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Something I love about Gideon the Ninth that I haven't seen talked about yet is how well Tamsyn Muir manages to describe basic concepts like "night" and "salad" as though experiencing them for the first time through the eyes of a chimpanzee.

some sort of worm or possibly a fish?

The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.

zac going "hey let me know if this is too weird and out there and ill do something else" about a pretty reasonable stretch of the male gymnastics ability truly 5 minutes after ally pulled that fuckin bullshit with the clown bit is. god thats so me. zac buddy. youre fine.

This was genuinely what it was like growing up in New Agey circles btw, my mum's friends would come round like "So I went out to the woods this weekend and fasted and meditated and I had a vision of the Sacred Stag and all my guardian angels and I asked them how to find love and they said that I need to focus on my own healing first and stop repeating cycles of the past" and then the very next week it'd be like "So I'm back with James again" girl..... the Sacred Stag could not have been more clear....

[Image ID: Tweet from h b (@/ h3xenbren...) on 10/28/22 reading: i was visited by a being of pure light and it told me to do some stuff but i forgot what exactly /End ID]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s