drown

I caught up with the stew I couldn't make on Saturday, and made it today!

I’d read that book… Tried to find an article where it said that book purchases went up significantly during the pandemic as a counterargument and encouragement for you to go ahead, but my Google skills are lacking today. 💜

Being in the services industry is harsh, but you are right, sometimes it’s the opposite. I work in advertising, soon I will be on my own (or rather, together with the best coworker you can imagine), and I hope to get to a place where we can just comfortably tell the clients that are rude to go somewhere else. Please enjoy your Tuesday to the fullest! I have willed it to be an ok day.

It is an ok day. I am conquering the stupidity and rudeness of others with indifference and spite.

Happy to read you. 💚 Sending you German hugs.

A very wise choice. For me it's not the toxicity of their venom. I couldn't care less. I'm just deathly afraid, I freeze when I see one bigger than a contact lens.

I don’t even know why I read the topic. I am so afraid of spiders 😂

So 600 good comments for one anchovy. And 400 good comments for one coconut?

? There are 7 and a hole where a leg used to be.

Thank you for letting us know. I’m sending hugs. Hope he’s feeling better soon. 💚 Take care.

So it’s not algebra? I said mushrooms and anchovies are horrible, yet I had already earned a place in the previous story if I remember correctly. One good comment can’t outweigh the bad one?

In a way, sure. But if you really want to dive deep, google all the weird words I use. Sometimes it's my invention, and sometimes I draw from mythology. As do the video games I play by the way, everything is a remix.

Like on the scale of Maat against the feather of truth? Yes! Maat is actually the character in FINAL FANTASY XI that measures players and allows them their final breaking of limits. Limit break. Genkai. Unsurprisingly, my Aaru draws from Ultima Thule, the final end of creation, a concept present in FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker. The things around me inspire, what can I say.

This is a perfect short tale of two friends. And I did cry. If you ever feel down on a morning after waking up, just read this, then you can go about your day and feel happy that there's good in the world. That friendships matter.

I bawled my eyes out. Just a thousand words, yet everything was so succinctly believable, charming, and heart-warming. I felt the same way at 17. Thank you.

Wow, I just had to edit my comment, I called Chronos Osiris. I should sleep longer. 😂

It's infuriatingly sexy to have a character like Kage do what he does... Yeah, I imagine. Actually, I was able to picture it extremely vividly in front of that car. But... Cheese pizza is perfect, why would anyone... ??? That is the most vile and disgusting thing I have ever heard. Help. It was surprisingly easy to get there, I managed to after just a few comments in the last story 😂 Now I'm just here, relishing in the comments after the fact. But that's ok. Ready for more, you'll see me in the comments in upcoming chapters 😛

I am eternally grateful for those who stayed so far, because it is a story that is dear to my heart. It springs out of my confusing head, and I am just trying to be the most daring I could be, with the limitations I have. If I manage to drag you deep into the currents, that is the most valuable praise I could ever get. But having said that, I read my own words, over and over and over and over and over and over again. I know I'm running the risk of losing people to a ludicrous web of nonsense. Balancing having the story play out (mostly) as originally planned with having the group's feet back on the ground, grounded in reality. So their time in Aaru was always meant to be limited, their return to reality immediate. Time will tell if I manage to see this to the end with more than one reader left. And you being here, as a reader, is the most humbling experience I have ever had. Thank you so much. I hope to be able to keep you. 💙 Clara should just be fine regulating her body temperature. This image might be a surprisingly accurate description of Chronos' physique. 💜

I appreciate your appreciation of Dave's nod to the reader. He has become meta, and the work is self-referential now. It just wrote itself and I was like… Yeah, I deserve it, so I can let him say that.

What a nice way of, after me having drown put on a pedestal, by placing on his story between Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones, which he surprisingly didn't acknowledge accordingly due to the fact, that I also compared his work to Brokeback Mountain, grounding drown, by calling him "worse than the Beatles" 😉😜😂 Except being worse than the Beatles is a really high ledge to fall off of. I get it. I'm confusing people. The whole concept of the story is to draw people into a world they've never seen before, with themes and places that would oddly fit together, but are unexpected. If I'm failing at that, I apologize. There is a reason that their time in Aaru was limited, because being back on earth will again ground them in reality. I think the whole journey was indeed stretching itself thin, but it was also necessary to go deeper and deeper down into the rabbit hole. It is a journey. 🧡

Aaru is the end of creation. The voice—Chronos—is mostly misunderstood, especially inside of Aaru, as spoken language itself does not exist there. A song is a good metaphor, and it's oddly fitting. It's where souls go after arduous trials to be weighed. Then again, that's not how or why our group of friends arrived there, for they hold a distinct key to the place. It's not simply fate however, because to be bestowed the gift of a god, your soul must already have been weighed. Then again, your feedback might just be extremely meta commentary—and deservedly so 🫣—veiled in shadow and confusion. Thank you. 💜💙

I’m attracted to Kage. That’s all.

Sebastian. Yeah... He's such a snitch.

I will start calling him Chronic too. My characters like giving people nicknames anyway 😛 Oh and yes they do. 40000 words in, there needs to be some mating. Thank you ! ! ! ! In fact, there will be many things to learn once we see them all in present time inside of Grey's pack. I am looking forward to it so much. Many chapters will play out there.

Yes. They are wolves! My pleasure! Thanks for posting your story, without which, I wouldn't be given the chance, to comment on! 💚 Qapla’!