ariel made a squealing noise and, flailing, grabbed scott's arm. "stop!" her fingers bunched into his shirt as she started shaking in anticipation. "do you see that?" she whispered, her voice dropping into a whisper.
she pointed to a truly gnarly looking snail hanging out in one of the tide pools their group made their way past. it was beige, but not in a pleasant way. it genuinely looked like a piece of spiky flesh. ariel looked at it like the most beautiful thing in the world. "that's the chicoreus tongoroai! when i was learning about biodiversity hotspots it was one of my favorite subjects--" ariel had always been a 'bug' girl. "-- you know it's a cannibal?"
eyes wide as flying saucers at the sight in front of him, scott struggled to pick his jaw off the floor. “ did i — is this my house? are you… real? ” it wasn’t the first time he saw a naked woman obviously, but it was the first time it was by complete surprise after he arrived home from work. “ is it my birthday? ” a hand raised to scratch a the back of his head, his chocolate eyes working not to stare, but also feeling like she wanted him to. “ fuck. ” the last word muttered, glancing to the side.
open to — females.
connection — just some girl he knows? idk what this is or why she’s naked but have this bullshit starter, friends.
There is some pretty shocking footage out there of the Baltimore bridge collapse early this morning. I've already seen some incredibly wrong, incredibly insensitive Hot Takes about how shitty the bridge was to have fallen after being bonked by a boat, etc
Please don't be that person.
The facts will come out. Speculation is silly. In addition to loss of life, the Francis Scott Key bridge was a major arterial in that region's highway system. Its loss will be felt for years, and not just to daily commuters.
Baltimore harbor is closed. No shipping at all. This will impact supply chains in ways we cannot even assess yet.
One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.
Word of mouth really kept me away from Scott Pilgrim for like a decade cause I was told it's this shitty book aimed at incels and he's a pedo and then I read it recently cause of the netflix anime and it's like "this guy sucks and all his friends barely tolerate him and he's trying to feel like a big man by leading on a 17 year old girl he's not actually interested in and everyone including the narrative acknowledges that that's pathetic and he should grow up. anyway let's explore how men see women as a means to their own self actualization but fail to acknowledge that they have lives of their own" like wow this is the book yall were talking about?
Height gap romance except the shorter one is frequently depicted in situations where they are contextually taller. The taller one sitting while the shorter one looms over them. Both of them lying in bed with the taller one’s head pressed to the shorter one’s chest. The shorter one straddling the taller one’s lap and leaning down for a kiss. The taller one on their knees as the shorter one tilts their head up. Please, it makes me go feral