the story will keep on going

It is snowing.

There is a beautiful man.

He is wearing fur.

He is thinking of another beautiful man.

He is crying.

I will not be posting the sickos gif again I will not be posting the sickos gif again I will not…

Amazing. And the way her brain does a record scratch at his explanation.

I caaaan't!

Mother, father, when your son was on the brink of death, she saved me. When your son's heart had gone cold, she taught it to love again. Your son had been on the battlefield for more than ten years without the will to live. Until your son met her. She showed me life was worth living.

When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'

"Hey, what month is it?"

Stumbling into a diner and asking "What town is this" isn't weird, the workers will think you're on a road trip

If you ask them "Where's the nearest Nano Deck?" they'll assume it's a shop they've never heard of and say "Sorry, I don't know where any of those are"

Going into a store and telling a cashier "I need pods for my comm device" will just get you a "Never heard of those, maybe try Radio Shack?"

special request from anony <3

contestant: mu qingyan

because supposedly there's someone out there that needs this

con: spent the first several weeks of your acquaintance lying to you about basically everything

pro: makes your favorite wontons!

con: seems to have fallen in love with you after (because?) you held a knife to his throat

con: disturbingly good at killing people

pro: ...makes your favorite wontons?

con: leverages your past trauma and pretends that he's imminently dying in order to keep you from leaving him

pro: eager and willing to put his body on the line to keep you safe

con: possibly at least a little suicidal

con: kind of fuzzy on the whole concept of consent

con: set up an elaborate scheme including drugs and paid actors to break up your engagement to another guy

con: threatens to kill your friends and family unless you stay with him

con: takes you stabbing him as a declaration of your love

con: can't even propose marriage without an adjacent scheme

pro: the wontons. they're really good.

verdict: be so fucking for real 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

I am going to fucking die.

The end

Bonus:

The imagery and vibes of this were so visceral I had to do art about it

(Grayscale version under cut)