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“Jeanette Dundas convinced her hard-working single mom to drive her to try to see Elvis Presley. ‘I was on the verge of tears from the pure joy of it,’ she recalled. ‘Then I started to panic. What if he wasn’t as nice as I thought he’d be? What if he rejected me?’
Like many thirteen-year-old girls, she struggled with a negative self-image that tugged at her to run and hide from the audacious notion of meeting the one and only Elvis Presley. ‘I was clumsy, awkward, plain and scrawny,’ said Dundas. ‘I felt so ugly with my Lilt permed hair flying in every direction’
Yet she resisted the urge to withdraw from her one chance to meet Elvis. So there outside she waited alongside her mom and best friend and when Elvis pulled up, she stood frozen in her spot while other fans rushed up to him
Presley moved along until eventually he was right beside the shy teen. Not knowing what to do, Dundas asked him to say the word ‘bare’, like only he had said it in the spoken-word interlude from ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ He didn’t respond
Only after agonizing silence and his signing more autographs did Dundas finally get the interaction she was waiting for. He wheeled around and said the word. ‘Now are you happy little girl?’ Not exactly; it all happened so fast that Dundas didn’t have a chance to reply
Just then someone in the crowd pushed forward, very nearly causing Dundas to fall. Presley reacted, took hold, and tucked the starstruck teen under his right arm: ‘Little girl you better stick close to me so you don’t get hurt’
She spent the rest of the autograph session under Elvis Presley’s arm like the junior prom queen of the world. ‘I was so happy my insecurities flew out the window’ she recalled
For a few fleeting moments, he had made Jeanette Dundas feel special like no one ever had. She blurted after him, ‘Elvis, I love you. I really love you’.
He looked at her, nodded and smiled, ‘I know you do and I love you too’.”
excerpt from “Elvis Ignited” by Bob Kealing
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The translation here is closer to "If he were to abandon me/throw me away, I would die".
The choice of the word, abandon/throw away, is paralleled when Ryunosuke reveals to Kazuma that "As punishment, Ren's parents abandoned their child in a foreign country where he couldn't even communicate".
Despite being a child when his parents did this to him, their decision to do so matters less to Ren than his fear being abandoned by Kazuma.
Ren's choice has always been Kazuma. It was Kazuma the moment he told his truth of what happened in that hotel room to those adults in hospital, despite knowing he would be punished somehow. The fear he had for his actions was overruled by his fear that hiding the truth from them might affect Kazuma's life.
Ren continues to believe that Kazuma is straight and is merely in their fwb relationship out of kindness, thus Ren decides that he will have to be the one to end what he believes is a relationship with one sided love since Kazuma won't. To Ren, he is not abandoning Kazuma, but freeing him from this relationship that Ren has somehow trapped him into.
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That. That post you made about comparing satoru & suguru to a puppy and a wolf, the way they pretend to be the opposite of what they are. You have awoken something inside of me and filled my brain with thoughts. I NEED to expand on it WALK WITY ME WALK WITH ME
Satoru and suguru who are both protective but in vastly different ways- satoru who I think easily uses his reputation as “the strongest” to make sure his partner doesn’t get anywhere even close to being in danger, who the public knows is strong, and that’s pretty much all he needs. Who’s tall, who’s got an intimidating stare, he’s outwardly terrifying when he wants to be. There’s no question to it, when he wants to, he could scare anyone away.
And then there’s suguru. He isn’t gojo by any means, and he’s not got quite the same loud, confident and sort of endearingly arrogant demeanour that satoru does- but what he does have is a sort of mysterious danger about him that is almost if not more scary than gojo and his status. He’s all gentle and calm, a true carer to his partner, and he’s the last person you would expect to have a bite. But he does. And the fact you can’t outwardly tell, the fact that he’s no bark and all bite as soon as someone decides to push their luck- I feel like that’s what makes him so much more intimidating if he needs to be. If you look past the usually laid back facade he puts on for the world, you could absolutely see a sort of feral, burning desire to keep people close to his heart safe. With gojo you KNOW what you’re fucking around with. And to fuck with gojo or someone he truly cares for, you’ve gotta be an idiot. But the fact that you’re pretty much walking into the unknown when you wanna mess with suguru- IM SO NORMAL ABOUT HIM I SWEAR…. (I’m not. I’m deeply in love with him SOMEONE SEDATE ME RIGHT NOW)
ANON MY BELOVED THANK YOU FOR THE FOOD i agree so much. this is literally it.
honestly u phrased this so well that i barely know what to add U GET THEM…. i think both of them are sooooo protective but sugu is without question the more terrifying one. ”no bark and all bite” is the PERFECT description; the bite is so unexpected and terrifying precisely because there’s no bark to hint at it. he hides his fangs so well that you forget he even has them.
gojo can be absolutely terrifying too, but like you said — that’s to be expected. everyone knows satoru has fangs. he never bothers to hide them. he’s always smiling, smiling, smiling — and when that smile drops you know you fucked up.
but suguru? suguru is so good at hiding his anger that you miss it if you aren’t careful. i’ve always thought that his smile is the key to really understanding him, and i think that in this case it’s his smile that reveals his anger. you can push him and push him and then suddenly his smile has no warmth to it left, and if you push after that then the fangs peek out. but his smile is so cold and such a glaring warning that barely anyone crosses that line, so it really is like walking into the unknown.
and anon!! ”a feral, burning desire to keep people close to his heart safe” is such a good way of putting it. the desire itself is so loving but he is just so devoted that it might as well be a wildfire. i think it eats him alive. i think that he’d rather set himself on fire than fail to keep you safe. genuinely.
anyway in conclusion i think suguru is the scarier one by far LMAO imagine pushing his buttons all day and then looking up and hes just :)…….. i would fall to my knees. i would fold immediately.
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y is everything smut on this app😔😔
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