God it feels so good to actually post something again. They say wish-fulfillment skips are frowned upon but we'll see.
Anyway, major thanks to:
TomatointheMirror - This is all your fault and I'm glad it worked out in the end
DrBleep - for crit
FuelTank does not match any existing user name - for pointing out what was unclear since I get really bad at that once i look at the draft long enough
The Great Hippo - for a lot of good ideas, some of which I ended up using
RecursiveRecursion, taylor_itkin does not match any existing user name,
ghostchibi - last readers
My brother - for his constant back cracking that led to me deciding to actually take up tomato on his challenge
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