Seek Unrustlement

I've said this before but in my neighborhood I see kids and teens on their own without adult supervision pretty regularly, alone or in groups, walking, biking, sometimes across busy enough streets that if I was their parent I'd probably not want, enough to make me wonder about the crisis of kids being locked indoors all the time. My conclusion is that where I live (small town turned inner suburb that's relatively walkable for everyday-errand stuff) is structured better to resist it than most urban/suburban areas, and in those huge sprawling prefab developments in the south and west that get spread around Tumblr like gore pics, the problem really is much worse. It's also bad in the bougie urban neighborhoods that produce 98% of parenting-anxiety discourse, full of both Actual Crime sometimes mere blocks away, and the hyperparanoid police and parenting styles that emerge in response.

I know the answer to "should these two very similar characters be condensed down to one" is "if you have to ask, then yes", but...don't wanna.

My name is John Wellington Wells, I'm a dealer in odours and smells.

Sometimes I forget that 'Victorian' is not just an adjective that means 'snobby and moralistic', but was named after an actual person. Which is like, gold medal in the getting-things-named-after-you category, right. Like if every car was called a Ford.

The Butcher-Kane Index: the extent to which the name of an actor or author is more badass than any character name they could use or invent (named for Christian Kane and Jim Butcher, who both score a 5/5.)

Every day, more diplets are being detected.