JamesSavik

I have. Never have I ever watched "reality TV". It's made for cable cheap garbage that would go away if people would just stop watching the sh*t.

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Invented in the 1830s, the ebullioscope became an important instrument for chemistry and physics. Its original use was to determine the proof (alcohol content) of wine and spirits. It quickly became a staple in chemistry labs and a pain in the ass lab assignment for chemistry students calculating boiling points and molecular weights.

Nope. Never will either. Never have I ever eaten possum.

Oops. A little sting. Not a bad one. I've been accused of being a crazy rabid SOB. It worked. Nobody wants to fight someone like that. There's no winning. I was known to bite. Hard. Never have I ever finished a game of Stellaris.

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Ice

In the past, moral turpitude was put in employment contracts to provide employers grounds for firing gay employees.

When you write a story, you create a little world for your characters' drama to play out. If the elements (setting, characters) are solid, it's possible to continue and ask yourself what comes next? Unlike Hollywood which often rushes a sequel to cash in, ask yourself: are there possibilities to explore? Is there more to reveal about your characters? What makes them tick? In Hypothetical Kid, we learn a lot more about LJ and the boy who had been bullying him, Rebel. That piece made you understand the two characters much better and how and why they acted as they did. Initiation Weekend tells you much, much more about a character who only appears briefly, David. Can you imagine arranging for your new boyfriend to be paired up with your old one? David did and Tommy benefitted from it. The important part of making rational sequels is to make them consistent, make any changes in the characters reasonable, and give it purpose. You want your sequel to be more like Terminator 2 which is consistent than Aliens 3 which throws out the elements that made its predecessor successful.

When I did the short story Boyfriends for Christmas, the characters spawned two sequels- Hypothetical Kid and Initiation Weekend. Those pesky characters just won't shut up.

Thaumaturgy was a branch of magic which used the assistance of astral beings to work a spell. Different types of entities conferred different spells. They came to the attention of the Knights Templar when they discovered they were in competition with thalmaturgists for holy relics who needed them as spell components. ⚔️💀

Snarkcasm ( == Snark + Sarcasm )

Nope. Never have I ever cooked Chinese food.

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I envy you, sir. Our skool dragged us through at least three of his works. I'm still grateful the senior play passed on Oliver. Never have I ever failed to enjoy Joseph Conrad's work.

Politicians

Who sez AI doesn't have a sense of humor?

Rook

Tin roof + the rataplan of a nighttime thunderstorm == insomnia

In the South, the rowdiest teen rampallion in town (or a school) used to get the nickname Rebel. In a shocking confession, I used to fall for them with dreary regularity. 🙄

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