Do y'all remember being a kid and trying to read in the car while it was dark outside and your parents wouldn’t let you turn on the light so you would try to grab snatches of sentences when you passed by street lights
and at last I see the light
and it’s like the fog has lifted
and at last I see the light
and it’s like the sky is new
and it’s warm and real and bright
and the world has somehow shifted
all at once everything looks different
now that I see you
all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.