diff --git a/addons/bson/bson.gd b/addons/bson/bson.gd
index 47ba328..72e1a05 100644
--- a/addons/bson/bson.gd
+++ b/addons/bson/bson.gd
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 # This file is the BSON serializer for the Godot Engine,
 # published under the MIT license. https://opensource.org/license/MIT
 
-class_name BSON
+extends Node
+# Unfortunately, this has to be a node in order to be a singleton.
+# I'd rather BSON wasn't in the scenetree, but it seems like that's
+# the only way to do this. Hopefully this will change in the future.
 
 
 static func to_bson(data: Dictionary) -> PackedByteArray:
diff --git a/project.godot b/project.godot
index 1ffbe97..4ee103b 100644
--- a/project.godot
+++ b/project.godot
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ run/main_scene="res://BSON Examples/dunk.tscn"
 config/features=PackedStringArray("4.3", "Forward Plus")
 config/icon="res://icon.svg"
 
+[autoload]
+
+BSON="*res://addons/bson/bson.gd"
+
 [editor_plugins]
 
 enabled=PackedStringArray("res://addons/bson/plugin.cfg")