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My Scrabble app does not recognize “jahoobs” as a word. Those 88 points were rightfully mine.

Well, that name was chosen for the best reasons: ironic reasons! Besides, not all angel names end in -el, Lailah and Sandalphon being examples.

Hopefully they mean whoever did this ‘in story’ :p As for the spelling, I grant that my ancient Hebrew scholarship was weaker than it should have been, but honestly some of the angels in this setting have even less proper names. Luzurial was the name the character gave me in my head, who’m I to argue? Kizzy’s just as bad… And as for Chastia, I mean, that’s originally from latin. I ain’t the brightest!

TimeWise is an author over on Literotica, and has a story called Conversion (a mixture of medieval fantasy and horror). I asked if I could namedrop a character from that story, and he expressed interest in my story. I warned him about some of the content, which was apparently fine, so here we are. Thank you! The humor was kind of my way of acknowledging how ridiculous the circumstances can be, and it keeps popping up. As for payback for what happened to Luzurial, that’s going to take a while, but come Part Nine, whenever I manage that... I asked about that actually, way back in the day. According to @JayDee, the author of the original story, Luzurial’s name is based on the Spanish word luz, meaning “light,” and a deliberate misspelling of the Archangel Uriel’s name. As far as I can tell from online research (read: half an hour on Wikipedia and various name etymology sites), the suffix “-el” is a short form of “Elohim,” which is one of the Hebrew names for God, so Michael translates to “who is like God” and Gabriel to “God is my strength” or “hero of God” (I’m not sure what the order is supposed to be). Uriel, on the other hand, translates to either “light of God” or “God is my light” (again, not sure what the order is), and as a result Luzuriel would look right, but would actually be somewhat redundant. Thank you! You know, that moment in particular is an example of me catching a problem and trying to make a bug into a feature. I started writing the scene and, given the substance matting her hair, figured she would want that off of her body now, so I figured it would be nice for her to have a bath. Then I realized you generally don’t let people with stitches do that, and figured it might be a good way to show off one of her powers, specifically her regeneration. Thanks again for the review!

Made a lot of progress on stories this week, chiefly “The More, the Merrier” and “Auntie's Home,” but I still don't have anything terribly close to being ready to post. What I'd like to finish next is chapter 3 of my long-neglected busty-sorority-girls story, “Delta Delta Delta,” but I have to go where inspiration takes me.