I keep trying to claw my way into the two long ones, [@Ellri] and [@Keyguyperson], and it's been obnoxiously hard to find time even just to READ one fully, so I might be a bit delayed getting to you guys. I [i]think[/i] I can find time before the week is up, but I don't want to promise, just in case I'm wrong..... anyway if I need to come back after the voting deadline I will. You will have your critiques, dammit! 

Incidentally.... I love the length, the detail, the effort, the passion, all that good stuff.... if it's this hard for me to leave reviews (and this is seriously like my favorite thing to do), I'm starting to think we should have a conversation with [i]everybody[/i] about how best to keep readers/voters engaged. I refuse to do a word-limit, or anything of that nature, yet at the same time if there were [i]three[/i] pieces as long as yours in the same contest, that starts to drift into the area of unreasonable burdens on the voters. I don't know if, or how, to deal with that potential problem, but I'd definitely like to get a head-start on solving it, and if anyone has ideas about how to do that [b]without[/b] restricting the writers, I'm very eager to hear them.