...wait, you need knowledge to slash people? :D Haha, oops. Although I do do research for US Founding Fathers slash and Cold War slash that I will probably never write, so who am I to talk?

:D Luckily, I have no culture to get in touch with! (Am an American-born child of Australian immigrant parents, who are themselves kids of immigrants to Australia from Scotland. No time to accumulate a culture in all that.) I may obsess over Miyamoto Musashi all I like.

(I will be back next February! Surely we will find time in the next two years. It's just, I leave for the summer to avoid all that heat. :D)