This is just a general writing confession, in hopes I am not alone in this, but: do you ever permanently connect a word to where you first read it, or a time you read it in something and it just weirdly stuck? It's similar to that weird sentimental thing of "this song always makes me think of a particular place/person/memory", but legit just like... it's a word.

This brought to you by the fact I just wrote 'mawkish' and instantly snapped back to Wuthering Heights. I can't read the word 'irascible' without thinking of Ron Weasley in DH. WORDS ARE WEIRD.