FOURTH & GEMINI for Rabenda Magazine Issue No. 9

Zhongli, but he acts more like a big reptile/cat/dog and doesn't realize that, especially in private.

You catch him kneading your body when you cuddle, rubbing himself on you to leave his scent, wagging his tail when he is happy, when it's sunny, he lays down on a balcony with little clothing, during walks he sometimes stops hearing and sniffing around, he purrs when you scratch this one point on his head.

If you had a laser pointer, he would run after it. He sometimes follows reflections of your small mirror when you move it and you can see his hands twitching. Also, when he is happy and with only you, his slit like irises widen like a cats would. He also likes to collect pebbles during walks and more than once you caught him munching on a piece of cor lapis.

And when you are alone in the house and he trusts you, he lets it happen willingly, not stopping to avoid suspicion.

oH MY GODDDDDDDD...... pls luke you can't do this to me i love animals too much this is adorable as fuck i'm gonna cRY

i would carry doggo-cat-dragon hybrid chonkli. if he's small enough i would buy a huge bag and line it with the softest towels and silks just for him to hide in so he can travel with me everywhere. if he's too big for that he's gonna be carried. in my arms. literally everywhere. you know those videos where people carry their big doggos up the escalators? that's it. that's gonna be me.

and if people come up to me to say my dog looks weird i'm the one who's gonna bite them.

i would coddle him and kiss his adorable wet nose and nuzzle his floofy tuft of a tail.

he's my baby now and no one can tell me otherwise.

Trying to figure out why I have such difficulty connecting with First Person writing. Raymond Chandler wrote in First, and I've never had a problem with his stories (I mean, not about that).

Of course, I don't know the history of detective fiction and it's very possible that his voice was just so strong that he influenced the whole genre to the point that First Person is so common in mysteries/detective stories. And the strong POV might be why I don't have an issue there.

Which would mean that a lot of the First Person stories I've been reading have weak POVs. Reader/X (which I don't read) would do that on purpose, since Reader is supposed to be able to be *anyone* so you wouldn't want a strong voice.

But outside of Reader/X, I still struggle with it. I started a book written in First today (I didn't realize it was and then was in a waiting room and had nothing else to do so I started it) and it... the writing is fine, don't get me wrong. Like, if it weren't a romance novel, I would say something about the prologue and how it wasn't necessary and it was a bunch of exposition about the character that should have been shown through later events in the story and... the voice (cough)... but it's a romance novel and who cares? I do plenty of unnecessary shit too.

My problem is, and it really probably is just my problem not the writers', but it's like reading a story through a filter... no not a filter like different lens but I can always see the frame of the lens. I never forget that it's there. Which is weird because First is supposed to be *more* intimate. But it's not for me. It goes like this

Character: and I did this and then I did that

M:e I wouldn't do that but okay.

Only I don't eventually 'fall into' the narrative. I keep doing this the whole time.

And again, this is competently written so I really do think this is my brain being stubborn about it.

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Yo hammy, you played M:E RIGHT??? how do you feel about jack/Miranda?

I ship it, but provided they've moved past their troubled history. It gets iffy when there's a power imbalance, especially when there's deep trauma involved.

Frye in just a sports bra help m:e help me please

Me: *running to my girlfriend* “baby look! I befriended a squirrel”

GF: “oh god you’re so fucking sexy”

M:e “baby… not in front of Jared”

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FOURTH & GEMINI for Kazz Magazine December 2022

reading Asoiaf be like:

“The memory of her laughter warmed him on the long ride north.”

“He remembered suddenly how he used to muss Arya’s hair. His little stick of a sister. He wondered how she was faring. It made him a little sad to think that he might never muss her hair again.”

“She looked plump as she crouched there, but most of that was layers of fur and wool and leather. Underneath all that she could be as skinny as Arya.”

“She wondered if he would still call her “little sister.” I’m not so little anymore. He’d have to call me something else.“

“Jon had never met anyone so stubborn, except maybe for his little sister Arya. Is she still my sister? he wondered. Was she ever? “

“She punched him. "That's vile. Would you bed your sister?" "Longspear's not your brother.”

“They would wash the one and comb the other, he did not doubt, but he could not imagine Arya in a wedding gown, nor Ramsay Bolton’s bed.”

“I have no sister.” The words were knives. What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister?

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you are now haunted.

And I would be lost myself.