WillowDarkling

Your opinion is always worth a lot, Bronxwench. 🙂

Appreciated, Desiderius.  Sorry I didn’t review more than the first chapter of Fiends, but while I eventually made it through the second chapter, I wasn’t sure how to write the review for it (there are elements framed as scientific necessities in-universe that are more about kink/personal favorite ideas, and I wasn’t sure how seriously to analyze them), so I never ended up doing that.  I looked around to see if you had a short story I could review, but it seems you have the familiar writer’s curse of the stories growing ever longer.

*glances at my own unfinished, ever-expanding stories*

Trust me, I know this feeling. 😅

Also trust me on being with you on wanting to keep the separation of church and state intact.  I will do whatever I can over the next four years.

@InBrightestDay Yeah, kinks are in there, and it’s one of the earlier stories meant to be rewritten and updated once I get all the others done.  (I’m trying to forbid myself from new projects until there, because there’s some interesting things slated to happen toward the end of Fiends that basically kickstarts where I intended to take the series.)  There *are* some short stories sprinkled into the holiday/halloween fests (I’ve since cross-posted those to AO3).

In terms of elections, don’t forget to pay attention to things like board of education, local offices; those are things your vote has a much greater impact on.  My local board of education had a couple of candidates that seemed to be regurgitating the Trump/Religious-Right manifestos, and luckily neither of them made it (this time).

@Desiderius Price, apologies about not replying to this yesterday, but way ahead of your there.  Did my research on the local district school board members.  We had one running on that “empowering parents” idea (first name was Karen, amusingly enough), who I voted against.  She lost.  I’ll stay on it.