The only damn fanfiction I’ll ever put on here. Since I came across it in 2018, I’ve read it once a year, every year—more if it calls to me. Just exquisite. Is it a literary novel? No; it depends on its readers having consumed the source material beforehand and focuses intensely on the central pairing. But is it a category apart from any other fic I’ve read? Yes. The writing is just lovely and the story drags me in, bundles me away in the tundra with the characters and won’t let me go until the last word. I think it about it for days after a reread. Something about it gnaws down to the bone of some very particular human experiences and emotions.