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Oh I've been this way with spice for DECADES.

Bites 1-3: omg this is fucking delicious
Bite 4ish: I'm full. Actually I'm still hungry but some satiation receptor in my brain literally will not let me swallow another bite or I'll be sick.

And a Mega Bad Depressive spell specifically broke my appetite Jan 2021 and I have had a Very Small Appetite and Even Fewer Hunger Impulses ever since.

So if I do want to actually eat a full meal the few times I do feel hungry it has to be really bland or I just won't be able to finish it.

This is why fresh, raw oysters are literally the only food I can ACTUALLY "eat my fill" of. You don't chew them. You don't taste them (I just add a squeeze of lemon). They just go down the hatch.

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Hunter S. Thompson??

As much as I can't quite get into the material of his work, it's an honor to be compared stylistically to him, however slightly.

Although to be perfectly honest, that little habit of A Certain Emphasis was stolen directly and shamelessly from A. A. Milne. 😁

The few people who know me really well (or for a really long time, if superficially in soul) tell me they can hear the Capital Letters in my voice when I'm speaking lol.

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I feel I should clarify although you probably understood: I meant I initially learned/stole that trick from Milne at a very young age, not that Thompson stole it from Milne lmao. Although who knows??? lol

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I think my internal voice is a triple Venn diagram of "Beat generation +etc authors," A. A. Milne, and… oh gosh… those paperback books of elephant jokes that were popular in the 60s.

NOTE TO SELF: Come back later and find a better third option for this lol.

TBH it's probably Beat guys, Milne, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But I was trying to think of something funnier but also true… Oh! Or Lewis Carroll. Yea, that's a big contributor to the general vibe of nonsense. I aspire to piffle like Lord Peter Wimsey.

But I feel like there's a particular children's book or series I'm forgetting… The Hardy Boys, but they've been "modernized" to death and even the originals - bless Leslie MacFarlane EDIT: McFarlane. My bad. - he had STYLE… "for his time"… but was STILL just writing for a buck, even if he said he really put effort and heart and fun into it, for his own satisfaction of a job well done. So there's really no "voice" contribution there. I'm too old for Lemony Snicket to be really FORMATIVE, obviously I adore his voice, but it feels self-conscious to "imitate" it now…

OH I KNOW. Dashiell Hammett. The real dry hard boiled Continenal Op "well, life sucks, as usual" self-narration lmao.

So I'd say actually a quadruple Venn diagram…
1) A. A. Milne
2) Lewis Carroll
3) Dashiell Hammett
4) Beat Era(ish) authors

• with a bonus absolutely lachrymose and disapproving Victorian-hysterical Victorian ghost woman just wafting all over everything
• and hopefully Dorothy L. Sayers as an encouraging guardian angel "voice of my conscience" so to speak

This is fun thinking about. I like breaking myself down into categories lol. Give me more to do! Give me more!