Contextually Unprepared

“Did you know? They’re building a 7-Eleven where your house was. They tore it down? How long ago? It’s about to open. So quick how they demolished the house and built the store. What about the rose apple tree next door? Is it still there? That tree died before they even dore the house down. Bud do you remember when we climbed that tree as kids? I fell, and it hurt like hell. My mom scolded me for a whole week. You seem a lot quieter now, Tanrak. Really? Yeah. More grown-up.” — GLUM by HAYLEY WILLIAMS

Lestat could have said, "Put your coffin on a boat. Go to Paris. There's a beautiful coven there, I know cos I fucking founded it." But he said the vampires out there are vicious. And then I met the mοthеrfսckеr, and, yeah, Lestat was right. It was better when he broke my bones, crammed me under the floorboards. I fought him, kicked him, clawed him, bit him. That was fine. It was when he had me pinned, and he'd tell me he loved me. Before, during, and after. Before, during, after. That fսckеd me up. One day he said, "Had enough of your gloomy face." Drove off on a motorbike. Thought I might as well go home, get Louis, head to Europe.

Do you know, P'Le? Ever since that day, my world has never been the same again.

"This time, can we make it until we get married like them?"

Girl Rules (2026) dir. Jojo Tichakorn Phukhaotong Episode 12

I don't know what I need. Maybe a new brain in my head. Why can't I tell him this? I suppose I'm afraid my joylessness will take away his happiness and maybe I don't want his feelings to depend on mine anymore. Maybe I want to be joyfully joyless. A forever switch of wild opposites at play.

We did meet. Nineteen years ago. I was 8, you were 9. Outside the temple. The Wong boys were taunting me about my parents’ divorce. You beat the crap out of them. You were wearing a Kristy McNichol t-shirt, tan cords and a pageboy. You spilled your mom’s groceries. We scooped them into a bag. And then I kissed you…on the nose. And you ran.

Thank you for being by my side again.

You remember. I remember everything about you.