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desire-mona · 2 months
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this screencap is fucking killing me rn like oh my GOD. TODD. i didnt know you were such a master of subtlety!!!
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NOBODY CAN TELL YOURE GAY!!!!!! YOU GOTTA BE LESS COOL AND CHILL AND NORMAL ABOUT YOUR BEST FRIEND DUDE QUICK!!
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jonahlocke · 7 months
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BASICS
FULL NAME: JONAH LOCKE » MEANING: Jonah [The name derives from the Hebrew word "Yonah," meaning "dove," sharing ties with prophet Jonah, who was a leading figure in the Book of Jonah. As legend has it, the namesake prophet was swallowed by a whale, only to reappear on land days later unharmed.]; Locke [Origin German. Meaning locksmith; woods; fortified place; pond. Locke is a masculine name of German, Old English, and Dutch origins. Traditionally a surname, it was used by locksmiths and lock keepers—a great way to inspire baby to become the keeper of the keys.]
VERSES:  The Game, Excess Baggage, Life's A Drag, Fear of 13.
NICKNAME(S): Jonesie
AGE: 37-years old.
DATE OF BIRTH: 1986 May 29th.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Queens, New York.
OCCUPATION: Co-owner of Giarrusso-Locke Gardening and Maintenance. Ex-boxer, he still trains tho.
RELIGION: None.
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual; heteroromantic.
GENDER: Cisgender male.
PERSONALITY
STRENGTHS: Gentle, Affectionate, Curious, Adaptable, Loyal.
WEAKNESSES: Nervous, Inconsistent, Indecisive, Stubborn, Jaded.
APPEARANCE
FACE CLAIM: Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
HEIGHT: 6′3 ft. [190]
WEIGHT: 169 lbs. [77 kg.]
BUILD: Athletic.
GAIT: Relaxed.
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown.
EYE COLOR: Blu.
BIRTHMARK: TBA.
OVERVIEW: » SCARS: Plenty. He used to box so he's got many scars from that. » TATTOOS: Yes. TBA.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: Queens, New York.
RESIDENCES: Queens, upstate, and a small home in Hawaii.
NATIONALITY: American.
ETHNICITY: Caucasian.
FINANCIAL STATUS: Upper-middle class. He and Dante used to be the poorest poor bastards.
EDUCATION LEVEL: GED.
DEGREES: Degree in kicking people's ass.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English and plenty of Spanish. He speaks a lot of Hindi and Mandarin, too. Korean's a struggle.
RELATIONSHIPS
PARENTS: Unknown. He was told that he was of English and Jewish descent. He has no clue who his parents are. Or at least he chooses not to know coz he actually has a relationship with his younger half-sister, Delilah.
SIBLINGS: Half-sister, Delilah, she's the coolest.
CHILDREN: None.
PETS: None.
SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS: » Jonah had a few relationships in the past but he was never close to actually keeping any of them. He's a workaholic.
HISTORY: 
Born on the 29th of May, 1986 in New York, Jonah Locke is the quintessential tough guy. Taken away from his mother at the age of three for abuse and neglect, Jonah had to learn to take care of himself at a very young age especially when he had to move from one foster home to another. Jonah didn’t have any luck with any of the families that took him in despite his effort to be a 'normal' kid. Eventually, after sending his last foster father to the hospital after he stood up for himself against the man’s abuse, Jonah was sent to a juvenile facility and emancipated himself from the state when he was released. 
Jonah’s life had been full of challenges since then and he never had a proper place to call home or any people to call family. Getting involved in gambling and drug dealing, Jonah’s life was surely going downhill but he didn’t fully realize this until he was being beaten to death after being caught stealing from the gang he recently joined. With a sack over his head, he was taken out of state but instead of putting a bullet through his head, the gang threw Jonah to an underground fighting ring which, ironically enough, straightened him out.
Through the months, Jonah struggled to live a normal life, but circumstances lead him to commit assault which he ended up going to jail for. On his release, Jonah was put on probation and during this time, he worked with his good friends Dante and Olive, doing maintenance and gardening. With enough money saved between him and his friends, they started a business which turned into a success. 
After a little over a year, Jonah returned to his home city of New York after where he hoped for his new business to also took off. His dedication paid off and even started dating a lovely businesswoman. Things seemed to be going smoothly for Jonah even though he knew coming back to New York was a risk. He had a lot of history in the place and the roots of all his problems began in the same city. When things between his girlfriend and him started to fail, Jonah wondered if it was even worth it moving back. He thought he needed a change and finally answered a long time friend, Isko’s call to take on a job in Hawaii. It's been a year since he started expanding their landscaping in Hawaii and it's doing great. Another success but despite all that, there seems to be something missing...
ROMANTIC HISTORY: Jonah dated but because he's so focus on work, he ends up neglecting his partners and the relationship didn't last.
PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS: Jonah is very good friends with Dante Giarusso. He is also very good friends with Isko who owns a chain of bar, The Devil's Pit.
THOUGHTS ON LOVE: “Love? What love??”
HEALTH
PHOBIA(S): None.
HANDICAP(S): None.
MENTAL DISEASE(S): ADHD, depression, alcoholism.
PHYSICAL DISEASE(S): None.
PREDISPOSITION(S): None.
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ohxnxnani · 7 months
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inspired  by  :  nani pelekai // lilo & stitch
Added inspo! Padme Amidala (Star Wars), Gamora (MCU), Hera Syndulla (Rebels) more coming soon… 
Nani Pelekai // Anna Akana 
4/11/1993
Aries 
She/Her 
Heterosexual 
Chaotic Good 
present !! 
Evermore was a curveball that blindsided Nani. It felt like her carefully constructed life had been kicked down and she was scrambling to pull the pieces together. It was a relief to have a support system around her at least, with David and Jumba and Pleakley. 
The pieces she was able to slot into place included a morning shift at Java Lava and the closing shift at Gusteau’s… Pretty much every day. 
It helped that Lilo was finally becoming more and more independent.
However, Nani has discovered that she has just a smidge of room in her life for hobbies like pottery. There’s nothing as soothing as the potting wheel spinning as she molds the clay.  
future !!
Nani is sick of being a waitress. It’s a fine living, sure, but if she’s ever going to break the cycle they are in, she needs to do something more. She’s got her eye on The Evemore Chronicle’s lead editor position, if she can just get her portfolio up to snuff. 
While Nani loves David, she wants to give herself the space to explore the various folks around town, before she settles for what is comfortable and known. 
Nani wants to be the one taken care of, for once in her life. Whatever that means, she just knows she is looking for it.
taken connections
Lilo Pelekai:  Her baby sister, Nani’s reason for living, but also the biggest pain in her ass. She loves that kid more than life itself and only wants the best for her. 
Mabel Pines: If there’s one thing Nani knows, it’s eccentric, slightly weird kids. In many ways Mabel reminds her of Lilo, and she keeps an eye out for her, even if she has no idea.
wanted connections
Alfred Linguini: The chef at one of the restaurants she works at, Nani has never had a normal conversation with the guy, but he makes her laugh. She’s not complaining.
Duchess Bonfamille: Though she is only thirteen years older than her, Duchess feels so very motherly, Nani can’t help but be drawn to her. She brings a comfort she hasn’t felt since her own mother passed.
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yoooori · 3 years
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Untraditional Loss
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mark smut
tw: sex, loss of virginity, smut, heterosexual sex, the act of a man inserting his penis into a woman
"19 and still a virgin... ah, how's life a virgin?" Haechan sighed mockingly, throwing a popcorn at you. You whined. "19 is still young; You're just stupid."
Haechan stuck out his tongue. "Don't say that. At least I got my position without daddy's help."
"You aren't even supposed to be eating here."
"Okay, daddy's daughter."
That set you off. You stood up, walked in front of Haechan, and started pushing his wheeled-chair towards the door of the office.
"I didn't choose to get this position!" you yelled before you tipped over his chair, sending him flying onto the ground, barely saved by his reflexes.
You turned your head around and stuck your tongue at Haechan as he grumbled behind you. "You're rude." he commented as you two got in an elevator.
"So are you, so I think we're even."
Haechan bit his lip, clearly trying to stop himself from talking back.
You turned on your phone, scrolling through pictures of Instagram models.
"Doesn't it get boring?"
You turned around. "What?" you asked.
"Doesn't it get boring," Haechan shrugged. "Watching pretty girls sit around and show ass during your free time?"
You failed to conceal a laughter. "Nah, I watch them for different reasons other than to see them 'show ass'" you gave him a mocking smile.
Ding.
You got off the elevator, stumbling over your high heels (which you never liked). Finally, your working hours were over. You never liked offices, but were inevitably forced into the business world by your father.
You said a quick 'thank you' to the receptionist, nearly falling on your stomach as you rushed to get into your car- or freedom.
Turning on the engine hastily, you drove your way to your favorite spot on Earth: the bar.
You never drank. Wine tasted expensively shitty. Beer tasted strong and yet bland. Normal alcohol just didn't sit right with your tongue.
Instead, you had your eyes on one thing on the menu: mouth-watering crispy french fries that dominated your taste buds.
You soon found yourself in the bar, enjoying a medium bowl of fries. You scrolled through Instagram again, disappointed with yourself.
Your mind wandered to your conversation with Haechan.
"Doesn't it get boring? Watching pretty girls sit around and show ass during your free time?"
"Nah, I watch them for different reasons other than to see them 'show ass'"
You laughed to yourself as you liked another selfie from a popular korean uzzlang. You had lied.
You found the concept simple. They were pretty; you were not. They had the perfect body; you did not. Their face were perfect; yours' wasn't.
You felt your eyes darken.
As simple as the concept was, you never liked to accept it.
"Hello?"
You turned around to meet a man in his mid 20's. "Can I sit here?" he gestured at the seat next to you. You scanned the area quickly. There were no other available seats. You shrugged. "Why not?"
He gave you a tired smile before plopping himself on the chair. He waved to the bartender. "The usual, please."
Your eyes widened as the bartender brought him a cup and 2 full bottles of alcohol.
Before the stranger could take a sip, you stopped him.
"That's way too much."
He raised his eyebrow, amused. "What, you want some?"
You shook your head. "I don't drink, but seriously, that is way too much to be healthy."
He chuckled darkly.
"Why do you care?"
You scoffed at him. "Just don't." you said and offered him a fry. Amused, he took the fry and ate it. You stared at him, with expecting eyes.
His eyes met yours. "Mm? Tastes good." he said in response to your look.
You smiled, satisfied. "You can have mine. I ordered too much."
"How do I know you didn't spike it without me looking?"
In response, you made direct eye contact with the stranger. You took a large handful of fries and stuffed them into your mouth, all while maintaining the eye contact.
He laughed. "After seeing that, I doubt I want to eat any of those fries."
"You're mean," you huffed. "Just like Haechan."
His eyes widened. "You know Haechan?"
Your eyes widened too. "You do too?"
He stared at you for a second before bursting into laughter. "Ah, if you know Haechan, you must be the famous 19 year-old virgin."
You looked away, embarrassed. "Damn, I'm really known for that?" you groaned, covering your face with your hands.
"It's not exactly a bad thing," he shrugged. "Lots of men would want to sleep with you."
You narrowed your eyes, suddenly having a quesion.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Mark."
You fumbled your hands, suddenly turning red. "Mark... You said a lot of guys want to sleep with me?"
Mark nodded. "Mhm."
"....Does that include you?"
He nearly spat out the fry he had took from your plate. Quickly maintaining composure, he couldn't help but look away sheepishly. "At some point, maybe."
"How about now?"
"Why are you asking me that?"
You groaned, embarrassed. "I don't want to be known as a virgin. Seriously..."
Mark laughed. "You'd rather lose it with me? You barely know me."
"That's why I want to lose it with you."
Mark stopped laughing.
"I... I don't want to make things weird if I lose it with my friends. But you- it'll just be much easier." you sputtered.
Mark got up. "Never had a hookup like this, but sure. My place?"
You nodded, suddenly wondering if you're going to regret your decision.
Mark's place was surprisingly.... Suprising.
"You watch Cocomelon?" you snorted, looking at a 3D printed figure of the familiar melon. He swiped it away. "I used to love collecting anything watermelon related." he quickly explained.
you were brought into his bedroom, feeling as un-needy as a person could be. mark sighed. "damn, we both aren't feeling it, huh?"
"we can play minecraft." you suggested.
mark shook his head. "nah, come here. lemme kiss you."
your eyes widened and you burst out laughing. "okay, okay," you snorted, feeling Mark's lips brush against your neck. you gasped unexpectedly as you felt Mark squeeze your waist.
"mm? where did all the lightheartedness go?" Mark hummed, his hands roaming your body. His finger skillfully undid your bra, your breaths shortened by the nervousness and excitement you felt.
Mark smiled to himself, wrapping his arms around your body gently. "I'll be gentle, okay?"
You nodded in response, slightly calmer. Mark lightly pushed you onto the bed, on your back. He went on top of you, classic missionary position.
Your eyes fluttered as you felt Mark's soft lips against your body, gasping a little when you felt his hands working off your skirt. When he got up to look at your face, he moved your skirt to the floor.
"Cute." Mark chuckled, looking at your bear print panties. You looked away, embarrassed. Mark gave a small kiss to the area above your panties as he took them off for you.
"Want to help me to take of my clothes? Experience?" Mark offered, now sitting down. You got on your knees and began to take off his blazer, and then undoing his shirt buttons one by one. You kept your eyes on his neck, too flustered to see his bare chest.
Mark noticed this. Chuckling in a deeper voice, his softly grabbed your shoulders and pulled you back. "You can look, don't worry about looking respectfully now." he whispered.
You did and gasped, your head finding its spot against Mark's neck in a second. Mark laughed at your response. "I'll take off my other clothes for you." he said.
He took off his pants, and then his underwear. Your eyes were glued to a pillow, embarrassed.
"Don't be scared," he whispered to you, pulling you in for a kiss. His tongue and yours interacted against each other, seemingly dancing. "Touch me anywhere you want, baby. Tonight's your night."
Your hands found its way to his abs and chest, feeling the toned muscles. You gasped against Mark's chest, embarrassed yet curious. Your hands went further down and down-
"Fuck," Mark sighed as your hand found itself around his cock.
"Had enough touching, baby?" he asked you, his lid half closed from the feeling of your hand around his cock.
You nodded, lying on your back.
Mark looked at your eyes softly, his lips connecting with yours. You pulled away from his, leaving a small gasp as you felt yourself being filled.
"S-s-stop-" you whispered as it started to hurt. Mark stayed as still as he can, struggling as your walls wrapped around his cock tightly. "O-okay, now you can go."
Mark went inch by inch, stopping when you requested, until he was fully inside you. You squirmed underneath him, feeling filled.
"I'll start moving." he whispered to you. Your eyes stared at him, begging him to kiss you. He bent his head lower, allowing you to kiss his face as you struggled to contain him. Mark started to rock his hips, his length going even deeper inside of you.
He groaned, centimeters away from your face. "Fuck." he moaned, instinctively finding his lips on yours. You whimpered against his lips. You didn't feel much pleasure, but did feel it coming.
You squirmed, lips still desperate to stay with Mark's as you felt the famous pleasure start to sink into you. "Mark" you whispered into the kiss. "Feels good."
"Mm? Good girl, it'll feel much better later." Mark groaned back, restraining himself from rocking his hips faster.
He was right. You grabbed the bedsheets, whimpering as the feeling grew bigger and bigger.
The air was hot between you and Mark. The room was dim and you could barely make out the outline of Mark. The soft sounds of skin slapping were the background noises to you and mark's moans.
You wrapped your arms around Mark, gasping as you felt his cock moving in and out of you. "So-so full-" you gasped. Mark gritted his teeth and hissed in response.
"Li-Like that!" you suddenly let out when you felt Mark's cock brush against a sensitive spot. Mark increased his pace, hitting the spot as many times as he could, sending you into a breathing mess.
You gasped and gasped, feeling your chest rise up and down as you could barely see from the lack of light and the blinding pleasure. "Something's coming." you whimpered against Mark, rocking your hips too to meet his. "Let it go, baby." he whispered back.
You felt the feeling grow like a wave, getting bigger and bigger until-
"Mark"
It was pleasure like you never knew it. The feeling of a giant wave crashing onto you, your legs shaking and your back arching. "Mmm!" you could let out helplessly as you felt pleasure overtake you.
It stopped, leaving you panting and out of breath.
Mark pulled out. You knew what to do- you had an idea, at least. You let him insert his cock into your mouth and sucked on it. He sighed at the feeling, soon letting out a stream of a white milky liquid into your mouth.
You lied down, panting. Mark collapsed next to you on the bed. Mark spooned you, hugging you from behind. You two were too tired to exchange words, falling asleep as soon as his arms were wrapped around your body.
You woke up the next day, groggy. Mark was awake, scrolling through his phone next to you. Seeing that you are awake, he smiled.
"Mind if I get your number?"
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hyunderwater · 2 years
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imagine being a lesbian 07
ship: ryujin x yeji
warning: continuous themes of homophobia throughout, don’t read if that triggers you, explicit sexual content in this chapter!!
note: last ch! ty for reading and pls ignore the minor plot holes they don't really mess with the fic
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The floor is cold and hard, but Ryujin’s ass deserves it. The room is swathed in shadows, with the only light being the moonlight floating through the window and kissing the top of her head.
She had called Yuna right after Yeji had stormed out of the café, and sobbed into the phone like the pathetic little baby she was.
Yuna had rolled her eyes (audibly!) and said, “Ryujin, please don’t mope. I know it’s tempting, but you’re just gonna make yourself and Yeji miserable.”
“You’re not my mom,” Ryujin had whined back.
The funny thing is, Yuna, despite being younger than her, was probably the closest thing Ryujin had to a mother.
And Ryujin never listened to her mother.
Also, Ryujin was kind of a coward. She had a lot of bark, but certainly not the bite to back it up. And that meant that instead of doing the smart, brave thing, and just talking to Yeji, Ryujin was crying in a dark corner, sitting on the floor of her room with her lights off and her phone on Do Not Disturb.
Yeah, Ryujin knew she was acting pretty damn pathetic.
Her mind overflowed with snippets of Yeji; her smile, her laugh, her pretty lips, the way she pouted when she didn’t get her way,  the way that her whole face had crumpled as Ryujin broke her heart-
Ryujin took a deep breath, blinking fast as her eyes prickled with tears.
She was not going to let herself dwell on the past.
“I’m moving on,” she said into the shadows.
She didn’t believe herself.
As she pushed down the image of Yeji crying, another rose unbidden to take its place.
As the memory unfolded itself, Ryujin’s hands twitched restlessly. Unable to bear it much longer, she pushed herself off the floor and stalked to her desk to grab her journal, fingers flitting over the familiar pages until she found a clean one.
february 2019 - the story of our beginning, even though it’s the end
i’m writing this to get over you.
i hope it works.
i’m good at procrastinating things. like. really really good at it.
whenever i start to realize things about myself that might be unpleasant, i push them down. no, that’s not true. no, i don't have feelings for yeji.
i knew i was gay at that point. hell, that in itself took almost a year to accept.
i think i liked you before i knew that i could. i think i loved you before i knew it was allowed to be more than platonic.
the first time i can remember seeing you as more than a friend was probably like fifth or sixth grade. honestly i can’t remember exactly when, but that doesn’t matter.
it was one fleeting second of a moment. you turned your head, your profile perfectly silhouetted by the sun, and your hair floating around you, and you looked like an angel. in that moment, even though i didn’t think i could be attracted to girls, you were the prettiest thing i’d ever seen.
i let myself forget about it, brushing it off as perfectly heterosexual, platonic appreciation. nobody could deny your beauty, after all.
the next time was years later, during that one summer we spent together. you grabbed my hand to pull me to the next thing you wanted to see, and you didn’t let go. i didn’t want you to.
i think the last thing that should have tipped me off was how protective i was over you. all of the guys you wanted to date were horrible, horrible people in my mind, even if i’d never even met them, and you’d only said good things about them.
granted, my instincts were normally right, since a lot of them were shitty people, but still. i should have known.
even after i accepted that i could have a crush on you, i still squashed down the idea whenever it came to mind. 
you were, and forever will be, my best friend. i couldn’t let myself risk ruining that, especially since i thought you were straight. guess i was wrong there.
but i’ll never forget the day i accepted it for real.
the funniest thing about it was that it wasn’t even special; just a random day. we had been hanging out after school, then you had to go. i went home and sat down to start doing homework or something mindless, and then out of nowhere, it hit me like a ton of bricks. 
it doesn’t matter if someone is your closest and best friend, it doesn’t matter what you’ve been through, people just don’t look at their friends like that. it wasn’t sexual, it wasn’t platonic. i looked at you like i loved you. i still look at you like i love you. 
and right there, sitting at my desk with my computer screen going dim in front of my eyes, i realized that i love you differently than i love yuna or chaeryeong or lia. i love you like kissing and holding hands and going to get hot chocolate and muffins together in the middle of the night and staying up until three a.m. talking about stupid shit and i love you like staying together forever.
like you’re my favorite person on earth.
like i would do anything for you.
like your smile breaks me and builds me right back up.
like a romantic type of love, but even saying it like that doesn’t convey my feelings quite right.
i love you.
writing this was supposed to help me get over you.
it didn’t work.
Ryujin closed the journal. 
“Fuck.”
She scrambled up off the floor, throwing on a decent outfit, almost bending the journal in her haste to stuff it in her bag. She plowed through the mess on her floor, hop-running to the door.
Abruptly, she realized that it was late at night, and she probably shouldn’t make so much noise.
Then she remembered that she hates her parents, and they don’t give a shit about her.
She shoved the door open.
The stairs creaked under her feet as she dashed down them.
The night air hit her, the cool breeze a welcome relief as she stepped out of the house.
The only thought in her mind was Yeji, and how she was probably moving on and how she would smile so prettily at other girls, and Ryujin would have to watch her move on in silence, because love means that she’d do anything to make Yeji’s face light up again.
Including leaving her.
But something continued to pull Ryujin forward, something screamed, “she’ll be happier with your mess cleaned up!” and Ryujin barely even thought about anything anymore, not even sparing a second to think about how stupid it was for her, a young girl, to run around alone at night, because she would risk anything for Yeji.
By some miracle, she arrived at Yeji’s house without any incident, with the exception of some random guy honking at her.
She walked up to Yeji’s window, about to text her, when she realized just how impulsive she had been. This wasn’t planned. Yeji didn’t know. She wasn’t welcome.
I am… really, excruciatingly idiotic.
She stood there, staring at her wide-eyed reflection in Yeji’s window, her brain static.
As much as Ryujin attempted to wrack her brain for some sort of idea, she came up with no good ideas. She buried her head in her hands.
“God, I am just living the dream, huh?” She laughed to herself, her hands muffling the sound.
“Got practically dumped (even though we were never in a relationship) because of something stupid I said, cried about it, wrote about her, and then showed up to her house in the middle of the night like a creep and… wow. I should go home,” she muttered to herself.
Something creaked, and Ryujin looked up, heart pounding in her throat.
“You’re fucking dumb,” Yeji said, her voice rough with sleep. “Come in.”
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Yeji stared at her expectantly. The effect was slightly diminished by the pillow marks lining her cheeks and the exhaustion in her eyes, but Ryujin felt guilty all the same.
She dropped eye contact first, shame burning through her face.
“Why are you here?” Yeji asked. She sounded so done, so tired. Ryujin felt a fresh wave of remorse twist her stomach into knots.
She reached into her bag and pulled out the little journal she’d held so close to her heart for months.
“I’m sorry,” she said.
She handed the journal to Yeji.
Yeji studied the outside with a skeptical look.
“Ryujin, what is this?”
Ryujin hid her face in her hands.
“Please, just read it. This was a hard decision to make for me, so please, just…”
Yeji seemed to get the hint, sniffing in frustration but still opening the book.
Her eyes seemed to be glued to the first sentence for hours. She was still as a statue, barely moving. Ryujin was terrified.
“I-” 
Yeji quickly cut her off before any words could leave her mouth, holding up a finger without even glancing in her direction.
Ryujin doesn’t know how long they sat there, her watching Yeji and Yeji reading her journal. That same journal that Ryujin had poured her blood, sweat, tears, and every last feeling into. It was like laying herself naked in front of Yeji, except somehow far more intimate.
Finally, Yeji closed the book, setting it to the side.
“I didn’t finish reading it, but I read a few pages, including the first one and the most recent one.”
Yeji’s tone was unreadable. Ryujin shivered.
“Do you really feel that way about me?”
The question felt so vulnerable, like it was a glass figure that Yeji had given to her and told her not to drop.
“Yeah.”
Yeji looked shocked.
The figure didn’t fall.
A smile wormed its way onto Yeji’s face.
The glass floated off of Ryujin’s hands into the safe cradle of the air.
“You were never using me,” Ryujin whispered. It felt as large as a confession, even though it was nowhere close to one.
“I was insensitive to what you were going through when I said that. I’m truly sorry, Yeji.”
Yeji’s smile grew.
“Thank you,” she said.
They sat there like that for a minute, until Ryujin’s ass started to fall asleep on Yeji’s floor and they made eye contact and- it was so ridiculous.
Yeji started giggling first, with Ryujin soon joining her, until they were both gasping for air. Yeji crawled over to the edge of her bed and grabbed Ryujin’s collar, tugging her up for a kiss. Their lips melded together, the familiar warmth sending tingles down her spine and relief through her whole body.
Yeji tongue swiped over her bottom lip, asking permission, and she opened up, happy to let Yeji lead.
It was like a dance, lips moving in sync, tongues curling, hands roaming. Ryujin was lightheaded, drowning in it.
Yeji’s hands mapped out her body like they had never touched it, tracing over her spine, her shoulders, her stomach, brushing over her nipples. Ryujin gasped softly, arching forward into the touch.
“Baby, no,” she purred into Yeji’s ear, relishing in the shiver it earned.
“It’s about you. Let me apologize properly, hmm?”
Yeji whimpered, squirming under Ryujin’s hands.
“Do you want me to?” Ryujin’s voice was serious now. She wanted to make Yeji fall apart, the same way Yeji could break her with a single look.
“Yeah.”
That was all Ryujin needed.
She climbed into Yeji’s lap, slotting their hips together and nipping her lip.
Yeji’s face was flushed when she pulled back, her lips shiny and swollen, her pupils dilated. She stared at Ryujin like she couldn’t get enough.
“Oh, baby, you’re so pretty,” Ryujin whispered, combing Yeji’s hair out of her face.
Yeji leaned her head into her hand, letting out a tiny sigh.
“Ryujin,” she hissed.
“Oh, someone’s impatient, huh?” Ryujin leaned down until her lips were hovering over Yeji’s, just barely brushing together.
“Be polite.”
Yeji shivered under her, her hands desperately gripping onto Ryujin’s thighs, just hard enough to make Ryujin bite back a moan.
“Ryujin-” she sighed in frustration, then squeezed her eyes shut. “Please?”
An image crossed Ryujin’s mind of Yeji under her, begging and begging until she was sobbing with desire. The thought sent heat straight to her stomach, but she wasn’t going to be that cruel to Yeji. Maybe next time.
“Okay,” Ryujin whispered, sliding her hands under Yeji’s shirt.
Goosebumps raised on Yeji’s warm skin as Ryujin slowly slid her hands up her torso, up up up until Yeji’s shirt was off and she was panting and all Ryujin could see was skin.
“I sleep with no bra on,” Yeji explained, her ears red with embarrassment.
Ryujin barely heard her.
“Oh my fucking god.”
She trailed a finger down Yeji’s chest, watching Yeji’s back arch as she brushed her nipple.
“Don’t- don’t tease, please,” Yeji gasped, so loud in the quiet of the room.
Ryujin smiled down at her. 
“Is this better, baby?” She leaned down and sucked Yeji’s nipple into her mouth.
Yeji’s thighs tensed under her, and she let out a small moan, trapping it behind her hand before Ryujin had time to appreciate it.
Ryujin pulled off, frowning at the hand. 
“I wanna hear you, please?”
Yeji looked like she wanted to cry, and Ryujin suddenly felt sick.
“Baby, my parents…” She glanced at her door with something akin to fear in her expression, and Ryujin wanted to sink into the floor.
“I-I’m sorry, do you wanna stop?”
Yeji put her hands back on Ryujin’s waist, stroking her skin lightly.
“No. Just, be quiet?”
Ryujin nodded, still feeling guilty but not wanting to disappoint Yeji.
She leaned down again, alternating between sucking and rubbing Yeji’s nipples until Yeji could barely hold back the sounds, her hips jumping each time.
“Baby, can you hold back those sounds? I wanna hear them, but…”
Yeji whined softly.
“I’m trying, please?”
“Can, can I-” Ryujin didn’t have the words or the confidence to ask for what she wanted, simply opting to stare at Yeji’s lips.
“What do you want?”
“Can I put my fingers in your mouth?” Ryujin was practically tomato-red, refusing to make eye contact. Her stomach swirled, an odd mix of arousal and embarrassment making her hot all over.
Yeji made a muted noise.
Ryujin looked up, confused.
“Yes, uh- I mean, you can if- if you want,” Yeji stuttered.
Ryujin was going to pass out.
Yeji looked unreal, staring up at Ryujin with those giant eyes, drool escaping the corners of her mouth where it stretched around Ryujin’s fingers.
“You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” Ryujin breathed, dragging her hands down Yeji’s body to rest at her upper thighs.
Yeji made a little sound, muffled around Ryujin’s fingers.
Ryujin couldn’t wait any longer.
She fidgeted with the hem of Yeji’s shorts, dipping two fingers inside.
“Can I?”
Removing Ryujin’s fingers from her mouth, Yeji said, “Please.”
The word stoked the fire consuming Ryujin, and she wasted no time pulling down Yeji’s shorts.
She lowered herself to fit in between Yeji’s thighs, kissing and nipping at the soft skin until Yeji was practically gnawing on her pillow to keep quiet, and red marks were blooming across her skin like pretty flowers.
Finally, Ryujin slid Yeji’s underwear down, biting her lip to muffle a moan at the sight of her.
“Pretty,” she murmured, and Yeji almost keened, her spine arching off the bed.
Ryujin swiped a finger through Yeji’s folds, collecting her wetness.
“Jesus, I really kept you waiting, huh, baby? You must want it so bad.”
Yeji whimpered, sending her best puppy-dog-eyes Ryujin’s way.
Unable to resist, Ryujin leaned up to press a soft, chaste kiss to Yeji’s lips.
“Do you remember what you wrote in the book?” Yeji asked.
“What?”
“You said you love me,” Yeji continued.
Ryujin froze.
“I love you too.”
Ryujin kissed her again.
“I love you so much,” she confessed into Yeji’s ear.
“Tell me again, please.” Yeji sounded desperate in a way she had never heard before. Who was Ryujin to deprive her?
“I love you,” she whispered as her fingers inched back towards Yeji’s cunt.
“I love you,” she whispered as she rubbed Yeji’s clit, making her arch up and bite her lip raw.
“I love you,” she whispered as she pumped her finger in and out of Yeji, hitting her g-spot and making her whine.
“I love you,” she whispered as Yeji’s walls tensed around her and she let out the prettiest of sounds, squeezing her eyes shut as her orgasm hit.
Ryujin rubbed her stomach comfortingly, waiting for Yeji to recover.
After a little bit, Yeji opened her eyes and gave Ryujin the most beautiful smile she’d ever seen.
“I love you too,” Yeji said, hooking her fingers around Ryujin’s waistband.
“Can I?” 
Ryujin had never agreed to something so fast in her life.
“I’ve never done this before.” Yeji looked so nervous and cute, Ryujin wanted to eat her alive.
“It’s okay, baby, just do what you’d do to yourself.”
Yeji nodded, then exhaled shakily, pulling down Ryujin’s shorts and underwear in one go.
The sight of Ryujin naked beside a shirt seemed to simultaneously fluster Yeji and make her laugh.
“You look ridiculous,” Yeji said.
“Is this what you want?” Ryujin asked, taking off her shirt.
Yeji went speechless, her eyes open wider than Ryujin had ever seen them.
“Can I…”
“You can do whatever you want.”
Yeji inhaled sharply at the words, hesitantly reaching out and touching Ryujin’s nipples.
“Ah! Your hands are cold,” Ryujin said.
“Sorry,” Yeji said, but she didn’t seem sorry at all, continuing to abuse Ryujin’s chest until the fire in her gut was an inferno, tying itself into a tighter knot as Yeji continued.
“Please-” Ryujin was content to let Yeji have free reign, but her nipples were red and puffy and the throbbing between her legs was getting harder and harder to ignore.
Finally, Yeji relented.
At the first touch between her legs, Ryujin went boneless, slumping forward onto Yeji’s shoulder.
Yeji found her clit, rubbing it, and Ryujin had to slot her mouth against the side of Yeji’s neck to muffle the moans bubbling in her throat, pleasure shooting through her system like electric shocks.
The knot in her stomach was tightening at alarming rates, and Yeji hadn’t even touched anywhere besides her clit and nipples.
“Mm- Yeji-”
Yeji seemed to get the hint, moving to her center.
One of her fingers slowly pushed into Ryujin’s wetness, punctuated by another rub to her clit, and Ryujin saw stars, her orgasm slamming into her like a truck.
Yeji let out a weird gasp-y sound.
“Did you just-”
“Yeah.”
“I barely even-”
“Be quiet,” Ryujin groaned, slumping down onto Yeji’s warm body.
They stayed like that for a little while, listening to the sounds of the night and their synchronized breathing, enjoying the warmth of skin-on-skin contact.
Ryujin yawned.
“I think I’m falling asleep,” she mumbled.
Yeji giggled.
“Oh, really? You look like you just drank four coffees.”
Ryujin grumbled.
“What in hell was that? That joke was…” she said.
Yeji sighed in response.
“I don’t know, baby. I’m so tired and my brain isn’t functioning.”
“God, I wish I could just stay here, with my significant other.” As soon as she said it, she froze.
“If you really want to stay here with me, your S.O.-” Yeji made a cute little squealing sound as she repeated Ryujin’s words. “-then, I think my parents are leaving for work early tomorrow morning… you could stay.”
Ryujin looked up.
“Really? They won’t check on you or anything?”
Yeji waved her hand in the air.
“Naw, they don’t like disturbing my sleep.”
Ryujin smiled, brightness filling her.
“So I can stay?”
Yeji grinned back, leaning close until their lips were brushing.
“You can stay. Stay with me forever.”
Ryujin leaned into those sweet lips and kissed her, her beautiful girl.
The floor is cold and hard, but Ryujin’s ass deserves it. The room is swathed in shadows, with the only light being the moonlight floating through the window and kissing the top of her head.
She had called Yuna right after Yeji had stormed out of the café, and sobbed into the phone like the pathetic little baby she was.
Yuna had rolled her eyes (audibly!) and said, “Ryujin, please don’t mope. I know it’s tempting, but you’re just gonna make yourself and Yeji miserable.”
“You’re not my mom,” Ryujin had whined back.
The funny thing is, Yuna, despite being younger than her, was probably the closest thing Ryujin had to a mother.
And Ryujin never listened to her mother.
Also, Ryujin was kind of a coward. She had a lot of bark, but certainly not the bite to back it up. And that meant that instead of doing the smart, brave thing, and just talking to Yeji, Ryujin was crying in a dark corner, sitting on the floor of her room with her lights off and her phone on Do Not Disturb.
Yeah, Ryujin knew she was acting pretty damn pathetic.
Her mind overflowed with snippets of Yeji; her smile, her laugh, her pretty lips, the way she pouted when she didn’t get her way,  the way that her whole face had crumpled as Ryujin broke her heart-
Ryujin took a deep breath, blinking fast as her eyes prickled with tears.
She was not going to let herself dwell on the past.
“I’m moving on,” she said into the shadows.
She didn’t believe herself.
As she pushed down the image of Yeji crying, another rose unbidden to take its place.
As the memory unfolded itself, Ryujin’s hands twitched restlessly. Unable to bear it much longer, she pushed herself off the floor and stalked to her desk to grab her journal, fingers flitting over the familiar pages until she found a clean one.
february 2019 - the story of our beginning, even though it’s the end
i’m writing this to get over you.
i hope it works.
i’m good at procrastinating things. like. really really good at it.
whenever i start to realize things about myself that might be unpleasant, i push them down. no, that’s not true. no, i don't have feelings for yeji.
i knew i was gay at that point. hell, that in itself took almost a year to accept.
i think i liked you before i knew that i could. i think i loved you before i knew it was allowed to be more than platonic.
the first time i can remember seeing you as more than a friend was probably like fifth or sixth grade. honestly i can’t remember exactly when, but that doesn’t matter.
it was one fleeting second of a moment. you turned your head, your profile perfectly silhouetted by the sun, and your hair floating around you, and you looked like an angel. in that moment, even though i didn’t think i could be attracted to girls, you were the prettiest thing i’d ever seen.
i let myself forget about it, brushing it off as perfectly heterosexual, platonic appreciation. nobody could deny your beauty, after all.
the next time was years later, during that one summer we spent together. you grabbed my hand to pull me to the next thing you wanted to see, and you didn’t let go. i didn’t want you to.
i think the last thing that should have tipped me off was how protective i was over you. all of the guys you wanted to date were horrible, horrible people in my mind, even if i’d never even met them, and you’d only said good things about them.
granted, my instincts were normally right, since a lot of them were shitty people, but still. i should have known.
even after i accepted that i could have a crush on you, i still squashed down the idea whenever it came to mind. 
you were, and forever will be, my best friend. i couldn’t let myself risk ruining that, especially since i thought you were straight. guess i was wrong there.
but i’ll never forget the day i accepted it for real.
the funniest thing about it was that it wasn’t even special; just a random day. we had been hanging out after school, then you had to go. i went home and sat down to start doing homework or something mindless, and then out of nowhere, it hit me like a ton of bricks. 
it doesn’t matter if someone is your closest and best friend, it doesn’t matter what you’ve been through, people just don’t look at their friends like that. it wasn’t sexual, it wasn’t platonic. i looked at you like i loved you. i still look at you like i love you. 
and right there, sitting at my desk with my computer screen going dim in front of my eyes, i realized that i love you differently than i love yuna or chaeryeong or lia. i love you like kissing and holding hands and going to get hot chocolate and muffins together in the middle of the night and staying up until three a.m. talking about stupid shit and i love you like staying together forever.
like you’re my favorite person on earth.
like i would do anything for you.
like your smile breaks me and builds me right back up.
like a romantic type of love, but even saying it like that doesn’t convey my feelings quite right.
i love you.
writing this was supposed to help me get over you.
it didn’t work.
Ryujin closed the journal. 
“Fuck.”
She scrambled up off the floor, throwing on a decent outfit, almost bending the journal in her haste to stuff it in her bag. She plowed through the mess on her floor, hop-running to the door.
Abruptly, she realized that it was late at night, and she probably shouldn’t make so much noise.
Then she remembered that she hates her parents, and they don’t give a shit about her.
She shoved the door open.
The stairs creaked under her feet as she dashed down them.
The night air hit her, the cool breeze a welcome relief as she stepped out of the house.
The only thought in her mind was Yeji, and how she was probably moving on and how she would smile so prettily at other girls, and Ryujin would have to watch her move on in silence, because love means that she’d do anything to make Yeji’s face light up again.
Including leaving her.
But something continued to pull Ryujin forward, something screamed, “she’ll be happier with your mess cleaned up!” and Ryujin barely even thought about anything anymore, not even sparing a second to think about how stupid it was for her, a young girl, to run around alone at night, because she would risk anything for Yeji.
By some miracle, she arrived at Yeji’s house without any incident, with the exception of some random guy honking at her.
She walked up to Yeji’s window, about to text her, when she realized just how impulsive she had been. This wasn’t planned. Yeji didn’t know. She wasn’t welcome.
I am… really, excruciatingly idiotic.
She stood there, staring at her wide-eyed reflection in Yeji’s window, her brain static.
As much as Ryujin attempted to wrack her brain for some sort of idea, she came up with no good ideas. She buried her head in her hands.
“God, I am just living the dream, huh?” She laughed to herself, her hands muffling the sound.
“Got practically dumped (even though we were never in a relationship) because of something stupid I said, cried about it, wrote about her, and then showed up to her house in the middle of the night like a creep and… wow. I should go home,” she muttered to herself.
Something creaked, and Ryujin looked up, heart pounding in her throat.
“You’re fucking dumb,” Yeji said, her voice rough with sleep. “Come in.”
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Yeji stared at her expectantly. The effect was slightly diminished by the pillow marks lining her cheeks and the exhaustion in her eyes, but Ryujin felt guilty all the same.
She dropped eye contact first, shame burning through her face.
“Why are you here?” Yeji asked. She sounded so done, so tired. Ryujin felt a fresh wave of remorse twist her stomach into knots.
She reached into her bag and pulled out the little journal she’d held so close to her heart for months.
“I’m sorry,” she said.
She handed the journal to Yeji.
Yeji studied the outside with a skeptical look.
“Ryujin, what is this?”
Ryujin hid her face in her hands.
“Please, just read it. This was a hard decision to make for me, so please, just…”
Yeji seemed to get the hint, sniffing in frustration but still opening the book.
Her eyes seemed to be glued to the first sentence for hours. She was still as a statue, barely moving. Ryujin was terrified.
“I-” 
Yeji quickly cut her off before any words could leave her mouth, holding up a finger without even glancing in her direction.
Ryujin doesn’t know how long they sat there, her watching Yeji and Yeji reading her journal. That same journal that Ryujin had poured her blood, sweat, tears, and every last feeling into. It was like laying herself naked in front of Yeji, except somehow far more intimate.
Finally, Yeji closed the book, setting it to the side.
“I didn’t finish reading it, but I read a few pages, including the first one and the most recent one.”
Yeji’s tone was unreadable. Ryujin shivered.
“Do you really feel that way about me?”
The question felt so vulnerable, like it was a glass figure that Yeji had given to her and told her not to drop.
“Yeah.”
Yeji looked shocked.
The figure didn’t fall.
A smile wormed its way onto Yeji’s face.
The glass floated off of Ryujin’s hands into the safe cradle of the air.
“You were never using me,” Ryujin whispered. It felt as large as a confession, even though it was nowhere close to one.
“I was insensitive to what you were going through when I said that. I’m truly sorry, Yeji.”
Yeji’s smile grew.
“Thank you,” she said.
They sat there like that for a minute, until Ryujin’s ass started to fall asleep on Yeji’s floor and they made eye contact and- it was so ridiculous.
Yeji started giggling first, with Ryujin soon joining her, until they were both gasping for air. Yeji crawled over to the edge of her bed and grabbed Ryujin’s collar, tugging her up for a kiss. Their lips melded together, the familiar warmth sending tingles down her spine and relief through her whole body.
Yeji tongue swiped over her bottom lip, asking permission, and she opened up, happy to let Yeji lead.
It was like a dance, lips moving in sync, tongues curling, hands roaming. Ryujin was lightheaded, drowning in it.
Yeji’s hands mapped out her body like they had never touched it, tracing over her spine, her shoulders, her stomach, brushing over her nipples. Ryujin gasped softly, arching forward into the touch.
“Baby, no,” she purred into Yeji’s ear, relishing in the shiver it earned.
“It’s about you. Let me apologize properly, hmm?”
Yeji whimpered, squirming under Ryujin’s hands.
“Do you want me to?” Ryujin’s voice was serious now. She wanted to make Yeji fall apart, the same way Yeji could break her with a single look.
“Yeah.”
That was all Ryujin needed.
She climbed into Yeji’s lap, slotting their hips together and nipping her lip.
Yeji’s face was flushed when she pulled back, her lips shiny and swollen, her pupils dilated. She stared at Ryujin like she couldn’t get enough.
“Oh, baby, you’re so pretty,” Ryujin whispered, combing Yeji’s hair out of her face.
Yeji leaned her head into her hand, letting out a tiny sigh.
“Ryujin,” she hissed.
“Oh, someone’s impatient, huh?” Ryujin leaned down until her lips were hovering over Yeji’s, just barely brushing together.
“Be polite.”
Yeji shivered under her, her hands desperately gripping onto Ryujin’s thighs, just hard enough to make Ryujin bite back a moan.
“Ryujin-” she sighed in frustration, then squeezed her eyes shut. “Please?”
An image crossed Ryujin’s mind of Yeji under her, begging and begging until she was sobbing with desire. The thought sent heat straight to her stomach, but she wasn’t going to be that cruel to Yeji. Maybe next time.
“Okay,” Ryujin whispered, sliding her hands under Yeji’s shirt.
Goosebumps raised on Yeji’s warm skin as Ryujin slowly slid her hands up her torso, up up up until Yeji’s shirt was off and she was panting and all Ryujin could see was skin.
“I sleep with no bra on,” Yeji explained, her ears red with embarrassment.
Ryujin barely heard her.
“Oh my fucking god.”
She trailed a finger down Yeji’s chest, watching Yeji’s back arch as she brushed her nipple.
“Don’t- don’t tease, please,” Yeji gasped, so loud in the quiet of the room.
Ryujin smiled down at her. 
“Is this better, baby?” She leaned down and sucked Yeji’s nipple into her mouth.
Yeji’s thighs tensed under her, and she let out a small moan, trapping it behind her hand before Ryujin had time to appreciate it.
Ryujin pulled off, frowning at the hand. 
“I wanna hear you, please?”
Yeji looked like she wanted to cry, and Ryujin suddenly felt sick.
“Baby, my parents…” She glanced at her door with something akin to fear in her expression, and Ryujin wanted to sink into the floor.
“I-I’m sorry, do you wanna stop?”
Yeji put her hands back on Ryujin’s waist, stroking her skin lightly.
“No. Just, be quiet?”
Ryujin nodded, still feeling guilty but not wanting to disappoint Yeji.
She leaned down again, alternating between sucking and rubbing Yeji’s nipples until Yeji could barely hold back the sounds, her hips jumping each time.
“Baby, can you hold back those sounds? I wanna hear them, but…”
Yeji whined softly.
“I’m trying, please?”
“Can, can I-” Ryujin didn’t have the words or the confidence to ask for what she wanted, simply opting to stare at Yeji’s lips.
“What do you want?”
“Can I put my fingers in your mouth?” Ryujin was practically tomato-red, refusing to make eye contact. Her stomach swirled, an odd mix of arousal and embarrassment making her hot all over.
Yeji made a muted noise.
Ryujin looked up, confused.
“Yes, uh- I mean, you can if- if you want,” Yeji stuttered.
Ryujin was going to pass out.
Yeji looked unreal, staring up at Ryujin with those giant eyes, drool escaping the corners of her mouth where it stretched around Ryujin’s fingers.
“You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” Ryujin breathed, dragging her hands down Yeji’s body to rest at her upper thighs.
Yeji made a little sound, muffled around Ryujin’s fingers.
Ryujin couldn’t wait any longer.
She fidgeted with the hem of Yeji’s shorts, dipping two fingers inside.
“Can I?”
Removing Ryujin’s fingers from her mouth, Yeji said, “Please.”
The word stoked the fire consuming Ryujin, and she wasted no time pulling down Yeji’s shorts.
She lowered herself to fit in between Yeji’s thighs, kissing and nipping at the soft skin until Yeji was practically gnawing on her pillow to keep quiet, and red marks were blooming across her skin like pretty flowers.
Finally, Ryujin slid Yeji’s underwear down, biting her lip to muffle a moan at the sight of her.
“Pretty,” she murmured, and Yeji almost keened, her spine arching off the bed.
Ryujin swiped a finger through Yeji’s folds, collecting her wetness.
“Jesus, I really kept you waiting, huh, baby? You must want it so bad.”
Yeji whimpered, sending her best puppy-dog-eyes Ryujin’s way.
Unable to resist, Ryujin leaned up to press a soft, chaste kiss to Yeji’s lips.
“Do you remember what you wrote in the book?” Yeji asked.
“What?”
“You said you love me,” Yeji continued.
Ryujin froze.
“I love you too.”
Ryujin kissed her again.
“I love you so much,” she confessed into Yeji’s ear.
“Tell me again, please.” Yeji sounded desperate in a way she had never heard before. Who was Ryujin to deprive her?
“I love you,” she whispered as her fingers inched back towards Yeji’s cunt.
“I love you,” she whispered as she rubbed Yeji’s clit, making her arch up and bite her lip raw.
“I love you,” she whispered as she pumped her finger in and out of Yeji, hitting her g-spot and making her whine.
“I love you,” she whispered as Yeji’s walls tensed around her and she let out the prettiest of sounds, squeezing her eyes shut as her orgasm hit.
Ryujin rubbed her stomach comfortingly, waiting for Yeji to recover.
After a little bit, Yeji opened her eyes and gave Ryujin the most beautiful smile she’d ever seen.
“I love you too,” Yeji said, hooking her fingers around Ryujin’s waistband.
“Can I?” 
Ryujin had never agreed to something so fast in her life.
“I’ve never done this before.” Yeji looked so nervous and cute, Ryujin wanted to eat her alive.
“It’s okay, baby, just do what you’d do to yourself.”
Yeji nodded, then exhaled shakily, pulling down Ryujin’s shorts and underwear in one go.
The sight of Ryujin naked beside a shirt seemed to simultaneously fluster Yeji and make her laugh.
“You look ridiculous,” Yeji said.
“Is this what you want?” Ryujin asked, taking off her shirt.
Yeji went speechless, her eyes open wider than Ryujin had ever seen them.
“Can I…”
“You can do whatever you want.”
Yeji inhaled sharply at the words, hesitantly reaching out and touching Ryujin’s nipples.
“Ah! Your hands are cold,” Ryujin said.
“Sorry,” Yeji said, but she didn’t seem sorry at all, continuing to abuse Ryujin’s chest until the fire in her gut was an inferno, tying itself into a tighter knot as Yeji continued.
“Please-” Ryujin was content to let Yeji have free reign, but her nipples were red and puffy and the throbbing between her legs was getting harder and harder to ignore.
Finally, Yeji relented.
At the first touch between her legs, Ryujin went boneless, slumping forward onto Yeji’s shoulder.
Yeji found her clit, rubbing it, and Ryujin had to slot her mouth against the side of Yeji’s neck to muffle the moans bubbling in her throat, pleasure shooting through her system like electric shocks.
The knot in her stomach was tightening at alarming rates, and Yeji hadn’t even touched anywhere besides her clit and nipples.
“Mm- Yeji-”
Yeji seemed to get the hint, moving to her center.
One of her fingers slowly pushed into Ryujin’s wetness, punctuated by another rub to her clit, and Ryujin saw stars, her orgasm slamming into her like a truck.
Yeji let out a weird gasp-y sound.
“Did you just-”
“Yeah.”
“I barely even-”
“Be quiet,” Ryujin groaned, slumping down onto Yeji’s warm body.
They stayed like that for a little while, listening to the sounds of the night and their synchronized breathing, enjoying the warmth of skin-on-skin contact.
Ryujin yawned.
“I think I’m falling asleep,” she mumbled.
Yeji giggled.
“Oh, really? You look like you just drank four coffees.”
Ryujin grumbled.
“What in hell was that? That joke was…” she said.
Yeji sighed in response.
“I don’t know, baby. I’m so tired and my brain isn’t functioning.”
“God, I wish I could just stay here, with my significant other.” As soon as she said it, she froze.
“If you really want to stay here with me, your S.O.-” Yeji made a cute little squealing sound as she repeated Ryujin’s words. “-then, I think my parents are leaving for work early tomorrow morning… you could stay.”
Ryujin looked up.
“Really? They won’t check on you or anything?”
Yeji waved her hand in the air.
“Naw, they don’t like disturbing my sleep.”
Ryujin smiled, brightness filling her.
“So I can stay?”
Yeji grinned back, leaning close until their lips were brushing.
“You can stay. Stay with me forever.”
Ryujin leaned into those sweet lips and kissed her, her beautiful girl.
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Responses from the Opera Screencaps Captioning Quiz
Hello, everyone, and thank you for taking my quiz! I had SO MUCH fun reading your captions-- there were several times I literally started crying from laughing so hard at the amazingness of your work! With that in mind, the captions (which I will continue to add onto as more people take it):
(also, thank you to @dichterfuerstin​ for translating the German captions I got)
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originally taken from: the Wiener Staatsoper’s 2020 production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, featuring Regula Mühlemann (center) as Blonde, Michael Laurenz (right) as Pedrillo, and an unnamed extra (left) as the Grim Reaper
Responses:
(Backstage warm-up) “ok so someone dropped the pulse”
me and my friends watching the fire burn after doing arson
Introducing the polycule to the parents
*boom* ... did...you guys hear that too?
Ma Signor !
Knight in whinging armour gone wrong, look at how he holds the egg. Polyamory with weird knight and death.
the father, son and the holy ghost are very gay
the gays meeting for brunch, 2021, colorized
chicken lady forces death and a very flamboyantly homosexual anthropomorphized pink bird to be parents of her egg (they dont want to be)
That’s just me and my friends on our night out (before covid rip)-- closest
A Good Friday night
good omens (2019)
["the pocket guide to boy/girl/mischief" meme] who's the boy and who's the mischief though????
Papageno and Papagena take their first-born egg trick-or-treating
Angry Birds - The Musical. A pig stole an egg and the bird unites with death to take revenge.
I love my bird wife
Someone got murdered during the funky chicken dance
throuple murders child and steals sibling of said child
When you and your friends have widely different tastes in literature
angel leading twink to his rightful place (hell)
draco malfoy from a very potter musical and a death eater are very much in the wrong show
What have I gotten myself into
Mlm/wlw solidarity but I’m not telling who is who
A woman stands with a pink dipshit with an egg and a reaper.
A bird-couple makes a pact with Death, sacrificing their first-born bird-child in order to bring good luck upon their unborn bird-baby
There are three types of people on Halloween:
Uh oh, I don’t think the mother hen is very happy about this...
oh god, they’ve invented seussical. It’s too early!
gay brunch
Three little maids from school are we
guys maybe if we dress gay enough we can distract everyone from the dead flapper bee in the back
those three killed a duck for her egg and are facing the conswquences.
Duck has egg with human, shocked and upset due to biological impossibility
When you bout to make a banging omelet so you invite your fellow queers
"No mortal man could pass that egg, but heaven shall repair your rectum."
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originally taken from: the Salzburg Festival’s 2007 production of Hector Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, featuring Maija Kovalevska (left) as Teresa Balducci, Laurent Naouri (center, in chimney) as Fieramosca, and Burkhard Fritz (right) as Benvenuto Cellini
Responses:
“In this same interlude it doth befall That I, one Snout by name, present a wall; And such a wall, as I would have you think, That had in it a crannied hole or chink, Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby, Did whisper often very secretly. This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show That I am that same wall; the truth is so: And this the cranny is, right and sinister, Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.” - a midsummer night’s dream, act v scene 1
"ah yes a prime specimen. see here, right in this box is our one of a kind hob goblin that can be all yours for the low low price of your soul"
what, YOU don't have a special eavesdropping chimney window?
Hänsel und Gretel plotting against the witch
man takes a wrong turn and ends up in a chimney, catches his girlfriend cheating-- closest
when you end up third wheeling the straight couple
lady cheats on her leather jacket wearing scummy boyfriend and when he unexpectedly comes home she hides the lover in the chimney
A straight girl and her gay best friend gossip about stuff idk
Idk Shakespeare?
experimental couples therapy feat. the chimney mf from mary poppins
Area Couple Inadvertently Traps Santa-in-Training in Chimney as they Attempt Rooftop Flirting
Landlords laugh over student renter's misfortune
I never asked for this
Ay yo lil mama lemme whisper in your ear
voyeurist listens to sandy and Danny from grease
Psssst! Did you hear about Susan? You won’t believe it!
lady and the tramp meets beauty and the beast?
human trafficking
And for just $30 you too could have your own tiny brick cage!
Psst I’m wearing assless chaps under this dress
A couple tortures a man in a box.
It's all fun and games being stuck in a chimney until your greasy uncle steals your crush from right above you-- okay ngl this could actually be a great Don Pasquale concept
Taking eavesdropping to the next level
Will you two stop being lovey dovey and let me out? SUMMER LOVIN, HAPPENED SO FAST— 
overhearing how people talk about you when they think they're alone puts you in the shithouse 
Does he know we can see him?
dear god, i am so fucking hungry, yall please just do whatever heterosexuals do so i can go eat a popsicle 
the human version of the trash man from sesame street is realizing that those two are going to fuck on his trash can 
Tmw you capture an angry short dude and start trashtalking him where he can hear 
Omg what if we kissed but we actually kissed the lil goblin man under us
"Remember, don't feed him after midnight"
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originally taken from: the Théâtre de Capitole du Toulouse’s 2017 staging of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, featuring Leonardo Estevez (right, on fake horse) as Le Comte d’Oberthal
Responses:
“When I said we needed to drain the swamp I didn’t think there were people actually living there”
horse? what horse? no sir i dont know what horse youre referring to.
definitely don't have a napoleon complex going on
King stole La Scala‘s Lohengrin set
king breaks all his horses, has to use statue dragged by servants as transportation because he’s too kingly too walk
Emperor Söder and his subjects on a carnival procession
man on horse makes a big deal out of being on a horse
That’s not Zeffirelli because the horse is not alive
Who the fuck put a horse on the stage
isn't this that picture of napoleon on the horse
Area Count Thinks Citizens will be Intimidated by his Extremely Fake-looking Horse Statue-- closest
Everyone wants their turn on the giant plaster horse. Police are there to make sure everyone waits their turn.
Night out with the lads
Local royalty horrified at the state of his own damn kingdom
gay army fights different gay aesthetics-- hi author how does it feel to be the funniest fucking person on this quiz
Well at least I LOOK badass
ceasar if he hadn't gotten stabbed (colourised)
some soldiers jumped out of my kindergarten fairytale collection book to burn the don carlos flemish deputies at the stake
It’s just a model
Is that how you feel pulling up in your Honda Civic, Madge?
Someone rides a horse statue in public.
Just a normal party with the bros.
what is this, some kind of crossover episode? 
Terribly sorry for all the fuss, it’s just, that is, my horse is afraid of neck ruffles. I’ve tried to talk to him about it, but he’s—whoaaa there—he said he was a french courtier in a past life and he’s allergic to English fashion 
Horse seller, listen to me! I am riding into battle. I need your strongest horse. - We have horses at home. - The horses at home: 
All hail Incitatus the king 
we are not ripping off shakespeare’s henry viii. what the fuck. this is about lenny xi you uncultured swine, go drown in a pit of your own farts 
oh god is that hamilton 
Guy Removed From Art Museum For Sitting On Statue, more at eleven 
Gay <3
Officer: This horse... is a virgin! Crowd: *cheers*
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originally taken from: the Parma Verdi Festival’s 2017 staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Stiffelio, featuring Maria Katzarava (left) as Lina and Luciano Ganci (right) as Stiffelio
Responses:
That One kid in class
its a mEntAL BreAkDowN *final countdown but kazoo*
*record scratch* yeah, that's me. you're probably wondering how I got here-- closest
Dad keeps monologuing, teenager is done
left: all of my concerned friends, right: my emo ass having a very public mental breakdown
the demons in the corner of my room when im just trying to sleep
lady gets mansplained to (do i need to say more, we've all been there)
It’s probably an area baritone telling off an area soprano-- sorry; it’s a tenor. soprano is right though.
That was a fake horse in the last photo right?
child comes out as gay to father at a particularly bad time
dissociation solves everything
I can't believe it's not butter
Honey we talked about this
My sleep paralysis demon is Crowley from supernatural
child has nightmare of boring job
When you start dating a singer but he won’t stop practicing at night
just an average day in a hetero marriage
what do i do my wife's having period cramps again
Stop having an existential crisis. It’s time to sing!
“No son of mine will kin Gomez Addams under MY roof”
Crowley stares into space while a teen has post nut clarity.
When he wont stop reciting jordan peterson monologues!!
Do you realize how effed you are?
Ugh, not this lecture again! Dad’s Practicing For His Experimental Indie Band Again 
asking your parents for help with your own personal situation and them just ranting off about what they went through instead of helping in any way 
Will he shut up already!
no one tell him he’s yelling in the wrong direction, no one tell him plnsbdjddhdj 
this kid is tired of his dad listening to rush limbaugh (a man who claimed to be pro life but died anyway) 
Me internally vs externally 
Daddy issues
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originally taken from: the Grand Théâtre de Genève’s 2020 staging of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, featuring several chorus members
Responses:
It’s the deadly eye Of Poogley-pie. Look away, look away, As you walk by, ‘Cause whoever looks right at it Surely will die. It’s a good thing you didn’t … You did? … Good-bye. - shel Silverstein
why the fuckith? my good sir, i beg of you to put your pants back on
I hate this itchy hat
Titanic Extras hear that they have to do extra hours
people waiting to board the titanic watch someone fall off the plank
pov: you’re a time traveler
guy in the flatcap is embarrassed by patriotism and pathos
No idea. For some reason Le Marseillaise comes to mind
Is this from Harry Potter?
disneyland main street usa workers on strike
local tries to hide behind Newsies cap to avoid unpleasant but inevitable conversations. meanwhile, some very fashionable ladies look on.
"Thank fuck, 2020 was just a dream after all"
“We gather here today because this bitch got exactly what she deserved” “heaven!” “Stfu Stephanie she’s going to hell and we all know it”-- not quite but this basically happens later on in the opera (and act) so yeah (except the person in question very much Did Not Deserve It)
dc movie filter on bridgerton
america?
looks like my history teacher paused the prohibition documentary again
Who still wears page boy hats bro?
Coming out to a room of people who Already Knew That
Bitches are relieved at some party.
Several drunk people exiting getting off the subway attempting to seem sober and rational but realizing they have somehow lost all of their possessions
How tf do I act natural in this situation-- closest
“do you think any of them noticed that I don’t know the pledge of allegiance” 
It's too fucking hot outside for this outfit 
?
when hyyh yoonkook ending just hits different 
pedestrians watch in horror as the triangle shirtwaist factory burns and the workers throw themselves out of the windows from a dozen stories up 
Starting the pledge of allegiance be like 
He's having a heart attack oh no oh god oh fuck
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originally taken from: if I remember correctly, the Semperoper Dresden’s 2018 semi-staging of Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, with Jonas Kaufmann as Gabriel von Eisenstein
Responses:
“William Shakespeare wrote: "To thine own self be true And it must follow, as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man" I believe this wise statement best applies to a woman A blonde woman Over the past three years she taught me And showed us all That being true to yourself never goes out of style Ladies and gentlemen Our valedictorian: Elle Woods!” - legally blonde the musical
eat ass, suck a dick, and sell drugs
woooooorrrrd
Finally Jonas has graduated! It’s about time, considering he’s an international star.
what my professors think they look like
Prof. Dr. Dr. When someone tells him there are more than two genders
'and since you've now graduated high school, you'll be entering college etc. blablabla' .........meanwhile, there's a whole row of graduates daring each other to chug the cheap vodka one of them has brought in gallons (yes that happened at my graduation, lol)
Jonas darling baby <3-- can’t argue with that
I just realized I have no idea what the actual fuck happens in an opera
ok this one is just what jonas kaufmann always wears you can't fool me.
"as valedictorian i will share with you the importance of loving the floor"
"Yes, mother, my art degree will make me money!"
Graduation speakers are out, singers are in
Senior year takes a new meaninbg
mansplainer professor explains the concept of feminism to women
Your Prof when you finally turn in that missing assignment be like
younger boris johnson (derogatory)
jonas kaufmann retires from opera and takes up motivational speaking
What a fine graduation evening we’re having today
-70 points for slytherin you all have no swag
A man with a college hat sings.
An obviously greying actor trying to play a university student in a low-budget porn parody
How it feels to graduate high school after being held back for years
East High is a place where teachers encouraged us to break the status quo and define ourselves as we choose. Where a jock can cook up a mean crème brûlée, and a brainiac can break it down on the dance floor-
I may not have been "cool" in high school, but in ten years you will all be working for me!
I finally got my GED!
that one guy in ur intro to cultural anthropology class who mansplains to the professor somehow fucking graduated
he;s just graduating and taking his speech too serously idk
Graduation speeches with that one dude who got held back 3 times
Smrt
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originally taken from: the Metropolitan Opera’s 2011 staging of Gioachino Rossini’s Le Comte Ory with Joyce DiDonato (left) as Isolier, Diana Damrau (center) as Countess Adèle, and Juan Diego Florez (right) as Le Comte Ory (disguised as a hermit)
Responses:
There is something very [disturbing grunts] About polyamorous couples - polyamorous, Chris Fleming
jinkies
femme fatale (including to herself)
I’ll have a threesome soon !
Hot guy walks by, everyone swoons.
thirdwheeling friend does not realize the other two are having sex
When your girlfriend had „just two beers“ again
jesus is exasperated about having to drag the two ladies towards doing what he needs them to do instead of purple dramatically declaring suicidal intent over the smallest trivial matters and red being equally dramatic about declaring that it's not the way! stay alive! i love you!!
The throuple is thriving
Get off the milf
orgy
my last three braincells because im a horny slut
countess receives too much love and is confused on how to react
Rasputin's lesser known romp with a much older czarina of russia
Woman's soul leaves body
Jesus and co. are worried after another woman gets pregnant without having sex
bisexual looks at photos of celebrity couples
When you go to the party to socialize with new people but your weirdo friend group starts getting clingy
Jesus cumming
one of those weird church christmas pageants but everybody's drunk
What have I done
Hozier??????????
Jesus assfucks some purple lady being hugged.
This time, the chick IS the magnet
An affair/threesome gone awry (2019 colorized)
What do you mean they canceled GLOW?
“I TOLD you it was cashmere!”
Are you wearing the - - The Gucci dress? Yes I am.
It's not what it looks like!
jesus is fucking that one cheerleader who grew up to be a suburban mom with one (1) super cool dress she stole from her kid who is desperately hugging her middle begging for it back because the spring fling is coming up and jason might actually make eye contact with her for more than three seconds.
jesus and mary magdaline and some other bitch
I’m at a bar and these drunk girls are flirting with me, do I lOOK GAY?!
Shrek 5, jesus's return
c. 2025 First attempt of an Officer and his Wife with a Handmaiden (colourized)
just about all of these are close lol
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originally taken from: the Bolshoi Theater’s 1993 staging of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orléans, featuring Nina Rautio (left) as Joan of Arc and Vyacheslav Pochapsky (right) as Thibaut d’Arc
Responses:
Don’t look, I’m still pooping
yall, the audacity of this man. he fuckin talked to me
*i can't even tell you how wrong you are* *it would be insulting to ME*-- closest
Cospeto!
„No I’m not talking to you, you keep cracking bad jokes!“ - „But I got another!“
when you’re mad at him but he says he’ll buy you food if you cheer up
When I’m wallowing in self-pity but my friends won’t comfort me
right: wanna fuck ;) left: yeah, fuck OFF lmao
Her face is screaming “don’t tell me what to do”
Yeah I got nothing
gay man tries to hit on a lesbian bc he thinks she's a twink. she's not amused but she's watching this happen anyway
me tired of MET's bullshit and them organising a Netrebko, known blackface apologist, a recital during Black History Month. (sorry im still fucking salty lol)
"stop smiling at me like that I'm trying to pout over here"
"I got fleas, you got fleas... wanna fuck?"
I have the best idea!
Haha nooooo don’t hit me with that bat you’re so sexxyy
lesbian is bothered by dilf
Me trying to flirt
if call me by your name was hetero and set in america
how many more dad jokes can i take before i explode
So. You’ve gotten yourself in a little pickle again.
What if we fought in the Russian revolution together ✨???????... unless??
Two people flirt in a poor place of town/
"If you ask me what I've got under this dirty, shapeless tunic one more time I swear to god I will kick your rotting teeth in"
You look like ur gonna kill me but ok
Really? You again?
Okay, I’ve been sitting here for 20 minutes, do you think it’s safe to—oh god, he’s still there.
Have you seen Godot?
she is tired of everyone’s shit. she has done so many derivatives it physically pains her to see a variable. dont test her. ur icarus rn.
idk pick better pictures-- I HAVE DIED THE SHEER AUDACITY AND HUBRIS I LOVE THIS
200% done with your crap 
Homeless man has fucking legs of steel n is gonna show off his Russian dance moves
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originally taken from: the Théâtre de Capitole du Toulouse’s 2019 staging of Paul Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-bleue, featuring Sophie Koch (right) as Ariane and I don’t remember who the person on the left is rip me
Responses:
The knight who wore this into battle sure was swaggy
dear god its hiddeous
Capitalism
Knight in shining armour gone even more wrong.
ghost contemplates the safety of spiky motorcycle helmet
„Stop! He feels bullied!“
'this is my newest take for jesus's crucifixion crown ...... what do you mean they already put him up'
That’s probably a really expensive magic helmet idk. IDK-- closest
Omg I love the adventure zone!
minesweeper (windows xp)
"Okay whatever you do don't touch the shiny spiky ball" "It's so shiny I wanna touch it"
Taking down the trash way too late
IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM
Darth Vader got stuck in the freezer.... again. Leia isn’t happy
Star Wars 2030
“And here is the very latest in motorcycle helmet trends” “Look, I only came to the mall for a pair of socks “
futuristic kkk
long-suffering jewelry store attendant really wants to retire
Put it down put it down put it down
“Hmm no you should see a doctor about that”
A weird ass crown is presented
The creation of sars-cov-2: an experimental Eurotrance nightclub art piece gone horribly wrong
How it feels to want something that u cant have
AND WE WILL CALL IT—SPIKE MAN actually do you think that’s too obvious?? Because of the—yeah, because of the spikes?? See, that’s what I’m worried about. I want it to be SCARY
I know it's risky but... lube me up
?
use the force luke.
that is a weird fleshlight
When you get an ugly gift and need to find a way to get rid of it, so your family member/friend offers to smash it
Touch the orb
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originally taken from: the Opera Vlaanderen’s 2019 staging of Fromental Halévy’s La Juive, with Nicole Chevalier (left, with bottle) as Princess Eudoxie, Enea Scala (center, under table) as Prince Léopold, and Roy Cornelius Smith (right) as Éléazar
Responses:
When no one comes to your birthday party :(
fantastic, day 487 of mischief and they have yet to find my masterful hiding spot
i really wonder who he thinks he's playing footsie with
Marriage crisis. Reason sits under the table-- closest but not in the way you think (after all, the man under the table IS a tenor).
the last supper afterparty after jesus left
When you order the last supper on wish
espionage at the Politischer Rosenmontag
Probably the wrong opera but is that Leporello under the table
Now THIS is a Good Friday night
this was every birthday party i went to between the ages of 5 and 11
that awkward moment when you drop your fork under the table but when you re-emerge everyone else has left except one drunk lady and the guy trying to deal with her
After the last supper
Tfw you arrive to the dinner party too early and have to hide until a more fashionable hour
When the cishets aren’t home
waiter hides from customers
Nobody: My dog every time I’m eating:
what's left of the homies Jesus had dinner with
university chem lab experiment gone terribly wrong
I’ve been under the table FOR 30 MINUTES
Set your friends up by tossing them off under the table, they’ll think it’s each other n fall in luv
Someone hids under a table
"You're about to see an surreptitious-under-the-table-dick-sucking master at work"
5 yr old me trying to eat the desert under the table without my parents finding out be like:
They never invite me to their parties!
Just another girl’s night in
Oops! Didn’t notice you the table.
dionysus - bts (2019, colorized)
just a normal episode of eric andre (eric is the one under the table)
Just a normal day with the boys
Thievery
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originally taken from: the Théâtre de Capitole du Toulouse’s 2017 staging of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, featuring Kate Aldrich (left, surrounded by women in white) as Fidès and John Osborn (center, looking like a Jesus doppelganger) as Jean de Leyde
Responses:
Hold up, is that Eggman above Jesus?
holy disco
Looks like Tannhäuser. Our lord and saviour Richard Wagner. Now I need to be saved from that.
catholicism
me defending pineapple on pizza (THANK YOU)
jesus but hes about to be abducted by the alien ufo above him
Emmmmmmm Heaven? Idk
Lord of the rings?
ewww christianity gross
"behold, I am Important"
"Seriously?? It's not ACTUALLY pyjama day? Fuck you guys!"
Jesus at the Disco
Jesus Finds The Molerat People Who Live Under Bethlehem
disco is heaven
Want to join my new religion?
the kkk
church christmas pageant where everyone's sober but it's based on the director's fever dream
Am I the only one who sees the giant demon? Just me? Okay...
“Oh god I think I’m starting my period”
A party is held with a priest in the middle
"Let's get this secret Vatican sex party rolling!"
The new avengers endgame set is looking great!!
You know, guys, I try not to be a bother but...I can’t help but feel like I missed a dress code memo for this wedding??? It’s cocktail, right??”
Jesus visits Hogwarts
I must really stink if no one will even come close to me
the extra ass funeral i DESERVE
star wars life day
A cult at it’s best-- closest
Shrek 5, Jesus is still there I guess
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originally taken from: the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden’s 2013 staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes, featuring Bryan Hymel (left, standing) as Henri, Lianna Haroutounian (center, kneeling in the black gown) as Duchess Hélène, and Erwin Schrott (kneeling to her right) as Jean Procida
Responses:
When the director’s like “great rehearsal guys, just a few notes before I let you go” but it’s already 9:13 and your mom’s waiting in the parking lot
loyalist of subjects
bow before your queen
They forgot to take down the stage boxes after the Vienna opera ball but the show must go on.
somebody forgot to book chairs for this funeral
Me sharing God’s (Hayley koyoko) word on the discord server
mass execution bc the oboe solo sucked ass-- closest
That’s too many black suits I can’t see shit
I can’t even tell what’s going on here
8th grade school assembly about how it's uncool to shit on the walls at school
let's all get fancy so we can go to the opera and sit on the stage (idk this one's hard lol)
"Yes i am a time traveller, now don't freak out"
Tfw you forget to pay your lighting bills
White guys make decisions that will benefit them and screw someone that’s not a white guy over-- OUCH but that is too real (although not really in context here)
dead man gives speech at his own funeral
brotus and the boys ??? last meeting before the stabbing
high society social function ends in mass murder-- right opera, wrong scene
Someone walks into the talent show stage with a dog
Black-dressed bitches worship a man.
Worst school assembly of all time
POV:You're the window in the classroom and someone said "its snowing"
When the conductor shows up fashionably late to the orchestra concert
That's what you get for choosing the cheapest ticket option, get back in the mud where you belong
?
theyre just trying to jump into a grave at a funeral leabe them alone this is normal
oh my god he really whipped his dick out in front of everyone, this is just like in 1776 guys, except some women are actually in the room this time,
A funeral, stop wearing so much black
I want to slap their bald heads like rice
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originally taken from: the Teatro Real Madrid’s 2018 staging of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, featuring Roberto Tagliavini (right) as Raimondo
Responses:
Crowd “haha!! Looks like someone missed the all-black memo!! Now it’s laugh-in-your-face time! / Guy on the floor (whispering to guy against wall): go, save yourself! I’ll hold them off...”
if i leave now i wont be a witness and can tell the police i had no idea
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Guy in the back pretends to help but is to far away to even know what’s going on.
priest walks in on beginning of an orgy, contemplated joining but is too scared-
when someone brings up capitalism but you’re just trying to play minecraft
lol lets trample this guy while the judge isnt looking
Again. Too many black costumes
Loved this Dostoevsky novel
i would know if opera directors were more creative with clothing choices ngl
me on parties lol
"imma just sneak out of here while everyone else is distracted"
"Where did he get this flooring!? Amazing!"
Everyone act normal!
The tell tale heart but they got REALLY drunk
man tposes to ward off vampires after being caught undercover
boys ???? night
the priest really shouldn't have visited the insane asylum-- closest
He’s FINE everyone’s been hit by a car before
Something happens in a room.
Perks of being a wallflower
There's always that one person in the fight whos trying not to get involved when they really wanna
Oh good, they’re all posing for a Rembrandt painting, I can just sneeeeaaak out the back here...
The gamer livestreaming Resident Evil + everyone watching the stream ? waiting for him to open the door just knowing it will trigger a chase scene
Quick!
the guy t posing in the back is regretting his every decision.-- also accurate
the us senate jumps ted cruz, some other wack ass gop senator is trying to sneak away
...I spoke too soon, however this is a James Bond mission
Queers help fellow queer do math but it's a struggle
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honesty and promise me, part 4 [co-written with @darkmagyk] [read on ao3]
 July twelfth dawns like any other day, Annabeth wrapped up in Percy’s sheets. She’s spent significantly more nights in his bed than she’s spent in her own apartment over the last two months, but who could blame her? This bed is literally to die for. Therapeutic mattress for the fucking win.
 Percy, to her greatest confusion and chagrin, is a morning person. Well, actually, what he is is someone who runs on very little sleep for three weeks at a time, before crashing headfirst into his bed for thirteen hours. It is a decidedly unhealthy way to live, but it means that Annabeth is used to waking up alone. The nights where she gets to wake up with Percy are the nicer ones, sure, but his presence is suffused in every corner of the room, his smell wafting from every piece of sweaty clothing tossed haphazardly about the floor, so much so that she never feels like she is truly waking up alone.
 Gross? A little. But the smell is oddly sexy, too, especially after he’s just come home from a run, all wet and glistening and flushed, panting hard--
 Ahem.
 The point is, when Annabeth rolls out of bed in one of Percy’s shirts (the one that says “Do You Even Lift, Bro?” with an image of a male dancer raising his partner, courtesy of one Jason Grace) and stumbles into the kitchen for one of Percy’s patented brunch specials, it’s a pretty normal morning. What catches her off guard is the spread: eggs and bacon, obviously, with fruit and granola and yogurt, but also an enormous tray of delicious, flaky croissants, perfectly crescent shaped, with little bowls of every condiment imaginable, multiple flavors of jams and preserves and Nutellas.
 “Bounjour, mademoiselle!” Percy says cheerfully from the oven, perfectly accented, bending over to take out a tray. “Ça va bien?”
 “Um… bonjour…” She pokes a croissant experimentally, and is equally delighted and dismayed to find that it is just as flaky as advertised.
 “Take a seat, these ones just need to cool for a bit and then we can get started.”
 Spring in his step, he opens the refrigerator, taking out the most beautiful cake Annabeth has ever seen in her entire life. Perfectly round, paper white, with little blue borders piped around the edge, but it’s got Annabeth feeling like she’s just been doused in cold water. “How the hell did you know it was my birthday?”
 Immediately, she knows it was the exact wrong thing to say. His eyes go wide as the saucers on the table, mouth open in shock. “It’s your birthday?”
 Goddammit. “Um.”
 “Why didn’t you say anything?”
 Because birthdays were inherently a dumb concept? Because her father had to be reminded of her birthday more often than not? Because her mother had stopped sending her birthday cards after she turned thirteen, calling them a waste of money and resources? “I don’t know,” she shrugs, dipping her finger into the strawberry jam. “I guess I just didn’t think it was a big deal. Ooh, does this have rosemary in it?”
 “Annabeeeeth,” he whines, plopping the cake onto the kitchen island. “I can’t believe you! I love birthdays.”
 “Well,” she flounders, attempting to duck his sudden attention, “what were you originally celebrating? I don’t usually think of cake as a brunch option.”
 He raises an eyebrow, not at all impressed with her attempts to change the topic, but he answers dutifully, “Originally, we were celebrating me being one month cig-free--”
 “Percy!” Annabeth gasps, clapping her hands delightedly, and a little exaggeratedly. “That’s great!”
 “But,” he continues, “now we’re definitely celebrating your birthday instead.”
 “Oh, come on!”
 “Nuh uh,” he chides, grabbing his phone and beginning to type something, “I am asking Nico to pick you up a birthday card as we speak.”
 Oh. “Nico’s coming?”
 “Well, this is his apartment. Part of the deal is that I make him breakfast. I think he’s bringing his boyfriend.”
 “Is… anyone else coming?”
 “Just a couple of people, my friends Frank, Grover, Rachel… I invited Hazel and Thalia, too, but I think Hazel told me she was busy, and you know Thalia. If it’s not at a crappy dive bar then the odds of her showing up are virtually none.” Percy pauses in his text, fixing her with an odd look. “You really don’t want anyone to know, do you?”
 How easily he reads her is a little disconcerting, and also a thought that she just can’t handle right now. “I just don’t like people making a big deal out of it. You know, it’s just another day. I’d much rather celebrate you quitting.”
 He holds her gaze for a beat, before smiling, finishing typing out whatever he was doing on his phone. “Yes, I am officially quitting. Cigarettes are terrible for you, and I do not have the money to keep up the habit. So, I swear,” he holds up a hand, “No cigarettes, no weed, no vaping. Not that I ever vaped before.”
 “Oh, never?” Annabeth teases.
 “Not ever.” He leans in, grinning that devastating grin that is seriously detrimental to her health. “You could not pay me enough.”
 “Good.” She goes to meet him, pressing her mouth to his, sweetly and chastely, but swiftly turning deeper, almost against their higher brain functions, like they only exist to be here in this moment, lips against lips, tongue and tongue. She’s always hated the taste of cigarettes, she prefers edibles to blunts, and anyone who vapes is automatically dropped from her list of potential partners… but she’s never minded the taste of ash on Percy’s tongue. It was just another part of him, another facet of the whole sexy package.
 Now, though, she has the full taste of him, unfettered and unfiltered, his morning coffee and his morning breath. It is disgusting, but again, oddly thrilling. This is Percy, stripped down and divested of all the trappings of blue lipstick and tight pants. She wonders what he thinks when he sees her like this, messy haired, face and ears empty of metal, last night’s mascara smudged all around her eyes. Given the way that he deliberately threads her hair through his fingers, winding the frizzy curls around him, pulling her close enough that the pristine cake is in danger from some serious smushing, she thinks he likes it just as much.
 Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on which perspective, either Percy’s, Annabeth’s, Nico’s, or the cake’s, their little impromptu makeout session has cold water dumped on it before they can end up doing it on the kitchen island. The sound of someone unlocking the front door is almost comically loud, and they break apart, equally red and flushing.
 “Gross,” says Nico di Angelo. “No heterosexuality allowed in my kitchen.”
 “Take that back, you biphobic ass,” Percy says. “I have never been heterosexual in my life.”
 “I’m not biphobic, I just don’t want to see you getting it on on my marble countertops.”
 “Speak for yourself,” chimes in Will, setting down a grocery bag right on the spot which would have been ground zero. “Hi, Annabeth.”
 “Hey, Will.”
 “Nice of you to join us today,” he says, as though he doesn’t see her here all the time.
 She offers her assistance in cooking or setting up, knowing full well that she will be firmly rebuffed--domestics are not her strong suit, by any stretch of the imagination--and is sent away with an iced coffee that Will has so thoughtfully bought for her instead of the birthday card she was dreading.
 Soon after, the party is in full swing.
 Well, she uses the term party loosely. It is fairly intimate, even with Nico’s enormous apartment making everything smaller. They have assembled an odd amalgamation of people: “You already know Nico,” Percy says, indicating the goth prince next to, “and Will,” his boyfriend, the perpetually cheery med student, next to, “and this is Frank,” a large, physically imposing man with a shy smile, next to, “Rachel,” a red-headed girl who looked like she just walked out of a paint shower, all making space for, “and my buddy Grover,” the guy in crutches who had immediately dropped into the single, out-of-decor, but extremely comfortable-looking loveseat Nico had placed nearest to the bathroom. All told, they look like the brochure for a community college who really, really wants to publicize how diverse their student body is, but with a kind of natural chemistry and camaraderie that those kids on that brochure could only dream of. “Everyone, this is Annabeth.”
 They greet her, each giving a limp wave.
 Then Percy leaves to attend to his brunch spread, but not before giving her a quick peck on the cheek. She can feel all eyes on them, hot and burning.
 Silence.
 “So,” Annabeth says, as awkward as a freshman in an orientation mixer. “What’s up?”
 “Your hair is amazing,” says Rachel.
 Hers is crusted with paint, a deep red that turns pink against the orange in the light, a close cousin to Annabeth’s, which is in dire need of a touchup, curls thrown in disarray by Percy’s grasping fingers. “Thanks, I--”
 “So how do you two know each other?”
 Annabeth blinks. “Friend of Thalia’s,” she says. “You?”
 “Used to do ballet together,” Rachel says, brusque, efficient. “Frank, too.”
 Frank waves again.
 A beat passes.
 Annabeth looks to Grover, who watches, bemused. “You, too, I take it?”
 Another second. Then he laughs, weird, but hearty, a joyful bleat. “Oh, sure,” he says. “I’m a regular Baryshnikov.”
 She can almost feel the room relaxing, heaving a sigh after holding its breath.
 “Are you with NYCB, too?” she turns to Frank, shoving her hands in her pockets, fingers curling around the fabric there.
 Shaking his head, he swallows his orange juice. “I mostly do modern and hip hop, now, music videos and stuff.”
 Objectively, she knows that you don’t have to be skinny as a rake or bodybuilding champion to dance, but Frank is neither of these, a huge, sweet-faced guy with a healthy layer of fat around his face and torso--a strict counterpart to Percy, who could give the Belvedere Apollo a run for its money. “Have I seen you in anything?” Not that she really watches music videos, but she figures it’s the polite thing to ask.
 “Um, maybe,” he shrugs, embarrassed. “I’ve been lucky enough to work with some really big people.” Though he offers no further details.
 “Working on anything cool?” She asks, doing her best not to cajole.
 He nods. “Percy and I have a thing coming out probably in the next month or so, with--ah, well. Can’t say.”
 “Tease,” Rachel grumbles, tossing back her mimosa. “I’ve been trying to get the secret out of him for months.”
 Frank smiles, secretive and a little smug. “Sorry. You’ll find out along with everyone else.”
 “Do you work together a lot?” Annabeth asks. She had thought that Percy was strictly ballet--though, she supposes dancers do crossover work more often these days, if only for the money.
 “Not as much as we used to, sadly,” he replies. “We actually lived together in Paris for a few years while he was contracted with the opera before I decided to come back home. Vancouver,” he adds at her unspoken question.
 “Bit of a hike, from Vancouver to New York,” says Grover.
 Frank shrugs. “I was in town anyway, and I haven’t seen Percy in about a year.”
 Annabeth frowns, doing some mental math. If Frank hadn’t seen him in two years, then that meant… that Percy had been alone in Paris all that time. The man thrives off of friendship and social interaction; no wonder he was jonesing to come back to America.
 “Remind me again how long you two were together?” Rachel asks, red hair bouncing as she cocks her head. A jolt goes down Annabeth’s spine, appraising Frank in an entirely new light.
 “On and off for about two years,” says Frank, thoughtful. “But I just lived with him to save money. The rent in Paris sucks.”
 “And you were the best roommate I ever had,” Percy says, slinging an arm around his shoulders. “Clean, good cook, better kisser--”
 Frank shoves him away.
 “You’ve only ever had one other roommate, other than Nico or your mom,” Grover points out. “That one guy when you first moved overseas--Frodo? Fedora?”
 “Fyodor,” Percy corrects. “He was terrible. I didn’t know any Russian, he didn’t know any English, and our French wasn’t good enough to actually hash it out, so he just gave me a permanent cold shoulder.”
 “Kind of a low bar, don’t you think?”
 “And there was my roommate in Boston.”
 Sharply, she turns her head. “You lived in Boston?”
 “Yeah, for like a year. I told you I was with Boston Ballet for a little bit, didn’t I?”
 Pretty sure he didn’t. She almost opens her mouth to retort, to ask when and compare notes, to mention that she lived in Boston, too, before remembering who she is with, swallowing her words.
 “Fyodor hated you,” Frank hums, reentering the circle. He’d wandered away and returned with a croissant, dipped in chocolate.
 “Trust, me, the feeling was mutual.”
 “It must have been,” Frank says, “because I saw your new apartment after he kicked you out--that place made a shoebox look luxurious.”
 Something in Percy’s face almost falls when Frank says that. Annabeth is sure there is a story there.
 But Rachel laughs. “Annabeth, you have no idea. It was a      Chambre de bonne    ,” she says, exaggerating the accent, “which might sound super fancy and French and cool, but trust me, it wasn’t at all. It was this size.” She slaps the kitchen island, a little too hard, her third mimosa making her loose-limbed and loud. “When I visited for Thanksgiving that year      I     had to pay for the heating bill, because Percy basically refused.”
 “It was cozy,” Percy mutters, suddenly very preoccupied with the half a croissant on his plate.
 “It was not.” Rachel says. “It was sad and cold and small.”
 Nico looks interested, but not nearly as boisterous as Rachel or Frank, “Was that the place…”
 “Ye,” Percy cuts him off, “Yes it was.” He smiles, Stepford-strained. “But, then Frank came to town, and so did his grandmother’s money.” He slaps Frank on the back. “And I got a bathtub.”
 “I still can’t believe that a ballet dancer lived anywhere for two years without a place to soak,” Frank says, shuddering.
 “I can’t believe you waited until Frank got to Paris to get yourself a sugar daddy,” Grover quips. Percy throws a grape at him. Grover, to her immense surprise, manages to catch it in his mouth.
 Annabeth can’t really be impressed. This is the second time someone has brought up Percy and Frank having a history. Something hot and angry curls in her stomach. But Percy is laughing.
 Rachel laughs too. “Oh, he didn’t wait,” she says. “He had a bevy of sugar mommies for trips to Ibiza and Moscow and Beijing.”
 “It was Tokyo,” Percy says, “and they weren’t my Sugar Mamas.” He turns to Annabeth, sheepish, but not actually shameful. “They weren’t. Honestly.”
 “Uh huh.”
 “They were mostly Kym’s friends, and sometimes we’d go out when they were in town, and if we had fun, they’d invite me wherever they were going next. And if I didn’t have to work, I’d go with.”
 “I have heard rumors,” Will says, popping his head in, Nico attached to his hip, “of Percy Jackson, boy toy of the rich and famous of Europe. Is it true?”
 “Yes,” Grover and Rachel say at once.
 “Do you want to hear about that, Will?” Percy asks, “Or would you rather hear about the summer Nico came to stay with me and Frank before he started college, and slept with every single dancer in Europe except Frank?”
 Nico waves him off. “Only because you were already sleeping with him, cause he was your sugar daddy. Not like I needed the money.”
 “It wasn’t like that.” Frank says.
 “And now that we’ve aired all of my dirty laundry,” says Percy, “I need to borrow Annabeth for a second.” Gently, but with force, he tugs her arm, his other hand around her waist, directing her where to go like she’s one of his dance partners. Usually, she minds--a lot. She’s not about to let anyone, let alone a man, tell her where to go--but, you know, it’s Percy. Alone time with him is never a bad thing.
 He pulls her into the hallway, shoving his hand into his pocket. “What’s up?” she asks.
 “So.” Mouth open, he pauses for a moment, just… looking at her. His eyes are soft, warm like the first day of spring.
 “What?”
 “Uh, nothing,” he shakes himself a little, pulling his hand out. “Sorry, I just--I know you said you didn’t want anyone making a big deal out of your birthday…”
 Oh, no. She braces herself for the worst.
 Uncurling his fingers, he reveals his present for her.
 “It’s… a pin?”
 “Yeah,” he smiles. “Remember when I took my sister to the Met a few weeks ago? They were having that thing on Egyptian jewelry? Well, of course we had to stop in the gift shop, and I saw this and just--you know, thought of you.”
 It is a pin--one of those lapel pins that more often than not are added to a collection usually displayed on a backpack. This pin is a silhouette she recognizes instantly: the Parthenon, its columns and angles rendered in sterling silver, little grooves dug into the metal in an approximation of the fluting.
 “Wow,” she breathes. “Thank you.”
 “It was nothing.” His ears are pink. “Happy birthday.”
 And then he hugs her.
 After a moment, she hugs him back.
 It’s amazing how she can have had sex with someone so many times, but feel so awkward giving them a hug.
 “I didn’t, um, tell anyone else,” he says, pulling back. His hands linger on her shoulders, thumb tapping at the base of her neck. “But, I kept meaning to give this to you, so, you know, now was as good a time as any, yeah?”
 “I love it,” she says, honestly. Which surprises her. “Thank you.”
 She slips it into her own pocket, not even minding the sharp corners.
 When they return, Nico has already cut into the cake. “You were taking too long,” he snips.
 It really is delicious. Much, much later, Percy sends her home with a sweet, soft kiss, and one of the last remaining slices, rather than staying for dinner.
 Percy is the kind of boy who goes to his mother’s for dinner every week. She had been invited, but also threatened with the promise of another cake, and his ten year old sister, who would “love to make you a present.”
 It sounded nice, but Annabeth knew when she wasn’t really wanted, and so she demurred, citing a need for some solo downtime.
 She hasn’t heard from Thalia in, like, four days, which meant she had probably gotten a short-term gig. (“You’re lucky, she’s had Jason paying for her phone the whole time you’ve known her. Before that, she was almost impossible to get ahold of.”) Piper would take her out to dinner tomorrow, “just because.” But they would both know it wasn’t true.
 So, to refresh and relax after a long, harrowing day of socializing, Annabeth goes home.
 Or at least to her apartment.
 It doesn’t have a doorman, or the views, or the room, like Nico’s place. Nor does it have any of the people, the energy, the joy. Her furniture doesn’t fill it up. The most appetizing thing in her kitchen are the granola bars Percy had made the week before, or maybe the brownies he made four days ago. She sets her to-go bag of cake and croissants down next to them, a smorgasboard of Percy’s culinary prowess.
 Despite the long hours, her clothes still smell a little like last night’s bar, and her skin has a faint patina of dried sex sweat, and smudged makeup.
 She doesn’t want to start leaving things at Percy’s place--don’t want him to get the wrong idea--but she also occasionally needs to be able to touch up her eyeliner. She’s either going to have to find a bag that isn’t embarrassing to carry, or surreptitiously shove some eyeliner and lipstick next to the condoms in Percy’s nightstand next time they have a sleepover. Or raid Nico’s bathroom.
 Regardless, she needs a wash something bad.
 As she scrubs down, she does her best to focus on the lemon scent of her body wash, and not Percy’s perfect form, dripping with water. She tries to visualize her last trip to Sephora, not blowing him under the hot water.
 It doesn’t really work, so she gets herself clean and gets herself off and considers just spending the rest of the day naked, in case the mood strikes her again. But it's only 5PM, and she doesn’t have Percy to cook her some dinner tonight, so she sucks it up and puts on some pants.
 When she had visited Boston for work a couple of months back, Alex had insisted on taking her shopping, complaining that her sister and her friend Mallory didn’t understand Versace quite like Annabeth did, and that Blitz sucked all the fun out of fashion, anyway. Then, she had bullied Annabeth into buying a set of sweats, claiming it was because of the Grecian patterns, but probably because she thought Annabeth in that much purple would be funny.
 But eventually, she had wheedled, cajoled, and threatened Annabeth into buying a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie. After deciding to forgo a bra, because that is just one more area she has always fallen short in, she shoves on a School of Architecture underneath them. The crimson clashes terribly with the lavender and seafoam, but she kind of likes it. Piper would call it “artfully nauseating,” or something.
 Besides, no one is going to see her but her delivery guy. And if someone did see her, someone like Thalia or Percy, well, the clashing colors would be the least of her worries.
 She is folded into her couch, wedged into the corner, very much      not     looking up Paris Ballet clips from the past few years, trying to spot Percy in the background, when there is a knock on her door.
 Not for the first time, she curses her lack of doorman--and then frowns. Who even knows where she lives?
 Piper and Leo? Magnus and Alex?
 Has she already ordered food and just forgotten?
 Is memory loss a side effect of a SK-II mask no one had warned her about?
 Tentatively, she creeps towards the door, opening it slowly. If this were a horror movie, the door would creak open, revealing the villain cast in the shadows of the hallway, holding his weapon of choice.
 She sighs.
 The man is only a few inches taller than her, and dressed impeccably in a t-shirt and jeans that probably cost half a year of her rent-- a big critique coming from her, since she wears a month of her own rent as sweats. His blond hair is impeccably combed, his tennis shoes impeccably white, and his smile the most charming thing you can find this side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
 “Happy birthday, girly,” he says, giving her an awkward, one-armed hug, trying to avoid getting any of her facemask on his shirt.
 “What are you doing here?”
 “It's your birthday,” he reminds her, holding up the bag. “I told you I’d stop by last week.”
 Had he? Maybe, and she’d just been too drunk or hung over to really process it. But maybe he’d also meant to, and then failed to follow through. Luke has a bit of a nasty habit of treating his intentions as the same as his actions. His intentions are good, usually, but it means that he often ignored the actual actions. Like how his intention was to support his mother in the best nursing home in the northeast, but his action was to work with Saturn, a very shady hedge fund, to facilitate it. Or how his intention was to have someone at a stuffy party to talk to, but his action was dressing up Annabeth as his arm candy because none of Piper’s models would call him back anymore. He hasn’t asked her to do that since, like, February though, thankfully.
 “Sorry,” Annabeth says. “I just… you know I don’t like my birthday.”
 He also has a bit of a habit of ignoring her distaste in a really blatant way.
 He’s a little like Percy that way, actually.
 She’d only ever told Luke about her birthday back in those embarrassing freshman days, when she’d thought he looked as good on paper as any Harvard MBA student possibly could, with a devastating smile to match. She’d been so convinced that he would be the right boyfriend that might finally get her mother’s approval, and she figured that her future husband should know her birthday.
 “Come in,” she says, reaching for the bag, but he shakes his head and brushes past her, dumping his black back on the coffee table. Graciously, he doesn’t look at her as he starts to empty out its contents, giving her an opportunity to dart back to her bathroom and peel off her facemask. Luke would forgive designer sweats, but they aren't at the “just chilling in a facemask” level of a relationship.
 When she returns, there is a small assembly line arranged on her coffee table: a stack of paper plates, a carton of Haagen Daas, forks and spoons, and a Milk Bar cake, all wrapped in its box.
 “Is Milk Bar still the ‘it’ thing?” she asks. “With locations all over the country, I figured it would be passé by now.”
 “I know it’s your favorite,” Luke says. “I don’t always have to choose the most popular thing.”
 Milk Bar had been her favorite, that is true, right up until she’d started fucking Percy Jackson, and eating his food.
 “Thanks,” she says, cutting herself a slice, and scooping herself some ice cream.
 “That’s all you’re going to get?” he asks, cutting himself a sliver.
 “I have had so much cake today,” she says. Milk Bar really isn’t as good as Percy's, but it reminds her of birthdays in high school, waiting for her mother to visit, sneaking out when she inevitably didn’t, convincing the local bad boy to buy her some alcohol. She eats it, eagerly.
 Luke’s jaw drops. “You had a birthday cake? By choice? On your birthday?”
 She shakes her head, swallowing. “No, I was at a party with some friends. They didn’t even know it was my birthday,” Until she had stupidly revealed it. Whatever. She just has to make sure he’s been excised from her life by this time next year. And maybe freeze some of his baked goods beforehand.
 Luke doesn’t let her go through with her evening plans, which consisted basically of watching      Legally Blonde     for the gazillionth time while she slurped down some pierogies, but he capitulates to      Roman Holiday    , helping her put away the leftover cake and ice cream. “Thanks,” she says, when the movie was done. “I’m glad you came over. “
 No one ever comes over. Thalia is her best friend, but Thalia would have questions about how she could afford the place, Piper never understood why she’d moved out here at all, and Percy… Percy was irrelevant. There is no reason for him to come here.
 “I always like to see my best girl.” He smiles at her, charming and rogueish.
 “If all those models you keep trying to date know that your best girl is an architect who lives in Brooklyn who you actually feed, that’s probably why they don’t want to date you back.”
 Luke laughs, leaning over and knocking his shoulder against her own. “None of those girls could hold a candle to you.”
 “God, you must be a terrible boyfriend.”
 “Probably,” he agrees, sitting up and stretching, before reaching back to the bag he brought the cake in. “After all, you are the one I bring all the nice presents. But I think I’m a pretty good friend.”
 He takes out a box, burnt orange, a black ribbon wrapped around it, because Luke is nothing if not predictable.
 Annabeth sighs internally, quietly reminding herself that money is how Luke shows his love. And that she is wearing Versace sweats.
 “Herm  é  s,” she says, pulling off the ribbon. “This box looks too small for a Birkin.”
 “Do you want a Birkin?” he asks. “I can get you a Birkin.”
 “I probably don’t need a Birkin,” she admits. Though maybe it would be nice to have one in her closet, if her mom ever calls her up for lunch again. She could show up with a Birkin and an eyebrow ring. Sweet revenge.
 Luke waves a hand. “It doesn't matter if you need one, just if you want one.”
 Inside the box is a scarf, the silk soft and smooth between her fingers, a pleasing gradient of oranges and reds and pinks and corals. When she unfolds it, laying it out before her, she finds a sharp, geometric design, columns stacked together like skyscrapers. Luke obviously had her in mind when he picked it out.
 “Thanks,” she says. It’s pretty--perfect for an ambitious young architect with two degrees from Harvard who had moved to New York City with an offer from one of the best architecture firms in the world. And Annabeth has no idea where she could possibly want or need to wear it.
 “Hey,” Luke says, suddenly soft, “don’t cry.”
 Shocked, she reaches her hand up to her face. It’s wet.
 Luke is probably the only person she will let herself cry in front of. She’d spent three years doing that in college. He’d seen her through heartbreak and hangovers, guiding her through it all like an aloof big brother.
 “I’m okay,” she hiccups, wiping her nose.
 He hands her a napkin.
 Annabeth blows her nose, wet and gross. “I’m sorry, I promise I’m alright.”
 “You sure?” He sounds sincere, but she catches him glancing down at his wrist.
 “Do you have a date?”
 “I…” At least he has the decency to look sheepish. “Just some guys at work. You can come, if you want.”
 It could be fun. Hanging out with Luke can be fun. Get a little lit, take a business bro home, screw his brains out, send him on his way. But there’s an unspoken dress code to these things, and Annabeth just doesn’t wear Louboutins anymore. And the idea of fucking a business bro just… doesn’t hold any appeal right now.
 “No thanks,” she nods, using the clean edge of the napkin to wipe her eyes. “I am going to watch      The Search For Elle Woods    , and you're going to strike out with some models, and everyone is going to be happy.”
 “You really are so mean to me.” Luke complains, as she walks him to the door, before giving her another hug. “You sure you’re going to be okay?”
 “I am.” She is different and new, but Luke is still her friend. She had survived. It would be okay.
 “Well, call me if you need something.” He kisses her cheek, sweetly, without any heat. Perfectly platonic. “I love you very much. Happy birthday.”
 “Thanks,” she says, “I’ll see you around.”
 “Always.” And he is gone.
 She folds the scarf, going to put it in the dresser in her room, shoving it among a handful of accessories, gathering dust. She realizes, with a start, that she’s left a week’s worth of clothes all over her room on the way to the shower, and, with a sigh of adulthood, and the knowledge that if she doesn’t follow the ADHD gods and pick them up now, they’ll be there for weeks, languishing on her floor and stinking up the place, she goes to at least move them into her hamper. She rifles through ripped jeans and band t-shirts and black socks as she goes, checking each for anything like discarded change or a bus pass she doesn’t want to wash.
 She shakes out the pants she’d worn out the night before, and therefore the entire day until she’d gotten home. There is a rather unfortunate stain on the knee that she can’t quite parse--ketchup? Chocolate?
 Then she reaches into the pockets, touching metal, and she suddenly remembers her other birthday present for the day.
 Pulling out the pin, she feels strange, hot in the face, funny in the belly, tossing the jeans haphazardly in with the dirty laundry. It's small and shiny, cheap metal for mass market production, and yet, she walks it over to the dresser, laying it down on the silk scarf like it's the diamond broach her aunt gave her for her sixteenth birthday.
 She really is beyond Hermès scarves now. But that pin? Well, you never really can get more Annabeth--the middle school know-it-all, teenage debutante, college perfectionist, New York yuppy, or barfly and punk princess--than one of the greatest architectural achievements in human history.
 She is still a little shocked by how much she loves it. How much it means to her that Percy saw that it was perfect for her.
 And like so many times when she is confronted with an emotion she doesn’t like, she slams the door closed, and goes and watches a favorite movie from high school.
 She does order dinner, eventually, setting out her meal in between texting Piper about brunch tomorrow. It's a whole thing, pretending that they’re not going out for her birthday, but eventually they agree on a time and a place, and she can eat her sausage and watch everyone practice the Bend and Snap in peace.  
 So she is very annoyed when her phone buzzes again.
 Maybe the reservation fell through. Or maybe she doesn’t want Annabeth to show up in ripped fishnets, even though that only happened once.
 Her stomach sinks when she checks her phone. It isn’t Piper.
Hello Dear, Happy Birthday. We miss you. Please call anytime. Love Dad, Mary, and the boys.  
 Below the text is a link, leading to a gift certificate for $200 to Sephora, which has Mary’s name written all over it. Aunt Natalie would have suggested Bergdorf Goodman.
 Her hand clenches, momentarily overcome with the urge to hurl her phone against the wall. But there is no one around, so there wouldn’t be any point to it.
 She stabs at a pierogi with a chopstick, and watches the girls dance on screen, humming along.
 She passes out on the couch after midnight.
 Her mother never called.
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RP meme from Scream Queens Ep 1 "Pilot" & Ep 2 "Hell Week"(Note: Offensive content, use at own discretion)
Something really bad happened.
Did you just get your period all over yourself?
This isn't my blood.
Who told you you could have a baby here tonight?
I'm sure I can walk if I can just get some Gatorade.
I don't care if you can walk.
How are we supposed to get you to the front door without everyone seeing you all gross and postpartum?
No one wants to see that at a party.
This is super embarrassing.
I didn't even know I was pregnant.
You guys, they're playing "Waterfalls."
Is that a baby? Amazing.
I am not missing "Waterfalls" for this. "Waterfalls" is my jam.
Give the baby some mojito to quiet it down.
How do you know she's dead?
These are my minions. I don't know their names. I don't want to know their names.
I have a colonic at 10
Life is a class system.
Oh, still a lot of puke to scrub.
Yeah, you have an amazing skill at telling people what they need to hear.
I'm sorry. Did I ask you to pull down my panties and blow a compliment up my butt?
I hate sororities, and I hate you.
First of all, I'm not a lesbian.
You see, out in the real world, people just don't talk that way to other people. It's not normal.
Well, that sure sounds suspicious.
No one forced that goat to get as drunk as it got.
Historically, short people are sneaky backstabbers, like Napoleon or Paul Shaffer.
I could actually handle that you're built like a Thai ladyboy, but what I can't stand is that you think you're my heir apparent.
Don't you want me to spray-tan you?
I would honestly rather not have you around.
The police still can't figure out who filled that tank with hydrochloric acid.
It's good enough for me, and the D.A., who, last I heard, considers the case closed.
What is that skirt?
Your organization might want to find a lawyer.
I'm a pretty smart cookie.
I would not get personal with me, sweetheart.
I don't fight fair.
I am sentimental.
Look, girls are vicious, okay?
I don't have any of my own memories.
Just like we planned. Three-second silent hug, and then you leave.
Ooh, somebody call CSI, because there was a murder scene in that bathroom.
Someone puked in the sink and I'm pretty sure I saw an actual ringworm climbing up the wall. I'm not afraid of anything, but that bathroom scared the crap out of me.
This is gonna be a year of infinite possibilities.
Hold this. It's too heavy.
You didn't knock!
Look at them. They're the dregs of society.
Each one of these gashes is worse than the next.
She smells like hot dog water, and probably sprained her neck giving blumpkins down at the local bowling alley.
Look, I'm not saying that all heterosexual sex is rape. I'm saying all heterosexual sex is gross, and that deep down, every woman knows this.
All that girl's after is a whole lot of bikini burger.
Hey, girl, can I just ask you, what's up with your outfit?
God knows what they're talking about, basic bitches.
What fresh hell is this?
I need you to stay popular, 'cause if you want to stay at the top of the list of the pieces of ass I'm getting, there's criteria. And the criteria is you got to be popular.
Okay, I'm gonna stop you right there, because I'm getting really pissed off.
Stop fake crying.
Anyone you dated would be popular. I mean, they would be popular because they're dating you.
My ego, it's super strong, ok, but it's not strong enough that I can just go around dating garbage people.
Like, yes, I could find a random girl who wasn't popular, and, yes, if I started dating her she would then become popular.
But you said you loved me.
I do sort of love you.
I would love you a lot more if other people loved you, too.
Okay, I need you to leave because you're bumming me out
We're just trying to have a nice day hitting golf balls at hippies.
Pretty girls, like you and me.
That's why I'm gonna burn your face off.
Ugh! You burned the milk!
Next time, I get you fired, or worse.
Actually, I just want a regular coffee. Those white girl pumpkin spice lattes annoy me.
I like to think of myself, uh, as an investigative reporter.
I had to get a restraining order.
I tend to get a bit passionate about things.
Look, you intentionally led me on.
You kept acting like you liked me just so you could humiliate me.
Enter, ye who dare.
I love a creepy collage.
It's about kicking the living crap out of someone when they disrespect you.
I was just in your room, where I noticed you have a sizeable shrine with evil burning candles, photos of me with my face scratched out and pairs of my stolen panties.
How about I just drown you in it?
Well, of course she's dead! You just burned her face off!
You don't die from getting your face burned off.
There's a dead woman in your kitchen.
I'm going to the authorities.
That's not how I saw it. And my witnesses agree.
You're an awful person.
Who wants cocktails?
How did my life turn into this?
Have you seen the way girls dress on this campus?
I'm sitting in the same office I used to throw bricks into.
You're awful in bed. Are you aware?
I'm gonna take a pair of your panties.
I'm gonna barf on your face unless you get out of here.
Try to figure out who gave you such disgusting mommy issues.
You loaded a dead body into a freezer.
What are you proposing?
I want to help you with your exposé, secretly feed you info.
You need eyes on the inside.
I don't know what to do with the body.
Are you saying dead bodies don't turn you on?
You are so lame, you know that?
God, I love all that death stuff.
Show me the body.
Show me the dead body.
This blood oath will ensure solidarity among us. We are all related now.
I just Googled "blood oath" and this is what came up.
What does this oath even mean?
I just need you all to not say anything about what happened, and I figured a blood oath was cheaper than buying you all presents.
Wait, what about STDs?
Idiot, you don't get STDs from blood oaths.
You get STDs from dirty toilet seats and drinking the water in Mexico.
Um, "STD" stands for "sexually transmitted disease," which means that it's transmitted sexually.
When were you in Mexico?
You know what, forget the blood oath.
I can't stay silent!
I'm calling my mom, and I'm going home.
Okay, Pissy Spacek, you and I have a few differences we need to iron out.
I want you to be one of my minions.
It's the gateway to the top of the heap.
You put on a good front, but you're miserable.
Don't you think any of that has anything to do with the fact that you've created an atmosphere based solely on negativity and raw ambition?
Can we talk for real for a second, please?
I mean, you're so confident without being mean. What antidepressants are you on?
Don't you see that all that's happened isn't a crisis? It's an opportunity.
Yeah, no, I tried. See, I really tried. But all of this flowery, peace-on-Earth crap, it makes me want to puke.
You haven't even seen half of what I'm capable of!
Totally spit in your coffee, bitch.
I don't mean to be a contrarian, but I'm enjoying this.
Is that killer noises or am I hallucinating?
I'm gonna ask one more time, will you speak up?
What can you tell us about the murder?
There's an exodus right now.
The risks are real, but we need to close ranks.
I don't feel comfortable with a man protecting me. It's representative of the patriarchal, post-colonial culture that encourages violence against women.
We buy a pig and feed it the body. Pigs will eat anything.
Don't go skating on those poop lagoons, because if you fall in, you'll drown in the poop and come springtime, there'll be nothing left of your body.
Here's what you should do. Pulverize her teeth, burn off her fingerprints, and disfigure her face. Once her body is unrecognizable, we can create an incision on her inner thigh and drain out all of her bodily fluids. That'll give us more time to deconstruct the body.
Truly grinding down a body takes a lot of work. You need a really good food processor, and you run the risk of fouling the plumbing, which is why you should only do it if you know how to clear out meat and bones from a drain pipe.
I'm willing to help in any way possible.
You're obviously a psychopath and those ideas are insane!
Why are you trying to terrify us?
Can I call you Mom?
I feel so loved and protected by all of you.
Actually, it's a new pop culture trend where young women desperately in need of role models call other girls they look up to Mom.
I thought you'd be cool with it.
I mean, I did just give you several ways to dispose of a body.
Okay, fine. Just stop talking.
You are so friggin' creepy!
Someone just mowed off a deaf girl's head in our backyard.
I mean, as you can see, I'm not licensed to carry a sidearm.
Wait, so you don't have a gun?
I have pepper spray. And I have a walkie talkie that I can use to call the police, who do have guns.
What good are you?
Get the hell out of there. Run away, real fast.
Now, I would give you my number, but my cell phone is off right now.
If you want the place clean, maybe you shouldn't have burned the maid's face off.
Don't you wonder what's in there?
People have been whispering about that house for years, that it's haunted, that something really bad happened. I mean, there's no way there isn't some real-life story behind it, right?
I'm gonna have to break in.
I mean, I don't think anyone's gonna get killed in the 30 minutes we make out, right?
Can you stop talking?
You're kind of ruining whatever was good about it.
Please try to understand the situation I'm in.
I don't give a rat's ass about your job.
You know, I find good parenting incredibly attractive.
You're a snoopy little bugger.
Whose bloody clothes are those?
Supposedly, it was a super fun party.
We're all gonna pay for this.
I think it's all crap. Just a myth.
What happened to the baby?
Sometimes I picture myself like Derek Jeter, you know?
I'm gonna choke you out.
There's a serial killer on the loose.
Please don't say you want to choke me.
I'd love having sex with your corpse.
I'm sorry. This isn't working for me.
Well, I sort of am your boyfriend, and I'm protecting you by having sex with you.
No! I don't need a man to protect me.
How could I have wasted this much time?
Is my self-esteem really that low?
I'm sorry. I think we need to take a break.
I need you to leave right now!
You know, it would really help me feel better if I could just crawl into bed with you for a few minutes.
Are you gonna touch my wiener, or you gonna leave my wiener alone?
I'll leave your wiener alone.
Where are your hands?
He has a huge boner!
Why don't you go in there and ogle his big old boner?
Okay, uh, first of all, I'm not gonna go ogle his big old boner, because I'm not gay.
Look, I'm sorry everybody wants to have sex with me. Okay? I can't help that.
I'm hot. Everybody wants to get with this. Women, men, animals in the zoo, plants, probably.
You're gonna have to go right now, 'cause I am breaking up with you.
Excuse me, I broke up with you!
I regretted what I said, and I just wanted to come here and tell you that I am so sorry.
Well, I accept your apology. And now I'm breaking up with you.
Do you know why I'm breaking up with you?
You can't deal with how hot I am.
Sorry, I just broke up with you.
Can you please put some clothes on?
Um, they said, uh, I shouldn't be alone, you know, in case I fall asleep and die.
Can I just get you a robe or something though?
So you're saying I'm the killer?
Okay, this isn't about me thinking you're boyfriend material.
God, I was so gonna go to third base with you tonight, too.
What if we stapled their earlobes?
Private like the parts on a man you like putting in your mouth?
I want to publicly come out as gay on my own.
I mean, you guys have to accept everybody, right?
I actually think that's illegal.
I will come after you, do you understand that? I will destroy you.
I trust you'll consider my offer.
Name one bad thing that ever happened at a Best Buy parking lot.
You're just, like, super attractive.
Um, well, I was trying to be inconspicuous.
It's better than losing your life.
I have a thing for playlists.
Someone's got a poo belly.
Sweet Yeezus, I don't even know where to begin with you.
Bitch, I'm about to smack you so hard, your tampon's gonna pop out.
I heard screaming.
So you think the serial killer is still up there?
Upstairs to get the killer before he gets away!
You just said that you think the killer is up there, and that's where you want to go?
This is freakin' terrifying!
The killer is in the house! You hear me?
I need my damn inhaler.
What, am I supposed to be scared?
Don't even come out. We plan on getting drunk, and I don't want your bad attitude ruining it.
We're headed down to White Stallion to pick up some sluts, baby!
Yes, okay, I burned her slightly, but stop saying that I killed her.
That was a tragic accident.
I am a kind and devoted and loving friend to all.
I'm not some crazed psychopath.
Maybe you're the killer.
I will not be put on trial.
The truth is we don't know who the killer is, and, yes, I suppose it could be someone in this room.
You want to go first?
I banged, like, 50 chicks.
What took you so long?
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Prompt list
hey guys so my best friend and i made a long ass prompt list. the rules are that you can only pick a limit of five prompts and send them to me with a ship and OC of mine. like for example Reagan and Negan or Clem and Cas or Destiel or Willow and sam or Laylahni and Dean. i only write for supernatural and the walking dead. so get as creative as you want but i know no one will read this post so if you are reading this please send in a request i am really fucking desperate.
1: Hand holding
2: Hair playing
3: Lap sitting
4: “Friends”
5: Tickling
6: Dancing
7: Cuddling
8: Hugging
9: Character death 
10: Resurrection
11: Date
12: Valentines Day
13: Admitting their feelings
14: Piggy back ride
15: Swimming
16: Teleporting to a different place
17: Carrying the other
18: Sad
19: Comforting them
20: Making out
21: Pulling down by tie, bandana, etc and kissing them
22: Being protective
23: Dying for the other; sacrifice
24: Getting drunk
25: Snuggling
26: Wrapping their arms around the other from behind
27: Cheek kissing
28: Forehead kissing
29: First experience in the love department
30: Yelling at them for not being more careful
31: Showering/bathing together
32: Picnic
33: Cooking
34: Licking food off the other
35: Going on a hunt/run together.
36: Tracing their face
37: Wearing the other’s clothes
38: Braiding their hair
39: Teaching them about feelings
40: Teaching them other things (wink wink)
41: Argument
42: Comforting them after an anxiety/panic attack
43: making them happy when they are down
44: Calming them/sleeping with them after a nightmare
45: Putting their head on the other’s shoulder
46: Treating an injury/kissing their boo boos better
47: Food fight
48: Forehead touching
49: Nose touching
50: Guess who
51: Chin resting on top of head
52: Sleeping on the others’ chest
53: Intense eye contact
54: Being caught staring
55: Playing with their hands
56: Telling them what’s wrong
57: They have to leave to keep them safe
58: Break up
59: Getting back together
60: Pregnancy
61: Miscarriage
62: Normal Birth
63: Marriage
64: Fixing their clothes/hair
65: Driving together in a car
66: In the backseat (wink wink)
67: Snuggling In the backseat
68: Resting their hand on the other’s thigh
69: Sex
70: Watching movies together
71: Cinema
72: Height Difference
73: Annoying each other
74: Stargazing
75. Waking up to them
76. Shelter from the rain
77: ice cream
78: being rescued/saved
79: listening to music together
80: texting
81: falling asleep on the other
82: accidentally kiss
83: being badass together
84: lOsT iN tHe wOoDs!!
85: camping
86: spooning
87: huddling for warmth
88: first kiss
89: first meet
90: one looking schmexy and the other being attracted
91: lip biting
92: wearing the other’s accessories; glasses, jacket, tie, hat, etc.
93: annoying them at work/while they are trying to work
94: making stupid videos together
95: keeping their relationship a secret from other people
96: nearly revealing their relationship in front of other people
97: coming out (if it’s gay)
98: playing with a pet (if they have one). (if they don’t, some other animal)
99: They are forced to be enemies even though they love each other. This could be in a war or sided scenario. Usually a forbidden love. They could also be together in secret. Take Romeo and Juliet for example.
100: corona edition - quarantining together
101: luxurious holiday
102: stuck somewhere together, whether that be locked in a room or lost somewhere, etc.
103: beach
104: watching the other sleep/sneak up on them sleeping
105: backstory
106: childhood friends
107: au
108: crossover
109: SIMPing over them
110: love triangle
111: third wheel
112: having a dream about the other person
113: unbuttoning the other person’s shirt/taking the other person’s clothes off
114: hotel
115: board games/video games
116: chucking paint at each other
117: cheating
118: being annoying and stopping the other person from walking by sitting on their feet and holding onto their legs
119: secret admirer/love letters
120: making hearts with their hands
121: taking selfies
122: singing/playing a song for them
123: Falling asleep on them on a bus, train, plane, etc.
124: Growing old together
125: Widowed
126: Arranged marriage
127: Forbidden love
128: Sitting over the other’s dead body
129: being walked in on doing you know what
130: family’s reaction to the relationship
131: Living together
132: Having a family
133: Senpai/notice me senpai!
134: crush
135: showing off for their crush
136: rejection
137: first date (awkward)
138: first date (normal)
139: painting on each other (for a date night)
140: flirting
141: cringey pickup line
142: Pinning them against a wall
143: sneaking in bed with them when they’re asleep
144: laughing really hard together
145: Under the other’s wings
146: underwater kissing
147: accidentally fall on each other
148: only one bed
149: kissing their neck
150: being awkward around their crush
151: Rich couple
152: Playing in the rain
153: Summer
154: Autumn
155: Winter
156: Spring
157: Walk in the park
158: walking them home
159: Other people/characters also shipping them
160: The cute neighbour
161: putting their hand under the other person’s shirt
162: telling them a story/bedtime story. (If they have a child, that makes it even better!)
163: needy
164: clingy
165: intimate
166: touchy/fondling
167: putting their leg on the other person’s leg when sleeping
168: accidentally falling off the edge of the bed/accidentally pushing the other person off the edge of the bed
167: blanket hogging
168: freezing when they see their crush
169: running away/fleeing when they see their crush
170: surprising/scaring them
171: snow
172: watching fireworks
173: comforting them during a storm
174: divorce
175: homosexual (gay, lesbian, etc.)
176: heterosexual (straight)
177: poly (3+ people)
178: one of them getting an award or something and the other cheering them on and embarrassing them
179: somehow ending up with someone who is way out of their league
180: travelling together
181: weekend of romance
182: act like they hate them but they actually like them, switch between emotions frequently (tsundere)
183: will kill or harm others for their senpai (yandere)
184: ignoring the other person
185: one not messaging the other back
186: pash
187: enemies to lovers
188: friends to lovers
189: watching the other undress
190: soulmates
191: phone call
192: prom/dance
193: highschool
194: riding on bikes (usually as kids)
195: proposal
196: teasing the other
197: watching the sunset/sunrise
198: morning jog/walk
199: waking up but they’re not there
200: waking up to the other one making breakfast
201: sneaking into their house in the middle of the night
202: partners in crime
203: ex lovers
204: crushing on friend’s sibling
205: letting them stay the night
206: accidentally in love
207: coffee shop au
208: when their parents aren’t home...
209: sitting next to them with their arm around the their waist
210: telling secrets
211: fireplace
212: sitting on the floor
213: study buddies
214: flying
215: sitting on the porch
216: see the other naked for the first time
217: double date
218: their crush is upper class but they are lower class or vice versa. eg. rich vs poor, popular vs unpopular, higher social status vs lower social status.
219: One is mature and the other is childish
220: 2 brain cells/both idiots
221: lipstick stains
222: helping the other up
223: Deep conversation
224: meet at a bar/club/pub
225: asking them out
226: being teased by their friend(s) about their crush
227: telling their friend(s) about their crush
228: mistletoe
229: virgin/losing virginity
230: screaming into their chest
231: hand brushing against the other’s
232: soulmates walking past each other in public not yet knowing the other person but still getting some sort of gut feeling.
233: asking if they’re ok
234: handsome stranger
235: a description of the character’s features
236: their scent lingering
237: arriving at their doorstep
238: sleeping on the couch
239: hot night
240: cold night
241: sweaty
242: missing the other person
243: seeing them depart/saying their goodbyes (usually if they’re leaving for a trip for a while)
244: seeing them again for the first time (usually after they arrive back after a trip after not seeing them for a while)
245: looking back after departing
246: not even knowing their name/don’t remember them properly (usually falling in love with a stranger)
247: I kissed a girl (gay)
248: I kissed a boy (gay)
249: the person they like isn’t gay
250: husband energy
251: mum and dad energy
252: wife energy
253: liking a bad boy
254: liking a more mature boy
255: diving off cliffs/waterfalls
256: Comforting the other one when they’re scared
257: hushing them to sleep
258: singing them a lullaby
259: adopting
260: surrogate
261: painting their nails, pamper treatment, etc.
262: posing for photos
263: eating spaghetti together (Lady and the Tramp style)
264: being protective when someone starts SIMPing over their lover
265: holding them tight
266: swears they saw their ex in public but it wasn’t them...
267: sleepover
268: flirtatious bartender
269: helping them
270: stumbling over their words
271: walking in on them showering
272: looking them up and down/checking them out
273: being competitive/friendly rivals dynamic
274: meeting them through social media first
275: tinder/online dating
276: daydreaming about the other person
277: one of them is sick/in hospital
278: doing something embarrassing in front of their crush
279: horseback riding
280: hammock
281: boat
282: taking them to and showing them a place that is special to them
283: dirty jokes
284: making them laugh
285: getting into a fight with each other
286: protecting the other in a fight/from getting into a fight
287: masquerade ball
288: love spell/something or someone casting love spells on people aka Cupid
289: he/she loves me, he/she loves me not...
290: whispering in their ear
291: sitting on top of the car in a field
292: if a character wears some sort of mask/something that covers their mouth/face make the other character pull down/lift it up to kiss them
293: give each other pet names (baby, babe, honey, etc) (be as creative as you want)
294: biting the other’s lip when kissing
295: buying the other flowers/a gift
296: road trip
297: friendzoning
298: Gender Bend
299: saying “I love you” for the first time
300: toxic relationship (physical abuse, mental abuse, cheating constantly, don't love them anymore) be as creative as you want.
@negan-morningstar @savedpeople @you-a-southpaw-doll @smcc212 @gabrielislovegabrielislife @galaxycastiel @winchester-reload @impala-dreamer
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Beach Rats (2017) & Why We Need More Movies Like It
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There is a general underlying paradigm in society that “men do the looking and women are to be looked at” and Beach Rats (2017) is a movie that challenges that from its very first shot. The movie opens with an 18-something teenager taking mirror selfies in a dirty basement mirror. The camera pans over his very masculine features – his biceps, armpit hair, nipples, and the rest of his torso.
I was sold to the movie right there. Hardly do I see movies with such a focus on the male form. I have watched Eliza Hittman’s ‘It Felt Like Love’ (2013) which does the same thing from a teenage girl’s point of view but Beach Rats simply does it more and does it better.
I know that Beach Rats is a gay movie and hence the camera captures the perspective of a boy, not a girl, and hence may not exactly be called ‘The Female Gaze’ but it is written and directed by a cishet woman and frankly, I believe even that is a start when it comes to subverting the male gaze, flipping the camera and putting men at the centre, making them subjects of visual pleasure.
What Beach Rats does extremely well is this: It makes the audience uncomfortable.
And that is precisely why I loved it. In mainstream movies when the lead actresses are introduced by butt-to-lips-to-head shots, it doesn’t really make us uncomfortable anymore because it has become the norm. We’ve just accepted girls being captured in this way. We may even accept young, underage girls portrayed in a sexualized manner but focusing on men’s butts and forearms is sure to make us rethink what we are seeing on screen. Long idle shots of Frankie, the protagonist and his friends shirtless by the beach playing handball or just swimming, their chiselled dude-bro bodies taking up the majority of the screen is something we are quite unused to.
Even the scenes where Frankie is in his room and browsing a gay cam site on the internet makes us feel uncomfortable because we are simply more exposed to women doing these things like posing and pouting. It was quite fresh to see the white man become the one being looked at. It almost felt like revenge to me, like “You see this is how it feels to be constantly scrutinized or unnecessarily sexualized!”
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I feel that we need to get more comfortable with the idea of male bodies presented on screen just as we are with female bodies.
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However, I am aware that “Revenge” is not what women in the industry are going for, or should go for. Unlike the Male Gaze, the Female Gaze is much trickier to define. Simply objectifying men back will not do. We don’t want to revert the power structure, but rather deconstruct it.
Alina Gufran from The Swaddle says “While the act of objectifying a man through the eyes of a woman remains revolutionary, it ultimately lends itself to a very “male” idea of what the female gaze should be.” When women are handed over the cameras and the pens and the main roles, the product is often not just an objectification of men but rather a humane and emotional portrayal of both men and women as people.
Although, I would personally say that after years of having seen myself and the media around me through men’s perspectives, it is fun sometimes to objectify men and get back at the system.
I believe Beach Rats takes that extra step, by not only sexualizing men like some feminist revenge fantasy but also showing the audience vulnerability, emotions and honest intimacy. The camera zooms in on Frankie’s face a lot. He is often dreamy, confused or just melancholic. In the course of the movie his father, suffering from cancer passes away, he witnesses his younger sister getting intimate with a boy her age and his friends, although given hardly any dialogues are a key influence in his life as he often forced to fit in with them and arrange drugs for them which he steals from his father’s medicine cabinet. His friends are toxic and not at all empathetic as he often proclaims “These are not my friends” as a joke with an element of truth. All this while he is navigating personal conflict regarding his sexuality and suppressing his true self with his friends and family because he cannot fathom how they would understand.
During daylight hours, Frankie has to keep up appearances by maintaining a girlfriend but during the nighttime, he often goes on a website for gay men in Brooklyn and meets up with older men for one-night stands that are often fulfilling, but often also leave him confused.
The film is definitely voyeuristic but it also has its non-sexual intimate moments. There’s a scene where Frankie has to go masturbate before joining his girlfriend in bed because he can’t maintain erections in her presence. In moments like this, we can see his vulnerability as he tries to laugh it off or gets frustrated at his body quite often telling him something else.
My favourite scene I would say is when he decides for the first time to meet up with an older, more experienced man from the website and the camera shoots him preparing for the rendezvous in a very vulnerable and intimate way. Frankie is shown lifting weights to perhaps tone his muscles, trimming his pubic hair with a scissor and taking a shower and giving himself a thorough wash. I believe shots like this, give the character a very human feel and helps the audience relate to his insecurities and struggles that lie behind the muscular façade.
Admittedly, Frankie’s friends are only two-dimensional characters and used as props for plot development and often fall into the cliché dude-bro stereotypes. They are perhaps used only to flex their shapely bodies and contribute to Frankie’s inner conflict. They are not people, they are just cishet men in the movie. They are the ones we may call purely “objectified”.
The sexual politics are at one point even explicitly stated in the film’s dialogue when Frankie asks Simone (his girlfriend) if two men making out is hot. Simone says that two girls making out is no big deal and is obviously hot but two men making out is just gay. Reading into the subtext, the word “gay” here is used in the derogatory sense.
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Of course, neither should be seen as “hot”. Homosexuality is supposed to exist in its own place, having an identity of its own and shouldn’t be co-opted by and for heterosexuals for their pleasure or entertainment.
But, due to the infiltration of the male gaze in popular media and a society that entitles men and suppresses female voices; women bear the burden of being unfairly sexualized. This same patriarchy socializes young boys and girls to view themselves a certain way, boys are taught not to be emotional and affectionate and are thus also disadvantaged by the patriarchy. I’m talking about things like “boys don’t cry” or “two guys don’t hold hands”.  The movie shows the reflections of these through Frankie’s toxic masculine friends and sometimes even Simone.
Frankie feels like he’d never be accepted into the mainstream of society because of the same sexual politics that exist in the world and that Hittman is trying to deconstruct. It is perhaps due to the fact that Frankie cannot come out that the film is shot mostly in the dark and in dingy places.
Beach Rats is a fine example of a movie that shows us a strong, conspicuous alternative to the male gaze. It does one thing very well and it is depicting male bodies in a casual, real, vulnerable, sexy and overt way and we need more of that. We need more male body presence on the screen because we as a culture of people are so oblivious to it. It’s always “Ass or Tits?”, “Pear-shaped or Hourglass-shaped” and “Skinny or Thick” and all these labels that apply only to women’s bodies to an extent where we perhaps don’t even feel like male bodies are something to be gazed at in the first place.
“Men look for looks and women look for personality”. How often have you heard this? I am not trying to defy the evolutionary explanations which may explain things to some extent. But we as this highly intelligent species cannot be completely bound by merely evolutionary instincts. While The Female Gaze does incorporate emotions and intimacy, I liked how Beach Rats balanced out the emotional and the purely carnal.  I am not saying we need more male bodies on screen in simply a sexual way. I want to see male bodies even in very mundane non-sexual ways just because I feel it needs to be normalized. Normalize focusing on the man’s body too in heterosexual romance films perhaps. Beach Rats was quite a refreshing watch despite its dark colour pallet because I was quite frankly amused to see what happens when the camera is reversed and allowed to linger on manly features. Perhaps through this, we may reach the ultimate goal of both men and women moving fluidly between the subject and object of mutual desire.
Posted originally on: https://rishikapandit.com/2021/06/08/beach-rats-why-we-need-more-movies-like-it/ 
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lol, lemme preface this by telling you what i know about the show from my out-of-context insta-viewing:
kabir sends his gf riddhima in to spy on vansh RAISINGHANIA (naam ka wazan check karein ji. kaafi hi bhaari-bharkam, just like the fake baritone the actor playing the character is being forced to put on.) vansh is some kinda shady, but idk WHAT SPECIFIC KIND of shady..... like is he just your garden-variety-evil-capitalist-ala-ambani-bezos, or is he into shit like drug smuggling and human/organ trafficking???? no one knows. maybe a little bit of both. but kabir’s a COP, and we all know that those fuckers are the shadiest shits around (#ACAB) so yeah, true to type, kabir shadyyyyyyyy. he’s actually the secret illegitimate son of vansh’s stepmom and together they wanna ruin vansh and take all his monies. so anyway, kabir sends in riddhima, who’s just a whole special brand of dumbass, but also extraordinarily determined in the way only tellywood heroines are. so she’s basically sticking her nose everywhere that doesn’t belong and being a pain in the ass of literally everyone in the show, including her own (coz she seems to get injured in novel and entertaining ways in every second episode.) kabir ultimately manipulates her into marrying vansh, while vansh has apparently married her KNOWING that she’s a spy and is probably playing the long game to see who her puppet-master is. long story short, heterosexuality is too potent a force and the Stupid Spy Girl and Gangsta Guy are currently slowly giving in to the Feelz™, despite missing that one-little-teensy-weensy-who-even-needs-it-in-a-real-relationship thing. y’know, that little thing called, idk, i think it’s called “TRUST” or some such strange unheard-of concept.
oh, in between all this there’s also some bizarre plot about some ex of vansh’s called ragini, who’s dead??? missing? idk. kabir is real interested in that and wants to jail vansh for it, but we’ve long forgotten about ragini by this point #RIPSis anyway, there’s some kinda statue of her’s in the attic or some shit, coz vansh is some kinda modern day gender-reversed medusa who turns women who cross him into statues??? idk man, idk. so riddhima is pretty much in constant danger of being statue-d.
also vansh has a requisite irritating famiy in tow, that he’s burdened with being in charge of (coz no rest for the unfortunate eldest son who lives in this godforksaken mansion, be that an oberoi or a raisinghania) feat: a dadi who is well-meaning, but as annoying as the one in IB was, constantly spouting platitudes about how vansh and Spy Girl trooooooly lurrrrrrrrrrve each other *kissy noises*; some chachi/chacha who are all “HEY WHY DOES HE GET TO BE THE BOSS, WE WANT CONTROL OF THE CRORE-ON KA BIJNESS TOO”, some very fake kanji-eyed siblings/cousins who are supreme bitches, and ofc one (1) normal sibling who is sweet but really does nothing around here. oh and there’s his right hand man/bff too, who seems to be not 100% (maybe just 83%?) incompetent like everyone else. that poor sod just got suckered into marrying Kanji Aankhon Waali Bitch Sister, who is pregnant with some total rando’s baby, and is just an all-round asshole to Riddhima/Right Hand Man, because “ugh, yeh do kaudi ke middle class naukar log, cheeeeee.”
ok now that the sasta, not-at-all-useful recap has been done, LET’S GET INTO THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
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the chachi is screaming her goddamn headdddd off coz her room is on fire. ofc it is. when has anything good ever happened in this manhoos house of horrors.
lmao the kanji eyed cousin has like 3% concern that his mom will be fried like a taaza jalebi. he's literally sauntering luxuriously towards his mom's room jaise park mein tehel raha ho.
chachi's screaming is getting on my nerves. aunty you're wasting valuable oxygen this way.  
riddhima is behind some secret box that aryan and chachi stashed in the room.
THESE PPL ARE SO CHILL ABOUT A WHOLE ROOM ON FIRE (note: it’s shivaay's room in IB) and they're just hanging out in the living room (which if you’ll remember, IS ATTACHED TO THE ROOM THAT WAS SHIVAAY’S) as if fire doesnt have a tendency to y'know..........  SPREAD RAPIDLY.
riddhima is fighting with the bloody fireman saying ki i need to save the box. #priorities
aaaaaaand the fireman is kabir, who has come to haath maarofy on Box of Secrets.
and we know this coz he did a DRAMAAAAAAAAATIC reveal by taking off his mask. in a room FULLY ON FIRE. idhar non-flaming rooms mein bhi ab mask nikaalna danger ho gaya hai, and this guy justtttttttttt dgaf. tum jaison ki wajaah se hi we can't bloody stop the spread.
my god this house has been decorated soooooooo fucking tackily. never thought the oberois would be the classy ones.
shady saasumaa and riddhima stinkeye-ing each other over a bowl of shehed. lol, what even. truly some "rasode mein kaun tha" lvl of politics.
oh ho, saasumaa and kabir lagaaofied the aag.
saasumaa gloating over the fact that riddhima will now never get her hands on Box of Secrets.
flashback time: hahahahaha KABIR LITERALLY LOBBED A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL INTO THE ROOM AND CHACHI DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING HEAR IT OR ANYTHING. lmao everyone in this show is a dumbass. how blissful life must be with just one (1) working brain cell.
riddhima runs into flaming room. ofc now we will have a prolonged sequence where kabir tries to keep his identity and riddhima being the dheent that she is, will give chase.
please note, that not even 48 hours ago, this woman walked barefoot on a bed of coals AND a hallway full of broken glass. AND NOW SHE'S RUNNING FULL SPEED BEHIND KABIR AS IF SHE’S PT USHA. SIS, TUMHARE PAIR HAIN KI KYA HAIN? YOU'RE LONG OVERDUE FOR AN INTENSE PEDICURE AFTER THIS WEEK.
and ofc, he got into a getaway car and made it away.
yeh lo, iss beech mein dadi behosh. ouff.
whooooooooops, dadi has some weird blue nishaan on her neck.
LMAO KABIR SHOT AT RIDDHIMA WITH A POISON BULLET OR SYRINGE OR SOME SHIT, WHICH HIT DADI INSTEAD. LMAO MAN THIS SHOW. IT'S SO FUCKING DUMB, I LOVE IT.
some more stinkeye politics between saas bahu.
bahu is passive-aggressively giving saasumaa roses to congratulate her on winning this round.
riddhima is dheent!max. she's like kuch bhi ho, i'll find the secret anyway and your victory will witherrrrrrr awayyyyyyyy like these flowerssssss and you will be left with the thorns that will prick youuuuuuuu!!!!!!!
LMAO SAAS IS FULLY ROLLING HER EYES AT RIDDHIMA'S DRAMATIC ASS #SAME
just looking at helly's ears is making my ears hurt like a bitch. 
hey riddhima, have you ever thought that maybe this secret child of hers is NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS?????? like honestly, the entitlement desis have to know the workings of other ppl’s wombs.
lol dumbass mummyji crumpled the flowers in her hand and played right into riddhima's stupid kaante waala metaphor. #ramMilayiJodi
hero ko covid hai toh ainvayi ke phone calls se kaam chalaana pad raha hai.
the dude left his house for literally the first time in months and the place is on fire and dadi got shot in the neck with poison. and the wife doesn't think she should tell him so that he doesn't become "pareshaan". sure, this seems like a dude who'll take this kinda thing real light when he finds out later.
(hint: he’s not. he’s a crazed, overprotective weirdo about his family. sound familiar?????)
this guy's dialogue delivery is so dodgy. idk what it is, it just seems so affected.
that plus the ainvayi ka editing just showing him in some random car (clearly from the earlier eps)  is just adding to the jankiness of the scene.
husband dude seems to know wifey's quirks quite well. kinda cute, kinda creepy. 
lol kal tak toh yeh banda itna romantic nahi tha. like he had a smooth moment here and there, but he was mostly real awkward and robotic and unsure how to handle These Strange New Feelings™. now he’s spouting cheesyass lines about being able to see the one who is special to you with dil ki aankhein and idk what.
who are these people who like SHARING their room with another person? #unrealistic
but i also i get you, riddhima. he was pretty much the only thing worth looking at in this room, coz the rest of it is so damn fugggggg. this room should be the one set on fire.
dang, some steamy scenes between them in the flashbacks. ouff abhi jaake episodes dhundne padenge. coz #tharkiTTisTharki
riddhima doing dadi seva. boooooooooring.
ofc dadi ki sui is always atkofied on playing cupid for pota, taaki she can score some par-pota/potis.
riddhima ki best friend ka happy birthday hai.
riddhima is like a lottttt has happened in my life, can't really tell you over a call. yup, that’s for sure. 
ok apparently sejal who said she’s in dubai now is NOT in dubai?? she's just up and flew to mumbai to "surprise" riddhima...... on HER OWN birthday? #doesNotCompute
lmao kabir's annoyance with mummy's useless glass of water. WHY DO MOMS THINK EVERYTHING CAN BE SOLVED WITH DRINKING MORE WATER?!?!?!!
now he's yelling at mom about how she's ruined everything. sure. blame the only one who's actually doing shit around here, while you sit on your ass in this room, glaring and growling like a hangry bear.
some menacing dialogue about how he needs to thikaane lagaaofy riddhima's hosh.
which has been overheard by bff sejal, who went and dropped a showpiece from shock. cool. so she gonna die. bye sejal, hardly got to know ya!
sejal being here doesn’t even make sense. she thought he was a PT teacher. then why did she show up here at his police waala office? also how did she connect the dots about the whole damn story with like 0.04% context that she got from what she overheard? kuchhhhhhh bhi.
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throbb — 59. “Don’t touch me.” 💗
Sorry, this took a while. Hope you like it!
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Robb passed the paint roller brush over the wall, covering another spot. He had to be careful and try not to step into all of the boxes around the living room, or he would have most likely broken something expensive, definitely the fancy Dornish vase his mother had got him (well, them actually) after he moved in his own (their own) place. It was somewhere in a box with the text ‘fragile’ written on it, but it was not so easy to find, since Theon had written ‘fragile’ in almost every box, ‘you try and scratch my ps5 and you’re dead’ he had told him, and Robb had replied with ‘I get that, but since when porn magazines are fragile?’.
He didn’t even know why he had agreed to move in with Theon: it wouldn’t have done him any good. Sure, on the one side, he got to see him everyday (especially when he got out the shower), but on the other, he got to see the man he fell in love with hooking up with everyone, every night.
He shook his head, trying not to think about it, and admired the wall in front of him, his hands sticky and covered in paint.
“Powder blue in the end?” he heard a voice say, but when he turned around, Theon had already disappeared into the kitchen.
“Yeah, you like that?” Robb replied, quite loudly so that his roommate could hear him.
There was a noise of a drawer opening, as Theon said: “What about Perwinkle though?”
“My bedroom, probably.” Robb smiled lightly: he was happy to know Theon listened to him when he talked about the silliest and most boring things ever, such as which color was best suitable for the walls in their brand new living room. It made him feel like... like Theon enjoyed listening to him. Well, they were best friends, of course, but Robb treasured every little things that involved the both of them, somehow thinking that, deep inside, his feelings for the black haired man were mutual for Theon. But that was just a silly and childish fantasy, and he should have stopped: Theon didn’t like him, not romantically. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have hooked up with every girl or guy he laid his eyes on: Theon was such a flirt he wouldn’t have even bothered to hit on Robb as well, if he had been interested in him. But he never did, so that meant he wasn’t. Life sucked.
“Okay, and what about the kitchen?” Theon’s voice was now clearer to hear, so Robb turned around to face his roommate: “I was thinking peach will do just fine, what do you... where are you going?” he frowned.
Theon had his hair tied in a bun, a white fancy shirt on with a few buttons left open, showing his chest hair. Black skinny jeans, expensive shoes. Robb could smell his brander perfume from the end of the room.
God, he was so damn beautiful. And the answer to his question was so obvious: he would have gone out and fucked someone, someone that wasn’t Robb, someone that would have never considered Theon in those clothes as hot as Robb thought he was. Someone who would have seen him that night only, then never again (hopefully). Someone that would have never had the chance to see Theon in his pajamas, his hair all messy, his reading glasses falling down his nose as he cursed and pushed them up again, with those stupid rainbow textured slippers and his pink glittery socks. Only Robb would have seen him in such way, yet Robb was the only one who never had the chance to see him naked.
He watched carefully as Theon rolled up the sleeve of his shirt, distractedly, and answered: “Oh some dude I met on Tinder, I should be back before 1:00am.” he shrugged, and Robb tried his best not to clench his fists.
“Oh it’s a guy this time?” he asked, his lump in his throat silently threatening to choke him.
Theon smiled. Obviously, he always smiled. He was blind as a bat in front of evidence but he smiled, and if he smiled, then he had everything and everyone wrapped around his finger.
“Yeah it’s what bisexuality implies, you heterosexual ignorant.” He chuckled.
Robb gulped, and this time he couldn’t help but clench his fists and jaw: how couldn’t he realize it? How? He so wanted to tell him but.. they had just moved in there, they just bought a house together, he didn’t want him to leave. Because he would have left, if he knew. Why should have he stayed? They were best friends, it was creepy to know your best friend was in love with you, they had slept together when they were kids! He just couldn’t tell him.
“What?” Theon said, that smirk still on his lips, his eyebrows lightly arched towards the ground, showing a small pinch of confusion.
“What?” Robb replied, trying to get his expression back to normal.
Theon shrugged simply: “You’re staring at me like I had a third eye.” he explained, then adjusted his expensive watch around his wrist. God he was so well dressed and beautiful and he just had to meet some ‘random dude I met on Tinder’. Robb could have punched him, if that wouldn’t have ruined his perfect face. Actually, I’m sure he’d look even more attractive, the damn fucker.
Robb shook his head: “No it’s just... it’s the fourth one this week.”
Theon stared at him in complete confusion: “Yeah, so what?” he started, a sound similar to a half chuckle escaping his mouth.
“It’ll do you good to try it, maybe with some dude as well: you don’t know what you’re missing, some proper ass eating is way better than a blowjob, sometimes”
Yeah but only if that was by a certain someone.
“Maybe you could show me, instead.” Robb snapped, the quietest whisper, a thought that had just been spoken out loud. But Theon heard him: “What did you just say?”
“Nothing.” Robb replied immediately, biting his tongue. Stupid dumbass.
Theon opened his mouth, his tongue touching his palate and then popping back down: “Oh that definitely wasn’t nothing, repeat it.” he said, getting closer.
Robb turned around, grabbed the paint roller brush again and went back to painting the wall: “I didn’t say a shit, Theon. Go to your motherfucking date.” he mumbled.
An amused sigh. That was what came out of Theon’s mouth.
“Oh my god, it’s bothering you.”
Robb closed his eyes: “It’s not bothering me.”
“Yes it is!” Theon sounded surprised, shocked, and that was just the reaction Robb had always feared would happen and there it was, under his eyes.
He turned back around to stare at him in the eye: it would have been painful to lie to him straight to his face, especially because Theon was his best friend and god, he was in love with him, but Theon just didn’t have to know. After a small bickering they could have made up and forgot everything, but none of that would have happened after a love confession, and this Robb knew.
So he lied: “I don’t even like you that way, Theon.”
The black haired man, his hands gripping his own hips tight, shook his head and looked away: “Well I do, instead.”
Robb blinked. Once, twice, three times.
“What?” he got to have misunderstood. He couldn’t have just said that.
“Oh for the love of god, Robb.”Theon snapped suddenly, grabbing his phone and apparently scrolling down some photos. Robb could clearly see he was nervous, or maybe just annoyed or mad, by the way his fingers were violently tapping the screen. Once he found what he was looking for, he showed Robb the picture.
“This was supposed to be my date, tonight.”
Robb stared at the dude in the picture. He had took a selfie in his bathroom mirror. He was a guy around Theon’s age, a quite good looking one. He had red curly hair, pale blue eyes and freckles on his cheek, neck and shoulders. Robb had freckles also on his arms, chest and hips and his eyes were a bit brighter than the guy’s but damn, they looked alike, and Robb just could not deny it.
He gulped again, as he tried to speak out. He wanted to say something wise, but all that came out his mouth was just: “You’re into redheads?”
Theon looked up to the ceiling, in that typical expression of his, the one that said ‘you’re so stupid it’s annoying’ that was usually saved for Jon, Robb’s brother.
“I’m into you.” he exclaimed.
“But I thought you... I mean, first Jeyne and then...” he suddenly got nervous.
“you never showed attraction towards any man, I thought you were straight.” he shrugged again, looking down at his black expensive shoes.
Robb could not believe his ears: the man he loved liked him back and never told him because... because he thought he was straight? That never stopped Theon! His motto was ‘heterosexuality doesn’t exist’ and fuck, maybe that was true, because... because...
“Maybe I am but... I like you.” Robb confessed, his cheek starting to burn and get rosier.
Now, Theon’s eyes laid on Robb’s: “You do?” he asked him. Robb could clearly see a very light shadow of hope in his brown eyes.
He sighed: well, now you have nothing left to loose, at least.
“No, I love you.” he said, regretting it right after: Theon’s face fell. Like, it literally fell: his eyes widened, his mouth opened lightly, not to smile this time. He was so shocked Robb feared he could have had a heart attack.
“You do?” he whispered.
Robb shrugged, and nodded distractedly, straight straight into the paint can: “You heard that.”
As he looked away, he heard steps approaching him. Three steps, exactly three steps. And suddenly he could feel Theon’s breath against his own.
“I’ve been loving you since we were kids and... all this time, you have loved me back?” Theon said, still whispering, his eyes still shocked, wide and confused.
Robb nodded, very slowly: “Apparently.”
Their noses brushed together, shyly. Theon rested a hand on his hip: “Can... can I kiss you?”
Like you even had to ask for it, you asshole.
Robb hugged Theon by his waist, tight, and smashed their lips together in an angry but loving and desperate kiss. He had dreamed of doing it for so long. Dreaming Theon wouldn’t pull back, dreaming they could stay like that forever or do it everytime they wanted. Waking up every single day next to each other and sharing a good morning kiss. Saying goodbye to each other when they had to leave for work with a kiss. Giving each other a welcome home kiss when one of them got back from work and the other made dinner. Cuddling and kissing each other while sitting on the couch watching tv. Then going to bed, and kiss each other hungrily as they made love. And finally, kissing each other goodnight before starting it all again the next day. It was all Robb craved the most. And it was happening, right now.
Theon pulled away, gently, his smirk back on his now puffier and rosier lips. He looked down at his shirt, and they both noticed the powder blue fingertips Robb had left on his fancy white shirt.
“Fuck, you ruined my shirt.” he complained, reaching out to slightly push Robb’s shoulder.
Robb huffed: “Too bad.” he said, then got the craziest idea: he dunked both his hands into the paint can and before Theon could realize it, he started leaving handprints and spots all over his shirt.
“No!” The black haired man yelled, trying to escape Robb’s grip.
“Hey, hey! Don’t touch me, no! That was my good shirt.” he lowered his head, surrendering, as Robb’s hands hugged him from behind, his face resting on his shoulder.
“I suppose you can’t go to your date now.” Robb whispered to his ear.
Theon let out a complaining whine, pulling his head back: “Who the fuck cares about my date, that was my favorite shirt!”
Robb puffed, pressing a kiss to his slender neck: “You have at least thirty more in your closet.” he replied, rolling his eyes.
Theon smiled lightly, as Robb nuzzled his face into his neck once more: “Yeah I guess you’re right.”
He rested his hands above Robb’s, caressing them gently with his fingertips, uncaring of the fresh paint.
“I still can’t believe it.” he murmured, happily.
In response, Robb snorted: “You better get used to it, then.” he smacked a loud kiss on his cheek.
“Now, what were you saying about ass eating?”
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Alright, y’all, it’s time for me to get to the second half of Where Your Eyes Linger. I am anticipating that it’s going to make me feel even MORE things than the first half, because that’s just what these BL dramas like to do to my poor fragile heart. If you remember we left off with Tae-joo being a whiny little baby and making Kang-gook WALK HOME because he got jealous of the date he made Kang-gook go in the first place. 
Let’s see if this idiot can get his shit together. (I’m thinking no.)
EPISODE FIVE:
Okay, he has immediately regretted his decision and told the driver to turn around. There may be hope for him yet!
He’s mad... at Kang-gook... for walking home... after he told him to walk home?! Boy!
Kang-gook may love this boy but he is also tired of his shit.
Okay okay okay. We’re starting to reflect and look at our actions. This is good! This is progress! I’m proud of you, Tae-joo. 👍
So they’re in the same bed again. They definitely sleep this way every night. WHY?! What is the heterosexual explanation for this? There is none. Everyone knows there is none. Except Tae-joo. He thinks this is normal. It's not normal, Tae-joo.
That’s the second time he’s mentioned his mom! Okay, I’ve now gone from wanting to smack Tae-joo upside the head to wanting to cuddle him until he feels better. Kang-gook... go cuddle him until he feels better!
Kang-gook, you won’t even let him cuddle when he’s missing his mom!?
“I’m sad.” BABY!! SOMEONE TAKE CARE OF THIS BOY!
Oh thank goodness. Finally my precious child gets a cuddle. (But it hurt Kang-gook a little to do it and that makes ME sad!)
Okay, I really adore Hyemi. She is so awkward and precious.
HA! ‘You have a bad personality.’ I love her so much.
This is the weirdest game of dodgeball I’ve ever seen. In America we use like 20 balls and it’s like a medieval war zone with people dying left and right. This is so... tame and polite.
Tae-joo is jealous again...
 I love how they’re both fighting for a spot behind Kang-gook. Like, guys, he’s built like a bear, there’s room for you both!
Ooooooh! The betrayal!!!! 😲
And then Hyemi just runs! Good choice. Good choice.
This whole conversation hurts.
Kang-gook, that is not what he wants and you know it! You’ve been repressing your own feelings for so long, now Tae-joo is staring at you like THAT and you want to spar? You are both so useless.
The episode ends THERE?!?!!!!
Where’s the ‘NEXT’ button?!
EPISODE SIX:
Oh shit! That is the WRONG person to have see them. I don’t know what’s going on with this guy, but I don’t like him!
Okay, but now he’s trying to stop Hyemi from seeing them. Is he protecting them, or her? Either way it’s kind of sweet. Is he going to make me like him?
Bonding over disliking Tae-joo. I can get behind this. (Look, I like Tae-joo, really, especially since that ‘hug me, I’m sad’ moment. But he’s arrogant and selfish. He needs people in his life who are willing to tell him that.)
Kang-gook has been in love with Tae-joo for how long? And now he finally gets the opportunity to kiss him and he just...shoves him away. Damn your sense of propriety, boy!
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT EPISODE TITLE?!!!?!!!!!! I don’t like it!!!!!!!
But Kang-gook is very cute pulling Tae-joo around by the wrist like a naughty toddler.
Aaaand Tae-joo is being a pouty baby again.
Oof, Tae-joo is throwing Kang-gook’s words back at him.
‘If we talk about this, we can’t do this for life.’ Oh no! Kang-gook is so worried about losing him. This is not the way to fix it though!
Oh! I did not see a confession coming just like that!
Kang-gook, baby, no! I don’t think he’s acting like this because he sees you as a parental figure/care-giver. That is NOT what this is about.
“I can live without you, you can’t.’ FIRST OF ALL, NO! Second of all, HOW DARE YOU! Kang-gook, what what WHAT are you doing?!!! Why are you trying to hurt him?!
KANG-GOOK WTF?!?!!!!
This hurts and I don’t like it!!! Kang-gook, what have you done?! He’s crying, you’re crying, he’s telling you to leave! SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW!! 😢
Okay, if Kang-gook wasn’t already in love with Tae-joo (even if he’s being an ASS about it!!) he and Hyemi would actually be really cute together. Her little doll is adorable.
‘I’m not having a hard time.’ What the fuck just happened in the gym then?!!! I’m using so many exclamation points right now and it’s all your fault. Not having a hard time. Go apologize to the man you love right now!
He bought Tae-joo chocolate milk. I can’t.
OH SHIT! What happened at the house?!
There is no fucking rest here. NEXT NEXT NEXT!
EPISODE SEVEN:
Okay, so we picked up a few minutes before Kang-gook gets home to the house that has been - what, broken into? Robbed? Worse?! Where is Tae-joo?!!! - and Kang-gook says they just have to make up like they always have before. BOY! You told him the happiest you’ve ever been was when he was IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY! How do you ‘just make up’ from that! Uhg! Boys are so dumb. 😤
Oh god, I was right! Tae-joo is gone!!!!
Kang-gook sounds so scared and lost!
Oh, that bastard! He told on them?!
Oh. Oh no. He was spying on them to protect his dad?
As if I didn’t hate Tae-joo’s dad already, now I just want to stab him in the face with something dull and rusty!
Aww, come on. I get why Kang-gook is mad, but honestly I feel sorry for this guy. Not only did Tae-joo steal 3 of his girlfriends, but then he was forced to spy on them and tell their secrets in order to protect his family. This guy is not a bad guy, he’s in the same boat they are, being controlled by the chairman. Poor thing.
Nooo! Baby, you’re not trash! You didn’t have a choice! Oh gosh, this guy (whose name I can’t freaking remember even though it was literally JUST on my screen) is now part of the ‘I will protect you, you sweet small bean’ club. It includes Tae-joo, Hyemi, and now this guy. Kang-gook WAS on that list, but he got kicked off when he was mean to Tae-joo.
Oh god. Tae-joo just kneeling there in front of his father and his lackeys... he looks so small and vulnerable! 🥺
Not only is he begging his father not to hurt the man he loves, but he also thinks he’s the only one that feels that way and my heart is CRYING!
There’s that ‘do whatever you want to me but don’t hurt the people I love’ thing again. He knows he’s in trouble, he looks so scared and alone, but damn it if he isn’t going to protect his mother, even if she’s gone. This boy!
Oh! The look on Tae-joo’s face when Kang-gook arrived! He really didn’t think he’d come.
He’s really just going to do this, huh? Take on all these people to get to Tae-joo while monologueing about how he doesn’t want to be separated from him. It’s okay. I didn’t need my heart anyway!
Oh god! That eye-contact through the window! Tae-joo looks so heartbroken watching Kang-gook get hurt!
And Kang-gook finally realizing what he feels is love while he’s bleeding on the ground, tears in his eyes while he looks at the person he has spent his whole life devoted to!
He can’t keep his eyes of Tae-joo! My heart!!!
This. Is too much. To handle.
EPISODE EIGHT:
Oh god! He went through all of that for five minutes with Tae-joo! What, to say goodbye?! No!
I want to murder this asshole and feed him to wild dogs! Stop hurting my baby! 😡 (Kang-gook is officially back on the small bean protection squad!) 
The look on Tae-joo’s face as he watches Kang-gook get beaten for him! 😢
No! Don’t go to England! Tae-joo, don’t give your father what he wants!
He sounds so broken and sad and alone. My baby!
He’s asking for one more night with Kang-gook before he goes... 😫
And now it’s Tae-joo’s turn to take care of Kang-gook. I can’t.
Everything about this hurts. Kang-gook finally confessing his feelings in return, Tae-joo refusing to kiss Kang-gook (why Tae-joo? because it would be too hard to live with the knowledge of his kiss when you know you’re leaving?).
‘My dream is to live happily, and I’m happiest when I’m with you.’
That... is the most romantic line... ever. He doesn’t want money, or power, or any of this things his father wants him to have. He just wants to be happy, and Kang-gook is his happiness. I’m just...........
Noooo! He doesn’t even say goodbye one last time?! He just leaves when he thinks Kang-gook is sleeping?!
Kang-gook’s just waiting for him to come back but he DOESN’T! 😭
What... is happening? What is going on? I’m very confused. There was a strange scene at the end of the last episode that I thought was, like... a preview for this one... but now Kang-gook is leaving the Choi’s restaurant. When did he start working there in the first place? I’m very confused. (Also... I’m sorry... that yellow sweater... is awful on him. Like... it’s so bad? And that hair cut... is so bad. This whole look on him is not good. Not good.)
Wait... are Hyemi and the not-bad-guy dating? Okay, that’s kind of cute.
Oh, ouch. Hyemi’s mom is brutal.
Aaw, and him and Kang-gook are friends now. That’s cute. But also confusing! How long has it been since Tae-joo left? It JUST happened, but everything’s changed, so time must have passed. Did I miss something?
Kang-gook: *beats the crap out of 3 trained bodyguards* Mrs. Choi: our Gook-y is so weak and frail!
Oh now they tell us! Three years?! I am not okay with this! Going to Japan to FORGET Tae-joo? I’m REALLY not okay with this! 😟
Oh god, he looks so much better this way. The blazer, the hair... so much better!
Seriously, he looks like a completely different person. He’s a very attractive man. That restaurant look was just.. so not good for him.
Oh!
Tae-joo came back for him just like he promised!!!
Haha! Yes, Tae-joo. Yes, he did get more handsome!
Yes, please run away together...
Aaaaah the ear rub! My heart! 🥰
YES! Kang-gook, get your man!
Oh gosh, is there anything better than smiling into a kiss because you’re so happy? Now I’M so happy! 💖💖💖
Okay, wow. That last episode was a damn roller coaster! This show definitely would have benefited from another hour or two to really explore a lot of these plot points, especially the three years they were apart. But I’ve read that just getting this show made in the first place was a huge success for LGBTQ+ representation in South Korea, so honestly everything this show was, was so good! So so good! (I also hear that the same production company is coming out with another one, Mr. Heart, so I’ll be looking for that one!)
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TWENTY SIX²⁶
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"Yo why the FUCK my ballsack smell like doritos."
Jin punched Yoongi in the head and then grabbed his glass of whiskey from his hand. "This is why we tell you not to drink."
"Nerd." Yoongi mumbled, and then flopped onto Hoseok's lap. Hoseok carded his fingers through Yoongi's hair, and then leaned down to kiss Yoongi's forehead. The older hummed with a small smile emerging on his face, and Hoseok sighed.
"God, you're cute." Hoseok whispered, kissing his nose lightly. Yoongi smiled up at him, blush adorning his pale cheeks.
"Heterosexuality is a disease."
"Jimin we're literally gay."
"And?"
Yoongi rolled his eyes and Jimin giggled, spinning on the spinny captain's chair. Him, Jin, Yoongi, Hoseok,  and Taehyung were in the ship as they were all sleepy from working all day. Namjoon was still outside on the planet.
"Hobi didn't you say the ship's gonna explode or something.." Taehyung trailed.
"Life's about taking risks."
"Not if we fucking die."
"It's fine I fixed it earlier today." Hoseok said, waving his hand to shrug it off.
"Aw, babe, you're so good at fixing stuff." Yoongi whispered, leaning up to kiss him. Hoseok smiled, grabbing him and kissing him hard.
"Get a fucking room." Jin said in disgust, and suddenly the control room door opened.
A big yawn made all their heads turn towards the cherry haired by standing by the doorway, clad in nothing but tiny boxers. "Good morning."
"It's night time. You slept all day." Jin informed dully, and Jungkook walked up to Taehyung, his eyes looking starry.
"Taehyung~" Jungkook whispered, grabbing Taehyung by the arms and pulling him close, the silver haired boy surprised at this deposition. He grabbed Jungkook's waist, and Jungkook pressed their lips together instantly, letting Taehyung ease himself into the kiss and kiss him back.
"Woah- it's like.. gay city up in here." Jimin said, and Taehyung pulled away from the kiss, and then looked at Jungkook with a little confusion.
"You okay, cherry? Never been so affectionate before," Taehyung chuckled, and then saw how Jungkook's eyes were dilated, lips bitten red. He then felt Jungkook press himself a little onto Taehyung, and something hard touch his thigh.
"Oh." Taehyung let out, a little breathless. He'd only seen Jungkook so needy once before, but this was a different kind of needy. Jungkook looked like he was in some sort of a trance. A little... lost.
"Jungkook you alright?" Hoseok asked, and Taehyung looked up and found all the other boys looking at the two, wondering why Jungkook was being so unresponsive.
"Um- yeah, he's fine." Taehyung replied quickly, and then grabbed Jungkook from the waist and below his thighs and lifted him, younger letting out a gasp of surprise, and threw him over his shoulder.
Jungkook didn't respond, just let Taehyung carry him out of control room. Taehyung walked into his own room, upto his bed, and then dropped Jungkook onto it. Jungkook fell face front, and Taehyung said, looking at the boy.
"Jungkook, are you alright?" Taehyung asked, worried it was something bad. Worried Jungkook was acting like this because...
Jungkook, again, didn't respond. Just lifted his ass up in the air, face pressed into the bed, legs spread apart, and then whined.
Taehyung's cock twitched at the sight of Jungkook's plush ass presented in front of him like that, but he couldn't/shouldn't. He grabbed Jungkook's waist and turned him around.
"What's gotten into you?" Taehyung asked, and Jungkook looked at Taehyung, and then pointed a finger at him.
"Everything but you!" Jungkook snapped, and Taehyung frowned. "You.. haven't.. gotten into me." Jungkook said, threateningly poking Taehyung's chest with his finger.
Taehyung's mouth went dry when Jungkook humphed and then looked to the side, crossing his arms. "W-what?" Taehyung let out, and Jungkook looked at him.
"I want you!" Jungkook shouted, looking up at him with, perhaps, the cutest glare Taehyung had ever seen. "Your- your big, hard, bulbous aching blue veiny thick fat cock in my asshole-"
"Jesus christ- stop-" Taehyung snapped, smacking Jungkook's head lightly to shut him up. Jungkook looked away, upset. So Taehyung sat down on the bed beside him, let out a soft sigh. "What's going on, Kooks?"
"Taehyung I-" Jungkook started, and then looked at the older. His grey eyes, his light grey eyes, how gorgeous they were. "I-I threw up."
Taehyung's mind faltered. "What?"
"I woke up an hour ago a-and threw up in the toilet." Jungkook whispered. "I've been throwing up every morning for the past week."
Taehyung stilled.
"I-I feel like... I just- I-I feel like-" Jungkook started, and Taehyung placed his hand on Jungkook's thigh.
"Feel- feel like what? Tell me," Taehyung insisted, feeling an anxiousness creep in his stomach.
"I feel like I'm pregnant."
Taehyung's breath hitched, heart dropped to his stomach. "W-what?"
"Pregnant.." Jungkook trailed while looking at Taehyung. "..with jello shots."
Taehyung paused again, this time frowning. "What?"
"I took 23 jello shots."
"Why the fuck did you do that?"
"I was hungry-"
"Why didn't you eat a fucking sandwich or something like a normal goddamn human being-"
"Because there were a packet of jello shots lying in the fridge for some fucking reason and I wasn't gonna let food go to waste-"
"Jungkook! Why would you drink alcohol, I-" Taehyung started, and then got up, taking a deep breath. "Is that why you're acting weird? Because you're drunk?" Taehyung asked.
Jungkook nodded, lying down on the bed, turning a little and wiggling his ass in front of Taehyung. "Drunk and hornyyyyyy-"
"Fuck's sake. You shouldn't be drinking alone, Kook. Or at all." Taehyung mumbled the last part under his breath, and Jungkook groaned.
"You shouldn't be... breathing.. but you don't catch me talking shit.." Jungkook grumbled, and Taehyung rolled his eyes.
"Go to sleep right now, I'm going outside to fix.. this." Taehyung said, waving his hands around. Jungkook sighed, and Taehyung walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.
The moment he did, he ran into the control room where all the other boys were, screamed, and then ran out. The boys saw that happen and continued their conversation, meanwhile Taehyung ran out of the ship and onto the steps leading down to the ground of the planet. There he saw Namjoon lying on the floor face first.
"Guys Namjoon fucking died!" Taehyung cried.
The boys rushed to the door of the ship, and Namjoon lifted his head up. "I've not died. I'm here. I'm- I'm alive and- I've not died-" Namjoon said groggily, and Jin rushed up to him.
"It's hot as fuck here, Joon-" Jin said, helping the purple haired boy up. "Come inside the ship, you've been out all day."
"But the- the tracking of other planets- building- house- ..finding.. ship... planet... volcano.." Namjoon trailed, clearly sleep deprived and exhausted.
Jin sighed and reached down, lifting Namjoon up bridal style. "If you keep going like this you'll lose your mind. You need some sleep like the rest of us." Jin said, carrying him inside.
Namjoon looked at him sleepily, and Jin huffed. "You've worked so hard, Joonie. You deserve some rest too, no?"
"I-I do?" Namjoon asked softly, and Jin smiled down at him, carrying him into his room, kicking the door open and carrying him to the bed.
"Of course you do." Jin replied, and then laid Namjoon down onto his bed.
Namjoon grabbed Jin's shirt before he could reach away and grabbed him close. "Hm.. Jin.. you're so pretty." Namjoon whispered.
"You too, Namjoonie." Jin whispered back, and before they could kiss, Namjoon fell asleep, head falling onto the pillows, eyelids sliding shut.
Jin smiled fondly, taking the blanket and laying it atop of him. He closed the lights (kissed his forehead) and then walked out his room, closing the door behind him.
Jin walked to Taehyung's room where he heard some sounds and walked inside. He saw Jungkook lying on the floor, taking a packet of empty jello shots and throwing them into the trashcan.
"Slam dunk." Jungkook squeaked sadly, and Jin furrowed his brows in upset, crouching down on the floor beside him.
"What's wrong cherry?"
"Taehyung.." Jungkook trailed, looking at Jin. "And you. And Jimin.. Yoongi.. and Hoseok.. and Namjoonie." Jungkook said sadly. " You guys think I'm useless."
Jin frowned. "No we don't."
"You didn't let me talk yesterday." Jungkook said, and Jin sat down beside him properly.
"Listen, you know we don't have bad intent, right? If we didn't let you speak, it was purely out of us being anxious as fuck and rushing. Don't think we don't value your opinion. It's just that you're not as experienced as.. say, Namjoon, or- or Yoongi. It's nothing against you, kiddo. I'm sorry if we made you feel bad." Jin said.
Jungkook nodded his head. "Made- made me feel like when I was a kid. My parents never listened to me. Neither did my teachers. E-everyone knows I got into space academy because my parents are rich." Jungkook said, looking at Jin. "I-I wish I was good at stuff."
"You are! You are good at stuff, Kooks- you're just young, you haven't.. unleashed your full potential yet- god, I sound like my mom." Jin mumbled, and Jungkook giggled.
"How about this- change into comfy clothes and come to the control room. We'll drink some hot chocolate and all get sober and go to sleep well, yeah?" Jin said with a smile, and Jungkook smiled back.
"That sounds cool." Jungkook said, and Jin patted his head. "Great. I'll see you."
Jin walked out of Jungkook's room and towards the control room. When he walked in, he heard a gasp.
"Please say sike." Jimin pleaded.
Taehyung shook his head. "I-I wish I could. I'm not kidding, Jimin- he- he said he's been having morning sicknesses, and if this chocolate semen tasting soulmate - enemy ritual thing is correct-"
"What happened?" Jin asked, ignoring Yoongi and Hoseok who were making out in the corner.
"Nothing." Taehyung said quickly, and Jimin shot Taehyung a look, and Taehyung glared at him to shut up.
"Okay.. anyways. Yoongi, Hoseok, stop making out." Jin snapped, and both boys stopped and looked at Jin, pissed. "Jungkook's coming here. We were kinda mean to him this morning, if you noticed. So let's just listen to what he has to say and be nice, okay?"
All the boys nodded, and right then, the door opened and Jungkook walked in. "Let's get this bread."
"Hey cherry. You feeling less drunk?" Taehyung asked, and Jungkook nodded, dressing in pajamas now.
"Right- Kook, you had some ideas this morning, right? We sure could use some right now," Yoongi said, and Jungkook gasped, eyes going big.
"R-really? Oh! I-I have many! I really wanna help!" Jungkook said excitedly, and the boys sat down onto the floor, making themselves comfortable. Yoongi nodded.
"Go ahead, Kook." Jimin said, and Jungkook rushed to sit down beside Taehyung.
"Okay! So I wrote stuff down on my hand-" Jungkook said, looking at his palm closely. He read it for a few seconds, and then looked up, smiling.
"We send a signal to other nearby satellites which could hopefully pick us up and help us!" Jungkook said, grinning.
There was a bit of a pause, and then Jungkook heard a clearing of a throat. "Um- Kook.. if there were satellites here, we wouldn't be lost. The reason we are lost is because there aren't any satellites nearby..." Hoseok trailed.
Jungkook looked at him for a few seconds, and then looked back at his hand. "Right- um.. we could- we could find some local aliens and- and get help from-"
"No aliens inhabiting this planet, Kooks." Yoongi said.
"Right. I-I don't know why I wrote that." Jungkook chuckled nervously, and then looked at his hand again. He read the next line, and smiled a little. "Okay! This one's good! We could- we could export food to other planets in exchange for resources-"
"Namjoon told us first week, Kookie, that planets don't want to exchange resources for food." Jin said softly. Jungkook stopped talking, looking at him a little confused.
"If anything they want something like gold or diamonds or something worth something all over the universe. Plus, we can't even give much food-" Jimin said.
"Yeah, and we need it for ourselves, and we don't really need money-"
"S-sorry." Jungkook said quickly, and then looked down, looking at his hand one more time. "W-we could- m-message the-"
"We don't have our tablets." Yoongi said, and Jungkook looked at him. "They got stolen by that girl you brought, remember?" He said gently, but it felt harsh to Jungkook.
Jungkook looked down at his hand, and then saw Taehyung looking at him hesitantly. Jungkook instantly put his hand away. "I-I'm sorry. My ideas a-are all stupid. Sorry." Jungkook stammered, and Taehyung put his hand on Jungkook's back.
"It's fine, Jungkook. You- you can help out in other things, like the house and exploring the planet." Taehyung said softly, rubbing his back gently.
Jungkook nodded, looking down still. Taehyung looked at him closely, and then saw tears reach Jungkook's eyes.
"Your ideas aren't bad, Kookie. In fact they're good- they just can't be implemented right now, it's not your fault-" Jimin started, and Jungkook got up from the floor and rushed out of the control room.
Taehyung sighed, getting up himself. He looked at the other guys, who all looked sheepish. "C'mon, Tae, we weren't trying to be mean.." Hoseok trailed, and Taehyung gave them a firm look and then rushed out of the room himself.
Taehyung saw Jungkook sitting by the engine room, hands against his face, back against the wall as he cried. Taehyung felt his heart seize up at that, feeling a little bit of pain in his mind.
"Kookie-" Taehyung let out, stumbling over to him. Jungkook looked up at him.
"T-Tae-" Jungkook cried out weakly, and Taehyung fell onto his knees in front of where he was sitting on the floor, and grabbed his cheeks in his hands. "Sshh.. shh.. don't- don't cry-" Taehyung whispered, reaching forward and pressing soft kisses to his damp cheeks, feeling salted tears against his lips.
Jungkook whimpered, looking at Taehyung. "I-I'm so useless, I s-should've just been l-left at K-King Bing's planet and become a-a dumb breeding slut- a-atleast I would've been of s-some use-"
"Woah-" Taehyung said, looking at him with a frown. "Don't say that. You're not useless, Kook, you- you can do a lot, you just-"
"I know!" Jungkook snapped. "I c-can do a lot, but I'm not, am I? I-I'm just sitting here, wasting everyone's time, with no good ideas and of no help! I'm useless, Tae. I'm nothing."
"You're not nothing. You're everything to me, I don't care that your ideas were a little dumb." Taehyung said, and Jungkook looked up at him. "You're not useless. You being here is more than enough."
Taehyung was saying a lot, but none of it was registering in Jungkook's brain. All he could keep thinking was how useless he was. How brainless, useless, idiotic he was. He needs- he needs to be of some use.. of some help. He needs them to see him as someone important too. Whatever it takes, he has to-
"Next mission, I'll lead." Jungkook said suddenly, and Taehyung raised a brow.
"Not if it's dangerous."
"Even if it is, I'm gonna do it. And only me." Jungkook said, and Taehyung sighed.
"Cherry.."
"No! Don't do that, Tae. I-I want to do this. I don't care how dangerous it is. I'm gonna do it." Jungkook said firmly, and Taehyung rolled his eyes, and then leaned down to kiss Jungkook's lips.
"Alright, my hot-headed baby. Now let's get some sleep, yeah?" Taehyung said, and Jungkook blushed and nodded.
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klaineanummel · 4 years
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looking for something that’ll (never) come 1/6
Blaine Anderson-Chang knows that his crush on his brother’s best friend, straight football star Kurt Hummel, is foolhardy. But every now and then Kurt gives him a look and Blaine can’t help but wonder.
Hey everyone!! Welcome to my newest fic :D This is a fic I’ve been wanting to write for ages, and am finally getting around to hehe it’s a fill for a prompt on the Glee Prompt Meme (link on AO3 and in the sidebar). This fic is complete, and I’m hoping to post it in its entirety over the course of the next two weeks or so. Hope you enjoy!! 
Title from I’ve Been Waiting by Lil Peep
Blaine doesn’t have to be looking at Tina to hear the eye roll in the, “Oh my god,” she lets out when she pulls up in front of Blaine’s house.
Blaine forces his eyes away from the black Escalade parked next to his driveway, turning to his friend with a, “What?”
Tina sighs, leaning her forearms on the wheel. “Blaine.”
“What?” Blaine repeats, knowing he sounds totally unconvincing in his confusion. He knows he sat up a little straighter when he’d seen the car, and he can’t remember doing it but he’s pretty sure he did that little excited wiggle that Tina and Sam are always making fun of him for.
He’s never claimed to be a subtle person.
“Just… chill, okay?”
He rolls his eyes. “I’m chill.”
Tina raises an eyebrow. “You did the wiggle, pal.”
Yep, there it is. “Maybe I’m just excited to be home. Not have to see you anymore today.” He sticks his tongue out as he says it, hoping it will distract her.
This time he does see her roll her eyes. “Sure, Blaine. Whatever you say.”
He sighs, moving his messenger bag strap onto his shoulder and clutching it tight in his lap. He opens the door and sets one foot on the sidewalk. Then, he turns back to her and says, “It’s not because of Kurt.”
She frowns in faux-confusion. “I didn’t say anything about Kurt.”
He groans, and fully steps out of the car. He doesn’t close the door just yet, though, instead leaning against the top of it so he can still see Tina. “Thank you for driving me home.”
“Thank you for helping me pick out my prom dress,” she replies, still staring at him completely unimpressed. She glances past him, to his house, then looks back at him and says, “Text me later, okay?”
He snorts. It’s one of the things he loves most about Tina – she may give him shit, but at the end of the day she lives for the drama. No matter how much she disapproves of his crush, he knows he can always go to her with all the sordid details of whatever minute interaction he is overthinking. It’s great. Like having both the devil and the angel on his shoulder wrapped up in one person.
“You know I will,” he says, winking at her. “See you tomorrow.”
“Bye, Blaine,” she wiggles her fingers as he finally shuts the door.
He heads up to his house, pulling out his keys and turning briefly to give Tina a final wave goodbye as she drives away. He then takes a deep breath and unlocks the door.
The first thing he hears is the sound of the TV from the living room, just a little louder than he knows Mama J likes it. He takes off his outside shoes and slips into his slippers, setting his keys on the hook with his name written above it in Mama P’s neat script.
He decides to drop his things off in his room before braving the living room, so he hurries straight up the stairs. When he reaches the top, he hears a couple of voices saying, “Come on, come on,” followed by a loud cheer a few seconds later. He shakes his head, smiling to himself as he walks into his room.
He hangs up his messenger bag on his coatrack, then heads to his closet, opening the left door so he can see himself in the reflection.
He knows it’s stupid to be concerned about how he looks. Kurt has seen him stumbling out of the bathroom at 2 o’clock in the morning with toothpaste still smeared on his face. He was front and center for the inside-out sweater vest ordeal. He’s even seen Blaine without hair gel, for goodness sake.
Still, he can’t help it. He wants to look nice.
He wants Kurt to think he looks nice.
He fixes his hair a little bit, tucks his polo back into his jeans, and adjusts the cuffs of his jeans slightly. He looks himself over for a moment more, then nods approvingly and closes his closet door, heading back downstairs before he can work himself up too much.
He’s just reached the bottom of the stairs when he hears Mike call out, “Blaine? Is that you?”
Blaine heads to the living room, poking his head in as though he’s just stopping in on the way to the kitchen. “Yeah, it’s me.”
Their living room is full of teenage boys. Three on the couch, two on the loveseat, and Kurt, as always, lounging in the recliner. They all look up at him when he speaks, and Finn even graces him with a wave. Then, as soon as he had the eyes of six football players on him, he no longer does, the pull of the football game far too strong.
As subtly as he can, Blaine flicks his eyes over to where Kurt is sitting, leaned forward with his legs spread wide, elbows rested on his thighs. He’s still watching Blaine, smirking a little, and Blaine looks away quickly, already feeling a blush creeping into his cheeks.
“Hey,” Mike says, grinning at him. He scoots a little down on the couch, forcing Finn and Matt to squish together even more. “You wanna join us?”
Blaine glances at the TV, wrinkling his nose a little. He doesn’t really care for either of the teams playing, and as much as he’d love to be in the same room as Kurt for the next hour or so, he does have a lot of homework to do.
Plus, he’s been informed very indelicately by his friends that he is completely obvious about his crush, and he isn’t sure if he should put himself in a position of being caught staring at Kurt for an hour straight.
“I think I’ll pass for today, but thanks.”
“Aw, come on,” Kurt speaks up, still smirking, and Blaine’s heart skips a beat in his chest. “Bobcats, man. We’re destroying the Ravens.”
Blaine scrunches up his face a bit. “More of a college football guy, to be honest.”
“Dude, he said no,” Finn says, shoving Mike back over on the couch. “There isn’t really any room for him here anyway.”
“Yeah, cause you’re on here,” Mike replies, shoving Finn right back. “Besides, Blaine is small. You could fit two of him where you’re sitting.”
Finn just laughs, but Blaine finds himself blushing a little at that. Small isn’t exactly the word he wants his brother’s friends associating him with. Especially one of them.
“I got tons of room over here,” Kurt says, wiggling his eyebrows.
Now he’s definitely blushing, but he manages to hit back with, “Careful Kurt, I might take you up on that.”
A couple of the guys laugh, but Kurt just keeps watching him, smirk still firmly in place.
God, Blaine cannot figure him out.
Without saying anything else, Blaine removes his head from the living room and heads down to the kitchen. He immediately pulls out a glass and grabs some water from the fridge, sipping it slowly.
The thing is, he knows Kurt’s straight. It’s kind of the biggest reason that Sam and Tina give him so much shit over his crush. And he’s not just like, average straight, he’s really straight. Football player who dates cheerleaders straight. Drives an Escalade straight. Texts girls late at night asking if they’re up with the eggplant emoji straight.
But he also does things like stare at Blaine intensely whilst smirking. Or ask him to share a recliner that’s barely large enough for just Kurt. Or text him whenever he’s drunk, asking why he never comes to parties with Mike. Or get really annoyed when Blaine doesn’t come to one of their football games, and then really excited whenever he does.
He doesn’t want to be that guy that’s constantly wondering what if, especially since he’s specifically heard Kurt call himself heterosexual on multiple occasions and he really wants to respect that, but sometimes he can’t help it.
Maybe it’s just the hopeless romantic in him.
He sets his glass of water by the sink, then walks over to the cupboard Mama J always keeps stocked with junk food and pulls out a half-full pack of Oreos. He picks five out, then puts the pack back and leans against the counter, biting into the first one slowly.
“Yo, Mini AC.”
He looks up, eyes wide as Kurt walks into the kitchen. He has to force himself not to obviously check Kurt out, but it’s so hard because, damn, he had not noticed earlier exactly how tight the t-shirt Kurt is wearing is.
“Hey,” Blaine replies after swallowing the cookie in his mouth. Kurt walks right up to him until he’s leaning next to Blaine on the counter.
He grins down at Blaine, then reaches out and steals one of Blaine’s Oreos. It brings their bodies slightly closer, their hips now brushing together ever so slightly.
Blaine is pretty sure he’s no longer breathing.
“You’re weird, you know that?”
“Huh?” It comes out like an exhale of breath.
“Why do you always eat your snacks in the kitchen?” Kurt takes a bite out of his cookie. “A normal person,” he continues, mouth full of cookie, “would grab his snacks and,” he swallows, “take them up to his room. Or out into the living room, where his friends are.”
Blaine swallows thickly. “Well,” he says, tongue feeling thick as he watches Kurt pop the other half of the Oreo into his mouth. “I don’t like to eat in my room because I hate crumbs. And, uh,” he glances at the doorway just as a loud cheer erupts form the living room. “You guys are really more Mike’s friends. Don’t want to cramp his style.”
“You hate crumbs,” Kurt mutters, grinning and shaking his head. “You’re really something else.”
Blaine presses his lips together to stop the ear-to-ear grin he can feel himself wanting to break into.
“But you’re wrong about the second part,” Kurt says, leaning over to steal another one of Blaine’s cookies. “We’re your friends, too. I mean, christ, we’ve been parking our asses on that couch for like ten years now. You even join us sometimes,” he nudges Blaine with his elbow, and it pushes him away just a little bit. Blaine immediately misses the warmth of Kurt’s body, and wonders if there’s a subtle way he can get close again.
“Sure,” is all he manages to say.
Kurt shakes his head, chuckling. “You coming to the game Saturday?”
Normally Blaine would play coy, see if he can get a reaction out of Kurt by saying he won’t, but, well. He can’t really pretend given what game it is. “You guys are up for the championship. Obviously, I’ll be there.”
Kurt nods. “Good. Need my good luck charm, you know.”
And that’s another thing that confuses Blaine. Because no matter what girl Kurt is currently dating, or sleeping with, or pursuing, he always calls Blaine his good luck charm. And every single time Blaine attends a game and they win, the very first thing that Kurt does is look for him in the audience and point directly at him.
Sam tells him it’s a superstitious thing, but Blaine can’t help but wonder.
“Oh, good, you’re still here,” Blaine looks away from Kurt, surprised to see Finn walking into the kitchen, too. Without thinking, Blaine inches ever so slightly further away from Kurt.
“Hey, Finn,” he says.
“Yeah, hey,” Finn waves a dismissive hand. “Look, you remember the game last weekend? Against Dalton?”
Blaine frowns, then glances up at Kurt confused. He’s hoping it’ll be a small moment of comradery between the two at Finn’s strange question, but instead he finds that any trace of a smile has disappeared from Kurt’s face. His jaw is actually jutting out a little, and he’s sending Finn a fairly icy glare.
It just makes Blaine frown more as he turns back to Finn with a, “Yeah, why?”
“Well,” Finn continues, clearly completely oblivious to Kurt’s stare. “I went to camp a few years ago with the Dalton quarterback, Sebastian Smythe. He noticed you when you came onto the field to congratulate us and thought you were really cute.”
Blaine’s eyebrows shoot up at that. “What?” He hadn’t really been paying attention to anything other than the fact that as soon as he stepped foot on the field Kurt immediately ran up to him and picked him up in a way-too-tight hug that literally swept Blaine off his feet.
“He asked if I knew you and if you’d be interested in getting coffee with him sometime,” Finn is wiggling his eyebrows as he says it, and Blaine feels his heartrate going up a little bit.
“Well, I mean,” Blaine glances up at Kurt again, and yeah, Kurt is definitely glaring at Finn. “I don’t really know him. Or what he looks like.”
“Dude, he’s totally hot for a guy,” Finn says. “And he’s like, nice and stuff. You’ll like him, for real.”
Blaine presses his lips together. He glances up at Kurt again. Kurt, who he has had a crush on for over a year. Kurt, who confuses him. Kurt, who hugs him like he’s the only person who exists but then hooks up with a cheerleader later in the night.
He’s never really been asked out before. Is he really going to say no because of a guy who can’t even return his feelings?
“Uh, sure,” he finally says, shrugging.
Finn does a tiny fist pump. “Sweet! I’ll send him your number and you can fix something up. You’ll seriously like him a lot, I swear dude.”
“Great,” Blaine says, giving a weak smile. “I’m looking forward to it.”
Finn grins at him, then turns around and leaves again. Blaine looks back up at Kurt as he goes, hoping the iciness will have left his eyes, but it hasn’t. Instead, he’s still glaring daggers where Finn just was, and his arms have come up to cross over his chest.
“That was weird, huh?” Blaine says, hoping to diffuse some of the tension. “I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever—”
“Yeah,” Kurt cuts him off. “Right. Look, I’m missing the game, so.”
He pushes off from the counter and walks out of the kitchen without even giving Blaine a chance to respond.
“Right,” Blaine says, though he knows Kurt won’t be able to hear him. “Bye, then,” he says to nobody, eyes falling down to the cookies in his hands.
He sighs, shoves one in his mouth and leaves the kitchen, eating the other one as soon as he swallows the first one.
He really hopes that Tina is home by now, because he doesn’t think just texting her is going to suffice this time.
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BECAUSE I’M NOT POPULAR, I’LL READ WATAMOTE: CHAPTER #163
Ah, summer. The season of no school, bright skies, pools, barbeques, and brief teenage romance.
Okay, so it’s not quite summer vacation yet. But nonetheless, the new season gives way for all sorts of fun shenanigans. None of it ever really enters “drama” territory (as dramatic as this series can be, that is), but as Tomoko’s last year of high school nears the halfway point, we discover that there’s still quite a bit we don’t know about our cast of knuckleheads.  
Chapter 163: Because I’m Not Popular, It’s Summer
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I think it can be inferred that Tomoko is not a morning person, is she?
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I think it can also be inferred that the once-aspiring NEET Tomoko is not a fan of hot weather. Better soak up that Vitamin D, girl.
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Parasol Lady Asuka would like to battle!
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Are parasols more prominent in Eastern culture? They’re not too terribly common where I’m from, but I imagine that may be a result of Japan having more of an aversion towards anything that would result in darker skin. Though I can also see it as a sort of fashion opportunity as well.
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I believe those were umbrellas you used, Tomoko. But semantics aside, It’s pretty neat to see that Tomoko has finally reached that stage in her life where she can recognize her cringy chuunibyou phase. Long live those days of failing miserably at being a cool anime character.
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Remember when Tomoko used to slut-shame the girls in her class? I detect a hint of hypocrisy there...
Gyaru!Asuka has already exploded on the imageboards, I guarantee it.
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A part of me wonders why Tomoko grouped Kii-chan and Yuri specifically. They don’t have similar personalities or anything, but I see two possible reasons for it. One, Kii-chan and Yuri both got that mild-mannered, “exotic” look going on. But also, it may who Tomoko subconsciously believes she’ll see the most of over the summer.
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We’ll, I mean...yeah. They would. It probably doesn’t help that Tomoko, with her lion’s mane, gives the impression of someone too physically active to care much about grooming. But as much as Tomoko derides the possibility of looking like a “sweaty day laborer”, I can’t deny that it’s not a bad look on her.  
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The reason for that should be dead obvious by now.
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The thing that amuses me is that Tomoko had no basis to start insinuating that Yuri’s a pervert. She just did, and has latched on to the idea ever since. While no doubt annoying for Yuri (even if it’s true), it’s kind of sweet if you see it as Tomoko wanting to have a shared interest with her.
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I’m sure that compared to your freckled, “crazy lesbo” best friend, it isn’t. 
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It’s funny how Nemo used to give off an air of someone who’s sexually acknowledgeable (at least to me) by virtue of being semi-popular. Now that we know’s she’s relatively pure, Tomoko will never let her live it down.  
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Komiyama really is the most two-dimensional character in the series. And you know what?
It works.
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In the education industry, we call it the “Perv Curve”.
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Komiyama: Self-explanatory.
Hatsushiba: Anatomically-correct BDSM art must have originated from somewhere.
Katou: Yet even more evidence for the almost-openly perverted girl who casually says “vagina”.
Mako: ...wait, what?  
I’m so used to perfect scores being a badge of honor in Japanese media that it through me for a loop to see it suggested as anything else. Perhaps it’s an issue similar to Home Ec in that it’s not seen as educationally significant and only those really invested in the subject would master it. Either way, how lewd. 
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Going back to Mako, I am genuinely shocked. Could Yuri’s oh-so-sweet bestie actually have a dirty side? Just when you think you know a gal! Naturally, she has just enough to shame to be embarrassed when its brought up, and I’m not ready to call out Mako as a pervert just yet. At least she has Yoshida to pat her on the back (ironic given the delinquent is now officially the purest one of the Kyoto Group).  
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My Pokémon-obsessed mind can only see them as the Haramaku Elite Four, which, given the segment’s title, is highly unoriginal of me.
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I’m 97% sure that Kawagoe’s that old geezer teacher we saw during Tomoko’s suspension. We even got that “strict about textbooks” continuity from way back when Tomoko forgot hers. 
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All signs point to Minami’s-Faceless-“Friend”-#1 recognizing someone, most likely Yuri, during this little intersection. Curse you, Nico Tanigawa and your wonderful vagueness.
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Nope. It’s not gonna work. Nuh-uh. Absolutely not. You aren’t going to make me feel sympathetic for Minami.
...
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drat.
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All that speculation has finally paid off cause we now have confirmation that Minami did(does?) in fact backbite Tomoko and Yuri. Thank goodness for Tomoko’s mental health that she never knew. But Minami’s got some nerve teasing Yuri when she’s actively Mako’s friend. Even more disturbing if Mako doesn’t realize it...
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Between that tiny smile in the last panel and her wanting to tease, it’s pretty much certain that Minami’s-Faceless-“Friend”-#1 is not a pleasant person.
Birds of the same feather truly do flock together.
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Okay, I cracked. Minami’s too adorable (and pitiful) right here.
I find it telling that even Minami’s “friends” know she’s a jerk. But if what goes around comes around, then Minami’s-Faceless-“Friend”-#1 might not realize she’s a jerk, too. Are most terrible people aware of their own terribleness? 
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I don’t want to correlate jerkiness with irresponsibility but...here we are.
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Man, that’s playing dirty. Suzuki is more than likely not that close to Minami, but any decent person wouldn’t just outright say “no” to a request like that. Of course, playing up her own supposed likeability through other’s basic kindness is Minami’s M.O.     
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In manga and anime, that sort of haughtiness from cute, snaggletoothed girls is adorable in that “sigh, there she goes again” way.
In reality, it’s just annoying as shit. 
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At first glance, Kayo’s just making an off-handed question, but my nit-picking mind says otherwise. I’m not sure how insistently heterosexual/romantic Japanese culture is towards male-female relationships, but would most teens show interest in a friend’s opposite gendered sibling? If say, Miyazaki had a little brother, would Kayo even ask Ucchi a question like that?
My theory is that Kayo is subtly trying to ascertain Ucchi’s sexuality. If the idea of Ucchi being gay for Tomoko is already planted in her head, then Kayo is using Tomoki as a “male version” for comparison. Ucchi’s already admitted to the Kuroki siblings being physically similar, so supposedly if she feels nothing towards Tomoki, then it’s Tomoko’s “femaleness” that attracts her.
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This wouldn’t even be half as funny if Ucchi didn’t have an emoji face.
If only Komiyama could see this now...
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Or, you know what? Maybe gender is irrelevant and Ucchi just has an indiscriminate gross fetish. 
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Nemo’s ultra-realistic thoughts behind her cheery demeanor are always welcome.
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For all those times that Tomoko pokes fun at Nemo for wanting to live out a slice-of-life school anime, she’s not exactly innocent either. More and more we see Tomoko trying to invoke those cliche moments, usually with little fear. It’s a rather far cry from when she’d try to pull anime tropes as a means to an end. Now she tries them out just for the sake of having fun, which is much more endearing.
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In this particular trope, however, normally you’d have a guy and girl stuck inside, where they’d ultimately become more attracted to each other through the suspension bridge effect.
Of course, that’s assuming the boy and girl aren’t already together. If they are, then storage rooms are usually used as a hiding place to make out, but that obviously would never hap–
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Oh.
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FUCK.
If memory serves, this is the same couple who were flirting(?) back in the head patting chapter. A whole lot must of went down since then, eh?
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Murphy’s Law.
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It’s been quite a long time since we’ve had one of Tomoko’s infamous freakouts. And they say this series lost its roots.
A part of me wants to think that Nemo hears Tomoko but is pretending not to just to screw with her, but I don’t think she’d be that cruel. Even if it would be hilarious.
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Just how far is your “it”, Tomoko. Making out? Groping? HANDHOLDING!?
What am I saying–she’s totally thinking sex.
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It’s interesting to note that Tomoko just assumes that Yuri and Mako have never had a boyfriend. Sure, it may be implied given we’ve never seen them have this discussion before (that we know of), but it’s still pretty presumptuous on Tomoko’s part. My only reasoning is that Tomoko is trying to ally themselves over supposed “undesirability” like many self-deprecating friends do.
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First off, I am not at all surprised given Mako’s personality.
What does surprise me is how totally betrayed Mako sounds. I can only assume that it’s a part of Mako’s past that she’d rather not reveal. While I don’t think Yuri meant any harm bringing it up, that kind of miscommunication goes to show that even though they’re best friends, Yuri and Mako don’t always see eye to eye.
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Sounds like dating to me. Or rather, sounds like dating between high schoolers. At the risk of sounding like an old-ass millennial, dating between high schoolers rarely last, despite what shoujo manga suggests. Casual dating is exactly that–casual. They’re attracted to the novelty of dating, but once that initial thrill wears off, cue the breakup. 
Side note, I just realized that Yuri loosens up her tie. I love small details like that.
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Perhaps I’m reading too much into it, but Mako seems to be suggesting that girls, on the other hand, aren’t as desperate to get boyfriends. While that isn’t necessarily true, I do see that answer as mostly a convenient excuse for Mako, who may simply just not want to be in a relationship right now.
I can see the “Mako is straight/Mako is lesbian(for Yoshida)” War right now...   
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Boy, it’s been a while since Tomoko has contemplated her own popularity, let alone try to be more popular. I guess it goes to show that even though Tomoko is more or less satisfied with her current status, she still sees herself below the bar of what constitutes “popular”. She does perpetuate feminine “purity” as an indicator of her societal value, but I’ll let it be–reality is not so kind, after all. 
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One of the more prominent questions that Yuri’s fanboys have is “How come someone as pretty as Yuri isn’t more popular with the boys?”
Well, there you go.
In terms of looks, I never thought Yuri was that unattractive in-universe. She’s in that small niche of “plain and generic, but just cute enough that fans feel they could feasibly ask out a girl like her in real life”. So while it's reasonable to think that at least one person would show interest in her, it's Yuri’s personality that ends up putting them off. She probably isn’t ready to commit to the effort of dating and being someone’s girlfriend. nor does Yuri seem that interested to begin with if her texting habits are anything to go by.
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I can’t for the life of me remember the name for it, but I believe that there’s this belief in Japan that says everybody (mostly boys) has that brief period in their life where they’re suddenly attractive and people want to date them. I imagine that Tomoko may actually reach that time in life sooner than she thinks.
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PTSD TRIGGERED!! For the readers, I mean.
For real, though. What a comeback. Who would have thought that Kosaka, that guy who was introduced in Chapter FIVE would make his grand return? Normally, making a reappearance this late in the game would feel like an asspull, but it works because he was never meant to drastically affect Tomoko’s growth. He was just the spark, the first hint to show that people could actually befriend her. And for that, we salute you, Umbrella Dude.
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It’s been, what? About two years since they last spoke, and he still remembers her? Impressive! Then again, I don’t think you're about to forget the girl who gave you a dogeza.
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Because I’m Not Popular, I’ll Tell Lies.
These moments where Tomoko is unabashedly a blushing schoolgirl are really precious because she isn’t “perfectly ditzy in that moe sort of way” about it. She gets riled up, sweaty, and unpleasant to watch. Which, ironically, is even more adorable just for how genuine it is.
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Yeah, I’m sure the original said “dogeza”, but since there isn’t really a good English equivalent for it, I think “genuflect”...is still an odd choice.
Yuri, who always has her “Tomoko’s BS” meter on high, knows that Tomoko is screwing around when she calls it her “first”. Poor Mako, a now confirmed pervert who still thinks Tomoko is so amazing, thought the girl had popped the guy’s cherry. 
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Friendly reminder that eventful summers are not necessarily pleasant summers. Though they could be with the right perspective...
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So...Yuri vs. Kii-chan Death Battle when?
The most beautiful part about this ending is that there’s no second-guessing. No “maybe I won’t be lonely” or “I wonder if I’ll be lonely”. Just a very affirmative “I won’t be lonely”. Tomoko fully expects that she’ll be spending time with her friends this summer, and that confidence is more than I ever would’ve expected from Tomoko in previous years.
With summer vacation just over the horizon (don’t want to jump the gun), a medley of both happy, unhappy and delightfully awkward moments are sure to transpire. Just about the only thing Tomoko can plan is the unplanned, and I’ll be sure to get a front-row seat to watch it all.
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