About the fiendish thingy Forum

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Hi there... This is the forum for fiendish thingy. Stuff that comes up in the journal may be posted here and whatever else you want as long as it's vaguely relevant. Basically, I think these things are a cool idea and it brings fun discussions out in the open instead of behind closed inboxes.

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