Thank you!

Yes. Congratulations!

A moth! A frog! Barbed wire! A frog eating a moth, surrounded by barbed wire! (Not serious guesses, just being silly - seriously I think you're more likely to get a lyric or a band reference, but I am not cool enough to guess which.)

Cat Valente did exactly that but her readers loved the title and description so much ("The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making", IIRC) that she ended up writing it anyway. So, author beware, I guess.

I am in the US, and there's one major axis in the US, the red/blue axis. Lots of qs/issues get absorbed into that (and polarization stretches it). As a first guess, not knowing ANY particulars, I would guess they're on the opposite side of that axis from me.

If I think hard about a subject, then I am pretty likely to change my mind at least somewhat. Should I change my mind ahead of time, without thinking hard about it?

I searched and couldn't find it, would you link me or say some more keywords?

Would you say that it is not classically proportioned? Or were you remarking on the location of the washrooms?

On the one hand, yes, things could be better (and "Joyful Militancy" has some ideas how). On the other hand, Surowiecki's "Starfish and the Spider" metaphor suggests that decentralized stuff will consistently look (and to some extent behave) different than centralized stuff.

3 if you're gentle probably a meteor because it's a classic and pretty quick. (Gamma ray burst and black hole spaghettification would be quick but not classic, quicksand and tsunami would be classic but not quick.)

Neither. I plan to give myself a four-to-six-hour "do nothing" recovery window after applying to something, or asking someone for something, that I really want.

Software architecture is horror like that too, and there's a great quote from Ellen Ullman about it: "We build our computers the way we build our cities - over time, without a plan, on top of ruins."

trenchant political commentary? in this economy?

Narrator: It was at this point that Protagonist realized that his series of obstacles had *not* yet come to an end... (Continued in "Protagonist and the Insignificance of the Individual")

Yes, you are genuinely impressive.

Olivia...

Yes! "Golden brown and delicious on the outside, tender and creamy on the inside" is a classic for a reason.

The way you execute a concept in your writing is amazing, self-contained and complete. It goes all the way past "commitment to the bit" to "The bit was captured, explored, characterized, and dissected in Jax's work [Romana2025]".