Adrian, aside from marvelling at how prolific you are (while maintaining quality), I cannot fathom how you remember all the different details and names across so many disparate series and worlds. Do you have an amazing world building bible tool, or is your brain just massive?

You might be cool, but you'll never be as cool as Johnny Cash taking a break during his 1968 Folsom Prison concert.

I’d given up long before that at the arrival of yet another beautiful woman with violet eyes who had breasts and fancied Rand. But my poor sister and brother in law, having soldiered on, couldn’t believe it when he went and died

This is the first year we haven’t had one fall down the chimney. Usually we have one or two down and we either have to give them to the animal bloke or pop them on a dormer window roof and hope for the best.

Having given a huge chunk of my childhood and early 20s to Robert Jordan riding his big Wheel of Time (before giving up in disgust) I always suspect these epic fantasy writers of having absolutely no plan at all. So “always planned” sounds incredibly hopeful/naive to me

I’ve gone full circle on this. I went through the “Ferris is evil” phase but I watched it again recently and I just thought Ferris was a little dickhead (sure), but a little dickhead who could see his best friend was suicidal and wanted to reach him

Idk. He’s like Pink in Dazed and Confused and those kids definitely exist. Everyone loves kids like Pink/Ferris because while their popular friends bully them, Pink and Ferris never do. The fact they don’t intervene to protect people seems not to matter.

We def had one like that at my school…

It never works. Why do people do it?!

What a bizarre choice. (One of many I guess)