I find it absolutely fascinating that Rio disagrees with the concept of dark academia, it feels like arcane sort of knowledge, buried and pocketed away (forbidden) and yet I find such kinship with her observation that academia cannot be anything but inherently dark so distinguishing it as d a r k suggests there's light in academia as well, which those of us who studied obsessively know all too well (!!) that academia is soaked through with toxitcity that spreads and spreads, and so it closes its fist over our little circle of insomniacs, too.

Even then, Graveyard Shift is a love letter, a different kind than If We Were Villains, yes, but there are still ties that bind them. Each character carries that love in their own way and I adore all of them, really, as they feel so concrete you could bump into them on the street or rather a graveyard.

(Also what's with all these complaints about how short it is? Has anyone heard about short form? Drama perhaps, classical and shakespearean alike?)