I think you're reading Marius paying Thermadier to go away wrong. Thermadier was, and will always be, scum. From the battlefield looter to when he first shows up to him leaving for America. No money can change who he is.

Jean ValJean being given the candlesticks at just the right point and in the right way in his life to make a difference is really the only part of redemption in the book.

Javert committing suicide at the end was simply because he could no longer pretend that Jean ValJean was utterly an purely good. Which would make him the bad guy. It destroys his worldview so badly that the only way (at the moment) he can resolve it is to die.

There tends to be two camps, one that explains the core ideas of the world to you, and the other that just tosses you into the deep end and lets you figure out how to swim.

Dune does a great job of explaining things as they come up.

This Is How You Lose The Time War just tosses you in.

Both ways can be excellent.

They've gone from "practically nowhere" to "North America" in a few decades. It's amazing what forbidding hunting them can do. I think the most I've seen in one place was Jackson Hole

Yep, maybe with some onions and more cheese to get the profile closer. I'm interested in the mustard/brown sauce combo, though. Baguette looks like a great way to go.

You're looking at about a decismoot, not football fields.

I love the long version. Details of the strategy and horrors of Waterloo are a great way of introducing a character.

Do not disclose which side. Flip a coin every morning, tow accordingly.

Also make it one way, direction chosen by the same method, but a separate flip.

I read the audiobook, which was narrated by a guy, even in as agender as he could, you could still tell. It was easy to think of Murderbot's gender as male, rather than Murderbot.

This looks pleasant and straightforward with right angles and sightlines, and only one road.

Take a look at the one in Coolidge Corner in Brookline.

They have a police officer directing traffic in the intersection(s?) to keep the gridlock from overflowing out into several blocks each way.

It's also one of the smallest TJ lots, and not at all any normal shape.

As a transplant from Philly, I would have gone with 'jabroni' but it wouldn't translate as well.

Also their coffee is awesome.

As someone raised Quaker, this is totally a thing. Bible class, deformed goat birthing, worship is just sitting around and not saying anything (except for that hippie lady who just won't STFU) you know, the usual.

The perfect response would be a picture of the Mary Dyer statue with a voiceover.