Mhi Atinii

A soft Verse II Ignoct songlist.

The problem was that he gave incredible recommendations that were perfectly tailored to my interests.

When I told him some bands I like he said, “So like whiny indie girl music?” I was instantly offended by the summation of my tastes and ignored him the rest of our shift.

Next day he showed up with a flash drive full of music I really really liked and I seethed that despite his arrogance he clearly had a read on my tastes.

He came in one day with a book and said he knew I’d like it. I picked it up cause I’m always looking for more reading material. He’d seen me reading Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk and so he handed me Damned. When I finished I returned it and told him I’d really enjoyed it.

He shrugged and said he figured even though he hadn’t thought very highly of it at all. He then told me he never loaned out books unless he was okay with never seeing them again which, while good advice, still showed how little he cared about the title.

Another time he offhandedly told me if I was trying to impress a date I should bring them to a local burger place he suggested.

I didn’t want him to be right but I did want a fantastic burger so I gritted my teeth and proposed the idea to my then-girlfriend now wife. We were absolutely blown away by how delicious it was. Neither of us had heard of it previously but the food was phenomenal.

So I had to once again grudgingly thank the smuggest man alive for the very good recommendation.

( pick a quote + a feeling + a trope ! let’s see what fic you end up with. )

author's addition: this lil build-a-fic is inspired by @scealaiscoite ’ s adorable idea ! her prompt lists are literal perfection. go stalk her blog pls she’s the best ever 🧸 you’re welcome to tweak phrasing as needed, but please don’t add to or rewrite the original post. give credits to @fawndrip / @suprclark if using.

— QUOTE

❛ stop smiling like that. it’s distracting. ❜ ❛ you make it really hard to stay just friends. ❜ ❛ why does it feel like a goodbye? ❜ ❛ you’re blushing. ❜ — ❛ no i’m not. ❜ ❛ just friends don’t look at each other like that. ❜ ❛ i missed you. that’s all. ❜ ❛ you remember the little things. that’s what gets me. ❜ ❛ tell me to stay. and i will. ❜ ❛ my hand fits so perfectly in yours. it's like i'm made for you. ❜ ❛ do you want me to leave? ❜ — ❛ no. i want you to stay forever. ❜ ❛ i think i knew it was you. even back then. ❜ — ❛ then stay. ❜ — ❛ but that's the thing. i don't know if i know you anymore. ❜ ❛ i don’t know how to stop wanting you. ❜ ❛ this means something. don’t pretend it doesn’t. ❜ ❛ you’re not just anyone. you’re you. ❜ ❛ if we kiss now, everything changes. ❜ — ❛ i know but that's a risk i'm willing to take. ❜ ❛ i’ve been in love with you since the night we met. ❜ ❛ tell me it meant nothing. lie if you have to. ❜ ❛ i was easy to leave, wasn’t i? ❜ ❛ you don’t get to miss me now. you lost that right when we broke up. ❜ ❛ say something. anything. please. ❜ ❛ i loved you. that should’ve been enough. ❜ ❛ i wish i didn’t remember everything. ❜ ❛ don’t look at me like you still care. ❜ ❛ i’m tired of pretending this doesn’t hurt. ❜ ❛ you said forever. i believed you. ❜ ❛ if you didn’t mean it, why did you say it? ❜ ❛ you chose them. you always do. ❜ ❛ i don’t hate you. i just wish i’d never met you. ❜ ❛ you let me go like i was nothing. ❜ ❛ please don’t make this harder than it already is. ❜ ❛ are you sure? cause whatever this is it doesn’t feel like love. ❜ ❛ it’s always been you. i just didn’t know how to say it. ❜ ❛ say that again. i dare you. ❜ ❛ you really don’t see it, do you? ❜ ❛ i think i like you. like, like like you. ❜ ❛ do you always look at people like that? ❜ ❛ you make it really hard to think straight. ❜ ❛ oh my god. you’re blushing. ❜ ❛ this means something. don’t pretend it doesn’t. ❜ ❛ i should’ve kissed you when i had the chance. ❜ ❛ you’re not helping. you’re being pretty. it's distracting. ❜ ❛ you make me nervous in the best way. ❜ ❛ every time you look at me, i forget what i was saying. ❜ ❛ just admit it. you like me. ❜ ❛ if you don’t kiss me right now, i might explode. ❜ ❛ you’re dangerously good at that smile. ❜

I do it too, I’m not going to pretend I don’t make jokes about the hets, or the down with cis bus, or whatever

But I recently befriended a cis, straight dude and I have watched him be dismissed, degraded, and unambiguously insulted for the perceived “crime” of being straight — all in queer environments where he is allegedly “completely welcome” and surrounded by “friends”

This guy is not a toxic person! But I have seen him be made to feel so small and like his comfort and safety in those spaces are conditional on his silence and acceptance of being treated like a human dunk zone, and I think that some of y’all have had so much shit from straight/cis people that the second you feel like you’ve got an inch, you want to luxuriate in the perceived catharsis of bullying someone who— actually —doesn’t deserve it

And until he very, very carefully mentioned to me in private that it makes him feel bad, I didn’t even clock that I was involved in doing that, that it had become so instinctive for me to make casual jokes like that, and that— well meaning or otherwise —I had been contributing to an environment that made someone I really really like feel like shit

I’m gonna say this point blank— you’re a tar pit if you think this way

Your suffering does not make you special, you are not granted brand new permissions to be belligerent and cruel because you have been treated poorly, straight people aren’t an oppressed class, no, but they’re people who are entitled to the same amount of basic decency that you, yourself, are entitled to

Bullying is still bad. Marginalised people can 100% be bullies. They can 100% be wrong. They can 100% be shit-heads.

y’all took off with the other post though it wasn’t finished 😭 very thankful for the love however

💙🫐Day six