#because i don't have a microwave

[sincapjelly]

Headphones (One-shot)

AO3 version if anyone's interested:

He had no idea how the past couple of weeks had gone by so fast. It felt like only yesterday that he had returned home and unpacked his bag. Now he was packing his bag to leave again, even though he didn't feel ready to go back to school and say goodbye to Lilly at all. The only thing that comforted him was the fact that Lilly was going back to the monastery the day after him.

Sometimes he wished they could go back to the days when they were not busy with school or the monastery.

Speaking of Lilly, he could hear her footsteps approaching.

"Can I take the headphones this time?"

Lou looked up from packing his bag and turned to Lilly, standing a few steps away with a Puss in Boots look in her eyes, holding the white headphones in her hand. For a few seconds they exchanged no words, communicating through their eyes. In response to Lilly's deliberately cute look, Lou gave her a look that indicated he wasn't too happy about it before giving up. He sighed and closed his eyes. He didn't like upsetting her. Especially breaking her heart over an item that belonged to both of them, even if Lilly thought otherwise.

Without the headphones, the ride to the city was an agonizing experience. He didn't like the loud noise of the city, every time he wanted to cover his ears and drown out the feeling that the city was swallowing him up. He also needed to talk to people less with his headphones on. But above all, it was torture to be without headphones, especially when Lilly wasn't around. He just wanted to put his headphones on and make the outside and the people invisible.

On the other hand, he knew that Lilly felt the same way more or less. Maybe it wasn't exactly the same inside their heads, but even for different reasons, they both needed music when they were alone.

They definitely needed to buy another pair of headphones with the first money they could get their hands on.

"Okay, you take them this time."

Lilly knew he wasn't very happy about it. But even though she felt bad, she was relieved that this time she would get the headphones. After all, she was not forcing him, Lou would not do anything he didn't want no matter how much he was begged.

She wanted the headphones, the music helped quiet her mind. Without it, thoughts would sometimes be so crowded in her head that it felt like it could explode even when she didn't try to think, the world and the people around her seemed to fade out. The music kept her in the moment. Without it, it was too hard, sometimes even impossible to focus.

Even though it was obvious that they both needed this clunky gadget equally, Lilly still felt guilty.

In fact, Lou was embarrassed too, thinking it was selfish of him to not want to give it to her. But the truth was that neither of them wanted to give the headphones. When they traveled together, it was not a problem to have only one, listening together was way more pleasant even. But when they had to travel separately... No matter which one of them took the headphones, it was going to be an unpleasant journey for the other.

They bought the headset together, using their joint money. But because of the spontaneous nature of the missions and Lilly's lack of time to spend with herself at the monastery, Lou often ended up being the one that kept the headphones. Now he felt a sense of emptiness because of this. It was overwhelming just thinking about the ride.

An awkward silence lasted as they both saw themselves as the villain. Until Lou finally smiled and looked at Lilly.

"But on one condition."

Lilly looked puzzled, not knowing what kind of condition he was going to come up with, but she was clearly more relaxed than earlier.

"What condition?"

"Come with me on the way to the city."

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Yes, Lilly going in and out of the city meant spending some extra money on transportation. But if they could solve the headphone problem and also get to spend some time in the city before Lou went back to his dorm, what did it matter?

On the way to the subway, they had to get on and off several times. Now, fortunately, they would be on the same metro for about two hours. They had purposely left the house as early as possible, the sky wasn't even entirely light yet. Maybe that was why Lilly felt so sleepy.

Or maybe it was just spending the trip and listening to their favorite songs together. She shifted more and more in her seat, almost falling asleep against Lou's shoulder. The boy's gentle hand on her back and hair wasn't helping her stay awake either.

She wished she could bring not just the headphones, but him along on the way back.

[blehhblep]

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[son-of-lunadeyis]

i don't like the fact that grizzly said that modify memory is a powerful spell + him saying "if that's what you remember, then yeah" to bizly asking if he'd remember being on the ship during the storm + the voices in the hole saying "welcome home" + chip never mentioning / possibly not remembering what came before meeting Arlin. don't like it.

[baejax-the-great]

It's been months and I'm still absolutely baffled by the time I was touring apartments and I asked to see the kitchen, and both the realtor and the landlord looked taken aback and one asked me in complete surprise, "You cook?"

I am a human being in my mid-thirties what the fuck are the other options there

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Leonard 'Cold As Ice' Snart: Huh. It's been almost twenty minutes since I explained to a murderer just how much Flash and I like each other. I better do something about that.

[andiv3r]

Having to block everyone who has "wincest dni" in their bio not because I ship wincest (because I have come to the conclusion that I actually don't) but because I do think it'd be fun to poke around at the very real weirdness of their relationship that I've noticed in the show so far. And I'm 99% sure that my poking around will get seen as shipping.

[digitalcactusblog]

Top 5 drinks? ☕

i am about to confess. i am a terminal water-drinker SKFJHG i'm not super into sweet things and don't mind the taste of just plain water? so i don't often have any beverages at all, so this list is about to be the most hyper-specific list of beverages known to man 😂

hot water: i would argue this counts as a drink, because most people i know don't drink hot water, i'm just very chinese lol. it's nice! feels less shocking to the system than cold water. i do not like cold water.

taro bubble tea: truly the most bestest of bubble teas. it's purple! it has edible tadpoles! yum. idk unpopular opinion though, every time i get it from a place where they actually serve legitimate taro inside their taro bubble tea, i hate it. i want the artificial stuff that comes in powder form, that is probably like 90% sugar by weight

there's this corn juice that T&T sells that's really good. is also probably 90% sugar by weight. corn!

okay i have to admit that i do like the starbucks coffee cappuccino frappuccino whatever stuff that comes in the sealed glass bottles that you can get. again, definitely mostly sugar and milk by weight (i am not a hardcore coffee person. i'm not even a coffee person really), but they taste really good. i haven't had one in years and i'm not about to break that streak now! but i do remember really liking it.

another asian beverage, there's this pineapple beer stuff that is mostly non-alcoholic (the alcohol % is super low) that is really good. ALSO most DEFINITELY 90% sugar by weight, i swear it tastes kinda like caramel and nothing like pineapple. still good tho!

[it-is-i-zim]

Fellas? We ain't okay over here.

[crystalleoi]

5C

[breadwheathead]

gotta go harvest my celery or whatever I planted in tunnel town

[confines]

UGH. 🙄 never buying that vegetable medley again. like three sugar snap peas, 7 pieces of broccoli, and the rest was carrots and water chestnuts. the water chestnuts are super cool but if i wanted a bag of carrots for 3 dollars i'd simply kill myself. next time i'll just buy sugar snap peas and mix them with cheap broccoli and carrots.

[tonhalszendvics]

Me: ugh, I just want this Thing to be over, then I'll be able to finally take a rest The Thing: *is over* The next Thing: *comes right up 0.3 seconds after* Me: *with twitching eyes* G-R-E-A-T

[wheelchairtetris]

what if 90% of my energy didn't go into working. what if i didn't have to sacrifice hygiene and a clean home and fresh cooked meals.

[thesmokinpossum]

drunk as fuck once again and i got a job interview for a job i really want in less than 11 hours, we'll see how it goes

[running-in-the-dark]

kinda disappointed with how this weekend went. I mean, it wasn't bad! but it was our first weekend in the new apartment, and I/we wanted to get a lot done. I already did a lot during the week (a lot for me, not a lot for most people I guess), but there's lots of things that I can't do/can't do on my own, either because I'm too short or not strong enough or I need someone else to hold something or whatever. which realistically just won't get done during the week because my husband works full time, so. it sort of sucks that only one very small, unimportant thing got done. 😔