I don’t know if there really is any science behind workout routines separated by sex, but even if there is benefit to doing exercise “for women” i don’t give a shit. and i will intentionally seek out guides made For Men. because by and large, this is how the different video thumbnails shake out

Continuing the Eddie Munson TikTok Saga:

Someone asked Eddie what the most metal thing he’s ever seen was and he said it was when Steve bit the head off a bat, Ozzy Osborne-style. And Eddie, who shares way too much, is like, “If we weren’t about to die, I would’ve taken that man and been his bi-awakening so much sooner.”

In the background, you can hear Steve snort and say, “You were not my bi awakening, babe.”

Followed by the loudest “WHAT!” you’ve ever heard and Steve says his bi awakening was a guy at the mall. Eddie is just, “THE RUSSIANS?!” Then the video cuts off.

There’s a follow up video where Eddie says he’s getting a divorce because his husband has been lying to him for 1986. You can hear Steve in the background laughing his ass off, saying, “You told me I was your gay awakening, Eds, what was I supposed to say!”

“The truth, Steven!”

Steve’s still laughing but you can hear him get up and then he comes into frame to kiss Eddie on the cheek, “You were my bi acceptance, rockstar.”

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Luke Sleeping - April 21 2024

Here we see the challenging “inverted squirrel” pose.

I love HIUH and think about it often. Today I was thinking about Laurent and his experience with his own court-mandated therapy along with some of your recent tumblr comments.

Did he want to start therapy back when he did? I assume that if it was court-mandated it was a condition of him getting custody of Nicaise. Did he want to go on medication or did he resist? What would cause Paschal to recommend it? Damen mentioned early on in the story some fighting between Laurent and Nicaise when he first started living with them, so maybe that was it and it was worse than Damen and his rose-tinted glasses remembers.

I always assumed Laurent would be very pro-therapy (for Nicaise's well being and when he learned that Damen went too) but does he think the same thing for himself -- especially since you noted that this Laurent is very self-hating and was basically ok with being a target of Damen's unintended toxic masculinity. He also seemed to take the brunt of Agnes' well-meaning advise to him about him separating his life from Nicaise's and that ended up with Damen mad at him for not noticing what was happening.

It's all so interesting and I'd love to hear more if you can/want to share. Thank you!

hi!!!!!!!! i love these questions.

Did he want to start therapy back when he did? I assume that if it was court-mandated it was a condition of him getting custody of Nicaise.

no, he didn't want to do it, but at the same time I think of laurent as a very rational person, and so it would be hard for him to objectively say "I'm fine and don't need any kind of help" when he lost his entire family and was emotionally and sexually abused for years. it's my headcanon that he went into it thinking "I'll attend the required 20-something sessions and then I'm done", but he ended up liking paschal and also realizing he really needed the outlet (let's face it, he was NOT going to be talking to damen about any of that)

Did he want to go on medication or did he resist? What would cause Paschal to recommend it? Damen mentioned early on in the story some fighting between Laurent and Nicaise when he first started living with them, so maybe that was it and it was worse than Damen and his rose-tinted glasses remembers.

there are a few mentions in the story about how negatively laurent thinks and feels about his mother. it's implied she also struggled with mental health issues and ended up needing some kind of treatment (meds, inpatient, etc.), which laurent doesn't seem very supportive of. it's my personal opinion that laurent doesn't want to end up like her, doesn't want to relate to her in that way, and he's already at a disadvantage because he was institutionalized as a teen. so . . . yes, I think he REALLY resisted going on meds.

as to why paschal recommended it . . . we don't see this in canon because the story ends in KR and that's it for them, basically, but I imagine that once things have settled, laurent abandons his hypervigilant state and in the new calm that follows is forced to deal with all the emotional things he did not have the time, space, comfort to do deal with before. which means actually FEELING your feelings. which means . . . going a bit insane. i did a lot of trimming when it comes to the flashbacks, but there was one I sort of regret taking out because it showed laurent right before going on meds. he's in and out all the time, in public and when he's alone, and damen doesn't really notice how bad it is until they're having a conversation that borders on suicidal ideation.

“Disappear,” Damen said. “Like a vacation?” Laurent stopped scrubbing his hands. “No.” “The school year doesn’t end for another three months.” “The school year?” Damen frowned then, because— “Unless you don’t want to take Nicaise?” “Nicaise,” Laurent said, like he was hearing the name for the first time. He went back to scrubbing.

it's also mentioned in the fic that laurent has trouble sleeping. so, it's a nice combo of years of pent-up shame and self-hatred, anxiety and stress over the new responsibility of raising a kid, guilt over what happened to said kid, a baseline of depression, issues with your partner because you don't know how to be vulnerable and he's a bit too oblivious sometimes . . . yeah. laurent and nicaise's arguments def pushed laurent over the edge, too, because back then nicaise was still pretty much team uncle, which in turn brought up a lot of trauma for laurent since they're mirror characters in the fic.

i loved this ask!!! thank you for reading the story and reaching out!! i hope this reply was worth your time.

Dustin live-streams his experiments on his Twitch Channel before editing the videos to post to YouTube. He always starts the stream during his set up for the experiment for anybody who is interested.

With this particular experiment, he needed volunteers. He ended up with Will and Eddie. Steve’s around but the experiment would be triggering to his migraines so he’s just helping.

Dustin runs off to get a piece of equipment that he’s missing and reminds everybody that the stream is on, but no one is listening to him because they’re having their own conversation.

So, you can hear Will say, “You wrestle with him? Like, WWE?”

Eddie: No, not- I’m not dropkicking him. We’re just - tussling. Get ‘em on the floor and pin him down. He’s into it. Dude popped a boner when your brother beat his ass.”

Steve, at a distance: Hey! I told you that in confidence. Don’t tell people!

Eddie, looking at the camera like it just registered that Dustin said they were streaming: Won’t say it again, sweetheart.

taemin accidentally causing two existential crises