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OK, so when I read this one, I remember not knowing where this was going at all. I was not expecting an enlightened race of beings. I was expecting the descriptions of those beings even less. But, by that point I was just glad they were all okay. 😆

I meant all the other stories I read but haven't commented on yet. Just give me a bit. I just caught up on my work and have a little time. 😉

I like to comment as I am reading because whenever I read something in one or two sittings, I feel guilty for not having said anything (especially if I'm binging things in one go). This was one of the ones I read through so fast because of the wild drama and incredible characters. Your writing style is...how should I describe this? Like you are reading the juiciest gossip column that also happens to be a newspaper article that also happens to be a crime time documentary. 🤔It's graphic and bloody and angsty and traumatic balanced by heartfelt bonds and moments of sheer triumph and love. But most of all it has an addictive pacing that isn't too rushed or too slow, it wavers, but it's in this goldilock zone of perfection.

OMG @wildone, if @Lee Wilson had a 700k + story by itself I would weep for an entire day and it would take me months to years to finish reading (oh sh*t, did I just admit I've been secretly reading his work without commenting? Lemme go hide.)

You can do it @northie!!! Always think short and condensed for events!! Oh wait, that's mostly me talking.

WHAT? But I was so looking forward to reading yours!! 😱 Maybe you can save what you had planned for another event? Or just post it whenever you finish anyway!! Then, let me know so I can read.

Canada post is on strike??? 😱

I already have mine on.

Happy Birthday!!

And then there are people like me, trying to write something that should probably have been a novella and compressing it until it's as short as humanly possible.

This both made me laugh and made me want to read A Wizard's War:

Also, I'm sure a vegan version of this is possible!!

I'd get creative. I'd hollow out one of those round soup breads and make an upside down Hobbit home. @Headstall That pic you posted has me drooling. I forgot prosciutto rolls existed.🤤

They look delicious is what they look like! I am going to list all the ingredients I need as my Xmas wishlist!!

YES. I am fascinated by these Charcuterie Chalets. I saw one where it was mostly pretzel sticks and cheese and I want to eat make one so badly.

I went on an internet rabbit hole about the benefits of biochar and how no one has been able to replicate Terra Petra yet. 🤔

You keep fighting, @Mikiesboy!!! Not your diet, that you'll have to eat even if you don't want to. What I do (other than drown things in the spices I'm allowed to use) is I listen to music and dance while I eat so I distract myself from the fact that it's probably not what I'd prefer to eat. I was a notoriously terrible eater as a child (no amount of airplanes or threats did anything)...and I'm still suffering the consequences of that in older age. These days, I can eat unseasoned things and even black coffee without sugar if I have to, but that's because I decided to play defensively. "If I don't gently stretch after a long walk, I will pull a muscle or tear a tendon, and it took me 8 months to recover from that, so stretch, I must!" "If I don't eat more fiber-heavy food, I will tear something up, and I had to get a whole operation in which the recovery felt like pooping out a whole child, and hell if I'm going to suffer that pain again." Those are the kinds of things I'm constantly reminding myself about, only because I know what the worst-case scenario feels like already. So, in my head, it's all "prevent, prevent, prevent...and you're not feeling like you were hit by a truck."

*GASP* Let's go!!

Thanks so much, everyone!!

@kbois It’s alright. If there's a hockey fan that happens to read my work and it sounds totally off to them, I can change it then. I had a little too much fun with the one sentence and it's happening either way.

I'm looking for a hockey fan generally familiar enough with hockey terms and slang to let me know if I managed to use said slang correctly (or at least with the right connotation?) in a specific sentence. If you are willing to help me with said sentence, please send me a message.

This was a very touching tribute and a reflection of grief that anyone who's ever cared for someone at their lowest, or lost someone in some way, can relate.

As someone who was a caretaker of sorts (in our Rican family, the youngest tend to take care of the oldest), this destroyed me.😭And I had a severe lack of tissue boxes nearby, so it was a very ugly cry. The skunk shenanigans and family-gossip-hour were much-needed relief. I'm really glad Kenny had Jordy by his side. I don't have a Jordy yet (though in my case it'd be more like a Jolene lmao). I need to find one. Crap. Where was I? Right! I'll save that part for my review. Brb.

Hope you feel better soon, Adi.

I'm almost coming up on half (475,586) and that's still plenty for me. 😂 Plus a bunch of my stories are collaborations, so that's not the correct number (I'd say about half, so maybe I'm actually coming up on 250k 🤔).