I appreciate it from a humor and Narratives standpoint but I think this IS the part where I quietly admit erik doesn't ~do~ it for me. however he clearly does it for sid, which I very much love for sid

they are the two barbie dolls I pick up and smash together repeatedly while sitting in my treehouse. inelegant, a little banged up, and deeply loved.

they're such fun to tell stories about. while I feel like I've been gravitating towards older/current sidgeno more in my fics (sort of as a result of that being more recent inspiration + getting to draw on histories to build rich stories), rookie sidgeno is my first love. I would read a thousand more fics about them <3

I have some of those:

romance of the ages and I DO wish there was a sweeping maybe unrequited romance novel about it. that being said I really should know more about that era of the pens than I do. I know the broad strokes but not the details and I feel like I could go picking for more interesting bits if I....... read a bit

song of the night!!!!

you know of convergent evolution? wherein two species evovle similar traits despite sharing no common ancestry? like how both bats and dolphins have echolocation capabilities?? that's booktok to me. it's like fanfiction, but evolved in its own separate petri dish. I feel like I'm looking in a funhouse mirror at my own community. this is how I feel: