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2024-10-29 19:42:56It's Sunday evening, and my brother sent me messages on a chatting app we both use.
Not any messages, though.
There are various links. It includes videos about random subjects and various articles. The important content there is among the various articles.
We do send each other content we find interesting from time to time, but the rest of this batch only serves to hide one particular article issued from a local newspaper.
I do click on a few other links for pretense's sake before getting to the article that interests me.
It directly concerns us:
"Chaos in the southern hemisphere:
At around 10 am this morning, several accounts o
ClemCaHey! Sorry if this one is a bit shorter. I guess it compensates for every chapter before it being always way oversized. I'm thinking of making this family recurrent characters, so this is why I'm developing them this much. If my other works taught me anything, it's that in order to keep a connection with the reality of the situation, it's better to have recurrent characters that feel the brunt of the events. If I kept having characters that appeared and disappeared, it would eventually disconnect from the world. It suits some types of stories, but I think this volume needs to stay connected to reality to hit as hard as it needs to.
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