extremely underrated Franziska quote

is this anything

[+ bonus awkward Sam]

Sasaki is SUCH an incorrigible flirt. The man is a menace to society he needs to be stopped

Miyano is a stronger man than me because I would have simply passed away

THE WAY HE LOOKS AT HIM

I would not survive being the subject of Sasaki Shuumei’s affection

How does Miyano not combust

How can you not melt away at the sight of that gorgeous face

He really has a way of making the smallest gestures seem momentous

Miyano is the strongest of us all

i'd sell my left big toe to be able to watch the juno steel story as an animated show but specifically in the style of cowboy bebop

It's that time again where I over think block men. In this edition of the God forsaken desert duo I'll be over thinking the flowers.

In 3rd life we all know Scar gave Grian those god damn poppies and lilacs and now in Secret life Grian has given Scar god damn sunflowers. Poppies in the sacred language of flowers mean death or rather could mean sleep, peace, death, and or remembrance and as for lilacs, specifically purple lilacs, they mean the first emotions of love and or simply first love. With a simple gesture Scar changed their partnership forever. It was a red name looking a green name in the eyes and confessing something he could never say out loud in a death game without even realizing it. It was an acknowledgment of a weakness and where that weakness would lead them one day. In a death game death is unavoidable but he hoped that when his death came Grian could keep going. Never once thinking that those flowers would foreshadow the way their partnership would end. Never once thinking that his future killer was staring right back at him with a worried smile on his face. Now in Secret life it is Grian who gives Scar the flowers but this time they're sunflowers, do you know what sunflowers mean in flower language? Well let me tell you what they mean. They , in the sacred language of the flowers, mean a long life and lasting happiness and or could mean loyalty and adoration. Watching back the video you can clearly see these flowers weren't given to Scar in some big meaningful gesture like Scar had done all those life times ago. In fact they were given to Scar as if those flowers were garbage because to Grian that's what they were and yet Scar still takes them and makes it his entire thing if those namemc spoilers are anything to go off of. It isn't a promise. It isn't a confession. It's simply a flower. And yet and yet not. It's everything. It's nothing. It's two green names looking at each other with smiles on their faces. It's a new foreshadowing that I'm hoping comes to pass. It's a cactus deal in the middle of a field. And do you want to know what a cactus represents? It represents endurance, courage and power in the face of adversity. It represents two souls that finally understand. It represents Grian finally leaving that god damn ring.

What was Abrams favorite thing that Andrew gave him during his courting attempts?

Okay I’ve been sitting on this one because I was trying to give it my best answer and like. I still don’t know lol

I know that people in the replies and tags are going to have incredible answers as well so I want this to be more of a “here’s a collection of things he likes the most” and I get to start so here’s my take:

It’s a book. I hear your valid confusion but LISTEN. In the stretch before Abram finally realizes what’s been going on with the gifts/etc, Andrew gives Abram a book - could be poetry, could be a romance story, idk - with a ribbon just barely peeking out of one page. Abram, obviously, doesn’t think much of it and he’s never been big on reading (I don’t know why I never have Neil liking to read lol is that canon) so he keeps the book on his dresser or something like “I’ll get around to it if he insists”

And then after Abram actually, clearly says he can accept Andrew’s advances, Andrew remembers about it and realizes Abram must not have ever opened the book because he would have figured this all out before now if he had

He asks him about it, if he ever read it, and Abram’s like “…no”

So Andrew tells him to. Later, when Abram’s back in his room, he picks up the book and checks out the first page, and it’s something pretty obviously unimportant or unrelated. And the next page. Eventually he thinks to check the ribbon; he flips to the pages and somewhere on them a quote is underlined in steady deep blue ink:

My glances through the eyes of friendship grow more brief by the day. You remain in the kindest, softest embrace of my heart, but now I find myself watching, hopeful, and friends do not look at friends the way I sometimes look at you.

Stunned, in a word.

But this is something he can figure out. This isn’t flowers - they’re lovely but die so quickly, and Abram doesn’t know the language of them or which ones Andrew would like. It isn’t meals shared, because that’s too common by now. It isn’t direct words or actions of affection because those are far too awkward for someone with so little experience with them. But Abram looks at this book, sees exactly what to do with it, and he knows certainly that this is a way the prince wouldn’t mind communicating because he was the first to do it. Abram doesn’t even have to be around when Andrew reads it.

So Abram spends the next several days scanning the book when he has time, finding many quotes he could perhaps imagine returning, finding a few he keeps marked just in case. Then he finds one that he doesn’t even bother marking with a scrap paper, he immediately picks up his pen and underlines it.

I look at the moon and she has your face: the brightest thing in my sky, the most beautiful, and so, so far away.

(And @jtl-fics had the sweetest idea of Abram pressing and keeping the flowers from the bouquet Andrew gets him in this post; and that he uses some to make bookmarks probably because he knows how much the prince likes books. He would definitely use one of those bookmarks to mark the page he underlined rather than the scrap ribbon 🥰)

Anyway the next time Abram sees the prince he wordlessly hands him back the book. Andrew sees the new mark but doesn’t try to open it yet (which relieves Abram more than he’ll admit), just keeping it under his arm until he has somewhere to put it. But it doesn’t take him near as long to find another quote, since he tends to get distracted reading the context or surrounding passages; he underlines the very next sentence and gets the book back to Abram the next morning. Understanding the risk of Abram’s misunderstanding and completely willing to explain himself in plain terms when Abram asks. Still with the pressed flower bookmark.

To have you near enough to touch should surely destroy me.

When Abram opens it later he first sees that the pages look very familiar - those passages look very familiar - that quote is certainly familiar. And he gets very worried very quickly. Maybe Andrew didn’t like that one, maybe Abram had chosen wrong and he didn’t know how to do this as well as he’d thought. But he doesn’t close it fast enough not to finally, mercifully read on and realize that some of the ink on the page is not his own black ink. After it, dark enough to almost be black in the wrong light, is Andrew’s dark blue.

But after reading Andrew’s quote he does in fact close the book quickly, sitting back and just staring, mostly because he’d surprised himself; he won’t know Andrew’s intention for certain until he asks, but this time - likely for the first time - Abram looks at the word destroy and doesn’t immediately think of the harm he’s done. (Andrew’s new, unfamiliar way with words had to work it’s way into Abram’s understanding eventually.)

They go on as long as there’s still quotes they like in the book, and only once does Andrew get frustrated that Abram stole one of his before he could get around to using it.

Anyway thank you for the sweet ask, here’s a quick sketch of Andrew reading to Abram in the library

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Imagine having a crush on a dude that can hear how fast ur heart is beating

Imagine

Dancing the bachata with Miguel in his “office”…

what if ash kisses orym’s forehead back and says “I hope that makes you feel a little less lonely”

If Bradley James ever got veneers I think I would kill myself

On the one hand, they should have given Astrid visible muscles but on the other, i don't think hiccup and i could handle that

Gorgug is heading for the fastest burnout I swear

Can you imagine being Randall and seeing your best friend for the first time in 18 years? He has become an archaeology teacher and is renowned for his puzzle-solving skills when he used to say that these topics didn't interest him before your disappearance. Now, he made your passions inherent parts of his life and he is using your sayings as mantras. Like, I would simply: