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IKEA for Beginners

by brilligspoons (AO3)

Pairing: Derek Hale x Stiles Stilinski

Oneshot

Word count: 1.7k

Rating: General Audiences

Summary: The pack takes a trip to IKEA. Stiles slowly loses his mind.

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17: Talk about someone you want to be friends with. 

Oh god. I want to be friends with SO MANY PEOPLE. And like, attainable people too. Tumblr mutuals who are really cool and do good art things who I just never actually talk to even when I see them at cons because I’m an awkward pony or whatever. 

But on a slightly less attainable note, Jake Roper from Vsauce3 seems hella rad. Just a cool, kind dude who has lots of varied interests and a passion for creating things and that is exactly the type of person I like to befriend. Hey Jake, let’s be best friends. I will write you things. Call me. 

5: Which book did you last re-read?

I think it was Aristotle and Dante, where the value of ‘re-read’ is actually ‘break down and buy the audio so I can listen to LMM read it.’ But I count audio books as reading anyway, so! Spoilers: I really like LMM’s narration and I’m still incredibly taken with

Dante had this look on his face. He looked like an angel. And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn’t stand my own cruelty.

I know that feel, bro.

26: If you could be a character from a book for their entire life who would you be and why?

Oh, I don’t know. Yvaine from Stardust maybe? Because she had so much life up there in the sky before falling to earth, and then there was just enough harrowing adventure to get that out of my system before marrying Charlie Cox. 

Or Carol Danvers. I’d be Carol Danvers in a heartbeat. 

35: Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated

Hm...a second one. I think my perception of how things are rated is pretty skewed. I keep thinking of things that are actually rated really well, but that just don’t crop up in my circles. Like, Snow Crash is a deeply ridiculous book, but I’m pretty sure it’s on a lot of lists and things outside of my awareness. That’s probably how it came to my attention to begin with. 

<33 I wish that I could give you the word survivor to highlight all the things you HAVE survived, (even with the knowledge there will always be people out there who have survived worse). I'm sorry this week is so awful and that people are often so awful, but bourbon and I are here anytime overusing the word "fuck" can make things suck a little less.

You and bourbon are the best and there is very little that can’t be made more palatable by overuse of the word ‘fuck’. These are just the facts. ♥

getawaymachine replied to your post “Hey, you remember this asshole from the train three and a half months...”

<3333 ::hugs::

*smish*

suddenly-the-consequences replied to your post “Hey, you remember this asshole from the train three and a half months...”

Can relate to a lot of this so much it hurts (and isn't it ridiculous how it is somehow felt more keenly when it is someone elses fear & hurt and not your own, as though there is a monopoly on pain) and hope that asshole fucks off & you can manage to be kind to yourself today, at least for a little bit. Cause you do deserve kindness and love, even if it doesn't feel that way.

It is ridiculous. And it’s always the way. Any time I talk about anything tough and someone says ‘I know how this feels’ or ‘oh me too’ my heart breaks a little. I don’t want other people to feel this way. I want other people to be happy and safe and never able to understand this, but you do, so all we can do is stand together. I’ll be here for you and all these things we share and also the other, good things we might not. Deal? Deal. ♥

brilligspoons replied to your post “Hey, you remember this asshole from the train three and a half months...”

<3333333333

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

cleopatriia replied to your post “Hey, you remember this asshole from the train three and a half months...”

thank you for sharing, honestly. there is some of this that I relate to and it's super shitty and i'm so sorry you'e had to experience this. fuck that guy honestly and I hope you don't have to ever encounter him again.

Babe, ♥♥. I also hope I never encounter him again. HE’S gonna hope I never encounter him again, because I am 100% determined to take a picture of him, even if I can’t do anything but tweet out an alert to the greater Boston area about him. But also I kind of want to call the cops with it and see if he has a record I should be legit afraid of. I don’t even know if they could tell me that information, but I feel like SOMEONE should know this guy is out there serial harassing women and that it might escalate. 

thecosmonaut replied to your post “Hey, you remember this asshole from the train three and a half months...”

This hit really close to home, and I am so deeply sorry that you have to deal with this. I didn't even know about the original post but I would have been just as afraid, just as shaken. Thank you writing this down. Thank you for using your unique voice to bring to light just how deeply the mind can feel it deserves to suffer when that's all it's ever known, and how that can shape your entire life.

Minds, right? Has this shaped my entire life? Yeah, I guess it has, though thinking about it that way is overwhelming. 

I don’t want to feel this way. I don’t want to doubt my friendships and relationships. Many of my local friends literally asked me to move here. They tell me all the time that they’re glad I’m here. And still in my head I have to expend a lot of effort to not fall into the familiar mindset of thinking that it’s all a joke or a long con, that I’m going to get the better of me and eventually they’ll realize I’m not worth knowing or too annoying to hang out with or too needy to be friends, that I don’t give anything back to them, that I’m selfish and mean and they’ll be better off without me. And some of these things are the product of many years of conditioning by many different people, and some of them are just the plain old self doubts and low self-esteem that have always been there, that gave those other people the in to begin with. 

What did that post say the other day? I am, as the poets say, a mess. But I’m a public mess. A mess who wants to fix myself and who will just yammer on about all of this so other people know they’re not alone and so I know I’m not alone. You and me, we can get through this. We can be radder than ever. Just, deep breaths until then, I guess. 

zeegoesthere replied to your post “Hey, you remember this asshole from the train three and a half months...”

I hadn't ever seen the original post about that asshole and I'm so fucking livid on your behalf. Also livid at your rapist and your father and all men really, of course. I don't know what to say other than that I'm furious for you right now, but. I'm here and I find your thoughts and tour voice incredibly valuable and you do not deserve to be afraid.

1) Favorite overall song?

“Wait for It,” definitely. It is SO hard to really choose, because every song is SO GREAT, but I will literally listen to that one for hours. It speaks to me.

17) First song you heard?

“Alexander Hamilton” on the White House video years ago, and then “Alexander Hamilton” again when the cast recording was put up on NPR and I listened to it straight through several times XD

20) Favorite Act II song?

GOSH THIS IS REALLY HARD. um. I think it’s a tie between “Washington on Your Side” and “Your Obedient Servant.” And “One Last Time.” And “What’d I Miss?”

And I absolutely can’t narrow it down any more.

(And “Burn” and “Hurricane.”)

(And now I’m really done.)

(Probably.)