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.

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

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

Alcohol, opium and laughing gas are intoxicants.