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25. ideal date and/or ideal platonic date?

answered :)

28. what’s the most efficient way to befriend you? how would someone win you over platonically?

l’m not gonna lie, it boils down to talk to me. let me infodump. ask me questions. be respectful of my trauma stuff. don’t be a bigot. 

33. how long have you been identifying as arospec?

i think like 7 years?

34. your favorite ways to express platonic love? how do you show affection without seeming like you’re flirting?

if i tell you about things that i’m doing in my day or like, mess with you (puns, big Gay moods, weird questions), or just generally seem to gravitate around you, I definitely care for you. i don’t care about if i seem like i’m flirting too much at this point because i’ve been informed that i flirt regardless and honestly as long as it’s understood that i’m just like that i’m chill with it.

Ev is such a huge part of this community! so many of your favourite fics have been beta’d by Ev, and as someone that has benefitted from their amazing beta-reading skills many many times, i can promise you that there is no greater way to improve a wonderful story than to give it to a wonderful, wonderful editor. 

Ev works tirelessly on all the fics they beta, and thanks to their help, many stories see the light of day and are loved by us all. i know that without Ev, i likely wouldn’t have posted anything in much longer than i have, and they gave me so much more confidence in my writing.

they are so kind and so supportive to so many of us here. they’re also literally one of the sweetest people i’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. i count Ev among my closest friends and honestly, the amount of times i’ve been grateful for that day when they reached out to me to help me beta a fic is too high to count. <3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EV! THANK YOU FOR EXISTING 🎈🎉🎂

28. which one owns a pet that the other is absolutely terrified of?

Phil’s sitting at the breakfast bar when Dan gets home, hunched over something. A glass box, Dan realizes, from the transparent corners poking out past Phil’s shoulders. 

He hesitates at the top of the stairs. “What did you do?”

Phil looks over, smiling wide. “God us a pet,” he says. His voice is too high. 

Dan narrows his eyes. “What kind of pet?”

Phil shrugs. “Come and see.”

He swallows, lingering by the stairs for a moment longer. Phil’s toes are curled tight around the bar at the bottom of his stool, his shoulders draw up tight. There’s a box by his elbow that Dan recognizes. 

“Why do you have more crickets?”

Phil shrugs. “That’s what the pet store said to feed him.”

“What the fuck?”

He steps forward, finally, walking past the sofa and stopping right at the boundary where hardwood floor turns into kitchen tile. He can see more of the tank from here, the black edge and dirt piled up at the bottom. 

“I don’t trust you,” says Dan.

Phil turns, just his head. “You do,” he says, a hint of laughter in his voice. “We’re fish dads! I figured we could handle another pet. More Corgi prep.”

“Shibe,” says Dan automatically. And then, “Or whatever we can find up for adoption that we like.”

“Just come see,” says Phil. “You’ll like him.”

Dan sighs and drags himself the last few steps forward. He sees one long, hairy leg past Phil’s arm, and then another, and another, and— He jumps back. Phil reaches into the tank.

“Phil! What the actual fuck!”

The spider hits him right in the face, and lands on the floor with a quiet tap. Plastic.

“I fucking hate you,” says Dan, reaching down to swipe the spider off the floor. He tosses it at Phil’s head and watches it bounce off his shoulder. “No sweets for you for a month.”

Phil’s smile doesn’t fade. His tongue’s still poking out from between his teeth. “I got you!” 

What quote(s) do you live by?

You are braver than you believe. You are stronger than you seem. You are smarter than you think (A.A. Milne).

There’s bravery in being soft. 

There’s strength in being kind.

You will grow. It just takes time.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely (Ronald Dahl).

I am everything I am despite this thing constantly holding me back (Daniel Howell).

Finished, not perfect.

No rain, no flowers.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all (Mulan).

Even if you can’t change the world, you can change individuals (Daniel Howell).

Buzzcut Season - Lorde 

2 fav lines (i couldn’t pick just the one, it’s one of my fav songs of all time so): 

Rules: post a gif for your top 10 tv shows. No titles. Tag 10 people

Much like insectbah, I don’t really know what to pick, so this is gonna be a bit random.

I’m sorry, tagging is real hard. Please do this if you want to!

Edit: Immediately after I posted this I saw gifs of another fav so

Ants. I really like watching ants. Also cicadas - endless childhood memories of watching them on trees and checking on them and taking the shell once they’d molt. 

Read it HERE!

Summary: It feels silly to actually be glad about airline delays. It’s definitely silly for him to be thankful there was a blizzard, but Dan doesn’t have that many friends to begin with. There’s never been much opportunity for friendship in his line of work, so if latching onto the first person who has shown common interests with him is desperate, well maybe he doesn’t mind being desperate.

Thank you so much to @insectbah for their amazing beta work, and @yiffandquiff for the artwork that inspired this fic! 

Rated: General Audiences