Just want to note here that the first is something we mods are all aware of and feeling too, and conversations are happening about how best to address this. I appreciate your thoughtful commentary on it here — keep an eye out in the coming days. ♥

I love your last idea here. You're right, that was a big Thing early on that's sort of fallen by the wayside as just being ~how things are, but that would be a fun thing to lean back into, the mystery and sense of something greater at play.

And you KNOW I'm always down for a horror plot. 8D