Thorn Wilde

Happy Birthday, @Dodger! 🥳

Yay! Finally! Excited to read everyone else's. ❤️ Just a quick note, though... you misspelled my name.

Quick note in case it was unclear: This is part one of three.

Loved this story when I proofed it, and love it even more on the second read. Looking forward to seeing more people's comments as they come in; interesting to see what thoughts people have.

Thank you very much! ❤️

In the land between the rivers, near the banks of the river Tigris, lies a sleepy village where something dark is stirring. Epheriel, the angel assigned to watch over this village, senses hatred and ill will toward the village hero Jair, though it knows not from whom. Epheriel wants to protect Jair, who is the most beautiful mortal it has ever seen, but is it worth revealing divinity and risking the wrath of Heaven?

Well, the last question I can answer: because to assess what it would be like living there, he needs a normal routine, and because they don't want to interrupt his education more than necessary. If he does end up moving to his grandparents full time, that's the school he'll be going to. As for what Social Services have and haven't told the grandparents, they don't actually know all the specifics of the abuse that Daniel has suffered. That's between him and his shrink, and it's confidential. He's told Michael some things and Stephen and Lewis some things, but not all. Social Services only know what Daniel revealed during their first conversation with them. Thank you so much for commenting!

Well, we'll just have to see what happens, won't we? Thanks so much for commenting, Tim.

Yeah, there's definitely more to come regarding the grandparents. But I promise good things are coming, too! We're actually starting to come up on the end... I have a total of 57 chapters planned, so that only leaves 14 to go. My book is a collection of short stories. All the stories are also available on this site for free, though some have been heavily edited for the book, to improve grammar, punctuation, formatting, remove typos, and in some cases also to add scenes or change parts of the story. It's available for Kindle, as paperback, and as ePub, if you're interested.

A song I was listening to, actually. Lol!

‘This will be your bedroom,’ said Grandmother, leading me up a narrow staircase and to a door. She opened it and I followed her inside. It was an attic room, with slanted ceiling and a large window at the end. It was nice, really, but I instantly missed my room in Stephen and Lewis’s house; it was a lot more colourful and cosy. But the bed looked comfortable enough, and there was a large wardrobe with space for my things, as well as a desk. ‘It was your mother’s room,’ Grandmother contin

Miracle of Sound's Skyrim songs put me in mind of Blind Guardian, so I've been listening to Nightfall in Middle-Earth, which used to be one of my favourite albums back when I thought metal was the only real music. Not saying I got my name from this song... but I could have.

I would never!

Oh? How did you think he meant it?

I posted this to Twitter earlier, so I thought I might as well share it here too. I've seen some folks trying to use this older form of the second person singular pronoun in stories, poetry, song lyrics and so on, but getting it all kinds of wrong, so I made a handy little guide. thou - subject (see: 1st person 'I') thee - object (see: 1st person 'me') thy - dependent possessive (see: 1st person 'my') thine - independent possessive (see: 1st person 'mine') Examples from Shakespeare: Sonnet 18: Shall I compare THEE to a summer's day? THOU art more lovely and more temperate [...]But THY eternal summer shall not fade Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is THINE 'Thine' is also used in place of 'thy' if the following word begins with a vowel, for example: Sonnet 132: THINE eyes I love, and they, as pitying me And, just so we're absolutely clear, 'thou' is ALWAYS singular! Plural of 'thou' is 'you'. 'You' has been adopted as a singular pronoun, but it didn't use to be. The plural form was used as a formal singular form, for politeness, respect or deference, but at some point people started to use it as the default 2nd person singular pronoun in informal as well as formal settings. There are other languages in which the 2nd person plural is used formally while the singular is informal, such as the difference between 'tu' and 'vous' in French.

Saaaame, lol! Only MMOs I've played were Guid Wars 2 (which is free, and fun for a little while) and Elder Scrolls Online, which I initially got purely for the chance to explore Tamriel, since I'm an Elder Scrolls lore nerd, and which I now play veeeery occasionally with a few friends. Both are PVE, with optional PVP. But for the most part, gaming is me time. And I don't want anyone intruding on my me time.

Welcome to the GA family!

I actually think that sounds awesome! I love old school synths, lo-fi, weird stuff. Music serves many different purposes, and there are many different ways for music to be good. From an entertainment perspective, if it entertains you, it's good. Artistically speaking, if it makes you feel something, it's good. If it makes you think, it's good. The only bad music is music that gives you nothing. That goes for art in general. And then I can say that I don't like something, but that doesn't mean other people shouldn't. These 'taste wars' are just dumb. We can discuss why we like or don't like something, but the moment someone tells me that what I like sucks and I'm an idiot for liking it, that's a conversation I leave.

I adore Florence! Got to see her live once at a festival. She's a magnificent performer.

My favourite of hers is this one. It's such a weird and wonderful performance...

But do you get to keep it if you cancel game pass?

I haven't played the game yet (hoping to find it on sale on Steam next weekend...) but I've heard great things. And today I found this amazing song this guy wrote based on it, and it's my new favourite song, I've been listening to it on repeat all day. Made me want to play the game even more. Miracle of Sound makes a whole bunch of awesome songs based on video games. The devs should pay him, it's great advertising.

Well, it's not your birthday anymore, but happy birthday nonetheless!

Miracle of Sound makes badass songs about video games, TV shows and so on he likes. They're amazing. Here's one he made for the recent Outer Worlds: And, for Firefly fans like me, this one. Just listen to that baritone... That does funny, happy things to me, it does. Aaaand, a song about Ciri from The Witcher:

Happy Birthday!