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The Peculiarity of People
I'm beginning to suspect that people out there actually do possess a sense of humor. Why, you ask?

I'm still getting notices from the Pit of Despair on a regular basis that people are marking Forsaken as one of their favorite stories. And yes, the copy there still has the joke ending.

I think I may be feeling a skosh faint over the whole deal, and strangely giddy.

I mean, let's look at the evidence. I (and others) have recommended a number of stories out there which could benefit from some work. It might be that the author has paced the story to zip alongside something like Speed, or maybe they've never in their life tripped over a dictionary as anything other than a doorstop, or never got their complimentary copies of any book in the Eats, Shoots & Leaves family. But the story itself is a good read, despite the flaws, so we invite others to slip on their fuzz-focus specs and have a gander.

I really like the story The Savior and the Scourge by Random Dispatcher. I like it so much I dumped every single chapter of it into a single HTML file on my hard drive. And then, while reading it one day, I nearly had an aneurysm over the issues and started editing my copy for simple issues, like punctuation, people who act their sentences instead of speaking them, bizarre initial-capping, and so on and so forth.

After an hour of using the handy Find & Replace feature of Dreamweaver, I was maybe half done editing. I gave up at that point from sheer tedium, and maybe someday I'll go back and fix another plethora of mistakes, but it doesn't change the fact that I love the story, and I'll read it again the moment I'm in the mood.

In contrast, that whole set of flaws plus a shitty story ends up featured by Nimby due to his urges to mass murder parts of the population. (Especially since I am now out of not only Imatrex but also Codis.)

Sometimes I think I'm too rigid, inflexible, and unforgiving, but then I consider something like this and realize maybe I'm being way too critical of myself.

So thank you to the people out there who remind me of my own sense of humor.