Cafe Enchante: Ignis Carbunculus, Good End

Masterlist
Ignis is a basically well meaning and sweet jock under a grumpy hotheaded tsundere warlord exterior. He gets endearingly blushy but can be a bit Toxic Masculinity.

His character is exactly what it seems, and the structure is very similar to the other routes, but parts got WAY darker (and a bit sexier) than I was expecting. There's also some Dating The Dominant Wolf Man tropes, but I didn't mind them the way I usually do.

The worldbuilding of Bestia makes NO SENSE.

But overall, I enjoyed the route!

Content notes: Violence, including to the heroine from the love interest (for Reasons), suicide, trauma

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Cute story about Fiona Apple's song 'Shameika'

Meet Shameika Stepney, Inspiration to Fiona Apple on Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple wrote a song about a girl called Shameika who stood up to bullies on her behalf, based on a half remembered childhood experience. As a result the two women met again after 30 years and did a remix together because they both became musicians.

I already liked the song, having only a vague sense what it was about, so find this really charming. I found this article linked from an Interview with Fiona Apple where she talks, amongst other things, about being really into tumblr.

How to reply when I have nothing interesting to say

Sometimes when I make a post I get a lot of nice but similar comments I really appreciate, but I have nothing interesting to say to in response beyond, like, "thanks". Thinking about a unique variation on "thanks" for each comment is a lot of mental work for little benefit, but a wall of identical replies, or no replies, might make people assume I didn't like their comment. Especially since sometimes I do happen to have something interesting to say to one or two comments in particular, but not all of them, which could make everyone else feel weird.

Or maybe people won't notice or care!

So! Help me find replying to comments less mentally tiring.

Poll #24977

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 44

What reply would you prefer?

the same short reply as almost everyone else on the post
27 (61.4%)

no reply
7 (15.9%)

I would strongly dislike both of those
0 (0.0%)

I genuinely don't care
16 (36.4%)

other
3 (6.8%)

Please don't feel obliged to say you don't mind when what you mean is "It would make me feel a little bad, but I'd prefer that to you getting stressed". I just want to know what people prefer out of these two options so I can make an informed decision.

If other, please explain in the comments!