Character details should really only be expounded upon if they drive the narrative forward. You don’t just sprinkle them in for the fuck of it if they serve no purpose.

I understand your point of view but disagree with it. Any detail on a character has the power to add to it, even if is only mentioned briefly and once. Knowing how to add it without breaking the story is a hard exercise, indeed, but feasible.

This can be in a small way, eg a prominent scar that drives the immediate conversation towards some other engagement, its relevance lasting half a page. Or in a more long-term way like an adverse reaction to an older male stranger nearby, hinting at a violent childhood experience that manifests as an avoidant behaviour, which may drive further recurring narrative elements, or be a challenge that must be overcome as part of the character arc.

At the point I intend to insert this detail, there has already been a lot of background put forward. The protagonists have already talked several times how life was for each of them in the years they were apart. What I plan with this snippet is to add nuance and let whoever is reading do the puzzling together.

If the nipple piercings never come up again in the story, but the character still shares about them unprompted, this could still work towards character development by being a hint that the character has Aspergers.

Why this precise interpretation?

Can’t let that low hanging fruit go untouched.

Oh goody! Let us sit and watch as they seed the soil with death in waiting for uninvolved civilians for the next 50 years.

I bought it legally at a local supermarket. So… it’s readily available.

Aproximately 80 hours, because of a power drink.

Whatever it was in the mix, it kept me going for the better part of three days and three nights, plus a few extra hours.

I went to work, went to night school and played Fallout, with no signs of fatigue. When it finally wore off, whatever it was fuelling me, I slept for 36 hours straight, woke up, showered and emptied the fridge, the pantry and everything else there was to eat available in the cupboards.

That was a crazy event.

There are! That is exactly what I’m aiming at, to leave small details hinting to something in the background of the story.

What else?

We do not want Texas running amok on its own.

This feels more and more as just debating semantics.

What it, what if!, by some weird, twisted, absurd, maniacal, ironical coincidence, the entire bag of cuckoo clocks being nominated actually managed to do one thing, and one thing only, right and by that thing start a chain reaction that destroys the entire rotten system that out them in their positions to begin with?

How does it fare compared with the standard Mint?

I’ve been considering try it but because of the focus on Cinamon I keep delaying it.

Because real dogs refuse the job.

I’m not commenting if I liked it or not. I don’t have a horse in that race, then or now. That it was a disastrous chain of events with dire consequences, that is undeniable.

Ranked voting is a very good thing all countries should implement.

You remember what the brits chose the last time they had the opportunity to do so?

Oh no… he’s off to try and sell bleach washed chicken again to the brits.

And today I learned.

If memory serves me well, Yugos were made in former Yugoslavia and were known for being extremely cheap and dangerous for everyone in and around them. Am I correct?

But this makes me scratch my head.

American manufacturers exist in Europe today and regardless of not being a fan the cars sell, regardless the constant attempts to introduce pure US models, like the F series.

Ford may be the most widespread manufacturer but I’ve seen a few Dodge, Chevrolet (but GM officially pulled from the market after a 3 years run, stating it wasn’t willing to remain in a market where a minimum 25% of market share wasn’t attainable; competition sucks, apparently!), JEEP and Chrysler.

What is stopping these brands to import back the technology being used here, on their european models, back to the home country? It’s already owned here!

I remember reading an article on a joint project between GM and FIAT to develop a new and shared platform. After X number of years and a gross amount of money invested, GM drops the project, FIAT finishes it and starts building an entire new generation of cars, still being built today.

Why put time, money and effort into a project to just drop it? Having a shared platform, capable of being used to assemble vehicles on both sides of the ocean makes sense.

Some of these I can’t even fathom what they are used for.

I"m going out on a limb and risk the engineers hammer is the tool used when everything else has already failed to separate, combine, detache, attache, couple, decouple, split or join.

We don’t know but it was guaranteed to be different.