#ty!!!!!!!!!

OMG DID THEY REALLY...i had no idea but im gonna go look up what it is when im done with this. sending u much love i hope u can feel better soon btw <3

ryoji's perfume would be: moonflowers (including a datura accord), night-blooming jasmine, earthy & unsweetened green tea powder, marine air, a backdrop of incense smoke, and a single note of cashmere.

the softness of flowers smothered and embraced by lake air and the moon reflected like a silvery disc there in the middle of a lake. the way i interpret ryoji and especially how you write him is as a very distant and kind person who does not understand the nature of his loneliness but DOES understand how the world works very deeply and loves and accepts it even as he struggles to understand himself.

I hope you get celebratory ice cream (or whatever you feel like)!

Date + 49: kiss out of necessity. (slight au where everyone is gay and the points don't matter)

Dan’s just managed to escape a tedious conversation for the bar when Nate barrels into in him a panic. Or least, as panicked as Nate ever appears. A lifetime of blue blood family politics, a childhood with Serena and Blair, and a blazed adolescence has rendered Nate pretty unflappable. 

“Hey,” Nate says furtively. “Have you seen Serena?”

“Not for a while,” Dan glances around the room of the reception Serena had conned him into attending. “But Vanessa got out of rehearsal early, so she probably bailed.” 

“Damn it,” Nate mutters, signaling the bartender to pour another of whatever’s in Dan’s hand.

“What’s going on?” Dan watches confused as Nate knocks back the Manhattan the bartender hands him in one go. 

“Ethan is here,” Nate says, as if the fate of the universe depends on this information. 

Except Dan has no clue who that is. 

“Ethan,” Nate repeats, “my ex.”

Dan tilts his head to the side, still at a loss. He doesn’t really keep track of Nate’s friends at Columbia, even less who Nate dates at Columbia. Self-preservation and all that. 

“Seriously? I told you about him. Steak Knives?”

“Oh,” it clicks, “yeah. You dated for a month and then he wanted to move in together –”

Nate nods wearily. “And when I said ‘no,’ he –”

Dan does a half-hearted performance of the Psycho theme, moving his hand in a stabbing motion.

“Yeah,” Nate sighs. “Serena’s always good at chasing off an ex. Or Blair, but neither of them are here.”

“Aw,” Dan grins, “he’s your Georgina.” 

Nate thumps him on the arm. “Asshole. But – yeah.” He glances around the room, then freezes, “Shit, he’s seen me. Do you think Carl over there would let me hide behind the bar?” 

Dan tries to spot Ethan, a useless exercise because Dan doesn’t actually know what the guy looks like, but then he gets an idea. An arguably bad one, but he doesn’t have anything else. 

“Do you trust me?” he asks Nate abruptly, hoping Nate understands what he means. 

Nate meets his eyes for one frenetic second, before dropping his gaze to Dan’s lips. “Yeah.”

Before Dan can chicken or reason himself out of it, he takes Nate’s face in his hands and kisses him. Nate stiffens for a second, taken by surprise, but then he starts to kiss Dan back, parting his lips. Nate’s arms circle his waist, palms pressing into his back, and Dan stumbles into him, deepening the kiss, and for minute he forgets what they were doing, or why they’re doing it. He sweeps his tongue over Nate’s lower lip, noise slipping from his throat, or was that sound from Nate?

Nate pulls away abruptly, face redder than it was before, his chest heaving. Over the years, Dan’s built up a sort of immunity to the Archibald hotness, except for now, when it hits him all over again how beautiful Nate is. 

a travel hc for cassidy......

so, when i think about travel with him a few concepts come to mind.

in terms of how he's traveled around, he's taken a car before and also ridden on conductor's train several times before as well. (bc even though they have beef, conductor still allows him to ride his train due to some deal they have set up regarding some of his caw agents staff) though he also has probably flown on a plane several times, mostly when he as a kid due to his parents. but he'll also go places by foot too if he has the time, which isn't much anymore.

in terms of places he's been he's semi well traveled.... he's been to subcon forest several times before and goes there often, he's been to alpine and the metro. he's often traveled to the ahit equivalent of the uk and australia esp and also the ahit equivalent of france A LOT as a kid LOL. though he's never been to mafia town and never traveled by boat or gone on the cruise, tho for the cruise he's saving up to go someday. he lives in the desert as is but has traveled across it by train.

he travels less than he used to now, often stuck in one place nowadays but whenever he would travel somewhere he always brings home a souvenir and clothes he's bought from them. :) he's also picked up some of the languages from the places he's been and can converse a bit with people, even knowing some of the language that hat kid speaks as he's met some aliens before that speak it too when they visit his hotel.

Ashjgdjg since I already answered 32 I will give you the number after instead: