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• Ink5oul is an influencer

• alongside his TV show Mr Bonzo has a theme tune and cards that preceded his arrival

• Heinrich Unheimlich very blatantly states that it’s the stories spread by children that fuel his power.

See, it's not just that he writes mediocre, churned-out thrillers; there are many, many authors of mediocre, churned-out thrillers out there, he ain't special.

It's also not that he "writes" them with "coauthors" and slaps his name on them - again, this is not unique.

It's not even - though this is starting to get there- that he chases every publishing trend and creates His Version of everything from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Nicholas Sparks, which nobody likes as well as they like his thrillers but still buy because they have His Name on them like a summoning charm.

No, what makes James Patterson uniquely loathed is the combination of the frequency of publication and his popularity. Because, to be honest, I'm not sure that anyone even likes his books anymore, but it doesn't matter, because if they have the James Patterson name on them then readers will be queuing up like zombies desperate for a fix of decaying cerebral matter. Which would be tolerable if he had the decency to only write one book a year like most other bestselling authors, but "James Patterson" (quotes VERY intentional) puts out roughly two books per month. So as a librarian, not only do you have to buy every new book James Patterson puts out, you have to buy multiple copies in order to fulfill demand. Somewhere around 5% of my fiction budget is spent ENTIRELY ON JAMES PATTERSON. Every new James Patterson that comes out means a dozen or more queer romances, inventive sci-fi novellas, unique cultural viewpoints, etc, etc that you can't buy because YOU HAVE TO BUY JAMES PATTERSON INSTEAD. (See also, you just weeded and shifted the Ps in fiction to make room and now it's full again oh god why.)

And the clincher - the absolute clincher - is the knowledge that the publishers will be "finding" "unfinished manuscripts" by "James Patterson" for a minimum of fifty years after his death, so even if some right-minded bibliophile with a claymore takes one for the team, we will never, ever be free.

"everything was so, so perfect. what else was there to do but cry?"

"I worry our Father looks at me with disappointed eyes"

"Bleed why? Why will it hurt?"

"What else could an angel be but happy?"

"What if Lucifer enjoyed hating himself?"

"I could never deny you"

"I've been kissing him, Rosiare, I've been kissing him on the lips! I don't believe God is happy about that."

"Is Father good because He is good? Or because He says He is good?"

Like there's one culture where there are Nine Types Of Mages and they all have different sprite familiars - there are nine types of sprites, hence the division. When an apprentice first tries to summon a familiar, they have to have an expert in attendance to see which kind of sprite the apprentice is summoning, and cut the ritual to sever the connection immediately if it seems like the summoned sprite is not a match to the apprentice's type - kind of like how blood types work. If the match is not right, the sprite will just kill the apprentice instead of imprinting. And then there's also a type of demon that might show up in stead of a sprite, and they just always kill the summoner because fuck you.

Then these people encounter a different culture, who also have mages - though they call them wizards, who are far more rare, feared and revered than mages back home, and they have no different types. And when asked about their sprite summoning, they have no idea that there's different types. They don't even make a difference between sprites and demons, they just call them all "spirits". And then someone's just casually like

"Yeah you summon yourself a spirit and fight it to do your bidding, and if you lose it just fucking kills you. Young wizards die nine times out of ten but that's just a risk you have to take."

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Case Names in Common:

✓ - Elias Bouchard: appeared in TMA as a recurring character, this is the TMAGP version of him.

Case Locations/Companies in Common:

✓ - Elric Capital Investments: Elric companies have been mentioned in episodes 35, 36, 46, and 49.