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10 years of Skam💛💛💛💛💛

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Skam Cast with Elle Norge for 10 year anniversary of Skam

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I need my 1950s queer favs with the same name Andy Mills and Andy Fleming to meet.

Nick and Andy go on vacation to San Francisco and visit The Ruby, maybe??

I need to write this fic, don’t I?

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Andy in We Could Be So Good being awkward and prudish about sex and that being portrayed as endearing is actually so important to me

But also Nick not being weird about it and communicating plainly and not infantilizing Andy by avoiding the subject.

I just found that dynamic very sweet and as an ace person very realistic and relatable.

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Sharing this song everywhere bc I am obsessed. The vocalsssss. The upbeat yet gentle drive. 10/10 vibes. I do not understand any of the lyrics (yet) except for the title, “water”.

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My queer book rec for the fall season!

I just reread Lavender House and The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen, and I need to talk about these books with more people!!

The setting is immersive and the characters are real and enjoyable. You've got time to read the first two before the third book comes out on Oct. 1st and is about books, so you know it's gonna be great.

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you—soft and only, lost and lonely

Hiiiiii I just posted a fic for like the second time ever and the first time in like 7 years asjdgljkl. It's Gene/Andy from Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen. I hope you'll give it a read even if you haven't read the book! Only the most minor spoilers~

Review from @shelbychild: "absolutely embarrassing gays"

Here's the first scene:

When Gene sees the man Elsie is carrying into the bar, he springs immediately into action mode, his adrenaline pumping the second he sets eyes on the man’s beat-up face. He rushes over and hands Elsie a towel filled with ice. He’s used to helping patch people up around here, but this guy he’s never seen before.

When he comes back with the bandages and starts tending to the man’s—Andy’s—wounds, he puts on a smile that he hopes is comforting. People often try to play it cool, but he knows how terrifying it is to get attacked, how it shakes someone to their core. He’s seen it enough times, and lived it himself a few. But Gene has learned that it’s good to stay nonchalant, to try to settle the fear, so he holds out his hand and introduces himself. Andy responds affably. The guy seems okay, not too shaken up. Just very hurt.

Gene doesn’t know why his mind goes there when Andy starts unbuttoning his shirt. He’s seen enough people roughed up that he should have known what was happening, and yet—

“Maybe not the time for that,” Gene says, and he winks.

“They cracked a rib, I think,” Andy says.

Gene realizes his error, mortified.

“Oh!” Gene does his best to smile through the blush quickly rising on his face. He immediately helps Andy get his shirt off and starts inspecting his bruises—back on task.

He must have been thrown off by Andy so boldly calling him good-looking. He’s not unaccustomed to being flirted with, but he’s not the flirting type himself. He’s friendly, sure, likes to smile at everyone. But Gene has never been good at flirting and doesn’t care to be. He might—might throw out a friendly wink from time to time. Friendly. But he can’t believe he just so blatantly flirted with the severely injured man in front of him.

And yet, the man keeps making conversation with Gene, smiling and laughing despite the pain he must be feeling. At one point, Andy takes him by the wrist to readjust the ice Gene is still holding to his face, and Gene tries to ignore the way he swoons a bit at the touch. Their conversation turns serious and Gene feels like he sees Andy. His loneliness, his regret, the feeling of being lost. Gene has been there. He wraps Andy up in a hug— because he can’t help it, because he thinks this man needs it, and because, for some reason, he wants to.

Read the rest on ao3

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I can’t stop thinking about We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian and I have no one to talk about it with so you all get to hear my ramblings.

Do you ever think about how we start off the story with Nick noticing flowers on Andy’s tie and being bitter about it…

…but then Nick eventually allows himself to enjoy receiving flowers from his boyfriend…

… and how it’s all a metaphor for Nick allowing himself to love and be loved? Because I do and I’m obsessed.

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drink every time someone says mcquinston

drink every time someone says prince harry

drink every time someone misremembers a small detail and you start talking out loud trying to correct them

it’s pride month so we are returning to my favorite hobby of listening to almost every podcast episode done on rwrb

most of these book pods are two friends summarizing the book and having a good time, but i enjoy enjoying it with other people

but hey! i found 4 pods with eps that are new or that i haven’t yet listened to and we’ve got a commute today so let’s go

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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it’s pride month so we are returning to my favorite hobby of listening to almost every podcast episode done on rwrb

most of these book pods are two friends summarizing the book and having a good time, but i enjoy enjoying it with other people

but hey! i found 4 pods with eps that are new or that i haven’t yet listened to and we’ve got a commute today so let’s go

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this is actually like my third or fourth rodeo so i sort of get it but sort of dont

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HEARTSTOPPER ⏤ 1.04, “Secret”

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I appreciate The Empire Strikes Back for being the only time I can think of when a character just shot their enemy as soon as they saw them without pausing or having a dramatic moment beforehand.