That we’d both be into Shadowrun sourcebooks I guess made sense given our shared age and sensibility, dancing around to happy hardcore too. But it was that Colin Spacetwinks also had a soft spot for ‘80s police-mecha-as-workplace-slice-of-life property Patlabor that got him slotted into my “comparable writers (he’s far better at dialog) with weird similarities” list, even before the “furry as idiom for same-sex sexuality” stuff came in