#it makes sense that it's even inflated

[casualavocados]

this is such a solid show so far, i dont even know what to say. episodes feel long, but they're not boring. they're lingering, they last. it takes everyday emotions and everyday experiences and lets them play out; it confers importance to the small things. the story and overall plot-per-ep is simple yet genuine, and everything and every character feels so lived-in. i like the mix of fun and serious, i like the steady growth and trust between mork and day and the little buds of tension starting to bloom. i love the way the camera brings things to the forefront of the viewer's attention, the way expressions are shot and how long those shots are allowed to last on screen...you really feel the emotion coming through, and it really impresses me from both an acting and directing standpoint.....im just rambling but the jist of it is that i'm really enjoying this

#*gestures wildly* p'aof makes this shit look effortless #he comes up with the most original things and then makes them feel justified and ordinary #like the inflatable dinosaurs - oh yeah those were from a costume party years ago #its all just to show day having a little fun and i love how that...gets attention #like theyre not *trying* to build the romance theyre just telling a story #does that even make sense??? bc obviously the story is building the romance #it just all feels really natural and believable even though its only been 3 eps #it feels like its been longer #the characters are already changing but it doesnt feel like its moving fast #MAN. MAN! #last twilight #jimmy and sea are really selling it and so is everyone in the supporting cast #it all feels very entangled while still giving the most focus to the mains -you really see the story from their perspectives #IM. IM ALMOST MAD ABOUT IT P'AOF MAKES THIS SHIT LOOK EASY

[nordic-language-love]

love waking up from a dream having been gifted with THE MOST PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE THAT I MUST WRITE DOWN AND SHARE WITH THE WORLD IMMEDIATELY only to properly wake up like 2 minutes later and being like "this is nonsense".

#i dreamt my friend from okinawa was teaching in the classroom underneath mine (apparently there was a classroom underneath mine) #and the kids from his classroom kept escaping and coming into mine via stairs i didn't even know existed #and he described them as 'indigo children' looking for 'the road of dreams' #and then he came to me afterwards - having turned into patrick stewart but retaining his hair - and he said: #'do you know the way to the road of dreams? first you must go up' #and i had a little tricycle/truck hybrid thing with an inflatable hamburger some wooden blocks and a beach ball stuck to the back #and i was like. this is it. this is the key. if i have these things then i can find the road of dreams #and i woke up like okay i must write this down i must remember this #and it took me between getting off my bed and turning on the air con to go 'wait no this is dream nonsense' #i did find out indigo children were actually like a pseudoscience thing in the 1970s/80s though so there you go #and the characteristics that describe indigo children are pretty much me haha #and then i kept reading and it was like 'a lot of so-described indigo children actually have adhd' #but parents prefered to believe their kid was gifted and destined to lead a religious revolution than to accept they had 'a disorder' #so that makes sense lmao

[cephalonheadquarters]

octolings from a dream i had

#i guess ill try to explain the dream im bored #i was running down deepsea metro & neo octo was chasing me #also i had one of those pathetic foam water guns but ink #ok the last car of the metro led into a pinkish purpleish room #the color of like. the purple around the octarian (tentacle guys) eyes & mouth or whatever. id say their ink but thats not quite right #ummm also there were 2 towers in that room #also made of bounce pads #they were different heights and the tallest was in the far left (my left) corner and the second was middle far right wall #this isnt even important info sorryAnyways on top of tjose towers were pufferfish things #they were kindof like the balloon fish but. Pufferfish. also they were octarian colored #like purple spikes & beige belly & green eyes Yknow #they werent alive they were balloons like inflatable things. Giant floaties i guess. #they spit out balloons every few seconds & they Could be popped it was just super hard bc unlike hero mode balloons they #didnt really have helium but bounced around a ton when inked like annoying physics #OHYEAH also there was an exit door to the right of the entrance to the room from the metro. Does that make sense No Doesnt matter anyways #that door led into kind of an office observation area #with the windows and stuff ? yknow?? #so i was chased into pufferfish room #unable to splat the neo octo .but she wasnt after me and she went into the office thing and there was a splat1 octoling there and they #hugged and held hands and looked so happy #Love wins #also the dream ended.Ok tags #splatoon #splatoon 2 #octoling #splatoon oc #oc #my art

[flashhwing]

never understood the appeal of a flat white. is it not just a worse latte

#also i regret including macchiatos on the poll #even tho half the point was to make the macchiato joke #working at Starbucks really inflated my sense of their popularity #I still don’t know what an aero press is #and if I remade the poll I still would not include instant #and would probably say preferred instead of normal method #coz I realize now that your favorite method may not be the one you do every day #for various reasons #anyway #flat whites. the worst #this has been a post

[orcelito]

I try not to be mean but anytime that one employee does anything I get the overwhelming urge to just b like You Stupid Bitch

I'm so fuckin sick of her

#speculation nation #i could not go over every single instance of this bc it would take all day #like As Soon as we can hire smth else we r going to be firing her. already gotten confirmation from manager #its so hard to make me sick of someone like this but man she sure has done kt #this post brought to u by tbe fact that she claimed a cover from under me that i was hoping would let me switch shifts #so i could go to a family thing #and she messaged me again this morning like 'hey uh do you think you could cover after all? just realized i work that morning' #and im overwhelmed with tbe You Stupid Bitch bc a: why didnt you CHECK THAT B4 AGREEING???? #and b: MESSAGE THE PERSON U WERE GONNA COVER INSTEAD OF MESSAGING ME. THE FUCK???? #if she wants to take me up on it after all thats her choice!!! #but fuck dude it's not up to me to act as leeway between you!!!!!! #god. fuck. im. sofucking sick of her #and she didnt do any cold brew teas friday night so we ran out of green tea yesterday and had to emergency hot brew some #im still annoyed about that. and a million other things. like shut the fuck up girl ur inflated sense of ego has no place here #'i deserve to be a supervisor' lmfao right of course bc ur refusal to finish ur kitchen test so u can even start making drinks #is SOOOO appealing for ur ability to be a supervisor #'how soon can i be promoted“ YOU STUPID BITCH THERES A PROCESS!!!! YOU FINISH YOUR TRAINING FIRST #I HAVE NO IDEA WHY ITS SO HARD FOR HER TO WRAP HER HEAD AROUND IT. WE'VE TOLD HER MULTIPLE TIMES!!!!!! #so fucking sick of her. i am so fucking sick of her. i cant wait to hire someone else so she can be gone. #anyways hi im awake and complaining. hello.

[longlive2023]

missed the discourse of yesterday lmao

#yes the number in the article is probably way inflated due to a number of reasons. #yes she stills flies her damn jets way too much #no you should not be surprised abt this she's been a multimillionair since she was 18 #but i think this is kind of indicative of another issue #and feel free to take what i say next as horse shit bc I'm no psychologist #but i do think she's lost the distinction between people hating on her for no reason and people giving criticism #as seen in her doing the crawdads movie song and promoting it so much even when her fans pointed out how fucked up it is #and i hate talking about this but #as seen in her leaving t***** #i think her knee jerk reaction to anything is just to protect her privacy and keep herself in a bubble #which makes sense her privacy is constantly violated #but i think it allows her to justify actions like this #anyway. if you even care #leelannoying

[chrisbangs]

it's really interesting to me how stan culture has turned even just like .. the concept of "bigger stan accounts" into some sorts hierarchy like ... how ppl will be like "oh we trusted you how could you possibly turn out to be different from the online persona you CHOOSE to project online! how could you deceive us!" like it's very funny to me i will be honest 😭

#sorry i just saw smth on twt randomly and i was like ?????????? yuh #the reactions have me laughing a lil whhwhwhwhw sorry idk #like . i hate when ppl say smth like 'oh i'm such a big fan of you' or smth like that ?? to me 😭 bc dude i'm just some idiot who makes gifs #and gfx and doesn't really do much?? so when ppl treat bigger stan accounts like some sorta 🤨 u know . person to stan as well . if that #makes any sense sjsjdkdkdkdk #it just makes me cringe and it's super unhealthy to treat ppl like that bc it just gives ppl this weird inflated sense of self #and that's when y'all just project one aspect of their personality onto a person and assume they're just a good person overall or smth 😭 #idk .. it's just interesting how ppl can be easily blinded 🫡 idk just thinking #i genuinely am forever grateful miss tumblr doesn't show follower counts xoxo . #all [redacted]k of you .. thanku for treating me like a normal person (most of the time .. but even the times ppl make me feel weird abt it #i always say so right .. so 😭😭 lol...) #li.txt #anyway just thinking out loud !

[kaytory]

#Netflix and other streaming platforms like it moved their film and productions from Hollywood to New Mexico. Hollywood #known as a hub in the moviemaking industry #today is practically undesirable. This was mostly due to the imposition of extra costs #extreme protocols when it comes to personal protection equipment #and huge outbreaks of covid. They increased insurance costs for production companies. Hollywood sought to use the pandemic to its own advan #industry leaders took their business to New Mexico. #In addition to inflated prices #California requires a certain number of booster shots. Their arrogance does not allow industry workers a choice. The state determines the n #it drove industry leaders to leave Hollywood. In my mind it makes a lot of sense. If companies remained in Hollywood #they were going to lose money before they even began to create the work. Hollywood greed cost them their status and reputation. #New Mexico welcomes the industry. They offer “tax incentives that include a 25% to 35% production tax credit for film #TV #commercials #documentaries #music videos #video games #animation #postproduction and more.” Other credits are also available to production companies as well. This city has made itself number one in moviema #In 2019 #Netflix and NBCUniversal partnered with the city on a ten-year plan. Albuquerque and Santa Fe #New Mexico are a force to reckon with in the movie industry. “New Mexico’s film incentives continue to be a gold standard in the industry.” #https://www.abqjournal.com/.../nm-film-industry-sets... #and Finishing What you Start Seminar #1/7/23

[wheezel]

me constantly shuffling the order of my pronouns like that cup ball game

#the they is silent #is it he/she or she/he…. i dunno! #she/he looks better & feels better gender-wise but i think i might slightly prefer he now so like. he/she makes more sense #my prns are technically. any (he/she/they if you wanna put them in order) but i have to adjust for inflation. like #ok #i tend to present fairly masculine right. short hair binder never wear ‘feminine’ clothes etc #so the people i’m around tend to assume i’m a trans guy #but like! no not really #so she before he yea #so they see it first #i don’t love they for me but i don’t really mind it either #but if i throw it in there or say i go by any prns people will ONLY use they for me #(and here’s the secret! they use it for me even when it’s not in there!) #so if i don’t put it in there people use it about as much as i want them to #it’s like a fun little game

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#my brain is not very good at solidifying concepts so im just going rant a bit until i can made sense to myself #the conception and evolution of life is so fucking cazy. its a self assembling machine. building and building and building #without direction. traits flow like a river. branching. halting. repurposing parts for new adaptations #what we see now was not the goal. what u see is an assemblage of traits that avaided death #the creatures u see are not always reflective of their total evolutionary history. somtimes the organisms that survive originate from the #group of weirdos compared to their sister species. the freak survives to confuse paleontologists #paleontology has infinity elevated my appreciation for the study of animals and plants. ive never been very interested in either but the #way they change over time. the creeping of traits. animals are organic machines of flesh and blood. i cant not see them that way. ive been #watching dissection videos and the complexity. the way theyre structured. skin and muscle and viscera all working in perfect order until #theyre not. robust and impossibly fragile. and they came to be as they are by the tumble of genetics thru history. a record of which we #have below our feet. pressed flat. years and years and years. and all that started with a tiny assemblage of molecules that didnt even take #that long to manifest on this plant in the grand scheme of things. it seems impossible that life couldnt be common under the right #conditions. there's so much we'll never kno. we have a limited record but with what we have we can see so much #its just so... its so fucking profoundly interesting. leaning abt paleontology has profoundly changed how i see the world. im so fucking #glad i started listening to common decent bc its warmed my fingers just a tiny bit and i was so so cold. im still cold #im so tired. my brain is exhausting. i wish it understood that if i slept for more than like 4hrs i could focus better #bc i wanted to spend my weekend learning. not stuck in a fog making myself miserable. and yet i dont let myself sleep. i could if i tried #but my brain wont let me try. in my cells is a history of life for a single lineage. my Brain is so remarkablely complex that its capable #of self awareness. introspection. and the intentional inflation of pain upon itself and it's host body #robust but fragile. another aspect of life i find most interesting is where things start to break down. what are the limit? #at what point do things start to come unspooled? and why? what does that say about our history? #sometimes i have a thought thats very unproductive. we humans are destroying the planet. our actions will and have perpetuated vast amounts #of suffering and death. but at the same time life has crept around so much death and suffering. a world without us would continue to #proliferate. we cant kill literally everything. something will survive to stretch across the surface of rhe earth once we're gone. change #continuing. unproductive as i said but also somehow comforting. a nearly empty world filled with now useless information abd only things #tbat creep and crawl. or thats what i like to think. we could prob kill everything if we tried #complex brains capable of infinite destruction #unrelated

[simonsmandarine]

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#an image i'll never forget #is when king charles was giving a speech? and he was sitting on the throne #surrounded by gold #wearing that fuckass crown #while talking about the need to fight inflation and help families or whatever it was #so i can't take them seriously at all #also they are not neutral #they're only neutral in the sense that they're not affiliated with any political party i assume? #but if they present themselves as neutral then that makes them even less neutral #it's like when someone claims to be purely objective and rational #like no we all have our biases #and if we want to be as objective as possible we have to acknowledge these biases #so yeah #still struggle to see the benefits of a monarchy #can't see it as anything other than the glorification of random people #at best #and at worse...... yeah #lipa rambles

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

okay no the other thing keeping it from being a Good game is the absolutely horrific ranking system why is every online fighting game doomed to just disembowel itself on some really basic aspect of a matchmaking system and irreparably damage the entire experience there has literally never been one that got every element to even a passable level

#only being able to go 2/3 in ranked already sucks so much ass but on top of that the rank qualification system is abhorrent #like 10 matches is insane it literally only makes sense if youre supposed to play the character for 40 hours in the battle hub before ranke #but ranked is also the only place people wit real internet connections play #and the matchmaking during placements matches is so fucked its insane #it took me like 20 minutes to find my last match #despite it just being a totally normal silver 5 zangief #im just glad i finally god a character in gold because the grind is fucking insane #the winstreak bonus is noooooooot enough to compensate for the miniscule sample size of 10 games placing you waaaaay too low it still #takes hours and hours and hours of playing totally uninteresting dogshit matches against ppl who dont know how to play the game if you lose #to some bullshit you had no way of knowing even existed heading into gold #its not like literally anyone is even starting to get good below master i dont know why its so draconian with keeping people #to low ranks harshly while also having the most insane rank inflation ive everrrrr seen like already noticeable in less than two months

[wilwheaton]

The GOP wonders why young people (and others) don't want to vote for them. Some wise scribe assembled this list.

1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able to own a home, much less earn a living wage.

2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still $7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation, it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.

3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box, particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic (like young people and POC). You staged a fucking coup the last time you lost.

4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand poverty.

5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons; subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the NRA.

6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.

7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each day

8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes.

9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in society.

10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.

11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth and drag queens.

12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it and it’s basically all you do.

13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason, hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and more.

14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.

15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich donors.

16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting age.

17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire “administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed.

18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking SCOTUS' legitimacy).

19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.

20.) You are the reason we can’t pass:—Universal background checks—An assault weapons ban—The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John Lewis Voting Rights Act—The ERA & Equality Act—The Climate Action Now Act—The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act—SCOTUS expansion.

21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily autonomy.

22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/e8DBZLH

#republicans are garbage #uspol

[thenewgothictwice]

March 28. Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD writes: "Jordan should be trending right now. Protests have been blocking traffic; men have flooded the streets in such large numbers that even the repressive military force in Jordan can’t beat them into submission (something they frequently do); Protesters are chanting for Jordan to open its borders so they can march to Al-Aqsa. The political unrest in Jordan has been at a boiling point for years now.

High rates of unemployment particularly among young men; significant inflation; high housing costs; low wages; skyrocketing gas prices, electricity, groceries…hardly any industry. Repressive import taxes.

And a monarchy that pockets millions of US government aid in exchange for US military access. The monarchy is now holding on by a thread.

Expect the Jordanian forces to increase their violence against protestors. Expect the U.S. to send in reinforcements in some shape or form—If the monarchy falls, it will not be a U.S. co-opted government that will organically take its place. It will not be an Israel friendly government. Expect the U.S. to meddle as they always have & to do everything they can to keep the monarchy in place.

Even a UN Ceasefire isn’t enough to make Israel ceasefire or the U.S. to call for Israel to ceasefire. The calculus has changed. The people are reminded yet again how the governments of the world have failed them. Expect more of this around the world.

Every time there are protests in Jordan, I call my family in Amman to get a sense of how serious it is, because my grandparents are in Amman. Since October, every time I call they have brushed it off as young men being young men. Skirmishes with the armed guard as usual. But today was different. They spoke about not being able to drive in the streets, of the chaos, of the sheer number of human bodies, of the determination to do something to help Gaza—something has changed. This time, it feels different.

Additional important context: Jordan was created in 1946. When Britain divided up the Arab World into nation states. Before that there was free movement & a greater degree of one-ness. So when Jordanians say they there is no difference between us and the Palestinian people or that we are the same people , it is because the British creation of nation states was a Western government forcing the Arab people into its Western constructs.

[about further protests in Jordan] There are already plans to start again —at Maghreb tomorrow (sunset)—at the Israeli embassy and doing a sit-in again until dawn, interspersed with prayers. Tomorrow will mark day 5 of protests in Amman."

#palestine #free palestine #jordan #important!! #taleed el sabawi #end the genocide in gaza

[orcelito]

honestly. reading posts from that time period just makes my heart ache 

18 is far too young to have to deal with those things 

#speculation nation #like no one deserves it of course #but i was struggling even just figuring out who i was. figuring out my place in the world. #& they were just so awful to me. determined to misinterpret everything. #and then After Everything. after i decided Fuck That Actually #they fucking stalked me for Years. bc they were obsessed with me #an inflated idea of who i was as a person & a tendency to lash out at me anytime i didnt live up to that #which was often bc i was only 18 and Also mentally ill & self destructive #also in the sense of Them And Me #oh mutually destructive high school romance that feeds off itself to make something explosive #i wasnt free of guilt but ultimately i was a traumatized teenager. most of my shit was just me struggling with that #idk i know they apologized a few times (after they stalked me for years lol) but i still kinda wanna take potshots at them #like i dont care that ur trying to be better <3 go fuck yourself #i genuinely hope they have to deal with the guilt for the entire rest of their life #negative/ #sorry for trauma posting i guess. just kinda processing #the fun thing is there was very definitely a Worst Time that triggered me finally cutting them off. but i barely remember it #from my posts at the time it's as stupid as you'd expect it to be #stupid as in the source of their anger was so fucking trivial #just. ugh. #this is stupid. i should stop digging through old shit.

[saetoru]

✩ ‧₊˚ ✩。09:08 AM — GOJO SATORU.

contents. manga spoilers, satoru keeps the scars bc that’s character development ok, post canon, insecure! gojo / reverse comfort, you sit on his lap, ig angst to fluff, embarrassingly cheesy look away pls :,)

satoru, since he’s come home with those scars, has always evaded your hand. you’ve tried a few times, have reached out to cup those cheeks you miss holding—but he’s managed to grab your hand and kiss it every time.

it’s smooth—like everything else he does, satoru dodges your touch smoothly. with an easy grin. with a teasing glint. it’s slick and all too natural, and almost undetectable. but you know him better. you know him better than anyone has had the pleasure of knowing him, you like to think. and you know that satoru doesn’t let your hand meet his cheek, not even the edge of his jaw, on purpose.

“good morning,” you smile, reaching forward to lay a hand over his face. satoru, with his eyes still closed (as expected), grabs your hand and plants a soft kiss to the back as he hums.

you’re almost certain he can sense the way your lips tug into a frown.

“mornin’ sweetheart,” he says lowly, “watching me sleep? that’s a bit creepy,” he teases.

“i can’t help it,” you hum, “you’re too handsome.”

this is rare—giving satoru compliments easily is rare. usually, you make him work for them, keep him waiting on the tips of toes before finally giving him that praise you know will go straight to his inflated ego. but sometimes, like now, you think he deserves to hear it—unfiltered and raw and filled with truth.

satoru is handsome. always has been. always will be.

“aw,” he cracks an eye open, “maybe i should let myself get scratched up a bit more. maybe you’ll talk nice to me more often.”

“i mean it, toru,” you frown, insisting, “you’re handsome. so handsome.”

your hand reaches for his face again. he turns his head this time, feigning a yawn as he stretches before sitting up. there’s a slight bit of tension in the air now, his lips tighter in his smile as he hums before turning to you and poking your nose.

“well, aren’t you sweet,” he smiles almost bitterly.

you haven’t seen his smile reach his eyes for a while. he doesn’t meet your gaze through the mirror in the mornings as you brush your teeth together anymore, doesn’t wink at your reflection and make you roll your eyes. he doesn’t spam your camera roll with pictures of himself anymore when you’re in the bathroom, doesn’t leave you with those silly faces and smug grins that make good wallpapers. he doesn’t even crack those annoying jokes anymore, doesn’t whine for you to admit he’s the most handsome guy you’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting as his face digs into your neck.

instead, satoru dodges your touch. he kisses you briefer these days, avoids looking in the mirror, smiles like he has to—not like he finds a reason to.

“you don’t believe me?” you ask gently, furrowing your brows, “you know i’d never lie to you.”

“i didn’t say that, did i?” he asks, waving a hand casually. “c’mon let’s go brush our teeth. you don’t wanna kill me with that morning breath do you—”

“satoru, you’re still handsome, you know,” you say gently. you decide to rip the bandaid off as you add, “even with these.”

for the first time, your hand manages to reach for his face without him pulling away. you think it’s more out of surprise than anything, that it’s because he wasn’t expecting you to be so straightforward instead of trying to be subtle like usual. for a second, you think he might just put his infinity up—but he doesn’t ever. not around you.

but you can see it, the way his knuckles twitch a little like he’s clenching them. the way he’s so still, it’s almost like he’s willing himself not to tense. the way he doesn’t even lean into your touch like he always does.

he doesn’t want your hand on his face, but you stroke a thumb over a scar anyway, cupping his cheek as you study his face up close.

it’s still him—still satoru with that sharp nose and those rosy cheeks, still satoru with those long lashes and perfect jawline. there’s rough, marred bits of skin that meet soft, supple ones. you feel over the dips of where each scar starts slowly, committing each one to memory.

they’re newer parts of him, ones you don’t know very well yet, ones that remind you of the ugliest parts of the world—but they’re a part of satoru now, and anything that’s a part of satoru can never be ugly. no matter where they come from, no matter what they’re a reminder of.

not if it’s him.

“you think so?” he asks with a tight grin, “is my money maker still money making?”

“don’t be greedy,” you quip, “you have plenty of money.” and then, softly, you add, “but i’d pay a good fortune or two to wake up to this every day.”

“good thing i give it to you for free,” he hums, “i’m generous, you know?”

“what a catch,” you grin, “generous, strong, rich,” you list, making an amused grin stretch across his lips, “handsome,” you add. his smile falters a bit at that. “satoru, i’m serious.”

“oh, i love when you get all serious,” he whistles. he’s deflecting—you expect him to, but you’re not backing down. one leg swings over his hips, and then you’re climbing onto his lap, right there where he can’t avoid you. but he finds his attention to your lips, still smooth as ever as he avoids meeting your eyes.

“satoru—”

“oh? you want to do this already? it’s barely—” he makes a show of glancing at the clock before turning back to you with a suggestive grin, “—nine am. but i guess we can have a little fun before—”

“i don’t care about these, you know,” you murmur, pulling your head back when he leans in for a kiss. your finger lightly traces the scar by his left cheekbone, making him frown.

“see? you’re basically admitting you have to look past them,” he groans frustratedly—it’s the first time satoru’s acknowledges his scars. it’s the first time he’s finally let himself look upset without trying to hide it behind a forced grin and a dry chuckle.

“i don’t,” you frown, “sure, they’re new,” you admit softly, “and i don’t like being reminded you got hurt. but they’re not ugly—you’re always pretty.”

“there’s so many,” he mumbles, “they’re everywhere.”

“i think they’re cool,” you shrug, “they make you look tougher. less like a spoiled princess.”

“hey,” he pouts, “i’m not spoiled.”

“you’re a bit spoiled,” you chuckle, playing with the hair at the nape of his neck—his lips quirk up, and you can’t help but notice how real it looks for once. “but i suppose you deserve it. not because you’re handsome though. because you deserve good things—just for being you,” you insist.

his lips are quivering a bit, and he’s blinking faster now. you ignore it, though, taking your sweet time as you lean down and kiss along the edges of every scar on his face, tracing your lips along where the old skin meets new.

“that’s cheesy,” he mutters, “now you sound like a therapist.”

“i mean it,” you say firmly, “and i meant it when i said you’re handsome too.“

“handsomest guy you’ve ever met, right?” he bats his lashes—they’re a bit hopeful, though, and you smile as you gently kiss the corner of his mouth before nodding.

“definitely,” you nod, “you’re the prettiest.”

“am i?” he grins, “now i’m more spoiled. who’s fault is that really?”

“i’ll allow it for today,” you snort, “today you can be spoiled. i’ll humble you tomorrow.”

“we’ll see,” he hums.

your hands cup his cheeks as you lean down for a kiss, and satoru’s hands clasp over them gently, holding them in place—and when you kiss him delicately, like the sun meets the moon as your lips touch, like your world revolves around him as you pull him closer, you think satoru is unfairly handsome.

and you’ll have to remind him that a bit more often.

he’s my liddol sourpatch :(

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