Nine People You Want To Get To Know Better

Nine People You Want to Get to Know Better

💖 Thank you @chroniccomicobsession, @eskiix, @0shewrites0, @operationnope, @willkimurashat, @noahsthottie for tagging me in this! I dragged my feet on it because I'm embarrassed to admit how little I'm reading right now. Also, cuz I can't shut up and I always write too-long posts 😆

Last Song: Reaching by Jason Reeves. I've been editing my chapter for what feels like years and last night I needed to break up the many repeats of Taylor Swifts This Love (TV), so I played Reaching a lot, too.

Girl, you are the morning sky Glowing calm with burning light And as I am waking up You paint your reflection in my eye Wonder if you've noticed I can't look away

You're inches from my fingertips I've come as close as I can get I'm reaching but the rest is up to you

Currently Reading: I'm not currently reading anything really. I should be. I have a lot of stuff I'd love to read, but my attention span is garbage. Gnats have a better chance of finishing a book than I do.

Currently Watching: Scaredy Cats on Youtube. It's horror movie reviews basically. I'm too squeamish to fully watch horror movies, but I like them. So I usually watch the beginning, then read the plot of the rest on Wikipedia (I call it Wiki-Watching). If it interests me, I watch bunches of reviews for it too. I love film dissection.

In case it's not obvious, I'm a huge nerd.

Current Obsession: LITG S6, specifically the future potential of an Ozzy/Marhsall/MC love triangle. Or something else... But also, monster movies! I've always loved them, but I'm on a bit of a kick right now. The other night I watched three back to back with decreasing levels of enjoyment and competence. As I said above, I love film dissection, so if you wanna read me giving my mini-reviews for each of the three movies, I think I'll post that separately. This is long enough.

Tagging: @queen-of-boops, @thatwheelchairchick, @kikithegr8, @litg1carlstancentral, @crimswnred, @codename-mango @mercedesdecorazon @wildberryjams @litg-burnbook (I tried to make sure everyone hadn't posted one of these yet, but sorry if you've already been spammed with tags for this 😆)

Seeing Double (trouble)

Don't worry Roberto, I can see how difficult it would be to tell us apart 🤣

TSIME: The Casa Girls

While I was preparing to write Casa Amor from the boys' point of view for The Sun in My Eyes, I realized I'd have to create the girls, because we only really know Shannon. Even Blake is a bit of a mystery as we learn almost nothing about her, other than she's seems thin-skinned. So I spent some time sorting out the main personality trait of each original islander, and then made each CA girl a combo of 2 of them.

Marisol + Priya

Amber is a huge snob and decided as soon as she met Emily that she was stupid and low class, and needed to be put in her place. Amber is a bitch. It was really fun to write two women who were both WAY too good for Jakub, get so caught up in competing with each other that they forgot that what they were fighting over wasn't actually a prize.

Just Hope

Originally Siobhan was Hope + Lottie. A self-important troublemaker, but she just didn't flow that way when I started writing her. I didn't want to write yet another brittle black woman (Fusebox has that on lock). It was more fun to make her have all of Hope's best traits (playful, direct, ambitious) yet none of her worst. Siobhan is who Hope could be if she weren't so insecure. A self-actualized Zen badass. Basically she's S3 Yasmin before S3 came out.

Hope + Marisol

What's there to say about Shannon? I love this manipulative, savvy bitch. And she deserved better than Rahim's triflin' ass dithering between multiple girls.

Lili + Lottie

Yuna was an accidental villain. It was supposed to be Siobhan telling everyone about what Emily did, but once I started writing, it just felt right for this spoiled, chronic talker to thoughtlessly spill Emily's business to anyone who'd listen. And for her to lie to Bobby in order to manipulate him into choosing her. Love Yuna or hate her, you gotta respect the audacity.

Lili + Priya

You know, I really wanted to redeem Blake. I always thought she took a lot of heat for simply being a little thin-skinned, and I wanted to give context for her behavior when she came to the villa. But I underestimated just how much she was hated and no amount of context was gonna make anyone empathize with her 😆 Oh well. I tried.

Chelsea + Lottie

Oh, Emily. Girl. I love her tragic, bad decision making ass. And her wise, resigned kitchen conversation with Bobby is my favorite thing I wrote for Casa. I head canon, but never explicitly wrote into the story, that she DMed Lili the moment she left the show to apologize. Because that's just how she is. Emily is a fuck up, but she's an honest one.

Just an aside, but I gave her my mom's most endearing skill, the ability to cross one eye and keep the other straight. Something that never fails to make me laugh 🤣

Stay tuned, my post about Bobby's OC family is coming... eventually.

Thanks @longbobmckenzie for pointing out that my original post is missing for some reason.

OMFG I wasn't ready for that. Needy Lucas. MY HEART. 🥺🥺🥺

he will show you that he needs the reassurance by clinging to your side like a baby koala

I didn't think of him as being someone heavy on the PDA but now I can't unimagine it. Man, I really need to finish the Lucas fic I started two years ago 😆

Can you do Lucas being needy hcs??

🪐 You already know how much this big boy needs reassurance; no matter how confident and self-assured he may seem, deep down he feels very insecure

🪐 Will rarely ask, "Do you love me?" or "Tell me you love me," but he will show you that he needs the reassurance by clinging to your side like a baby koala

🪐 Lots of wrapping his arms around your waist from behind, nestling his face in the crook of your neck and pressing a lingering kiss to your shoulder, hoping you'll turn in his embrace and press yourself against him by locking your arms around his neck

🪐 Coming home from work and a workout at the gym to find you lounging on the couch, dinner all ready but you’re waiting for him - he drops his gym bag and work bag, takes off his shoes and shrugs out of his leather jacket before pretty much sprinting towards you. (He’s definitely picking his stuff up later and tidying up, but that can wait) He bends down, picks you up with ease and hugs you to him without saying a word first. Then he whispers, "I’ve missed you," and you giggle and murmur, "But it's only been a few hours." To which he shrugs his shoulders and says, "Doesn’t matter. A few hours is still too long without you."

🪐 Grinning like a Cheshire cat when he glances at his phone during his shift and sees a text from you - it means you're thinking about him, and that means the world to him. Makes the butterflies flutter, too

🪐 Will often ask you for a spicy photo because you know he can never get enough of you; it's not that you don't satisfy his needs, because damn it, you do and then some. It's just that he's pretty much insatiable when it comes to you

🪐 Will never admit that he regrets this one thing in his life - not having a loving, trusting family and parents who make him feel safe and at home with them. But whenever you take him to see your family and he sees how much they love and adore you - just like he does, to be fair - it hurts a little. Of course he's happy for you, and he wishes you nothing but the best. He would never forgive himself if he or anyone else hurt you, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when he sees in your family what could have been - and should have been - how his family treated each other too

🪐 You see that he is hurting because you, and only you, can read him like an open book. In his dark brown eyes you see all shades of emotion, and he can never hide how he really feels, and so you take his hand in yours as you eat lunch with your family and rub his palm soothingly in circles, squeezing his hand a little. It's nothing big, just to reassure him that you see his pain and care, and that's more than enough for him

🪐 You know he is a jealous lover, so you will have to reassure him often. And you’re okay talking about the same subject over and over again because you love him and know he is struggling. He's not trying to lock you away, he just really doesn't want to lose you, and this is his way of showing you that

🪐 When you're together at a party or at a work thing, he's constantly looking out for you whenever he can't tuck you into his side. And of course it's also because he's possessive and not afraid to show it, but you know it's so much more than that. It's the constant fear that you might slip through his fingers if he doesn't do everything in his power to prevent it

🪐 Lots of placing his warm hand on the small of your back, running his little finger subtly yet visibly along the edge of your hand, and pressing gentle, not-too-short kisses on your cheek or temple

🪐 If he’s downright jealous because someone else is obviously trying to get your attention, you need to show him that you still want him and no one else. If you don't do anything about it, like kiss him demonstratively or just grab his hand and intertwine your fingers, then he’ll do the job. He will practically fling you against his chest, preferably face first, put his one arm possessively around your waist, tilt your head up and kiss you very deliberately. And not just the sweet I-love-you kiss, but rather the rough and passionate I-need-you and I-want-you and I-won't-share-you kiss that is guaranteed to take your breath away

That's it for today, thanks for this ask <3

"Between petals I miss you".

Deep Thoughts

I put on my knock-off Converse with sparkly laces this morning and paused for a moment to realize, that those shoes had been in the same building as Taylor Swift.

THE SAME BUILDING.

I'll never recover.