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[thesettingsun]

My first novel, A Relative Weight, is now in stores!

Consider picking up a copy from your local bookstore~ (You would be able to order it off Amazon except there are unreality shenanigans. Someday.)

If you were promised a signed copy, you should already have gotten one on your doorstep. Let me know if I missed anyone.

Thanks again to Chiyo Matsuoka for the cover art and to everyone who provided support during this process! I couldn't have reached here without you ♥

[A Relative Weight is indeed for sale! And getting pretty good reviews, at that.]

Comments

[admiringly]

i really want one but i don't want to bother my mom too much
i'd need to ask li-na if she's okay with cats too....
and you're right
who knows when something like august will happen again?

[thesettingsun]

So how about, when we finally get all of this Retrospec stuff taken care of for good, you celebrate by getting a kitten?

[admiringly]

that's great idea! i'll for sure have the time and i'll be even more responsible by then!!
mom won't have to worry about a thing!!

[thesettingsun]

You'll have an adorable cat, the cat will have an adorable owner, everyone wins!

[admiringly]

win win!!
you'll have to help me choose a name when that happens!

[thesettingsun]

You can count on me. There's no one better than an author to name things.

[admiringly]

points at
it's a promise!!

[thesettingsun]

Cross my heart and hope to get followed by more mistlebats.

[admiringly]

ooh that's how i know you're serious!
no one wants that

[thesettingsun]

Death is temporary (I guess?), but the awkwardness of kissing someone you aren't involved with is forever.

[admiringly]

death is fine if they're a personification of it!
but yeah that awkwardness is TOO embarrassing

[thesettingsun]

Do you know any nice personifications of death?

[He didn't learn exactly what Ryoji was.]

private

[admiringly]

[ it wasn't the best kept secret, but since Ryoji is no longer on the network... ]

he's not on retrospec anymore so i don't think he's one anymore...? i don't know how that works but
do you know ryoji mochizuki?

private

[thesettingsun]

We're friends. Were friends? Are friends?

I knew he wasn't technically human anymore, but I didn't know the specifics.

[admiringly]

are!!
it's harder to talk to him about some things now that he's off the network but i refuse to say our friendship is over because of it!!
i won't let it happen

i don't know too many specifics either
just the general stuff
i tried not to ask too much because when he first changed he didn't look like he wanted to go into details and then later he....

[ Died. ]

[thesettingsun]

[Shuji remembers. Just the reminder makes his chest ache.]

I think I'm going to go see him later and give him a hug.

[admiringly]

me too
i think i've been a little overdue

[thesettingsun]

At least I'm pretty sure he won't turn down a hug, and we won't have to explain why.

[admiringly]

hehe yeah! you're right!
it's a good thing he loves hugs isn't it

[thesettingsun]

It'd be a problem if he didn't like hugs. For one thing, I'm pretty sure that'd be a sign of the apocalypse.

[admiringly]

you know i'd have to agree!
i'd worry for the world if he stopped trying to hug people
we'll just have to make sure that never happens!

[thesettingsun]

In order to stay alert and ready, we have to be sure to hug him regularly so we'll know if something goes wrong.

[admiringly]

we have to have..... hug vigilance!
we'd make the perfect partners as archenemesises... archnemeses? to do this!
together we'll save the world by hugging ryoji!

[thesettingsun]

You know, we've been working together a lot... does it ever feel like we aren't archnemeses anymore?

[admiringly]

plot twist!!!
what would we be then?