So the secret is this:

Even small shops buy ready-to-finish/ice frozen doughnuts instead of make their own from scratch. I feel your frustration; within three bites, my stomach burns. I quit eating doughnuts because of RTIs.

Sounds like Cub makes theirs from scratch like Scotty's in DuBois does.

That's excellent. Sometimes you just need to give your story the time it needs.
Looking forward to reading it.

After living through the change from using only he to using he then she alternately. I went the French route and opted for "one".

"They" as English's neutral, singular third-person pronoun, (despite centuries of use!) was withheld from Le Guin, me, and our peers in the 20th-flippin'-century.

2/2

This woman spoke to power and was clear with her message.

Censure by oligarchs and their lackeys is at the core of why "traditional" media is untrustworthy. That said, mainstreamed for-profit media has never been trustworthy (Yellow journalism, W.R. Hearst v. "Citizen Kane", et al.).

That's awful. I know most of us don't have much, but punishing fellow creators is not only evil, it ends creativity.

Corporations "create" for money. They're not artists.

That's awesome. I smiled, which doesn't happen much these days when I interact with zee internets.