Thank you, friendo.

Just like the path to true love is paved with face-incinerating mortification, the path to real friendship is paved with really stupid shit.

I would like to dance among the showering petals :D Let the butterflies perch on me... And yes, feed the birds.

You caught me out! Maybe? Tip head, is there hot wet dribbling? Since this is magical, maybe he has a quick scrying cantrip with the verbal component, "Are my ears bleeding? Am I missing an eyebrow?"

Pity he views his name as a hereditary disease XD

You just can't convince someone whose mind is made up. They will leap through any hoop like a parkour champion just to defend their opinion

For reals, a lot of them. My lad Kormwind was too scared of his nurse as a kid to do it, but he would for sure mock it to make any kids he has laugh.

Got it in one. That's how it always goes.

Plus a heavy dose of being seven and wanting to play with someone's hair, but yes. Knowing what it feels like to be hated definitely encouraged the young Duchess Merry to be kind.

It's lovely to know my stories are interesting enough to inspire more prompts :D I love my readers for giving me these chances. Thanks for staying awesome.

It's usually occupation-first, so the humanity or species status is acknowledged in other ways.

Those are the greats. No argument there. There's thousands of smaller ones. People banding together to create just for the sake of creation and giving things to everyone for free... or for voluntary donations.

Younger education realms look more like supervised and subtly directed play. Literacy and numeracy remain essentials. As kids get older, they choose fields of interest and move outwards from there. As

My shitstirring self would ask them some unanswerable questions, like rapid-fire and the instant they say "I don't know!" the response would be, "But you said you knew everything... so you

It's going to take them a few centuries.

There is only one way to extract revenge - MORE PUNS!

My Da absolutely loved puns and horrible old jokes. And horrible new jokes. It wasn't a good day unless he made someone groan in rage at a joke.

I do like twisting tropes whenever possible. It's fun :D I, too, would be interested in seeing what happens when soldiers who don't want to do war... just don't. The chicken-hawks will be screaming.

Hot damn, I knew they were mental, but I didn't think they were that mental.

TBH it's one we need.