#they don't seem to know what to do with layton anymore but also don't want to sideline him

[awkward-teabag]

Mmm. Been ruminating on and have mixed feelings about Snowpiercer (the TV show, not movie). On the one hand, some of the character developments and plots are great. I particularly like the one where an abuse victim thinks they're strong enough to handle their former abuser only to fall back into old patterns. It's realistic and compelling.

The gender-swapping of roles, intentional or not, is also refreshing. Yes I will take a man being the emotional one and his partner being the practical/realistic one who is willing to put aside her own desires to get shit done, thanks.

But on the other hand, the writing can be a mess at times and characters do a 180 either to fit the episode or to fit a plot and previous development gets conveniently ignored to do it. Given other good writing and steady development spanning seasons, it makes this stand out even more, especially in the final season.

It would be easier to deal with if it was an entire season or was restricted to episodes written/directed by a specific person. That it's not and that it's mixed with good puts it in a weird place and brings the whole show down

[bearofohu]

your tags on the lady layton anime poll tell me you didn't exactly enjoy watching it

Personally, i can only agree and i have my reasons for it, but I'm still curious as to why you dislike it?

I don't like it mainly because it's so... obviously made for little kids. In every part of it.

No culprit is actually bad, but rather 99% of them were doing a bad thing for a good reason, which is fine once in a while, but this is the case in literally every single episode, and it gets old quickly. They made a detective/mystery anime with no actual crimes depicted. I mean come on. On top of that, the episodes are so painfully formulaic. The mysteries themselves are interesting enough though, which is probably the only reason why i managed to suffer through it to the end. I also just generally dislike Layton becoming a father. I don't doubt he'd be good at it, but he just doesn't seem like the kind of person who would just adopt a whole ass child. I'm also generally not a fan of "popular character becomes a parent, so their child can continue their legacy". I just hate that trope in general. Children are not their parents and it's unrealistic to expect them to be.

And I'm also not a big fan of the main characters. I could probably write more if i seriously thought about it, but as a whole i can say that i just find them grating. Katrielle is supposedly an "english lady", but we rarely see her acting actually ladylike in the anime. Her interest in sweets is fine enough, but it's so overblown that it's just not believable anymore and instead turns into her only character trait, completely overshadowing her supposed interest in mysteries, which just seems like bad writing. And while the main plot, so to speak, of the whole show is her finding the professor, the only times that even comes up is in the episodes that are exclusively about that. Katrielle isn't really shown to be missing him at all, not even in private, which makes it seem more like she's searching for him out of obligation rather than because she actually wants to. The moments shown of Katrielle and Layton in the past are so few, it just seems like they wanted to do their own thing with the show, but had to slap the Layton brand name onto it for the brand recognition, and i wouldn't be surprised if that was the truth tbh.

Noah, or as the english subs called him, "Ernest" (for whatever reason), is probably my least favourite kind of character. I don't know, maybe it's his character design that makes me dislike him so much. I hate how he's such a huge scaredy cat and that being his one and only sole character trait. Seriously, what other character traits does he have? If you know any, please tell me, because i legit cannot think of any. Well, he does have this one other character trait of having a huge crush on Katrielle, but is unable or unwilling to actually ever act on it, which is a trope that I'm just so tired of. Like, either grow some balls and make a move instead of being passive aggressive to every other potential partner that approaches her, or give up on your crush and grow a personality! I don't care about how "realistic" this kind of thing is supposed to be, it makes for a terrible character. That coupled with his general demeanor just makes him boring as hell. If he was replaced by a lapdog that got carried around in a small purse, i doubt the anime would be much different. His only backstory we get is his two-episode backstory thing, but the whole thing hinges on an initial misunderstanding, or rather, it hinges on everyone else deliberately keeping Noah in the dark. He shows character traits in those episodes that could actually lead to him becoming interesting, but as soon as those are over, he's back to his normal, boring self, which is a huge shame.

Sherl the dog is the classic (and literal, in this case) example of "all bark, no bite". It's never explained why only Katrielle and Noah can understand him, and this fact doesn't matter either, because it's rarely, if ever, called out by other characters. He doesn't have the sense of smell like a typical dog, effectively making him useless. His role is the animal mascott of the agency and anime, the third character to make a trio, and to be the comic relief. That last one is a shame though, because he's not funny at all. Or maybe the whole "yelling at ridiculous character for being ridiculous" thing is just not my thing.

These are my main reasons. There are a few more things I don't like, but those are more nitpicks.

So I know why I don't the anime (and now so do you), but I'm curious as to why you don't like it. Same reasons as me? Completely different?

your reasons are really valid criticisms and i agree with most but mine are actually pretty different

my reasons are probably going to be more based on bias rather than the overall quality of the show bc to be completely honest with you i hate both mystery room & lady layton and think both attempts to “reboot” layton was lazy, uninspired and unnecessary

and if a lot of this makes me sound like an old ass man its bc i am when it comes to layton. my 7 year old ass was playing CV on its release week in the US. im an OG snob to the bone so honestly you should take my beef with LMDA with a grain of salt when it comes to presenting legit critique bc while i do hav legit critique, above all else i have “i just hate this shit”

hino ignored “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and for that i never intended to give either spin-off a chance and im not ashamed to admit that this point. i knew i wasnt going to like mystery room when it was announced, but it was so obviously a spin-off that it was very easy to ignore and safely assume it was just an AU type deal

but then shit got personal when i found out LMJ was going to be professor layton’s successor. back in the day when all that hoopla was occurring i always had to back up my complaints by emphasizing its not bc i don’t like the change, its bc of x and bc of y.

but the truth is there was nothing wrong with LMJ in regards to the game they were trying to make. LMJ and by extension LMDA is for kids, marketed towards kids. thats why the puzzles are piss easy. they’re not badly made, they’re for children. the plot isn’t sterile and corny and safe, its for kids.

if LMJ/LMDA were a spinoff i wouldnt have had such a problem with it. but it wasnt. it was supposed to be a successor to layton, but its not a successor, its a total replacement that fails its source material in every possible way

and thats my problem with it. professor layton didn’t need to be remade. it didn’t need to be remade for children. children could stomach the original perfectly fine. the unwound future trauma beat my 8 yr old ass and i came out just fine

there is nothing wrong with LMJ/LMDA if it stayed in its fucking lane. instead hino attempted to replace a franchise with it that was totally and utterly different in every aspect which totally alienated OG fans and completely failed to capture new ones

and i hate LMDA more strongly bc the relic stone arc is such a failure of a professor layton story. it steps all over hershel’s character and makes him such a prideful deadbeat who gladly sends himself and luke to their possible demise for NO fucking reason. if layton knew they were going to get captured by rufus aldebaran’s stupid cult then why the FUCK did he let luke come with him. jesus fucking christ. he would not let that boy walk to his death

..or maybe he would bc of what happened in azran legacy. fuck me. i swear to god everything thats wrong with LMDA i can trace back to azran legacys writing somehow

hershel aside it also shat on any of the impact that we would’ve gotten seeing luke’s growth. LMDA just throws a fucking eeeve stone at him and even then we learn almost fucking nothing about him or his wife or how they met. marina is the only character i found even a little bit interesting due to how fucking hardass it was that she indoctrinated herself into the cult that froze her man for 10 yrs JUST so she could one day save him. but ofc the fandom shat on her when LMDA was airing bc she wasnt luke’s husband (which she is btw. sorry some of u werent woke enough to see that)

hino obv knows by now that the reboot failed in nwos is any indication. and i don’t want to rip on hino bc at the end of the day after azran legacy blew fat stank ass in sales, he was just trying to bring bag back to professor layton. this just wasnt it and hopefully the hype around nwos has showed him the actual way forward for the franchise and if hes swagful enough he’ll just start giving LMJ the flora treatment

but yea this is such my brainshit of thoughts for why i personally hate LMJ/LMDA. hopefully it was even a little bit coherent and ty for giving me a chance to ramble and sharing your own thoughts 💖

[autisticempathydaemon]

Alright, let's do this, i guess

My ennagram is propably either 6w5 or 5w6 i'm not quit sure

I do watch a lot of video essays, too many to name any favorites, most of them about fiction/media analysis, a few channel examples being: cj the x, ragnarrox, lindsay ellis, ladyknightthebrave (though i've admittedly only seen her the haunting of hill house/bly manor videos), what's so great about that & hbomberguy (fuck tommy tallarico)

My favorite audio rn is probably "Your Chaotic Roommate Confesses His Feelings For You", for multiple reasons i probably can't get into in a post like this

In terms of who hold no appeal for me, mostly david but also vincent, he's just too idk clasically romantic for my tastes

Speaking of which, i'm generally not the most traditionally romantic person which sometimes makes me worried that i'm not affectionate enough/in the right way for people

I generally love horror and/or fantasy and/or mystery media of all types.

I used to watch a lot of rpg maker horror game lets plays during a generally rough time in my life (though i've still never played one of them myself) mostly the channel manlybadasshero and the german channel nesfatelp.

The professor layton series of puzzle/mystery games are a cornerstone of my child & and early teenagehood, the two with the spookiest athmospheres (the diabolical/pandoras box and spectres call) probably being my favorites if i had to choose. I also recently (finally) started getting into the ace attorny series.

In terms of platonic attraction: just the entire damn squad, including gavin.

I don't really have any guilty pleasure favorites i think, but for some reason i had this weird cheap dvd which was a fairy tale themed collection of german knock studio cartoon films as a kid. There where a few by this studio called dingo pictures (as i would later find out, here's the german wikipedia page since there isn't an english one: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Pictures) on there including an alladin knock of (here's a clip of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2u4h5STlXUc&pp=ygUVYWxhZGluIGRpbmdvIHBpY3R1cmVz)

It seems to be the same german animation team/studio as that film where the yeee dinosaur meme/clip comes from (this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EoRBvdVPQ&pp=ygUMeWVlIGRpbm9zYXVy)

Though the dino movie wasn't on the dvd, probably since it isn't fairytale themed, so i never saw that one as a kid.

And there also was a bambi knock of by dingo pictures called goldie that i even had as a seperate dvd of as well for some reason (here's a clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b_WNza6_Z2c&pp=ygUMR29sZGllIGJhbWJp) there also where films clearly made by other small studios on that dvd as well, it really was a weird mix.

And although i could even as a kid tell that these films were objectivly "bad" i still found some strange enjoyment and fascination in them at the time and looking up these clips gave me immense nostalgia, i even have to say i enjoyed goldie more than disney's bambi, simply because it was more intersting in it's strangeness while i found bambi always boring.

Well, there you go, hope that's enough/helpful

Addendum: As a kid i used to always just say my hobbies are reading and drawing/painting and while i still like these activities (and i still read a book every once in a while) it started to feel kind of dishonest since i haven't actually been doing these things as much anymore (especially drawing/painting, i really need to get back into that) so last year i started to get into new hobbies i had interested in trying for a while, like learning to play guitar as well as starting to do archery and now also wanting to get into general martial arts (i mean, i gotta get buff arms somehow, right)

Ooh, I like you. Type 5w6, the Troubleshooters, are such an interesting type, and you have fantastic taste in movies, interests, video essays, and games. You know who else would like you? Guy~!

The enneagram types you align with, plus the video essays and games you like, give me the vibe of someone really thoughtful and in their head, like Honey, and we all know what a fuckin great match they are with Guy. This also works because Honey doesn’t strike me as traditionally romantic or saccharine sappy either.

I’m imagining a really loving, lowkey in its intimacy kind of relationship, the kind that’s built on a companionable compatibility you two have. It’s lots of chill nights watching horror movies that he talks through non-stop, mystery movies where he always guesses the killer. Its trying new hobbies, sports, and classes together and getting adorably, lovingly competitive. It’s Guy being very cute but entirely unhelpful with the Professor Layton puzzles.

Song:

It's funny 'cause you drive me half insane/ A universe without you would be thoroughly mundane/ There's no one else I'd rather fall in love with/ And that is my best friend in the world

Yeah, I’ve just designated you Honey-kinnie, friends/roommates to lovers vibes, I hope you’re okay with that /lh Guy’s just the perfect guy (ha) for sneaking himself into your heart, you know? He’s there and silly and incorrigible and inexplicably charming, and then you can’t imagine home with him.

Runner-Ups:

Asher is a really cute choice for runner-up because he strikes me as a scaredy-cat who pretends to be tough, and I love to pair wimps with horror buffs. Ollie is also a good option because I think you, he, and Guy would like all the same things. That would be a really cute fucking friend group actually.

note: you have, again, excellent taste in video essays I highly recommend ladyknighttothebrave’s video about Sense8 it’s my favorite one about one of my favorite shows 💕 you’re also totally fine for sending in two asks, all input is helpful and valuable 💚

Read this post and send me an ask if you’d like a match-up of your own! 💌

[julesnichols]

Out of our main (& secondary) characters, write in list form who's most likely to least likely to die next.

First off whoever you are you sent this twice, so if that's because you wanted it to go to someone else too you should try again for them!

Anyways hopefully I haven't forgotten anyone, and this was really hard to figure out.

Also, feel free to add your own thoughts to this if you'd like to anyone! Just be civil please.

Under the cut because it got long:

1. Audrey��� I'd hate it, but like it makes unfortunate sense to some extent because they don't seem to know where she's going, I hope that I'm wrong!

2. Ben— also hate this, but he's the most expendable engineer, this prediction grows if Melanie is alive because aside from Miles all of the other engineers will have resurrected at one point and I'd THINK would have more plot armor because of it

3. Oz— I think that he's about to girlboss too close to the sun

4. Miss Gillies— there's that one promo of her with a machine gun, cannot imagine THAT going well!

5. Pike— see my reasoning for Oz, except less because Ruth is a risk the way LJ is and more because he hates Layton and is probably gonna revolt

6. LJ— less likely than Oz but I could see if she was enough of a threat Oz killing her in self defense, please let's not do this though I might dislike her but I dislike the idea of her or Oz physically harming one another even LESS because domestic violence is not great

7. Asha— doubtful they'd kill off a new character however, if she's a threat I could see it

8. Zarah— I kinda doubt it, because they've shown she'll do what it takes to survive, but she's also been in a lot of horrible situations so

9. Till— I like her a lot, but she also doesn't have that much of a plot; however, unlike Audrey she's not been in league with someone dangerous though

10. Roche— I don't think they'll go there, but uhh he's Going Through It so

11. Mrs. Headwood— see: Roche

12. Sykes— I think she's pretty safe, she defected

13. Pelton— I would think that she's probably safe, but they sure do be killing minor characters this season!

14. Lights— they also do be enjoying killing tailies this season, so honestly this is a tie with Pelton

15. Ruth— I highly doubt it, but like she's playing a dangerous game now

16. Layton— he may also girlboss too close to the sun this season

17. Miles— I hope not, and that they let him do his offscreen thing still, but who knows!

18. Melanie— if she's somehow alive, I think she's the least safe of the resurrection squad given I don't know how much Jennifer wants to be around

19. Josie— the first of the resurrection squad, and the one in the most peril; honestly most of the resurrection squad is tied tbh

20. Javi— see: Josie, except he's in slightly less danger

21. Alex— she's a kid so I think she's the second safest

22. Wilford— he and Melanie are the only ones of the resurrection squad I'd argue who are NOT tied with the others; I'd say he's the safest because Sean Bean doesn't wanna play characters who die anymore

[sineala]

Hey! Warning: I don't know a lot about marvel comics ( i'm trying to remedy that). Why is the newest IM run met with bitterness/dismay by fandom? Is it because of the writer?

Ha. Ha. Um. Okay. It’s salt night tonight, I guess. You know, I was writing fic, but, sure, it can be salt night. Let me just put this under a Read More. 

Honestly, I haven’t read a whole lot of Slott’s work. I know he’s written Spider-Man for what feels like an entire century and I feel like the Spidey fans I know don’t reflexively curse his name? So maybe that’s encouraging. He did, however, write the Great Lakes Avengers miniseries, which is the worst comic I think I have ever spent money on. It was just non-stop bulimia jokes. Our senses of humor clearly do not align. So based on that I am not feeling especially great, but that’s just a me thing.

But more generally – the thing about being a certain kind of comics fan who likes Tony Stark is that it is really, really hard to find comics these days about the Tony Stark that you like. A prevailing opinion in fandom, and one that I mostly share  (with the proviso that I really liked IM: Fatal Frontier, which was relatively recent), is that there hasn’t been a good Iron Man run since Iron Man: Director of SHIELD. That’s Iron Man, volume 4. That ended TEN YEARS AGO.

So you might now think to yourself, “Hey, the MCU started ten years ago! I wonder if that’s significant!” And the answer is, yes, yes, it really is. Because what they’ve done since then is consciously try to pull Tony’s characterization toward the MCU. And I can’t blame Marvel for wanting to do this, because MCU is where the money is and we all know that RDJ as Tony is amazing and he brought a whole new life to the character. But the thing is, for me, he’s playing his own Tony Stark. RDJ’s Tony Stark. Who is great but is not, in many important ways, the character I adore in the comics. But that’s what they’re making him into. They’ve upped the witty quips significantly, they’ve added or retconned large chunks of his background (the RT akin to the arc reactor, the fact that he is maybe now not a college graduate), they’ve taken away a lot of the whole Good Businessman thing that’s been there, they’ve taken away most of his friends, they added in a relationship with Pepper that I don’t even want to talk about, and so on. And they’re explicit that this is what they’re doing. In recent IM editorial columns, they talked about their admiration for RDJ’s portrayal and their desire to bring that to the comics.

And the thing about Tony having been catapulted into prominence by the MCU is that suddenly he’s big now, and he was never big before. He didn’t have a lot of fans, and that includes among the writing staff. The people who are well-known in fandom for having done good IM runs – Layton & Michelinie, O’Neil, Busiek, the Knaufs – are generally not (Busiek excepted, I guess) the absolute superstars of comics writing, as I understand it (although I may be wrong; I am not very widely-read); they liked Tony, as far as I know, and they wrote what they liked because they liked the character, so we got good runs from people who genuinely enjoyed writing Tony. But now that Tony is popular, Marvel wants to put their A-list writers on the book, and it seems like for the most part these big-name writers are not actually that happy about writing Tony. It’s not like Steve, where you can find people who imprinted on Gruenwald’s Cap run or what have you and are overjoyed to write Cap because they get Cap and they understand Cap and it would be an honor. I feel like with IM these days you’re really lucky if they’ve ever done the reading.

Since the start of the MCU there have been four IM runs: Fraction, Gillen, Taylor, and Bendis. I am honestly not sure I know anyone who was already a Tony fan who likes Fraction’s run; I finally dragged myself through it a couple months ago and the most charitable thing I can say is that it is an interesting comic (with more non-consensual humiliation than I personally prefer) about someone who happens to be named Tony Stark who is definitely not the guy I know from the comics I love. I haven’t read most of Gillen’s run and I don’t know a lot of people who have, so I think you can tell how well that was received in fandom. Tom Taylor, though, seemed like a guy who was genuinely excited to be writing Iron Man and you could tell that he had done the reading because he was name-dropping wacky 70s issues that I had a lot of fun finding and reading (like the one where Tony goes to SDCC) – but unfortunately the run Marvel put him on was Superior Iron Man. If you read interviews with him he sounds like he would have definitely preferred to be writing non-evil Tony. And then there’s Bendis. I’m not really sure what happened there. I had such high hopes. I feel like he used to be good at writing Tony, and certainly he gave us a bunch of great Tony without which Steve/Tony would not exist (see: The Confession), and I feel like if he’d been the one writing IM ten years ago it could have been spectacular. But I also feel like when the majority of his run features Riri Williams and Victor von Doom and no Tony anywhere, this guy maybe does not want to write Tony anymore. I think that wanting an Iron Man comic to contain Tony Stark is a reasonable minimum standard. (Note that he doesn’t have to be Iron Man to make me happy -- one of my absolute favorite runs has Rhodey as Iron Man -- but I think that an IM comic where Tony is alive and present shouldn’t be too much to ask for.)

So I feel like, given that Dan Slott is in interviews already talking about how his pitch for the new IM was “Okay, it’s Robert Downey Jr. starring sometimes in Black Mirror and sometimes in Rick and Morty,” that this is already not going to be the Tony I want to read about because my ideal IM run is probably not going to come from the pen of someone who is already saying that they’re going to write 616 Tony as RDJ. I mean, MCU is great! But if I want to see MCU Tony, I can watch the movies! I want to read about 616 Tony, who is not the same as the guy in the movies! I want a run like that, and I’m clearly not getting it.

On the plus side, the art is by Valerio Schiti, so whatever the writing is like, the art’s gonna be fuckin’ pretty. I guess we will have that to console ourselves with.

[dryicecubes]

Hello. I`m wondering if you could tell us how you and Nav fell in love? It seems like it would be a sweet story. You don't have to if you don't want to

Ok but it’s kind of embarrassing I’m sorry @navnavprime

So back in 2013 I was in a heavy Alfendi phase and was drawing my subversive art as I do and I didn’t have a nsfw blog yet so all that shit was kept on my main blog 

Well, I saw Nav liking my shit a lot and I’m like “Hmm, who is this Navigator fellow? But I don’t think too much of it until I get an anonymous message asking “Hey do u mind if I do an audio for you of this subject matter with Alfendi?” And I’m like “Uh I’m not gonna turn that down yeah do it”

So while he’s doing that I’m like “Hmm, Alfendi audio….what would that sound like?” And I can’t remember how but I stumbled upon the Layton Brothers Audio blog, found an Alfendi ask, and took a listen and then prompty died. I remember thinking “…ok, if this is the person doing the Alfendi audio? That’s. Gonna be really hot”

So it turned out it was and I was immensely destroyed. I was starting to become friends with Tuft at the time, we had only been friends for a month or so, and he knew Nav personally, so I was like “OH MY GOD TELL HIM HE’S AMAZING AND WONDERFUL”

So I forgot to mention at this time I was in a relationship that was stagnant and we were starting to fall apart. We were having arguments and looking back i wasn’t a healthy relationship for either of us. Was I gonna break up with them for Nav? No that wasn’t even on my mind yet, I maintained that me and Nav would just be friends. We ended up breaking up 2 months later though because I couldn’t handle it anymore.

Anyways Tuft and Nav were gonna have a group call with another voice actor friend named Gent, and me, being a non voice actor, felt like I was severely outclassed here and wondered why they would bring me into their group call. It was a fun time but I stayed on mute pretty much the entire time because I was in college and that night I was hanging in a friend’s room. But I enjoyed listening to all of them talk and I was immensely shy and barely talked.

Anyways the days go on and Nav starts releasing audios of him singing. I would say the one audio that immensely made me fall in love with him was this one

I was like “Oh. Ooooh. Ohhhhhhhhh.” (Also I’m sorry Toby for linking old stuff I know it clips but it’s a really sentimental audio for me at this point) Anyways that was the point where my boner meter went off and I knew deep down inside I need to at least be super close friends with this boy.

So my issue was I was extremely self loathing. This boy? Way out of my league. There was no chance. How could I be friends with him because he would never see me like that.

And this is where the story gets, uh, unadvised on how to proceed with a crush please do not do what I did.

I basically became a creepy stalker. Anytime he was doing streams or in a call in groups I was in? I had to be there. I would just sit on mute and listen and talk from chat because I was not worthy. Art stream? I’m there complementing him way too much. His art skills, his voice, you name it. In a call with a bunch of friends? All I want is for everyone to shut up so I can listen to Nav. In our friend calls, I would have audacity running and capturing all of our voices so I could go back and listen to them later. I mean, I told them I was. I think. I remember mentioning it.

So uh. Yeah. That was a thing.

On the other hand, when I would do art streams back in the day, I would always ALWAYS invite Nav. If he couldn’t come, then I always contemplated cancelling the streams. After all, deep down inside, I knew he was the reason I was holding them in the first place.

This was not healthy at all. The amount of days I cried because I knew I wasn’t worth him is embarrassing. Extremely unhealthy, very embarrassing and should be admonished because it was just. No.

I would always go to his blog once a day to see if there were any updates. The plain pasta debacle? Had it queued to reblog once a day because one yes it was funny but two I wanted everyone to see him.

Now, let’s be honest. If Nav said he didn’t want to date me? I think that would have been enough to make me stop oh who am I kidding I asked him if he liked me and he said it was platonic and that was (kind of) good enough for me? I was worried he didn’t even see me as a friend. I tried to be there for him all the time when he was having issues, I wanted him to vent to me, I wanted to solve all his problems, protect him, etc etc typical stalker girl shit.

I hate looking back on that part of my life cause there is no way it should have led to me becoming his girlfriend. It was creepy, obsessive, and I still can’t believe I ended up with him.

Anyways sometime mid-April 2015 I honestly? Can’t remember what actually pushed us together. All I remember is I asked him one more time and he said yes and I couldn’t believe it.

Oh right, forgot about this text document.

I kept a text document to reassure myself that he was my friend because I was such a loser. Including such hits as:

“He cuddles with you and nuzzles you and he wouldn’t be that kind if he didn’t at least like you in some manner.“

“Get over the sex feelings alright? You are a friend, nothing more, and that’s ok. Enjoy him as a friend. Be a nerd with him.“

“He is a goddamn friend and he cares about you so much. And you make him happy. You help him get through the day.“

“Nav is a great friend. Please don’t be a creep.“

“Edit: 7/7/14 Holy shit Charris you are hella gay for this boy aren’t you wow.”“Edit:9/11/14 Jesus. Why do I still have this holy cow…Maybe it’s for the last line. That one still makes my heart tickle. Tee hee.“

and of course

“Edit: 4/16/15 Nav is your ffuckging boyfriend i can’t beleibve this“

Thankfully after I was his girlfriend officially the creep factor immediately dropped, and we’ve only grown in BOTH OUR NON ONE SIDED LOVE and now all is good but that’s the embarrassing story.

TBH I’d love to hear this from Nav’s side please go ask him his point of view.