#but autocorrect doesn’t like it

[steddieas-shegoes]

cw: mentions of scarring, canon-typical violence, flashback (not graphic), minor body horror (again, not graphic, mostly just emotional feelings about scars)

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Everyone gave him weird looks when they walked in, quickly schooling their features when they noticed he was awake and watching them.

He didn’t know exactly what that was about.

They had him on a lot of good drugs.

But eventually he got weaned off them, and he noticed the pull of bandages on his side, and his arm, and his neck, and his face.

He was still unable to get out of bed. Still couldn’t even reach his arms above his chest for more than a few seconds.

But he damn sure reached up to feel the cloth and plastic surrounding his cheek. How had he not noticed for days? How had no one bothered him about it?

Maybe they had and he just didn’t notice. The morphine was one hell of a drug.

Wayne was soft, patient with him. Saw him touching it, saw the way his eyes filled with tears. He’d never been particularly vain, hadn’t cared much about what he looked like to others, but this felt bigger than that. This felt like he was changed in a way that everyone could see.

Add it to the list of things people could bully him for.

He cried himself to sleep, Wayne’s hand in his, silently comforting in the way he’d always done.

When he woke up again the next morning, he was alone.

It was the first time he’d been alone since the boathouse.

He could swear he heard bats outside his door, screams coming from the attached bathroom, flashes of someone dying on the ceiling.

He felt the sharp sting of teeth puncturing his skin.

He felt hopelessness creep into his bones as he gave in.

Maybe this time they would finish the job.

“Eddie!”

Steve Harrington’s voice broke through the thoughts, panicked enough to bring Eddie back to his hospital bed within a second of hearing it.

“Shit, are you okay?” He continued, hand brushing against Eddie’s bandaged cheek.

Eddie nodded once, closed his eyes, leaned into the touch.

He could blame it on any number of things if Steve felt weird about it. The morphine, the flashback, the loneliness.

“You’re okay, Eddie. I promise. Won’t let anything happen to you,” Steve whispered.

Eddie believed him.

He fell back asleep with Steve’s hand gently cupping the mangled side of his face.

If Steve could still touch him there, then maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.

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Steve came by every day, sometimes in the early morning, before visiting hours officially started, sometimes well after Wayne had left to get some sleep. He always smiled when he walked in, a genuine one, not the one everyone else gave that was so fully of pity and pain he couldn’t bear to make eye contact. He sat down on the side of the bed, not the chair like everyone else, not scared to be close.

And every single day, without fail, he would run his finger along the edge of Eddie’s bandage on his face, watching his own movements and cataloging any changes.

Eddie sat quietly, still, scared to put words to anything happening. Scared to tell Steve what it meant to him to have someone acknowledge his pain in this way. Scared to think Steve could mean anything by it.

It was easy to pretend Steve was doing this because he cared.

Maybe he did care.

But he didn’t care the way Eddie wanted him to, needed him to.

So he stayed quiet, still.

He watched.

He fell asleep while Steve talked about his day, the kids, what Joyce made Hopper do around the house.

He woke up alone most days, but that was okay, because Steve would be there eventually.

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“You ready to get that thing off?” Wayne asked, gesturing to the bandage.

“Oh. Today?” Eddie suddenly didn’t want to ever be without the bandage. Removing it meant he’d see what was under it.

It meant seeing how much that place had ruined him.

The pull of the stitches hadn’t been as obvious with the pull of the bandage masking it.

But now it’s all he felt.

The nurse smiled at him as she put some antibiotic cream over the area, saying he would probably still have to keep it extra clean for the next week or so while the stitches did their job.

Wayne smiled at him in the way that meant he didn’t really want to smile at all, but knew Eddie needed him to.

Steve didn’t come.

Eddie didn’t sleep.

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He woke up with panic in his chest and a silent scream in his throat.

He woke up with Steve’s hand on his face.

Gentle, soft, but a strong comfort.

“Promise I washed them first. They said we have to be careful about germs,” Steve said quietly.

“You don’t have to. I know it’s…it’s gross. It’s ugly. I’m ugly.”

Steve shook his head. “No. Not gross. Not ugly. Alive.”

“Steve-“

“You’re alive, Eddie. You could have your entire face held together by staples and you would still be a miracle. You’d still be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

Well, Steve’s charm wasn’t an exaggeration, was it?

He wasn’t even sure if the skin barely pulled together could blush anymore, or if the heat that should be on his cheek was burning on the outside the way it felt like it was on the inside.

“It’s gonna be awful when it heals. I saw it in the mirror.” Eddie could feel every stitch in his jaw, the few that spread across the corner of his mouth and bottom lip, the ones that were nearly up to his ear. “I’ll always have a crooked face. The scar will always be huge. It’s all anyone will see.”

“Then they aren’t looking.”

Eddie bit his lip, eyes searching Steve’s. “But you are.”

“No. I’m seeing. There’s a difference. I see you. I see what you’ve survived. I see the mark it left on you. I know it wasn’t just the scars that cover your skin.” Steve leaned his head down, touching Eddie’s forehead with his own. “We all have them. And we’re all still here. Your heart’s beating. That’s all that matters to me.”

“Who knew you were so good with words?” Eddie smiled sadly.

“Robin says I’m just good at not having a filter.”

“She’s right as always.” Eddie wrapped his fingers around Steve’s wrist, turning as slowly as he could to kiss his palm. “You’re not scared of it.”

“No. Are you?”

“I’m scared that you’ll change your mind when it’s always there as a reminder of what happened.”

Steve kissed his nose, making him smile for the first time in what felt like years.

“I’ll have the reminder that I got you out of there. That no matter what, the bats couldn’t finish the job. That you were stronger and you made it.” Steve let his hand drop, but quickly laced his fingers with Eddie’s. “I know it’s a lot to ask of you to trust me, but will you? For today?”

“Just today?”

“I’ll ask again tomorrow.”

“And what? Every day after that?”

Steve smirked.

His eyes were glistening with tears, but Eddie could tell it wasn’t sadness or fear.

“If that’s what I have to do.”

They hadn’t even talked about feelings, not really. Nothing that made any sense to Eddie, nothing that they could define. A part of Eddie was still convinced he was in a coma and dreaming this entire conversation up.

But even the nurse had noticed the way Steve watched him, how he touched him, how he fought for him. She said he’d been a firecracker from the moment he carried him into the hospital, dripping blood on the tile, staining the halls with his demands for help.

Wayne said he barely left his side the first day, only doing so when the doctors had told him they would call the cops if he didn’t.

Erica even noticed how things had changed between them, stating that she refused to watch her babysitter and the only DM she had respect for make out.

But Steve held Eddie, made him feel like he could get out of the hospital bed and live a life that wouldn’t keep him running. Steve was there.

Steve might even love him. If not now, then some day.

And Eddie could trust him today.

He could probably trust him tomorrow.

“Kiss me?” Eddie probably shouldn’t. The stitches tugged when he talked, and another mouth anywhere near his wounds was just asking for an infection.

But Steve would be careful. He knew what Eddie could handle.

It was barely a kiss. A graze of the lips at most.

But it was the best kiss Eddie had ever had.

At least until tomorrow.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #drabble #yall I am having thoughts about Eddie with a very large face scar and it led to this #I know people have drawn stuff before but I’m #I mean like what I am thinking is from his bottom lip across his entire jaw #to his ear and then down his neck #and it’s not remotely even or straight #very jagged when it heals because they weren’t really aiming for stitching it straight they just wanted to get it closed #also a firm believer that Steve has no filter at all and is SO GOOD at romantic declarations because of it #like he doesn’t edit anything #if he loves you you’ll know because he says I love you in all words except those at first #anyways wrote this during dessert for my besties birthday dinner so #not checking for typos hope there aren’t any lmao #if my phone autocorrected she’s probably wrong

[someidiot-withadhd]

help I need to know

#demifem #demi-female #Demi girl #demi boy #demiguy #transgender #Trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt #queer #poll #Shit I just realized that autocorrect doesn’t like “fem” #Uhhh #thats supposed to say Demi-Fem

[itspileofgoodthings]

here’s the thing: jane eyre is important to me as a story and I think it has its own power but people who act like it is not also and at the same time insane melodrama are befuddling to me

#let us not pretend that Jane Eyre has the sanity and realism of literally any Austen because it doesn’t #You can enjoy the ridiculousness AND the very human and warm core #but CB didn’t really know what she was doing #In like. A very endearing way because she lived a wild and strange life #but yeah. Chesterton was dead on in his Jane Eyre assessment. honestly my favorite of his literary views #this has been in the drafts for months #Yes I see the irony of me making this post after the moral judgment one lol #Maria cleans out her drafts #that autocorrected to drags for a second there lol

[perereiii]

wild blue yonder is great. why are my arms so long

#doctor who #the mavity of!! the!! hug!! between wild and the doctor!!!!!!!!! #they’re so silly #raven rambles #this episode was basically horror btw. why are my arms so long #wilf* apparently autocorrect doesn’t like him

[alexis-royce]

Started The Bloody Wallpaper, and the hook is really good. It’s also got a great variability to it; if you’re a lower level character, this is a nightmarish or promising opportunity. If you’re endgame and powerful, this is a complete and utter humiliation and someone needs to pay for it

Or maybe that’s just my character talking

#fallen london #fallen London spoilers #exceptional stories #the ex disgraced academic #As a rule I pretty much never choose the options that try to back out of an exceptional story #It’s rude to ignore a plot hook #but The Academic doesn’t like the Royal Beth no not one bit #hey uh why did you autocorrect that phone #anyway #I let them at least try to not attend the party #and WELP #guess you’re not a guest now HUH. #This is payback for The Marvellous isn’t it

[brightwoods]

Does anyone else feel like almost all of the conflicts that had to do with the various character dynamics in Chain of Thorns didn’t actually get resolved, they just unexplainably ceased to exist after two books of building them up because CC didn’t feel like writing them anymore and she didn’t know how to resolve it naturally after how she’d built the issues up so much?

Like how none of the characters but Cordelia and Thomas had any clue about the Alastair and Charles situation and then suddenly in CoT it was like who doesn’t know? Of course Matthew knew and didn’t say anything before and then randomly brought it up to Cordelia in Paris while assuming she knew too

Or how Alastair and Thomas went from how things were at the end of CoI with Alastair thinking it could never work because Thomas’s friends hate him to oh look everyone suddenly is friends with Alastair with no grudge with no development of that in this book at all, just an abrupt shift

Especially the Alastair and Matthew dynamic where Matthew hated Alastair and wanted him to have nothing to do with any of their friends and he spent CoI ranting about him to Cordelia. And then suddenly in CoT it’s like of course Matthew is supportive of Thomas and Alastair and oh look Matthew and Alastair are suddenly not just tolerating each other for Thomas’s sake but friends despite barely interacting and no development actually showing and never getting any mention of the other in their own POVs, just having Cordelia be like Alastair stop being dumb, you’re literally friends with him now

Or like everyone other than Christopher and Grace where it was like oh we don’t like her for how she’s treated us and her friends straight to anyway she’s one of us. Like yes Grace was useful and yes Tatiana manipulated her whole life, but none of that was why anyone changed their minds or opinions? It was just suddenly the flip of a switch when it was convenient for CC

Or Anna and Ariadne where it didn’t so much develop as Anna just acted mean to Ariadne on and off throughout the series and at the end of CoI she wanted nothing to do with a relationship and then in CoT she was just suddenly like sure I guess I do. Also, slightly different note, but I did not like that Anna barely interacted with anyone else for the entire book and she was just off in the corner being an irrelevant romantic subplot for almost all of the book except when she showed up to barely even be shown in the background being sad about her brother being dead

(Although Anna still got more of a reaction than everyone else and his death was poorly executed all around in the sense of how did you write this so predictably and poorly that no one even knows when he died and it’s so background and 99% of the characters don’t care at all and we don’t see his parents finding out or much of Thomas’s reaction or anything and it’s just as if he wasn’t a character anymore 2 seconds later which is a different genre of issue with CoT but similar problem in the sense that both issues made the book feel a lot more emotionless to read)

And how the issues of Thomas and Alastair being together as two men and Anna and Ariadne being together as two women in this time and the issues of what would happen if the fact that Charles and Alastair were gay got out to the entire Clave just disappeared and never got addressed at all. We know how the ClVe reacted to Alec Lightwood YEARS later. We know society was homophobic at the time TLH is set and that it seems like shadowhunter society was a lot less open-minded than mundanes a century later

I understand that Charles being blackmailed and making shitty decisions was annoying but it was like suddenly everyone finding out wouldn’t have consequences and all the other queer men characters were like how could you possibly be worried about this :/ as if they haven’t spent the whole series knowing they have to be careful about who they tell. And then suddenly it was just of course it’s totally fine and safe to have everyone find out and why wouldn’t you be fine with that. And it was really written in a way that had other queer characters like oh Charles is such a coward for not being ready to publicly tell a bunch of homophobic people his sexuality and it just wasn’t it??? And super weird after Thomas was terrified of telling even Anna and Matthew for years. And also, I did not care for the fact that when Charles did go risk getting outed to finally do the right thing, we didn’t even get to see it through any character’s perspective or how that important meeting went, we just got one line of dialogue from somebody else saying that it happened with no details at all. And I can’t think of other examples right now but there were quite a few moments like that where we got one line saying that something had happened that was important to the plot and to characters’ development that seemed like it would have been more interesting than some of what we did get to see where it was just totally breezed over and way too easy and totally background to less important stuff

And then there was the whole no one reacting to Ariadne and Anna dancing together publicly thing was like yeah that’s nice I guess but not realistic and it doesn’t go with the way things have been presented up to that point, it also just feels like a situation where CC was like well this would be easier for me so there just won’t be consequences and then they can easily end up happily together

And then there was the whole Thomas and Alastair thinking they couldn’t realistically be together thing and knowing they couldn’t get married or be known to be together by anyone they’re not close to and then at the end it’s still not really addressed how they’re going to be together? Like there was the laziest write off of the family tree being wrong and then we still are just left to assume that eventually they move in together and suddenly it’s not a problem and everyone’s fine with it? And then I also feel like we don’t actually know if everyone found out about Alastair and Charles’ sexualities after the blackmail or if people are going to assume about Thomas and Alastair or if that’ll cause issues or if no one knows outside of who they’ve told and they have to be careful or what. Which like wouldn’t necessarily need to be addressed if it wasn’t for the logistics of being together as two men in that time being part of the obstacle that they were struggling with being in their way and then it felt like it was totally forgotten to even be one at the end by CC

Idk like I’d love to think they just lived in a world where homophobia didn’t exist but it felt like homophobia was a plot point when CC wanted it to be an inconvenience and then suddenly disappeared just to make her writing easier the moment she didn’t want it there anymore instead of actually addressing the plots she raised with it if that makes sense?

And sorry, I really did not mean to go on a rant this long. And maybe everyone else had a very different reading experience than I did and other people don’t agree with some or all of this. I personally am just very confused about how the book was almost 800 pages long and it felt like so much of the development in it was us abruptly being told that development had happened rather than actually getting to see it and how so many of the issues were abruptly solved in an I don’t want to write this issue anymore kind of way rather than anything actually needing to be worked at outside of the Belial situation

Edit: You know what, I mentioned it in my tags but I feel like it’s annoying enough to put in the body of the post and make it even longer. What the fuck was with everyone outing or potentially outing everyone else just so that characters could openly talk about the queer characters and tell them to do what they want them to? Why did Matthew out his brother multiple times? Like yes, the people he said it to coincidentally already knew, but he didn’t know that. And why was Thomas outing Alastair? The straights got to keep their secrets as long as they wanted and fix their problems more naturally. Why did I have to sit through queer characters constantly having their sexualities and romantic histories to everyone else when they clearly had not okayed it? Why were the queer characters doing so much of the outing? Why were people who cared about them and knew what it felt like to be afraid of the wrong person finding out just broadcasting their sexualities to make it easier for CC to breeze past development to have their things get resolved fast? Why did no character have an issue with it at all?

#As a queer person the whole using homophobia against her characters as plot just to pretend homophobia doesn’t exist and call her characters #cowards for worrying about it as soon as she’s decided writing it doesn’t serve her plot agenda anymore really icks me right out #Like yeah I’d love homophobia to not exist but girl what are you doing that’s so gross to go about it that way #ALSO everyone outing or potentially outing everyone else to other characters to make it easier to get the queer characters to do what she #wanted them to was a HORRIBLE vibe. Why is Matthew outing his brother? Why is Thomas outing Alastair? Why is everyone telling everyone else #people’s sexualities as if it’s nothing and everyone has a right to know when that character clearly did not feel that way #And it’s so out of nowhere every time too #Hot take: Charles protecting Alastair’s privacy instead of outing him was more valid than anything any of the other queer characters said #about Charles or Alastair’s sexualities even if I hate Charles and his going along with the blackmail was bullshit #Also now that I’ve written all of this down and 99% of what I wrote about in here has to do with the canon queer characters that’s not #a great look either that she did breeze over some of the stuff with the other characters for sure but she was way more likely to skip depth #and development with the queer characters in CoT #CC said no slow burn gradual changes in this book… there’s only room for abrupt 180s and Cordelia running 🏃‍♀️ #Sorry if this has weird typos and other mistakes in it. I typed on my phone and didn’t check for autocorrect nonsense and I’m too lazy to #reread this all rn at my current brainpower level #CoT #Chain of Thorns spoilers #Chain of Thorns #The Last Hours #The Shadowhunter Chronicles #Cassandra Clare #My Posts

[midnight-arandombanana]

I keep seeing people talk about the connection between Rhine and the shade of life, but I’ve always found this idea fun:

Rhine as the shade of life

Reincarnated from a (god? Are shades gods?) to a mortal who eventually gained control of their birthright, only to be rejected for their mortality

To her, the giving of life and taking it away are inextricably intertwined

But other people don’t see it that way

(Cough cough Pierro)

#pierro seems like the type of person to try and assassinate their enemies #wouldn’t even be nice to enough #to like #let them know *who* their assassins are from #you cannot tell me Rhine doesn’t have trauma from the way she was hated #is it her fault? yes #is it still traumatizing? #yes #are shades gods #like genuinely #there’s probably videos about the lore #but I’m way too tired to watch a twenty minute video #I was going to say ‘also’ but the autocorrect suggestion things at the top said ‘aldosterone’ #sobbing #rhinedottir #genshin impact

[deathsmallcaps]

There’s a post going around about men who failed at being bisexual and I hate it. Trying something and figuring it out it isn’t for you isn’t failing, it’s being true to yourself.

If you flipped it around and labeled your queer friends (or yourself!!!) as failed heterosexuals, some people will be hurt! I know some will find it funny (it is funny) but some won’t, especially those who haven’t extricated themselves from the unsupportive people in their lives.

What happened to not shaming people who back out of labels? Or people who’ve tried having sex with their own gender and not being into it? Or letting people be gnc and not imposing and then peeling off labels?

#yes I know Obama did it to catch chicks but I stand on this principle #I’m 90% sure Misha Collins said he was in an orgy/joined a sex cult for fun and it would be statistically unlikely that was was THE only man #as for Travis McElroy he’s explicitly stated he’s straight and cis #let him push the boundaries of his gender fucking he’ll #idk why autocorrect doesn’t like hell today #everytime I see that post I am excited to reblog it (the og post is funny) and then I see the fucking reblogs and I’m disgusted with y’all #yall are much more likely to do this shit to men btw. misogyny doesn’t fucking go away when combatted with misandry

[bubbledtee]

god men are so fucky

#i’m going back to fake and inaccessible men #like what was that conversation?? #his name popped up on autocorrect when i was typing conversation. #IT HAPPENED AGAIN #girl i wanna kill him #if he doesn’t beat me to it #(reference) #bub’s thoughts

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

r/grandorder was banned for a bit today. Any idea what that was about?

the initial thought was that it had to do with summer Chloe but it actually looks like it might’ve been a site glitch bc a bunch of other subs that don’t have stupid stuff also were banned at the same time

They seem to be veering on the safe side and have just decided her ascensions are a no overall though, you can post links to the atlas academy site but that’s it

#something similar happens w summer abby so they’re been super cautious #and of course ppl are whining about it like ‘oh x character is an adult’ ok but if the site thinks they aren’t it doesn’t matter #if the sub gets taken down it’s down like you can ‘b-but they just look young’ your way out of it #*can’t thanks autocorrect #I don’t really like the mod team on that sun but I have to say. I do not envy them this job #and this is prob the smartest choice to keep it up #my asks

[tojisprettywife]

whenever i reread my posted fics and see how my stupid ass autocorrect didn’t correct the spelling, i die a little each time 🫥

#i jsut cringed at how my autocorrect didn’t correct it all #LIKE YK #yet that stupid shit didn’t correct it #i smash thé letters #why doesn’t it rearrange it when needed #kay rambles (」°ロ°)」 #i’m sorry y’all 🥹

[pendinganchor]

(before the post starts: to everyone who follows me for stranger things i’m sorry you have to deal with my random adventures into other fandoms — this is for the marauders fandom so if you don’t care about that feel free to scroll 💞 and also as always fuck jkr)

me: this fic is going to be so fucking full of angst and jealousy and toxicity with rosekiller endgame

also me:

It’s silent for a moment— Barty convinced the Gryffindor’s eyes could bore into his soul if he let him stare long enough. “You’ve never needed to simply feel something, Potter?”

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[Barty] lowered his voice, a hand almost absently reaching up to the other boy’s face. His middle finger ran down his jawline. “What does [Regulus] see in you?”

“What-?”

“He’s never looked at me the way he looks at you. What are you doing that I wasn’t?”

-

“I can move. Do you want-“

“No, stay.” James laid back down. It was dark, but Barty reached up anyway. His hand started in James’ hair then ran down to his cheek. His middle finger traced his jaw again— like it had that night on the tower. “I can see what he sees in you now.”

me in some tags AFTER i wrote the stuff above:

BRO OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES YOU SHIP IT AND THIS IS HAPPENING

#i drafted this at like 2:30am lmao #enjoy the chaos #HOW IS THAT PLATONIC KARSON HOW #also james is very much dating regulus during all of this and barry knows that #barty* if my phone doesn’t stop autocorrecting barty to barry i will set it on fire #this was completely an accident #but at this point it would make no sense to not have darksun endgame #more specifically it’ll be starkillerchaser #at least i think that’s the ship name for regulus x barty x james #barty is deeply disturbed in this fic because evan started playing games when he was tired of barty’s games #he can dish it but he can’t take it yk #i was about to say evan might be ooc in this but like canonically we have nothing so i can make him act however i want #but like i’m not making him the bad guy #just two dudes who don’t know how to healthily communicate their feelings then everything gets jumbled up #maybe i’ll change my mind and have james be like ‘barty you’re latching onto me because i helped you’ #and rosekiller does end up being endgame #who knows man i just go with the flow because the characters never wanna follow my outlines #if you see this and read all these tags lmk your opinion on what i should do #can’t guarantee i’ll commit but i’d like the input #darksun #barty crouch jr #james fleamont potter #wizarding world #userkarson #karson writes things sometimes

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Phone: oh? You didn’t want me to autocorrect ‘Were’ to ‘We’re’? In fact when I did that you went back and deleted it and typed ‘Were’ again? And when I corrected it again you went back and changed it again? And then waited for me to suggest you meant ‘we’re’, told me no, and then got frustrated when, after you finished typing the next word I changed it to ‘We’re’ again?

But are you absolutely positive you didn’t meant ‘we’re’ bc I’m preeeeetty sure you really did mean ‘We’re’.

#one day I will yeet this thing out a window #it’s in one of it’s phases right now of bring reaaaaally confused about what Language it’s in #And is trying to autocorrect every. single. fucking. noun. to have a Capital letter #and randomly corrects to German words #what is even the point of having two separate language keyboards if it cannot keep them separate #I know This is like #Common to everyone using more than one language on their phone #but it really doesn’t get complained about enough #<_<

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Does anyone else think it’s a bit suspicious that TN started the countdown with evermore and not Midnights? I don’t know it just feels weird to me that they would end on Midnights and not Taylor Swift.

#taylor swift #the eras tour #just makes me go hmm interesting! #like it’s a bit suspeaches if you ask me! #also the lack of audio on the last two posts is also interesting I would get them not doing it for the ones she doesn’t own #ending with debut feels more full circle to me than midnights just because of how fresh it is #also love that autocorrect pulls up suspeaches as an alternative to suspicious