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We get Pran applying the ointment first to himself

then we get Pat applying it for him but it’s still angsty because Pran is pining (as is Pat, though he hasn’t yet understood his feelings for Pran)

and then we get the payoff/resolution with one of Pran’s flashback reminiscing scenes when Wai was describing the tale of Kwan and Riam

plus a bonus of Pran applying it to Pat

same narrative structure for the face wiping

Pat pulling Pran under his shirt

Pran feeding Pat, the tension of which is thankfully resolved within the same episode 😄

the tin can telephone conversations 😭

them, continuously revisiting and building on memories to create new, more fulfilled ones

the first interruption scene leading them to hastily vault out of their position is resolved with two interruption scenes where they kiss before answering the door

and the steady journey over time of Pran trying to keep Pat out of his room because Pat being in his space is too much of what he desperately wants but is forbidden to enjoy, to Pran slowly but surely letting Pat into his room (the heart wrenching final scene of episode 4 is resolved by all the times thereafter where they sleep together in Pran’s bed, and eventually other beds) until Pran reaches the point where he’s completely comfortable having Pat in his room

ALSO PAT AND PRAN INTRODUCING EACH OTHER IN THE FIRST AND FINAL EPISODES

Here’s a rock I’ve been dying to talk about! This little guy is orthoclase feldspar! You might be familiar with the feldspar family, as it contains gemstones such as sunstone, moonstone, labradorite, and amazonite. What’s really, really interesting about this piece of feldspar is its shape. This cool formation is called a Carlsbad Twin. Let me tell you about it!

Feldspar crystals often form as flat-topped, six-sided prisms which are strongly skewed sideways. Here’s an example of another feldspar in my collection, amazonite, which shows off this crystal habit really clearly!

The two crystals in my piece of orthoclase are making that common feldspar shape! But you’ve probably also noticed how they appear to be mirror images of each other, and also growing through each other.

That’s Carlsbad twinning!! It’s a type of penetration twinning, which means the crystals appear to be penetrating or passing through each other. But looks can be deceiving; what's ACTUALLY happening here is much cooler. These crystals are conjoined twins! One hasn’t penetrated the other; they’re actually sharing some of their molecules like human conjoined twins might share organs.

This can happen because of the shape of feldspar’s crystal lattice - the orderly arrangement of its molecules.

The crystal lattice won't match up perfectly throughout the entire structure, but it WILL match up right along the C axis, where we flipped it. Along this line the grid of molecules matches up, and our twin crystals can share them. The place where lattice points are shared is called the composition surface.

Simply put, molecules don’t know what shape they’re making on a macro level. The shapes they make are by complete accident, because that just happens to be what shape you get when you arrange molecules in that kind of grid. The only thing the molecules know is how they can connect to other molecules. It doesn’t matter to them which direction the crystal is growing in, or which direction the crystal lattice is facing. If they can connect up in a way that completely flips the crystal lattice, well... they don't know they're doing that! They're just doing what molecules do!

And that’s how you get Carlsbad Twins!

Mama Bear and cub use pool

It’s by Matthew Inman, and you can find the original comic at his blog, “The Oatmeal”, and I’m posting it below as well.