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Even you, Brutus? The old boys having had enough and dealing with it certainly has historical precedent.
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"died from a surfeit," perhaps
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Yes, there's a real Merrickville near Ottawa, Ontario. Topher sprinkles in few anatopisms to keep it fresh, such as the high schoolers going to South Carleton instead of North Grenville, and Lethbridge being anywhere near by, but the Carterverse is a 5-Sigma fit for Ottawa and eastern Ontario.
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There's potentially more depth to the cupcake analogy; you can eat a cupcake tidily, or sort of make a crumbly mess of it. But even if you smear icing all over, there's not much chance you'd flat out lose to the cupcake. Some sports ball fans also worry that too many cupcakes won't be good for their team; there's not much prestige in being able to eat a cupcake, nor does it prepare you for anything tougher that might come later.
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Yes, it's an analogy to the degree of difficulty in eating a cupcake. That's what it means and that's why. Hi, welcome!
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I remember doing a pretty close reading to try to figure out that part of the Matt Ashby & Ridley storyline, and I seem to remember it was clear that Matt and Ridley had been better friends when younger and weren't now, and Ashby missed that. Basically nothing else was known. Perhaps some of it was Ashby's fault, or maybe Ridley had shut him out, it was never clear. That was one of the things that was interesting about that story, Ridley's point-of-view was a very narrow focus, and Matt Ashby had been assigned a low-priority role for Ridley's attention, just slightly up from zero as he was actually on the basketball team so they interacted in that way.
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Another classic slice-of-life portrait! (stray healthy personal finances hint: don't take up golf)
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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
That is one of the remaining cards in the trope deck, alright. -
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.
