#STL

[blonding]

skip and loafer - chapter 68 / alex dimitrov - love and other poems

[haru-rain]

Chapter 68 is exceptional! I really love the composition and the way the emotions are shown. We really get a bit of everything in this chapter: joy, sadness, relief, fear, frustration, anger.

The chapter finally tells us what happened during the Ririka scandal. Taiga allowed Sousuke to have a break from his daily worries, and it was thanks to this that Sousuke was able to endure his mother's scolding.

Taiga talks to Sousuke about what happened to his parents when he decided to stop his acting lessons. He tells Sousuke that he and his parents fought because they expected him to become a celebrity. Ironically, Taiga will do to Sousuke what his parents did to him.

He introduces Sousuke to his friends, emphasizing that he has the potential to become a future star.

Then comes the day of the scandal: Ririka decides to follow Sousuke without listening to him when he tries to dissuade her. Sousuke's mother learns that her son is involved in the scandal, which makes her very angry. Sousuke tries to explain himself, seeing that his mother has the wrong idea, but she believes that he and Ririka have been drinking and refuses to believe him. She even goes so far as to think that it was he who incited Ririka to follow him.

Maybe I'm over-interpreting, but it really gave me the impression that Sousuke's mother distrusts men to the point of not believing in her own son and imagining that he could have manipulated a young girl. I don't know about you, but I think it makes sense in the light of her experience.

Sousuke, on his side, desperately tries to talk to her, but she won't listen. She doesn't see the state her son is in… Sousuke touched me so much in this passage You can see how much he'd like his mother to listen and notice him.

It's so nice to see Mitsumi and Sousuke working together again, just like when they were class reps. When Sousuke recalls the fight they had together, Mitsumi is embarrassed, but Sousuke isn't. He even says it made him happy. Indeed, for him, a fight is a way of communicating, of sharing his feelings openly. And that's what he would have liked to do with his mother.

Just as Taiga had done with his parents. This was Sousuke's idea of a healthy parent-child relationship.

When he preaches a bit to Mitsumi, she tells him he looks like a mother. This makes Sousuke realize that Mitsumi is not like him. She, unlike him, had a good relationship with her mother. But despite their differences, he wants to stay with her 💛

The end of the chapter is too emotional. Sousuke continues to move forward. He accepts his past and the monster in him. Sousuke finally begins to accept himself 💛

[stlbaddies]

💎

[papasmoke]

St. Louis cops are the dumbest animals on earth. They're like lord of the rings orcs, you could throw a rock into a crowd of them and they'd all start beating the shit out of each other.

[lambcurl]

out of place

[slkflowr]

i think they would be besties ☀️🌸

[artichedolls]

STL downloads are now available for my very first Ball Jointed Doll design! Get her here to make your very own 3D printed Kitty doll!

[lastnightstoryart]

Skip To Loafer

[haejoon]

they mean the world to me.

[fujifroot]

shima's loserboy realness this chap 😀😄

[verooquieremimir]

Whether I fall in love with you or not, wether you're a boy or a girl, or even an elementary school kid or a grandpa, I bet I'd still find myself thinking "I really like this person". That's why I want to be friends.

Stl ch. 46 lives rent free in my head.

[luftballons99]

love deniers when their crush hands them a crab

[prokkoli]

a sketch from a while back because miss them </33

[stlbaddies]

KILAH

[blonding]

shima wants people to fall for his "facade" soooo badly in hopes he then won't ever have to worry about Opening Up or people seeing the parts of him he deems to be "ugly" (aka being a normal human being with wants and needs like anyone else) but when faced with someone as genuine and true to themselves & their feelings as mitsumi, someone who never once saw his kindness as a front- simply bc she doesn't think about things like that, i feel like shima is finally beginning to realize that the mask may in fact just have been a reflection of the wearer all along, or at least he's getting there. you are not a wretched monster, boy!! you just have trauma!!! -- get loved unconditionally, idiot!!

[all-inmoderation]

shima, when will you realize that kindness is a practice, not an inherent trait!! Your kindness isn't a facade just because it's not always genuine or 100% felt. Kindness exists in both the everyday mundane interactions and the heartfelt out-of-your-way gestures.