thanks to taffeta, scarhaver, communismwillwin, decibelles, and othello.
This is the side of GAW that I have often complained doesn't come through enough. Lots of things in here that nicely dovetail with my former dissatisfactions - polaricecraps is a good mouthpiece for that. I'm happy to support this.
You have killed me in the good way, Kinch.
Post-mortem +1
I'll put what I said in Discord on here as well. Everything breezes by too fast, so it gives it this odd feeling of… rushedness. The final section helps thematically and it was good to add it, but when everything hits their beats really quickly, it still feels like it just doesn't stop to consider its own story. So you have a good story that goes by too fast, making it less impactful than it could have been otherwise. If people like it as-is then people like it as-is. But there's just not enough time in the reading of the story to really let it hit me. It still can stand to be improved to allow readers more time to truly take in the impact this has, and just how serious it is for other members of GAW.
Eyyyy you actually used colored nicks
As I said in chat: While I haven't delve deep into GAW lore, I love how they're portrayed as kind and mature at heart, despite being a bunch of internet trolls or whatever. Which brought me to an easy +1.
Lovely. I don't know chatrooms, or internet culture in general, so some of this flew over my head. But this is such a gorgeous, sad, human piece of writing. This hit me right in the heart. +1
Nicely done Kinch, great to see wider GAW acting as a community.