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For the record, most of my short stories—which includes the chapters of Before Dark—are in the 2500–3000 word range. So most of my stories are worth almost 3 points. So if you review my stories, you'll get points faster.

evil rubbing together of hands

These were two wonderful videos to wake up to this morning. Thank you.

Ajax, our orange, carries his mice all around the house, showing off his hunting skills.

For the rest, the supply of cardboard from Chewy every other week is enough to sate their metabolisms.

There's some new "groups" that seem to be a bit… non-writer-ish.

We try to feed ours on a schedule. Wet food at the 5s, dental treats at noon, and kibble when we go to bed.
One of our black toms would come into the room at night and sit on heads when he decided that it was time—usually around 2 or so.
That was the first banishment.
After we got the orange, since he was a kitten we tried to let him stay.
But he can't stop biting the blanket mice (aka human toes) within the first ten minutes, so now they're all banished.
When we open up in the morning, they're less concerned with the scents and more concerned with the food bowls.
So they meet us at the door, and then try to kill us repeatedly on the way to the kitchen.

Yes, you didn't get told the most important thing about being a cat owner:

The things inside the boxes aren't the cat toys;
The boxes themselves are the cat toys.

Save yourself a lot of money and get your cat toys from recycling centers or the back of the shoe store or wherever free package supplies may be found.

Our ginger, Ajax, gets wound up from tummy rubs. There's a balancing point between loving on him and chumming the waters.
After that is a whole lot of "No more bitey-bite, just kissy-kiss."
Of course, we say the same thing to Jon Moxley, but what can you do.

Link works. And OMG!!!!!!!

So it lowers the reward for shrinkage, but doesn't affect it for expansion? That seems unfortunate.

I'd uploaded all of Piscau prior to publishing any of it. The total cost for me to publish it was 180.01 credits.

That's not including the "Joan Dark" stuff, which so far has cost me 56.8 credits and the next three (so far) are going to be 23.59.

Also, I'm not sure the ratios add up correctly.
The points earned for reviewing my published "Joan Dark" are 15.09, with a "new author bonus" of 7.63. Total of 22.72.
That's 40% of the total cost, when you include that bonus, but only 26.6% once the bonus goes away.
And I only earn a bonus if I read new authors. So while I'm providing a bonus for people who've been here, I'm not getting those same earnings even for their new works.

There should be a bonus for reading new stuff, not new authors. Give me an incentive to read stuff worth less than a point otherwise.

Please don't get me wrong. I'm on the hellscape that is Booksie, where they're too busy arguing about AI illustrations and bot accounts sending harmless messages. (Not sure what you've done to avoid that issue, but well done.) I've been there months longer than here, and only have six brief reviews, one of which is from a bot account. I'm not wanting that.

I'm just overwhelmed trying to juggle real life, my own writing, a couple of private proofreaders I've started with, and trying to figure out how to earn enough on here.

Don't piss off ancient gods, they don't like it.
If you're going Egyptian, stick to Bast.