Guy 1: wore his long hair in a braid one day, danced just while goofing off and he somehow made it look super attractive (reader: he can barely dance), posted a photo of himself âsnowboardingâ down a volcano during winter break, recruited me for his short film project that involved several takes at the end of my character hugging his character đ (weâre married now)
Guy 2: wore a suit to a wedding (this man normally wore cargo shorts and tshirts heâd probably owned for a decade, which thereâs nothing wrong with it was just a particularly stark difference lol)
Guy 3: merely made silent eye contact a few moments longer than usual while smiling đ«
Girl 1: longtime friend but hadnât seen her face in a while due to long distance and her rarely posting pictures of herself anywhereâshe sent me some selfies and i was dazzled âš
Girl 2: already thought she was beautiful and interesting but had a real âoh noâ moment when her eyes lit up as she spoke passionately about her favorite Victorian novel (also when she recalled exactly where an obscure quote from an academic journal had come from, inCLUDING the year of publication đ€Ż)
Jul 14, 2024
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I was at the bar and my friend was telling me about this girl that her friend had a crush on and the description sounded vaguely familiar so I asked them to show me her Instagram and she pulled it up and put it on the table. I scrolled through to find a good picture and said âyes I do know her sheâs-âŠright thereâ and I looked up and she was running towards me and I screamed her name and we hugged and made a huge scene. Definitely not slick wingman wise but I couldnât help it because of how much of a coincidence it was.
This girl was constantly on tour up and down the east coast and never in town really so we barely saw each other but always had a good time whenever we did. It was so random and felt cosmic. I introduced her to my friends and she hung out for a bit. Someoneâs far away, âunattainableâ Instagram crush popping up at the table, as soon shes brought up. It was so cool, Iâll never forget it.
Mar 29, 2024
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takes the weight off the whole thing and I won't wonder if we are friends or if I'm leading anyone on or being presumptuous. I guess my favourite move would be if they did flirt subtly but then followed it up with a genuine hey-i-did-this-because-i-like-you.
So here are all the ways the genders have tried that I liked (but did not realise at the time) for research hahaha :-) Good luck for the novel!!
- Against a wall, hand up, leaning in
- Constantly offering the last bite of food (a sandwich in particular that got smaller and smaller as I refused, but never fully eaten, until I took the final piece)
- wrist touches and (gentle!) waist grabs
- bike rides (tells you to hold tight, fixes your helmet and all that jazz)
- hand over your hand when you're on the computer or doing crafts together
- very active eye contact and very close to my face, whenever we were talking
- lending their very nicely scented jacket, like actually perfumed, on a cold night
- late night intellectual texts (for real, when I say something and they deep dive and then we are discussing orca whales for the rest of the night)
- lending books and it has pencilled(!) notes of all their favourite parts, name-addressed to you
- when they look you in the eye in front of the entire group and say THIS GIFT IS FOR YOU, and then don't give out gifts to anyone else, post a travel thing.
- when they make eye contact as you enter a room, and then leave their friend group to spend the rest of the night with you
- Chair pull
- Moving you to the safer side of the road so you don't get splashed
God I am such an idiot.
Jun 11, 2024
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Whatâs That? Oh, we both love steely dan and hate cyclists that wear the little outfits ? (Not bc we hate the fit- we do, we just hate that they give you a dirty look when they roll through a stop sign and itâs your turn to drive more)
it starts with you liking one of my recs (obviously), then, feeling generous, I like one of yours thatâs either a micro-complaint or link to a specific, hard-to-find performance of an ethereal 70s jazz singer.
We follow each other back and⊠the rest is history as they sayâŠ
And by history I mean we dm on Instagram nightly until eventually we meet people that live on our own coasts and our flirtation becomes merely a memory
But a beautiful one at that
Jan 26, 2024
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bc itâs what I originally wanted when I first went to college at 17 but I was scared to make writing my job and got a B.S. in Nutrition instead lol
Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but Iâm just happy to have made it through this part at 32!
Stacked is everything I read in my English coursesâbarely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
May 16, 2024
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the only place i win the social interaction
Aug 21, 2024
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conflusional. delonfident, even
Oct 1, 2024