#just... pretend you didnt see this for both our sakes <3
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helooo can i request saiki x reader bf texts please? thank you so much !! anything is fine honestly as long as its saiki content i miss him 😭😭😭😭
ooooou I haven’t got a request like this yet and it seems very fun!! No problem hun <3
IKR after you finish the anime it feels like such limited content is left for the saiki k fandom!! 😭😭
💓💗 Saiki and his boyfriend~ 💗💓
“Wanna go get some coffee jelly”
“This is oddly specific but can you tell the magician outside to leave please?”
”can you keep aiura and torisuka distracted so I can leave school?”
”thanks I’ll pay you back in (favorite thing)”
”let’s meet at the arcade”
”I’m annoyed my mom is forcing me to go outside but I know I’m gonna run into kaido”
”please come with me to make this more bearable”
”don’t forget to study for that test”
convos :3
”how do I make friends with that average guy from the other class without seeming weird”
”Kusuo idk just go up to him and talk to him 😭”
”yeah but if I don’t have something to talk about it’ll be awkward and my likeability meter will go down”
”can you figure out his interests for me so I can talk to him?”
”what? YOU do it 🤦”
”no i can’t the nuisances will find me”
convo 2 ;P
“Do you wanna come shopping with me?”
”your not gonna invite the nuisances too are you?”
”no kusuo 😭”
”oh okay well no”
“I'm NOT!”
“I know but nuisance number 4 just showed up”
”at your house?”
”no at the mall”
”ohh well fine 🤦”
convo 3
”can I borrow your bike nendo broke mine”
”HOW?”
”idk he sat on it”
”WHAT LOLL”
”I need it so I don’t have to go shopping with my dad”
”why is that so bad?? 😭”
”because he starts begging for things at the store”
”??”
“Isn’t he a grown man?”
”yeah I know that’s why I need to borrow your bike”
”sure babe..😭🤦”
convo 4
”my mom wants you to come over for dinner”
”oh alright!”
”no”
“??”
”say your sick”
”kuu why? 😭😭”
”can’t I come over??”
”no my parents are embarrassing”
”LOL”
”but I’ve come over plenty of times before tho”
”I know but, please just don’t come over”
”what’s happening??”
”fine. My dad wants to play a prank on someone because when he try to scare me it didn’t work. So I need you to come over and pretend to be scared so my mom doesn’t kill me”
”what?? So now I’m supposed to come over?”
”let’s just get it over with”
”you go through so much I swear 😭💗”
convo 5
”when you come over and my mom asks if you wanna meet my brother say no”
”whaaat but I kinda wanna meet him”
”say no”
”for both of our sakes”
”if you don’t go I won’t have to either”
”fine 😒”
convo 6
”goodnight kuu”
”goodnight m/n”
convo 7
“I hear nuisance number 4 isn’t showing up to school today”
”no she isn’t”
”rejoice. God is real.”
”KUSUO 😭😭”
convo 8
“your driving home today right? Can I hitch a ride? Nuisance number 1 is here”
”wait which nuisance is that again?”
”how can you forget? It’s the second most terrible one. Nuisance 1 is nendo”
”OHH YEAHH”
”hurry he’s coming”
”YEAH MEET ME AT THE CAR LOL”
convo 9
”come with me to nuisance number 2’s house so I don’t have to go alone”
”kaido right? he’s not so bad right? I can’t I have homework”
”no he’s just really weird and cringe and awkward”
“I’ll wait”
”okay 😭”
convo 10
“can I come over and we can watch that show you recommended me?”
”yeah sure any time kuu”
”you really don’t have to ask, I could get you a spare key if you want”
”yes an emergency escape route in case of nuisance surprises”
”WOW OK”
”and you ig”
convo 11
”that was sweet. what you did for them”
“Yeah I guess they’re not so bad for now”
”for now Kusuo?”
”you sound like my mom”
”actually, that’s not an insult I love your mom”
”I know”
”WYM 😭”
”you hug her more than I do”
”well that proves smth 🤨🤨”
”eh. I’ll get her a gift”
”good cuz she’s awesome 😙”
convo 12
“let’s finish playing that game you have”
”NO”
”WHY IT WAS SO FUNNY”
”you have never even played it he’s so annoying”
”LOLL YOU DIDNT HAVE TO TELL HIM TO DIE THO”
”you wouldn’t even think it’s funny if I hadn’t have told you”
”come on at least least me see the chapter you said you hated”
”you just wanna see me suffer”
”If I did I wouldn’t have distracted hairo for you earlier”
”FINE”
”LOL YIPPIE I’m coming over as soon as I’m done with my homework 🙂”
”😒”
convo 13
“How do I transfer to class 2”
”you just wanna be with satou don’t you”
”you don’t know how?”
”no kuu, I don’t 🤦”
convo 14
“I have to go visit my grandparents and my granddad is really awkward come with me”
“I’D LOVE TO MEET THEM”
”why do you love my family so much?”
”they’re strange”
”I love YOU 😒”
”are you calling me weird”
”in what way are you normal mister magic powers with weird friends and family who also has to stop a volcano from erupting yearly”
”those are just ordinary daily tasks”
”now your coming right?”
”I should leave you”
”you wish you were normal so bad”
”when are we going”
”on second thought you can stay here”
”STOP BEING SALTY IM COMING”
”NOW TELL ME WHEN”
convo 15
”let’s reschedule the coffee jelly date for Sunday”
”it’s too chaotic”
”it’s Friday”
”I know I’m dreading the weekend”
”my poor kuu 😭”
”stop”
”you sound like my mom again”
*read* 1:39pm
LOL I LOVE CONVO 10-15 😊😈 (it got more chaotic as it went on- 😭)
muahahahahhaha hope you enjoyed! these were quite fun :3
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5 Anti LO Asks
1. I just saw some post about body diversity in Lo and how it is grat and that they loving it, and it was just like 5 background characters that said only one sentence.
2. I feel like a lot of the couples are kinda not interesting no matter how much drama Smyth puts into them.
HXP gross, cheating, boss and employee, awkward for the work place, too many people are involved, and still isn’t grabbing it for me. Like I know other people root for them, but I don’t, it’s hard to root for a dumpster fire.
Hera and Zesus. The constant cheating was expected, and the bad communication, but Echo doesn’t spice it up or anything I would have been fine if Echo was a friend that shit talked Zeus with Hera (I know that’s not the story but still does Rachel care about accuracy? No) even though Zeus cheats we do get to see him actually care, BUT Idk Hera doesn’t draw me in, like they both suck, but Zeus is a bit more complex for me (with the bad husband, the cheating but still caring for Hera and being jealous)
Eros and Pysch. The beginning was interesting even knowing the myth, it was getting just a little stale and then bam he finds out on accident and I lost interest. Like they talked too much about HXP too much to feel like their own thing later on and now that he didn’t complete the test right like what now. Is Aphrodite gonna get in trouble or are we gonna forget? Idk they lost their spark for me.
Minthe and Hades. Toxic relationship that needed more time to expand explanation. Like yeah we know they are/were together but like that backstory wasn’t much. Sorry #minthedeservesmorescreentime.
Daphne abs Thanos are interesting and I can actually see why both like each other, where they started and I wanna know what’s gonna happen next for them. Like they have the life and death balance that HXP wishes even. And even tho Daphne isn’t a god, she told Apollo she was gonna ruin him, she bit him, she was awesome! And it was believable too since she’s an athletic influencer. Thanos has an interesting plot line that will probably be a problem for them later but I’m excited. Like both characters affect the plot outside of their relationship AND are interesting
Aphrodite and Ares feels like RS dropped the ball with them. Why is Ares flirting with Persephone? Sure they’re open but like idk Persephone doesn’t seem like a good fit for him at all. They were set up interestingly since we knew Aphrodite was looking for him, but that one little hug scene did no justice for either character. Like we hardly see them interact positively towards each other.
Crack ship Minthe and Hecate would have loved to see! My crack fic before I think a lot of season two was out was After Minthr parties Thetis and leaves her, she doesn’t snitch on Persephone and just tells Thetis to back off, returns to work all humbled out and Hecate and her work together on just personal shit and work stuff. Minthe asks Hecate stuff on how to get over Hades and how to be better and that’s when we learn Hecate always loved Minthe’s chaos. But yeah that didn’t happen. When I saw some crack headcanon s about those two I was like “didn’t know I needed this till now”. (I was hoping Minthe was gonna be like Petra from Jane the Virgin, starts out bad, doesn’t like the main character for most of the time but still gets a happy ending)
3. i like how LO fanss defend it like "well its no more problematic than the myth its based off of!" which like sure, thats an argument to make, but idk, the original myth didnt have persephone be nearly underage with no experience so hades can take advantage of it, demonizing several mother figures for the sake of a guy, a huge class divide thats frames the rich and powerful as the oppressed to the poor, and you know, ACTUAL SLAVERY. like cmon, it's honestly worse than the OG myth in most ways.
4. youd think if hades is self aware enough to know he was the wrong party to get into a relationship with minthe in the first place, that he'd at least be a little concerned over minthe being stuck as a plant, especially when persephone almost dropped her which would have killed her. the two of them just left her alone in a dark, empty room while they went to dance and goof off, not a care in the world. he seems more relived she's out of his hair now for him to hook up w/ his intern. its so gross.
5. I hope Demeter is pissed at her daughter for just like EVERYTHING. Taking a step back, Persephone is having a grand ol time at Hades’ place for god knows how long while her mother is worried about their situation and then gets kidnapped and Persephone makes 0 effort to try and get in contact with her or anything (hey hectare you saw my mom laying low as a bird, but any chance can you try and find her again and maybe we can arrange something since the literal god of gods is out for our blood so maybe let’s get the story straight)
Demeter going against her own comfort and parenting beliefs to left Persephone like with Artemis. It’s not Persphones fault that Apollo happened, BUT Demeter probably let Persephone live there after the murders to settle some stuff out and then 1 month of living there or so Persephone runs away to live in a motel and then has a power control issue. Let’s pretend the power control issue didn’t happen yet, what the hell was she gonna tell her mother? “Hey mom Artemis’ brother makes me uncomfortable so you can find me at this motel IN THE UNDERWORLD NEAR HADES YEAH THE GUY I FIND PLEASANT LOOKING” I know Demeter is suppose to look like an over the top mom, but yeah how was that suppose to go down? If she found out her daughter was staying with hades?
Getting an internship with Hades/underworld and not telling her mom. Idk if Hera made it a secret, but again Demeter would probably want to know that stuff being strict as she is, she probably would want Persephone to excel at a job BUT maybe not with Hades idk I forget, again it just shows there no trust between either mother nor daughter. Hera also sucks for testing her friends daughter with out actually having the intention to help perpshone and test if Hades is actually okay.
After everything Demeters gonna be like “this is why I wanted you to commute, I wouldn’t have been shoved in a bird cage if you you just have just commuted to school.”
Like I know persphone has to go out and make her own mistakes, but a lot of it boils down to Persphone was a brat. She demanded she leaves and then later killed some people got her way and then went behind her back and didn’t even want to stay in Olympus. Demeter isn’t blameless in this situation but Persephone is a murderer, glorified side chick, and I just feel that all of Demeter’s worse nightmares about her daughter leaving all happened and worse
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Fruits Basket, Se3, ep11 (part 1)
Breaking toxic bonds & accepting healthy ones isn’t a miracle. A bond that started with love could end up chained & toxic, another that started wrong could’ve become the joy of a life time. You can do it. Break the cycle of abuse & stand up for yourself, it is easy yet so difficult, you aren’t alone, tho, loved ones stand nearby cheering. Be kind on yourself, otherwise you’ll throw your life away. Life isn’t just happiness & joy, it’s also sadness & loneliness. Break free from the shackles that held you down. Embrace life & Live.
-Tohru’s “ I’m okay” mask is finally shattered! (the Importance of kyo’s rejection for her development):
This is the last part of tohru’s character development! The last few eps were abt her role in Akito’s redemption & their similarities. she staood up for herself & choose a path away from her mom while keeping her mom’s memory in a healthy manner. No more planning my life according to mom’s wishes, no more talking to mom ‘s picture 24/7. Now, I’ll plan my life & move forward even if it is with the guy mom said she cant forgive. even If it is without him, I’ll move forward. I love him so much, yet I won’t force our bond & let go. So easy yet so difficult!. tohru doesnt know anything abt kyo after her fall. All she remembers is his heart-broken face as he wept beside her. Those tears on his face, she caused them. He cried cuz it is too painful to see her hurt. She was a burden to him! tohru restored to her old coping mechanism of pretending “ i’m Okay” & smiling. She did so numerous times before. Always worked. No one noticed. Except him. Se02, ep7. he urged her to show her true fears. Now, she’s faced with a pain so big she can’t pretend no more. the pain of loosing him. She cried in front of yuki! The smile & chatting abt chores couldn’t conceal the running tears! Yuki’s first time seeing her like that. Se01, ep14, yuki wondered how could tohru smile after her mom’s death. She can’t pretend no more! She’ll have to wear her feelings on her sleeve! cuz it IS ok to do so! She tells kyo to give her a moment to compose herself. She couldn’t lie & pretend like she did with yuki. Here she either run away or just try to compose myself! I LOVE THAT! This way, whenever kyo/tohru fight or have any misunderstanding in the future as a couple, you’ll know tohru won’t just bear it & pretend, “ i;m okay” No! she’ll talk to kyo & express herself! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! It gives her so much strength as a human & I’m happy all the obstacles & set backs in kyo/tohru’s romantic journey has led them to be better ppl little by little to build healthier & more realistic love!
-The mechanics of writing a compelling slow-burn romance:
1. Igniting the romantic feelings slowly: Slow burns don’t work with love at 1st sight. It must first sparkle naturally, slowly & subtly. Both kyo & tohru repeatedly stated they don’t know exactly when they first fell in love. The author’s decision to create an environment where the two live together is a genius way to start & nurture their romance quietly & subtly. Kyo was tricked to stay in shigure’s house while tohru had to stay cuz she had no home, Natural reasons that force the two to spend days together & get to know each other gradually.
2. Dynamics of their personalities: For slow burns to work, the two characters need to be similar yet opposites! Kyo & tohru are both kind, endearing, innocent, good at chores, independent & hardworking. They both have history with their mothers that is filled with love yet traumas. However, tohru is calm yet prefer maneuvering around subjects, can’t stand up for herself, reads ppl easily, tends to trust ppl easily & disregard herself. Kyo is fierce, strong, tends to distrust ppl, despite ppl loving his spontaneous character, he has hard time figuring out if they’re mocking him or teasing him, very straightforward with his words & actions. The similarities helps them understand each other, however, the differences creates chances to clash & come even closer thro various situation. Ex, se01, ep2, kyo apologizing for hitting her head with the table which created the situation where she needed to confess she always loved the cat zodiac! It is HER gush of emotions that struck kyo. ppl really want my friendship? the cat is loved? Thro those difference they learned to better themselves so they won’t hurt the other, kyo toning down his anger for her, tohru desiring to know him even more as he becomes even more awkward.
3. Creating natural, realistic & convincing obstacles that prevents them from being together: This is the most important part! Slow-burn is two characters in love & cant be together despite everyone wanting them to be! if the reason that stops them from uniting is trivial, stupid, one-sided, can easily be solved, then the slow-burn would be a fillery & no one would cheer for it! Takaya-san is a genius!
Kyo can’t be with tohru cuz he thinks (a) he killed her mom! we saw thr flashback, he could’ve saved her & couldn’t save her. It was a split of a second difference & he hates himsef for NOT trying! that split of a second also prevented from thinking of better ways to save her than holding her! it happened to fast, he couldn't think of a better alternative cuz this was his 2nd time loosing someone (b) his mom’s sucide being pinned as his fault created this immense guilt & defeated feeling that “ no matter what, I just cause death & misery! There’s (c) too!, he knew tohru! thinks she deserves the world & cuz he didnt save her mom, he watched tohru talk to a freaking picture for two years! heck! he is the only one who can see thro tohru’s “ i;m okay” mask, so in se01, ep 14 in the grave yard! kyo wasnt the only one who is sad! tohru was too! & kyo could tell! (d) her mom’s death is the reason tohru is accepting shigure’s offer to stay with them rent-free in exchange of doing housework! (e)? he saw her confess crying her heart out abt missing her mom so much that she imitated her dad! so tragicly sad! (f) he saw her die in his nightmare!! how can he accept her love,now? Perfectly orchestrated obstacles!
Tohru, unfortunately, in the anime it wasn't that clear due to shortening her backstories & trauma in se03, ep6. But she too couldn’t see herself confessing love to kyo. Tohru is has low self-esteem, always thinks she’s a burden to others, an orphan who just wants her mom, so scared, lonely & sad! we the audience believed the mask! we saw her work her motherly charm yuki, isusuz, kisa & believe her issues are not that deep. tohru wont cry for herself but shed rivers for others! grief is so ugly it broke her! I cant let go of mom, must keep her always in my heart, such a hard emotions to write & I believe 100% the director couldn’t understand her grief & decided to split ep6 between her, kyo, isuzu & shigure. But Tohru struggling to confess to kyo is no laughing matter. ppl who are grieving find it the hardest to live after the loved ones die. they wont mostly commit suicide, they are alive, but they arent living. they just go thro the motions & live for the sake of those around them but not themselves. Tohru deciding to confess to kyo is her deciding to live for herself.
4. Writing a perfect psychologically & emotionally packed climax: I dont need to explain how perfect kyo’s rejection of tohru in se03 ep9 was. How much we felt for him yet were mad at him. He we were “ ugh! kyo no!!!! I mean I get why you do that , but you idiot no! come back! poor kyo! He was just so sad & broken! OMG he’ll kill himself after finding tohru’s injured body!! he totally would! his nightmare came true! But Tohru reached him! she wanted him to be okay! he wont kill himself but still feels hella guilty! but so utterly in love with her that his instinct upon seeing her come to life after near death is kiss her! Perfect display of psychology & emotions! filled with right, wrong, sad, happy, guilty, innocent! basically so human~ As the audience you MUST have this mixture of feelings of wanting to hug him so bad cuz this boy has been killing himself for years now yet want him to stop & just see that he was a good boy afterall. Tohru is THE best girl & if the audience are cheering for kyo to be with her, kyo really deserves her! The only problem is for kyo to see that now.
5. The Perfect wrap up of all romance: If you make your audience suffer the slow-burn this long, you gotta reward them good! & Takaya-san delivered! Just like how the entire romantic story is realistic, the reunion must be as realistic too! Tohru is hurt by kyo;s words. Facts remain his words were hurtful to her. I love that was addressed! tohru gets to tell her side, too! If you love someone, you are bound to be hurt by them as much as be happy with them. Simply cuz they matter so much to you! you arent one person, but two ppl coming together. Kyo must work hard for this confession. Must run & chase her. Must earn her proper! He gets on his knees, I cant express how important that is! he is way taller than her, Imagine apologizing while she looks way up & he looks down? He gets on his knees & apologize like a man, for every mistake, all while not loathing himself. He aint going back to that deep abyss again. He did wrong by her & he is owning up to his mistakes. Give me one chance. I’m not gonna force you with persistence or guilt you into taking me. Give me ONE chance cuz i deserve it & no more. The choice is yours. She asks to confirm, he shows her, they kiss, they hug, they are rewarded with a blessing from the heavens! One of the most simple yet emotionally fulfilling confessions in anime!
- Hugs over kisses: (And her kiss hugs her & the curse was lifted):
Prince charming kisses the princess & she wakes up~ they live ever after~ except furuba is all abt “ eternal ever after is not true, real life is where the real love is”
Kyo kissed tohru once, she didnt wake up, she didnt even think he loved her back. didnt even remember the kiss.
Kyo hugged tohru once. se01, e024, He initiated it, tohru was all in tears, surprised, happy & so utterly in love. he called her name for the first time ever, for a brief moment, they both connected, they both comforted each other. The rain stopped, he became a man not a monster, she got him back. She got her kyo that she fought for with none other than kyo himself.
kyo hugged her again, se03, ep6. They both initiated it. He made the first move, pulling her just a little closer, she made the second move & hugged him hard, he transformed, it was a moment were they both connected, both so sad & broken, both feeling needy for the other, both desperate for the other, both just living the moment. the result is them coming closer, her wanting him more, him realizing her love, there is no escape. Admit it. she loves you. You can tell.
Kyo hugs her again today. He asks permission. No spur of the moment feeling. But a long lasting permission to be together. To hug. He wants to hear her acceptance of his cursed body. “ is ok to hug you? this body will cause you pain as it wont be able to fulfill your wishes of constant hugs & intimacy”. She responds, permission granted, for love, for hugs, for a life long acceptance of you as a whole. weakness & strength, sadness & happiness. I accept you all in better & worse! we’re invincible. Why? cuz we understand love isnt magic. It is a path for us to walk together~~~ reward curse break!
Every time kyoru are closer it is a hug. The one thing the zodiacs cant do. A hug. They can kiss. But cant hug. comes this Zodiac Ruler girl so lonely, away from ppl, so sad, meets a cat boy who comes to the house she’s living in, a house away from ppl, the boy is drawn to the girl, However, when the boy needed to leave, the girl was able to let go despite loving him, the boy comes again, this time wanting to stay, the girl accepts the boy. They both accept the realistic reality of life. Embrace the obstacles & the achievements, celebrates the weakness above the strength. Both so imperfect. Both so endearingly dumb! that’s why the girl’s hug broke the boy’s curse. The girl’s acceptance of the cat broke all curses.
Side Note:
Kyo’s confession is so kyo! so straightforward, so direct, & so physical. He’s on his knees, holding her hands, looking at her eyes. “ i want to be WITH you. If I’m gona live, I want to to do it with you & no one else! cuz I love you” that’s it. That’s all. So sincere & so romantic!
it is crazy how different tohru & kyo are now after the confession! she stood confidently & happily & said “dont you know, I love you!” all while teasing him, her giggle is so girlish & cute! my girl is a happy woman in love! long buried the angelic mother image of se02! YES! also, kyo’s happy face is love! Dude! when was the last time he smiled so freely? Did he ever do that? He smiled in se01, ep4 with kazmua, but not like this! T_T. my son is healing~
Kyo’s “ i wont ever feel afraid if you’re with me” is a huge growth from his “ I want to protect her” mindset. Now he realizes it is two-sided mutual desire. She gives him strength as much as he does! <3
I dont like open eye while kissing, but here it is so perfect for tohru in this moment! cuz she spent days thinking kyo rejected her & even ran away as soon as she saw him, now he’s not only confessing, apologizing, admitting she is his life, but also kissing her signaling they’re romantic couple. kissing on lips is so personal, what more evidence she needs? still, her thoughts? “ it’s like a dream?” aww~~~ tohru~~~ my precious girl! she just cant believe all her suffering is over, now? She was just practicing “ i’m okay” smile & now she’s an official girlfriend to the man of her dreams? He just bent da kneeee~ go for it queen!
yuki’s face when tohru cried is exactly what I meant of “ allowing yuki to have strong facial expressions”! XD these types of faces humanize yuki so much into the teenage boy he is! Unfortunately the anime team only sees him as the pretty prince in most times. That’s why fave yuki is when he’s with kakeru. He becomes so un-princly as he should be.
Speaking of yuki, I see you anime team~ postponing his moment into next ep so him & machi wont be overshadowed by the long awaited kyoru!! While this defies the perfection of all cursed zodiacs breaking on the same ep making akito’s breakdown less perfect & poetic, I take it as the anime team admitting they underdeveloped yuchi & decided let’s give them more screen time & not putting them in close distance from any couple. A week later ep is enough with lots of time. I dont mind at all, I’m just saying more time after/while confession is not what i was hoping for~~ sigh~ At least I hope yuki would say sth along the lines” all this time I was looking at you, i realized i love you” to imply he was thinking of her as a lover not his kindness for someone he helped. I just dont want their love to be sudden simply cuz yuki needs happy ending. oh well~ I’m sure whatever it will be, the anime will give it utmost attention.
That sad moment when kagura wasnt allowed a moving image. lol. girl was given a still image that didnt even move with the breeze! T_T
Not gonna lie... the scene with kazuma & kyo was underwhelming. Why the wide shot? I mean you dont need budget for that. Just give me a closeup from the waist up with kyo head buried in kazuma’s chest. Dont need to waste budget on kazuma’s face, either.... do the old trick of hair covering eyes & show me glittery tears~ why the awkward shot of kazma towering in his own house! how tall is this man & why cant he he fix his roof?...lol
Also, shigure, you got scars man... who can hurt shigure? akito? gotta be her. I dont think hatori scratches...lol.. Aya? nah~ too busy with Mine! yup, akito... another steamy night? could be, she’s changed as he wish now. But scratching a face is weird while..um..kissing? a quarrel? but why? I bet she wants him now & we know he wants her....
More on part 2! especially abt the curse’s lore~
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𝕥𝕣𝕒 𝕝𝕖 𝕣𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕖 (Sam drake x plus size reader) final
Hey, I hope you're enjoying this story, but it is with great sadness of mine that I bring you the last chapter.
I also warn you that this last chapter will have content nsfw. Thank you for all the love you've given me!!!
I repeat again that English is not my first language so I would be very grateful if you would correct me.
Now without further ado, GOOD READING!!!!
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I couldn't even believe I was in Italy, let alone believe that there might be a chance that Sam could have feelings for me.
The bus trip was calm and I took pictures of several rural places we passed by, I was talking a lot with evie about what had been sussed in the plane, but I think it made her too happy, she wouldn't shut up ahahaha.
Whenever I looked in front of the bus where the teachers were, I saw sam standing up, talking to teacher james and with crystal, I didn't like to remember at all that they had kissed, even though I hadn't seen the kiss it's painful for me to think about such a thing.
sometimes i felt sam looking at me and when i gave him back the look, he would bite his lip, which made me nervous, but excited. i had never felt anything romantic about anyone, and the first time someone took an interest in me, he's twice my age and he's super attractive.
In a few minutes we were already in front of the hotel. Some people had separated because it was a small hostel, and it didn't fit many people, and those who didn't stay in it would go to a hostel closer to the station.
"Do you think sam will stay at our hotel?" I asked him to hold his mobile phone looking for a place to have lunch.
"ahhh I don't know, but if he doesn't stay, I'm sure he'll find a way to come see you here" she says laughing maliciously
but still I was anxious I really wanted him to stay here... it might not happen at all but I wanted you close by.
I was getting desperate and saw a lot of people getting off the bus but I couldn't see that I really wanted to. And without giving me time to continue watching crystal I called the students to check in, and distributed the rooms where we were going to stay 3 each.
"stop looking, you were already making me nervous!" evie talks almost killing me with the look
"my hope died..." I said lowering my head when I felt someone approaching. I lifted my head quickly but mine changed when I realized it was crystal that was in front of me
"Good girls I'll stay with you two" she said looking at me a little arrogant, I didn't understand why, but her expression changed when she looked behind me.
she smiled and waved, and when I looked back I saw my prince enchanted
"so the trip was good Y/n?" he turned to me ignoring her, and as I was going to answer she left our side
"quite quiet, I took some pictures" I smiled in embarrassment
"but you're missing one" he says by taking the phone out of his pocket.
and opening the camera. he approached me and put his hand on my waist holding me tightly "evie join us" he said smiling, and so when she joined us she took our picture.
after we took some pictures, sam continued with his hand on my waist, but before he took it off he slid it all the way to my breasts and stopped before he got there.
"Thanks for the photo my love, now I'm going to my room if you don't mind" he says turning around and grabbing his little bag.
"Did you see that?" I said grabbing and he was smiling at me.
"I told you, he's flirting with you, it's only a matter of fighting back," she said, but I felt something was wrong, when I looked back I saw crystal with a little bit of anger.
"Fight back like when I have a competition" I say pointing in the direction of crystal coma head
"Don't worry about her, I'm sure he prefers you, but forgetting that we'll have lunch?" she asked me already dragging me to the door
"Wait, I've got to go to the bathroom to change my shirt, it's too hot outside, if I'm dressed like this I'll die of heat" I say by turning around "I won't be a minute, I promise"
"You better, or I'll get you, even if you're naked" she said laughing
I took my evil and ran to the elevator, got in and pressed my floor. As I was walking out towards the room I heard crystal talking to someone
"You can't hit on her like that, Sam, she's much younger than you are, besides look at her, do you think she has leather for you?" she says, those words made me dizzy, she wasn't lying... I was too ugly and unkempt, I don't have the body that men find attractive, on the contrary, they would only disgust me from seeing me.
"Can you mind your own business? fuck if I forgot how annoying you were when you were annoyed" he says laughing "you didn'rule my life, you understand?”besides she's more than you've ever been to me, she's not a one-night stand, she's a one-night stand and for God's sake, don't shout at me."
He says already angry but his words were sweet... he really likes me... is this just a dream?Next thing I knew crystal was coming towards me, I ran into the elevator again to pretend I'd only gotten there at that moment.when she opened the elevator and saw me, I almost felt sorry, she looked crying and couldn't even look at me.I left slowly and walked towards the door of my room.
When I was already at the well said door I felt someone behind me.
"hey again" I turned around and saw sam, he was looking mysterious and angry, that made the attractive
"hey" I smile without stopping looking into his eyes."Where are you going now?" he asked quietly, leaning against his bedroom door."Me and evie are going to a pizza place nearby for lunch, I just came to change for something cooler," I said, opening the bedroom door.
"Do you mind if I go with you?" he said but when I turned to answer him he was too close to me, and I could almost feel his body leaning against mine.
"Y-yes of course, ahm can you wait just a little ?"
I didn't know what else to say my heart was beating too fast and I didn't even know what to do.
"Of course I'll wait for you in the elevator" he walked away from me and went towards the elevator, I could feel that he was very angry.
i walked into the room and the thought of him being angry no matter how bad it made me feel excited... try to ignore that thought and i ran to the suitcase and chose the shirt that best sat on my body, when i finished i ran out of the room and headed for the lift
"Let's go?" I spoke up, and as soon as I entered I felt the look of sam devouring my body.
"Of course, I'm starving" he leaned a little bit to press the boot that would take us to the entrance floor.As I stood next to him I felt tiny, he was really tall, and as I was only 1.50m tall I felt like a child. when we got there evie was already getting ready to complain to me, but when he saw sam coming out from behind me his mouth almost fell off
“ you two..." she whispered in my ear, and as soon as I heard it, I was all embarrassed. I'd never done anything like that before
."n-no, we didnt doo nothing, I swear!" I raised my hands in protest
"ahahaha you really get cute when you get nervous" she laughed and kept walking, I ran after her and hit her in the armThe afternoon passed quickly at lunch and we were talking a lot and I kept telling embarrassing stories of my own, and I laughed a lot, but also told things that made me almost fall out of the chair laughing so much.
After all we went to have the rest of the class regroup and to see some museums and sam was always by my side, he really is very intelligent.When it got dark we went for a walk in the city, but evie told me she was going to stay with a colleague of ours (we both knew what that means). but that made me nervous because I would be alone again with sam and I was not prepared.
"So, where do you want to go?" he asked me as he left the restaurant
"I don't know very well I don't know anything here, but I could use an ice cream ahahah" the truth is I really wanted an ice cream, so I could find an excuse not to talk to him
"Of course, why don't we have an ice cream while we visit the city?" he smiled and took me by the hand slowly
my heart was pounding at a thousand an hour I could already believe that it was coming, basically I'm going to have my first date with him alone.
On my way to the ice cream parlor, Sam told me some historical facts about the places we passed by, until when we arrived there, the ice cream parlor was closed.
"I really thought it was open, well let's go to another one" he grabbed my mother and pulled me with him
"o-of course" said embarrassed
it was strange to be hand in hand with him, he seemed so protective but at the same time daring.
When I came back to reality again, we were on our way to a small alley further from downtown, and in a few seconds we reach a small garden by the river
."We could stay here for a while, what do you think?" he said, pulling me to a bench covered with petals and flowers that fell from the tree.
"Of course this place is beautiful," I said, looking at the river. Sam sat down by my side and put some of my hair behind my ear.
"Y/n can I ask you something?" he said taking a cigarette and putting it in his mouth.
"Yes, why not" at that moment I was getting nervous, anxious, didn't know what would happen next.
"What do you feel when you're next to me?" That question was very direct... did he know I liked him?
"I feel pretty goo-"
"That's not it, what you feel when I talk to you, I touch you..." good if the other question was direct then...
"I don't know... I feel nervous, anxious, like I want to be with you all the time..." I looked at him and his eyes were fixed on mine. I couldn't run away, I didn't want to, I wanted him to kiss me.
"Oh yeah?" he put a hand on my neck caressing him, and calmly. little by little he lowered himself until he touched my neck with his lips... that was wonderful, my body was tense, my blood was boiling "keep talking love" he spoke in a husky voice, sucking the skin off my neck and biting gently.
."What do you want me to say?" I spoke breathlessly, I could no longer stand it, but my legs started to rub each other, that feeling again invaded my body
."How do I make you feel dear?" He climbs his kisses up to my ear, leaving me with chills and no breath.
"Hot..." I put my hands on his shoulders, and moaned softly. I couldn't believe what Sam was doing at that moment.
"Why me? You had so many options... why me?" I asked him to look at me.
"You have something that fascinates me, that attracts me me...you're pure, intelligent, sweet, you have a fantastic body...and darling you drive me crazy, I'm controlling myself a lot these days" he pulled me over him and put his hands on my thighs caressing them.
"but what do you want with me? just to have pleasure and then abandon me like you did with crystal?" I spoke with a few tears in my eyes, I was afraid this moment would come
"No, not my angel, I want you for me, I can't stand the thought of someone touching what's mine..." he approaches my ear "and you're mine"
After hearing that, my heart stopped, I didn't know what to say, I just hugged him and let myself be there for a while while while he massaged my back and left marks on my neck.
And it was in that moment.... I felt brave and I started to do the same to him, I felt something hard under me, he was controlling himself not to do anything stupid right there.
I got up and started to walk "we'd better go or we'll have to give satisfactions to the other teachers" he agreed and continued to hold my hand. When I got to the hotel he took me to my room.
"thank you for tonight princess" he said putting a sweet kiss on my cheek
"I'm the one who thanks you sam..." I said and quickly entered the room.
when I entered the room, there was no one there... I lay in bed wondering what had happened... I couldn't believe what had happened...
I got up and went to take a bath to calm down, and that's when I saw, the marks Sam had left on my neck... I touched them lightly, a smile roared in me.
in a few minutes the bath came out and I opened the bedroom door and saw evie that in a short time it jumped on me
"So how did it go... THAT IN YOUR NECK IS.... AHHHHHHHH?" she asked almost pierced my tympanols
"yes me and sam were a little more... coming today, I have a lot to tell you and come" I took his arm and we sat on the bed, enjoying that crystal wasn't there yet.
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This night was fantastic... to feel her skin... to hear the moaning she let out was driving me crazy, I wanted you there only for me... I want to be the only one to hear, to feel the face she makes when I give her pleasure.
I couldn't help but imagine what it would be like when I could dominate her, feel her lips on mine, feel her body glued to mine.
I went to take a shower and took the opportunity to think about several things but the image of her smile didn't leave my mind. I was never a dating man, always preferred one-night relationships but with her I took a risk.
I made up my mind tomorrow I'll ask her to date.
away from my thoughts i heard someone slamming the door and a smile on my face, is she?
I opened the door and saw crystal, she looked angry.
"You can't get involved with her samuel..." she said in a joking tone I was already getting sick of her.
"Oh yeah why?" i said already angry grabbing a cigarette and going towards the window
"because if you do I'll tell james... and he'll send you back to the States" that was a threat ? I couldn't believe what I heard
"What do you want from me crystal?, I'm not her teacher and we're adults," I said, pushing her against the wall and cornering her.
"Sleep with me, for as long as we're here, and I won't tell him anything," she said by putting her hand on my neck.
I took a deep breath, and agreed, I didn't want to hurt Y/n or hurt her career.
But I have to find a way to talk to her.
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I spent the night thinking, I couldn't sleep, I could only think about him and how he made me feel.
I got up early in the morning, put on a dress and quickly went for breakfast, I wanted to see sam again.
When I got there, he was already there, when he saw me his look froze, I looked behind him and saw crystal full of hickeys, and with a huge smile.
sam looked at me and ignored me while crystal looked at me and laughed preventively and....hugged sam and kissed him
I didn't want to believe what I saw. I wanted to get out of there, but someone touched me on the shoulder and it was evie.
When she saw what had happened, she tried to get me out of there, but it wasn't very difficult.
We got out of there and went to the bus that was going to take us to Venice to our next stop, I sinned in my bag and ran. I just wanted to be alone.
When we were already inside the bus I saw sam looking at me with sadness. I just looked away, I just looked away and leaned over evie's shoulder that stood there beside me, evie looked at sam in anger and hugged me.
the trip was calm but i spent the whole time melancholic, i didn't say a word, i was feeling used... and i was feeling bad for not having eaten anything since last night, i was very weak and without patience for anything. but whenever i looked at sam, crystal was clinging to him with his head on his shoulder, and when my gaze crossed with sam's i felt useless.
I didn't want to believe that everything that had happened was a lie.When we got to Venice it was raining so we ran to take shelter. But I didn't... I asked evie to take my bag, I wanted to be alone
"Y/n you're too tired, you hardly slept, you didn't eat, come" she tried to pull me but I refused, and I walked away
“LET ME GO"I screamed with my eyes already wet with tears and rain, sam was seeing everything and as much as I didn't want to lose it I couldn't compete with crystal.
"okay if you need anything call me okay?"
"Yeah, I love you," and I walked away a little so I wouldn't have to take the sam look.The rest of the day was quiet I wandered around town until I had to join the rest of the class. I couldn't stand to be there anymore, I just wanted to forget about sam...the week went by quickly and we were already almost in the middle of the second week, sam and I didn't talk much, only when necessary...
I was feeling better, still hurt but better, evie helped me a lot and at this moment we were on our way to pompeii, we were going to stay in a camp this time, funny that I had never camped before, but I was eager for that to happen.
when we got off the bus, I felt someone pulling me into a farther area... it was sam.
"Can we talk?" he asked looking right into my eyes
"What do you want?" I was cold and indifferent, but deep down talking to him left me relieved and happy
"it wasn't my fault to walk away..." he said by walking away from me a little bit
"Are you gonna say it was mine?" I said looking at him in anger
"I WAS CRYSTAL OKAY" he said in anger "I wasn't gonna walk away from who I love but she threatened to tell james about us and I didn't want to hurt you" he said leaning against the wall "I would never walk away from you love but I had no choice you understand"
"You won't hurt me shit, I don't want you to walk away from me, but you hurt me ... I don't know if I'll forgive you sam..."
"Please honey, there wasn't a day I didn't try to get close to you, I was afraid of losing you" he spoke grabbing me on the shoulders quietly
"if you really don't want to lose me try the-" I said and as soon as it came out of my mouth sam kissed me!
he grabbed my body and used his to hold me, his kiss was passionate, needy, fierce, I was hypnotized by him again.
When we separated, we were both panting, that was my first kiss.
"this was my first kiss." I said, hiding my face in his chest.
"and so you liked it?" he spoke kissing the top of my head "I needed this, you, your body." he dragged my hair to the side to see my neck.
"s-sam" I moaned softly when I felt his lips on my neck again, he was leaving hickeys on my skin again.
"for everyone to see that you're mine, including that crystal bitch, today I'm going to put an end to this" he said by sticking his lips back on mine.
when we finally broke up, we went back to the edge of our colleagues.
evie was worried so I told her everything sam had told me, and it made her angry.
for the rest of the day sam flirted with me all the time and i was curious about her answer.
When night fell I was seeing some ruins of a small temple, and I felt someone with me.
"I know you're there sam" I turned around and saw him a bunch of flowers
"I talked to james about everything... he said it's okay that I'm not your teacher and you're not underage" he handed me the bouquet and kissed me.
I hugged him and put my hands in his hair pulling him towards me, I wanted to feel more.
"be careful what you do, my dear, you may regret it" he said holding me in his lap and leaning against one of the pillars.
"what are you gonna do to me hum ?" I whispered and his ear
"you're driving me crazy love, you don't really want to know what I can do to you" he speaks in a husky voice and kisses me again.
in the middle of the kiss I felt his hand go up to my breasts, caressing them lightly
"We're in public" I tried to call him out, but he couldn't even stand me and I moaned low in his ear~
"If you keep moaning like that, darling, I won't care if I'm in public or not, I'll have you right here." He says if you put me on the ground, and crouch in front of me and lift me up again.
"Let's go to my tent," he says, walking towards the camp.
When we arrived at his tent he laid me down on the ground, and put himself on top of me.
"Are you sure you want this, love? if you say yes I'll really make you feel like you've never felt before" he says kissing my neck
"Yes I do, please don't control yourself..." I said embarrassed to be about to lose my virginity to a man like Sam.
sam kissed me with passion and started to take my shirt off slowly, I was already getting nervous, I’d never done anything like this before and I was too anxious, Sam stopped when he saw me with my shirt off, it looked like he was seeing treasure right in front of him
."You’re beautiful..." he said kissing my belly going towards my chest.
"I’m dying to hear you moan my name all night, baby," he lifted up his body a little to take off his shirt too, and when I saw his physique, I nearly died. For a man wiyh his age, he was pretty well preserved, he had some scarring on his body but it just was getting me more horny.
"get up a little angel" he asked by pulling my body up by putting me on his lap... he was already hard at this point, and already saw the pleasure in his eyes.
with a simple gesture removed my bra and caressed my breasts, slowly I began to feel his mouth near them.
and when he finally touched them I groaned with intensity, he closed his eyes and sucked each nipple at a time, licking and biting gently.
I put my hands on his back and on account of the pleasure,and start left scratches and marks... that was the first time I heard him moan, he liked it, so I continued to do it.
"Calm princess, I haven’t even started yet" he put his hand on my face and pushed his thumb into my mouth, I was outside of myself so I just licked and kept my eye on yours.
"good girl, now lie down"
With a few movements he removed all the fabric that surrounded my lower part and separated my legs, kissing the inside of my thighs.
with his hand he touched my clit and stroked with a little force
"now I just want you to close your eyes and be quiet okay?" I shook my head and obeyed, and without warning i start feeling his tongue licking me, it was the first time I felt it, and it was wonderful, in response to his action I moan loudly, and grabbed his shoulders. " ah nah, I said quiet" he talked grabbing my heels and continuing to lick and suck my clit, which was driving me crazy.
little by little the movements of his tongue were becoming more aggressive and my moans more frequent and loud, I was already sweating, that was fantastic.
"im gonna cum" I said panting and tried to loosen my wrists
"so cum, baby, let you surrender, I want to feel you cum in my mouth" those words were driving me crazy, I couldn’t think of anything else.
then the sensation of climax hit me and just felt a warm liquid come out of me
Sam in turn licked everything, and stood up.
"you are delicious my love" he licked his fingers that were wet with my juice.
I got up I tried to open his pants and soon I was stopped
"today no,my love, today it is you who will feel well" he said raising my head
"but I want to make you feel good too please" he then did not resist and took off his pants and his boxer.
He was huge and he was a little afraid that the member would not fit inside of me, but at that moment I just wanted to experience him, I wanted to give him pleasure.
"Do you know how to do it?" He said hoarse holding my hand
"I know more or less, so don’t worry" with this I took his dick and started using my hand to make movements from top to bottom, slowly.
And again I heard Sam groan, and he was panting, and put his hand upon my mouth.
"If you prefer, you can use your mouth, dear," and so I did, slowly licking it from the bottom up and when I caught it unnoticed, I put it inside my mouth, and so I felt his body tremble and his moans come out more often. I licked and sucked, until I felt his hand pressing on my head
"im gonna cum baby" he said moving his hip quickly in my mouth.
I loved watching him do that.
And in a few seconds sam came up in my mouth, and a white and hot liquid invaded me, as I did not know what to do swallowed and I looked at it.
"beautiful girl, now lie down and spread your legs my love"
he said by putting a presevative on his dick, and putting himself in my lobby
"This may hurt a little, my love, if you don’t feel comfortable, let me know."
I waved and closed my eyes waiting...then i start to feel a little pain invade my body and tears began to fall from my eyes.
"All right, you want me to stop?" he asked with a soft, soft voice caressing my face.
"I am well continued" he did so, slowly began to move inside me and moaning quietly near my ear, at this point I no longer felt pain only pleasure
"It’s tight baby, if it keeps going like this I’ll cum in a few minutes" he said kissing my neck and then my lips.
when he saw that I was already confident he start to goes faster and therefore i began to scratch his back again...
For a while we were united, our bodies were connected... our moans were music, our lips glued together, and I couldn’t stop smiling.
"I’ll come again sam" I said panting
"me too" he increased the speed and we reached climax together, our voices united and when we calmed down sam fell on my chest tired.
That night was wonderful, we just stood there and talked and laughed about what we just did.
"Y/n?" he said by stroking my hair
"Yes?" I rose from her lap and looked into her honey-colored eyes
"if I asked you to date me...would you accept?" he said passing his hand to my face
"YES OF COURSE YES SAM" I shouted with joy and kissed him
"does it mean that we are now officially a couple?" he asked with a smile on his lips
"yes, we are" I kissed him again and lay on his chest
"I love you Y/N L/N!"
"I love you too, Master Darrake!"
from that night my heart won a new owner and sam won the greatest gift of his life.... you! (yeah you reader)
#sam drake x reader#sam drake headcanon#sam drake x plus size reader#sam-drake-x-reader#uncharted#Uncharted 2#Uncharted 3#uncharted lost legacy#uncharted fanfiction#Nathan Drake#nathan x elena#nathan drake x reader#Elena Fisher#cassie drake#victor sullivan#chloe frazer#Nadine Ross#rafe adler
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more boyfriendy things with nols
i’d recommend to read this first because they kinda add on to one another
masterlist
so when you’ve been with each other a little longer
lets say a year
you guys are so comfortable with one another
you know each others limits and you know exactly which button to push to set each other off or get what you want
you had a short period where the relationship was dying down just a little
so you’d make the other one angry and have angry sex just to make something happen
but then you guys realized what you were doing and talked it out and decided you’d both make a little more effort to make it work
and it worked
if anything you feel closer to each other now, like you know you can get through those periods together
still gets you chocolate and ice cream when you’re on your period
has never stopped doing that
actually once when you got your period he was on a trip
you facetimed that night and you groaned a little because of cramps
and nols was obviously concerned and asked if you were okay
so you told him
less than 24 hours later he’d used some app to have someone deliver ice cream and chocolate
when he finally came home your period had ended and guess if he got lucky
the 1 year anniversairy was a mess
he asked you to be at his place by 5pm
but didnt say it was for the anniversairy
and you’d thought about it like a month prior and planned for a gift and new lingerie and everything
yet you forgot
and he didn’t
he made a reservation for 6pm at some fancy place
and he had a new suit
because he knows how much you like him in a suit
and he had a dark blue tie because you always say it complements his skintone and eyes
and you got caught up at work and texted him at 5:45 saying you’d be late
didnt arrive until 7
and he was still in his suit and looked a little sad
but also he’s big bad hockeyguy right so he pretended like it didnt matter because ‘boys aren’t supposed to care about cheesy stuff’ right
and you were mortified
because if it was the other way around you knew how sad you’d be and you knew he cared
he kept telling you it was okay
“its not! its not okay! yell at me! scream and cry nolan! i fucked up and you did this and you should be angry!”
and then you noticed the new suit and you wanted to die.
and there were roses on the table
and chocolate
and he had bought you jewelry
you cried because you felt so awful
he held you
and you just kept saying how sorry you were and he kept saying it was okay
but it really wasn’t and you knew that
“nols i swear i’ll make it up to you, i’m so so so sorry”
“you’re really the best boyfriend anyone could ask for and i deserve none of this”
“i love you so much and i couldn’t be more sorry, you’re allowed to be angry with me i deserve it!”
and he just stared at you
you didnt know why and it was weird
until
“you love me?”
YES THAT JUST HAPPENED
you hadnt even realized you said it, but it was true
and he kissed you so hard
“i love you too, even though you forgot about our anniversary”
he’s gonna get the 2 year anniversary of a fucking lifetime believe me
you ended up getting wendys at a drive through and then going to this spot by the water that you guys like
in his suit and you in a dress
it was really late by then but you didn’t care
you apologized a million times more
and spent the next month showering him in presents, new lingerie and blowjobs
oh and then in the summer he went to winnipeg and you didn’t see each other for 3 weeks until you went there to visit
the thing iiisssssss you guys both love lightning
its exciting somehow and you love watching it together
its your thing
and sometimes when he wants to make you blush he says super cheesy things like that you hit him like lightning and he fell in love and shit
and he had a new tattoo
it was a little lightningbolt
and you didnt see it first
but it was on his wrist and then when you were at his parents place he was holding your hand and you were nervous (about meeting his parents for gods sake)
and you looked down at your hands entwined and there it was
you traced it with your finger and he looked down at it, and then you
he blushed and smiled at you
you didn’t say anything
but you knew
and he knew that you knew
so you kissed it and then went to greet his parents
you went home two weeks later and he didnt get back until an additional 3 weeks after that
by then you had a little lightning bolt on your wrist
you know those movie scenes where the characters aren’t really doing anything but then suddenly they jump each other and there’s a big makeout scene and its super hectic and they just shove shit off tables and stuff to have sex on there
well
he saw your tattoo and then you can imagine for yourselves what happened
#nolan patrick#flyers#nolan patrick imagine#headcanon#nhl imagine#hockey imagine#nhl writing#hockey writing
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*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ soft bias tag
i was tagged by @just-oneofthegays
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 1. WHO IS YOUR BIAS?
i love too many kpop boys but for the sake of this tag i’ll choose felix because im full of uwus on his behalf atm
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 2. WHAT MADE YOU NOTICE THEM?
his whole ass voice. like im pretty sure there’s a screenshot of a snapchat i sent to eli one of the first times i listened to skz asking about who he is bc of his voice (accompanied by the cliche “it doesnt Fucking match is face” whICH IS TRUE) but also yes im shit at faces so when im getting into a new kpop group theres always one member who i keep asking whO IS THIS even though ive already asked 100 times so yes. voice + face = bias
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 3. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT THEM?
wow okay uM i love his dedication. like he can rap in korean? a language he didnt know until joining the group? and he can rap well? and hes getting so good at korean, obviously his members are helping, but everything he does blows me away bc he’s so committed to doing everything he does well and i admire that. (also his freckles and his smile are bonuses but we can talk more about those later)
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 4. WHO WOULD INITIATE SKINSHIP MORE?
him. hands down him. i’m all for physical affection but because most of my friends dont like it i dont usually initiate but i live for that shit. and he is one of the most physical people i have ever seen and i am one touch starved motherfucker so that would work out super well for both of us. except its all strictly platonic because im a huge lesbian and hes gay 4 changbin so it would be more like when @violet-hyunggu and i are in the same room for more than 3 minutes hahA
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 5. WHO WOULD HOG BLANKETS MORE?
yo idk im not usually one to use that many blankets but i can totally see lix running around with a blanket cloak on even though all he’s wearing is a tank top and shorts and there are sweatpands right over there, jesus, put on some socks you’ll be warmer
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 6. WHO WOULD BE MORE CLINGY?
have you seen felix? like ever?
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 7. WHO WOULD SAY ‘I LOVE YOU’ FIRST?
probably me but only because i have sait it about him before lmAO so it wouldnt be weird for it to just like. slip out. and i tell my friends i love them all the time and i seriously do love him i just feel like he wouldnt say it bc he would be worried he would be crossing some kind of Line in our friendship but then i say it once and hes like “okay time to shower her with Love and Affection”
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 8. WHO WOULD BE MORE EASILY FLUSTERED?
i mean idk. im taking this as the two of us being bffs so i dont think there would be much flustering involved. aside from that we’re both panicked gays so we would both be flustered constantly, unrelated to the actions of each other.
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 9. WHAT CUDDLING POSITION WOULD YOU TWO HAVE?
im always a slut for the ol’ “my head on someone elses stomach while they play with my hair” but also just like any way that we could be pressed against each other would be perfect. also im a huge sucker for intertwined legs (even though his are probably a whole six inches longer than mine lol im Small)
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 10. WHICH COLORS REMIND YOU OF THEM AND WHY?
blue but like the bright blue of a summer sky when it’s midday and like 100 degrees and existence is pain but you look up and see the stark contrast of fluffy white clouds and huge blue sky and you’re like, holy shit, the universe is huge and i’m part of it. also i feel like he is the human embodyment of a blue raspberry sno-cone
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 11. WHICH SEASON WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEND WITH THEM?
summer but the part of summer that is in september. idk why but thats one of my favorite times of the year and i love being with people at that time. you know like you can still get away with going to the beach if its warm enough but also fairs are starting up and it’s plaid season
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 12. WHO WOULD BAKE THE COOKIES AND WHO WOULD STEAL THE BATTER?
i would bake because i feel like felix is a disaster in the kitchen and tbh i would make them with the express intention of him eating some of the batter. you know like specifically washing the eggs so he wouldnt get salmonella and making more than i want to have for the cookies so he could have some and we would still have a good amount of cookies
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 13. WHICH ONE OF YOU WOULD MAKE BAD PUNS AND HOW WOULD THE OTHER REACT?
i am a pun god and he would smack me every time but it would be Worth It
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 14. WHO WOULD WANT TO ADOPT 50 DOGS AND CATS?
i have been known to look at google images of kittens and weep so i would want to but not act upon it but he has little to no self control so he would spend hours at the local shelter and send me pictures of every single animal they had and ask if we could have it (fuck now i want to write a felix-works-in-an-animal-shelter au)
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 15. WHICH ONE OF YOU WOULD NEARLY BURN DOWN THE KITCHEN TRYING TO MICROWAVE A POP TART AND WHO WOULD COME TO THE RESCUE?
again felix is a disaster in the kitchen because first of all. who microwaves a pop tart they are strictly a toaster food. second of all. i would come to the rescue
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 16. WHO LIKES TO LEAN OVER TALL RAILINGS AND WHO PULLS THEM BACK?
felix is a huge railing leaner and i have massive amounts of anxiety but i also love a good people watching session so i feel like i would pull him back but then join him at a reasonable angle
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 17. WHAT WOULD WATCHING A HORROR FILM WITH THEM BE LIKE?
i like to pretend to be touch but i am actually the biggest baby and so is he so watching a horror film would be a disaster. some are okay though and then its fun. but other than that we are strictly a mean girls and lemonade mouth couple
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 18. WHO WOULD BE THE CHEESY FLIRT AND WHO WOULD BE THE SMOOTH FLIRT?
i feel like i might be the smooth one but hear me out. my logic is that im smooth when its playful and any flirting i would do with him would be playful. he’s just a mess no mater what
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 19. WHO IS MORE COMPETITIVE?
me, myself, and i. i have found that i dont usually like the concept of competetion (like sports and stuff) but once i get started i am a competetive monster who cannot be stopped
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 20. WHO WOULD HAVE TO BE GIVEN CONSTANT REMINDERS? (REMEMBER TO EAT, DON’T FORGET YOUR KEYS, ETC)
him. hes a certified mess and im a mom friend but then when i forget something he makes fun of me for hours lol
*♡ ｡･ﾟﾟ･ 21. WHO SENDS MEMES AND WHO SENDS CUTE ‘I MISS YOU’ TEXTS AT 3AM?
we both do. i am the queen of “this made me think of you” *weird ass picture* and once he found out that im a memer he wont stop sending me memes. and im a sucker for when someone waits until youre asleep and then sends a “for when you wake up” message. i send those all the time and i love it
okay so i tag @spear-bean and @notleefelix and anyone else who happens to see this and wants to do it uwu
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I just realized I have never posted an original work so i guess i can now 😅, be gentle i haven't written in years (literally like 7/8 years) and this was the first thing i came back with
There they were sitting across a table avoiding eye contact as they separately counted down to what would be the most uncomfortable emotional situation either had been put in.
Their mutual friend Darron walked into the room to explain exactly why he brought both of them together in this awkwardly painful reunion.
"Alrightt, Lunaa.. Natee, I think it's about time you 2 talked. I don't care if you walk out of here friends or not but I've heard 2 very different stories and you need to explain how you feel to one another because your constant fighting and negative energy anytime you see each other is starting to affect not only me but everyone. So talk it out, RESPECTFULLY." He made immediate eye contact with Luna knowing she was they type in fights to go for the low blow. He walked out and closed the door slowly while Luna and Nate turned to make eye contact for the first time since they had been put into this room together.
"Luna i know we didn't end on super great terms last time we spo-" Nate was cut off mid sentence when Luna had burts out laughing
"When was that? Ohhh yeah when you disrespected my fiancé in an attempt to get me angry? Yeah i wouldn't say we ended on 'super great terms' Nathaniel." She said the last part sarcastically rolling her eyes and looking towards the door.
"Haa, well i meant more so the part where you threatened to 'knock everything last tooth and brain cell out of my skull' or do you not remember that part doll"
Her head snapped back immediately and she looked furious "Oh i remember that clearly and it was 'fucking skull' if you want to quote me at least quote me accurately. And NEVER... call me doll again" she leaned in close speaking the last part very articulatly to make her point clear.
"Alright, alright I'll back off; however i see you're still as fiesty as ever" he continued before she could interrupt with a comeback "look my version of this is pretty cut and dry so I'll tell you mine you tell me yours and if we can't see eachothers sides you can walk out that door and we never have to speak again. Deal? For Darrons sake?" He reached his hand out to shake on the terms with a smile
"For darron. And i will leave.." he reached out and grabbed her hand. "I hate you, just so you know." Luna spat at him while pulling her hand back to her side and making a face and Nate. To which he replied with a sincere smile, "oh, darling.. you break my heart" he said light heartedly to try to ease the tension
"You don't have a heart to break." She replied shortly showing absolutely no emotion whatsoever.
His smile grew back to the emotionless frown he always wore
"Alright have it your way."
"Always have, haven't I"
"Snarky as ever.. alright fine" Nate began glaring at Luna knowing she was an empath and that she could only have this emotional blockade up for a short time before it came tumbling down and she would feel all the pain and despair she caused him.
"The way i see it we were friends, and then all of a sudden Simon is the center of your universe and you could give a fuck less about me. Then i try to come to you because i miss you and you say there's some deeper problem. If there was a deeper problem why didnt you just come to me? I just wa-"
"WHY DIDNT I JUST COME TO YOU? NATHANIEL DO NOT START WITH ME." She exclaimed, surprised he even had the audacity to act like she was the villan of this story.
"Alright if I'm explaining this incorrectly maybe you should tell me how things 'reallly were' brat."
"Ohkay well let's start with where things actually went wrong you fucking ingrate. Lets start with the fact that I have loved you and wanted to do everything for you and that was apparently not enough. Lets star-"
"Alright doll, get on with it. Tell me what exactly it is i did to make you go from loving me as much as you did to hating my guts and seeing me as this evil narcissistic demon you paint me out to be."
"Nathaniel. Let me make one thing clear before i tell you exactly how i see things. I don't hate you, unfortunately no matter how much i try i cant bring myself to hate you or stop caring about you even though you strung me along for years and shattered my god damn heart, i still cant fucking hate you. And if you genuinely think i do then I'm sorry but you're just stupid."
"Pfftt could have fooled me. I think the cold shoulder you've been giving me these past few years gave me frostbite" Nate said with a smile hoping he could get Luna to crack even the faintest smile, he hadn't seen her smile in 3 years and he missed it so much.
"I'm not in the mood for jokes.. look i loved you so fucking much i would do anything to make you happy. We had constant bickering of who loved who more and things were great. Then i move 10 hours away and its the most painful, heartbreaking, gut wrenching thing i ever experienced and you just disappear, you stop talking to me everyday and I'm lucky if i got a response once every other week and maybe a video call with you and Darron once a month and that's being generous to you. And then while being heartbroken that the person i loved basically just disappeared on me then Elaine had to tell me her sister saw you out with NOT ONE. BUT TWO DIFFERENT FUCKING GIRLS ON DATES. WHat the actual fuck was that shit Nathani-"
"Look i dont know what tale you're spinning but we were never dating and i-"
"I KNOW AND THAT'S THE WORST PART OF IT ALL. I LET YOU LEAD ME ON IN HOPES ONE DAY YOU'D STOP FUCKING EVERYTHING WITH A FUCKING HOLE AND WOULD ACTUALLY SETTLE DOWN AND LOVE ME BECAUSE 'YoU lOvEd Me MoRe TiMeS iNfInItY aNd YoU aLwAyS wIlL' you fucking ungrateful son of a bitch you made me fall for you. And dont start with the i meant it as friends thing because i did not treat you like a friend and you know it. I never cuddled and kissed my other friends. I never made plans to move across the country alone with one of them and spend the rest of our lives together and you knew exactly what you were doing you FUCKING NARCISSISTIC ASSHOLE"
"STOP CALLING ME THAT" Nate snapped yelling as loud as he could; as he leaned in closer to Luna. They both just stared at each other in silence, Nate was waiting for the waterworks to start, anytime he yelled at her before she'd cry and he could comfort her and things got better but not a single tear fell.
"Nathaniel. I'm sorry I've been raising my voice but i swear to whatever the fuck god you wanna believe in that if you EVER raise your voice at me again i will fucking kill you without the slightest hesitation, do I make myself clear?"
They sat in silence as they had a stare down waiting for the other to break, but Luna grew tired of this game so she continued her point "Regardless if you meant it or not, knew what you were doing or not, you lead me on, For years, point fucking blank ohkay? I loved you and waited for you for years just to have my heart shattered. I genuinely cant tell you how many people i slept with to get over you."
This took Nate off guard and he couldn't hide the glint of jealousy that flashed across his face at the thought of her touching someone else the way she used to touch him, god just the thought of it made his stomach turn
"And after doing that and not succeeding in fucking you out of my system i was even more upset and broken" her voice broke and she had to take a second to compose herself so she wouldn't start to cry once she calmed down she continued
"Simon was the best friend that was there for me after you destroyed me. He picked up the pieces and put me back together, and didn't expect anything in return, he did it as a friend. He makes me happy and makes me feel loved-"
"Uuugghhhhh skip this part. You know how i feel about Simon." Nate groaned
"I just wanted to make it clear that he's the reason I'm back to myself and didn't end up destroying my life or overdosing to kill myself you dickhead. And i was content pretending like you never broke my heart and destroyed me. I was fine pretending like we were friends for Darrons sake. And then you saw how happy i was with Simon and decided you didnt like me loving someone other than you and made it very apparent how much you hated him. You got pissy anytime i showed him affection AND HE AND I WERE IN AN ACTUAL DEFINED RELATIONSHIP. And then when i stopped being around you because of how you were acting about simon and i you decided to drunk text me some god damn apology about how you were treating Simon and like thanks but how fucking dare you act like that's where our problems started. It was way before that. And to add fuel to the fire when i didnt accept your shitty apology you decided to misgender and deadname my boyfriend to try and what? hit a nerve and get me to talk to you? Like fuck off you egotistical self centered prick. But whatever at this point I've come to expect nothing less of you."
Tears were welling up and she couldn't hold them back any longer. Nathaniel took a moment and watched her, studied her face to see if there was any feeling towards him that wasnt hurt or anger that was salvageable
"..I'm sorry I made you feel that way about me. But i still love you and care about you Luna. I never stopped, even when we didn't talk for weeks i was always thinking about yo-"
"I tried to talk to you every single day Nathaniel. If you miss someone you talk to them not ignore them and fuck anything with a pulse"
"okay.. that's fair i deserve that. But please stop rebutting everything i say its not progressing this conversation..unless your plan is to spend the rest of our lives in this room arguing which with you doesn't sound to bad, doll" he threw in a wink and reached for Lunas hands. She pulled them back before he could even reach her hands "what the fuck did i say about that name" "awhh come on Luna i know that's your favorite nickname"
"YOU DON'T GET TO CALL ME THAT."
"Does Simon call you that now? Or is it still my special nickname"
"Simon knows that being called Doll makes my stomach turn amd my skin crawl." she looked Nate up and down to emphasize her point "for obvious reasons." Nate simply smiled "Luna keep up this tough girl act i like the look of it on you. But we both know underneath that tough shielded exterior is my soft babydoll that just wants love and acceptance from everyone that lays their eyes on her no-" "You think you know me but you know who i used to be. That 'soft doll' you love so much? You killed her, a long time ago and I've changed"
"Show me the new you then. I can promise I'll love any version of you as long as its you"
"STOP..saying you love me Nate you're trying to get in my head." She looked away from him and tried to pretend like she didnt still care. Nate reached out and turned her to face him "you and i both know i mean it Lunabel, i will always love and care for you. Thats why darron wanted us to talk things out. Please believe me I've changed, i go to therapy, i haven't touched any drugs or alcohol in a year, and im working on my problems. I know you dont want me in that way but i need to be part of your life Lun, i cant stop thinking about you. You were my best friend, the person i went to for anything without fear of judgment please don't take the only light in my life away from me."
"Nathaniel.. you know I'll never stop loving you but we're toxic to each other and only make one another spiral down. We just bring out the worst in eachother, and frankly, I don't like who you turn me into." He looked down defeated knowing where this was going to lead, but she pulled his face up to meet his eyes to hers "..i am.. so proud of you for getting sober Nate, words cant explain how happy i am you're getting help and bettering yourself. And I'll always care about you but i can't see a future for us where we can be close friends anymore, its not in the cards for us" he rested his head against her hand not wanting this moment to end, he missed her touch, how she could calm every ache and pain both mental and physical by just touching him. He hadn't felt a moment of peace like this since she left his life. She started to pull her hand away and instinctually he grabbed her hand and held it back to his face, tears starting to build
"fuck the cards, Luna please give me another chance as a friend please i miss you in my life and healing cant progress if i dont have you by my side"
Luna pulled her hand back to her side realizing she had made a mistake touching him like that, she felt the hair on her arms stand up and the anxiety rush up her fingertips and into her whole body, Her heart started to race and tears started to well in her eyes "Nate you and I both know you can't rely on someone else when you're trying to heal, it's not healthy on either end of the relationship; If you truly need someone to rely on that person should be Darron or a family member, not your ex-whatever I am."
Luna stood up to head for the door when Nate grabbed her hand to ask one final question, "Do you still love me Lunabel?"
There was a moment of silence as she pondered on this question, "Nate, you know the answer is yes but no amount of love can erase the past. Keep doing good and being sober, im proud of you." she pulled her hand back to herself and continued towards the door as Nate stared at her and watched her walk out of his life for the last time "I'll always love you Lunabel..." she stopped for a second to turn slightly, "I know Nathaniel.. I know." she continued out the door and walked away with the weight of a thousand tons rolling off her shoulders as she closed that chapter of her life and moved on with Simon to her happy life.
#writing#personal story#hope you like it#writers block really sucked guys#this sucks but oh well#this sucks but whatever
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Inspiration from Sathya Sai Baba, Stephen Fry, Son Volt, and More
Once a month (or so), I share a dozen things that have inspired me to greater personal, professional, and financial success in my life. I hope they bring similar success to your life.
1. Bob Dylan on regrets
I dont believe in regrets. Regrets just keep you chained to the past. You gotta make peace with the past. Theres no reason to regret it. Youve done it, just make peace with it. Bob Dylan
A few weeks ago, I was digging through some very old journal entries, some of my oldest ones from the mid-1990s. I read an entry about an old friend of mine who passed away several years later. Our friendship had faded and I actually didnt hear about his passing for a while, well past his funeral, and it filled me with huge regret when I heard about it and I actually felt some regret when I read this entry.
As I thought about him, Im reminded of what one of the best people Ive ever known, who Ill call Tony, once said about friendships. He told me that some friendships are for a day, some are for a season, and some are for a lifetime. They all fill a need for us, but its okay for some friendships to only be for a day and its okay for some friendships to only be for a season. Just dont let them end with a cruel word.
We were great friends at a key point in both of our lives and then our lives went in different directions. I dont recall ever saying anything cruel or intentionally leaving him out; I simply moved several hours away and then, shortly thereafter, he moved away as well and we simply didnt see each other any more.
I dont regret letting that friendship end any more. Rather, Im glad we were friends at that time when we needed that other person in our life as someone to hang out with and talk about the inherent difficulties of figuring out what came next in our lives. We both needed that, and then we didnt, and thats okay.
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This song comes straight out of that time period I wrote about above. This song, the entire album it comes from, and some of the albums of two closely related bands (Wilco and Uncle Tupelo) were the soundtrack of that period in my life.
Over the last few weeks, Ive played so many of those albums over and over again, out of a mix of admiration of the beauty of that music as well as the way it can transport me to another place and time if I let it.
Music has an ability to do this. Art has an ability to do this. Its somehow tied to feelings deep inside of us, and for me, this song taps into that sense of doing something familiar but knowing that the familiar is about to end. I think it comes both from the song itself and from the period of my life that I identify with it.
3. Sathya Sai Baba on when to speak
Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence? Sathya Sai Baba
Im trying to move in this direction with my own conversation, moving away from meaningless chit chat and trying to save my words for things that actually have meaning and are better than the silence.
The big challenge that I often have to overcome with this is that, for several hours a day, Im mostly silent. I work from home, by myself, and theres no reason to talk. Thus, when my kids and my wife get home, Im anxious to simply communicate with another person and sometimes Ill end up just talking for the sake of talking.
Thats a bad habit and I want to trim it out, so Im focusing on being more purposeful with my words. Am I communicating kindness? Am I communicating anything useful? Am I communicating worthwhile information? If not, why speak?
4. The Five Minute Method
Im not sure where I picked up this idea, but its something that Ive done both consciously and unconsciously for years and its been particularly powerful as of late.
The idea is this: whenever theres something you need to do that you really dont want to do, agree to just do it for five minutes literally setting a timer if you want and then you can quit with no guilt afterwards. Thats it.
Dont want to exercise? Agree to just do some exercise for five minutes. If your timer goes off, you can quit, or you can go longer if you want in either case, its a win.
Dont want to meditate? Set a five minute timer.
Dont want to do that dreadful work task thats hanging over your head? Set a five minute timer.
Dont want to dig into that project thats going to take all day? Set a five minute timer. Quit after the five minutes if you want. Do it another day.
This really works for me for some reason. Quite often, once the five minutes are up, I want to keep making headway on the project at hand anyway. If I dont, I know I can quit with no guilt because I know I made just a little progress. It goes back on tomorrows to-do list.
Try it. Use it with every task that seems miserable in your life.
5. Aaron Sorkin on learning
If youre dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If youre smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you. Aaron Sorkin
This is spectacular advice. If you want to genuinely understand the world better, surround yourself with people who know things that you do not and learn from them.
Theres only one problem with this strategy: there are enough people in the world who are genuinely opposed to being exposed to new ideas that many people have their guard up and immediately get defensive when discussing ideas. If you ask a question, they assume theyre just being attacked by someone who isnt actually genuinely interested in an exchange of ideas, but rather in just creating conflict and discord.
In other words, this approach does not work well online outside of specific, carefully moderated situations. It works best face to face, with people youre interacting with directly and who you have some form of real life social connection with. It is that social connection that encourages those involved to put down their defensiveness and exchange ideas.
Its why I go to meetups. Its why I like to go to lectures and presentations when I can. Its why I often have really deep discussions with friends I trust. Its why I read books that challenge me. I dont know a lot of things about the world, and even in the areas I do know well, I dont know every perspective or idea. I want to know those things.
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Thubten Chodron is a Tibetan Buddhist nun, prolific author, and world renowned teacher. She is the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, and co-author of a book with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Want to be happy? Join Venerable Thubten Chodron to learn how. By becoming aware of how our actions affect those around us, as well as ourselves, she offers ways to identify and overcome our self-centered attitude that pretends to look out for our welfare, but is actually self-sabotaging and primes us to make unwise choices.
The core idea that she presents is that taking purely self-centered actions ones where we dont even consider the impact on others rarely brings us lasting happiness. Rather, considering how the things we do affect others and filtering what we do to center more on things that benefit others and ourselves often becomes a source of lasting happiness.
Think about the things you do in a given day. How many of them are things that you do entirely because they benefit you? How many of those things are things that youve even considered in terms of how they affect people besides yourself?
Heres a good practice: spend a day logging everything that you do. Then, a day or two later, go through that log and ask yourself how many of those things were done solely because they benefited you. Then, for each of those things, consider alternative things you could have done that might have been good for others, too, without shortchanging yourself (or only having a minor relative drawback for you).
I did this a week or so ago and I found a lot of little things that I could do differently. It was pretty surprising how I could tweak lots of little things in my life to be a little less self-centered without adding a whole lot of effort, and then doing things in the less self-centered way felt a whole lot better. For example, I redid my morning routine so that I could make a better breakfast for my kids; in the end, it didnt cost me any time, but by thinking of things in terms of them, they wound up with a better breakfast most mornings that they could eat with their dad.
7. Malcolm Gladwell on self-contradiction
If you dont contradict yourself on a regular basis, then youre not thinking. Malcolm Gladwell
Its worth noting here that Gladwell is talking about contradicting yourself in terms of ideas, not in terms of behavior or lying about what youre up to. His point is that if youre actually thinking about an idea and turning it over and over in your head, your understanding of that idea deepens and your opinions on that idea likely change a little, and that results in your current views and comments potentially seeming hypocritical compared to earlier views and comments.
I think its good for society to move past looking at a persons evolving views as being a bad thing. We should want people to turn over ideas in their head, understand them better, and thus evolve their views on those ideas. Sticking to the same ideas in the face of a lot of contradictory evidence isnt a good thing.
Its not hypocritical to change your views when you learn new information. A person who does this isnt a hypocrite. Rather, theyre just being thoughtful.
8. Heath Ledger on happiness
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house, as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy. Heath Ledger
This is a good point, but its also a difficult one. Having a conversation with someone about whether they are happy feels really awkward. Asking someone if theyre happy often opens the door to a conversation that most people dont want to have even with people theyre very close to.
Ive been turning this over in my head for a long time and lately Ive moved to using a pretty standard conversation starter that I think hits on this in a meaningful way.
I simply ask people Whats good in your life right now?
If they dont seem sure of what I mean, I explain it simply: What have you done lately that youve really enjoyed? Have you read a good book? Watched a good movie? Spent time with someone cool? Finished off a big project?
I find that almost everyone has something they can talk about here, and its usually something that gets them excited and positive and animated. Not only that, I learn about all kinds of interesting things, and I usually learn something pretty interesting about that person, too.
This is the single best free introductory course to computer programming that I have ever found. If I were to point someone toward a resource from which they could learn the basics of computer programming without shelling out significant cash, this would be it.
The catch is that its an online course that runs somewhat irregularly. Its often hard to catch it right when it starts sometimes itll be in the middle of a session and other times its not running at all.
Im mentioning it here because a new session of this class starts at the beginning of June. Its completely free and its really, really good. This is highly recommended if youve ever wanted to dig into computer programming a little to understand what exactly it is. This is good teaching at its finest.
10. Jim Rohn on discipline and regret
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn
I have dropped this quote before in inspiration columns, but it has been incredibly powerful for me over the years.
In general, you have two choices most of the time. You can be disciplined right now, or you can have regrets later on. You can eat that unhealthy meal right now (no discipline) and suffer some negative health effects down the road (regret), or you can eat a healthy meal now (discipline) and be fitter and healthier in life (no regret). You can spend your money on something frivolous (no discipline) and then have to deal with financial difficulties later on (regret), or you can skip by most unnecessary expenses (discipline) and achieve your big financial goals (no regret). Its true for many of lifes challenges exercise, building relationships, and so on.
We always have a choice discipline or regret. The catch, of course, is that discipline isnt very painful at all often just a little uncomfortable at the moment while regret can be incredibly painful and long lasting.
11. My in-laws
My wifes parents both recently retired. They spent the last decade or so really stabilizing their finances so that they could afford to retire and still enjoy travel and doing things with their grandchildren and having hobbies.
They visited us for the first time since theyve both retired and I swear I could tell a difference with them. They both just seemed a little more relaxed, but at the same time, a little more interested in doing things. Often in the past, they would visit us and both seem a bit tired from their busy lives and would treat their visit as a mini-vacation of sorts where they could relax.
When they came up this time, they wanted to help us with a couple minor home improvement projects and they threw themselves into painting a room with gusto. They seemed upbeat and happy and possibly more energetic than Ive seen them in a while. They talked about things they wanted to do in the very near future and seemed excited about all of it.
In other words, theyre doing exactly what I want to do when I retire.
12. Stephen Fry on depression
If you know someone whos depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isnt a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Stephen Fry
Ive had periods of deep melancholy in my life that probably swung into mild depression, though I was never treated for it. I went through most of a year once where I had minimal motivation to do much of anything at all other than the absolute bare minimum. It took me a long time to climb out of that hole.
Lately, Ive been watching a good friend of mine fall into that kind of depression spiral. Hes gradually become more and more withdrawn from me and from other mutual friends. He doesnt respond to text messages or other methods of communication much at all. Even when I do manage to get him out of the house, hes largely uncommunicative. I know from others that he rarely leaves his home.
I am really at a loss as to what I can do to help. In the end, I think the best thing I can do is to just keep inviting him to do things, keep sending him positive things about the things weve had a shared interest in, keep checking in and poking without actually talking about the elephant in the room that is depression. If he does decide to talk about it, Ill just listen and empathize, but I wont push him to talk about it. I want him to remember that people care about him without blatantly saying people care about you.
I miss him. I wish I had a magic way to help, but I dont. Rather, I think the best thing I can do is to just not let that thread of connection between us wither and die, not push him to talk about the depression, but rather to talk about the positive things we share and if he decides to open up about it, Ill just listen and be supportive and not try to jam my own experiences into it.
https://www.thesimpledollar.com/inspiration-from-sathya-sai-baba-stephen-fry-son-volt-and-more/
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