I know you want to see jealous toni when one of the boys hits on shelby but consider this: she's shelbald right now and I don't see the boys going for that so maybe kirin starts flirting with toni and toni doesn't realize but shelby is the one that gets jealous. I can see them being sporty bros and shelby takes that as them getting closer and she knows she's being irrational but can't help it.
I wrote about something similar a couple days ago in the tags of a post
In episode 8 when they all meet in what literally looks like a gymnasium during prom night, I couldn’t help but think there had to be a basketball goal somewhere in there. That, of course, made me think about the possibility of Kirin and Toni becoming dumb jock besties™️ who spend a lot of time playing bunker basketball together.
And when I tell you Shelby hated it, I mean she hated it. It was dumb and selfish of her to feel that way but she couldn’t help it. The way this low, rumbling fire of jealousy burned in the pit of her stomach every time that big oaf managed to make Toni – her Toni – laugh. Don’t get her wrong, Shelby was well aware of the fact that Toni was quite possibly the gayest person to ever exist but, she was a teenage girl who happened to be utterly and desperately in love so all rational thought tended to take a backseat during times like those. Times when she was forced to watch some stupid boy quite literally sweep the other girl off her feet. Yes, she should’ve gotten used to it by then; the way the pair seemed to love to obnoxiously gloat every time they destroyed another team on the court. It was just hard, is all. It was just so damn hard for Shelby to sit there and not stew in her rather ugly emotions when she’d spent the last couple of months on the island being the person Toni excitedly ran to whenever she beat one of the other girls at some pointless game.
Okay and maybe, maybe she really was acting like quite the stick in the mud when she’d lost it on the lacrosse player. Maybe that embarrassing uptightness that she’d worked so hard to shed on the island came creeping back up the moment her verdant eyes caught the annoying boy tossing Toni over his shoulder. Maybe she was acting like a complete bitch in that moment but, come on, he deserved it!
She’d asked nicely at first. When he was running around like an idiot; jostling Toni more and more with each step. Hooting and hollering about their latest victory while everyone watched on in amusement. Shelby seemed to be the only one concerned about the girl’s safety. For Christ’s sake, he could’ve tripped and fallen, causing them to crash to the ground. He could’ve accidentally dropped her on her head and all because he wanted to what? Swing the girl around like some indestructible toy while he took a stupid “victory lap”? So yes, Shelby spoke up.
She tried to be the voice of caution. She politely suggested he set Toni back down but her request had either fallen on deaf ears or simply served to spur him on further. In hindsight, Shelby isn’t entirely certain what precise moment led her to finally yell at the big fool. It could’ve been when he’d called the girl in his arms some stupid nickname that reminded Shelby of the one he often used to refer to Josh. However, it was more likely when he’d finally decided to stop running around for just a minute, choosing instead to spin him and Toni around in dizzying circles a few times. The action had caused the girl on his shoulder to giggle. Toni Shalifoe had giggled at this stupid boy and it had made Shelby want to rain hellfire down Kirin O’Connor.
The angry demand had come tumbling out of her mouth before a second thought could be given to her words. The force with which she spoke left everyone in the room in shock. Mouths slightly agape, eyes wide as silence took ahold of the teens. The phrase put her down! seemed to echo off the walls of the gymnasium for what felt like an eternity. And after he finally slowly lowered Toni back to the ground Shelby was left internally debating about which felt worse: having Kirin, of all people, stare at her like she was some insane person or having the girl she loved and lost look at her with something akin to pity
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I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact zionists really, truly think “but they tell them before they bomb them!” is something worth praising. I’m sorry, why exactly should I celebrate them destroying people’s lives one way or another? In what world can someone genuinely believe that that is a sound, reasonable practice and not an extension of the savagery & cruelty often displayed by occupying & oppressive forces? Mindblowing.
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saw ppl talking about sh0plifting ethics again pls if u live in the US don’t mess with small businesses. chains typically have a no direct engagement policy (they’ll just call the manager) but employees at local places can get punished if they don’t stop u. I’ve seen coworkers full on sprint after people and if they don’t think they can catch u they’ll call the police. it’s not safe for you or the employees: just don’t do it.
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Been thinking about Will’s painting lately
Been thinking about if he had never given it to him
If Mike had found it in the trash
If Mike would’ve read too far into it and thought it meant Will didn’t like dnd or the party or him anymore
If Mike would’ve confronted him
How would that go?
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Usamericans love talking abt China’s alleged uyghur slave labor like y’all are the genociders. Y’all are the ones who hate Muslims and use slave labor. Y’all are literally living in the state murdering Arabs and Muslims in Plstine. Me personally, when the state known for hating Muslims, benefiting from the exploitation of the masses, and lying about China is the only one making these claims and doesn’t have any solid evidence for it, I’m not gonna believe it. Esp when China has been actually making moves to stop Israel… y’all think CHINA is the genocide state? When will you stop falling for orientalist western anti communist propaganda guys PLEASE.
The UN said the genocide wasn’t happening. 2000 investigators, diplomats, journalists, doctors visited XinJiang and could find NO EVIDENCE OF REPRESSION OR GENOCIDE.. The US said the genocide wasn’t happening.. but suddenly the US changes its whole story to ‘slave labor, not genocide in XinJiang’ once the genocide story became completely unviable and totally rebuked, and YALL JUST BELIEVE IT. BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY CARE AND YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED INTO THIS. YOU ARE BEING PERFORMATIVE LOOKING SILLY ASF TELLING PEOPLE TO CARE ABT A GENOCIDE THAT UR GOVERNMENT HAS REPEATEDLY BEEN EXPOSED FOR MAKING UP 😭😭
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