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Letter #155: Weak Hero Class 1

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Good morning, Erin. I’ve slept an average of about two hours every night for the last five nights.  Which you’d think was a bad thing. But I’ve just started developing a Single’s Inferno -inspired social deduction game, and I don’t think a well-rested Daryl would have the ability to access the part of his brain that was able to envision the necessary details for such a project. So, really, the only problem is how much awesomeness may have been shaved off this project by those few hours of sleep I got every night. Alas, I fear we shall never know—and so much the worse are we for it. More importantly, though…I watched another show you recommended to me! Woo! Now, whether you’ve seen it or just added it to the list you gave me because it was popular and readily available on Netflix, I dunno. But an Erin recommendation is an order I cannot but follow, and so Weak Hero Class 1 I did watch. And how did it go? Well, I had a long talk with Grok about it, and… Cough .  Or, who knows, ...

Letter #154: Social Savvy Class 101

Good morning, Erin. I am very excited to update you about the progress I’ve made on some of my writing projects—but, seeing as you’ve gone back to dropping kickass covers on TikTok like it’s no big thing, I am suddenly far less enthusiastic about drawing attention to my creative endeavors. …which—twist!—is not some empty preamble, dear seonbae , but a pertinent segue to what we’re discussing today! In what way? Stick around to find out! Because we are about to discuss Social Savvy Class 101 , a short series that slots in nicely to our Phase V promise of thematic blocs after Friendly Rivalry , as we follow a high school girl trying to navigate the social order of her class.  “But Daryl, you prolix-adjacent weaver of words,” I hear you say, “are there bullies? A murder plot? Clashes over class distinction? An alluring, if narratively frustrating, bathtub scene?”  To which I say…well, popularity is like a class distinction. So, if you think of it like that, you can definitely se...