Can we pause and address the question how you only have 3 books on your TBR? How is that possible, are you magic?

Someone else who loves POE! I meet too few of us

none, USian

I grasp that it's not the heart of the issue here, but the fact that this person is in essence being punished for being really fucking witty gets under my skin

Tfw you're reading what you thought was a pretty solid rough draft and hit a paragraph that reads: [describe what this place looks like]

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In the novella I just finished, one character convinces himself his new boyfriend is secretly much older than he looks and orchestrated 'stumbling' upon him in a moment of crisis he created to 'rescue' him. Tame as fantasies go, but the person in question is pretty upset when he gets it.