#my dashboard is no longer a twitter copy-paste fuck yeah

[void-writing]

I'm using this: https:// github. com /enchanted-sword/dashboard-unfucker to fix my dashboard! You need the tampermonkey extension for it to work. If you're using firefox, it should be working fine, but it's not fully tested on chrome.

Oh my god THANK YOU.

[thefantasticm]

In ur mind's eye (according to Hank Anderson) do you think he loves Connor but can't bring himself to be the person Connor needs/deserves OR does he love Connor but only platonically like he can't love him romantically the way Connor wants him to? Or is the fact that no matter what Connor is android and Hank isn't ?

I actually talked about this on twitter but I will copy-paste the text here because fuck twitter sometimes! Putting it behind a read-more to save people’s dashboards too.

The Deliberate Choice of Word towards the end of AGBM was (as some of you now know) ‘ADORED.’Hank adored Connor. Hank was able to realize this, but before we got to see more of his thoughts and feelings… well. I specifically did not use the word 'love’ for several reasons:1) The word is fairly weighty, and often readers will assign to it connotations that I might not have intended (in this case, eros).2) It is a vestige from when I had planned AGBM to be more unrequited/critical, and also in case I never wrote a sequel, to keep things… lighter?3) And most importantly, at that point in time… Hank didn’t! At least, he didn’t realize it. It’s fairly obvious Hank felt very strongly towards him. While adoration is not a weaker word than love, it is easier to assign platonic connotations to it, at least in my opinion.Adoration was as far as Hank’s self-loathing would allow him to go. It was a mess of feeling. Most of all, Hank wanted to hold on to Connor. That desire to keep him in Hank’s life was strongest.“The uncertainty of where it might lead did not frighten him any longer.”Hank is experienced, but let me tell you - at that point, he was NOT A Man With a Plan. He knew Connor loved him and Hank did not know if he loved him back, but.. he didn’t want him to leave either. Very selfish. But you know, most people don’t have androids falling for them. So.Where does this leave us now? Is Hank still uncertain? It’s hard to say, since Connor is telling the story now. It’s OBVIOUS Hank still feels very strongly for him, what with all the… hugging… lingering glances… deep regret… That sort of shit.Yeah, Hank loves him. It’s still nebulous and messy, but the instant realization of where his emotional constipation got him, and the time he’s had to think about it got him there eventually.Sorry that we don’t get to see that slow journey of Hank REALLY falling for him, but it’s there. It happened. And it’s the one part of Hank’s PoV that I really really hrrgghg… wanted to write. But now you know!

So to answer you directly, yes Hank DOES love him. Romantically. Of course, even coming to that realization he still has some major hangups about it. Connor is an android, Hank’s never been with a dude (if androids count… he’s not sure!) before, he’s afraid of Connor leaving him if they DO get together, he’s afraid of Connor leaving even if they DON’T, he’s afraid of suffering the extreme hurt of losing someone close to him again, etc… And of course, he doesn’t believe he’s worthy of it at all. There’s a lot going on. Hope this answered your question, feel free to send me more or whatever.