diff --git a/src/parser/mod.rs b/src/parser/mod.rs
index ff187f5..eff81e2 100644
--- a/src/parser/mod.rs
+++ b/src/parser/mod.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use winnow::Parser;
 use winnow::RecoverableParser;
 use winnow::ascii::multispace1;
 use winnow::combinator::alt;
+use winnow::combinator::cut_err;
 use winnow::combinator::eof;
 use winnow::combinator::peek;
 use winnow::combinator::repeat_till;
@@ -265,19 +266,21 @@ fn parse_whitespace<'input>(input: &mut Input<'input>) -> PResult<'input, Templa
 }
 
 fn parse_ident<'input>(input: &mut Input<'input>) -> PResult<'input, TemplateToken<'input>> {
-    let ident = ident.map(TemplateToken::Ident).parse_next(input)?;
-
-    ident_terminator_check
+    resume_after_cut(
+        terminated(
+            ident.map(TemplateToken::Ident),
+            cut_err(ident_terminator_check),
+        )
         .context(
             ParseError::ctx()
                 .msg("Invalid variable identifier")
                 .help("valid variable identifiers are alphanumeric"),
-        )
-        .value(ident)
-        .resume_after(bad_ident)
-        .with_taken()
-        .map(|(val, taken)| val.unwrap_or(TemplateToken::Invalid(taken)))
-        .parse_next(input)
+        ),
+        bad_ident,
+    )
+    .with_taken()
+    .map(|(val, taken)| val.unwrap_or(TemplateToken::Invalid(taken)))
+    .parse_next(input)
 }
 
 fn ident<'input>(input: &mut Input<'input>) -> PResult<'input, &'input str> {
@@ -303,6 +306,58 @@ fn ident_terminator<'input>(input: &mut Input<'input>) -> PResult<'input, ()> {
     .parse_next(input)
 }
 
+// This is just like the standard .resume_after(), except we only resume on Cut errors.
+fn resume_after_cut<Input, Output, Error, ParseNext, ParseRecover>(
+    mut parser: ParseNext,
+    mut recover: ParseRecover,
+) -> impl Parser<Input, Option<Output>, Error>
+where
+    Input: Stream + winnow::stream::Recover<Error>,
+    Error: ParserError<Input> + FromRecoverableError<Input, Error>,
+    ParseNext: Parser<Input, Output, Error>,
+    ParseRecover: Parser<Input, (), Error>,
+{
+    trace("resume_after_cut", move |input: &mut Input| {
+        resume_after_cut_inner(&mut parser, &mut recover, input)
+    })
+}
+
+fn resume_after_cut_inner<P, R, I, O, E>(
+    parser: &mut P,
+    recover: &mut R,
+    i: &mut I,
+) -> winnow::Result<Option<O>, E>
+where
+    P: Parser<I, O, E>,
+    R: Parser<I, (), E>,
+    I: Stream,
+    I: winnow::stream::Recover<E>,
+    E: ParserError<I> + FromRecoverableError<I, E>,
+{
+    let token_start = i.checkpoint();
+    let mut err = match parser.parse_next(i) {
+        Ok(o) => {
+            return Ok(Some(o));
+        }
+        Err(e) if e.is_incomplete() || e.is_backtrack() => {
+            return Err(e);
+        }
+        Err(err) => err,
+    };
+    let err_start = i.checkpoint();
+    if recover.parse_next(i).is_ok() {
+        if let Err(err_) = i.record_err(&token_start, &err_start, err) {
+            err = err_;
+        } else {
+            return Ok(None);
+        }
+    }
+
+    i.reset(&err_start);
+    err = E::from_recoverable_error(&token_start, &err_start, i, err);
+    Err(err)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use crate::parser::parse;
@@ -377,10 +432,10 @@ mod tests {
                         ),
                         span: Some(
                             SourceSpan {
-                                range: 25..28,
+                                range: 22..28,
                             },
                         ),
-                        is_fatal: false,
+                        is_fatal: true,
                     },
                 ],
             },
diff --git a/src/parser/snapshots/temple__parser__tests__parse_interpolate_bad-2.snap b/src/parser/snapshots/temple__parser__tests__parse_interpolate_bad-2.snap
index de2d41d..9dd6238 100644
--- a/src/parser/snapshots/temple__parser__tests__parse_interpolate_bad-2.snap
+++ b/src/parser/snapshots/temple__parser__tests__parse_interpolate_bad-2.snap
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ expression: error.to_report()
 error: Invalid variable identifier
   ╭▸ 
 1 │ Hello {{ the2re }} {{ the@re }}
-  │                          ━━━
+  │                       ━━━━━━
   │
   ╰ help: valid variable identifiers are alphanumeric