and then the universe as if to spite you specifically spawns someone who might just be uniquely capable of understanding—but that means he has to go through all the shit you went through, and you can't do anything about that, but you are the one who finds him when he has no allies left in the world, and you alone understand, and you want so badly to save him, and you want so badly to light his path forward in these darkest moments, and he. does he even realize?

and the years fly past and you love him, and he is just like you, and you stand by his side and guide him, even when it hurts (and it hurts, so much, sometimes). and soon you will tell him everything, and he will know that it has always been you, the whole time, because you and you only understand what he has been through—but not yet. soon.

and then—and then when you finally tell him, when he finally knows it all—he rejects you, says to your face that you don't know him when he is everything you've ever known, and over you, he chooses a man who is simply delusional in love for him, someone who can't even fathom what he's—what both of you have—done and had done to him; he chooses someone who loves him blindly and can only love him blindly, that crimson rain sought flower could never understand him the way you do, and he chooses ignorance instead—

Hey! Before you've even gotten the chance to get into the costume analysis of episode 10 i wanna talk about this shirt with you.

If you haven't seen Bad Buddy episode 10 stop reading now: spoilers below!

The text reads "Hier bin ich Mensch, hier kauf ich ein" which translates to "Here i am human, here i shop" (it sounds better in German, trust me)

This is a slogan for the grocery store DM. But the slogan refers to a famous quote by Johann Wolfgang Goethe "Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein" which translates to "Here i am human, here i can / am allowed to be one"

Now this quote stems from his tragedy Faust. In this scene Faust is on a walk and goes into a monologue about the beauty of nature and how he can only truly be himself there, where no one is around.

This could be foreshadowing for next episode, where we see Pat and Pran running away to the sea, to nature. They can only be truly human, true to themselves, in nature where no one who knows them is around.

Karometeenk!! This is amazing! Thank you so much for sending this to me. It took a while for me to reply/post because I didn't know whether to keep the info for my costume posts or to post this as is (or if I should wait until you had posted it since I didn't want to steal your thunder)...but I realise this information deserves to be seen and I know you've already added it to your original post (so if people want to see that then click the link) but now it'll reach more people (hopefully).

New Artwork by E. M. Supranowicz

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is a Jar, The Phoenix, and other journals. Edward is also a published poet. Artwork by Edward Michael…