One of the most incredible things I've ever seen! A huge ice shelf, which from the water just looks like a wall of ice! 🤩
By Mads Peter Iversen 📸
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Blackjack: "...Hey, Char. D-do you have a minute?"
One explanation later...
Blackjack: “I don’t—I don’t—I don’t know what a crush is supposed to feel like. I’ve never had a crush on anyone before.”
Charade: “Never ever?”
Blackjack: “Never ever. I-I’ve never even been in any kind of relationship. Obviously you have, though. What… What’s it like?”
Charade: “Hmm… For me, when I like somebody, the next step is finding out if we’re… este, how’s it called… Compatible! Compatible. I’d like to have a long-term girlfriend eventually, so for me, dating someone is about making sure we agree on important things, and communicating well.”
Blackjack: “Tricky’s parents should’ve done that.”
Charade: “It’s okay to want something casual too, though! Let me ask you this: can you picture you and Tricky being together for a really long time? How would you feel if he started dating someone else?”
Blackjack: “That—that’s the thing. We’ve been through everything together. I really can’t imagine a future without him. But… You know? I don’t feel jealous or anything, thinking about him dating someone else. If anything, I’d be happy for him, if it worked out!”
Blackjack: “I’ve tried asking myself. Could I see us getting married? Raising a kid together? Sharing a bed? But there are a lot of couples who don’t do any of those things, so, that’s not a reliable way of knowing…”
Blackjack: “…Hey, Char. Is it alright if I ask you something personal?"
Charade: “Do it.”
Blackjack: “When you and Riddle were dating… What made you realize you weren’t "into" him?”
Charade: “Hm. So what happened was—when I was in training, my superiors would tell me, that I was going to find a man and that we should have kids. Gross, right?”
Charade: “When I met Riddle, we became friends very quickly. And I think... We thought we were supposed to be dating, because we thought that’s what boys and girls do when they like each other.”
Charade: “And! He was really fun to be with! He still is. I love his ideas, and hearing about how he sees the world. He did make me really happy.”
Charade: “But eventually, I started feeling… like there was something missing. Like I should have been feeling something that wasn’t there. We never even kissed, because I thought I would only want to after being together for a while... But it never happened.”
Charade: “Much later on, when I met my first girlfriend, I finally felt all those things that I didn’t with Riddle. I do love him; he’s my best friend. And our relationship is still important! Important relationships don’t always have to be romantic.”
Blackjack: “N-no, of course not. And I appreciate you telling me all that."
Charade: “Always! You’re my best friend, too, you know.”
Blackjack: “Going back a moment, here… What did you mean when you said you felt like something was missing?”
Charade: “I don’t know if I could explain it better. You should try asking someone who is asexual.”
Blackjack: “Asexual? …I-I’ve—somehow, I’ve never heard that term.”
Charade: “Well! Now you know where to start.”
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💋 / @top-shelf-tender
Swift as anything, Niffty has made her way across the hotel lobby from shadow to shadow, darting around furniture and swinging around the bar until she has acquired her target. From there it's the easy part: nimbly using a lower shelf as leverage to hop right onto Husk's back and scale up to his shoulders, resting neatly with a hold on the top of his head. - Though, of course, only with her free hand.
In the other, her creation catches the dim late nighttime ambiance lighting of the hotel: wire expertly molded into a circlet shape, dotted with carved glass shards that have had their edges dulled into pretty shapes, and spotted with a few bottlecaps bent into diamond shapes. She slips the crown onto the top of Husk's head, between his ears, and presses a kiss to fluffy fur.
❝ And now you are officially Prince Spirits ! ❞
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