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Chapter 18 of The Search for the Sweethearts :D

Dedicated to my lovely sister for her contributions. And thanks, as always, to @i-may-be-an-emu for beta-ing...genuinely think my neighbours might be concerned by the laughter from all your comments on this chapter XD

Hope you all enjoy!!!!

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Confession: The letter “t” key on my laptop has been broken since 2024. From what my research tells me, they can’t fix individual keys on that model, and my laptop is no longer under a warranty, but it seems foolish to fork out over $900 for a new computer, so instead I’ve trained my brain to hit ctrl+v every time I want to hit “t.”

But sometimes I have to copy-paste something else besides “t,” which means I need a readily available place to copy the “t” from.

My first thought was to search “tiger” on Google, but if you can’t type the letter “t,” you just get search results about Bob Iger.

I realized words that end with “t” are easier for Google to autocomplete, so the first one I thought of was “crypt.” But wouldn’t you know, googling “cryp” takes to you to cryptocurrency results, and I REALLY don’t want my algorithm thinking I google that multiple times per week.

Then I remembered a cool place I went in London, called Cafe in the Crypt. It’s exactly what it sounds like and located below St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. When I type in “Cafe in Cryp,” Google does indeed autocomplete it effectively! So I either keep that search result open in a tab or Google it every day.

So, that being said, if anyone works for St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church’s marketing department and has been utterly flummoxed by an IP address from Virginia that has googled their cafe hundreds of times over the past 6 months… that wasn’t a bot, that was me.

Anyway, it’s a pretty cool place to check out if you’re ever in London. Just maybe not cool enough to Google it on a daily basis for months straight.

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@itisi-asimplegay you know what to do :D

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dc fandom will have hot takes you didnt even know existed. a lot of the time i see the discourse before the post so every day i log on and see some shit like "babs has NOT stolen babies from an orphanage and eaten them one-by-one. this is a gross misrepresentation of an edited comic panel out of context from the 1998 elseworld Gotham: Baby Hell written by a man who's been divorced 5 times" and its like. im sure she hasn't. where is this even coming from. and then you scroll down 5 posts and see a screenshot of what they were talking about and it's dumber than anything you could even imagine

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The boys have been on an ADVENTURE :>

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His “crimes”:

eternal sweetness and understanding

tall

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Genuinely what happened in my brain just now

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Me: *agonizing over whether a semicolon goes here, what the proper dialogue should be there, other assorted rules and semantics*

Terry Pratchett: "!" said the stranger.

THAT'S ALLOWED?

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Nice try, buddy

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everyone needs a creative outlet to stick a creative fork into

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diversity win! your mother didn't know you were stabbed because she was too busy exploring her sexuality via lesbian threesomes!

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You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

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Hi Jewish people in my phone i hope you have a good day and a good week

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People who perform manual labor should be not only given high and liveable wages, but unlimited access to healthcare and physical therapy to help manage the myriad conditions that come from doing back-breaking work.

Like this is not an absurd concept. It bothers me that people think that it is.