workaholic
syn. Peter makes you take a rest day.
“Hey, you,” Peter greeted, walking into the gym. He quickly changed his tennis shoes to his wrestling shoes without lacing them up and tossed you your waterbottle as you started walking over. “How are you?”
You sighed. “Tired. I have a tourney this weekend, school volleyball and wrestling practice this week. Club wrestling’s kicking my ass as usual,” you told him after taking a drink of electrolyte-filled water. “But. How are you, spider boy?”
Peter’s eyes softened as you- sweaty, exhausted, and beat- shrugged off your own issues and asked about his own responsibilities. “Good, good. But… I’d be a lot better if you went home with me now.”
You tilted your head and raised a brow. “Peter.”
“Baby, you’re gonna run yourself into the ground!” Peter said, waving his arms around dramatically. “I know you have work, school, and sports, but if I can take tonight of, so can you.”
“I- Peter, I can’t just skip.”
A scoff left Peter’s lips. “Y/n. My beautiful, smart, hardworking girlfriend. You’ve been doing drills. Over and over. By yourself. For the past hour and a half.”
You shrugged and made a face as if to say ‘so what?’ “Best way to improve is to put in the worm. Even if nobody sees it.”
“Yes, y/n, I know. But you can’t grow as an athlete or person if you don’t take a night to rest. To give yourself a break. Isn’t-“ Peter laughed, placing his hands on your cheeks. “Isn’t that what you tell me?”
“That’t different, Peter,” you reply. “You’re Spiderman. You need breaks otherwise you’ll never heal from the injuries you get on the field.”
Peter threw his hands up in the air. “I will pick you up and drag you out of here, y/n. You need at least one night to let your muscles relax and grow. It’s literally been proven that every time you train, you create microscopic tears in your muscles that grow back stronger when you heal and rest.”
“Pete…” you sigh. Closing your eyes and letting your head fall back, you know you should take a night. You knew you were a workaholic and you knew that you were incredibly stubborn… So having Peter be there to make sure you took care of yourself was nice. You just wished you didn’t feel so guilty unlacing your shoes and walking out of the gym without looking back.
An hour later, you were limp in Peter’s arms as he braided your hair absentmindedly.
Peter watched you shrug your bag off at the door and beeline for the shower. He knew you’d never admit it but you worked yourself too damn hard. But Peter liked being able to take care of you.
As your body covered his like a security blanket, Peter treasured these soft moments- the rarer they were, the more Peter appreciated them.
Or, Peter’s just a lover boy.
Maybe both.
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An angry Miles is what I want to see in the sequel, he has earned that right! I want to see him lashing out, unforgiving and downright mean because that boy has been hurt by everyone he has ever trusted. So if he’s a little nasty, let him be! They couldn’t respect the nice and sweet Miles, now they get the angry one.
Black children are supposed to take everything thrown at them with a smile and letting it roll off the shoulders. Never complain and always be the one in control of every negative emotion to not scare people. Fuck that! I am so tired of black children’s anger being some kind of ticking time bomb and not a normal emotion that everyone feels. Tired of black children being demonized for just the idea of them being angry.
I want Miles to let loose on everyone, want him to scream and yell at Gwen and Peter for leaving him behind and making him the last to know. I want Miles to hurt Miguel for thinking less of him and actively blaming him for Peter’s death. I want Miles to hurt Spot for even trying to take away his family. I want him to callout the Spider Society for treating him like some criminal and chasing him. I want him to be ruthless and that may sound wrong but I’m tired of little black children having to hold onto everything and carry that angry and resentment around like a suitcase and just chuck it at the people who gave it to them!
Let Miles be angry and let him have that moment! Lord knows he’s earned it!
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PlayChoices MC Picrews - Flowers Edition
for @choicesmonthlychallenge
(from top left to bottom right)
Jackie Winters (HWU f!mc), Jamie Baxter (HSS nb!mc), Juliet James (AME f!mc), Sydney Valentine (OH m!mc), Jules Rojas (Untameable m!mc), Brooklyn Peters (DLS m!mc)
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