Can We Just Take A Moment To Appreciate That Conan Gray Is Really Out Here Writing Music About Having

Is there really anything else we need besides music and friends?

Passed down like folk songs

our love lasts so long

<3

the holy trinity of the pieces with intimacy that make me feel more alive -

salman toor / holly warburton

u don’t understand i have to bite u

Bro Little League and Astronomy should not hurt me the way it does like it’s so good but I’m like man it’s 4 am I can’t take this rn

#fuck I want this with my girlfriend

Let’s go on a date to the art museum and draw pictures of each other imitating a great artist’s style. At the end of the day, let’s go home and slow dance to our favourite music before cuddling on the couch and falling asleep

The feminine urge to hold a girl's hand.

Everyday I am so fucking grateful that I have the kind of friend group I got to see in I Kissed Shara Wheeler. I live in an area that’s been growing but still relatively small where the only religion is Christianity. For years it was so isolating that I hadn’t even bothered to consider finding out what was different about me. I just kept trying to shove myself into the mold that everyone wanted me to. And then in 7th grade my closest friend came out to me as bi. And when I told her I might be questioning she sent me video after video and patiently explained what each label meant and I found something that clicked. And then another friend came out. And another. And another. And our labels have changed for some of us and plenty of people are still unlabeled but I stumbled into my own little queer friend group and somehow found more. And I found teachers like Mr. Truman. I’ve met and befriended people so similar to Georgia, and Benjy, and Shara, and Rory, and Ash, and Smith, and Ace, and Summer, and am unendingly grateful to all of them. They’re the kind of people you don’t even realize you need until they’re in your life and you’ve nearly forgotten what it was like without them and couldn’t imagine letting them go. To see those friendships and those people in IKSW that was so very close to my situation (though I’m probably more of a Shara than a Chloe. Someone please find me my Chloe) was so wonderful and seeing the queer friendships and queer joy Casey McQuiston includes in all their books is something I will forever love them for because it’s not only shown me what I want but what I already have and I’ve come to appreciate those relationships so much more than I already do seeing them mirrored in a book I love so much.

I crave warmth everywhere. In the morning sun or in sunsets or in music, art, places, just warm energy. When people recommend you songs or movies or tell you how much you mean to them, when people say I love you out of the blue, or a smile from random strangers, people going on walks with you or a picnic date with friends, when somebody talks about the person they love or the times when you are laughing uncontrollably with a group of people you love, I crave that warmth.

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