#ESPECIALLY in his third-year

[typingfool]

thirdyear!izuku would be the type of guy to sneak into your dorm, and (demand) ask if you can sneak out with him. he'd take you floating above the buildings, beyond it, and he'd trap you in his arms until you force him to return to the dorms---just so neither of you will get caught---he'd follow you (because entirely, he's still izuku, and izuku will always follow through what he's told), open your dorm window, sleep on your bed until someone knocks, telling you how late it is, that you've missed the first period and and and—

#pax speaks—! #let me cook #no but listen #i have a thing for confident!izuku #like thats so ooc #but... in-character at the same time #ESPECIALLY in his third-year #bc if katsuki developed as a character (more neutrally; he's still angry but not like over-angrily-competitive) #THEN IZUKU CAN DEVELOP MORE TOO (he needs to trust himself more he needs to STOP counting his worth i want to knock some sense into him) #izuku midoriya x reader #izuku midoriya imagine #deku x reader #deku imagine #izuku midoriya

[lazylittledragon]

do you have an in-depth background for Dorian? I loved the comic with his family members, and it made me wonder about his entire life story!! what is his relationship with his siblings!!! why did he start adventuring!!! dorian is not my bg3 character but I love him as a son

he comes from a huge family of wood elf rangers and he was. a handful

also the whole adventuring thing was a complete accident

he was just walking home and got zapped by the nautiloid

#art #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tav #he is our collective son #i think he’s very very close to all his sisters but especially the oldest because there’s 12 years between them #so she was sort of a third parent? not in a bad way though #i always figured he was one of the civilians taken from baldur’s gate in the opening cutscene #he really wasn’t supposed to be an adventurer he’s literally just some guy

[homoeroticgrappling]

Darby working out in the My Chemical Romance boy zone tour merch is smack bang in the middle of the venn diagram of my interests

#especially since these were posted hours after it was announced mcr are headlining a festival next year #also forgive me for hiding blatant lust in the tags but my LORD #the third picture???? #his pants are cuffed so high #he is arching his back #why is his shirt kept just above his belt like that #I am not immune to alt boys with slutty little waists unfortunately #AEW #Darby Allin

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

Opinions on Dream? :^

SO many feelings about him omgg rant under cut please forgive me

okay so i don't really talk or draw him much cause honestly,,,most of the times i just think he's a bit....boring? or more accurately plain? not in a mean way either but just in a 'fades into the background' type of way like don't get me wrong!! he's a really nice friend to his peers, his feelings about his powers and aura making his relationships harder to navigate and trust along with his whole conflict with nightmare and morality about what's good and bad IS very cool!! and i love it whenever they write him to be complex and not on this black and white mentality or when he's just straight up following along his friends with no free will or with a dubious purpose without ever addressing his issues or feelings! it's just unsatisfying to me :')

or when they're making him the 'naive' and oblivious, (sometimes childish?) character being marked as the obstacle and villain along with the other star sanses from the fic's pov, always talking about doing good things while fighting his brother and not hearing him out about the balance, (and for weak reasons most of the time. like it's been so long and you STILL haven't sat down with him when he's, generally, basically begged you to just have a talk? guys please :'( ) or when they go for the victim sad dream always missing the old nightmare, where corrupted nightmare is the incarnation of evil, with no sympathy or emotion except anger and sadistic glee, killing and hurting everyone and dream's just trying to protect the multiverse and dream's always been in the right. such extremes!!!

LIKE!! i hope i'm not the only one that thinks a 500+ year old should have had enough time to idk. learn things? about people and manipulation and deceit? after knowing what the villagers did to night? about the bad things in the world and how there's a lot of grey areas in life and that he maybe reflected on his past enough to process and ask himself if there should to be a convo to settle his differences with nightmare (and you can make nightmare the stubborn one too! or have them BOTH be petty and imperfect and have some things wrong and some right at the same time like why do i always see the good guy vs bad guy cliché with these two when they're the perfect example of why positivity doesn't have meaning without the negativity!! as long as there's a satisfying evolution or growth that doesn't leave me empty i'm good yknow?)

plus i believe dream really isn't as dumb as people view him. i do get some of you saying he probably can't read or write since that's actually a pretty interesting idea to explore! but in general please let him have emotions other than pure sunshiny happiness or endless sadness like he's gotta have more depth than that! let him make mistakes, have flaws that don't just make him the bad guy that's always in the wrong by default, and be angry or suspicious or jealous or bitter or battling his mental health problems/depression or malicious or smart or witty or mischievous and silly or sarcastic or ANYTHING dude i just want him to be put into different scenarios where he can be serious or lighthearted like it doesn't even have to be long or perfect but make him feel real.

it could definitely be that i don't read or see much art about dream or really look for it hard enough but also i just. i feel bad for even saying this fr and i wanna be honest about why i don't enjoy most stories about him cause he always gets the worst treatment along with ink!!! especially ink omg the poor guy has it the worst i think like wow do they mess him up :'(

always one dimensional in non shippy fics, or too plain or easily replaceable by other, more entertaining people in the significant other's life in most of his ships like man. i have read fics out there that made me genuinely FEEL and root for him and love his character so much it restored all hope for me!!! but i can only name one on top of my head and the others? it's been so long i don't even remember their names i just legit feel terrible cause i love him still and i can't find many headcanons that fit my interpretation of him yknow?

not to say people who write him very happy, mislead or sad are ruining him like that's silly- if i see something i don't like i just. move on bro i wouldn't force people to feel or think the same way i do about him cause anyone can have whatever headcanons they want!!! just talking about what i personally look for in him and why i can't exactly find it since most of the stuff out there just isn't my cup of tea :')

hopefully i didn't set anyone off with this rambling opinionated essay i just pulled hhh xD i know i know he's a popular character and i know a lot of people like dream so *sobs* please please recommend me artists and fics about him that you think is good it's been so looong since i've read or seen anything new that makes me attached to this little guy aughg<33333

#ask #rambling #delete later? #probably xD i just wanna love him SO much but sometimes he's just *sigh*...forgettable #i tried to explain myself but also it's like 4 am and i skimmed through the proofreading so don't take this too seriously HHH #like really even when i do read good fics about him he's not on the forefront of my mind and it's painful to me :'( #i used to see him as my third fav but now? ever since i've read and seen characters who get heavier more in depth plots? #i can't say it with as much confidence :') and dream lovers out there i am not bashing your choice or even your headcanons #to each their own but i really wanna hear someone be passionate about him in my feed or askbox like TELL me about him #i've seen ink rants out there that are FIRE like so true!!! but where's the dream defense team??? #maybe it's just me tho :') btw i still like cream but not the same way as before if i'm being real #it feels the same...all of it and it makes me wanna bite something ARGHGG #i know i know i ship some stuff that's basic too hhh but dream and cross are always written the same and dream is too innocent #and nightmare is too weird in some of these fics like if MY brother ever tried to literally attack my hypothetical partner???? #i wouldn't give him the :'((( sad face and weakly tell him to 'please stop...you're hurting him'' like NO girl they're TWINS #they're the same age i would tell him to BACK off and not insert himself in my love life after years of ignoring and fighting LIKE #especially since most of the time cross is actually good to dream and all- so he doesn't have a good reason to disrupt his bro's dates #UGH i just have so many opinions but basically i would love him a lot lot more than i do now if they also let him be more flexible #and shake things up like with shattered and stuff! gimme alternate versions of him even if it's too ooc like we do for all the other sanses #jaa i am SO sorry you had to read all that dude thank you so much for passing by :'D

[im-still-watching-anime]

sasuke: the third hokage was kind of a dick

kakashi: HEY. you’re right but watch your language

sasuke: why? he’s dead

kakashi: that is NOT what i meant

#naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto incorrect quotes #uchiha sasuke #kakashi hatake #anti third hokage #anti hiruzen #tbh sasuke is being nice by only saying ‘kind of’ #he has impeccable manners here #for some reason rewatching the war arc always makes me especially pissed off at the third #idk just like watching all the other hokage do all their shit and the third is STILL there with his fucking stick #like bro after everything you can’t like do a little extra here?? #maybe it just gives me flashbacks to his million year stalemate with orochimaru in og naruto though tbh

[doku-no-bi]

I know this may be seems to be a bit sensitive, but would you help azul to have healthy relationships with food? Since while he is in diet food regiment too but it seems like his reaction to food is more....harsh than yours. Riddle also seems have a strict view to food when he was home and only open up after his....you know. I want to see you three having session about food and how to have healthy reaction to food.

(To kazumi: if this ask to sensitive to you, you can ignore this. Since i heard, azul view to food may actually sign of him having ED(Eating Disorder). And for riddle it just how his mom teach him but i don't really know if it count as ED too or not)

Of course. Azul is... Usually not the type to ask for help on anything like this, but if he reached out, I most definitely would. I do encourage him to eat when I can; he is on a good diet though, so it's hard to get him to eat without being obsessive over his food. I can convince Rook to steal Azul's charts when Azul doesn't notice so he can't write his calories down. It helps at least in the moment.

I do speak to Riddle and help him with his food issues. However, I think Trey does well with helping Riddle on his own, so I don't meddle there too much unless Riddle comes to me for help.

#kazumi speaks: no worries! i think i touched on eating disorders a bit on my azul blog's bio page but i wasn't sure how much #kazumi speaks: (especially since i don't know enough and don't want to spread misinformation!!) #kazumi speaks: i do headcanon azul as having some form of ED though #kazumi speaks: and for riddle it's either just he's bad with food or a not super severe form of ED #kazumi speaks: like for riddle i think he cuts sugary stuff out a lot (especially before overblot and definitely before NRC) #kazumi speaks: but it's not to the point where he's losing weight to an unhealthy amount (if that makes sense) #kazumi speaks: idk if im being ignorant about eating disorders right now please help #kazumi speaks: vil cares about his underclassmen and would 100% help them #kazumi speaks: that's his job as a third year housewarden #mentions of eating disorders #tw eating disorders #kazumi speaks: tagging just in case!! #twisted wonderland #vil schoenheit #disney twisted wonderland #twst #roleplay #twst wonderland #rp #twisted wonderland roleplay #twisted wonderland rp #vil replies

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

The fact that you work retail makes a lot of sense actually

Customer service is truly the easiest way to radicalize someone.

#How to be anti-capitalist step one #work in retail #there is no step two #you will hate corporations and the general public’s entitlement so much it’s unreal #When you have to hit a bald white man wearing a confederate flag t shirt and a trump hat with the ‘hello sir how may I help you today :)’ #and you’ll get a glare back or he just ignores you #While his wife screams at you because someone in a completely different part of the corporate web messed up her order #it does something to you I think #especially when you hear them whining about the evil liberals who deny science #when you’re a scientist and can just tell they don’t remember anything from a science class higher than the third grade #anyway #yes #I have been in retail for years and that is partially why I am like this #catharsis of being able to call out absolutely cruel and oppressive dogma when I see it #it feels nice sometimes

[mortellanarts]

🎶Now Playing: 1. Extreme Extrication

extreme (adj.):

A drastic expedient.

extrication (n.) :

The act of getting yourself out of a bad situation with great difficulty; a freeing from perplexities.

@999week

#999 week #zero escape #999 spoilers #blood cw #ace 999 #gentarou hongou #my art #I want to make one for everyone this year so so so bad but I have so little time but I have all the sketches so #wish me luck! #okay I forgot to share trivia here but! okay #extreme extrication plays a lot while in exploration segments especially finding new places with the astrological keys and cards #it plays when you get to choose where to go while looking for Snake and it plays when voting on the third branching point #so I thought this would fit with how this guy knows where he is knows where to go to escape #especially with how he backtracks to grab the ninth man's bracelet and his knife

[maddy-ferguson]

in the last like 7 years there's been two reality tv guys i really liked i found them very entertaining i thought they were funny etc thought this for years. 2/2 have been accused of rape now i need to stop treating these people like they're characters they're being very genuine when they're awful

#one in 2021 one just a few days ago #i mean there's actually 3 that i liked and the third one was actually like bffs with one of them and very friendly with the other one so💀 #and it's like i KNOW they're probably not good people right it's like i know i would hate these men irl because i didn't really like them #but i liked their personas #but their personas are not actually personas especially not the misogyny aspect of it like that is just real life😭 #and it's never even really a surprise like yeah of course he would do that. so like that's kind of on me like yeah my bad for liking them #because they were unlikeable..... #like them being unlikeable was the appeal should have seen that coming #i'm not an avid reality tv watcher. the guy who was just accused of raping a woman i followed for years though because he was so awful he #was funny😕 i watched his snapchat stories every day and everything like it happened in australia in 2018 and i remember when he was there #i remember what he was filming there and everything (because i watched it like when it aired a few months later💀) #like i LIKED him #i know i just said i didn't like them but like i did ykwim...like i liked making fun of him and i liked hating him but i thought he was #endearing😕 #and i haven't followed that guy in a while because he stopped posting on snapchat since you know...who even posts on snapchat anymore. but #yeah no. i don't even know why i'm sharing this #i hope you won't think less of me for being a reality tv person. and i'm not i haven't watched anything since like...early 2019? #i watched reality tv from like 2012 to 2015. and then from 2017 to 2019. 2015-2017 isn't a big gap but it feels like it is it was very #different you kinda had to be there #and like i say: brf slt #tw rape #rape tw

[paunchsalazar]

Oppenheimer made me laugh….

#not a bad thing and I’m curious about and glad for people having interesting and impactful viewing experiences but I was like… lol… #idk it didn’t rattle me for all time or anything #but I think AP world reading on the build up to the bomb and ww2 into McCarthyism are so drilled into my brain i was just like… yup. yeah.. #and later reading through life #and they talked like they were in a comic book #and some of the conversations cut back shot reverse shot so fast idk I was like just slow down you don’t need to cut back for this….. #also idk was the case before but especially after seeing the Hiroshima museum and Nagasaki in real life… #I think I wanted the third act to pop his bubble… the little town they built like a play set #out of the trial… #i understand holding close to Oppenheimer but so much of the context happens off screen or in a buzzword name that means very little #to most people… idk.. #also jfk name drop made me laugh sorry #idk I get it I do but when they’re like ‘what changed from 1945 to 1949!!!!’ #the bomb went off… and thousands (more) people died and reality fucking set it in a few years and a billion dollars late #also the flashes to earlier bits like it was a mystery or a kdrama lol.. #ok sorry

[athicfmoving]

every time I think about what K.evin S.mith did with Felicia in TETMD and how he retconned her entire backstory I feel my blood boil

#s*xual assault tw #[ooc] #felicia was a character completely motivated by her own drive and goals #she wanted to be strong enough to bring her father home and after his death shifted her focus to living up to his legacy #but kevin smith completely erased that and made it to where she did everything because she got assaulted #he wrote it specifically from the perspective of she became the black cat out of anger and her inability to get past what happened to her #so he took this woman whose entire drive was based on her own agency and made it to where #everything she did was because of some horrible thing a man did to her years ago #where do I even begin to explain how fucked that was #especially the way they kept re-victimizing her in that comic???? #like she needed to be assaulted to have a reason to do what she does and be a strong character???? lol WHAT??? #like I feel nauseous just thinking about how much they kept lingering on that fucking plot point #a solid third of that comic was just them objectifying / s*xually victimizing felicia and it makes me fucking sick #no words can properly describe how much I hate it with every fiber of my being

[teacupchimera]

.

#tea's boring life #hi yes it's me and yes I'm gonna whinge about not having a gf yet again #it's just like. I'm so lonely lmfao it sucks!!! so much!!!!!! #I'm on three dating apps and Nothing #at least this year I finally went on my first second date #didn't lead to a third date though lol so whatever #sigh #I'm just tired of being single #it's especially bad in fall cause there's so much cute fall shit to do and I wanna have a gf to do those things with #gahhhhhhhh #anyways #I know I'll find my person eventually and w/e but I've literally been waiting for so many years (over a decade)!!! #and I'm just. tired

[buysomecheese]

… what the fuck

#(/pos) #I’ve listened to content from Each of the dndads story lines today? #listened to the Talking Sons episode #listened to the Walter and Paedon oneshot #listened to the third episode of atmod #listened to the new season 2 episode #listening to the beginning of the Star Wars mini-campaign #won’t finish that episode tonight but I started it #there’s? so much whiplash? #like their rp styles change so much in these past ~2 years #and I can See when character voices/motifs are reused #OH SHIT I HAVEN’T LISTENED TO ANY Fetch Quest TODAY #I thought about it a lot though #Fetch Quest is probably my favorite dndads crew thing so far tbh #will campos dming >>>>> #I’m just in love with him that’s all #but yea the zip/zap/zop characters- Freddie’s voice for his is also Taylor’s voice #Beth’s is similar to her Cookie and Elizabeth voices #I love noticing the different tropes they each gravitate towards playing #especially Matt? idk he’s just. his characters are always so good #Anthony going between Paedon and Walter so Seamlessly (ikik editing but still) it’s fucking perfection #anyways goodnight

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[qqueenofhades]

https://www.tumblr.com/qqueenofhades/743255237060689920/the-thing-that-confuses-me-about-the-dont-vote

The “don’t vote” left’s point is basically that, if Biden gets a second term, it’ll basically signal that “They’ll vote for us as long as we’re not Republicans, why don’t we do some REAL fucked up shit, if we can get away with it?” It takes the power out of the people’s hands and places it firmly in the party’s.

I can’t completely disagree with that, my caveat is that there’s no real alternative system or party in place, because top-down change is ineffective; a third party president has to contend with a two party congress.

Except no. This whole "Biden just wants to do as much fucked up shit as possible while not being a Republican, and if you give him a second term he'll do more fucked up shit deliberately to spite you" mindset is only possible as an interpretation if you a) deliberately and comprehensively ignore everything he has done to date, and b) you approach the situation with the maximum bad faith possible. Not to mention, the ultimate outcome of this Big Important Teaching Biden A Lesson is that Trump gets back into power and makes everything orders of magnitude worse, because he does in fact want to deliberately do evil shit to everyone and says so at every opportunity. There is not some magical happy alternative that springs into existence by not voting. If you choose this as a year to Teach Biden A Lesson, you are enabling Trump. Trump will be much, much worse. If you don't care about that, I still do not care what your Great Ideology is. You are not helping anyone and you are directly and irreversibly hurting everyone.

I made a post a few days ago wherein I mentioned that I want to assess Biden fairly, taking into account both strengths and weaknesses, but the rampant bad-faith, lying, misreading, misrepresentation, and open sabotage of him (especially by the online left; the GOP sometimes only wishes they were as good at turning Biden's voter pool against him) makes it really difficult to do that. My frustration with those people makes me just want to go "BIDEN IS GREAT THE END." I know he is a flawed old man (though by literally every account of a career spent in public service, he really does care about making the world a better place and any remotely good faith reading of his accomplishments thus far can see that). It is also very likely that he goes MORE left in a second term because he won't have to face the electorate again, he has always gone more left when pushed before, and he's not actually the scheming genocidal mastermind that leftist social media paints him as. Shocking, I know.

I know there are things in the world we don't like and don't want and want to stop, and therefore we blame our own president for not making it stop. But I have zero, no, none, absolutely none whatsoever sympathy for this pseudo-populist "WE NEED TO TEACH BIDEN A LESSON BY ELECTING TRUMP AGAIN, I AM VERY MORAL MUCH ACTIVIST" mindset. There's this funny thing about America wherein it is still (for now) a democracy. If Biden wins a second term, he can't run again. I would take literally anything these people said more seriously if they focused on developing their dream progressive successor for 2028 (and also figured out how to get that person elected and in a place to make real change) rather than cynically sabotaging Biden in the most consequential election year, again, of our lifetimes. If you don't like him now, find a way to make his successor a better option. Throwing a toddler tantrum and handing the country back to a senile, deranged, fascist, revenge-riddled, theocratic Trump HELPS. NOBODY. I still don't know how many times I'm going to have to say that, but yeah.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts

[rileyslibrary]

It’s lunchtime at the military base, and you can’t decide what to eat. Ghost is getting hangry.

———————————————————————

“It’s a simple question,” he says. “What do you want?”

“I don’t know, Lieutenant.”

“Are you hungry?” He asks and lifts his hands.

“Yes, sir.”

“What exactly are you hungry for?”

“I-I don’t know.”

He drops his arms to his sides and sits at the corner of his desk. He touches the back of his neck with one hand while supporting himself with the other.

“Every fucking day, you do this to me,” he murmurs. “If you don’t decide this time, I’ll go eat alone.”

“Oh! Is that so?” You squint and hunch forward at your desk.

“Yes!” He yells as he stands up and walks towards you. “Yes, I will. In fact, I would love to.”

Your eyebrows shoot up, and your jaw drops. How dare he? You’d been teammates for years, sticking with him through thick and thin, never betraying him once. But now he...

“...Would love to?!”

“That’s right!” He snaps and slams his hands against your desk. “So, for the last time: What. Will. It. Be?”

You lean back in your chair and bite your pen while considering your options. Ghost’s gaze darts from you to the pen, then back. He groans and grabs the pen from your hand, tossing it to the side.

“Pens are off the menu today,” he declares, snapping his fingers, “I need an answer. Now.”

Dumfounded, you stare at the pen on the floor. If someone else had done this to you, you would have slapped them in the face. Worse, if he had watched anyone else treat you that way, he would have ripped their limbs off their body.

But he’s hangry. As insignificant as this conversation appears, he doesn’t handle his hunger with the same poise he handles other, more complex situations. Not only that, but your indecisiveness doesn’t help, either. You need to make a decision quickly, so you sit up straight and place your hands on the table.

“What are my options again?” you ask.

“Pizza or burger.” He replies sternly.

“I don’t want piz—”

“Burger it is, then,” he says with a nod. He knocks his knuckles twice on the desk and strides towards the office door.

“W-wait, Ghost, wait!”

He sighs and leans against the door, his hand on the handle.

“I don’t like the base’s burgers.” You mumble.

“Nobody likes the base’s burgers!” he yells. “But we still eat them!”

“I was wondering,” you say and lower your voice, “if there is another choice?”

He’s softly bashing his head against the door, and you try to persuade him that there should be a third option—a vegetarian meal, perhaps. In response, he begins making whimpering noises. He’s the one getting on your nerves now.

“You know what?” you snap, “I’ll go check by myself.”

He extends a hand in your direction and shows you his palm.

“No, no, no, no!” he cries. “You join the others in the queue, and the entire base will starve until you decide!”

You scoff at his sarcasm, and he opens the door.

“Listen,” he says, “I’ll go check and call you, okay?”

“LIEUTENANT!” you shout, but he slams the door behind him. You peek over at his desk. “You forgot your phone...” you murmur to yourself.

The lieutenant was a very cold man when you first met him. His responses were limited to yeses and nos with the occasional shrug, and he never joined you in everyday job activities, especially at lunchtime. You’d always eat alone in the mess hall, and if your breaks coincided with that of Gaz or Soap’s, you’d sit with them and eat lunch together. Ghost would normally sit in the office or hide in a corner around the base and eat since he didn’t want anyone to see him without his mask. But slowly, he came to trust you all with his face, and you’d eat together, locked in your office.

You look at the time. Given his hunger when he left, he should have returned five minutes ago. What if he gave up on you and is already eating with the rest? Sure, your indecisiveness annoys him, especially since he has to deal with it daily, but he’d never let you eat alone, right? On the other hand... he may be trying to teach you a lesson.

You take another glance at the time. This doesn’t feel right. You start cleaning up your desk to head for the kitchen, but someone knocks on the door.

“It’s open,” you announce, “come on in!”

“I’ve got my hands full.” You hear Ghost reply.

You walk up to the door and swing it open. Ghost stands there with a serving trolley full of dishes.

“Thanks,” he murmurs while he pushes the trolley inside the office.

“You forgot your phone!” you inform him.

“I didn’t forget it,” he says as he stops the trolley in front of your desk. “I’d rather put my bare hand in a fire and let it simmer than add a third option to your dilemma and let you decide while there’s a queue of starving soldiers behind me.”

He removes the plates from the trolley and arranges them on your desk. “Here’s the fucking pizza, the fucking shitburger, and the tofu version of the shitburger.”

He places another plate with five pizza slices on his desk. He removes his mask and immediately slaps a piece in his mouth.

“That’s a lot of food, Lt.,” you whisper, scanning the plates before you.

He turns his head towards you and keeps chewing. “Yeah,” he says, swallowing, “better have all the options in front of you than squeeze any reserve of patience I have left.”

You take a slice of pizza from your tray and bite into it.

He stares at you, raises his plate to the sky, and rambles about how “you didn’t want pizza before.” You clarify that, while you still don’t want pizza, it appears to be the best option among the three.

“However,” you continue, “I would murder for a good burger.”

He swallows and takes a second pizza slice from his plate.

“I know a place,” he explains. “We can go tonight.”

“Lieutenant, you smooth operator!” you tease, “like on a date?”

He nods and takes another mouthful. He doesn’t even bother looking at you. He’s too preoccupied with nourishing his massive body to worry about your mocking.

“What kind of a place is it?” You ask.

“It’s a shithole,” he says, “but it does the best burgers you’ve ever had.”

“So, what should I wear?”

He stops eating and aggressively shakes his head.

“Nuh-uh,” he says. “I won’t get involved in your woes again—I’ll give you the address, and you’ll be there at 8 p.m.”

“Are you going to email me the menu so I can decide what to eat ahead of time?”

He swallows and looks at you. “I wouldn’t worry about that,” he says, taking another bite.

“Why?”

“Because there’s no menu at my place.”

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