Paladin

@andy cannon

Pleased you enjoyed it @Ticklishboy30

Thanks @Summerabbacat for your encouraging comments. I'm pleased you enjoyed it, tears and all.

Superman and Lex survive and are able to view their hot experience on CCTV but the villain, Clayton, is still at large with his dangerous formula. Fun story. We need an epilogue involving Clayton and the dungeon master.

Only you @Ticklishboy30 would think that the bullet proof man of steel would succumb to tickles. Well done!

Another excellent chapter. Adams plays matchmaker and departs the field. Blake and Pitt, individually confess their love to paper rather than to each other. There are times when what is written, if kept, can be more dangerous than a person to person confession. Such written and unsent confessions are best destroyed.

Your emission, should you choose to accept it, smells aweful.

I held the now age yellowed envelope which was addressed to my father in a confident fluid cursive handwriting. I turned it over and saw a return name and address in the same cursive script. I didn’t recognise either the name or the address. The letter had been opened so I assumed the contents had been read and replaced, and it seemed possibly more than once. I thought back to why I was in this storeroom going through my father’s possessions. My father had died quietly and pea

A man finds a finds a letter written to his father. What the letter reveals causes him to rethink what he believes about his father.

There are things that set Australian social media and talk back radio ablaze and two of those are the size of Wagon Wheels and Vegemite (especially if compared with Marmite). The manufacturers of Wagon Wheels defensively claim that current Wagon Wheels are the same size as when we were children, but as adults our hands are bigger so the Wagon Wheels look smaller. You've gotta admire that spin. 🤣 Research (yes there is research) suggests that Vegemite and Marmite are acquired tastes that need to be acquired in very early childhood. More recently Vegemite is being regarded as an umami, possibly appealing to your "food snobs" @Summerabbacat. Vegemite pairs well with fats, which is why it goes with butter or margarine or cheese or, as I discovered recently, peanut butter.

WBUT2 has had two characters pop in from my other stories; one intentionally and one not so. But so far, not from another author. As for the Kevin in my story, he has certainly cum already, although not yet with his true love. In terms of a competition, we would have to compare notes at ten paces. BTW I'm enjoying the pace and development of Traditions.

Yes, Jamie and Hearst have dropped their various masks and sought total honesty and trust with each other. They are their own solid family but are comfortable with the truth of their "extended" families, unlike Wen who talks about family but keeps himself isolated from family and remains uncomfortable with the truth. I know who will win out in the end.

Restrained is one of those words that can refer to a person not being able to do something because of external factors or because of internal factors. A person may be restrained from touching a snake because of a physical barrier between them and the snake or because of an internalized fear of snakes. The statement "he is restrained from speaking to you" is beautifully ambiguous. It can mean anything from he is tied up and gagged, through he is legally prevented from speaking, to he has personal reasons for not speaking.

There was some intended irony.

Yes, @Seraph28, we were talking about wholesome McCafe cake and cream. What were you thinking about?

I agree with you @Philippe, Timmy's behaviour is more than typical teenager gay hate behaviour.

True, you can't claim all the credit. 🤣

@drpaladin, there already is a word for professional narcissists - politicians.

I think it was @Mark Ponyboy Peters posting a McCafe pix followed later with references to being served with cream. But then . . . 🤣

Living in Joy City would be fun filled but only when protected by the city's heroes. How serious is the threat to our heroes? How will they escape without having to call uncle? Next chapter please (with mild threats of tickles).

I was going to make a comment about this chapter, but all those preceding just take the cake.

I see Blake and Pitt as two cocked guns. When the triggers are pulled watch out for collateral damage.

I will agree @andy cannon that Pitt's reluctance to reveal the billeting was basically to keep Adams away from Blake. I actually saw Huxley's allocation of Blake to Pitt's command of the Belle Thérèse as being to separate Blake and Vane. Huxley, a wily sea dog who sees more than he lets on, would be well aware of Vane's animosity towards Blake along with it's potential danger, and he persists, even over Pitt's objections, and concern for Blake's injuries. Huxley is impressive with his quiet, knowing and assured command, just as he knows the loneliness of command and it's implications.

For a while I was surprised that Pitt was overwhelmed in his role as temporary Captain, but it is his obsession (love) of Blake that is overwhelming him rather than command. With the attitudes and strictures of the time it is unwise for them to be on the same ship, which raises questions as to why the Captain insisted they be together. I don't think it was just to separate Blake and Vane. The comments around billeting suggest that Pitt has ensured he is billeted with Blake. Some things carry more dangers than being at sea in a storm, or at war. The strange French prisoner is a loose cannon at this stage of the story. I hope it is not loaded.

Indeed it was located outside of and usually away from the house. This was in unsewered areas and the contents of the pan when it was collected and taken away was referred to, euphemistically, as "night soil". There was also an implied threat of redbacks lurking in the outhouse or, dangerously, under the seat. "Head" is an interesting and specifically naval euphemism. Originally on sailing ships, it indicated where the "facility" (another euphemism) was located, and the term persists with modern day sailors, even though the facility is located elsewhere.