Husk taking care of Angel,,,, Domestic huskerdust,,,,,💘💗💘💓💖💞💘
I cannot stop thinking about them even if I wanted to
(Angel gave him a back massage after this. Mutual care. Loving and romantic relationship. They are so in love)
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I think Laurent is such an appealing character because he is so emblematic of those people who are broken but still want to be worthy of love.
Laurent, to me, is a variation on a type of person I’m familiar with. The clever, gifted, introverted child who struggles socially, weighed down by a big brain and oddly adult preoccupations. The one who becomes fractured through trauma, ends up hiding behind a pointed, cold, even cruel, demeanour as self-protection. I bet most of us know that person (some of us might even be that person). It’s not a good persona to have felt forced to adopt. But beautiful, barbed-tongued Laurent makes it seem more palatable than it is.
Truth is, he’s in a bad place before Damen. Laurent is that person who holds everyone at arms length, mistrustful of being hurt and abandoned, but somehow still forges ahead on a path towards some goal they’re determined to win as it gives them purpose, even when they can’t even really envision a future for themselves (where will they be in ten years time? Who will they be? They have no answer). The one who finds romantic relationships so agonising, they often choose to absent themselves from them, because they come hand in hand with unbearable vulnerability, and who don’t know how to feel sexual desire without the past intruding, and without feeling like they’re giving something up or losing somehow, who suspect they might be permanently ruined.
Laurent’s mind is like a steel trap, and it makes it easy to look down on others (not something others find particularly likeable). Is the type who can separate out the deep moral integrity that forms the bedrock of who they are, from the more flimsy, politer, social kind of morality which they tossed out the window in the name of survival (hard to make friends when you do that). The kind of person who is haunted by shame and filled with secret self-loathing, who uses humour to cope, and feels stuck in a state of arrested development even though they had to grow up too fast. The sort who can lose their temper so badly they cross lines no-one else can, but will die for the people they love. Who can seem flippant and facetious yet exhausting in their intensity.
And then good, honourable, warm-hearted Damen comes along and sees him.
This Normal Boy (who is really an Exceptional Boy), clothed in the body of his enemy. This towering stereotype of attractive athleticism, this strong warrior prince, well-loved, well-liked, who should be stupid and selfish, a repellent, violent aggressor, but is instead an intellectual equal, honourable and caring and kind. Who makes sex an act of love, of giving and taking in equal measure, makes it slow and tender and meaningful and pleasurable, adjusting exactly to how Laurent likes it, makes it no longer something to fear.
Damen who guides Laurent back to his own heart, is the light to his dark, and softens those lethal edges. Who laughs with him, matching bon mot for bon mot. Who loves Laurent, for all his faults, who sees him at his very, very worst, all that ugly, vicious darkness laid bare, and still gives him his heart, and will never abandon him. Who heals him.
The books are the ultimate broken person’s fantasy, honestly. That if we see a glimmer of ourselves in Laurent, then maybe a Damen is out there who could show us how it could be.
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zima telling pavia he can't speak english very well and pavia trying to learn russian
pavia taking zima shopping
zima and pavia getting stoned together
pavia and zima taking late night walks because they both enjoy the moonlight
zima and pavia having anti-authoritarian acab conversations
pavia showing zima his tattoos and explaining the meaning behind them
zima asking pavia to pierce his ear
pavia acting like he finds zima's chickadee annoying but secretly taking care of it and feeding it
zima writing pavia poems and pavia pretending he doesn't care but secretly treasuring them all
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Collection of my favorite moments of the day
Mileapo in their own world
Soft touches
Personal space: unknown
They didn’t have to be so close lol
Flirting on stage
While the host was talking mile asked apo: how do you meow? ajdksldjk
Whatever this is 😂
Apo asked mile to look at his phone because he wanted to take a picture of him <3
(that we’ll never get to see)
:)
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Two parent egg relationships that were created by today's event that would never have happened otherwise:
Baghera & tilin
Bagi & trumpet (& tina)
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they are having a music lesson 🪕🎶
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also, tephra and galena shenanigans (moraine is not happy)
bonus: chert gets a new bandana and is quite happi ::D
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