My grandmother used to cook a dish she called "Grenadiermarsch" - which is a bit macabre, but Austria, so, you know...
She put roughly shredded leftovers of "Gselchtes" (smoked & cooked ham), bread dumplings, vegetables and egg in it, everything was fried together in a big pan. Miss that.

Actually mouth watering stuff. 😋 I can imagine how this tastes because I sometimes cook stuff like that, too. Although I probably wouldn't poach the egg and just fry it, because too lazy. 👀

Same, in February 2024. I think it was the "if you upload your audiobook on Spotify, all your IP belongs to us" attempt, that was a too much in combination with paying musicians scraps.

Isn't it the most difficult thing?
To tell a story in 50k+ words and then try to wrap it up in a few words? What's too much? What not enough? Does it sound anything like the reader will get?
blergh...

That's not help to you, but - I find it very reassuring that some things are difficult even for professionals. 👀😅

Hey, I am writing sffh short fiction and have a lot of it free2read on my Ko-Fi. Also a neat link list on my website.
www.morriswayts.com/publications
Any help in finding my readers is much appreciated!
The Noise of Drying Ink is my latest piece:
ko-fi.com/post/They-No...

So, you gave him the best 3.5 years of his life so far - and I root for him to get many more! 💜

Oh no, poor Gauge, poor you! I hope it was just a moment and he is back to normal in no time. 🤞
How old is he now?

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I mean... kinda? Mostly because of wonderful friends like you 💖 and relentless inward battering of my impostor syndrome with spiked clubs forged from all the positive feedback I ever got. 💪

You won't believe how much praise I am ready to endure (no lie) if it means I can keep winning that fight. 😅

Account deactivated. As it should be.

Thank you. I wish I were wiser though. Still had to 'chew' on the experience a bit. I think that was my first "you suck" reply I got on here.

Here you go - I hope you have a wonderful day!

Hello there! Coffee? ☕

Absolutely. Under my latest pinned short story post was a hater taking the time to make three posts berating me for my post wording AND diminishing my work (like, all of it).
Just blocked. Went on. Had coffee.
That saved me a lot of energy!