and go where the stars take you

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.

i hc that taps are a gesture of affection for eridians so when grace first goes into the tunnel and knocks on the clear panel it comes across as absurdly sweet and friendly. it’s the equivalent of rocky saying hello by holding grace’s hand or petting the top of his head

they should invent a high ponytail that doesn’t give me a headache and they should invent a low ponytail that doesn’t make me look like a miller’s apprentice going off to enlist in the continental army