Head canon: Engineer owns prescriptive goggles to hide his need for nerd glasses. And this scene is why there exists the head canon of Sniper requires prescription glasses.
One time a friend told me that if she wanted to have a chill night she would come to me and ask for tea and a book to read. I didn’t like tea at the time, but I always made sure my cupboards had them in case she needed a quiet night. One time I told my boss that I loved oranges, but couldn’t peel them because of my nails. For a year he made sure to peel me one at least once a week. Once my friends gave me a made up superlative of “most likely to have a pen they could borrow” and ever since I’ve made sure I always carry a pen with me. A long time ago, my high school librarian told me that no one would care what my grade in my sophomore chemistry class was if I’m bringing them doughnuts and asking them about their day.
Sometimes friendship is about carrying pens and peeling oranges. But the point is, surrounding yourself with people who you want to do the little things for. The point of it all is bringing in the doughnuts because you’ve found the people who deserve the doughnuts.
And I’m so fucking lucky, and I don’t always say it or even think it. Because I have friends who send me letters and who told me when the cafeteria at work had chopped tomatoes and who want to watch Scream with me and it just hits me sometimes that this world can do the ugliest things to people, but as long as I still have a friend who will point out dogs on the sidewalks to me then I have something amazing to live for. And as long as I have pals who I want to make peppermint bark for, then I have a reason to keep pushing this world to be better.
ik we all refer to this as a hellsite but its actually nice… people use little hearts or smiley faces at the end of their sentences… and send asks of cute animals when someone is sad… we tag eachother in picrews… its so nice here…
and when chidi anagonye said “i argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. simply put, we are not in this alone”
Cue Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” because baby, we’re crushing on some heartwarming reads this 2022! Scroll on to find out what they are!
RISE TO THE SUN
Rise to the Sun is the story of two girls hoping to find themselves at Farmland Music & Arts Festival…but finding one another, and the power of music, along the way.
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Read an excerpt of Rise to the SunandYou Should See Me in a Crown here!
SIMONE BREAKS ALL THE RULES
InSimone Breaks All the Rules,Simone is shaking things up by making a bucket list of everything she hasn’t been able to do thanks to her strict Haitian immigrant parents. But which rules are worth breaking, and which will save her from heartbreak?
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THINGS WE COULDN’T SAY
InThings We Couldn’t Say, just as Gio is owning his bisexual identity, he must also face the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine. He’ll soon find that there are no easy answers to love – whether it’s family love or friend love or romantic love.
InFire Becomes Her, Ingrid doesn’t have a family fortune, monetary or magical, but at least she has a plan: Rise to the top on the arm of Linden Holt, heir to a hefty political legacy and the largest fortune of flare in all of Candesce. Her only obstacle is Linden’s father who refuses to acknowledge her.
InYou & Me at the End of the World, Hannah Ashton wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo Sterling. Leo might be the hottest boy ever (and not just because he’s the only one left), but he’s also too charming, too selfish, and too much of a disaster for his own good, let alone Hannah’s.
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Read an excerpt of You & Me at the End of the World here!
GOING VIRAL
InGoing Viral, when Claire Draper’s fictional love story goes viral in the wake of a pandemic, the line between reality and fiction is blurred. But will she be able to tell the difference?
InHeartstopper, shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn’t think he has a chance.But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works.
