I actually really love found family kind of stories.

Trials of Apollo was such a good read. Lester (16 y/o mortal, 4000 y/o god) meets Meg (12 y/o) and they both grew up in horrible families. They come across each other and develop a sibling-like bond.

Lester reminisces on his many exes and crushes. He offers to be someone's boyfriend and gets rejected. He encounters several exes amd fights to the death with several.

And in the end he doesn't get in a romantic relationship. The story isn't about his romance, but with his found family with Meg and co.

I loved that.

p.s. except MS Windows, it keeps getting more unusable every month

Oh my god well done Quanta magazine, amazing article.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-slippery-a-new-hypothesis-slides-into-the-chat-20251208/

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