Today I learned that letting your fingertip slide under the knife while chopping up habaneros can be painful, and you shouldn't let that happen.

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So, finally pushed that baby out!

I'm really sorry it took me so long - I kept getting distracted by all kinds of life stuff, and lately by nice weather that makes me want to go outside and frolic.

Anyway, the new chapter of Tmfc will be joined by an update of Glossary and Dramatis Personae within the day, there may be another bonus chapter I've had in the works, and there was again a bunch of left-over ideas from this chapter that will help me start the next proper story chapter.

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For those who wait for any of my stories to update:

I'm sorry, but you really shouldn't expect anything for at least a week or more likely two. Hopefully not more. I'm preparing to move to another town, and I'm really bad at managing stress. It makes it almost impossible to write.

On the plus side, the pressure packs up a huge amount of ideas in my head, so there may be a small burst of writing in the early April, once I've settled.

The expected order of updates:

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Wow, seeing the discussion and all the positive comments on 'Twilight makes first contact' is really inspiring, and kind of humbling as well!

To see people getting caught up in a story, speculating and commenting on it, and even starting conversations about the issues raised by or connected to it... it makes the effort seem so much worthwhile. I really want to be able to do good, seeing that!

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Just something a bit annoying I've noticed.

People tend to know about not writing "Me and Twiley were walking around" or "Among the participants were Twiley and me". Apparently, the fear of this error has been rooted deep enough by now.

Unfortunately, however, it's been rooted so deep that when people see something like "There they saw Twiley and me", the same people inexplicably feel the need to 'correct' it into "There they saw Twiley and I". Shudder.

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So, my little vignette just got it's hundredth like. Which is nice, of course. Just made me wonder if someone has calculated the number of views or rate of getting them needed for the popularity effect to snowball. When do people start looking at something just because it's popular?

I know I usually pick top-rated stories to read.

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