Origins
Derived from sizzle reel, industry slang for a curated highlight montage designed to impress, abstracted into a single coined form with a softened suffix to suggest duration and repetition rather than a single edit.
Meaning
In denial, memory begins to behave like a montage. Nights that ended without consequence are replayed and emphasized, while the ones that carried damage quietly fade from view. In Sizzelon, survival is mistaken for success, and continuity becomes evidence of control. The past is not remembered inaccurately so much as selectively, shaped into a version that preserves permission and postpones reckoning.
Usage
We kept pointing to the nights that went fine, caught in Sizzelon, while ignoring the pattern forming underneath.