It's probably some sort of terrible breach of etiquette to go responding to one's own recs on Calufrax, but...

Regarding the word count thing, I think it's a glitch with Teaspoon (or possibly my technical cack-handedness). I remember when I posted this, there was some formatting problem or something and it came out all gibberish, so I edited it and basically copied and pasted the whole text in again, and that seemed to fix it, but the word count for some reason is much, much too long.