I cannot fucking believe how much I'm losing my mind right now over soy sauce history. I'll tell all of you about it after I finish this essay because I need to un-distract myself enough to finish it but what the fuck? What the fuck is going on? I'm losing my fucking mind.
I love MDZS bc I went into it for an angsty gay romance—which I got—but I was wholly unprepared for these books to have the vibes of an unhinged necromantic episode of the Magic School Bus. Just a demonic gay freak and his bf enthusiastically chaperoning a bunch of kids who are way out of their depth on a field trip to hunt ghosts and walking corpses, shoving them headfirst into insane nightmare-fuel as a learning experience. It’s fantastic idk why this isn’t the main selling point for the series
*watching my idiot prince regent on the dance floor* yes, my liege. throw it back most indubitably, sire