#ohhhh and he really wouldn't know how to make the leap

[bunnions]

you've been friends with bakugo since you could crawl. you know every single thing about each other.

he knows your favorite colors. you know his ears turn red when he's lying. he can always make you laugh with that intoned snark, no matter how annoying he is.

you can easily follow the way his lip curls with a sneer, pink and plush in all the ways a childhood friend shouldn't look. he can make out the distinct smell of your perfume... vanilla.. cherries... and something else. something entirely you. he can't keep his eyes from crossing, just a little.

when he can't bear your gaze any longer, he pulls you into a firm but uncharacteristically gentle headlock. there's a spot underneath his ribs that's particularly ticklish; you only use it as a nuclear last resort when escaping his all-too-beefy chokehold - jesus when did he get so big

[snurps]

another thing to vent about.

not saying i agree with what the dalai lama did, but tibetans have spoken out about how the "suck my tongue" thing really was just a huge misunderstanding and is just a cultural thing and injoke even. it's actually meant to be respectful to your elders, and of course he didn't actually mean for it to be sexual.

i'm just saying, it's really sus how quick all of y'all were to turn on him. i can get the reaction, especially since it involves a child, but he's literally an elderly asian man who espouses nonviolence, speaks very broken english, and therefore won't be defending himself against what everyone is saying. among asians, he is literally the dalai lama, a tibetan man who has been persecuted practically his entire life by the chinese government. he literally hasn't lived in his hometown since 1959. that's older than some of y'alls grandparents xD moreover, the clip went viral because of chinese propagandists. and well, i suppose they succeeded.

but even despite his defenders, some of y'all are still so stubborn and narrow-minded. i can understand people who are sensitive about religious trauma, especially ex- and current catholics (sorry y'all), but literally these are pointless accusations against the dalai lama.

enjoy virtue signaling. i doubt you actually care about how that boy felt. by the way, he said in an interview that he really enjoyed meeting the dalai lama (and it's ok if he was still uncomfortable. when you see your aunties and they all want to give you kisses, wouldn't you feel uncomfortable as a little kid too? be honest ;) )

why don't you just go on with your life and do something that makes you happy instead of getting pissed about something you can't do anything about? or put that anger into something like volunteering and actually make a change instead of just posting a random comment on instagram or facebook because ohhhh, you just have to let everyone know what your shitty, uneducated opinion is about the dalai lama!

like come on. there's enough anti-asian sentiment going on already. sit down, shut the fuck up. listen.

also, again, there are numerous other cultures where kissing adults on the lips is not sexualized. go educate yourself. here, i won't even tell you to "just google it." i found you a wikipedia article. why don't you read it, hm?

sigh, i wish people would be willing to try to understand each other more instead of leaping to judge others. the world would be so much better if people would take even 10 seconds to try to understand the other person's point of view before hitting that tweet button or whatever.

also twitter sucks fuck twitter i hope elon musk drives it into the ground lmao