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The Horrible Tale of How I Managed to Fall for My Very Married Co-Worker
They say the heart wants what the heart wants.
But what if what the heart wants is not only unavailable, it’s also inadvisable, immature and immoral?
In other words, what if it’s trash?
Let’s be clear: I didn’t set out to fall for Declan (all names have been changed to protect the innocent [and not-so-innocent]). There was no lightning strike when we met. I didn’t hear bells or experience any kind of special tingle in my Spidey Senses. If anything, I was slightly repulsed.
It was my first day on the job at Work Co. and Declan was there to greet me. It was only the two of us, plus an irritable IT rep, due to the fact that it was 2021 and everyone was still working remotely.
Because of his mask, I couldn’t see Declan’s full face, but the top half was unremarkable. Blue eyes peered from behind John Lennon-style glasses. His mop of brown hair was clearly on its way to gray.
And he smelled. I remember wondering if there was something wrong with him, because the musty, slightly greasy scent wafting off of him was slightly concerning.
In short, not the first impression that launches an office crush.
And yet. Here I sit, three years and countless zoom calls, lunch breaks and strategy sessions later and I know one thing is certain: I want Declan.
Less certain: Does he want me?
There are times when we’re together, working or pretending to work in his shlubby office that I wish he’d clean more frequently when we lock eyes and I’m nearly certain something’s there.
I feel it when he calls me on our work from home days. Sometimes he’ll create a work-related reason—we need to prep for tomorrow’s meeting!—but I know our call will eventually devolve into our usual shoot-the-shit silliness where we talk about whatever comes to our mind, oversharing and ignoring professional boundaries. Even better are the times when he calls just because.
“I just felt like chatting.”
Or, “I need to vent.”
Or, best of all, “I was lonely and I haven’t talked to you all day.”
I feel it when his eyes light up after discovering another thing we have in common. There’s a small age gap between us, and he’s always surprised that not only am I aware of pop culture from his generation, but that I enjoy it.
I feel it when he says my name, more than necessary and often teasingly.
There is something unspoken between us, I know that. It may have to remain unspoken, with neither of us truly betraying our feelings.
But I have too much churning and bubbling inside of me. I need an outlet. And so I’m here.
Because there is too much on the line.
Our jobs.
His marriage.
Oh, and the little fact that I’m married, too.
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gaypeople · 4 months
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obsessed with these moments of henry rolling his eyes because he's so flustered by his crush
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introspectivememories · 4 months
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it's always distinguished lesbian momo with disaster gay todoroki. we need to flip the script. disaster lesbian momo with distinguished gay todoroki. tddk are practically living together in shouto's japanese style dorm meanwhile momo flies in every morning, hair a mess, slamming that shoji door open, talkin bout "todoroki-kun! kyouka touched my knee this morning! do you think she likes me????"
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crypticf1sh · 6 months
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Throwing this up here and then scuttling away because I haven’t seen the new episodes yet and don’t wanna get spoiled
Behold! Prismo and Jake 🎉
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This last one is based on a panel from the comics where he comes off the walls and his other side is like fucking space time. man’s just a big fucked up reversible blanket fr
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hotbabelien · 6 months
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i had this comic sketched out last spring and the new series incited me to actually finish it. i love the interactions between the Captain and Pat so much...
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heartstoptrying · 2 months
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Hot for Teacher
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damn🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
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fabuloustrash05 · 4 months
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Cute parallel from the first and second Trolls movie that I noticed:
First movie: Bridget has a secret crush on the King of the Bergens, Gristle, and she has photos on him in her room that she keeps hidden.
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Second movie: Branch has secret crush on the Queen of the Trolls, Poppy, and he has photos of her in his room that he keeps hidden.
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starrystevie · 11 months
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it's 2004 when steve finds himself back in hawkins for the first time since he moved away for good. he has a master's degree under his belt, a mortgage on a house outside of st. louis with a dog and picket fence, and a rockstar that wormed his way into his heart next to him in bed every night. he's closer to 50 than he is to 20 and life feels good, life feels settled, figured out in a way he never thought he'd get to see.
"you gonna tell me why you're shakin' like a leaf?"
but sitting across from wayne munson and his sharp gaze is enough to make him feel like a teenager again.
steve takes a sip from his glass of water before setting it down on the end table next to him and watches the way wayne's finger taps against the side of his coffee cup. it's like he's keeping rhythm with something that steve can't hear, like a drum beat in his head that proves that he's the reason eddie has musical talent.
"i'm fine," he responds back to wayne, a stilted smile crossing his face. wayne's gaze deepens like he he doesn't believe him. "i'm fine!"
there's a clock ticking somewhere in the living room and the faucet in the kitchen is dripping quietly and it makes the silence that falls between them even more deafening. steve takes in a deep breath and nods absently as he rubs his palms over his denim clad knees.
"is he in trouble?" wayne asks in a gruff voice, low and to the point. steve shakes his head immediately, stutters out something that sounds like no, and wayne looks at him with his eyebrows pinched together. "are you in trouble?"
"no, it's not-" steve stands up and paces out some of his nerves, hands shoved into his pockets so that he stops waving them around. he sighs and looks back at wayne. "it's nothing bad."
"if it ain't bad, then just say it."
steve groans and runs his hands through his hair. it's harder to do this than he thought it would be, quite possibly the hardest thing he's done in years and that's including having to admit to eddie that he does indeed like the stupid beard he grew as a dare from jeff. wayne is still staring at him with a determined look, like he won't let steve get away with any of his usual charming bullshit, and looks so much like eddie that it makes something in his heart explode.
"fine! i'm asking eddie to marry me and i need your permission or something. happy old man?" he finally says, or well, shouts. it's too loud in the quiet house and he can see wayne wince from the decibel he reaches but it's out. it's off his chest and he's finally said it.
and wayne is smiling.
seeing him smile is strange, not because he doesn't look good with a smile, but because it's not often that steve gets to bear witness to it. it starts off slow, clipped at the edges before it spreads to his cheeks and crinkles his eyes. steve's breathing hard when wayne stands up and wraps his hands around the tops of his shoulders. he can feel himself shaking under wayne's grip and from this close, he can see the tears that he knows wayne is fighting against.
"it's about damn time, boy. took you two long enough to pull your heads outta your backsides."
getting hugged by wayne is almost weirder than seeing him smile. it's short, to the point, with pats on backs and chuckles that break loose from steve's too tight chest. part of him wishes eddie were here to let him be a part of the moment, but it would ruin the surprise he's so carefully planned, so he revels in the rare time between just the two of them.
"had to wait for somewhere to allow it first, wayne," steve mutters as they pull apart and he feels hope unfurl somewhere within him when he says it.
"well, alright, i guess you're off that hook then. but y'know," wayne's sitting back down in his arm chair and steve does the same, matching grins plastered on their faces. "you don't need my permission. that boy is crazy over you and if you think you ain't a part of this family already, then you're crazier than he is."
steve looks around at the pictures on the shelf behind wayne's head. sees young eddie and wayne with arms around each other, sees a makeshift graduation picture, an out of focus one of the two of them outside their house in missouri, one of all three of them around the chritmas tree in '99 when they had wayne come down to see them, and he thinks, yeah. they're already a family. at least now it'll be paper official.
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winepresswrath · 1 month
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sudden yearning for time travelling teen jiang fengmian lands at lotus pier fic that winds up being about a perfectly nice kid having a varying series of "oh no. i don't like that. that's a lot" reactions.
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c0riiander · 28 days
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ango's son (dazai) got a bit upset over chuuya getting braces
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Hall Passes That Hit Close to Home
“Who’s your hall pass?”
At some point in our lives, many of us get too old or too married to play Fuck, Marry, Kill. Though let’s be real, you’re never actually too old or too married to play it, you just realize we live in a society and talking about fucking and/or killing other people might be a bit much for company.
Anyway, for those of us who for whatever reason, societal or not, feel like they can no longer play Fuck, Marry, Kill the way they used to, talking about hall passes seems to be a good way to fill the void.
What’s a hall pass?
For those who’ve never heard the term or didn’t bother to see what looked like a truly forgettable movie of same name, a hall pass is a person who you are allowed to step outside your marriage for in the hypothetical situation wherein they, too, are interested in having sex with you.
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Usually, this person is a celebrity, the thought being that there’s no way you’d ever actually manage to bang them and thus all parties involved in the agreement feel secure.
It’s all very innocent fun.
It can also tell you a lot about someone’s tastes. Do they go for someone astronomically hot for their hall pass? Or are they more likely to be seduced by someone perhaps not as conventionally attractive, but has an outsized public personality? It can say a lot about your type.
(This, by the way, is how I came to realize my husband finds women with strong eyebrows to be very attractive.)
Is That Your Type Or…?
Bringing this around to Declan, several years ago, we were all enjoying ourselves at a work happy hour. We were all a few drinks in and the conversation wound up coming around to the subject of hall passes.
Our coworker, Kasey, posed the question to me: “Who’s your hall pass?”
I inwardly groaned.
I should state now that my hall passes, like most people’s, reflect what I find attractive in others. And what I usually find attractive are tall, ridiculous, goofy men.
I have never once been attracted to shorter men who have no sense of humor but are otherwise objectively hot. I honestly don’t understand what others see in them.
This is all to say that I’m one of the weirdos whose hall passes aren’t incredibly gorgeous humans, though they’re very much gorgeous in my eyes.
“Jason Segel and Matthew Lillard,” I finally answered.
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Predictably, I was met with a sea of blank faces and spent the next five minutes explaining who each of those actors are and why in the world I’d want them over, say, Henry Cavill.
Eventually, everyone moved on and a few minutes later, the question was posed to Declan.
“Who’s your hall pass?”
He sat back and pretended to think for a moment, scratching at his beard and running a hand through his wild hair.
Then, for a brief moment, he turned and looked at me, before smiling sheepishly and admitting, “Selma Hayek.”
All right then.
So, Declan likes Latina women with large racks.
At this point, I should clarify that I am a half-Latina woman with a large rack.
Huh.
It was a little thing and no one dwelled on it—Kasey seemed more interested in discussing her hall pass with Ryan Gosling, but it’s something that’s always stuck in my brain. Declan likes brown women.
I’d already known at the time that I shared certain physical traits with his wife: curly brown hair, dark features, outsized boobs. We don’t look alike, she and I, but we don’t look different, if that makes sense.
A big difference is that she’s white and I’m… well, I don’t know what I am. During the winter when I’m paler I can pass for Italian. But once the weather gets warm and the sun hits my skin, it becomes clear pretty fast that I’m not 100% Caucasian.
And I’ve had to learn—as unfortunately many women of color have—that not every guy is into that.
But Declan, it would seem, is. And while I would never go so far as to compare myself to Salma Hayek’s beauty standards, I can’t help but wonder…
I also can’t help but wonder what Declan might have thought if I’d mentioned another one of my hall passes, who might be a tip off as to what else I happen to find attractive: Michael Sheen.
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Wild salt and pepper hair, unruly beard, at times hilarious and at times unhinged? Sounds familiar.
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popping-your-culture · 3 months
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Kelly Bundy, every late-80s, early-90s kid’s crush.
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GUESS WHO GOT AN ARTIST GLOVE ??
follow for more hua cheng <3
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blmpff · 2 months
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✨ Various Tropes: Neck Touch (1/?) ✨
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TITLES IN ORDER: 1. Semantic Error (2022) 2: Hidden Agenda (2023) 3: Stay Still (2023) 4: Sing My Crush (2023) 5: Step by Step (2023) 6: Playboyy (2023) 7: Kiseki: Dear to Me (2023) 8&9: The Sign (2023) 10. VIP Only (2023) 11. My Universe: Marry Go Round (2023) 12: The Whisperer (2023)
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koytix · 5 months
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RoseMary <3
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drbtinglecannon · 8 days
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The way I feel about Shuro's crush on Falin is probably the same way fujoshis feels when a girl gets in the way of their yaoi ship
Like hey excuse me sir Falin and Marcille are trying to be lesbians here can you fucking leave
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