strange and off-putting

Cobra Kai x Capcom’s Street Fighter (1987): Select Your Fighter

"i like your hair"

Beth knows. 

She’s totally, 100% aware that she’s sharp. It’s not her fault, and she’s right about that, but damn it gets grating. 

She’s exhausted. She’s happy but she’s exhausted. 

The planed had barely landed, getting her back into America from Moscow. She’s so happy but something in her chest just hurts. 

This was somehow the best and worst she’d ever felt, and there wasn’t much she could do about it. 

They showed up for her. They’d showed up when she needed her, he did too. 

*

He thinks about chess even more than she does.

Beth hadn’t thought such a thing was possible. Nothing has ever made her not think of chess, at least not until the first time she and Benny… Made love sounds too flowery for what she does with Benny, not least because she doesn’t love him. She’s not even comfortable calling it “fucking” in her head, let alone out loud. Had sex, then.

(Though really, why have sex? Why not made sex like you made love, or did sex, or some other verb? With Benny, it’s always so compulsive, so irresistible, so intense – it feels more like sex is having her than the other way around.)

* 

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, ‘I can kick your butt!’ So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

beth and benny x

against my ruins by poetdameron

What should’ve been a fun weekend turned out to be a nightmare and Robby had theory.

A stupid one. That they were in a movie.

Miguel knew that they were not gonna make it.