Online/Offline [C.S] - ninety | it’s a coniferous forest there’s so much pining
San watched y/n as she slept on the couch. Yunho had long ago gone to his room to update his friend on what happened and go to sleep, but y/n had fought sleepiness like a child waiting for Santa Claus until she finally nodded off by accident. He wondered if she was just over excited from everything that had happened or if maybe she was too worried from having to be around her stalker for most of the day to be able to sleep. But she was asleep now, features relaxed and beautifully peaceful.
“Can I ask you something?” Wooyoung asked.
San motioned for him to follow him into his room where he sat on the floor next to his bed and invited Wooyoung to join him.
“I don’t want to wake her up. What is it?”
“I’m really glad that Quack messaged you when she did. Yunho and I were running over, but you were much faster than us.”
“Yeah.”
“Did you run from the café?”
“Yeah.”
“It’s a good thing you’re so athletic.”
San exhaled a laugh and nodded.
“So was it your fast feet or your love for her that carried you?” Wooyoung said and laughed quietly.
San glared at him, unimpressed.
Wooyoung laughed a bit too loud before quieting himself again.
“Please don’t say things like that in front of her.”
“Why not?”
He stared at him again.
Wooyoung shrugged. “Just tell her you like her.”
San shook his head.
“Why not? If you like her, just tell her you do.”
“What? And take the advice you gave Minsoo?”
“Who told you about that?”
“Seonghwa hyung.”
Wooyoung narrowed his eyes at San.
San smiled.
“Well, I guess you could try that way. She might find it funny.”
He exhaled a laugh. “Maybe.”
He folded his arms and leaned back against the bed, thinking. They sat in silence for a few moments while he processed what he was feeling. Wooyoung played with the hem of his sleeve as he waited for San to say something.
“I thought he was really going to hurt her, Woo.”
Wooyoung looked over at him.
“All I could imagine was… him dragging her off somewhere and…”
“Kidnapping her?”
“Yeah.” San put his face in his hands and inhaled, trying to steady his nerves.
Wooyoung inhaled and nodded. “I wouldn’t put it past him.”
When he felt more composed he pulled his hands away. “I know she said he’s already hurt her, and he has, but all I could think of as I ran towards them and he wouldn’t let go of her…”
“Was all the worst possible shit that could happen?”
San nodded.
“Yeah, I understand. But… what does that have to do with asking her out?”
He sighed. “I don’t know… I just needed to tell someone.”
“What about telling her?”
“I almost did on the way over here, but you heard her.”
“She’s surprisingly hard-headed when she puts her mind to something.”
He nodded again.
“She’s got that only child attitude… She understood how dangerous it was, though.”
San turned to him.
“I know that her brushing it off when you asked her why she didn’t tell you made it seem like she didn’t, but she really did.”
He turned away.
“San-a--”
“What would you or Yunho have done if I didn’t show up? She could have been kidnapped.”
“Try to get her away from him. I don’t know if we could have fought him like you did, but we would have stopped him from taking her anywhere. We were in a public place and Yunho is at least as tall as Byungchul is.”
San looked up at the ceiling and sighed.
“So just tell her.”
“That I like her?”
“Yeah.”
He turned to Wooyoung for a moment before looking away again. “I don’t know.”
“Why?”
“...I don’t know.”
Wooyoung watched him quietly.
“There’ll be the court case. And… I don’t know. I don’t even know if she likes me as more than a friend.”
“You can ask.”
San shook his head.
“Why not?”
“I don’t know. Maybe… maybe it’s not good to pine after people for months.”
“Or years, even.”
San turned to him.
“Mountain of Namhae.”
He sighed heavily. “What if… what if I’m no better than Byungchul?”
“We both know you’re not--”
“I’ve also been following her for forever. Probably longer than him. But I’m worse, I had the opportunity to tell her and I didn’t. I’m like a stalker.”
“Okay, it’s not like you found out who she was on purpose, San. You met her in real life by accident.”
“I don’t know.”
“San. She can’t be mad at you when she’s the one who moved here, came into the café, and then applied to work there. You were there first.”
“But I shouldn’t have kept it from her.”
“Maybe.” Wooyoung sighed. “Listen, I can’t make you do anything, but I think you should tell her.”
San nodded but didn't say anything.
“San-a, it’s just…”
Wooyoung wanted to tell San that he knew for a fact that y/n liked him, but as he opened his mouth to say it he had a sudden flash of realization: telling him would mean selling out Yeosang, and that would mean y/n couldn’t trust Yeosang with a secret. And, if Wooyoung told San what he knew, that would mean that San couldn’t trust him with a secret. And then no one would trust him ever again. He didn’t want to screw over his own friendship, definitely, and he knew Yeosang would be pissed at him if he destroyed his oldest friendship. All he could imagine was chubby-cheeked, child Yeosang, crying because he missed his best friend from before he moved… and then maybe adult Yeosang punching him in the face for the first and last time and never speaking to him again.
He sighed.
“What?” San asked.
He shook his head. “This whole situation.” He rubbed his eyes. “I really don’t think she’ll think you’re like Byungchul if you tell her you’ve been following her; it’s not like she’s an unknown streamer, her best friend is in JUPiTER, for fuck’s sake. There are tons of people who watch her streams.”
San shook his head.
“What ‘no’?”
“It’s not just that.”
“Then what else is it?”
San sighed.
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I’m a pwASPD who used to harm animals as a kid, I don’t feel remorse for it because I just can’t. If I was able to, I would and even without remorse I wish I wouldn’t have done it because logically I shouldn’t have.
I have only mentioned this to very few people that I trust to be understanding and not hold my actions as a child against me now as an adult. I’m good with animals now, I’ve rescued small wild animals quite a few times. But I’m afraid that won’t matter to anyone if they find out how I was with animals as a child and think I shouldn’t be around animals at all.
I don’t like that I used to fit this stereotype but there’s nothing I can do except treat animals the best I can now going forward.
If no one else gets it - and I'm sure they will at least from the community here - I want you to know that I see you and I know it was symptoms and not a reflection on you. While I managed control over these urges as a child, I found myself fighting and sometimes having to entirely avoid certain animals so that I didn't engage in that behavior. It was hard. I'm glad you've learned how to avoid those urges, and I think the animals in question would forgive you if they understood the circumstances. Reminder that there are disorders that can cause animals who wouldn't otherwise act out violently to do so too. And remorse is not required for you to be doing the right thing. It wasn't this fun thing you did and don't feel bad about bc you want to continue doing it or anything - it is a symptom of your disorder and you are already are by choosing to do better. The animals you help now are aware of the good you've done for them, and that's enough, at least in my opinion./gen
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If no one else gets it - and I'm sure they will at least from the community here - I want you to know that I see you and I know it was symptoms and not a reflection on you. While I managed control over these urges as a child, I found myself fighting and sometimes having to entirely avoid certain animals so that I didn't engage in that behavior. It was hard. I'm glad you've learned how to avoid those urges, and I think the animals in question would forgive you if they understood the circumstances. Reminder that there are disorders that can cause animals who wouldn't otherwise act out violently to do so too. And remorse is not required for you to be doing the right thing. It wasn't this fun thing you did and don't feel bad about bc you want to continue doing it or anything - it is a symptom of your disorder and you are already are by choosing to do better. The animals you help now are aware of the good you've done for them, and that's enough, at least in my opinion./gen
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warning this might be a nothing post i'm just a little emotional & rambling but like... i think a lot about hometown showdown and gay and not proud a lot. and i understand this was in the peak of YouTube's fuckery with Dan and disrupting his plans for DINOK so i understand there's like a tension behind a lot of what was ongoing. i also realize that YouTube-- more obviously with hometown showdown-- but generally had strong business rationale for wanting Phil to feature in these videos, with Dan & Phil being the duo of HS and Phil being there in gay and not proud (sorry the acronym for this looks ugly).
but man... i think a lot about how hometown showdown was just kind of a lot of dates. i've not seen the other ones but i hear a lot that they were way more competitive versus Dan and Phil were just casually exploring their hometowns together, showing pieces of themselves to the other. i think about all the dialogue that was cut (that I think was alluded to in WDAPTEO 2?)
and i think about like. the seismic Importance of Phil being in gay and not proud as like... Dan's safe space. the same way he's remote crisis manager, the same way he was part of WAD's pre & post show, the same way he filmed that haircut video basically to promo YWGTTN and Dan is leaving me to talk about WAD. the same way that Dan got a taxi to his place after his nightmare experience at the laundromat to do laundry because "for the first time since I was a tiny child, I actually felt safe."
and after the latest mukbang it's like... it's really insane to me how their personal relationship has continued despite the pressures they've faced as being a comedic influencer duo. the fact that they work as business partners but still have this relationship. the fact that even in these YouTube originals that Dan was resentful of at the time anyway you can still glowingly see how much they love each other. like Phil being in gay and not proud wasn't a cameo, it was a fucking love confession.
i dunno. this is something that's been talked about a Lot but i do think about it frequently. i don't tend to rewatch these specials a lot because Jesus Christ the editing really gets me, but like... idk. "you're next to me in my life," or whatever. 15 years have passed and Phil's still cheerleading for Dan, from his first YouTube video to his first solo tour. i dunno.
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