#ngl this was inspired by a true crime case i've been watching a lot about

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hii! it's your swiftie spring exchange anon <33 how are you? i was wondering if i could ask your favourite artists/favourite taylor swift albums (sorry this is so mean haha) and also anything that interests you! any hobbies/shows/characters/games/whatever you'd like to share with me!!

have a lovely day!

-swiftie anon <3

Ahh hello! Very mysterious XD I'm doing well thank you!

I've spent so much time trying to rank my favourite Taylor Swift albums...currently 1989 is my absolute favourite, but I have a soft spot for Lover (I have like half a dozen Cruel Summer inspired bracelets by now...). What about you, what's yours?

Outside of Swift, my favourite musical artists are a bit random tbh, but Marina and the Diamonds is a big one, alongside Marianas Trench and P!nk. I have a tendency to find artists via like. Anime music videos, or OC animatics, and be like...ooh, this song is cool, who's it by? (Actually it's how I found a bunch of musicals I ended up liking...except it's all like. Basic stuff lol. Hamilton, Be More Chill, Dear Evan Hansen sorta thing.)

I am ALWAYS up for talking about interests, so hopefully you're up for listening and telling me some of yours?

Primarily I'm all about art - I like traditional art (lots of pen and pencil in my sketchbooks), but I do digital art as well, and also I sew a lot. I've just finished a pair of trousers and am slowly adding the buttons to a shirt I'm making...slowly. But I'm also into stuff like horror, creepypasta sorta things, true crime/horror (although it freaks me out after a while, but that's the fun of it), and currently Hazbin Hotel. My girlfriend is currently inadvertently feeding that last one by writing fanfiction for it lol.

Currently true-crime wise (sorta) I've been watching videos on the "Yuba County 5" which is a sad story ngl. Um idk if you're a true crime person or not but I have a bit of a morbid fascination with missing persons cases. I'm just always wanting to know what happened, what was it like for the person missing etc...

Oh and games-wise I'm into the Persona series and the Professor Layton series. I want to play Persona 5 but it's on the back burner, as the money for the...ps4 is it now? And the game? Is just money I'd rather spend on other things right now.

Honestly by the time I decide it's a priority for me to play that game, there'll probably be like. Persona 7 lol. I like gaming but it takes me forever to actually decide I'm going to play a game. I've been playing Balder's Gate for...a while. It's fun but so long, so I take like 2 weeks between each play session because I know that 6 hours of play later I'll still have barely made progress.

(I'm better at board games than video games, basically.)

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Alex had expected some things when he moved in with Michael Guerin. He knew he would constantly be tinkering with things, he knew he would probably disregard clothing most of the time, and he knew that he would have a personal heater every night when he went to bed.

What Alex hadn’t expected, however, was for Michael Guerin to be somewhat of a natural homemaker. He cooked, he cleaned, and he brought a sense of welcoming to the cabin that hadn’t been there before. On top of that, he was just constantly doting, constantly reminding Alex he loved him. It was a little weird at first and made Alex very flustered hearing it so often, but he couldn’t lie.

More often than not, Alex loved it.

“I love you,” Michael would say before he took out the garbage as if he wasn’t going to be right back. “I love you,” Michael would say with a kiss on whatever body part he could reach whenever Alex would walk past him. “I love you,” Michael would say every single night before bed and every single morning the moment he opened his eyes. “I love you,” Michael would say when he left for work. “I love you,” Michael would say with no action at all, just looking up at him across the room with a smile.

It was overwhelming and, on days where he was easily agitated, could feel annoying, but he couldn’t tell him to stop. He didn’t really know what prompted Michael to become so hamfisted with the love confession, but there was no way he could tell him to stop without sounding like an asshole. So he didn’t.

Except for one night, Alex climbed into bed beside Michael with curiosity on his mind. Michael gathered him up, kissed him with all the passion in the world, and whispered his routine ‘I love you’.

“Why do you tell me that so much?” Alex whispered. Michael’s grip on him loosened and he pulled away just a little bit. He saw something on Alex’s face that made him put some distance between them. “I’m not angry, I just don’t understand.”

“Do you want me to stop?” he asked. Alex didn’t have an answer. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. “Okay, I’m sorry, I’ll stop.”

Alex made a whine of protest, “No, no, don’t stop, I’m just wondering.”

Michael was quiet for a moment, his eyes avoiding Alex’s as he hesitantly reached to fiddle with the sleeve of his shirt. Alex waited patiently.

“I just... I know how it felt to grow up and never feel loved and how lonely that is. I want you to feel loved. I want you to know that you’re loved. Always,” Michael grumbled out, his voice managing to sound both sweet and annoyed at the same time. Alex gulped softly. “I’m sorry that I annoy you.”

“No, you don’t annoy me,” Alex said, scooting closer, “I love that you do it. I just wanted to make sure you weren’t doing it because you wanted to distract me.”

Michael furrowed his eyebrows. “Distract you from what?” 

“I don’t know, it’s stupid,” Alex sighed. Because it was. They were honest with each other completely. He couldn’t help but feel like his father had implanted doubt in his mind, even though it’d been years since he’d spoken to him. Why else would he feel like an ‘I love you’ required a devious motive? He hated that his mind was like that. “I love that you love me.”

“Thank God or else this might be a weird relationship,” Michael teased, moving in closer for a kiss.

A few days later, Alex looked over at Michael as he sat on the floor and tightened the screws on the barstools.

“Hey, Michael, I love you,” Alex called. Michael’s eyes flickered up to him.

“I love you too.”

Alex relaxed as Michael turned back to his work with a grin so wide it lit up his entire face.