When I left the classroom, I didn’t know where I was going. It was only at this moment that I realized I didn’t even want to check out a book, I just wanted a quiet place to read (I’d taken my whole bag in real life, but the story works better if I take just the book); however, I found the idea that books were not only kept in a cage, but that this was treated as normal and that they were used so infrequently for the key to not be kept nearby, to be horrifying.

It is therefore, perhaps, strangely fitting that this is the page that received the most donations. The “no textbook” response may have been the biggest shock, but “no library” was the one that affected me the most: my last respite, my last safe haven… was gone.

The librarian is based on Mr. De Morel from the webcomic Freefall who first appears here.

I’m being slightly anachronistic here with the Sudoku (which wouldn’t take the world by storm until a couple years later). There was a resurgence in paper-and-pencil puzzle games in the early 2000s. I can’t remember much of it. Sudoku just rode this train and put itself on top. I don’t remember exactly what he was playing that day, but it was definitely Sudoku-like.

This page is brought to you by @koda_wah (Twitter), @NezMogIsHere (Twitter), and Sereigon (FA), whose combined donations put the transformation at 30%!

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