Well, you'll be glad to know that that kind of prompt has already been submitted :D More Knives to come.

If the King does "vanish" his grasping Lords, he looks like a tyrant. Same result if his Knives make a grasping Lord "vanish". Better by far to make them sabotage themselves.

That presumes that a creeper is a decent human being to begin with.

You must also forgive me, too. My only experience with call centres is the telescammers I used in the story above. Complaints departments are not what I consider "call centres" as they are not

It's more or less the procedure that they used to use to make potassium [which got its name from the potash from whence it came] with more than a few adjustments. Tesla was a weirdo. We know it.

Sounds like a good instructor. Bullying as it exists is nigh-impossible to police because educators are (a) outnumbered by their pupils, (b) humans who need a break too, and, (c) capable of prejudice.

I have learned over time to give the short answer and then explain the "asterisks" that cover the interesting corners.

Yeah the whole, "No I'm not reading your mind" never helps :D Then again I do love that gag.

How to get back at the emotional abusers is something I still have to think about. What would be poetic justice for that sort?

My least helpful un-instruction is the teacher repeating the exact same phrase that I didn't understand seconds ago as if the repetition will somehow magically stir in meaning. [Beloved did this a lot]

It only takes three terrible people to cement the idea that you're no good at a thing. Or one who's living with you.

I will leave the words "shitty ex" here and let you paint the rest of the picture. Nothing amps up your anxiety more than someone constantly piling on you for being wrong and never telling or

Oh yeah Google is your friend for these types of scam. I never did get another victory like this one though. More's the pity. I think word about Dotty is getting around. The instant I use her voice they

Gotta say, I like the new graphic

Given how scarred some of the Uplifts were from their prior lives, it wouldn't surprise me if some of them wound up in Pax Humanis.

Yeah tracking them down is the real sod -_- I've been looking for a fortnight for a callback :P

The idea of "mermaids in space" seems to be all over everywhere, so I wouldn't have a concern.

Honestly, at least half of all modern education is doing stuff that was necessary during the Victorian Era or earlier, that has since been outmoded by the modern era. As a child of the 70's, I remember

I think so too. And spoil them mercilessly.

I'm reminded of a diary entry that's overloaded with High School drama and ends with, "Man landed on the moon." Like it was a postscript.