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[savsonfire]

Sav STILL has emergency open commissions this month while new potential job is putting off hiring do to a facility shut down, so in the meantime Sav is still technically unemployed and hopeful that will change soon, but even if I'm hired, it still sounds like I wont have work until the last week of june / start of july.

COMMISSIONS START AT 1$ if you send me a dollar and a prompt it'll be drawn!!!!

Commissions and Donations @ paypal / kofi / patreon

[v-mum-writes]

Today's doodle pages included some focus on Kaayras Adaar's uniform to the winter palace; specifically, Halamshiral in his first life. He's significantly more jaded in the era of the winter palace but not nearly as much as he will be in the story following.

notes: -a fuck you to Gaspard choosing the colors the inquisition is allowed to wear, Kaayras got fancy with the fabric. technically followed every stipulation. -not pictured, the inquisitor's uniform also includes a long coat that is worn to the palace, removed on entrance. It's a dark leather matching the rest of the leather accents. -The uniform plan changes pending status. This is the Inquisitor's outline. The inner Circle and the Advisors have a very similar version using the same fabrics, but lack the Scarf, lack the asymmetrical gold embroiders on the shoulder cuffs, have symmetrical gloves closer in design to the unmarked hand's side, and have a looser waist sash design that is custom embroidered along the edges. Other inquisition staff use simplified fabrics instead of the pictured layered embroidery, using solid fabrics instead. -Kaayras, Josephine, Vivienne, Dorian, and Leliana all contributed to the designs and plans over all. Kaayras hand-embroieders the additional patterns to each of the inner circle member's uniforms; these patterns are customized. Each uniform, his own included, is also customized to suit each member with various hidden pockets and reinforcements as needed. Kaayras and Leliana handled these alterations personally. -The Vitaar color and pattern Kaayras wears to Halamshiral as pictured above is NOT the one Josephine and Vivienne specified in the plan. -There was a large movement among the outfit planners to try and get Adaar to wear jewelry of some kind which he strongly resisted for mobility and logistics reasons. The compromise was gold leaf body glitter and gold hair thread. -Not pictured, but There is a single braid of hair hidden within the knot. Kaayras requests Liliana braid it for him before the Ball. Between this strange 'secret', his resistance and unusual disobedience with the jewelry and vitaar color, and general behavior during preparation for the ball, has most of his staff on edge. -He's trying to be calm. someone might get stabbed. coping mechanism? pick pocketing and stealing from half the ball. and violence toward jester assassins.

[savsonfire]

we're playing a game called short term financial panic!

The summary is that Sav has suddenly and without notice become unemployed and the timing has been everly inconvenient. I've been job hunting the last couple days and while i do have a job prospect in the future, im informed it can take up to two months to even begin orientation. So far no other job prospects have progressed- leaving me, Sav, scrambling for work more *now* than *later* without any success so far.

If I can make do for the next month, and get into the aforementioned job, we can make do! but June is a hurdle. These numbers account for paying what i can already with my scant savings, so this is the minimum i need to scrape together to be stable for the coming month.

So! Sav is opening commissions (And Donations @ paypal / kofi)

Im offering basically anything right now- Here's some full colors at various levels of shade/complexity. But flats and monochromes are also available for quicker turn around!

Prices are currently undecided. DM if at all interested.

[savburger]

It exists.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78986436/chapters/207185096

That which Inspired / was inspired by this art of mine:

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💬 0  🔁 9  ❤️ 43 · Question: What does it take for a man who was murdered with a knife to wield one himself? Suppose that an old man who spe

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

Your comments mean something even when the author never replies.

Sometimes your comments mean something especially when the author never replies.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

exactly this

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

[ao3statss]

There are currently 414,472 fics without a single kudos.

2,948,374 under 10 kudos

If anyone was wondering.

[despairsystem]

It's @nomorezerocomments

[nomorezerocomments]

its me! and it's @comment-exchange!

[comment-exchange]

We don‘t have a spreadsheet anymore, but we have a masterlist, and AO3 bookmarks.

[oh-no-its-bird]

Shikamaru accidentally becomes the second coming of Jiraiya via anonymously publishing BL novels with Sakura and Ino as his managers and editors

HEAR ME OUT. HEAR ME OUT.

Ok so, Shikamaru's grandfather passes away (aka my oc Shikasada, for those in the know) and among his things is a very old diary dating back to Konoha's founding. Shikamaru opens it to fund uhh. Many things. Many things he could have gone without knowing. Mostly revolving around his grandpa's apparent years long slow burn affair w some Hatake boy.

Shikamaru, sort of horrified but in too deep to back out now, resolves to at least finish the diary-- and despite himself, besides some of the more painful to read sections, there really is a lot of really interesting information in the diary.

Which brings Shikamaru to being unable to set down the diary, and bringing it to the academy with him in the morning.

(Quick note, lets set this like two or three months before graduation, so Shikamaru is like, ~13 I think)

SO, SHIKAMARU IS IN CLASS AND READING HIS GRANDFATHERS DIARY IN THE BACK OF THE CLASS (his first mistake, tbh) And he doesnt notice as Ino and Sakura appear behind him and Ino starts reading over his shoulder. And Ino, proud fujo, after a minute of reading goes really loudly,

"is that YAOI???"

And now Shikamaru essentially has two options. Both of them a uniquely kind of terrible. Does he,

a) admit this is his grandfathers very gay, very sappy, very depressing, kind of steamy diary about how he cheated on his fiance with a Hatake boy and even briefly debated running away from his wedding to be with him instead (but ultimately didnt)

or, b) let his classmates think hes a fan of doomed yaoi romance novels.

He decides that option b at least doesnt invoke a possible scandle for his clan (which his mom would kill him for) and says its a book.

Sakura immediately points out the fact that its hand written.

On pure reflex, Shikamaru blurts, "I wrote it."

(Instant regret.)

So anyways Ino and Sakura (mostly Ino) bully Shikamaru into letting them read 'his' book. And they come back to him with it going "omg, this is amazing! It's just as good-- maybe even better than most of the things on the market right now!!!"

And Shikamaru is like, "great can I have it back please."

And they're like "Shikamaru, you cant just let this kind of masterpiece rot in your closet!!!! This is incredible!!!! Heart wrenching!!! Hair raising!!! Super dramatic and filled with tension and drama and history and 𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 !"

And Shikamaru, again, is like, "Great. Can I have it back please."

"Shikamaru, you don't understand. You have a gift."

"Can I please have it back now."

So. One thing leads to another and after much peer pressure (and maybe some light threats of blackmail because Ino and Sakura have totally realized that Shikamaru didn't actually write the diary, and it instead belonged to his grandfather. (Mostly because Ino had actually met the man before, and obviously recognized his name)) Shikamaru has now gained:

a) two very eager 13 year old publishing managers / editors

b) the contact information of Sakura's cousin, who coincidentally works at one of the biggest publishing houses in Fire counry.

c) somehow, some way, the obligation to edit and publish his grandfathers diary as a bl romance novel.

Shikamaru hates his fucking life.

SO. THEY PUBLISH IT AFTER SOME EDITING AND CHANGING OF CLAN NAMES AND ITS A WILD SUCCESS. SHIKAMARU IS KIND OF MAD AT HOW MUCH OF A WILD SUCCES IT IS.

(Though, laying in his bed of money that now rivals his father's personal funds as the Nara clan head, he can't bring himself to be... as mad as he might have otherwise been.)

(Sakura and Ino, also with their giant piles of money, are also very satisfied.)

But the satisfaction doesnt last for long bc soon the girls are scheming to get Shikamaru to write something new for them to publish.

"But I didn't write the diary to begin with!" Shikamaru argues.

"What does it matter?" Ino insists. "You still edited it, and it was your grandfather who wrote it! Some of the talent has to be there!"

(depressingly enough for Shikamaru, some of the talent does seem to be there.)

And thus begins Shikamaru's life of becoming a famous romance author with his (blackmailers) managers Ino and Sakura <3

(In the pure lands, Shikamaru's grandfather is screaming into a pillow as his Hatake boy in question laughs his ass off and insists this is exactly what he deserves after keeping them a secret for so long. Really, Shika, you should be proud for having such a resourceful grandson.)

So anyways, this brings me to the fact that Sakura's first ever encounter with her new sensei, Kakashi, would have gone WILDLY different on her end. Because she saw the original diary. She, unlike the general public, didn't get the edited version of the story with changed clan names.

So when her teacher walks into the room and introduces himself, her very first thought is omg like the yaoi.

And her first act is to start giggling maniacally in the corner of the room like a little freak. In Sakura we stan

Kakashi meanwhile has no fucking clue what kind of drugs that little girl is on, but finds that he probably doesn't want to know.

WHICH ALSO BRINGS ME TO THE FACT THAT LIKE. Theres something profoundly funny about known icha-icha lover Kakashi reading this novel and becoming a huge fan-- absolutey 100% unaware that it's about HIS direct cousin, only two generations back.

Shikamaru put way more effort into disguising the Nara clan's involvement in the book-- both because he cares more about the Nara and because he kinda uhh... was under the impression that the Hatake were all dead, like, for real. In the book, the Nara's clan name is changed, the character names are changed, their sacred animal is changed to a rabbit and their traditions are all altered-- but the Hatake clan just becomes the Hasake clan and is largely left alone bc Shikamaru is 13 and can't really be bothered to go the extra mile.

(Editing so much is such a bother, Ino. You just dont get it)

So like, Shikamaru has no idea who Kakashi is, he only learns he exists when Sakura fucking bodyslams into him and Ino screaming about how HER NEW TEACHER IS RELATED TO THAT GUY YOUR GRANDPA HAD NASTY GAY SEX WITH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"THE ONE LIKE IN THE DIARY ONE???" Ino screams

"IS THERE ANOTHER GUY WHO HAD NASTY GAY SEX WITH SHIKAMARU'S GRANDPA WHO I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT??!?!?" Sakura screams back

Shikamaru just screams into his pillow. The girls both ignore him.

Meanwhile, Kakashi knows SHIT about his clan and recognizes nothing in the novel. Which is a special kind of tragic because as he reads it, he's being given more information than he's ever been given about his clan. And even specific stories and in depth recorded conversations about his grandmother-- and even occasional mentions of his own father as a baby, and he just... has no idea.

Man is literally reading about his ancestors, getting stories of his family only a single generation before him, going: "Wow something about this clan just speaks to me. Probably the dogs."

Literally getting his fathers childhood stories. Not a single clue.

Hes going on a mission going "Hmm, what would Haruka Hasake from hit bl series XXX do" like that isnt secretly his fucking GRANDMA

Meanwhile, all three of the kids are acting SO shady around him. Ino and Shikamaru specifically are so fucking suspicious bc they are largely successful in avoiding him like the plague-- so when they do interact, it's an Event(tm) for them, while Sakura is forced to learn to be normal near him via exposure.

Tho not even the sage himself can save Sakura from the day Kakashi pulls out THE book during training instead of his usual icha-icha. Sakura fucks up her aim on a body flicker and flies straight into a tree, giving herself a concussion. Rip!!

Anyways yeah. Let Shikamaru discover his grandfathers old, scandal filled diary and be blackmailed by Ino and Sakura into publishing it-- setting him on his journey of becoming the next big thing in naruto romance publishing. It'd be funny as hell.

Special thanks to @imsosleepyofyourbull and @halsaph for talking to me about this on discord, this is so fucking stupid and I had so much fun with it

[v-mum-writes]

Hello! I always love your story slavetale, I was wondering if you will continue posting more chapters? You are a great person!

Thank you! Yes, I donintend to - I've mentioned a couple times recently that I have begun a re-write, and I'm about 10 chapters into it at current. The process is a bit stunted due to repeat moves (some to different states entirely) and multiple times switching jobs, and my current one is rather physically demanding. So while progress is slow, ST is being re-worked by the current title Shifting Ocean.

I'm not gunna lie, I think I'm a bit estranged from the Fandom which is in part why I have a hard time focusing on it- but I have already too little free time to WRITE let alone drag myself thru ao3 for first to like, re-fresh my brain. This isnt the only issue (another issue, for example, being some personal conflict and turmoil on if/how to acknowledge real world issues in a fic discussing the complications of living in a world with ongoing enslavement and not really having a lot of people comfortable with discussing / that I'm comfortable discussing with.) But at the moment it's the only issue I'm really equipped to tackle on my own.

So I suppose if you really want progress to be boosted on Shifting Ocean, throw good fic recs my way? Or if you feel like you have opinions on that other mentioned issue, shoot me thoughts?

[v-mum-writes]

im excited for your remake - you had a lot of cool themes and ideas and characterizations to explore - and im sure im not the only fan happy to know that you wanna do it and is more than happy to see you take your time and not stress yourself about it

but honestly its been a hot minute since ive been on ao3 daily looking at new fics as they roll in and seeing the trends but i am on tumblr a lot still and i worry that you're gonna get a lot more negitive feedback this time around because of the odd step back in self ownership of responsibility to curate your own experience and the rise of immaturity when it comes to engaging with "problematic" content.

so like psyched but also concerned because a lot of writers get... wore out, fed up, made to feel like a pos for their story

and like if i remember correctly one of your things you were talking about is removing the ship tag because of the nature of slavery makes that relationship more fucked up and i think that wasa relazation you grew into due to the feedback you got - and possibly just because of how the characters and story developed, which fair

but so my concern is youll post your story thats no longer in vogue/ trending in a kinda newly developed fandom mindset that people are good to bully people writing things if they don't agree with them and get jumped on by toxic people

i want more than anything to see your work and see you be able to do the story the way you want to and i dont want you to be bullied by... idiots is the only word coming to mind but people without maturity or the ability to understand nuisance or whatever else morally pure bs theyre on about now

i dont feel im being... excessively cautious communicating this worry we as just a couple of months ago we just saw the *horrortale* fandom blow up at sour-apple-studios over really dumb shit that doesn't even remotely matter to the cannon of the thing they claim to enjoy

so like im thrilled but nervous and want you to take care of yourself whatever you do

also the cover art is super pretty

2/2:

oh in relation to that ask you got: your actually the reason i developed an interest in the second person perspective long before i realized cringe is bs.

the way you utilized the perspective to make the reader understand and experience what the macin character was going through was really well done

i also really enjoyed the build up of the relationship because the connection was clearly there even if overt romantic interest was not.

the shift to a queer platonic being the lable and perspective changing going foward isn't a bad idea because of the reasons you listed/ experienced but honestly

st was straight up the reason i developed an appreciation for second person because you *can* do so much to engage the reader that you dont get with other perspectives

and it appealed to me far more as a "ship" the way you built it up then just taking the easy way to use the whole set up as an excuse to make teo characters kiss when there's a whole ocean between them to start with

like. absolutely kudos to you for making changes that make sense to you - but you did some great shit before too and hopefully you see that as well

..................................................

Man, I want you to know I read both your asks and i REALLY appreciate the support. But when I was trying to answer them I kind of went on a stupid tangent and wrote 4 paragraphs of a massive writing insecurity related to ST that looking back over seemed like a giant overshare and like, deleted then entire comment and now litterally do not know what to post in response, so just know: I REALLY appreciate the support, darling, and there are definitely some things holding me back. But they're not really related to the common fandom dramas like 'aged up characters' like what i vaugely know about happening with Sour. So like, know, i suppose your concerns arent unwarranted completely, but woof.

I deeply wish at times that I had more people I talked to about writing, because man do i not have anyone I think I could take the concerns I just rambled about for way too long only to delete them all. To put it all bluntly, ST is definitely a project on... the backburner, for reasons I dont think I'll get solved any time soon, but as much as I'm the sort of writer that explores sometimes uncomfortable concepts, I have such a hard time handling others.

[savsonfire]

Hello! I binge-read your story ST over the course of two days and absolutely fell in love with your characters, storytelling, writing style, and clever plot. I wanted to know if you are still planning on continuing the story and/or working on the rewriting? I sincerely hope you are, as it is a fantastic story with one of the best protagonists I've read! I was also wondering if there had been a plan to bring more of a romantic storyline in as well? I was curious when I saw the tag and the hints at romantic feelings, but not a fully carried out romantic subplot. I understand from your comments that it would be different from how other stories might explore that relationship, but I still wondered if a more emotionally based one was planned for the story? I hope you're doing amazing!

Glad you liked it, wow!!!

-> I DO fully intend to re-write ST one day. It's re-worked, so it's not the same thing it once was, mind you; For example, it leaned away from the Second Person Narrative and became Third Person, and the Main Character became less of a insert-yourself-here and more of a solid character. This was a heavily debated choice I ended up going with because there were repeat people complianing that the MC WASNT a blank slate self insert. I presonally never saw MC-inserts as litterally 'you' or litterally 'me' so much as 'putting yourself in a new place' but aparently that was... an unpopular take on it. So the MC has a little more solid development, appearance traits, and such in the re-write i've been working on.

-> That said, If you want to follow it at all, I occasionally make commentary about the process Here on my writing blog. I wont lie, I'm a lot more active when people ask questions or something, because the SR Rework (Shifting Ocean) is more of an off-screen project rn because theres so much work left to go with it.

-> As far as Romance in the story went- i always sort of meant it in the contect of strangers(onesided enemies even) to lovers in the context of something more... QPP, and I think im going to continue that energy in the Rework. It's a delicate power imbalance, and a difficult situation, and both characters are distinctly emotionally burdened in ways that sorta deviate from interest in casual intimacy. That was always the underlying point i'd started with, even if the story started rather carelessly. So- maybe more overt romance but it would be late/end game, and the tag mostly existed because that was the intention from the start, but it was never a focus. emotionally bonded? yes absulutely that is in the works yes thank u.

[v-mum-writes]

On the topic of Shifting Ocean / ST, also gunna share these refs for the revamped apartment i have in mind for the story. featuring some more focused looks at the main rooms.

It's significantly more disorganized on average up until Papyrus shows up, lol.

[v-mum-writes]

Surprising myself with the realization i never shared the first Cover Pages I made for Shifting Ocean (the ST re-write) on this blog!

Full title of the story, "The Shifting Ocean You've Left Behind"

I've made significantly less progress on it behind the scenes in the last year or so I've been working with it; a combination of writers block, moving states, hospital stays and hospital bills, frequent job changes, attacking my debts the best I can, etc etc etc. On top of trying to focus on more than one specific fandom or even exclusively fandom content, to avoid burn out and failure all together, lol. I've stepped a lot away from undertale for that reason (cause i've been in that position before with another fandom) but that doesn't at all mean Shifting Ocean / ST is dead.

[v-mum-writes]

would you like some unstable creature?

anyway im playing with the ring / lord of screen marriage thing from Here rn to see if it fits the vibe for that specific au. Who is he anyway? Ob!Spam (older brother)? Peeps!spam maybe?? idk.

(If his most valuable product is the fucking thorn/wedding ring... what about the dealmakers, the thing he litterally becomes, you ask? well obviously they're HIM! haehae they're [WOrThLEsS!] and that's why you can't sell them. haha)

[v-mum-writes]

the only not awful thing ive managed to draw all night: baby spamton! featuring freshly spawned addison lore

No, the baby never actually consumed any of the black market pharmaceuticals. Silk (his 'caretaker' i.e. the addison he 'spawned' to) may have done like... a lot of shit not well, but i think she was incredibly strict in teaching the little freak that started following her NOT to comsume the incredibly dangerous merchandise. She also probably got pissed if he was caught playing with them. She would, however, sometimes sit with him and explain some various contraband and chemicals. Mama Bonding Time!

As a result, this fucked up little man would grow up to know a LOT about cars (preloaded data!) and drugs. That last one never really helped him much, thanks to Silk he kinda had a crash course in why drug abuse is bad and for scrubs and a waste of money.

Spamton G Spamton, Cyber City's only socialite celebrity that was never once interested in cocaine (hilarious to me).

[It's not at all weird for a particularly fresh addison to be walking through the city completely naked. Little spawns can appear at any time, and no one is ever prepared, (not even the truly hopeful!) some young addisons may also refuse clothes for a week or two (feels weird!) as well. This is usually rectified rather quickly for health and safety reasons, and young addisons tend to adapt fast because of instincts to accessorize (bird brain). Spam went... longer than is considered normal living as a Nakey baby, and this is mostly because Silk was forgetful, low income, refused to take her scary weird white baby outside, refused to go anywhere near the established Services for helping new spawns (she IS a criminal), and she also wasnt entirely mentally well.]

[despite being achromatic and having several glitches from spawn, he had relatively normal feather-to-fur for an addison. However, he did loose his feathers significantly early for an addison; on average, their feathers are mostly molted around a year old (the exception is yellow addisons, who keep their feathers into adulthoold). Spamton was completely done molting by the time he was around 6 months old. otherwise, he's rather normal, if you dont consider how weird it is to be white]

[v-mum-writes]

day 2 of trying to indulge in my sudden spamton fixation and like actually do things. This is a lot like how day 1 went where 6 hours of drawing later i had like, 6 doodles and a wall of text to show for it.

How the fuck do you draw him. I havent even started trying to draw tenna cause i cant even dra my first blorbo in a remotely satisfying way??

[v-mum-writes]

Eldest Brother Spamton notes from To My Darkest Failures Ever Dared, my Deltarune fic that i wrote in like a fugue state once before DRCh 3/4 came out. I have been thinking about it again like, non stop, for the purposes of considering where Tenna fits in.

(Obviously since the fic is Pre 3/4, Tenna is not in it. And i've been passively jotting down ideas and stuff to maybe get to a Sequel story, and a bunch of those came up with Tenna obviously and 3/4 in general, so it might come about actually, where as before it was purely hypothetical. find above my general headcanons about how a B plot with Tenna might have gone in conjunction with the unravelling of Darkest Failures. Potential story in the future, maybe? There's like, already a chunk of it written, mostly freeform unedited, but like, you never know. might develop one day. especially if i keep fucking obsessing about Spamtenna for no reason.)

so since i've been obsessing, i decided to go about trying to draw that difficult motherfucker. Spamton Hell. among dozens and dozens of doodles while messing with au details that never made it into the story, these are like... the slim few i wouldn't keel over from letting anyone see. That is to say... not going well, haha.

meantime? im like, frothing at the mouth again about this stupid AU where Spamton is an elder brother, and has underachieved deeply-coded needs to take care of people he might consider family but never manages to be anything he wants to be. And also shaking around my beloved "Your passion is to make and create, but built for profiting, and lacking soul, so you might as well just settle for fixing." and also "incredibly social bird who should not be isolated under any circumstances accidentally isolated violently. oops now he's got incredible issues with bonding and closeness. oops, now he's being manipulated into making that shit worse. oops!"

Uh. Anyway.

TLDR:

Uh. Anyway. Send me your favorite recommendations for Spamtenna stuff please god. im checking tumblr and ao3 like daily for content. please. And i might right a tenna-inclusive Sequel to Darkest Failures.

[savsonfire]

Like generally speaking I want to be way more social active online and maintain shit better like my patreon and tumblr and shit. like I've been creatively active but all my stuff feels stagnant online.

I've got annoyingly no idea how to provide people access? To written content I make? Like obviously I post on ao3. But I think the knly solution I ever had for "donator content" was to just put a fucking Google drive link up on patron and I never even was sure it worked well. Bah.

I'm bad at this I think. I'm not a great moderator and I am a chaotic being when it comes to willpower and executive function. Not to mention I think I function way better when I have direct interaction (see, when I was obsessive in the rp community for several several years) but I naturally find myself in positions where there's very little interaction outside of the passing ao3 comment. Which is 100% my own doing, since I'm so irregular I don't tent to hold audience long.

Double bah. I wanna come up with a way to remedy this but I admit here freely it's a monster of my own making.