I need to rant a little, so bear with me. Please.

[broms_lullaby]

So I am moving for school in about three weeks, and I am mildly freaking out. I am moving to a new part of the country (Texas from Colorado) and while it doesn't seem that far away, I mean, there are only a few miles of Oklahoma separating the two states, and the part of Texas that I am moving to isn't all that far into the state when you look at a

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[asnightdescends]

First, your writing is very pleasant to read, it flows well. Second, I hate english writing "rules", like the ones you mentioned. I get rules like "you need a noun and a verb to make a sentence", because otherwise you don't really have anything, but as you said this last weekend if I say something like "ate the mouse" and the previous bit of the conversation had been about a cat, ya'll would know what I was talking about, and the language worked. Third, being in the science community, I know that data is plural, even though most people don't call it that. Maybe that is just the scientific american language... Fourthly, there are some British bits of things that I enjoy using. Like fuckwit. That is just a tasty word to say. I might use Loo or cuppa, perhaps lift and telly, but I don't use boot or fag. But then again my teeny little subculture of friends knows what these things mean. And fifthly (I just wanted to say that), you aren't even in girly fandoms...people are stupid. Sixly, Nick and I will be going to Tulsa next summer to get

[broms_lullaby]

Yes, but you don't use Britishisms when trying to write an American character, you just use them. If I were to write you, using Britishisms would be believable. Most of the time this happens (read: all) they aren't being used by people who would use them, it is out of character.

Also, it should he 'sixthly

[asnightdescends]

Yes, I wasn't making them orderers. So, sixthly, seventhly and eighthly. Still doesn't like them though.

[asnightdescends]

Ohh, ok. Yeah. That doesn't make any sense. It would be like Seamus Finnigan saying "soccer" in a ff.