Crocodile James

Trying to catch up on my asks today. ❤️

The one I'm the biggest fan of is Chemical & Engineering Newsletter, which is put out by The American Chemical Society. I'm really glad you all are asking me these things because it's prompting me to realize that there are cheaper subscriptions to a lot of these that just have more limited access.

You have to join ACS to get access, but it looks like for a $0 membership, you can sign up and get access to six articles per month. And I *think* if you sign up to get the email newsletter, you'll be able to see all the titles, but you'll only be able to click six of them and actually read them: https://cen.acs.org/join-us.html

$80 a year gets you access to 10 articles a month, and $160 gets you unlimited access with special pricing for students (undergrad $25, grad: $55).

P.S. I know for a fact you don't have to be working in a STEM industry to join ACS.

Why would the timid shy nerd be at a huge sketchy downtown black market bazaar? Well, she's got this beetle colony she's raising that needs a very specific kind of leaf for nest material, and there only place to get it is this one guy at the bazaar that sells that stuff. Why would the most femininely flamboyant guy ever known just happen to have downright encyclopedic knowledge about professional boxing? Well, there was this one time when he was down bad for this guy who was an aspiring professional boxer...

I know it sounds stupidly obvious when written out like this, but when you're up close to your writing, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Some time ago I finished reading a book, where the whole plot hinges on character A, who is 100% certain that character B is dead, personally getting up and coming down from the top rooms of a castle, to the gates, at 3 am, to come look at some drunk who claims to be this guy who died 17 years ago. Why would A do that, if he's sure that B is dead?