I’m sure half a dozen people are telling you this, but “zaydee” is Yiddish for grandfather. The implication is that Charlotte is Jewish (or at least, part of her family is).

Ah! Thanks 🙂

Oh, and by the way – as Minda’s ask screener, I’ve seen plenty of asks where people have been like “I’m sure lots of people are saying this” but been the only one, or one of surprisingly few. However according to Sharks:

Sharks: This anon is actually right on the money. Including theirs, five other people gave the same thing.

You should consider placing a bet on one of those “how many things are in the jar” contests. 😛

So, now that you know more about Cauldron. I’m really curious to ask what theories and expectations you had about Upsilon turned out to be wrong.

The main one was that they’re far more commercial than I had expected. It surprised me far more that they sell the powers than that they do science on human test subjects and keep some of them as their private army.

I basically expected them to be unscrupulous scientists first and foremost, but instead the business aspect seems to be more prominent.

Then again, the business aspect wouldn’t be possible without the unscrupulous science.

I decided to reread chapter and arc thoughts, and I discovered that chapter thoughts for 7.4, 7.7, 8.7, 9.6 and 11.3 are missing the tag for it.

Thank you! This is a tag that’s easy to forget. I’ll go fix each of these 🙂

Hey Krixwell, thank you for what you do and dont get discouraged just becourse some people dont understand what a prediction is – i quite like your #next updates and still dont mind if you have to postpone 🙂 As for a question: Does it bother you that people told you beforehand that their will be 8 Interludes? That seems like a spoiler in itself to me. Also please do your Arc thoughts before the Interludes this time (and after) 🙂

Generally, I would’ve preferred not to know that so far in advance, yeah. Though at least this way we don’t end up with a series of “are we there yet”s as far as Arc Thoughts go. 😛

A good compromise would’ve been waiting until about now – or even better, after the first of the Interludes – to tell me about the eight Interludes.

No hard feelings, though! It’s fine. 🙂

Please ignore those complaining about your postponing. I’m pretty sure they’re the minority and the majority of us know that life/college/etc come before a Live Blog you’re doing as a hobby. I’d rather you keep the tentative “next chapter” scheduling so I know when to check in next, even if that often leads me to a “next chapter delayed” announcement.

Yeah, I honestly don’t get a lot of these. It’s to be expected that I’d get some, really.

To be clear, I wasn’t seriously considering getting rid of the #next posts. I was just making a point about how postponing wouldn’t even be a thing if you guys hadn’t asked for those posts in the first place.

In the future, I’d really prefer that you just eat rude asks (or answer them yourself on this blog saying that they’re rude). 😦 I really don’t like seeing Krix deal with that.

I think I’d prefer that Sharks didn’t do that, but I might not answer them.

Sharks: Someone asked me if you want to give your Arc Thoughts before the interludes, because the interludes are, well. Interludes. Not connected. Just for after 11.8

I think this is a good idea, especially if the Interludes are disconnected. Honestly, when there’s this many of them, I don’t know why they’re not a separate Arc like Sentinel. Maybe that will become more clear once I’ve actually read them, though.

So then here’s the plan: I’ll do Arc Thoughts for Arc 11 after 11.8, read the Interludes and then do another round of Arc Thoughts, treating the Interludes as a sort of “Arc 11½”. I’ll still keep in mind the Interludes were supposed to be part of this Arc, though, and also discuss the impact the Interludes have on Arc 11 as a whole in the

Arc 11½ thoughts, if applicable.

The eight interludes are coming up soon. If it’s about the Slaughterhouse 9, what order do you think they’ll show up in? If it isn’t about them, which characters do you think they’ll be about? Or maybe all eight interludes are from one perspective?

All I’m really sure about is that if it is from the perspective of the Fellowship of the Meat, we’re probably saving Jack Slash for last, due to the mystery surrounding his role in the apocalypse. Either that or he’s first – either way, we’re probably not going to be following him in the middle.

If it isn’t from their perspective, I have no damn clue. I’ve always been shit at predicting which characters are coming up in Interludes, and now we’re getting eight? This ain’t gonna be a good series of chapters for predictions, methinks.

All eight of them being from one perspective is an idea I hadn’t considered. If that’s the case, there’s someone Wildbow wants us to really get to know, who’s got something plot-important to do that takes practically an entire Arc. I’m not sure who that would be – a new character, perhaps?

Well, you’re now ahead of Nick in Worm.

Nice! 😀