u/ZhangtheGreat

This happened today as I was riding, and I fully blame myself for not being alert enough. I'd pushed myself 10km into the mountains (this after about 10km on flat terrain) before turning back around. By then, it was late mid-morning, and the heat was starting to creep up. As I was coming back down, I was under the sun for about 30 consecutive minutes (with only the occasional shade from plants that I zipped by and a short cloud cover on flat terrain). I didn't take a break until I'd reached a bridge I'd crossed to get to the main trail, where there was some shade to rest under that surrounded a section of the bridge.

Thinking I could just crouch down, rehydrate, and get up to ride again after a 5-10 minute breather, I was hit with a momentary mental lapse upon getting up. The next thing I knew, I was on top of my bike with a scraped knee and bleeding palm. I don't even remember falling and knocking over my bike.

I was still 5km away from home, and I took no chances the rest of the way. Every shade I could find, I'd stop, rehydrate, and rest until I was fully alert. It took me another 45 minutes to get home, but I didn't care.

The heat is no joke. Be careful riding when the temperatures start climbing.

I don't like putting OCs in my own fics, but I do love a well-written, well-developed OC who fits well within the canon of the franchise's universe. My absolute favorites are the ones where the OC is an offspring of a canonical couple, and the author has clearly spent a ton of time and effort flushing the OC's character out.

On the other hand, I'm not too fond of fics that become "drowned in OCs" to the point where the canon takes a complete back seat. I remember reading a fic that had almost 100k words that started off focused on canon, but by about midway through, had introduced so many OCs that the whole canon (not just the canonical characters) had been all but replaced.

You?