friends to lovers never had a bad track. “scared i’ll ruin what we have” SLAPS. “friendship cuddles while secretly dying inside” BANGER. “teasing each other and holding eye contact for a little too long” KILLS ME. and don’t even get me STARTED on “screaming i love you in the middle of a heated argument.”
The chalk scene, I know it has been talked into the ground already, but I just want to talk about one aspect that has been on my mind. A great thing about this moment is that Yuki is also providing Machi with a good way to deal with her impulses. Before this, at the start of the episode and in previous moments, we’ve seen Machi totally destroy a whole box of chalk or a classroom.
But here, Yuki just breaks one piece of chalk in half, and it is enough for Machi to calm down. We some other examples of this as well. I saw another post pointing out how Yuki “Machi-ified” her room for her (he didn’t fix the broken window, just put some tape over it, he put her books in an disorganized - organized fashion, etc.). So, by doing small things like this, Yuki provides Machi with examples of how she can manage her impulses without having to go to the extreme of totally destroying something. That way, she can manage her impluses on her own, without Yuki *needing* to be there to help her. Because of little things like this, Machi can now help herself.
I just love that. <3
April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn’t talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this.
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
hey (with the intention of playing with your fingers)
if we were lovers i would write you the sweetest had written notes, my tender words written in cursive with my favorite pen, you feel my longing and endearment through the ink on the paper, essential oils and perfume on the paper so you remember my scent, a tea bag from my favorite tea, some pressed flowers on the inside on the envelope, the envelope sealed with a kiss before being shipped off to you, my darling
Passed down like folk songs
our love lasts so long
<3
brushing hands with them while we walk is so painful. the urge to hold their hand and pull them closer is downright overwhelming
“People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?”
— Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (via mythologyofblue)
The first day we met, I drew a fish and an eye on his whiteboard. The second time we met, he told me he kept them. It has been half a year, and the fish and the eye are still there. To me, love looks like a fish and an eye.
-my poem
Chloe realizing from Georgia and Summer that religion and queerness aren’t mutually exclusive and that queer people can be religious means so much to me
“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
-Sappho