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Oooh, Max, you ask the good questions!!

Favourite: hmm. I want to say the comma, since I'm always in awe at just how much they can change the context and rhythm of a sentence, but I'm also partial to a good semi-colon.

Least: I think my time teaching English as a foreign language has soured me on full stops, of all things.

They are surprisingly difficult for Japanese students to grasp, and I'm frankly tired of pointing out that they forgot the "periodo" (in Ireland, we don't call them periods; we call them full stops. Almost everything English-related in Japan is Americanised to shit, but that's a whole different rant). I've actually been tempted to stop deducting marks for missing full stops, because of the overwhelming amount of students who consistently forget to use them.

Thanks so much for asking! The questions can be found here for anyone just tuning in

1. Stomach flu or food poisoning?

Hmm. I'm gonna say stomach flu, simply because I've never had food poisoning and so don't feel at home trying to imagine it, if that makes sense

18. Word ‘tummy’ or ‘belly’?

Kinda depends on context? I tend to be a big fan of characters who are too embarrassed/fancy themselves too dignified ever to say "tummy," but I do also like the intimacy, the sorta homeliness of the latter. Pretty much always prefer for third-person narrators to write "belly" (or "stomach") though, except in free indirect discourse where they're cleaving real hard to the perspective of a character who would think "tummy"? And those are rare, imo. Like, if your viewpoint character is the sick one then "tummy" usually sounds weird to me in narration.

27. Going extremely quite before throwing up or panicking?

Going quiet, but that doesn't preclude panic...! Eyes unfocusing, ears ringing, limbs going so numb their fists ball up--that kind of panic I like best on a quiet character. Though the kind of quiet where they fall asleep, among friends or at work, then wake up gasping as their stomach starts to snarl and clench, with no time to do more than register what's about to happen--yeah, that's good too. For more on which see below!

36. A simple “I don’t feel so good” or “I’m going to throw up”?

He does! Aiden’s in pale blue scrubs (well it’s a bit like a tunic/tabard style top over scrub bottoms), if he progresses up the bandings as a nurse, his top will get darker blue. 

AAAHH, I have an AMAZING Damian arc that I’d started planning, and one for Cain with another family member, I’ll maybe look more into that! 💙