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“You ain’t spoke to me properly in weeks.”

David glanced up from his notebook, eyes squinted against the sun. It was bright, early June and hot as hell; so hot that Jack had finally pulled the bandana loose and undone a couple of buttons, forehead sheening with sweat. Davey forced himself not to notice.

“I’ve been busy, Jack.”

He didn’t mean to sound so pissy, so dismissive, but the image of Jack not even an hour ago with his arm round Katherine’s waist and a smile brighter than the sun, had burned itself onto the backs of his eyelids. He was only human- good at repressing and ignoring and moving on- but only human.

Jack frowned down at him, casting a shadow across the paper he was trying to write on.

“Have I done somethin’? Cause if I have you should tell me.”

“You haven’t done anything.”

“Right, but you ain’t talkin’ to me and-“

“Jesus Jack!” It was forced out of him before he had time to think it through. “I- not everything is about you, okay?”

He blinked again and saw the way Kath’s nose crinkled when she laughed, the way he noticed Jack noticing it and the fondness that seeped into his gaze at the sight. The contrast to the way Jack was looking at him now, eyebrows furrowed together with something like hurt, anger maybe- for Jack they were interchangeable a lot of the time.

“Sometimes,” Davey continued, and he could feel the meanness in his tone and hated it, “sometimes the best thing you can do is leave someone alone, Jack. Leave me alone.”

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Davey Jacobs doesn’t speak to his classmates much, but he’s bad at Not defending himself. He tells himself to ignore people and keep his head down but he’s Awful at actually doing it. His classmates start to prod at him, make fun of him, and he knows- he knows- it would be for the best to stay quiet but he Can’t. He’ll quip back and get shoved for it. Keep going and get knocked to the ground. And he Still can’t keep his mouth shut.

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Tragedy. Ate a peach and it was not sweet

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Between Jack and Davey and Katherine, Jack is surprisingly the quiet one- often much more content to listen to the two of them ramble to eachother than he is to input with his own thoughts

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Why don’t we let the guy whose every plan could be reasonably construed as an abstract suicide attempt take a crack it

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i have been rambling about my kath cosplay for mcm this weekend but i realised there is no actual visual reference for it considering……i designed it, so here she is!! i wanted to give her an appropriately summery look and, as always, as much historical accuracy as possible

also peep my new signature stamp i finally made isn’t it so cute

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I love having a degree in gatsby. degree in hyperfixation fr

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rip gatsby you would’ve loved party 4 u by charli xcx

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i love it when characters are unfair, actually. i love it when they’re uncouth and cranky and hypocritical, i love it when they have cognitive dissonances, i love it when they make good and bad choices for the wrong reasons. i love when they’re short to anger and hard to understand. i love it when they’ve destroyed themselves for nothing but can’t even see either part of it yet. i love it when they’re messy and selfish and bad at communicating. i love it when they get convinced of their own ego and stuck in a feedback loop regarding their own warped paranoia. i love it when characters actively make their lives unknowingly harder for themselves. i love it when characters don’t know they’re in a story. i love it when characters are like real people

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All such important points! I just want to add in also that some girls were also striking, even if they didn’t have to! Annie Kelly spoke at the Rally when she was urged to by the newsboys and was referred to as “the brick of all women and the most faithful of the strikers”.

Women have Always had a place in this story, it was Disney that removed them.

I’ve linked sources to it before but her name is just as easy to google and you can find archived papers talking about the strike and the rally

listen i swear i’ll stop posting about this soon but man. imagine seeing a female character do something brave and kind out of the goodness of her heart and her own sense of justice, and your takeaway is that she must just be poorly written because no woman would ever do that. wild.

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can never take a “the romance subplot is unnecessary” take seriously bc it 9x out of 10 turns into a “kath is unnecessary”

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“um well actually davey is gay and the entire fandom’s agreed on this—“ maybe to you. to me that’s a bisexual who thought he was gay until he was like 19 and then had a hilarious crisis of “oh my god i’m a guy and i like girls??? what am i gonna do??!!”

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stopped by the fuck all store to get absolutely nothing I needed in one inconvenient trip

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whoever invented beds was a fucking genius im just all cozied up in here like u don't even know how cozy i am