I'm going to assume the Gulf Coast side. Never in my life, growing up with my grandma taking my siblings and me to the beach throughout the summer, in Southern California (one of the places with a large population of Great Whites a couple miles out), never once felt slightly threatened or even saw a shark until I went to the Gulf Coast.
God, I have no idea where I first interacted with Drew. I was leaving a ton of comments on stories my first couple years after joining. But I don't think I started leaving a lot of comments on your stories until Treading Water. That may be where I started interacting with people here. If not, then it had to happen during Morningstar. That's probably when I started coming to the old message board regularly.
I never knew cute little nerdy Drewbear would become my arch-nemesis.
I was thinking the same thing. A lot of the old blog stuff from before the site update is gone. I can't find any of my earliest story review from 2017, and I think even some from 2018.
Drew's memory is insanely good. That's why, when he couldn't even keep track of his own claims, I knew his avarice had gotten out of control.
Sis, BoomBoom went back to posts from 2022 to scrub the spider story from existence.
But our memories are long, and despite the scrubbing, it still rained spiders in the Texas panhandle and completely blocked Drew from getting into his house.
#NeverForget.
Frodo couldn't stick the landing, babe. In fact nobody could save Middle Earth, it happened on accident.
Not going to lie, I always thought that was a pretty awkward message in a black and white, good versus evil fantasy story.
When did we "invent" words? Our language is a hodgepodge of old Germain, Latin, and French. Add in large populations of multiple cultures and languages world wide, and you have American English. Don't look down on us.