Kung Lao is a very tactile person and shows his affection through physical touch. So it was TOUGH for Raiden when he found himself in the "oh-no-I-think-I-have-a-crush-on-my-best-friend" situation.
Raiden prefers to verbally express his feelings and is not afraid to casually drop the most heartwarming gut-punching feet-kicking sweet words. Kung Lao has no idea how to receive this information and bluescreens.
+ crops because I kinda really like how the faces turned out??
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Just wait, Roku's gonna see Kyoshi and call her "mommy" (non-sexual) and Kyoshi's just going to stare blankly at him and be like "Fucking hell, you ARE my reincarnation. Is this was Kuruk felt like? Thank fucking christ Nyahitha is dead, I wouldn't be able to take the bullshit coming out of his mouth"
And Roku is just standing there both embarrassed to all hell, terrified (he called the scariest lady in the world to ever live mommy c'mon), and confused as fuck. jkaljsfs;af
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YOU ME KISS NOW
*kisses you gently on the forehead* I admire your confidence. We're doing this enemies-to-lovers style
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so one of my coworkers thinks that i like him and has been asking my friend about it, and we're both here all 🧍🏼♀️ because the fact remains that i'm aroace so i am incapable of liking him like that but he's so sure that i have a crush on him.
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Sometimes I feel like we don't talk enough about the romance of being perceived. For me at least, it is the ultimate form of romance. When somebody is so utterly infatuated with somebody that they can't help but notice all the intricacies of them...??? YES! I've started to notice how much I crave that and how much I adhere to it in my writing. So many of my favorite love songs are the kind where somebody just lists things they've noticed about the person they love. And when this happens in a book or a movie or any kind of story???? Kill me! Like literally put me down because I've gone rabid!!!! When the love interest points out the MCs endearing nervous habit, when they comment on the color of their hair in the sun, when they talk about how much they love the sound of their voice, etc etc etc!!! Like to be loved is to be perceived, to be observed, to be paid attention to! That is adoration!!! Y'all don't get it because you want the grand gestures and the sex and the expensive dates and the Instagram face sexy looks, blah blah blah! I just want for people to dissect and discover the person they love and to find endearment in all that makes them! It's so GOOD!
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2023 reads / storygraph
Cage of Dreams
part 2 in the City of Nightmares duology
a prohibition era fantasy city where people turn into their real life nightmares. Since the nightmare phantom is free, people aren’t turning anymore, but that doesn’t mean the thousands of supernatural people and monsters stopped existing
Ness is once again just trying to survive day-to-day in the supervillain-esque city without ending up in the middle of a shootout, but once again finds herself pulled into the chaos of cults and evil mayors and criminal conspiracies
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truly you have to participate in the compliment economy. random compliments are so rare but it's not because you don't deserve them! our discomfort with engaging with other people makes it so that only some people take the initiative to give compliments in the first place, and that's really only if there's something standout about the person they're complimenting. it doesn't have to be that way. get comfortable with telling people that you like their clothes or their hair or that they have nice eyes or a good smile or a pretty laugh or that you admire the way they carry themself or like their music taste or just that you think they're nice or smart or cool. put a little delight out into the world! once you've done that, it opens up similar dialogues bit by bit... and as a secret special bonus, when you tell someone something nice, they're often very happy to have a chance to tell you something nice in return :)
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