You know you’re in for a glorious gay ride when the first intentional touch of the relationship is a solid “bro tap”
Bro tap (noun) : An excuse to touch. To firmly pat your crush’s arm in a very platonic “my buddy, my pal” fashion in order to hide that internally you are simping like the tragic queer you actually are.
EDIT: So when I made this post I had no idea there was an actual definition for “bro tap” Lmao.
My first plan (too ambitious) was to draw all the girls from all Osemanverse media. That didn’t work, so accept me humble Solitaire, Radio Silence, and I Was Born For This gals. I have to leave someone for next year, right? :)
a tiny yay for the first time I drew Raine digitally
i think its a shame to see everyone focus so much on charlies relapse out of all of the scenes in solitaire. i get that they love charlie, but its important for a whole other reason.
charlie's relapse is the event that triggers tori's spiral. it's the catalyst that has her paranoid, intrusive thoughts spiral into really strong delusions and obsessions, that has her depression switch into a mania. that relapse is where it really starts to go downhill.
i could talk forever about how tori is a parentified child, and the type that is never talked about. she isnt a victim of abuse or neglect, but became some sort of a third parent when charlie got sick. she feels entirely responsible for his relapse (which she says so after she blames nick. stop hating her so much for blaming nick), so much so that it causes such a mental health crisis in her that she almost dies. for gods sake, she lets herself get hit by a firework.
she exhibits signs of a manic episode, at the very least a psychotic episode, which leads to her almost jumping off a roof. charlie's relapse may be important, but it is just as important to tori's story as it is to his own.
and if i hear 'my phone rings. 1:39am' to radiohead one more time, i think i may cry. and not because the scene is sad.
Finch taught me that there's beauty in the most unexpected of places. And that there are bright places, even in dark times. And that if there isn't... you can be that bright place.
“Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.”