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sacred romantic moments + sentence starters

“ don't go. stay. “

“ but you're here. so stay. “

“ i wouldn't tell you this if it wasn't important. “

“ you can talk to about anything, you know. “

“ do you hate me? “

“ i could never hate you. not really. “

“ you're my friend, but, i wish you were more than that.

“ we're not just friends. you know that. “

“ i think you're in love with me. “

“ i think i'm in love with you. “

“ i don't want to be alone tonight. “

“ let's be alone together.

“ hold my hand. “

“ can i hold your hand? “

“ your hand is tiny. look at the size different. “

“ things would be so much easier if we were honest with each other. “

“ why can't you just be honest with me? with yourself? “

“ maybe you could stay? just for tonight? it’s dark outside, and it’s raining. my arms are much safer. “

“ you can't keep doing this. you can't keep lying to yourself. “

“ i can't keep lying to myself, or to you. it's not fair to either of us. “

“ i think you should kiss me. “ “ really? “ “ yeah. “

“ kiss me like you mean it. “

“ just kiss me. “

“ you shouldn't kiss me right now. “

“ look me in the eyes and tell me you love me. “

“ you can't lie to me, you know. you can try but, your eyes will always tell the truth. “

“ you're pretty amazing. you know that, right? “

“ you're just... you're extraordinary. “

“ you're good to me, you know. really good. “

“ you've made me the happiest i've ever been. “

“ i don't know what i would have done if you weren't here. “

“ our love could conquer anything. “

“ and for many generations to come, our love story will live on. “

“ i want you to marry me. “

“ if you asked me to marry you tomorrow, i'd say yes. “ “ what about today? “

“ marry me, name. marry me and make me the luckiest [x] in the world. “

“ i'd tell you i love you but, i'd rather show you. “

“ your kiss could mend a broken heart. “

“ are you going to kiss me again, or do i have to do it myself? “

“ i could cry, that's how much i love you. “

“ you're worthy of my love. “

“ truth is that i'm so damn in love with you that i don't know what to do with myself. “

“ maybe tonight, it's you and me. “

“ i don't know what the future holds. all i know is that i hope you're in it. “

“ could you promise me one thing? “ “ what's that? “ “ that we'll be together, no matter what. “

“ it's you and me, forever. no matter what. “

“ i didn't want to tell you before i was sure, but... i'm pregnant. “

“ we're going to be family! “

“ this baby, it's the best thing that could ever have happened to us. “

“ i can't believe this! we're going to be parents! “

“ dance with me? “

“ may i have this dance? “

“ take me to paris, and kiss me under the stars. “

“ you're my whole world, you know. “

“ don't speak, just... kiss me. “

“ you have no idea how long i've been wanting to that. “

“ i've been wanting to tell you for so long... “

“ so... is this, like a thing now? “

“ i always miss you. even when you're right beside me. “

“ you make me happier. “

“ i love waking up next to you. “

“ my favorite thing is falling asleep next to you. “

“ just hold me. “

“ come cuddle with me. “

“ this is torture, isn't it? “ “ not in the slightest. “

“ do you love me? “

“ could this be something more? “

“ move in with me. “

“ do you think we should move in together?

“ maybe you should move in? you spend all your time here anyway. “

“ are you serious? i've had a crush on you for as long as i can remember. “

“ i know you're in love with me. “

“ you're really cute, you know. “

“ you're so damn attractive. you know that right? “

“ provide me your past and i'll show you my future. “

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intimate prompts for slow burn relationships

making eye-contact with your lover from across the room, gesturing for them to follow you outside

tracing a finger across your lover's scar

laying a hand on your lover's thigh

threatening your lover with a knife

leaning in for a kiss but pulling away last second

telling your lover ''you're so beautiful'' knowing that's all you can say

intertwining fingers with your lover, something unspoken in the glance you share

straddling your lover's thighs

your hand touches your lover's and it feels like your whole world is on fire, so you have to take it away

tying your lover's tie

saying ''i love you'' and not being believed at first, so you repeat yourself

agreeing to sleep in separate beds but ending up sneaking into each other's to snuggle

''i'm not in love with you.'' ''good.''

a friend has told your lover you're in love with them, you deny it when they ask you about it

not being able to look into your lover's eyes because it will send you down a spiral you won't get out of

scolding your lover for almost getting themselves killed, and your lover asks you why you care so much

your lover almost dies and that's when it clicks for you

not being able to let go when you have them in your arms

catching each other undressing and very obviously checking each other's bodies out

kissing your lover when they ask you why you've been avoiding them, not realizing it's because you're jealous that they've been hanging out with [a potential love interest]

bandaging each other up and sharing a tender moment

laying awake at night, wishing your lover was next to you

kissing your lover's forehead, torn apart knowing that's all you can do

looking deep into your lover's eyes, both of you lost in the moment

tracing your fingers down your lover's chest, stopping at their zipper, looking up at them for confirmation

flirting with your lover from across the room

solid eye-contact, then *gaze drops to lips*

grabbing each other's face and not being able to let go, or look away, leaning in to kiss just as you're being interrupted

letting your lover know you'll always be there for them, no matter what happens

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masterpost.

☆ prompts ☆

→ regular prompts

→ angst prompts

→ emotional prompts

→ roommate prompts

→ miscellaneous prompts

→ romance prompts

☆ aus ☆

→ angst aus

☆ words to use instead of... ☆

→ as, looked, before, smiled, touch, exhaled, nodded, passionate, but, frowned, gasped, movement, swirled

→ beautiful

☆ types of... ☆

→ types of kisses

☆ how to write... ☆

→ how to write smut

→ how to write kisses

→ how to writer a character-driven plot

→ how to write sibling relationships

→ how to write friends to lovers

→ how to write non-binary characters

→ how to write character flaws

→ how to write independent female characters

→ how to write enemies to lovers

→ how to write a protagonist

→ how to write genius

→ how to write about grief

→ how to write character motivation

→ how to write engaging antagonists

→ how to write genuine children

→ how to write a balanced cast

→ how to write poc characters

→ how to write a fictional town

→ how to write sign language

→ how to write body language

→ how to write romance

☆ writer’s block ☆

→ ways to unstick a stick story

→ an oddly specific writer’s block tip

→ what to do when stuck in a scene

→ writer’s block flowchart

☆ aesthetic words ☆

→ some aesthetic words for your fic title (pt. 1)

→ some aesthetic words for your fic title (pt. 2)

→ vocabulary you should include in your writing (pt. 1)

→ vocabulary you should include in your writing (pt. 2)

→ spring inspired vocabulary time use in your writing

☆ writing resources ☆

→ some f*cking resources for all ur writing f*ckin needs

→ friends to lovers writing resources

→ writing relationships resources

→ writing bruises resource

→ youtube channels for writers

→ physical character appearance resource

→ a writing resources masterpost

→ a website for finding the right words

→ writing characters with distinct dialects

→ things to keep out of your healthy relationships

→ specific setting ideas

→ fantasy language generator

→ character creation and design

→ naming chapters

→ writing websites

☆ how to... ☆

→ how to reveal a character’s secrets

→ how to open a story

→ how to get inspired to write that character

→ how to turn an idea into an outline

→ how to make your angst hurt

→ how to fix scenes

→ how to name chapters

→ how to love your writing anyway

→ how to add horror elements to your writing

→ how to pitch a novel

→ how to outline a story

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How to write a kiss

Rebloggable version, as requested by davrosbro. :)

Oooh!  Yes!  I love kisses.  Kisses are where it all starts ;).

Okay, first, remember that a kiss is much, much more than just lips.  It is lips, but also tongues, teeth, eyes, faces, hands, noses, bodies, heartbeats,  breath, voice- and most importantly, a kiss is emotions.  A kiss without emotion is just wet mushy lips stuck together.  Ew.  Gross.  The most important part of a kiss isn’t the how, but the who- because of the emotions between the two people.

Okay so:

lips- Lips can slide, glide over each other smoothly, or they can be chapped and rough and dry and get stuck on each other.  They can match, top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom, or they can overlap, with one person’s top or bottom lip captured between the other person’s lips (yummy).  If there is lipstick or chapstick there is lipstick or chapstick flavor, otherwise, lips don’t have a taste (can you taste yours?).  Lips also can smack- the sound of two of them coming together or pulling apart, because they’re wet and warm and soft.

tongue- Tongues are always wet, and always warm.  They’re very versatile.  They can trace over lips, teeth, or another tongue.  They can be smooth and graceful or teasing and flicking.  When tongues are involved, there is drool.  It’s only sexy when you like the person you’re kissing, or else it’s kinda gross. :P

teeth- teeth can clack together awkwardly, or teeth can bite down sensually.  A person biting their own lip is cute, a person biting another’s lips is sexy.  A person biting gently is sensual, a person biting roughly is sexual.

eyes- Eyes can be wide open with surprise, half-lidded with desire, fully closed with pleasure.  Eyes can gaze lovingly, lustfully, wistfully, hungrily, seductively- it all depends upon the emotions of your characters.  Have them do whatever you like, but don’t leave them out- give them at least a mention!

faces- Faces are what the lips are attached to.  Noses bump, cheeks flush, ears turn red, foreheads either wrinkle or relax.  Kisses can leave lips, quite easily, and become kisses on chins, cheeks, noses, foreheads, ears, necks, throats.  Kisses on noses or foreheads are cute and adorable, kisses on cheeks are sweet, kisses on chins, ears, and throats are very sexual.  And a kiss on the lips can be all of those! <3

hands- Hands are super-important.  In order to describe a kiss, usually you want to also describe the hands.  Where are they?  Does one character have their hand behind the other’s head or back, holding them close?  Are they on someone’s shoulders pulling them near, or pushing them away?  Fingers brushing someone’s cheek or palms grabbing someone’s ass convey two very different kinds of situations, even if the kiss itself is exactly the same.

noses- Noses are annoying.  They easily get in the way, especially for first kisses!  People have to tilt their head to one side or the other, and if they don’t, noses bump.  I’d only mention noses if a kiss is supposed to be awkward or uncertain or nervous.

bodies- bodies are either close together, or far away.  Someone can be surrounded comfortingly by someone’s arms, or terrifyingly trapped by them.  Bodies are warm or hot, they are calm or nervous, relaxed or tense.  Body language says a lot.  Is your character pulling away, or moving closer?

heartbeat- Hearts can beat fast or slow, and that’s about all they can do- but there are lots of reasons why they do!  A heart can beat fast with fear or excitement or nervousness; a heart can pound with lust or race with terror or sing with joy.  Hearts can glow, cower, or shatter.  When you really want to drive the emotions of a character home, mention the heart.

breath- To me, the most consuming part of a kiss is the breath.  The air that someone else has just breathed going deep into your lungs is very intimate.  Lips and tongues don’t have a taste, but breath does.  Each person’s breath tastes different, smells different, and surrounds a person differently than anyone else’s breath.  Breath can be warm and sweet, breath can be hot and sexy, breath can be hot and frightening.  It is something that is very present and should not be left out.  A lot of writers leave breath out.  And it’s so important; it’s the most intimate part of a kiss.  Someone else is breathing into your lungs, and it’s either heaven or it’s hell.

voice- Voice conveys much, even without words.  A voice can groan, whimper, gasp, moan, catch, whine, scream, sigh.  Voice can convey emotion powerfully, and while some kisses are silent, usually they’re not.

emotion-  Emotion is the most important- and the thing you try not to say.  You want to describe it, through all of the things above, so that it’s perfectly clear what your characters are feeling, without you ever using the “feelings words”.  If they’re in love, their bodies will lean close, their eyes will smile, their voices will giggle softly.  If they’re nervous, their palms will sweat, their noses will bump, their voices will shudder.  If they’re afraid, their muscles will be tense, their faces will grimace, their lips will not open.  Emotion is the color that you keep inside your mind as you write; it’s the base line that drives the description behind everything else you say.

Wow, that was a lot!  Gosh I hope it wasn’t too much!  Keep in mind not every kiss has all these things- this is just a list of things to consider when writing a kiss, and based on how long of a kiss you want to make.  Keep in mind that typing “they kissed for a long time”…that’s six words, it takes half a second to read, so that’s a short kiss!  If you want a long kiss, you need long sentences that make the reader linger.

So maybe to start off, pick three things on the list to describe in your first kiss.  Don’t try to do it all- that would be too much for even the most epic kiss.  Just pick what’s most important to this particular scene, to these particular characters, and describe those parts along with the lips, and you’ve got yourself an awesome, emotional kiss. <3

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ma è troppo chiedere uno così? hahahahahhaha

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fictional kiss things that end me

being unable to open their eyes for a few moments afterward

one small kiss, pulling away for an instant, then devouring each other

pressing their foreheads together while kissing

speaking normally, then after the kiss their voice is hoarse

guys furrowing their brow when kissing passionately

staring at the other’s lips, trying not to kiss them, before giving in

running their thumb over the other’s lips

when they lean forward a fraction as if to kiss the other person, then realize they shouldn’t and pull back to stop themselves

ripping the other away - “no we shouldn’t” - but when they kiss them again they moan and hold them close

one sliding their hand into the other’s hair slowly

their entire body freezing for a second when their love kisses them

accidentally being forced inches apart from each other, staring at each other’s lips, and just before they kiss someone pulls them back apart

when one stops the kiss to whisper “I’m sorry, are you sure you-” and they answer by kissing them more

a hoarse whisper “kiss me”

then licks their lips and says “please”

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Loki - Loki Icons

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osamu x tendou

#osamu #osamu miya #tendō satori #tendo #haikyuu!! #miya osamu #ship art

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Approach it.

Harry and Meghan Decides To Leave The Monarch

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Do you know what Wanda and Hawkeyes (616) relationship is like? I know that in the past it was hinted at that he had a crush on her and eventually slept with her one once after House of M, but apparently it was actually a doom bot disguised as Wanda or something?? lol I'm not even sure anymore. btw I love your blog you write great meta.

He had a crush on her, yeah. Clint has A Thing for Eastern Europeans. He also has trouble with Eastern Europeans. It’s the things we love the most that destroy us (and stand outside our apartment building with baseball bats).

They both joined the Avengers way back in Avengers Vol. 1 #16 during an era known as Cap’s Kooky Quartet. There was a subplot about Clint pining for Wanda while Wanda pined for Steve. It was pretty typical comic book stuff, and there was never any sign Wanda reciprocated Clint’s feelings.

Eventually, Clint started dating Black Widow. Then he got dumped by Black Widow. His crush on Wanda returned, but only to cause drama in the Wanda/Vision romance, which wasn’t official at that point. Wanda and Vision’s relationship was constantly being derailed by these kind of obstacles (see also: Pietro, Mantis, angry protesters, Vision’s… Vision-ness). Clint decided he still liked Wanda and kissed her, but she told him she was in love with Vision. Vision saw the kiss but not the rest and misinterpreted it. This was all straightened out pretty quickly, and Vision and Wanda started dating. Hawkeye was so upset that he left the team.

After he returned to the team, the crush seemed to go away. There weren’t any real signs he still had feelings for her until many years later. (I’ll get to that in a minute.)

CLINT: Hiya, Witchie! How’s tricks?WANDA: Hawkeye! How are you?CLINT: Back from the dead and ready to party. And I must say, you’re looking quite ravishing, as always.WANDA: Ah, thanks. I—CLINT: Don’t worry. I’m not hittin’ on you. I do learn, sometimes.Avengers Vol. 3 #1 by Kurt Busiek & George Perez

People tend to remember that he was attracted to her, but to me, the more important thing was their friendship. They have a lot in common. They’re both orphans who grew up in a rural area. They started out as bad-ish guys who weren’t really bad. They have brother problems and violent fathers (yes, yes, I remember Magneto isn’t Wanda’s father anymore). Much of their identity comes from being Avengers. They tend to be team players, even though Hawkeye (bless his heart) thinks of himself as a loner. They’re kindred spirits in a way.

In other ways, they’re opposites. Hawkeye is the best at what he does. He can’t miss. He has to hit the target every time because he has no powers. In place of powers, he has skill and hard work and determination. Wanda is all raw power, potentially immeasurable power. Wanda’s powers are such that “can’t miss” is a laughable objective. Missing is part of the game. There is a certain amount of danger and unpredictability that comes along with what she does. There’s a reason she compared chaos magic to “tossing grenades.” She has to accept that things will sometimes go horribly wrong. Clint can’t allow things to ever go even sort of wrong. Clint is all precision and Wanda is all disorder.

Up until Avengers Disassembled, Clint was one of Wanda’s best friends. Something about that mix of similarities and differences worked very well. They got along. Everything was very nice… and then she killed him. She got powered up by Doctor Doom and started losing her grip on reality and hearing voices that told her to kill the Avengers. He was one of the ones who died.

What really happened was that Avengers had become an unpopular book and writer Brian Michael Bendis was hired to reboot the franchise. He was given a list of names of characters he could kill off and Hawkeye was on the list. He said, “There’s no way I can kill off Hawkeye. People will hate me,” and so, because he is a troll, he killed off Hawkeye. There’s no real reason Wanda would want to kill Clint (Vision is the only death in Disassembled that made sense), but his name was on a list.

Bendis (and Wanda) resurrected Clint in House of M, but he was really mad about being killed so he went after Wanda. They had a very emotional confrontation where she didn’t seem to 100% understand what was going on (“I loved you. I would kill for you.” “I love you too. I brought you back.”) that ended with her accidentally killing him again. Or erasing him from existence altogether. It’s not clear.

She brought him back again at the end of that story, but he was a mess after that. He became a ninja. (We don’t talk about that time Clint was a ninja.) It was just… a mess. Did I mention it was a mess yet? I respect Clint’s right to be traumatized by dying twice (and Bendis’ right to bring up his own stories ad nauseam), but a ninja, really?

Clint wanted to know why Wanda killed him. He went to Transia to track her down, but when he found her, she had no memory of anything that happened or who he was. She had given herself amnesia at the end of House of M and was no help in Clint’s quest for answers. And so he slept with her.

I’m trying to keep this from devolving into a Comics Have Consent Issues discussion, but suffice it to say, that was not a good idea. A Wanda with her memories would not have slept with Clint. She made that abundantly clear when she did have her memories, and as an amnesiac, she lacked necessary information that would have affected her decision to have sex with him. She and Clint were not on equal footing in that situation. This was a bad story, and everyone involved with making it happen should feel bad.

[Note: During this period, Clint also kissed Loki while Loki was disguised as Wanda, but that’s a different story.]

Avengers: Children’s Crusade tried to fix this by having the Young Avengers find Wanda in Transia only for that Wanda to turn out to be a Doombot, while the real Wanda was in Latveria with Doctor Doom.

CLINT: You found her in Transia?BILLY: No. The Wanda we found in Transia turned out to be doombot.CLINT: What?!?HANK: You’re joking.JESSICA: Please don’t be joking.Avengers: Children’s Crusade #6 by Allan Heinberg & Jim Cheung

These panels come right after Clint mentioned sleeping with Wanda in Transia. The implication is obvious. Clint didn’t really sleep with Wanda. He slept with a Doombot. But it’s far from a confirmation. We have no idea when Wanda was replaced by a doombot or even when she met up with Doctor Doom after losing her memory. Characters saying or believing something =/= that thing being canon. Tom Brevoort has always maintained Clint slept with Wanda and not a Doombot. How seriously you take that depends on how much you care about Word of God.

There is another complication to the Doombot retcon, and it comes during Avengers Vs. X-Men, just as Wanda was returning to the superhero fold.

CLINT: What did she say?JESSICA: You mean: What did she say on our all-day ride home in the quinjet? Where all she talked about was you?CLINT: You guys aren’t going to tell anyone about this, right? Bro code?JESSICA: Where she said: I wonder what things are going to be like between you two now that she is back with the Avengers? And I said: Whatever do you mean? She says: We have some unresolved issues in that we used to have a thing. But her knowing you as well as she does, she’s wondering if and when it’ll ever resolve itself… this thing with you and her… and what did I think of the whole thing? You know, me being a woman of the world.CLINT: What did you say?JESSICA: I said I wanted to light you on fire.Avengers Vol. 4 #30 by Brian Michael Bendis & Walt Simonson

This is one of those moments of Bendis canon — and they happen a lot — where things just make no sense. Characters talk about their lives in a way that does not reflect what actually happened. Wanda and Clint did not have a thing. He had a thing for her, but that was many, many years earlier. It’s not like they had some unresolved issues right before Disassembled.  They have unresolved issues in that she killed him, but that’s about it. I can buy that Wanda has a quinjet’s ride worth of things to say about Hawkeye. I cannot buy that she has a quinjet’s ride worth of things to say about her non-existent romance with Hawkeye.

The only thing this can reasonably be referring to is them sleeping together in Transia, which is why I’m hesitant to say the line in Children’s Crusade makes the Doombot thing officially canon. This is Bendis’ attempt to counteract that. For a guy who loves to rewrite others’ stories to mean the opposite of their intention, he’s surprisingly prickly about other people undoing his stories.

This conversation that Wanda and Jessica Drew had would have made perfect sense… if she had been talking about Steve. Wanda and Steve have an unresolved thing. Since we don’t see her actual conversation with Jessica, it’s not hard to believe this has a touch of the unreliable narrator. Characters saying things =/= things actually happened that way, remember? I don’t know what to make of this scene beyond that it’s Bendis trying to assert that his ship was canon.

If I choose to believe Wanda didn’t say the guy’s name during this off-panel discussion and Jessica assumed it was Clint but really it was Steve, and Clint DID sleep with a Doombot, is that cheating? It doesn’t make everything right in the world, but it’s a minor improvement.

Anyway, Clint doesn’t seem mad about being killed by Wanda now. It hasn’t come up in a couple of years. They seemed okay with each other in Avengers Vs. X-Men. That doesn’t mean some new writer won’t show up who has him hate her again (hopefully, sans the ninja thing this time), but Disassembled and HoM were written a decade ago. I’d rather have comics that tell new stories than ones that obsess over old ones.

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Thororo!

SEND ME A SHIP and I’ll tell you:

Who said “I love you” first

Thor. He declared it loudly and proudly, and did not expect Ororo to say it back as quickly as she did. But he’s glad she did.

Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background

Thor doesn’t have a phone but he keeps a picture of Ororo with him at all times.

Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror

Thor when he has to leave early for missions.

Who buys the other cheesy gifts

I wouldn’t call the gifts they buy each other cheesy. They both put a lot of thought into what they gift the other.

Who initiated the first kiss

Ororo because she got bored of waiting for Thor to kiss her first.

Who kisses the other awake in the morning

They take this in turns, depending on who wakes up first.

Who starts tickle fights

Thor, but Ororo quickly ends them.

Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower

Thor asks Ororo every time. He understands when she requests some time alone.

Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch

Thor when he comes back from the latest off-world mission.

Who was nervous and shy on the first date

I’d say neither. Both are confident in themselves and their sexualities. Thor was keen to impress Ororo, but he wasn’t nervous.

Who kills/takes out the spiders

Neither are bothered by spiders. They leave them be.

Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk

Thor, and he doesn’t wait until he’s drunk to do it. He proudly proclaims his love for Ororo whenever he gets the chance

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THORORO IS CANON IN AT LEAST ONE UNIVERSE

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don’t use your head, Clint.  seriously, bossman, don’t.  you keep getting it wrong.

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AVENGERS: NO ROAD HOME 002

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Clint: There’s only three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Clint way.

Kate: Isn’t that just the wrong way?

Clint: Yeah, but it’s faster