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Merry Band of Heathens

@kleeklutch / kleeklutch.tumblr.com

College again, nontraditional student, english major, raising 6 heathens, ADHD, ASD, depressed, aroace, currently reading: The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

William Moorcroft cornflower coffee trio made for Tiffany & Co, c 1905.

Dear Check, Please! and especially Nurseydex fandom. I just finished a book called The Unlikely Thru-Hiker by Derick Lugo that could've been written by a real-life Derek Nurse.

They are both biracial, hail from NYC, are metrosexual, care about their appearance and grooming, want to come off as suave and smooth but are actually hilarious in their interactions with other people, clumsy af, hella determined, good at making friends, but sometimes take a while to warm up to someone they don't understand right away, impulsive, love coffee, NOT a morning person, both are writers...Derick Lugo even spent some months in a friend's cabin so he could work on his book. And now he's seemingly moved to a rural area to continue writing. I mean....Help! I'm dyyyying!!!

Literally could turn the whole book into a nurseydex au where Derek hikes the AT and meets Dex somewhere like at a hostel he works at or smth. Anyway, I lost my whole shit and had to call my bestie to tell them all about it for like an entire hour, and the more things I mentioned, even more things clicked into place.

Oh my God, I forgot the best part! The best part is his trail name is - I shit you not - MR. FABULOUS!!!!!

Pleeeeeaaaase it is just too much! Would that not be EXACTLY the sort of trailname Nursey would get??

He even has a chipper friend named Overdrive who's got Chowder vibes. A hella chill dude named Mike. Very Shitty vibes for that guy IMO. And just... Goodness...

So if you have a hankering, I highly recommend the book, The Unlikely Thru-Hiker. It is excellent in its own right. But it also provides entertaining fodder for musings about Derek Nurse and Nurseydex.