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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Berandor" data-source="post: 3339758" data-attributes="member: 225">Damn. that's true, of course.The seminar was truly awful. The poet/teacher didn't even attend the final session, and so we sat around talking freely about the stories. A greater heap of pretension has rarely been encountered. In the end, we were all good friends, and all our stories were valuable and wonderful in their own ways (even those written by legasthenic analphabets without sense for structure, tension, or characterization), and I longed to hear some good judgement, Ceramic DM style (or even, Nemmerle forbid, Iron DM). All the while snow was falling outside, but when I finally left, it had already thawed away. So I'm really somewhat egocentrically adrift right now, going through a slew of new faces to present the world.The worst thing right now is, I don't want to take on any of the other contestants – they're all so good.It'll make me feel bad when I oust them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Here's my inner angsty German:</blockquote>