#Their forever last first kiss

[kittyisaddicted]

“When have I ever, since the first instant I touched you, pretended to be anything less than in love with you? (p.270)

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (2019) and Matthew Lopez (2023)

[ohtendril]

There was something heartbreaking in the way she was gazing at him, as if she might die if he didn’t kiss her. Not from heartbreak, not from embarrassment—it was almost as if she needed him for nourishment, to feed her soul, to fill her heart.

[booasaur]

Special Ops: Lioness - 1x07

[homoangel]

me when i want something

really really bad

[quirkedupkicks]

good for you, todoroki

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[kagooleo]

first dates aren't always perfect 💐🌺🌸

[carryoncastiel]

"The old ways then. If that is what you wish - then so be it."

[wikitpowers]

something i really really want in TWP is a Ty pov of him and kit hugging idk i just know the kitty hugs are so warm and reassuring and all encompassing i just want to hear him describe how steady kit's heartbeat is

(Also Ty pov of the first kiss is an essential but we all knew that already)

NO BC I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME! LIKE TY'S POV WOULD JUST BE OUT OF THIS WORLD. GENUINELY IK THIS MAN IS OUT HERE OBSESSING OVER OUR BLONDE LITTLE WEIRDO AND THE FACT THAT WE WILL ACTUALLY GET TO READ ABOUT THE EXTENT OF THIS PINING IS LIKE- [SCREAMS]

AND YOU'RE SO RIGHT WITH THE DESCRIBING KIT'S WARM HUGS AND STEADY HEARTBEAT!!! THAT IS LIKE MY FUCKING ~DREAM~ I JUST KNOW THAT KIT IS THE GREATEST HUGGER EVER AND IS THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO WOULD LIKE STROKE UR BACK AND PAT YOUR HAIR WHILE HE HUGS U AND IT’S JUST LIKE- COMFORTING :'(

AS FOR THE FIRST KISS!!!!!!!! JESUS!!! I WANT IT IN TY'S POV SO BAD BC CAN U IMAGINE HIS THOUGHT PROCESS?! IT WOULD JUST BE LIKE "damn kit looks so beautiful right now i wanna kiss him so bad, he looks so cuddly and warm and maybe i should just kiss him" AND I WOULD FALL APART! -> BUT ALSO! can u imagine kit's pov for their first kiss???? can u imagine him realizing that he's being kissed by ty (bc i want ty to be the initiator ofc)??? how for years he feels like no one could ever truly love him???? how ty could never love him back???? and then it hitting him that TY is the one kissing him??? can u imagine the amount of angst????

conclusion = let us get the first kiss in both povs🫶🏻

[bb-bambam]

good morning to jaemin choosing jeno as the person he would kiss to save the world with the condition of never kissing anyone else again!!

[paimonial-rage]

My favorite works in no particular order:

Tipsy Tales (Anemo Boys)

Symbiosis (Ayato)

What Destiny Has Brought (Fischl)

Hello How Are You (Gorou)

Follow the Wind II (Kazuha)

Of the Same Coin (Mika)

Songs of the Wind (Venti)

Nothing Lasts Forever (Yae Miko)

Sharing a Drink They Call Loneliness (Zhongli)

Of Hopes and Prayers (Zhongli)

[vzajemnik]

starting to let myself truly believe he wants me for real and is truly having the same revelation i did a month ago

[bratspike]

see the thing is when you're sick enough in the head everything is connected. but everything actually IS connected so i'm right

[paigemathews]

abi’s hundred two hundred and fifty follower celebration: choose your three favorite charmed ships | paige matthews & henry mitchell

they are so underappreciated. it’s bets and movie nights and realizing that you know her absolutely ridiculous popcorn order. it’s the banter and playfulness as you realize that love doesn’t have to uproot your world, it’s about growing roots. it’s about understanding what it’s like to be on your own in a cold world, without anyone by your corner. healing and learning to be vulnerable and to love and building a family between yourselves.

[holyfacehead]

i dont usually fuck with shaunanat but goddamn natural habits is so good

[sapphicslut777]

one last kiss before we fall… i guess that makes it personal 🔪♥️