Over and over, M holds up a mirror to the world and shows me myself reflected in it and thus makes me less alone. I adore her writing to the point of having read >250k words of fic in a fandom I've consumed none of the canon for and only osmosed a bit of detail; and it makes me laugh and it makes me cry and it takes my head apart and puts it back together running a little more smoothly and a little less painfully. Her dragonic advice helps me be fiercer about facing the world, and provides a lens through which I understand more and better; her writing about herself frequently makes me laugh; and she is ruthlessly enthusiastic in ways that make me shiver.