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So of all the stuff I've written, this series is by far the one I've gotten the most feedback on. (For the millionth time, sorry about Emily!) I took it off the web a long time back, planning on revising it to a point where I thought it would be as good as I wanted it to be. There are a lot of problems I have with it, from some inconsistencies in characterization, to the way the first half of the story is limited to one PoV but the second half jumps all over, to simply not sufficiently foreshadowing or leading the reader. It's kinda lazy, episodic stuff, and it makes me anxious. Not that I don't love lots about it, but there's all kinds of things I desperately wish I'd handled differently.

That said, I'm finally facing the fact that I'm just never going to want to spend time revising old stuff when there's so much new stuff more forcefully commanding my attention. As such, I'm going to simply re-release this to all of you fine people as a too-long-delayed thank you for your support. For those of you who read it the first time, it should be pretty much as you remembered; for those who didn't, brace yourself for some early Ice Bear erotica in all its unvarnished glory.

For all of you who've bought a copy of Our Time Was Now, I hope you enjoyed it, and for those who haven't, you're dead to me. (But I kid. :D) In the meantime, here's Tolerance, and The Tolerant. There may well be some formatting issues due to the age of the file and my inexperience when it was compiled, but hopefully nothing too bad. If there is, lemme know and I'll see what I can do.

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ukyo_rulz

I remember this. It had problems that Ice Bear already listed, sure, but it wasn't all bad. In fact I would go so far as to say if you loved TIOS, then you will probably at least like this. Actually, if I may be so bold as to say so, I feel that this actually had a couple of things going for it over TIOS. I liked that the “villain” in this story wasn’t cartoonishly evil. I liked that the characters actually shared and hid information from each other in a way that made logical sense (TIOS characters were somehow simultaneously inept at hiding information from enemies and terrible at sharing information with their friends/allies). I liked that the main characters all had distinct motivations and their actions made sense in light of those goals. I liked that the narrative (mostly) didn’t make it too obvious which characters I was meant to root for and which ones I was supposed to hate. So yeah, Emily’s fate did come out of left field and change the tone of the story at the eleventh hour, probably to its detriment (I remember thinking at the time, "surely there has to be a better way to establish Ashley as the bad guy in this story"). Yeah, the writing style itself was not of the consistently high quality we’ve grown to expect. But I think that Ice Bear was selling himself a little short when he described this story. And to Ice Bear, I think you made the right choice by just throwing this out to patrons. The temptation to go back and fix the mistakes of the past is great, but ultimately it’s better to learn from them and apply those improvements to newer work. You never really get to a point where you’re 100% happy with a story. I’m actually pledged to an author or two that have been re-writing chapters of the same story over and over, with some chapters having been re-written multiple times through the years. It’s a never-ending cycle.

HardhatDoozer

Although Emily’s fate was a shock at the time, the uniqueness of her fate and how it affected others was a refreshing take on the MC genre for me. I was truly invested in her in a way that surprised me. I commented to family and friends on how much impact that chapter had on me. Now Ashley’s reasoning seemed flawed but not everyone is sane I guess.

R Masters

Flaws and all, this is what introduced me to the lovely world of Ice Bear. Happy to have it back!