pressure and comfort — kita shinsuke x reader

the grip you have on your pen is getting tighter and together by the minute, and you can feel the pressure weighing you down— one wrong move on the paper and it’s the wrong answer. the back of your eyes are getting hot, and the paper blurs before your sight. this is… stressful.

a warm hand closes over yours, and you’re eased back to reality; looking up from the paper, you see kita’s eyes, brown like the bark of hazelwood trees, calm and reassuring.

it’s okay. it’s not the looming shadow of your parents or teachers looking down on you as you try to complete your exam, try to solve another question while wallowing in the lonely regrets of why you had let yourself spiral so far down into the depths of cluelessness.

“would you like me to help you with this?” he has a soft voice, like a warm gail that drifts across the ombre tones of autumn.

that’s right. kita shinsuke’s here to tutor you, and there’s no judgement or contempt behind those eyes. his fingers lightly rub your hand, the calming sensation lightening the heaviness in your eyes, the paper going back into focus.

“mn,” you respond, unable to muster anything else. you’re tired, exhausted even. it’s been a bad day, and having to study a topic that you’re so lost on alone was a daunting task.

but kita’s here. he’s here to help.

♡

Musical Theatre Song Contest: Round One D

Submitter’s propaganda under the cut

When the Going Gets Tough

its one of the fastest raps on broadway

i know it's SpongeBob but it's a BOP, and also the harmonies are good and like. the instrumentals are good and when it gets to the chorus you KNOW stuff is happening and going on and oh my god they have to leave there's a volcano they're all gonna die. Top tier villain song in my opinion.

Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)

Perfect comedy song for the trash talkers of the world who let their competitiveness get ahead of them. Enemies to lovers.

Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis]; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) was a Greek and Argentine business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men.

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Info credits to Wikipedia

Music Cafe De Anatolia

Video taken by me

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When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean - 1986

Four senryu

Happy to see my four senryu make it to MacQueen’s Quinterly! Many thanks to the editor Clare MacQueen! [Four Senryu] January storm my neighbor’s greenhouse flying past ::: Monday blues...last week’s special offer no longer special ::: overcast day the muted colors of hope ::: when the going gets tough the feel of your hand in mine *

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When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going Provided to YouTube by SONY BMG Catalog When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going · Billy Ocean Ultimate 80's Number 1's ℗ 1986 Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited Released on: 2006-06-03 Composer, Lyricist: Barry Eastmond Composer, Lyricist, Producer: Wayne Brathwaite Producer: Barry J. Eastmond Mixing Engineer: Nigel Green Composer, Lyricist: Robert John "Mutt" Lange Auto-generated by YouTube. via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzOmcr5Y224

He has little interest in fair weather; he is my foul-weather friend.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

do the things that lovers do!!!!!!!!! me and my soulmate whom I met years ago????? its more likely than you think

I love how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse said “Anyone can be Spider-Man”. I love how it inspired everyone to imagine their own Spider-People, saving the day in their own universes, with all kinds of cool, interesting personalities and aesthetics and mutations and life stories and relationships. We all put pieces of our soul into these homemade heroes. We had fun. We found community. And then Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse said, “Wow, great job! You’ve really taken our message to heart. Well, get ready for even more of everything you liked from the first movie and a new message to complement the first. Anyone can be Spider-Man… and anyone can be pulled into a cult.”

So now we all have to contemplate whether our lovingly crafted heroes would ever be on Team Mandatory Trauma Because Martyr Complex or not and why.

Nadja in the spotlight <3

This week required some self-indulgent art, so here's an old sketch from the met gala all painted up.

travis really is so good at mitigating player panic during stressful fights. taliesin is freaking out while trying to find his revivify info? "Let's slow it down. No rush. This combat is brought to you by?" gently prompting sam to do his ad spot while tal finds what he needs so people's attentions won't be on him, making him panic more

☝️ guy who needs to arrange to up his antidepressant dosage and/or request assessment for bipolar disorder next time he speaks to his gp

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