Thorn Wilde

Working on it.

Stories start when they start, my friend. I'm not always able to control that. When I have an idea, I have to write it or it might go away again. Such functions my creativity, and when a character grabs me by the balls and refuses to let go, I am at his mercy until he does. Which is why TFT. But I'll get back to this soon, I promise. Thanks for reviewing!

Well, we'll see what happens. My plan may yet change; it tends to do that. I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway, and I'll try not to leave you hanging for too long. Innis & Gunn is among my favourites as well, it's a very tasty beer! It's ridiculously expensive around here, though. I miss living in the UK and getting it for £1.80 down at Asda. There are surely limits to how much angst I can cram into a story, isn't there? No? Maybe not. But I figured what Mark's been through already is bad enough, and I thought I'd give him a break by making sure this particular instance of harm was no self-inflicted. Thanks so much for reviewing!

Good man! Well done indeed.

I'm just slightly concerned because whomever wrote that article felt the need to specify what testosterone is. Who doesn't know that?

Happy Birthday, Conner!

I can be a little anal retentive at times. Sorry 'bout that.

I'd like to point out that I actually posted this song in both song of the moment and the make us laugh thread days ago...

Yeah, I got into the sex quite quickly. It's that kind of relationship. Then again, this story was supposed to be a lot shorter, and then it just kind of spiralled out of control, so...

Yay! New reviewer! That makes me happy! Glad you're already enjoying it, and hope you enjoy the rest as well.

And thank you for reviewing! I'm so glad you think I'm a good writer, that makes me very happy!

Yes, because I am your bitch and you can totally boss me around. I'll get to it as soon as I can.

Adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs even... Yes. Not all skinheads are neo-nazis (I shaved my head once, it had nothing to do with my political views) and not all neo-nazis are skinheads, but the two do still quite frequently intersect on the venn-diagram, and it is my rather narrow and judgmental opinion that neo-nazis are bad people. Well, you'll just have to wait and see what I have in mind for the ending. I'm hoping it will not disappoint...

It's Norwegian! The song, it is Norwegian! And those two guys, they're a pair of comedians who have a chat show on TV Norge. They made this song entirely for shits and giggles.

Hope that will be true for this story as well. Thank you so much for taking the time to review!

Well, you know what they say. Can't rush genius. No, I'll try to get it done as quickly as I can. I'll get to it. Marcus and Jacob have been taking up my whole brain lately, they just won't let me alone... Now I'm writing backstory. It's a nightmare, they've got me by the proverbial bollocks. But Ben and Mark's story also needs to be told. So, I'll get to it, have no fear. Thanks for reviewing! <3

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Morning that Followed After spending half the night fretting about Mark, Ben decided that he should try for some semblance of sleep. He woke up only a couple of hours later, in the small hours of the morning, from his phone ringing. He answered it with a grunt. ‘It’s Rose.’ Ben sat bolt upright, clutching the phone to his ear. ‘Did you hear from Mark? Is he all right?’ ‘I’m . . . I’m at the hospital. They found him a couple of hours ago . . .’ She trailed off. Her voic

There's some recipes in the Om nom nom nom thread...

I actually didn't find that especially funny. I don't think I know any girls who act like that... I do know a couple of guys who pretty much do, though.

A lot of that info is around on Pottermore now. Little extra details and stuff that weren't in the books. While Rowling was writing the books, she released a lot of notes and stuff on an interactive website which I used to visit daily to see if anything new had popped up.

Yeah, I've had some of those working in kindergartens over the years... First to get there in the mornings, last to be picked up at night, and the parents wouldn't even let the kid nap during the day because then he'd be up so late. If you don't wanna spend time with your child, don't have children!

The same way you can have vegan sausages. Vegetarian haggis is made with all the vegetable ingredients in regular haggis, plus lentils, beans and other veg. It looks like a haggis, uses the same spices as a haggis, tastes somewhat like a haggis, and just doesn't have any of the animal bits. 'Proper' haggis is made from sheep's heart, lung and liver, minced and mixed with onions and other stuff and then stuffed into a sheep's stomach. Basically, it's kind of like a sausage, which is meat of some kind (quite often bits not used for anything else), spices and sometimes other vegetable stuff, traditionally stuffed into an animal's intestines. Much the same thing. ...For someone who's never eaten haggis I certainly know a lot about haggis, huh?

Yay! Happy Birthday, Trebs!!

Actually, since we define gas giants as the kind of planet that Jupiter is (and we have some evidence that the other gas giants in our solar system are mostly like it), IF there is a type of planet out there in the universe that is like a gas giants but also has plate tectonics and a molten core necessary for volcanic formations, that would be a third kind of planet and not a gas giant at all. We know what gas giants are like, because we have defined gas giants as what Jupiter is. If there's a third or fourth or fifth type of planet in the universe we haven't yet discovered and defined, that's another matter. This isn't quantum mechanics. This is pretty basic, provable, observable physics, and where the calculations and the observations match up, we pretty much know that we know what we know, unless we start going all philosophical and existential about it, which is really a completely different issue. Also:

OMG, the tux!! *dies* I am 100% done!