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By comparison, book Eridians have huge taboos around eating. Possibly in part because they shit at the same time as they eat. Grace manages to talk Rocky into letting him watch him eat 'for science', but it's a hugely awkward experience. At the end of the book, it's mentioned that Rocky had to tell Grace to stop talking about food in 'polite company' when they got to Erid.

So one time he's pottering around the cottage, doing little chores that need done, and he starts singing 'Two Beavers are Better Than One' to himself. And Ilya overhears and is like ??? Surely not. Surely my sweet homosexual husband is not going around singing a song about not just pussy but pussies, plural.

But when he asks Shane about it, Shane has no idea what he's talking about.

"It's just a Robin Sparkles song. Like 'Let's Go to the Mall' or 'Sandcastles in the Sand'. They're just silly pop songs about nothing."

And Ilya is like "Okay maybe, but this one is definitely about pussy."

And it takes Ilya opening YouTube and making him listen to the song for Shane to finally be like 😨😨😨

And Shane immediately texts the family group chat like "Mom! Dad! How the fuck were you letting me sing the beaver song as a kid???"

And Yuna texts back like "Oh there was no 'letting'. We HATED you singing that song, remember?"

Imagine finding out you have 90 minutes to tie up a love story that's developed over thousands of years. You create something beautifully in character and completely on point for the plot. You pay homage to the original writer's legacy in a fitting and poetic way and create an ending that not only shows the depth of two people's love for each other but the wider love they have for the thing that brought them together in the first place.

And then you go online to find the loudest outcry is that everyone hates it and "THEY DIDN'T EVEN KISS!"