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Homecoming: Crowns, Confessions, and Collateral Damage
Mattyboy commented on Jeff Burton's story chapter in Homecoming: Crowns, Confessions, and Collateral Damage
Yeah, good choice. I get that you might have started this as a satire, but I quite enjoyed this as a genre piece. -
Homecoming: Crowns, Confessions, and Collateral Damage
Mattyboy commented on Jeff Burton's story chapter in Homecoming: Crowns, Confessions, and Collateral Damage
Outstanding! Just missing the group picture with the vest-spectrum!🌈- 38 comments
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I see Krista is imagining this further west, but yeah I had the location figured as something Tennessee-ish. And an excellent conclusion: it's been creeping up on Joel, but he finally seems to believe in Trace and Celia after this. And believe in himself and the future.
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I figured it was and I didn't need to worry, I'm glad it worked out this way. Tabby wandering off, caught up in the magnetic pull of a migratory impulse, and camping rough with maybe-ok-documentation isn't that safe or healthy a thing to do without main-character plot-armor. Now that Alvin thinks of the house as his home, perhaps Alvin and Tabby can do some edits with the decor, and put some of the spoons into storage and replace them on the walls with their nicely framed drawing and paintings.
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Alvin's winter is a beautifully agonistic levelling up for him, but the Higginses might have delivered a snow shovel and that space heater a little earlier, perhaps during the month of glass and iron?
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This chapter was a positively symphonic description of winter. I liked "month of glass and iron" for February and the snow rotting out in March particularly.
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They seem to keep making more somehow.
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I hope there isn't any trouble under the mistletoe, later.
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I think it might indeed be over. Jax was used to his place in the jockocracy, and Joel was disrupting the social order in a couple of ways (not even sitting with the baseball team!). They've measured each other and Joel's slid into the hierarchy as a big wheel in a secondary sport. (And likely Jax is on quite clear orders not to cause any more trouble in the cafeteria). Excellent progress for Joel at realizing he has agency and make friends and play ball and be a person! And he finally figured it out about his lunch table. "There's more than one gay table" makes me wonder who else's secrets Davin is keeping (or that Joel just hasn't bothered to ask about)
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Hey! Elbows up, buddy. It's 2026.
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"open to a page so stained with ancient grease and vanilla extract it looked like a pirate's treasure map. " I have a couple of old cookbooks with a few pages like that. Great way to tell between "comfort food that everyone likes" and "some dumb 50s recipe that we stopped making for good reasons" The "it wasn't just a pie, it was an apology" line was outstanding.
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He's not allowed to buy it from the store, but no one said he couldn't ask Brian for help.
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That's poignantly sad that Peter was Tabby's uncle. I'm not caught up with the main saga. "You can't let the loud, pushy ones drown out the quiet, interesting ones" feels like a line from someone who knew Peter and cared.
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Ooh I see Tabby IS a McCormick Less weeding, more rooting, Alvin.
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Ooh the ol' McCormick green thumb. But what does he know about rooting?
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What's Cody's animal theme? I can't remember if there's canon on that.
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Montage through it. It'll be fine.
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Ok, at this time I'll take it all back about Joel maybe being ace. It took us a long time to get here, but feels like a triumph.
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Chapter 2 - Posing Strap
Mattyboy commented on GrantsXploits's story chapter in Chapter 2 - Posing Strap
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Yay for Joel finally settling into the (actually quite good) situation he's found himself in. And hehe, for all that the Kepler parents are neglectful, there are a few things that it's convenient they're never home for. (Although- surprise! - that could lead to some hilarity as well).
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Still, I think Joel could have answered Celia "It's the first time I'll have with Cody since all this and I don't want to invite people I don't know well to that" But that would require him knowing his own emotions and thoughts and being able to utter sentences about them, and he isn't that guy.
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Yes, indeed, it might should have done.
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Yeah Celia's leaning on Joel on this, but she's out on a limb there. It's help if Joel could better articulate anything to anyone, but he doesn't know people at Fletcher well enough to know if they'd be nice to Cody (and Lacey) at a kids birthday party, and Joel -quite properly- has a lot invested emotionally in having a good time with Cody and Cody having a good time. I like Rissa, she's a great and fun character, but don't think she's getting a lot of votes for "most likely to be fun at a kids' birthday party with ponies." Grady Roy we met helping his little sister get shoes or something? Seems to be a maybe but is also an open channel back to Tempton.
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yeah, the "jump-start" chapters have moved on to "shot out of a cannon" chapters
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It's fun to see Joel as the paranoid introspective teen that he is, who's constantly paralyzed by worry about what people will think and worrying about their reactions - and he hasn't figured out that he's sitting at the gay kids table for lunch yet. No wonder Jaxton needs to intervene - new jockboy sitting with the queers will definitely get the warhawks crowing.
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