Mir’s Reviews > mulberry down!! > Status Update

it makes a shape that people take for trauma: difficult to discover, easy as hell to categorize. But nothing’s ever happened to you to make you what you are.

the ill-fitting cozy sweater of their love is no less warm for not being quite your size.

Perhaps, against all odds, you’re successfully passing as a Creative Eccentric. This ought to buy you some leeway.

A new approach, then. A new ingress. Crowbar if not key. It’s time.

Vantablack!

Because writing a story like this and making it free are the opposite personality type from needing to own a color and not let anyone else use it.

Ooh, very Chronicles of Amber.

You’ll keep trying though, lighting the candles in the windows of the once-haunted house of your heart.

you’ve never seen a time loop movie where they found each other and worked together for years and then one of those people got out and left the other one there to die alone, over and over and over.

Not exactly a time loop, but I wonder if the author had read that most depressing of all j fantasies, The Homeward Bounders.

Characters in lucid dreams almost always behave in one of two ways, your library haul and your internet deep-dives unanimously inform you. Either they react blankly to anything you say to them, or they tell you things you already know.

Huh. Peeps, is that how characters in your dreams respond?

sometimes you stand in the bathroom at night, lights off, opening and closing your medicine cabinet, waiting for the jumpscare in the mirror. Whispering to the dark: come out. I double fucking dare you.