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Heh- if you go the distance and make it an annual event, I may even be able to come someday…  I'll bet there are lots of people who would love to have a relaxed, easygoing night on the town with like-minded individuals.

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Just imagine the fun you can have if you're American and don't whole-heartedly support every decision coming out of the offal office…

I personally love and hate alternative histories- I love them from the standpoint of a sci-fi/fantasy author and reader, but I hate when people try to assert that any alternative history would actually have been true if only this particular change were true.  It's a position that is utterly insupportable, because history results from virtually infinite, discrete conditions too numerable to identify, let alone track.

Would the world be better without the U.S.?  Worse?  Impossible to really say.  All I think can really be stated with any authority is that it would be different.

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Um, I think the link to the article got lost, somehow.

Obviously, I agree with you on the topic of teaching women to be confident and strong.  And maybe 'Wimpettes' would be a good name for a band? 😉

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Well, it hasn't happened yet, but there's no reason it couldn't.  I'll put it in a later story. 🙂

Oh, and- welcome, KungFuHippie!

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Hi StM, I enjoyed that.

>buffs fingernails on shirt<

My work here is done… ;D

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I love these lists- reminds me of the infamous list of rules to know "when taking my daughter on a date."

lol goodness.

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Yeah, I think this story is about my favorite of the Sylph stories so far, followed closely by Student Orientation and Assisted Compositions together.  This story best captures Sylph's personality, I think- friendly, easygoing, slightly accident-prone (but not clumsy), and generally optimistic.

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Thanks, Keith- I always appreciate positive feedback, especially on this story.  This story is pretty special to me, I think because it's kind of the first long (more than 20 pages) story I've attempted in over a decade, and I want to get it right.

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Y'know, I completely missed the implications there. ;))

I so rarely get hangovers (I suspect because I so rarely drink to excess), that it never even occurred to me that cpbell was suggesting that I might have had a hangover while I was writing…

No, honestly, I just have sufficient ADD that when my brain wants to work on something other than what I'm doing, I sometimes don't finish with quite the skill or flourish that I really like to.

Rereading this story, I wish I'd done more (anything) with punning at Mike's Place, and I wish I'd put in rather more after the armwrestling.  I suppose it's not really too late, but I don't know how badly I want to revisit this scene, just now.

Maybe I'll deal with some of those issues in a flashback sequence…

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I can't really speak to the question of British FBB, but I can say that, at least in my part of the U.S., femuscle is still regarded as outre and extreme.  The perception that it makes the mainstream media more often in the U.S. may, in part, be because even our special interest publications tend to have a relatively large following in terms of sheer numbers as opposed to those of other, less populous countries, and, as a result, we can afford to make those publications flashier.

Even so, it's pretty rare to see an article about FBB in any mainstream publication such as Newsweek, the NY Times, the Washington Post, etc.  Most of America simply doesn't have the interest.

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