lead and sugar

The habitual truculence of his tone and manner had today altered to something mealy, to a conviviality weighted with lead and sugar, a ghastly intimacy more dreadful than his most dreaded rages.

—Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

living in the future

On the plus side, it seems I don't need to restart my phone when the AO3 force-logout happens, just clear my cached data and then force stop the browser before re-opening it.