compersion & limerence

one of those aten't dead things, hi, god, how are we all doing? Bad, I assume, I wouldn't know because if I think about it too hard I will stop functioning and this bitch is an essential worker (not the direct-patient kind, though). Have we thought about how taboo it will be to kiss another person in [some number] of months?

Anyway, I listened to the entirety of season 1 of The Magnus Archives over the past week, and wow fuck did I love it. Meta archival narrative? Self-deception? The translation between mediums? Dubious record keeping? Fickle memory? The things that live in the cracks of the world?! A deep voiced British academic with big skepticism vibes being mean!?! I have been swooning and getting chills in equal measure.

I'm on season two (translation: I am 10 minutes into the first episode), and Millbank Prison has come up for reasons, and now I'm just...obsessing over Sarah Waters and Affinity and the para/normal dis/belief &first person narrative dubiousness, of both stories. I love that I already have fictional context for Millbank, as it deeply adds to the contextually skin-crawling creep vibes. I just!!! I don't wanna spoil stuff but I want this fic to exist (I always want the fic to exist). Like -- Jonathan Sims reading me an excerpt from Affinity, sort've vibes. The overlap is just...just there and I so hope it gets more fodder, tangential as it might be.

Perhaps my Affinity fix it is just...The Magnus Archives? Oh boy, I feel genuinely great about that.