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Introducing SocialEngine’s New Paid Support Plan
SocialEngine Introduces Paid Support Plan for Smoother Online Community Management
SocialEngine, a leading platform for building online communities, has announced the launch of a new Paid Support Plan. Designed to simplify community management, this plan offers a range of benefits for businesses and individuals alike.
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I’m mostly staying off the Mouthwashing fandom bc I personally don’t want to put myself through whatever discourse is ever going on there. But know I love Anya and Mouthwashing is one of the best games I’ve played that had an SA survivor AND was respectful about it!! The abuse Anya suffered is never portrayed as a spectical for the audience to leer at. They use the art of implication VERY well, and in the end Anya gets to go out dignified. She’s not just Jimmy’s tradgic victim, she’s her own character who makes her own decisions. Jimmy doesn’t get to kill her, she expresses her own agency to do so. She’s also the one who kept the gun away from him for so long. Also she’s SO fucking strong, she’s so cool. Anya I love you.
Also the game’s overarching (but subtle) commentary on rape culture, enabling, and how capitalism almost makes a set dressing for it is peak.
#there’s the easy fandom stuff I don’t like#like the idea Curly is ethier ‘did no worng’ or ‘did his best’#don’t get me wrong I LIKE curly#but he is COMPLICT in what happened to Anya and how it was handled#the bug theme of the game is take responsibility#also I think the fandom thing of ‘Swansea would’ve killed Jimmy if he had known’ has some… weird implications#like Anya didn’t need some big man savior to kill Jimmy for her#she needed Curly her BOSS to side with her and prioritise her safety#Swansea is cool- don’t get me wrong#but the implication everything would have been ok had Anya just told her OTHER (more of a ‘real man’) co worker#feels… icky?#Like I think he would’ve helped her but honestly? he was Jimmy and Curly’s subordinate too#I do think he would have pressed curly and helped Anya#but I’m the way he did in canon- as a supporter#maybe it would’ve been different if he knew Anya could survive#but honestly him letting her go out how she chose and then killing her abuser is based#bc like only Daisuke was going to survive in their minds#but you can tell he gave Anya power in the planning#maybe I’m reading into it#oh and also Anya should get to kill Jimmy with a hammer and then get a free abortion (paid by Curly- TAKE RESPONSIBILITY)#I do think he’d pay if he could- he understands what it’s like to be under Jimmy’s power now#Curly should also pay for her nursing school#as a thank you for being a saint and keeping his ass alive and in the least amount of pain she could#she’s a real one#anya mouthwashing#mouthwashing#also hi def mentioned this on my blog before (bc it’s helpful to be semi-open about it to get rid of shame and embarrassment I find)#but the way Anya is handled is very personal to me as a SA Survivor <3 and that’s the lens all of this is coming from-#she deserves the world
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it’s crazy how much having a safe place to be yourself and express your identity and personality and interests, both online and irl, can change your will to live. honestly.
#i came out to my fav professor/mentor today#it was kind of impulsive but idk#she’s just made me feel so safe and supported and cared ab#that honestly all i wanted to do was tell her#and hear what my new chosen name sounds like when she says it. idk.#anyway she was So incredibly receptive and understanding and supportive#like she said things i needed to hear that i didn’t even know i needed to hear#at one point she essentially reassured me that she doesn’t and won’t ever love me any less as a boy#and she immediately wanted to call me by my chosen name and use my preferred pronouns#and she kept telling me too that there’s no pressure or need to stress and that if i ever wanna adjust the name or pronouns i can#and that gender isn’t a fixed thing ofc#she told me that she’s proud of me too#god i’m so luckyyyy dude#i feel so loved and cared about#also i said in an email recently that i was looking for a part time job (like totally as a separate thing i mentioned bc of scheduling stuff#and totally unprompted today#she started talking to me about getting a paid position for me set up with some grant money ig??#which we were already tentatively planning on doing next semester#but bc she saw me say that she’s trying to get it set up now 🥺🥺#AGH i kinda love my life rn#but i’m so terrified to and im even more afraid to admit that#anyway so sorry this is an excessive amount of tags#silas speaks#vent#trans#transmasc#trans masc#transgender#queer#lgbtq+
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Help me buy this for my xmas content & you'll get all the xmas content I make this year (plus a lil extra too) 👀
#planning on buying it & my lingerie today#that is another like $20#but tbh just getting the toy paid for would be v helpful!!!#putting up our xmas tree today & I wanna make cute content in front of it 💜#rambling#support sex workers#support sw#support content creators#i sell content
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#givemaesterorwylearaise
#hotd#maester orwyle#house of the dragon#kept vizzy alive for like 10 years#fucking worked magic on aegon#hooks people up with plan b#supports alicent at council meetings#he deserve better benefits than hes getting and more vacation time#maesters need ye old union#actually they all need unions#gendry should have led a union#whatever hea being paid its not enough#asoiaf#fire and blood#ive heard that in the books he treats std's in kings landing#king shit yo#i bet hes pro choice
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Laila I hard agree with your tags RE: Italiano leaving. I’ve seen people joke that Danny must have fucked his girlfriend or something but I don’t think it’s anything personal (in that way)
If I had to guess I’d say it was something big, maybe business/money related. I kind of hoped Daniel just realized what a shit trainer Michael was (I can rant on his bs practices all day, but he pushes some unsustainable and sometimes outright dangerous ideas like extensive fasting, etc. etc. which have always rubbed me the wrong way). BUT I think in reality Daniel hasn’t really acknowledged/processed how NOT OKAY that whole McLaren stint was for him. He still talks to Zak, all the McLaren mechanics, friendly with Lando and Oscar, so if it was just “Michael let him down and wasn’t putting his best interests first in McLaren” I think Danny would have just let it go.
One thing he’s not stupid about though, is his money/business (and also, what a lot of people don’t acknowledge, his privacy). We don’t really hear a lot about Danny post-season. So I feel maybe the fall out had to do with Italiano going on podcast after podcast talking about Daniel and then also (presumably) raking in money for it. Again, all allegedly completely-just-going-from-my-own-vibes, Michael Italiano do not sue me
I do think there was a catalyst that led to their break-up sometime after the last race last year, because if I remember correctly, Jack (Doohan) had mentioned that Michael would be training him for F2 while still working with Daniel during his year off. But then, this never happened and MI ended up going to AT. All I'm saying is, whether something happened or someone sat Daniel down and talked to him about it, Daniel on his own would never have realised how harmful whatever MI preached was. And i think whatever it was, really hit Daniel hard because every time he's talked about coming back this year, whether it's the lone wolf comment or other things, he's constantly talked about how he's approaching training differently and how he's realised prioritising his recovery and rest is important.
Regarding your comment about whether Michael wasn't putting Daniel's interests first at Mclaren, I think a lot of people got the same impression, especially if you go by his comments on his Pitstop appearance this year. The way he framed it kind of implied that he was annoyed at Daniel's decision to take a year off and there was the implication that this derailed his own career and aspirations, which fair enough.
But coming to whether it could have been money/business-related, I feel like this is more like it. You do get the impression he was more in it for the money and the fame. Forget the part about dming girls and the cheating allegations, but the side-hustle part of it?? With the F1 season getting more and more hectic and trainers like Brad and Angela leaving because they can't keep up with the strain and time demand of the new calendar, how can you have the time to dedicate to other private clients? To me, it just means you're not really giving your 100% to the driver you are meant to support. Then, there was the mask debacle thing in 2020, his whole 'merch' collection and the way he continued to make money off his posts of Yuki this year.
And then the privacy thing - I know just because Daniel looks like such an open guy that people don't realise how private he is. Even during the whole mclaren debacle, not one person from his side ran their mouth in the press when you constantly have the family or friends of other drivers making snide comments or liking posts they shouldn't. And then, there's mr. Italiano making appearances in dodgy podcasts and obviously whatever he says, people are bound to take it as him meaning it about daniel because that's who they associate him with. And then the whole leaking of his private medical info, coming after the one and sole sighted interaction of theirs must have come as such a betrayal to Daniel
#just randomly remembered that in one of those mclaren videos from 2021 of what a formula driver eats in a day MI signed one of the meal plan#as director??? like who the hell do you think you are??#it just feels like he was always in it for making his own name rather than being the support act he was hired to be#and it's not like he wasn't getting paid well#apparently the figures leaked from daniel's renault contract showed that renault was paying daniel 100k for physio and medical expenses and#im sure MI was getting quite a fair share of that#if daniel was not personally paying him more on top of that#yeah anyway whatever happened between them was HUGE for them to apparently not even look at each other anymore#tagging it in case people have this drama filtered out#michael italiano#anon.txt
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So, as I’m sure a lot of the community knows at the moment, my friend Dev’s laptop broke leaving them unable to gif and work on their commissions which is a really important source of income for them. To help mitigate the damage caused by this, I’ve decided to re-release my Katherine McNamara packs as paid packs, with a couple extra new gifs I never released as well. 100% of the proceeds goes directly to Dev, so hopefully this helps a bit. You can find the packs listed below in the collection linked in the source.
520 gifs of Kat McNamara in Walker: Independence (episodes 1 and 2), starting at $1.50
765 gifs of Kat McNamara as herself, starting at $1.50
2,576 gifs of Katherine McNamara in Shadowhunters (S01E01-S01E11, although I plan to gif and add the last two episodes as well eventually) starting at $5. In addition, the first 25 people who use the code S08OKJRD84 on this pack (and only this pack, sorry!) get 15% off.
564 gifs of Kat McNamara in various projects (Indiscretion, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket, Sugar, Arrow, and The Death Cure) starting at $1. Please note that both the Sugar and Arrow packs are not completed, and they won't be. I threw them in as bonuses, and they’re not even factored into the overall price of this pack.
Please read the gif rules linked to on this blog before purchasing and using any of these packs. There is a link to them on the payhip page as well for your convenience.
Because of the amount of packs there are in this post, and how varied these projects are, I'd probably have to write 100 tws if I tried to list every trigger warning for every pack, so I strongly recommend checking "Does the Dog Die" and the content warnings there for each project you're interested in. I think pretty much all of these packs have a tw for flashing lights though, so if you're susceptible to them, that is something to keep in mind.
There's some variety in sizes and stuff because these packs are every gif of her I feel comfortable releasing that I've made since 2016. Please check the previews for each pack for examples.
#katherine mcnamara#kat mcnamara#katherine mcnamara gif pack#kat mcnamara gif pack#katherine mcnamara gif hunt#kat mcnamara gif hunt#gif pack#gif packs#paid pack#paid gif pack#rph#rphr#rpt#userdevon#/don't worry the rest of my packs are remaining 100% free#//tbh I wasn't planning on rereleasing these ever but I've been open to the idea of doing it to support Dev since their fridge#//broke but I figured they'd be mega KATIE ABSOLUTELY NOT if I comm'd them and did this immediately afterward so >.> better late then never#//hi dev ilysm#* mine
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how are we addressing the percy jackson series airing this month and disney+ being on the boycott list
#it's difficult bc on one hand i have been dreaming of this show since i was 11 years old but on the other hand#disney is one of the major coorperations supporting isreal and i take issue morally with using the platform#tbh my parents icloud plan includes disney+ so it's being paid for regardless of whether i watch the show or not so i will most likely watc#but i don't want this to go unaddressed#percy jackson#percy jackson disney+#pjo#boycott israel#boycott#boycott disney
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Hate hate hate hate fucking HATE contacting my reps basically saying shit like “I support Palestine, I want you to retract support from Israel, I support Palestine. I want you to stop what israel is doing in Gaza” over and over and them responding like “yes it’s so terrible we need a ceasefire but hamas is refusing to act civilized like our poor precious bby Israel” I hate America I hate America I hate it here hate hate hate hate hate
#I wish there was more I can do#I’m contacting reps and boycotting (not that I supported most companies that are being boycotted but have stopped the couple that I did)#and when I get paid Friday I’m planning on donating more#I’m trying to convince my annoying apathetic roommate that it’s not ‘pointless’ to do these things#as well as other ppl in my life#but when even doing these small things gets responses like this it’s so enraging#like I’m explicitly telling you I do not support what Israel is doing and they’re like ‘yes we know hamas bad’#FUCK YOU THATS NOT WHAT I SAID AND YOU DAMN WELL KNOW IT#UGH#I hate this stupid fucking country and they’re stupid fucking war crimes#and I wish there was more I could do#and I know this is useless saying all this and I don’t mean this in like a pity party way like ‘oohhh I’m not making a difference#and I feel bad :(‘ way#because what I feel regarding this is literally inconsequential#and I just need to continue doing what I can and uplifting Palestinian voices about everything#there’s just something so deeply insidious and disgusting about this country trying rephrase and put words in the mouths of ppl voicing that#they do NOT support this and want it to stop#which I know. I know is what the USA does. I know that’s what propoganda is#I’m just *muffled screaming*#anyways#fuck this country#kaz rambles
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I got the job I interviewed for the other day, it pays more than the one I had before and is roughly the same hours- slightly more.
I had a tasty dinner to celebrate. And my favorite beverage.
I took a nice shower and got nice and clean, I put in minty chapstick and it feels and smells nice.
I am warm and safe. My bed is comfy. I have six pillows and a gentle breeze from the fan.
I am listening to my favorite song.
The worries of the world can't touch me right now. I am lucky. I am safe. I am grateful. My life is moving in the direction it's supposed to.
#i have been depressionposting a lot lately but its only because change is hard#and I am going through big big changes. but its okay. they are necessary changes.#Things are getting better. i have finally taken the wheel and am in control of my own life.#personal#Also planning to get an emotional support cat soon! once I start getting paid.
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apparently 'take as long as you need to work out what you want to do' has a time span of two weeks
#my cousin saying she'll help me with my cv and cover letter#my uncle and aunt asking what my plan is now#mum and dad saying they'll support me financially with whatever i decide#which is very sweet but I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO#i am 14 in a 21 yo body#i have no idea what to do?? dont ask me?? just let me live??#my brother has an paid apprenticeship which im very proud of him for#does it feel like people are being very careful not to compare us? absolutely#i got a science degree when my entire life has been about creativity#what the hell was i thinking
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talking to people recently out of prison: a do-and-don't guide
Don't ask, "How was prison?" (Answer: traumatic!)
Do ask, "What are you most looking forward to doing again now that you're out?"
Don't ask, "How long were you in for?" (Answer: too long!)
Do ask, "Is there any technology or pop culture I can help catch you up on?"
Don't ask, "How are you going to avoid getting back into bad behaviors?" (Leave the paternalistic bullshit to their PO.)
Do ask, "How's your support network? Do you have people helping you adjust?"
Don't ask, "Do you have a job yet?" (Their PO is asking them ALL the time, don't worry.)
Do ask, "Are there any opportunities I should keep an ear out for and let you know about?"
Don't ask, "Do you have an ankle monitor?" (And definitely don't ask to see it - no one likes to be gawked at.)
Do ask, "Do you have parole restrictions we need to accommodate when making plans?"
Don't say, "Hey, you shouldn't be doing that - it's against your parole!" (A lot of parole restrictions are bullshit, and they are an adult who deserves agency, even the agency to take risks.)
Do ask, "Are there any bullshit parole restrictions you need help working around?"
Don't ask, "Are you an addict?" (Not everyone in prison is, and they'll tell you if they want you to know.)
Do say, "If there's stuff you might get in trouble for, like empty alcohol containers, I can throw them away at my place."
Don't say, "It's probably best if you put your whole prison life behind you and start fresh." (Just because it was traumatic doesn't mean important experiences and relationships didn't happen there.)
Do say, "If you have letters from friends on the inside that you don't want your PO to find, you can keep them at my place."
Don't say, "You paid your debt to society." (Regardless of what they may have done, harm cannot be repaid through senseless suffering.)
Do say, "You are more than the worst thing you've ever done."
Do not ever ask "What were you arrested for?"/"What did you do?"/"Were you guilty?"
People are more than the worst thing they've ever done.
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i hate work sm
#🧿#sticking it through bc they wanna train me for creative director which would look amazing on my resume but HOLY FUCK its gonna be hard not#to just wuit bc of all the bs#owner has us watching her kids for free just threw them into our camp… we planned projects & prepped enough materials for only the number#of kids who signed up & paid for camp…. now we got 3 extra kids to throw shit together for#plus these kids r the worst behaved out of everyone i would be so embarrassed if those were my kids imo they should even be held to higher#standard but whatever 🙄#had to work 1OO hrs in two weeks bc our president got injured & i had to cover and get the ENTIRE camp prepared on my own and watch#2O kids on my own the first week w one supporting instructor AND I GOT NOTHING FOR IT#they kept dodging me asking for overtime and its clear why ugh#idk where to go theres nothing like this business in the area & tbh i dont wanna go to a standard k-12 art ed position fuck this shit#im making more than a first year teacher in p much every district in this state so now the plan is to just save up to move out of state n#be closer to phallo surgeons & family#this place depresses me but honestly theres so much potential for a studio here if they could hire decent staff ughhhhh
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Tawfik needs to buy tent covers and other necessities.
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Updated: Nov 29
Member(s): @dev-tawfik (current), @devtawfik (shadowbanned), @tawfikblog, @90-tawfik (shadowbanned)
Verification: @/90-ghost
Payment methods:
Gfm for education: PayPal, Venmo, Google Pay, credit/debit (donation match $10 USD). Focus on Kofi instead until at least mid-December
Kofi for survival (mentioned here): PayPal, credit/debit. Focus on this until at least mid-December
Tawfik is a Palestinian currently taking online classes at an Egyptian university. His Kofi campaign needs to reach $3,000 to buy tent covers and other necessities for his family (see here). Any additional funds in the gfm and Kofi will go towards the next semester's payments and family care respectively.
More info:
Now he is focusing on getting his Kofi to $3,000 (fees included) to get his family tent covers and other survival needs. See here.
Nov 27: Tawfik has reached the Kofi goal to buy flu medication and a vaccine, so we are now focusing entirely on the gfm. His goal of $10,050 by Nov 28 (hard deadline) for his international student fees were also reached on the same day.
He plans to fundraise for this year's remaining academic fees (which will be significantly less than what we already raised), and hopes that the war will end by the next year so he can get a job and pay himself.
Update Nov 20: More details here. Tawfik has fallen ill with the flu and won't be online much. He needs USD $228 (fees included) for medications and a vaccine. This requires him to reach 71% of his goal on Kofi (which is specifically for non-education related needs). At the same time, he needs $10,050 in his gfm by Nov 28 to pay off his international student fees.
Update Nov 15: We reached the halfway goal for the international student fee of USD $9,050 by Nov 15. Now going for the full fee of $10,050 by Nov 28.
Update Nov 6:
Tawfik got an extension to Nov 30 to pay the international fee. New goals of USD $9,050 by Nov 15 and $10,050 by Nov 28 (to account for transfer time) were set. The final goal was reduced with some backup money. Grades will be withheld until payment is made.
Update Nov 5:
Currently, it seems impossible to raise the required funds ($10,050 - $10,150) by Nov 13. Tawfik has emailed his school to negotiate for more time.
Update Oct 29:
Now @dev-tawfik.
The next goal was $9,250 to pay off international student fees (due Nov 13, see math section below) that Tawfik just found out about.
The family urgently needed $1,000 for healthy food (Tawfik's father has health problems and needs vegetables).
Tawfik initially wanted to use the gfm money for education only as promised, but had to add the sum to the campaign goal (a total of $10,250) because the Kofi he made solely for his family wasn't receiving many donations early on.
There were some issues with the Kofi taking a few weeks to transfer funds, but that's been resolved. It is now for support of Tawfik's family and transfers money relatively quickly.
From Oct 17-27, we fundraised to $7,200 to buy some food for the family. This food money will last roughly 2 weeks.
We are focusing back on international student fees and set a short-term goal of $8,862 in the campaign by Nov 3. There will be another small goal set after this date.
We need roughly $10,050 (an estimate) in the campaign by Nov 13 (hard deadline). Again, this isn't a concrete number and involves some usage of Tawfik's backup money.
Campaign details:
Tawfik is a software engineering student in Palestine trying to continue his education by enrolling in online classes at an Egyptian university.
He already raised roughly USD $2,500 in late July through a now closed Paypal campaign and paid the school as an application and reservation fee. This is nonrefundable.
We fundraised $4,113 (5200 - 1087) and paid off his tuition for the year on Oct 7
The gfm is meant for education only. To support the family, donate to the Kofi. It no longer faces issues with long transfer times.
Tawfik has some extra leftover funds from paying off the tuition, but it isn't much and is to be used for emergencies.
Oct 17: Tawfik bought his textbooks ($800 incl fees → $6,000 in campaign) and got a small discount for being Palestinian. This money saved went into his emergency funds.
Math:
Please let me know if I screwed up the calculation somewhere.
The transfer fee is assumed to be ~$50 per $600 earned. My bad in earlier calculations where I set it after the bank fee rather than before.
Textbooks: base $600
Funds left after:
Gfm for 40 donations: 570.6
~$50 transfer fee: 520.13
12% Bank fee: 458.13
To cover the funds lost to fees, we need an extra $200 (assumed 15 donations). After fees on that, it's only $166 (enough to cover the short-term goal)
So we need 600 + 200 = $800 for the textbooks.
This is $6,000 in the campaign.
Slightly outdated: International student fees: base $2,423
900£ = USD $1,180.93
60k EGP = USD $1,241.29
Funds left after:
Gfm fees for 160 donations: 2304.74
Transfer fee, ~$200: 2,104.74
12% Bank fee: 1852.17
To cover the funds lost to fees, we need an extra $800 (assumed 55 donations). After fees on that, it's only $625 (enough to cover the short-term goal)
So we need 2423 + 800 = $3,223 for the international student fee.
This is $9,223 10,223 in the campaign, rounded up to $ 9,250 10,250
The rate of ~$100 daily is sufficient to get us to this goal before the deadline of Nov 13 (this accounts for the 2 days needed for transfers)
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Vent post alert alert vent post ignore this if you don't care tysm
#i pay $30 a week for a subclinical group therapy program#i signed up for this program in february and joined my group on the basis#that my group was and would stay all female#y'all know i'm not discriminatory and i 100% believe men can and SHOULD participate in support groups#however#i have been in groups with men before and paid less to be in them#i am not at my most honest and vulnerable self when i am around men. it's just how i'm wired#and we had two new male members show up to our group tonight completely unannounced to neither us nor our group leader#and that is very frustrating#because we had planned a discussion for this week that couldn't take place because we had to accomodate new members#and i firmly believe that i am not the only one who was under the impression that our group dynamic would stay all female#i'm really disappointed in the lack of communication within a program that claims to be so accomodating and supportive#and i don't really know what to do with all this other than say it sucks
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simon riley x deaf!reader
tw: none, literally just pure fluff
“It’s just one date. I promise.”
You didn’t know how your friend had convinced you to go on a blind double date in the first place. In fact, you weren’t even the first choice, but when your friend came by to ask you to fill in for another girl who had bailed out last minute, you pity-agreed to help her out.
You weren’t sure if you were making the right choice. Dating wasn’t your thing, and you avoided it like it was the scum of the earth. Not to say you had bad experiences, per se, but you also didn’t have the best choice of men. None of them understood your situation to its fullest, but that was okay! You didn’t need their validation, and you were perfectly content with the way things were.
There was no harm in going on a fun date and having a few drinks and good food, you thought. One night, and you’d never have to see your blind date again.
Besides, your friend seemed to really be into her date from the way she’d gush about him after they met online (not your favorite choice, but you’d support her anyway), and you didn’t want to ruin that for her.
That’s what led you to be here, shoulder to shoulder with your friend as she rambled on about how excited she was with speedy hand gestures, how grateful she was that you came, that she’ll make sure your dinner and drinks are paid for. You weren’t exactly sure where the two of you were going, but judging from what she forced you to wear, it had to be a bit fancy and lavish.
You didn’t have the heart to tell her that was also not your favorite choice.
She guided you inside of the building, which was a preview of what was to come — high ceilings, ravishing decor, and low lighting that made everything much more romantic. You took in the fluorescent scenery as she spoke with the hostess. You didn’t know what they were saying, but as the waitress gestured with a hand for the two of you to follow, you assumed the two men were already there.
Your arm was looped loosely with your friend’s as the two of you walked after the hostess. When you approached a table, you took in the sight of one man that looked familiar — your friend’s date, a man with smooth, tanned skin and a smile that could cure sickness. The other man was new to you, and compared to your friend’s date — Kyle? — he was much more phlegmatic.
Kyle gave a polite nod towards you with a blinding smile, and you have one back, bowing your head in greeting. You sat next to your friend, watching as Kyle pulled out the chair for her, to which your date definitely didn’t do the same.
That was alright. You weren’t planning on making it past the first date anyway.
Your friend began to chatter with Kyle while you and your mystery date sat in silence. Your hands remained in your lap as your eyes scanned the menu that sat on the table.
Focused on appearing as busy as possible, you were unfortunately snapped out of it before it could last long when your friend nudged your shoulder with hers. When you looked up at her, she was smiling, and she lifted her hand to signal the man in front of you.
Blinking at him, you realized he was possibly trying to talk to you, and you shifted awkwardly. He probably thought you were rude.
“Sorry, Simon. I forgot to mention she’s deaf, so she didn’t know you were introducing yourself,” your friend apologized, and you watched as he stared at her before nodding in acknowledgment. “It won’t change anything, yeah?”
You sat in tense silence as you averted your eyes back to the menu. Your date had eyes that could pierce right through you if they wanted to, and you weren’t quite sure you wanted to be their next victim, date or not.
A phone screen was slid across the table from where you were studying the menu, and your eyes flickered to see a string of words typed out in the notes app.
“Sorry if that came off as rude. I’m Simon.”
Glancing up at him, you flashed him a smile that was relieved. He gave you an awkward one back, and you thought maybe he didn’t do it much.
You picked up his phone from where it sat in front of you and began typing out your response before slipping it back to him. You watched as he read it, a look of amusement in his eyes as he did so.
“Not rude at all. Sorry she didn’t tell you. You can back out if you’d like, I won’t take offense.”
Kyle and your friend were conversed in conversation with one another while Simon and you had your own back and forth.
“Why would I do that?” his next note read, and you tilted your head at him. He offered you a shrug, and your fingers tapped along his screen in return.
“Most men wouldn’t like being blindsided by not knowing their date is deaf.”
You saw his mouth part open when he read it, and you wondered if he was chuckling to himself. You wished you could hear it.
Was it deep? What if it was one of those contagious laughs that sounded like the literal gates of heaven opening up, and you wouldn’t ever have the chance of hearing it?
You didn’t have time to think about it when he placed the phone back in front of you, and when you glanced down, you couldn’t help but smile bashfully to yourself.
“A pretty girl’s a pretty girl. I’d be an idiot for backing out on the prettiest one I’ve had the gall to see over something like that.”
Fuck.
You weren’t supposed to like your date, much less so quickly. You only came for the food and for the sake of your friend’s happiness, but here you were, cheesing to yourself like a stupid teenager with a new crush.
But as the date continued, with the both of you eating alongside Kyle and your friend, shamelessly passing his phone back and forth and filling his notes app with evidence of your growing infatuation, you knew it wasn’t only for the food anymore.
He was sweet. Sure, it was all on paper (well, screen), and you told yourself to always be cautious with men.
But when he asked you out on a second date, then a third, you allowed your concrete walls to crumble.
And when he showed you the new signs he’d been working on so he could communicate with you on the fourth date, spelling out your name with cautious, slow fingers, eyes searching for your approval? You could’ve already married him then and there.
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