diff --git a/.idea/basedtyping.iml b/.idea/basedtyping.iml
index 8e64af1..822b5af 100644
--- a/.idea/basedtyping.iml
+++ b/.idea/basedtyping.iml
@@ -8,8 +8,15 @@
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.pytest_cache" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.mypy_cache" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.venv" />
     </content>
     <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
     <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
   </component>
+  <component name="PackageRequirementsSettings">
+    <option name="requirementsPath" value="" />
+  </component>
+  <component name="TestRunnerService">
+    <option name="PROJECT_TEST_RUNNER" value="py.test" />
+  </component>
 </module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/watcherTasks.xml b/.idea/watcherTasks.xml
index 20d228e..bd80a55 100644
--- a/.idea/watcherTasks.xml
+++ b/.idea/watcherTasks.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
       </option>
       <option name="outputFromStdout" value="false" />
       <option name="program" value="$PyInterpreterDirectory$/python" />
-      <option name="runOnExternalChanges" value="true" />
+      <option name="runOnExternalChanges" value="false" />
       <option name="scopeName" value="Project Files" />
       <option name="trackOnlyRoot" value="false" />
       <option name="workingDir" value="$ProjectFileDir$" />
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
       </option>
       <option name="outputFromStdout" value="false" />
       <option name="program" value="$PyInterpreterDirectory$/python" />
-      <option name="runOnExternalChanges" value="true" />
+      <option name="runOnExternalChanges" value="false" />
       <option name="scopeName" value="Project Files" />
       <option name="trackOnlyRoot" value="false" />
       <option name="workingDir" value="$ProjectFileDir$" />
diff --git a/basedtyping/runtime_only.py b/basedtyping/runtime_only.py
index 5dda529..83878f0 100644
--- a/basedtyping/runtime_only.py
+++ b/basedtyping/runtime_only.py
@@ -6,7 +6,27 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import Final, Final as Final_ext, Literal, Union
+import functools
+import operator
+import sys
+import types
+from _ast import AST, Attribute, BinOp, BitAnd, Constant, Load, Name, Subscript, Tuple
+from ast import NodeTransformer, parse
+from types import GenericAlias
+from typing import (
+    Final,
+    Final as Final_ext,
+    ForwardRef,
+    Literal,
+    Union,
+    Unpack,
+    _eval_type,
+    _Final,
+    _GenericAlias,
+    _should_unflatten_callable_args,
+    _strip_annotations,
+    _type_check,
+)
 
 LiteralType: Final = type(Literal[1])
 """A type that can be used to check if type hints are a ``typing.Literal`` instance"""
@@ -14,3 +34,267 @@
 # TODO: this is type[object], we need it to be 'SpecialForm[Union]' (or something)
 OldUnionType: Final_ext[type[object]] = type(Union[str, int])
 """A type that can be used to check if type hints are a ``typing.Union`` instance."""
+
+
+def get_type_hints(obj, globalns=None, localns=None, include_extras=False):
+    if getattr(obj, "__no_type_check__", None):
+        return {}
+    # Classes require a special treatment.
+    if isinstance(obj, type):
+        hints = {}
+        for base in reversed(obj.__mro__):
+            if globalns is None:
+                base_globals = getattr(
+                    sys.modules.get(base.__module__, None), "__dict__", {}
+                )
+            else:
+                base_globals = globalns
+            ann = base.__dict__.get("__annotations__", {})
+            if isinstance(ann, types.GetSetDescriptorType):
+                ann = {}
+            base_locals = dict(vars(base)) if localns is None else localns
+            if localns is None and globalns is None:
+                # This is surprising, but required.  Before Python 3.10,
+                # get_type_hints only evaluated the globalns of
+                # a class.  To maintain backwards compatibility, we reverse
+                # the globalns and localns order so that eval() looks into
+                # *base_globals* first rather than *base_locals*.
+                # This only affects ForwardRefs.
+                base_globals, base_locals = base_locals, base_globals
+            p = BasedTypeParser()
+            for name, value in ann.items():
+                if value is None:
+                    value = type(None)
+                if isinstance(value, str):
+                    value = p.visit(parse(value, mode="eval"))
+                    # value = unparse(p.visit(parse(value)))
+                    value = ForwardRef(value, is_argument=False, is_class=True)
+                value = _eval_type(value, base_globals, base_locals)
+                hints[name] = value
+        return (
+            hints
+            if include_extras
+            else {k: _strip_annotations(t) for k, t in hints.items()}
+        )
+
+    if globalns is None:
+        if isinstance(obj, types.ModuleType):
+            globalns = obj.__dict__
+        else:
+            nsobj = obj
+            # Find globalns for the unwrapped object.
+            while hasattr(nsobj, "__wrapped__"):
+                nsobj = nsobj.__wrapped__
+            globalns = getattr(nsobj, "__globals__", {})
+        if localns is None:
+            localns = globalns
+    elif localns is None:
+        localns = globalns
+    hints = getattr(obj, "__annotations__", None)
+    if hints is None:
+        # Return empty annotations for something that _could_ have them.
+        if isinstance(obj, _allowed_types):
+            return {}
+        else:
+            raise TypeError(f"{obj!r} is not a module, class, method, or function.")
+    hints = dict(hints)
+    for name, value in hints.items():
+        if value is None:
+            value = type(None)
+        if isinstance(value, str):
+            # class-level forward refs were handled above, this must be either
+            # a module-level annotation or a function argument annotation
+            value = ForwardRef(
+                value, is_argument=not isinstance(obj, types.ModuleType), is_class=False
+            )
+        hints[name] = _eval_type(value, globalns, localns)
+    return (
+        hints
+        if include_extras
+        else {k: _strip_annotations(t) for k, t in hints.items()}
+    )
+
+
+def _eval_type(t, globalns, localns, recursive_guard=frozenset()):
+    """Evaluate all forward references in the given type t.
+    For use of globalns and localns see the docstring for get_type_hints().
+    recursive_guard is used to prevent infinite recursion with a recursive
+    ForwardRef.
+    """
+    if isinstance(t, ForwardRef):
+        return t._evaluate(globalns, localns, recursive_guard)
+    if isinstance(t, (_GenericAlias, GenericAlias, types.UnionType)):
+        if isinstance(t, GenericAlias):
+            args = tuple(
+                ForwardRef(arg) if isinstance(arg, str) else arg for arg in t.__args__
+            )
+            is_unpacked = t.__unpacked__
+            if _should_unflatten_callable_args(t, args):
+                t = t.__origin__[(args[:-1], args[-1])]
+            else:
+                t = t.__origin__[args]
+            if is_unpacked:
+                t = Unpack[t]
+        ev_args = tuple(
+            _eval_type(a, globalns, localns, recursive_guard) for a in t.__args__
+        )
+        if ev_args == t.__args__:
+            return t
+        if isinstance(t, GenericAlias):
+            return GenericAlias(t.__origin__, ev_args)
+        if isinstance(t, types.UnionType):
+            return functools.reduce(operator.or_, ev_args)
+        else:
+            return t.copy_with(ev_args)
+    return t
+
+
+class ForwardRef(_Final, _root=True):
+    """Internal wrapper to hold a forward reference."""
+
+    __slots__ = (
+        "__forward_arg__",
+        "__forward_code__",
+        "__forward_evaluated__",
+        "__forward_value__",
+        "__forward_is_argument__",
+        "__forward_is_class__",
+        "__forward_module__",
+    )
+
+    def __init__(self, arg, is_argument=True, module=None, *, is_class=False):
+        if isinstance(arg, str):
+            # If we do `def f(*args: *Ts)`, then we'll have `arg = '*Ts'`.
+            # Unfortunately, this isn't a valid expression on its own, so we
+            # do the unpacking manually.
+            if arg[0] == "*":
+                arg_to_compile = (  # E.g. (*Ts,)[0] or (*tuple[int, int],)[0]
+                    f"({arg},)[0]"
+                )
+            else:
+                arg_to_compile = arg
+        elif isinstance(arg, AST):
+            arg_to_compile = arg
+        else:
+            raise TypeError(f"Forward reference must be a string or AST -- got {arg!r}")
+        try:
+            code = compile(arg_to_compile, "<string>", "eval")
+        except SyntaxError:
+            raise SyntaxError(f"Forward reference must be an expression -- got {arg!r}")
+        except TypeError as t:
+            print(arg_to_compile.body, t)
+            ...
+        self.__forward_arg__ = arg
+        self.__forward_code__ = code
+        self.__forward_evaluated__ = False
+        self.__forward_value__ = None
+        self.__forward_is_argument__ = is_argument
+        self.__forward_is_class__ = is_class
+        self.__forward_module__ = module
+
+    def _evaluate(self, globalns, localns, recursive_guard):
+        if self.__forward_arg__ in recursive_guard:
+            return self
+        if not self.__forward_evaluated__ or localns is not globalns:
+            if globalns is None and localns is None:
+                globalns = localns = {}
+            elif globalns is None:
+                globalns = localns
+            elif localns is None:
+                localns = globalns
+            if self.__forward_module__ is not None:
+                globalns = getattr(
+                    sys.modules.get(self.__forward_module__, None), "__dict__", globalns
+                )
+            import typing
+
+            import basedtyping
+
+            type_ = _type_check(
+                eval(
+                    self.__forward_code__,
+                    globalns | {"__secret__": typing, "__basedsecret__": basedtyping},
+                    localns,
+                ),
+                "Forward references must evaluate to types.",
+                is_argument=self.__forward_is_argument__,
+                allow_special_forms=self.__forward_is_class__,
+            )
+            self.__forward_value__ = _eval_type(
+                type_, globalns, localns, recursive_guard | {self.__forward_arg__}
+            )
+            self.__forward_evaluated__ = True
+        return self.__forward_value__
+
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        if not isinstance(other, ForwardRef):
+            return NotImplemented
+        if self.__forward_evaluated__ and other.__forward_evaluated__:
+            return (
+                self.__forward_arg__ == other.__forward_arg__
+                and self.__forward_value__ == other.__forward_value__
+            )
+        return (
+            self.__forward_arg__ == other.__forward_arg__
+            and self.__forward_module__ == other.__forward_module__
+        )
+
+    def __hash__(self):
+        return hash((self.__forward_arg__, self.__forward_module__))
+
+    def __or__(self, other):
+        return Union[self, other]
+
+    def __ror__(self, other):
+        return Union[other, self]
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        if self.__forward_module__ is None:
+            module_repr = ""
+        else:
+            module_repr = f", module={self.__forward_module__!r}"
+        return f"ForwardRef({self.__forward_arg__!r}{module_repr})"
+
+
+class BasedTypeParser(NodeTransformer):
+    in_subscript = 0
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.load = Load()
+
+    def visit_BinOp(self, node: BinOp) -> AST:
+        if isinstance(node.op, BitAnd):
+            extra = dict(lineno=node.lineno, col_offset=node.col_offset, ctx=self.load)
+            return Subscript(
+                Attribute(Name("__basedsecret__", **extra), "Intersection", **extra),
+                Tuple([self.visit(node.left), self.visit(node.right)], **extra),
+                **extra,
+            )
+        return self.generic_visit(node)
+
+    def visit_Constant(self, node: Constant) -> AST:
+        if isinstance(node.value, int):
+            # todo enum
+
+            extra = dict(lineno=node.lineno, col_offset=node.col_offset, ctx=self.load)
+            return Subscript(
+                Attribute(Name("__secret__", **extra), "Literal", **extra),
+                node,
+                **extra,
+            )
+        return self.generic_visit(node)
+
+    def visit_Tuple(self, node: Tuple) -> AST:
+        if self.in_subscript:
+            self.in_subscript = False
+            return self.generic_visit(node)
+        extra = dict(lineno=node.lineno, col_offset=node.col_offset, ctx=self.load)
+        return Subscript(Name("__secret__.Tuple"), self.generic_visit(node), **extra)
+
+    def visit_Subscript(self, node: Subscript) -> AST:
+        if isinstance(node.slice, Tuple):
+            self.in_subscript = True
+        try:
+            return self.generic_visit(node)
+        finally:
+            self.in_subscript = False
diff --git a/tests/test_runtime_only/test_parser.py b/tests/test_runtime_only/test_parser.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c01fd64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_runtime_only/test_parser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+from ast import parse, unparse
+from enum import Enum, auto
+
+from pytest import fixture, mark
+
+from basedtyping.runtime_only import get_type_hints
+import basedtyping
+from runtime_only import BasedTypeParser
+import typing
+
+
+class E(Enum):
+    a = auto()
+
+
+@fixture(scope="session")
+def hints():
+    class A:
+        a: "int & str"
+        b: "1"
+        e: "E.a"
+
+    yield get_type_hints(A)
+
+
+def test_get_intersection(hints):
+    a = hints["a"]
+    assert isinstance(a, basedtyping._IntersectionGenericAlias)
+    assert a.__args__ == (int, str)
+
+
+def test_get_literal(hints):
+    b = hints["b"]
+    assert isinstance(b, typing._LiteralGenericAlias)
+    assert b.__args__ == (1,)
+
+
+@mark.xfail(condition=True, reason="this isn't implemented")
+def test_get_literal_enum(hints):
+    e = hints["e"]
+    assert isinstance(e, typing._LiteralGenericAlias)
+    assert e.__args__ == (E.a,)
+
+
+def process(value):
+    return unparse(parser.visit(parse(value)))
+
+
+parser = BasedTypeParser()
+bprefix = "__basedsecret__"
+prefix = "__secret__"
+
+
+def test_intersection():
+    assert process("int & str") == f"{bprefix}.Intersection[int, str]"
+
+
+def test_literal():
+    assert process("1 | 2") == f"{prefix}.Literal[1] | {prefix}.Literal[2]"
+
+
+def test_tuple():
+    assert process("(int, str)") == f"{prefix}.Tuple[int, str]"
+
+
+def test_tuple():
+    assert process("(int, str)") == f"{prefix}.Tuple[int, str]"
+
+
+def test_subscript():
+    """To ensure tuple expressions within a subscript don't get interpreted as tuple literals"""
+    assert process("a[b, c]") == "a[b, c]"
+
+
+@mark.xfail(condition=True, reason="Not implemented")
+def test_implicit():
+    class A:
+        a: "Literal[1]"
+
+    result = get_type_hints(A, implicit=True)["a"]
+    assert isinstance(result, typing._LiteralGenericAlias)
+    assert result.__args__ == (1,)