Yes!! My kids’ friends are the best. I love getting to the school gate and seeing them light up as they see their parents, or walking home with them and hearing all about their latest obsession. One boy is mad into The Beatles & Frasier, and I could honestly listen to him talk about them all day

Yes! It would not actually work, for so many reasons. I feel like your idea would be great in the hands of someone like Louise Finch, though

It wouldn’t be the sort of deep dive you were looking for anyway, mostly just my excuse to write a twisted angry girl twist on the phrase “Agony Aunt” tbh - I don’t think I could really do the issue justice

I SORT OF had an idea like that, but Dexter/Promising Young Woman-ish where a girl stalks a local teen AITA page. When girls send in esp bad probs she uses her “guy” persona to track down the boy in question, get his darkest thoughts out of him then exacts revenge. Don’t think I would write it tho

He was a little feral boy who hated everyone, the shelter had him neutered & ready to go back into the wild but were worried he wouldn’t survive so we took him. They were right, he is actually a big softy who gets upset when our other cat brings home mice. He had NO hunter instinct, just snuggles

Oh no! Sorry, I’m on a bus, reception is dodgy. Let me try again

For a second I thought you’d posted a pic of this little guy, seen here posing with his namesake book (set up by my son on World Book Day 😂)

Oh, I feel like I’ve seen this, was it illustrated by Chris Riddell, do you know? I have an image in my head and can’t tell if I really remember it or cobbled it together from different things.