What if I tick a bunch of romance tropes (hurt/comfort, slow burn, enemies-to-lovers, fake dating) but actually the romance is one-sided so there's no payoff, and the ending is they're just friends, thanks for coming to my ted talk 😩

I'm outlining a novella/stand alone novel about Alan and Colin's time in the academy, but it's so tonally different from Triple Strike, it doesn't particularly work as a way for readers to see if they'd like the series, and I suspect it'll only be for me anyway =.=

Even without a lot of context, I read this as him having found something inside of himself that he either had lost or never knew he had, and it was in part because of the love of his friends, and that's really beautiful 😭

What do ya mean? Javert had a greaaat ending 🤣. No, Alan will be fine. He has some of Javert's rigidity of thought, but he deals with it as the series goes on, I think. Unlike Javert, whom I do love dearly 😂

Drop some BOATS 🛥️ ⛵️🖤🚢🚤

Drop some BOATS

As a side note, he is heavily based on Sam Vimes from Discworld but with a bit of Javert from Les Mis and Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney tossed in there, and hopefully you don't have to squint too hard to see all of them 😅

an impartial third party. And if you called him on it, he’d readily admit he’s being a hypocrite, but paradoxically, it’s his honor and moral codes being so inflexible that he won’t bend on them even if he thinks he’s breaking them by following them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He overlooks multiple crimes (and not just ‘haha we’re pirates’ crimes), and ignores evidence related to his actual investigative duties, because he decides going through the legal system wouldn’t accomplish anything meaningful, even though he also believes justice should be carried out by --

This is a pretty interesting question regarding Alan, because he does have a strict moral code, principles he will not bend on, and pride about his personal honor and job, so while this suggests he’s a rules-follower, he’s in many ways not.

Saaaame, bestie.

That was a very cute sequence 😌

Oooooh yeah! Love all these spooky reads!

I'm not crying, you're crying 😭

TIL Churchill did not say the phrase "the only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy, and the lash" but when he was asked about it, he replied "I never said it. I wish I had."

I’m still offline until Monday but ran into some unexpected medical expenses, so if y’all are in the mood for a new book I’d love for you to choose mine - they’re bangers ☺️

Yep. Exactly. Though I suppose if LLMs can do one useful thing, it’s force all levels of society to confront notions of worth and value perpetuated by capitalism…hope we come to the right conclusion 😅

They sure would tbh 😔. I can't articulate how surreal it is hearing some of the foremost academic experts say there's no point having humans do research anymore, because I guess AI agents will do the research then tell other AI agents about it, so humanity is over, let's just burn fossil fuels?