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i stand in the corner watching you hoping you’d notice, hoping you would care. you may have already forgotten about me, but i have a glimmer of hope that you remember. we only met once, and i know i’m insane for saying this.
-moon 🗝️
#lovers#ily#i miss him#come back#you dont understand#dark#rain#ocean waves#crush#hell is a teenage girl#emptycore#sadgirl#i'm sad#maybe delete later#idk#loneliest#we only have each other#love me#i’m crazy#i did everything i could#i’ve done everything wrong#we only met once#he doesn’t know#why am i so awkward#can’t i just learn to speak up
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farewell.
boy with the easy laugh tossed out through white teeth. boy with the fluffy curly hair like wind-strewn bird's nests. boy with the blue grey eyes where the sea meets the sky like he loves so dearly. to the artist's hands, the bartender's hands, strong and sure. to pow! finger guns and the fierce and the wild and the no such thing as too far or too fast. this world was not good enough to hold you contained.
rest easy.
forever somewhere is the long night. the sky is black and the stars are bright. we laugh together: you, your best friend, her boyfriend, their dog, my boyfriend, and i. lost in the jokes and the drinks, crashing my mario kart into hopeless ditches, i know from across the room that you are a good man from the way your eyes light up and your words pass across your tongue. like molten gold, like sunsets, you hold them and taste them and know their worth. your best friend, she tells me you might move down here, from canada to california. maybe we can see each other agin; maybe we can do this again in the future. i give you the name of my favorite bartender youtube channel. it is the first and last time i meet you.
shine bright.
the bottle in your hands as you pour that night. tequila in ice. juiced lemon. shaken. i watch you make it just right. you can barely taste the alcohol. i will tell anyone who listens that it was the best drink i've ever had. i will wish when i see the news that i had a bottle to pour for you. i will mourn the loss of what could've been but is not. for now i just laugh, a happy haze descending on another simple, fun night.
you will be missed.
though i did not know you well, i still feel your loss intimately. you are an absence where once there was solid, immovable rock, an altercation in the familiar places. sometimes i still fail to resign imagination to reality. when i click on your instagram profile, i almost start to message you. i wish i'd done more, reached out, tried to know you before i would never be able to know you again. i hope you are at peace. i hope this, whatever this is, means something. i wanted to give you something so i write the words for you. i want you to know that it mattered, no matter how briefly. i hope you know how deeply you are loved and how beautiful your mark on the world is.
goodbye.
#aug 18#i've just finished the book thief#1:03am#goodbye sam#we only met once#but i still mourn you#from afar
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im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.
biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)
the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.
democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.
#i think i already said this and frankly idc#uspol#📁.zip#to me personally it's abhorrent and vile to tell palestinians 'biden is facilitating the murder of your people culture and history but you#still have to vote for him!!1' like how is that not unbelievably callous and ghoulish#frankly speaking. a lot of this 'you should be concerned about trump' is going to turn into#blaming palestinians and arabs and muslims and anyone remotely with a conscience for biden's loss#instead of doing something productive like pushing for people in power to do something they'll nitpick and belittle#and tell palestinians + arabs and muslims + everyone who understands that genocide is bad that they SHOULD#settle for a decrepit genocidal monstrous freak who is CURRENTLY facilitating genocide because#it makes THEM feel better and they aren't personally threatened (yet) by the guy currently in power#any and all 'you're not taking trump seriously' comments should be met with extreme skepticism#because i promise i PROMISE that the vast majority of people unhappy with biden are not going to turn around and vote for trump#and if they do? well guess what THAT'S BIDEN'S FAULT! nevermind the vote uncommitted campaign that was very successful and#will be replicated in the near future. but liberals only care about asthetics and superficial and not#about real material change which is why they'll dress up their callousness and racism in a 'you hate gay people if you dont vote for biden'#like this country is already going to shit we are rapidly descending into fascism and i dont see biden doing anything to even remotely#challenge it do you???? once agian. NOT an endorsement of the republican party but my GOD when the 'lesser evil'#is DOING the evil or normalizing the evil then you cannot settle for 'the lesser'! end of story.
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last night i got home kind of tipsy and very much in tears and my mother told me the force you exert to keep someone in your life is proportional to the force with which they will leave your life. if you have to fight tooth and claw to keep them, their leaving will be just as hard, just as harsh, and just as definite.
#she said it like a law. its just momentum.#also she told me to get a therapist and start archery ASAP bc i need to get it together#and also she said even granting that this person u were in love w was So Special . as in hot motorcycle-riding iranian masc lesbian in ldn#they arent the only one on earth and that once i start my proper adult life outside of studies etc etc i will probably no longer live in th#UK. she said most non straight iranians u would like have left the country anyway . where do you think they went? theyre out there#and also she asked me to imagine how many hot gay iranians there may be in italy or amsterdam or smth and i was like ok points 😭 maybe#ur right. anyway i was having a feeling of dread bc crying into the arms of ur strict asian mother while buzzed usually results in#death chaos destruction etc in the next few days but actually i think maybe she has genuinely changed as a person and the fear is#unwarranted#anyway i need to eat breakfast and study w the date person i met yesterday#they are so nice ??? genuinely so so sweet i dont feel attracted to them at all omg i genuinely think i have a thing for hot evil ppl 😭#but we could b besties . theyre a lot more romantic than the ex situationship person too like generally . ugh they should be perfect but#alas it appears i am shallow as fuck or potentially a lesbian actually#OH THEY MIGHT ALSO BE POTENTIALLY A LESBIAN BTW#i think i just tend to not date cis ppl entirely by accident#....feel free to rb if u want btw sorry for the rant
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wonderful tiny interactions.
The guy at the post office couldn’t care less about proof of residence he was openly shouting ‘mam do you have anything to prove you live at this address’, before whispering ‘i don’t actually care’
and as i was scrolling trying to find an energy bill he just looked over my phone went: OKAY GREAT and handed me my package with a quiet don’t tell my boss
#😭😭😭😭#great bc i dont actually know my pg&e password 😭😭😭😭#once i was outside waiting for a bus that didnt come with another girl i never met#bc the bus has one destination only she ended up calling an uber and let me hop a ride#i actually felt like she was p cool for that and we had a nice convo#didnt get her number just her venmo to pay half the fare 😭😭#yesterday my bus driver yelled at me for not having enough funds on my card then went sorry and just let me on#he then proceeded to cuss out everyone on the streets tho he was an interesting driver#i classify that as a positive interaction bc normally the strangers who yell at me dont apologize#guy was mad at something but trying to do better and thats more than most ppl can say
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non-exhaustive list of canon powers Nico di Angelo either has shown or is heavily implied to have:
Shadow-travel
Manipulation of shadows/darkness (also possibly use of shadows as a pocket-dimension a la Magicians using the Duat in The Kane Chronicles)
Becoming intangible/shadows
Complete control over skeletons/bones (dead or alive, including summoning, reanimation, and/or changing shape of them) and being able to sense their presence
Summoning, reanimating, commanding, and dispelling the dead/undead (Skeletons, zombies, ghosts, etc & varieties) and being able to sense their presence
Ability to understand/communicate with the dead/undead and potentially other beings of the Underworld
Inherent complete comprehension of Latin
Ability to perceive the usually unperceivable/possibly look upon a deity’s true form without repercussion (at least moreso than the average demigod, though possibly is restricted to chthonic beings) (ex: Tartarus, potentially also interacting with his parents, etc)
Interacting tangibly with ghosts (implied to be a Ghost King thing rather than a Hades/Pluto thing)
Partial or complete immunity to different effects of the Underworld/things within (can consume food/drink of or in the Underworld without repercussions, effects from the Lethe wear off over time instead of being permanent like usual for mortals, etc)
Astral projection/”Walking in dreams”
Dream manipulation and projection (Sending dreams to others, etc.) (presumably includes sharing/projecting dreams with others) alongside inflicting sleep upon others even from a distance.
Illusions
Manipulation of emotions/aura that inflicts specific emotions on others (ex.: radiating fear/death onto enemies)
Projection of emotions and memories onto others (can be so forceful it causes physical damage like a shockwave)
Geokinesis (all forms but also specifically generating black marble) (presumably also specialized control over precious gemstones & non-paper currency)
Temperature manipulation (seemingly only lowering temperature)/creating frost)
Control/manipulation of souls, including living beings (ex: ripping out Bryce Lawrence’s soul)
Perceiving/reading/judging of souls (most likely also a Ghost King thing over Hades/Pluto thing, but possibly both)
Converting living into dead/undead, aka instakill (ex: disintegrating monsters to bone with one touch)
Lowering or manipulation of own vitals (breathing, heart rate, etc)
Death Trance/pseudo-hibernation (possibly also general control over states of consciousness at least for self, in combo with control over vitals & dreams)
Sensing death (impending or when it occurs, sometimes receiving dreams/visions of it occurring)
Able to sense other children of Hades/Pluto (potentially also other chthonic beings in general/able to identify based on sense alone) and also just living beings in general, such as mortals (possibly via souls).
Improved navigation underground/in the Underworld and ability to traverse restricted or normally unnavigable parts of the Underworld
Enhanced strength/abilities when in the Underworld
Inherently unnaturally quiet (possibly able to silence sound on a designated target)
Hiding/shielding self from being perceived (seemingly related to shadows/silence)
#pjo#riordanverse#nico di angelo#long post //#MY BOY IS OP AS FUCK and i love this about him#so many of these are so underutilized#when will Nico get to use his geokinesis again#we only see him make marble once in BoTL and then never again#based on that he should theoretically be able to do everything Hazel can do. which also implies Hazel can do everything he can do#let Hazel summon a skeleton for once and Nico hits somebody with a rock cmon#also i still firmly believe Nico should get to turn invisible#we've seen him become intangible. his dad's notable item is a helm that makes you invisible. let him turn invisible.#but yeah big 3 kids are op. look at nico go. and this is just physical abilities not including stuff like Annabeth being smart#or cabin 7 kids being good at music or whatever#presumably for Nico/Hazel it'd be like a penchant for diplomacy and legality-related things presumably#and i like to hc he has a personal inherent knowledge bank of everyone who has ever died in his lifetime - just details about their deaths#mostly anyways and then like basic facts about who they were/next of kin/etc#so they can tap into that at any time and be like ''hold on lemme look this person/their relatives up real quick''#i usually like to write that as how Nico confirmed what was up with Jason when they first met#he just kind of squinted at Jason and went ''okay. hm. who are you next of kin of? Beryl - OH YOU'RE THALIA'S BROTHER''
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plz i need more positive aroallo representation im losing it
#aromantic#aro#aroallo#can we please be more than villains just once#yes i love the villains but even so i need protagonists#queer#the only somewhat positive ones i can think of are barney and robin from how i met your mother but only if you ignore the last season
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my old and new tes character Saima <3 she’s a combination of a couple of my prev. ocs!
#elder scrolls#tes#khajiit#oc: saima#i play / will be playing her in both eso and skyrim bc the 'worldstate' my sister our friend and i have... we just stopped caring lol#probably if asked to take time seriously it would/will be all happening around skyrim times but#we just have such great time running around together in eso building the stories#:')#she's from dragonstar craglorn originally#. traveled... met a pirate captain and fell in love w/ her and became a pirate as well...#is besties with a daedric cat creature literally called 'lockpick' <3 (collects mint for them)#... always keeps a diary and loves collecting books and tomes..#once got to peek into an elder scroll (but only lost vision from one eye bc kept the other one closed <3) (shh i know it doesn't work like#that in canon but i thought it was silly and awesome for her lol)#...her birthsign is the serpent. most blessed and cursed <3#BOW GAL! both crossbows and uh. the usual ones?#in eso her class is nightblade. i once did another version as a necromancer and it was rly cool too but decided to keep the nightblade#THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK of my gal <3 it's over now#oh. one more thing.! she/they#💗
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Obsessed with Fyodor’s as yet unknown backstory today. And not just in the ‘I need to know’ way but… idk there’s something about the way he seems to wholeheartedly believe that what he is doing will result in the removal of sin. Thinking about how he doesn’t have a god complex but is instead a follower of what he believes to be god’s will. Thinking about how he places himself as above others anyways by taking their free will from them. I think about how his ability didn’t attack him and instead seems to be working with him. The gem is in his hand, the hands he kills with, the righteous hand? I think about that gakuen profile that I can’t find anymore but I know I saw where his likes are generally good and selfless things like peace, and about how, if this is true, he’s been an extreme idealist all along. I think about how senseless violence, the people who can’t stop killing each other, seem to disgust him. That he wants to cleanse it. That he repeatedly uses the very thing he wants to cleanse as a weapon regardless. I think about him and Dazai being foils and wonder if his plan to remove the sin of ability users includes his own self-destruction. I wonder where his self-assurance in the necessity of his cruelty and the perfection of God’s intentions comes from. I wonder how old he actually is.
As funny as the idea is to me that he’s just like that… is it kind of weird that I hope whatever his deal is ends up being a gut-punch?
#to be clear I don’t want to cry over him or anything; I greatly enjoy him as a challenging antagonist#but after so long in the manga of not knowing anything about him I want at least part of it to gut me you know?#make the wait worth it#actually I suspect that we may find out little pieces of fyodor and dazai’s backstories at close to the same time#not that I think they’re necessarily connected (pretty sure they only met once before dead apple) but in the way#that it’d be good to see it back to back or side by side#they’re alike superficially but are very different people on the inside#it’d be neat to see the difference in circumstance too#anyways. I need to know more about fyodor. I’m going to lose it.#bsd#bsd fyodor#storyrambles
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A whole Lunar post because he... is my baby now. I have decided he needs the world and look at him go. Beautiful. Watch ONE show and suddenly u have blorbo. Lunar being from the Sun and Moon Show on youtube. The lore got to me.
Bonus Lunar alt stuff cause i wanna try giving him soemthing. i love seeing the multitude of many deisgns people have done. I also love the new design look at him. Showtime.
the sleeves ar enice but also fluffy.... but it hides his arms which i like the gradient so.
#idk the tags but we'll try#fnaf lunar#sun and moon show lunar#sams lunar#sun and moon show#sun and moon show eclipse#i will fight him I WILL FIGHT HIM HE CANNOT HAVE LUNAR BACK. HE IS BANNED. bloodmoon is allowed to be tho. he did nothing wrong to lunar#myart#late night posting once again when i said id post this hour ago#also yes WE GET SOME SASS and also lunar hdingthe fact he met bloodmoon and eclipse just Never the wiser#which is exactly wh he deserves his fate#u fool. if only u just gave the specialist boy the world ud be fine#alas uR TOO TERIRBLE#ADDS TWO MORE DRAWINGS CAUSE U KNOW WHAT#there u go#for all the lunar fans <333
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(regarding the Fort Merceus scene)
"Claude doesn't know as much about the Seiros faith because he's an outsider" thanks for ignoring the entire point of Claude's route just to insist he doesn't grow as a character
Ohhh wait, no, it's not that he's not knowledgeable, it's just him definitely lying! Because disagreements? Regarding tenets of a religion? Impossible! Claude must be feigning ignorance and lying because that's all he does as a character! He's tricking the diligent Lorenz into thinking things that aren't true, because Church Bad and Claude would never tell the truth!
#sorry saw this take and HAD to poke fun at it because what was the game plan here for Claude#if it's so obvious it's a lie and everyone would KNOW it's a lie then NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE HIM LMAO#literally there'd be no point in lying. might as well also say that grass is purple at that point#also tf would Lorenz ''I only pray to look good to commoners'' Hellman Gloucester actually know about the faith#like he literally says he ISN'T a devout believer. like. he says that damn near verbatim. he is not a devoted follower#so he's not some all-knowing expert on the faith or anything#like Garreg Mach literally does trade with foreign nations and lets in foreign students so he can't be THAT correct lmao#and the fact that Claude bringing this up isn't immediately met with. the fucking ''actually it literally does'' thing from Hopes like BRUH#WAIT#WHY WOULDN'T LITERALLY E V E R Y O N E BRING UP THE SUPPOSED PROHIBITIONS TO OUTSIDE CONTACT SHIT THE CHURCH ''DOES''#IF WHAT CLAUDE SAYS HERE IS APPARENTLY FULL OF SHIT??? can we use our thinking caps FOR ONCE regarding Claude i am BEGGING#he GIGA couldn't get away with the ''lie'' if that shit from Hopes actually existed like come ON now people what are we doing#also you know who IS an ACTUALLY devout believer who DOESN'T call out Claude and straight up tells LORENZ to stfu? Judith#so there's that too#and Marianne! she says nothing about this being contradictory either and she's WAY more faithful than Lorenz is#these people want Claude to be a one-dimensional liar who never grows as a character SO BAD
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not much patience or sympathy anymore for jews without a direct connection to the state of israel (mostly usamericans) who complain when we get asked about our opinions on palestine and the israeli occupation. obviously that can be done with antisemitic intent (bad) and i know we are not in control of or responsible for the israeli government and it is easy to feel that we are being unfairly blamed for actions that are not ours but 1) everyone should support palestinian liberation as a moral baseline; 2) wont speak for everyone but i personally do not want or need genocide apologists for friends comrades etc.; 3) there is meaning and power in jews specifically actively loudly and openly being pro-palestine. when atrocities are carried out in our name (literally using the name of our people; opening their arms to us through birthright while removing palestinians violently from their homes and denying them the right of reentry and free movement) it is our responsibility to stand against that as much as we are able.
#ive been asked that several times and only once in a kind of uncomfortable way#but some of those conversations i really appreciated. especially with my old roommate who when we met said#‘are you jewish? ive never met a jewish person before’. treasure them#ribbits#antizionism
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walking home together (og under the cut)
higher quality version
#we know from sara's minisode that joe and ryoko had only just met#so it seems like the three of them didn't get much of a chance to all hang out together at once :(#which is interesting bc the vibe I got from the manga is that they were sort of a trio#anyway can you believe this was supposed to be for the anniversary lmao#my art posting has slowed down a bit but that's okay it's nice to have more going on#yttd#your turn to die#yttd fanart#sara chidouin#joe tazuna#ryoko hirose#jo's art
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i am actually so tired of the way westerners treat eastern europeans
#fair warning for. a very very long ramble and rant in the tags. apologies#westerner or russian. no other option#westerner because the only thought they ever have is 'but they had universal housing so if you oppose ussr you oppose that'#(which is stupid becuse you can believe in that WITHOUT WANTING LIKE 6 COUNTRIES TO BE FORCED TO BE RULED OVER BY RUSSIA)#(SORRY FOR WANTING TO LIVE IN MY COUNTRY WITH MY HISTORY AND MY CULTURE AND NOT RUSSIA!!) (poland was a sattelite state but GOD)#or russian because they have a victim complex and are convinced that they deserve to rule over the entire damn world#'well you had universal housing so you had it easy' right yeah. okay. forget about like. everything else that happened#to eastern europeans during that time#forget about the things that are STILL issues all these years later not only in poland but like the more eastern countries too#its not about. the fact that the houses 'didnt have 3 bedrooms and a jacuzzi' in them. you DUMB SACK OF SHIT#god sorry. sorry. i also know so very little but like god damn i fucking live here. i didnt sit thru all that modern history#for some dumbfuck to say that 'ohhh only rich and american middle class people are happy the ussr was dissolved'#'oooh the dissolving of the ussr was illegal and the countries within it actually liked being there'#im just so fucking tired man i need to. i need to start killing people#and this is all not to mention that theyll say this stupid shit and then deny eastern europeans the things they actually did that were good#FUCK french people for trying to claim maria skłodowska. fuck americans for trying to claim the witcher as their own fantasy world#fuck the way the west is allowed to claim and destroy eastern european culture without any consequence because we dont matter enough#vaguely related but ill throw this in here since anyone finding it is unlikely and im scared of having this opinion#i think one underappreciated aspect of DE (which might be underappreciated because its not actually there and im stupid)#is that its pro-communist while still also giving some criticism to how it was handled and acknowledging that its still not perfect#which makes the writers much better communists than any self-proclaimed one ive ever met in my life who just worships the idea#perhaps its because the writers of the game were not white upper middle-class americans living in the suburbs. among other things#idk de is a game for people far smarter than me and i only played it once and im sure anyone who played it well can clock me as a bad perso#horrible horrible person even which is why im scared of mentioning it. but its an interesting thing. to me#the main thing is that im just not. im not far left enough i suppose. i agree communism in theory is a great idea. as far as i know it#(which isnt very far)#but chances of implementing it correctly in a way that doesnt take away from peoples happiness in other areas is. low. very low#i wrote a short essay about how utopias are inherently contradictory ideas once it wasnt very deep or good but like#you cant have universal happiness without restricting certain freedoms. and when those freedoms are resticted not everyone#will be happy. and then theyre unhappy they will have to be somehow removed or ignored
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dialogue-only: Idle Chatter
“So no, nothin really goin on there at the moment. How about you?”
“Oh — single. Recently, in fact.”
“Yeah? What happened? … I mean — you don’t have to tell me, I’m just —”
“No, it’s ok — it’s just, it kind of involves you. Tangentially.”
“What, like how?”
“Well — remember how long our flight was delayed from Oregon? I didn’t get back to my place till eleven. The light on my answering machine was on — he’d left a dozen messages, sounded upset, so I called him even though all I wanted was a bath and to get to bed, you know? Apparently he’d made this elaborate dinner, celebrating my first case …”
“Eesh, I’m really sorry —”
“No, it wasn’t your fault! Mine either, for that matter. He didn’t even tell me he was planning it, he’s a — he likes a grand gesture. I mean — I used to kind of think it was sweet, but.”
“Hm.”
“Yeah. So he forgave me, and wanted me to come over anyway, but I begged off — I was exhausted, I had work the next day, but he just wouldn’t let it go. Anyway, yada yada yada, we got into a fight, he accused me of fucking you, I broke up with him.”
“Oh … uh. Wow. That’s — um — I’m sorry?”
“Ha! Don’t be — I don’t think it was gonna work anyway. He said he supported me being in the field, but, I mean — it only took one case for that to fall apart. So … anyway. Where do you want to get lunch? I think there’s a Chili’s off the next exit.”
#let scully say fuck#also I think she would only be this free early on#doesn't play it Quite as close to the vest as later - when it all starts to Mean More#ethan you big baby-ass loser#never had a chance once she met mulder#also yeah that's a chili's shout-out lol#the immortal chili's fic#I had to look up chili's corporate history to make sure there could've been one near them at the time#and in my mind it's a very elaine benes delivery of the yada yada part:#we went to dinner I ordered the lobster bisque yada yada yada I never saw him again#you can't yada yada sex! that's the best part!#I Mentioned the Bisssque
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our least honorable regulars tend to come and go, and it depends on their age or how many disruptive children they have or if they're just passing through. Map Lady only stayed a few months but she gave us years worth of annoyances. but our MOST honorable regular is easy. he is a man named geoffrey who is sixty years old and deeply deeply deeply autistic and when he comes in the building i know i'm going to have a pleasant interaction and even when i am incredibly grouchy and bitchy i can see geoffrey and its like yippee a real patron has arrived. i love geoffrey. so does everybody else. he doesn't do anything in particular to be beloved but he is the mildest mannered man on the planet with only one flaw which is an unfortunate disdain for kleenexes, although for all the sniffling i WILL say he is a ready hand with the sanitizer. he reads largely music biographies and has a set of about twelve sentences for regular conversation, some of which are just echolalia material. when you chat with geoffrey you know exactly what you're going to get, which is one of the most refreshing parts of having him come in on a busy or unsettling day. the exception to his catalogue of stock phrases is when he is sharing actor/musician birthday and death day trivia. he always brings his books back on time and he always says "i always bring them back on time" and we say thank you we love that about you. and he says "sorry to keep coming in like this" and we say please do not apologize for being the best part of our day every day. we love you. geoffrey <3
#he has one of those very fast monotone speech patterns so new employees always struggle to understand him at first#but once you get in the geoffrey zone he is immediately recognizable as a cool dude with cool interests#he's a guy with some pretty high support needs but he's thriving in his middle age and he's clearly had support all his life in this way#which makes me fond of his family who ive never met. that they are good to him. and its a privilege to be a small part of that system#we know what books he likes and when an old favorite of his has been read too many times and he's the only one who reads it#we delete it from the system and he can take it to keep#and you BET your ass. if somebody famous dies. he will be in that day to tell you how old they were and how it happened#the exception recently he has no idea who liam payne is or whether he's alive. his musical interests don't extend past the early nineties#anyway he's a cool dude always walking around town sometimes reading on the lawn of the old high school#works at the tool factory part time. goes to his mom's house for christmas . his dad was a music professor
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