" which is honestly disturbing.

Yeah at the time of writing that chapter the FIDE decision about banning trans women from women's chess competitions had recently come out, and my sensitivity reader and I were staring at it like ????? what????? and we had to put in a snide comment or two about it.

Luna's chess moves are brought to you by r/AnarchyChess! (en passant honhonhon)

That was Qiu's dad paraphrasing Zhuangzi Dasheng. It seems to be the crux of Ron's issues with Quidditch nerves, so I thought he needed to hear it! And I'm glad you like where I'm going with Qiu. OG Pureblood Culture worldbuilder kept bashing her, so every time that happened I made Qiu cooler :P

Yes! Proof of the magic hair indeed :D

re: Lady Polixenes: ;)

Thanks for reading!

In which Sergio and Nikki's vacation is permanently ruined, as the Organization doesn't waste time in making more trouble. To which, of course, the Skystreaker will answer blow to blow.

That way, the typo is a little more clearly represented in the text of the mission.

--Ls

Ha! I love that the three men’s troubles have all caught up with them at once. And it was perfect timing to drop Momoka on a solo mission right after the embarrassment bomb that got dropped on her at the end of the pervious one! But she’s putting too much blame on herself; “it takes two to tango,” so Kaguya is equally at fault. But as usual, she’s only thinking about Kaguya and not herself, and has put herself in danger on a solo mission as a result. I know Kaguya is sick, but I don’t blame him for being worried, and wanting to help her!

I also really liked Inasuke’s little speech about Momoka. I had assumed he had a crush on her, like Urato did here, but I see it’s more an expression of gratitude for his rescue, and his recognition that Momoka makes for a much healthier friendship than he had had with Bakara. It’s very sweet! Although I was also amused by the speech putting Urato to sleep halfway through . . .

—doctorlit throws vitamin C at the boys

so I wrote "a" for grammatical accuracy, but keep the fic's "women" misspelling. Thanks for the comment 😁

Got a lot of stuff on my plate right now, though.

--Ls

The backstory I was writing for my D&D character is turning into a much bigger story. It takes place in a world I'm inventing with some friends instead of any of the official D&D worlds. So far I have one chapter, parts of two other chapters, and summaries of other chapters which will hopefully get written someday.

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I'm not much of a horror guy, so chances are I'd never write for this department anyway. I figure that when and if someone writes for this department, they get to choose the Flower.

"Society Failed the Axe-Murderer" would be a great band name or album title.

--Ls

I really appreciated the boys' dialogue, seeing how much Momoka holds the group together was amusing. I wonder if they'll end up being pursued by Medical staff....

Just one small typo (I think):

"Then a scream comes from a house, followed by a horrific sight where a women comes out with blood in her hands, carrying her small child, knocking Momoka flat on her behind."

I'm not sure if you meant to point out the fic's "women" instead of "woman" or not, but I don't think you need that "a".

--Ls

I guess I'm more partial to the brand of horror that takes something mundane or innocent-looking and pulls the rug out from under you (e.g. Weeping Angels); less so to taking something that looks scary and playing it as scary. Generic monsters, jump-scares, and gore generally bore me or come off narmy. ^_^;

~Neshomeh is pretty sure society failed the axe-murderer and doesn't blame the giant snake for acting on its nature.

I just really like the idea of a giant, rot-smelling parasitic flower of a Flower to head a horror department. That one seems a bit... mundane, maybe? I'm pretty sure I've seen the species before in the wild, as it were.

--Ls