as a masc, there's something about interlacing my fingers with a femme's that is so personal to me because the contrast of our hands, the shape and feel of them, look so good together. something about my blunt nails and angular fingers against your painted nails and softer hands is so precious and gorgeous.
we're two separate beings, but then we can be in a state where we're so wrapped up in each other we can hardly tell where we start and end, yet here, with our hands clasped, i see how different we are, yet so wholly connected we remain.
i think about rubbing my thumb over the curve of her thumb, slow and steady, just so she knows i'm here, that i'm a constant. i think about holding out my hand asking do you trust me? and she might say yes and i'll hold her hand like i'm a knight, a prince, asking her to dance. my thumb will swipe over her knuckles, and my lips will brush against them too. my lady.
it's the most minimalistic way to be physically touching, and i think it's beautiful that there are so many different ways and reasons we can be holding hands.
286 notes
·
View notes
There's something absolutely ironic and even compelling to me about the domino effect regarding Akechi and Sae's interactions. Akechi had to deceive everyone, including his coworkers. Sae in particular was closely tied to the investigations of the crimes he was committing, so of course appearing as non-threatening or even annoying as possible to her was in his best interests.
However, his petty but arguably feeble masquerade is what led to his cognitive self in Sae's brain presumably being easy for the Phantom Thieves to tie up? He was too good at deception and it led to Sae's perception of him being sopping wet cat, which was easy for the Thieves to subdue, so the threatening, real Akechi wouldn't stumble upon Sae's cognition of him as he went to murder Joker.
I know people usually discuss Shido's cognitive Akechi and the implications regarding Akechi's presentation of himself and his layers of deception, but Sae's is the direct contrast to Shido's, and it's very interesting to look at how being a petty little asshole to your stressed out hot lady coworker about her skincare routine can also contribute to her thinking of you a a nuisance at best (until it was almost too late for everyone involved, but hey, it worked out for the best? I think).
I love the layers of Akechi's deception because he was cunning to a fault. Sometimes I wish we could have seen how the Thieves interacted with Sae's cognition of him, because both Sae and Shido had a very biased perception of him, and it makes me wonder who really knew Akechi at all. I'm rambling here, but it's been on my mind for ages. I would love to see if her cognitive Akechi changed after 11/20, considering he went from annoying junior detective to a dangerous murderer in just one day for her, and she doesn't remember any of third semester or even 12/24 when he was there.
37 notes
·
View notes
At the bus stop one time there was a gaggle of preschoolers waiting to catch the bus for a field trip day, and someone walked past with a couple of friendly little dogs, to great general delight.
But after a little bit, the dogs were getting overwhelmed, and the preschoolers were gently coaxed to back off so the person with the dogs could continue on. Specifically, one of the preschool teachers said, "Sometimes, when you're small, being surrounded by big people can be a bit scary and overwhelming. Even if they are friendly."
This was recieved as great wisdom: after all, the preschoolers were also small, and understood how scary and overwhelming big people could be! And the dogs were indeed even smaller than the preschoolers, so it made sense.
What was funny and charming was that, upon absorbing and reflecting on this wisdom, they all felt the need to tell it to one another. In tones of great insight, they turned to one another and said, "Did you know? Sometimes when you are small, being surrounded by big people can be scary and overwhelming! Even if they are friendly!" Back and forth, without any particular concern that they were all saying the same thing. Have reached comprehension of an insight, it must be shared!
I must say that this behavior is less charming in tumblr users than in preschoolers. Not least because tumblr users, having gained a little analytical skill to misuse, insist on Summarizing and Generalizing and Unifying the insights they repeat, quickly turning any interesting new information into formulaic dogmatic mush.
13 notes
·
View notes
hellow solary expert. do you have any thoughts about her life pre-zoraxis by any chance 👀 and additionally, where her enthusiasm for lasers/space came from?
I DO THINK ABOUT THIS SOMETIMES.... not in huge detail, but enough to grasp an understanding of her character... putting it beneath the cut though bc it became longer than i thought it'd be...
space was always solaris' first love. when she was initially cultivating her interests and setting herself up to pursue a genuine career, she was gunning for something in astronomy and/or aerospace engineering. her parents were supportive enough, just... not really confident in her chances. it seemed like a huge investment just for her to potentially get nowhere.
solaris knew this too, of course. but she fought and clawed her way through school, keeping her nose to the grindstone, and it showed in her performance. she inevitably moved to the americas (where her mother immigrated from) to look for work.
it wasn't too hard to find work. her accomplishments in school got her a job quicker than she thought she would- and for a brief moment, she wondered if her family's reservations had been misplaced from the very beginning...
it was keeping a job that was the hard part. every place she went to undervalued her- without fail. she was the best damn engineer half of those industries had, and they brushed her to the side, ignored her ideas, gave her busywork to keep her out of the picture, and inevitably fired her when she made it clear she knew her worth. over, and over, and over.
inevitably, she grew a sixth sense for when she was close to losing her job. she used her impending firings as self justification for her first few... unscrupulous behaviors. mainly the theft of parts, materials, and tools. solaris' first personal workshop was nothing more than a scavengers trove she kept in her basement... her personal projects were the only thing she could find solace in, back then.
and then, along came the space race, and it captured the world by storm- including zoraxis... the space branch was a new development, and zor needed staffing. solaris wasn't meant to be anything other than a set of hands, at first. but the more they read into her, the more they realized what a gold mine she was... such a talented engineer- belittled by the competition- willing to stoop to immoralities to make her dreams come true.
it was easy wrapping her around their finger. it was easy to indoctrinate her into zoraxis' underbelly- getting her to toss away whatever morals she had left to the wayside... the only thing zor didn't consider was that solaris' little streak of insubordination wouldn't just... go away after they hired her.
as for lasers specifically, they were quite the recent development for solaris. if you asked her what about them initially captivated her, i don't think she'd be able to tell you. she fell in love hard and fast, and dedicated a lot of her free time to imitating and perfecting the craft (which affected her productivity at her earlier jobs, considering she was getting less sleep, and spending more time lost in her own mind than doing whatever trivial tasks they delegated to her...)
i do think she was the kind of kid to burn ants with magnifying glasses in her youth, though. which may have had something to do with it.
12 notes
·
View notes