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Responding to the errant thoughts, because it's fun:

Re. ABO: The Avengers fandom is where I first stumbled on that concept, so I'm afraid it was easy math for "major fandom Jenni would need to keep up with" plus "what would put those characters in FicPsych." But you might be horrigratified to know I was also thinking of you? You're welcome?? ^_~

Re. Jacques and Luxury: Also Jenni and Luxury, I'll go ahead and confirm, if there was any doubt. Which is a story I have an idea for and may write sometime. At some point, no doubt the three of them will all socialize get together hang out ... Okay, there's nothing I can say here that won't sound like an innuendo in the circumstances. Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more!

Re. tree people: Yep! Nothing to add to that.

~Neshomeh

Well, gosh, you can't ask for a more positive response than that. Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. ^_^

and if you're sweating now, just wait until the first date!

~Neshomeh

It's wonderful how sweet they are together, and amazing hearing that sort of sweetness intermingled with a discussion of the Kudzu's potential for tentacle, as it were. That was great fun to read!

I have a strange question to ask, can I make a ranting thread? Like a post where I ramble about how angry I am?

Sorry for asking on your story thread. I really don’t know whether to make a new post or not to make a new post.

I don’t want other people to start spamming ranting threads about how their threads were hidden by my own ranting thread.

Thanks for translating my name Zingenmir!

Funnily, I did do some "book doctoring" in my teenage years. My dad ran the textbook store at the high school that I eventually attended. I spent a lot of my summers working there with Dad, putting books back together with tape and glue gun. It's . . . pretty remarkable how much damage teenage boys can manage to dish out to books in two semesters! So yes, I have done the work of the book doctor.

—doctorlit, Sifrofeh

"lasst uns singen" can be a plea or a suggestion, depending on context. "Bitte lasst uns singen" would be used to informally plea to more than one person. ("Bitte, Nakhum, lass uns singen" would informally address one person and would only be appropriate if we were on first-name-terms. Formally pleading to one or more persons would be "Bitte lassen Sie uns singen".)

"lozt mir zingen" looks to me like a singular form of "lozt undz zingen" ("lasst mich singen" = "let me sing", which would definitely be a plea). But that’s apparently a misconception caused by the German "mir" being a singular pronoun (dative case of "ich" = "I", as in "gib mir dieses Ding" = "give this thing to me").

HG

What would Aviator (pilot) be? Zeb is a bastardized version of Zev, which is Hebrew for "wolf" which is hardly much of a translation for you. :P

Faolan means "little wolf", and Charlotte is the feminine form of Charles, meaning "free man".

Lorson is a combo of "TayLor and Addison... so what would Lor (Honorable) and Son (self-explanatory) be?

Dax apparently means "water". Which is funny and something I didn't intend, but considering how fluid and changing water is and Dax is fittingly a changeling... :P

I’m afraid I can’t do much then. Sorry Voyd. I really wanted to help despite the fact that I don’t have a credit card. But I understand, because if I sent you the money, your parents could open the parcel and find the money.

Everything will become a complete disaster. Sorry.

Both are PPC characters, so that's where you'll find information on them.

~Z

I do not know the context of who Jenni or Jacques is but when I searched them I get images of a Mother who uses Facebook and an artwork.

So, are they agents but I have no idea of who they are?

I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t have a credit card to use to donate. Aren’t there other ways for me to donate such as mailing you the money in a box?

Very clever, you two. Veeeeery clever.

Looking forward to seeing this catch up to the present!

Shockingly, this is my first time really reading any of Zing's stuff. I know Jacques by reputation, of course (who doesn't), but I'm not very familiar with him.

As such, I can safely say that this is a solid introduction piece. Which makes sense, both in context (a character is getting to know Jacques) and out of it (stylistically, this sort of inside-the-head character interaction writing has Neshomeh's fingerprints all over it). It's also just generally solid all around, with Jacques' traditional flirting, Jenni's traditional flirting, and some nice character moments. There's plenty of attention to detail in the blocking and description, which is good to see in such a dialogue-heavy piece. I'd expect nothing less.

Errant thoughts:

-Dangit, ABO has to just invade everything.

-Jacques and Luxury... oh dear.

-Tree people! But this time attractive. There's just something I think is cool about tree people.

Oh, goodness. Two of my favourite writers with two of my favourite characters put into that position? I was grinning from the first sentence and couldn’t stop. I’m still grinning as I type this up now.

That was... there’s no other way to describe this than “delicious”.

Remember when the idea of Jenni Robinson and Jacques Bonnefoy meeting came up that one time? Well, Neshomeh and I made it happen! And what a ride it's been. Buckle up, folks--this is only the first story. There's more to come!

Journey back to 2013, when new recruit Jacques shows up at Jenni's office door...

"Crossing the Coffee Table" (on AO3 and Neshomeh's website)

Summary: In which “two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgement Day and trumpets sound” is more accurate than you’d think.

No, not THAT one, this one!

... In my defense, I stumbled upon it in BJs and tried to skim to the end to see if there were AIs.

SPOILERS below:

Alas, there were only bots. :( And humans, and their imperfect social media algorithms. And here I'd been looking forward to Cassie having to deal with providing moral input for her previously-unknown digital sibling, alongside other family drama...

I did appreciate the biracial protag despite, that, though. Also the prevalence of coding knowledge (though I still call it CAMELcase, not InterCaps).