#hoooooo

10/27/24 i forgot to post this oops, I imagine a lot of sleepless nights and snotty T-shirts with these two 😔💔

unintentional but calling it a companion piece to the one I did back in march because

Ryland is conflicted on one hand thats the voice he uses to teach his students and the other they way Colt looks at him, eyes wide desperate to be a good boy

-🦋anon

you can’t just say this to me and expect me to feel normal about it

i loooove the Teacher Voice. i feel like ryland does it accidentally, he just kind of instinctually slips into it. and it isn’t until colt’s staring at him with wide, attentive eyes that he even realizes what happened

he doesn’t quite get why it has such an effect on colt, but he makes note of it for later. it’s the quickest way to get colt to listen to him, especially when it’s paired with a request or command (ie, “hand me that” or “stand here, please”). every time, colt snaps to attention and obeys

god forbid ryland is chiding colt with that voice… colt doesn’t know whether to be more chastised or turned on, but it’s usually both

ryland also totally slips into Teacher Voice when rambling about something sciency that colt doesn’t really understand and it gets him to pay attention so fast

it all comes to a head when ryland finally confronts colt about it and it goes something like this:

ryland: do you like when i talk to you like i talk to my students?

colt, freezing: uh.

ryland, Teacher Voice activated: do you, colt?

colt: Yes.

ryland: okay, interesting. why?

colt, sweating: it’s……… hot.

ryland: it’s hot? how so?

colt, steadily turning red: can you stop. it’s— i’m. going to pass out.

ryland, intrigued and amused and getting some Ideas: sure. but we’re revisiting this.

i read this as frank ocean nation and saluted

fuckboy hot shot pining for a hot dweeb era is so..... you're on to something fr anon. the way frank is potent romantic about a bed where the sheet is creeping up and baring raw mattress in one corner, aroma of axe body spray bro and hitting a cashed bowl. pink matter him thinking he's having an epiphany at four in the morning but actually it's just a nosebleed. sweet life the closest he comes to acknowledging the shit he's not acknowledging. it's making me emotional about all the intention that went to making the place in boston appear to be an adult's home before shane comes over the first time :,)

hoo hoo