His face elongated daily, and his melancholy eyes burned in deepening sockets like dim candles …

Alcohol, opium and laughing gas are intoxicants.

They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (blackfeller)’.

That was my community, where I grew up—in the midst of flaming reviews and shipping wars and OTPs and AU!fics and headcanons and songfics and half-baked homages to My Immortal.