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Foggy’s gotten pretty decent at naming which red-themed vigilante is coming through his window in the middle of the night without even opening his eyes: Matt tries to be quiet so he doesn’t wake him up, Deadpool is talking before he even gets the window open and Peter knocks like a goddamn decent human being.

“Come in!” he yells, deciding that he won’t get out of bed until he knows if there’s an emergency or Peter just wants to raid his first aid kit and fridge.

“Sorry, Mr. Nelson,” Peter says, climbing inside and dropping lightly to the floor. “I know it’s late but I had a question.”

“Shoot, Spiderboy,” Foggy says, sitting up to see Peter lingering awkwardly close by in full Spiderman gear and oversized hoodie, backpack slung over one shoulder.

“It’s just that Mr. Murdock said that you might be willing to look over one of my essays,” Peter says, “but I kind of got distracted doing, y’know--” Peter makes a vague punching motion with a soft pow sound. “--and it’s kind of due tomorrow morning.”

“Oh my god,” Foggy says, sighing and pushing aside his sheets to get out of bed. “This is actually the least stressful thing one of you weirdos has ever asked me to do. What’s your essay about?”

“Macbeth.”

“Y’know, Matt was an English major,” Foggy says, huffing out a laugh and finding a sweatshirt to pull on before he turns on the lights. “You should probably be offended that he passed you off on me.”

“What was your major?” Peter asks.

“Business,” Foggy says. “Did I ever tell you about how my mom wanted me to be a butcher?”

“You have,” Peter says, dutifully, sitting his backpack on the floor and digging through it, “but you can tell me again, if you want.”

“You’re a good kid,” Foggy says, taking the essay when Peter finds it and hands it to him. “There’s leftovers in the fridge. Go eat while I check this bad boy out.”

"You're my hero," Peter says, fervently.

Foggy's never been called that before.

He doesn't hate it.

#matt murdock english major propaganda

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Matt's a little bit dizzy and has had too much to drink for someone who has only been drunk two or three times and it's the only explanation for confusing Foggy with the pretty girl sitting on his other side. They're sitting squashed together with a couple of other people on somebody's twin bed, a study group turned party, and Matt's been flirting with Katie because it seems like it's what he should be doing. She smells like sugar cookies and she has a nice laugh and Foggy elbowed him at some point tonight and muttered, "It's so weird that you always find the hot ones, dude," in a way that sounded more amused than jealous.

When he turns to murmur, "Hey," and lean in to see if she'll let him kiss her, it takes him a solid moment to realize the soft hair his fingers slide through are Foggy's.

"Uhm," Foggy says, when Matt pulls away abruptly, heart suddenly the loudest thing in a loud room.

"Sorry," he says, laughing nervously. "I thought you were--someone else."

"Katie?" Foggy asks. "She left, like, ten minutes ago."

". . .I think I'm too drunk," Matt says, sighing.

"If you're kissing me, probably," Foggy says, laughing. "C'mon, I'll make sure you don't get lost in the elevator or something."

Matt waits until they're in the elevator to their floor to apologize again, saying, "Hey, sorry for--y'know. I should've been more careful."

Foggy is quiet for a nerve-wracking moment before he steps in to kiss Matt softly, running fingers through his hair, pulling him closer when Matt automatically steps into it to kiss him back. His hands clench on Matt's waist and Matt opens his mouth and then the elevator dings and they jump apart.

"There," Foggy says, breathlessly. "Now we're even."

He casually walks out of the elevator like Matt didn't just learn a whole lot of shit about himself.

". . .wait," he says, stumbling after him.

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I am sorry to everyone who tagged me in some tag game and I never responded. I saw it and thought “aww they thought of me” and proceeded to forget about it right after

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Billie Piper for Grazia UK Magazine 15 April 2024.

#i am no better than a man

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various april bunnies

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most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it

He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system

meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes

they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode

it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.

the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down

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heard some rustling above me when I woke

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what's house of leaves?

the short version is, it's a book about a book about a book about a book about a movie that never existed about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. it is probably the single most famous/notorious existing work of "ergodic fiction", meaning basically fiction which exists in such a complex relationship with its medium that it takes nontrivial effort just to consume, meaning uhhhh a lot of it looks like this,

or worse!

it's like, fifty percent an extremely high-effort mockery of modern academia, it's often doing its active best to be completely incomprehensible to you, its and i cannot emphasize this enough A Space With A Beast In It. its awfully dear to my heart also. or as mark z danielewsky who wrote it puts it:

"I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror book, but when I finished it, I realized that it was a love story.' And she's absolutely right.

#also his sister made a sick companion album to it that nobody talks about enough

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the curtains i got to section off the kitchen and living room are too long but please appreciate how tiny bunny looks

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matching eyes and anxiety 💕

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the thing about dropout is that they didn't just fuck off from youtube entirely or move and just continue content that was already happening on college humor. what a wild move.

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Sooo…

#the RATIO #nah though

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reply to this post with one word matt/foggy posts if you'd like to. i want to try to write actual 100 word drabbles to warm myself up to finish a few actual things

#mattfoggy

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i thought she was asleep and wanted to capture the noise she makes when i wake her up but she just gave me the softest lil baby face

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I hope your vibrator runs out of battery halfway through and that the charger is on the other side of the room. And also that you die

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gay sex

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gave myself bangs & dyed my hair at 1:00am

also bunny