“This art is gorgeous!! I love the meaning behind it, too. Such a uniquely personal touch!” - Anonymous

“I actually teared up a bit! What beautiful, morbid tale of love.” - Anonymous

“I’ve never read an interactive story like this before! It’s so cool of OFIC to publish experimental works like this and it’s even cooler for the creator to think it up in the first place.” - Anonymous

“This was such a fascinating piece and resonated so much with my experience. The way the experience flows seamlessly among different states of identification/embodiment. I'm always trying to puzzle out for myself what I'm doing here in slash fandom and this was a brilliant and illuminating and comforting read.” - Anonymous

“I will be thinking about this piece for the rest of my life, I think? It just captured a feeling that I never would have been able to articulate and left me absolutely breathless. And it happened to be very hot to boot.” - Anna A

“Literally like the author came into my mind and perfectly explained how it feels to write fic sometimes. I was legit in shock by how perfect this was.” - Anonymous

“This was equal parts hysterical and sexy. Loved the narrative voice here. This should be a short film!” - Anonymous

“Gorgeous piece. Lots of lush imagery, compelling world building, and a story that kept me enthralled until the very end!” - Anonymous

“Fabulously written and an interesting concept! I really dug this piece.” - Anonymous

“This story was so utterly delightful and charming! Smiled all the way through it, now I'm on my way to summon my own eldritch terror friend to watch cooking shows with.” - JJ Graceson

“Why is this the best story of friendship I’ve read in a long time. Five stars.” - Anonymous

“What a fun, quirky flash piece!” - Anonymous

“YES I love a haunted sexy romance! Absolutely adored this one.” - Anonymous

“‘I was always supposed to be the steel door standing between her and life's bullets.’ This story is absolutely hilarious and makes me want 20 more stories of these characters' vigilante run across the country. I have been so utterly charmed by this story every time I've read it (a number which is...rapidly increasing) and the sweet romantic core is so well-drawn. Obsessed.” - Anna A

“A banger from the first sentence to the last!! This concept is amazing and the execution was flawless.” - Anonymous

“I was so so excited to see danmei featured here! This story was amazing!” - Anonymous

“I adored this story. The world is immersive and feels like it exists outside of this snapshot, and I love the characters! Riyvka is complicated and I love her. We all just want to be loved in the end. I love that in the end , she owned up to her fault in her previous relationship and they talked about it like adults! I love Gulbadan more than words can say :3 Everything about her appeals to me and she deserves the world. I have more feelings! I can't put them to words but this will sit with me and make me happy for a while. Thanks for the story!” - Riley Riley

“Your honor, these are my emotional support lesbians! They mean so much to me!” - Anonymous

“I love collages and this one is so cool!! The dragon on the spire is a fantastic tough.” - Anonymous

“This piece took my heart and gave it a devastating squeeze. So beautiful! Loved the Bly Manor references, too. :’)” - Anonymous

“Loved so much of the writing of this but specifically the line ‘How do you give a child a gift of flight and tell them they have limits?’. Absolutely gorgeous.” - Anna W

“I love the idea of a fandom analysis from an academic viewpoint! Really intriguing.” - Anonymous

“I just had to write in to tell you that I read this piece last night, sat in silence for like 30 minutes staring at a wall thinking about it, and woke up this morning still thinking about it. It's absolutely stunning. The lyricism, the voice, the bitter helpless resignation in it, it is just the most astonishing story. I should have known how brilliant it was going to be from that first paragraph ("Fucking bastard of a thing, to know yourself like he does now") but somehow it blew me away afresh with every new paragraph I read? A million million kudos to the writer, I'm going to continue thinking about it for a long, long time and it's also changed the way I want to approach sentence structure and voice, so thank you!” - Elisabeth Hewer