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( Delivered on August 14th: a prettily wrapped package from one Lydia Selman, its contents containing a small glass bottle of hand-made, one-of-a-kind cologne, capped with a bright red metal twist-off top. Its notes are written in an accompanying card:
No florals or patchouli, as promised. Cedar, spice, some boozy notes, if you're so inclined. Happy birthday! ♡
Top notes: Juniper berry, cedar
Heart notes: Absinth, galbanum
Base notes: Oakmoss, leather, tonkin musk. )
No florals or patchouli, as promised. Cedar, spice, some boozy notes, if you're so inclined. Happy birthday! ♡
Top notes: Juniper berry, cedar
Heart notes: Absinth, galbanum
Base notes: Oakmoss, leather, tonkin musk. )
Edited 2022-08-14 16:08 (UTC)
[ alex, who tries 99% of the time trying to act like a pretty cool guy who doesn't afraid of anything, has a soft marshmallow center and has to take his package from the mailroom up to his apartment and spend a non-zero moments being verklempt. 🥺😔 it's not even that nobody gives him thoughtful gifts ever, it's just surprising coming besides his bff and sister.
with the utmost sincerity, he texts: ]
hey
thanks
it smells good
[ stupid as he is tall, etc ]
with the utmost sincerity, he texts: ]
hey
thanks
it smells good
[ stupid as he is tall, etc ]
Happy Birthday big a! When you come over tonight, show yourself inside. We've got the place to ourselves and I have big plans for you!
[ attachment.png which, she knows will make him think it's a nude, but, even on his birthday annoying him a little is part of the fun! ]
[ attachment.png which, she knows will make him think it's a nude, but, even on his birthday annoying him a little is part of the fun! ]
[he really did think it was going to be a nude, only to get all "i don't know what i expected" at his facebook mom graphic. (he loves it, shhh.) ]
"my love"? getting pretty forward there, huh
how big are big plans?
you didn't have to do anything though, you know
"my love"? getting pretty forward there, huh
how big are big plans?
you didn't have to do anything though, you know
just make one next time, i have faith in you. add black glitter, too 😎
this better not be a weird surprise
[ he says, pretty sure she knows he would love any "weird" surprise. he's a chump. straight up feta cheese. ]
i dunno i just wasn't expecting it
even in sparkly picture form
but yknow
you too
[ like taylor swift, he gets older but never wiser 😔 a dumbass. ]
this better not be a weird surprise
[ he says, pretty sure she knows he would love any "weird" surprise. he's a chump. straight up feta cheese. ]
i dunno i just wasn't expecting it
even in sparkly picture form
but yknow
you too
[ like taylor swift, he gets older but never wiser 😔 a dumbass. ]
well yeah you always talk about how much you miss it
we could go to Coneyand you can take the spare bed( ...the only bed, but details. )
well yeah, because i do
that'd be sick
there's supposed to be a new shark thing at the aquarium there
have you been? to the aquarium. i mean it's been there forever so probably huh
yeah? ok
if you don't want to i can stay with my sister
she lives in williamsburg or bushwick or something
but you stayed with me so it makes sense, right
[ when you've lost the ability to be cool so you straight up ramble even over text... ]
that'd be sick
there's supposed to be a new shark thing at the aquarium there
have you been? to the aquarium. i mean it's been there forever so probably huh
yeah? ok
if you don't want to i can stay with my sister
she lives in williamsburg or bushwick or something
but you stayed with me so it makes sense, right
[ when you've lost the ability to be cool so you straight up ramble even over text... ]
well honestly I spent more time wandering the boardwalk or just going to Luna Park with Steve so...( no. it's a no. )
nah it's cool man
no one uses that bedthere will be a lack of other furniture, but the bed is there anyway you know luna park moved? or re-opened, whatever
it was like 2010, i know i still lived there
me and tori would try to sneak in after it was closed and dick around
like we couldn't ride the rides, right? it was fuckin closed
so we'd just sort of walk around
it was fuckin stupid but in a kid way LOL
anyway
why don't you have any furniture??
it was like 2010, i know i still lived there
me and tori would try to sneak in after it was closed and dick around
like we couldn't ride the rides, right? it was fuckin closed
so we'd just sort of walk around
it was fuckin stupid but in a kid way LOL
anyway
why don't you have any furniture??
yeah I've heard
haven't been since it reopened though( ...potential date material? )
Steve and I would hang around until it started getting darkit's something I still remember welland I don't really need furniture? so yeah, i mean, we moved not a whole long longer after so i haven't really been since then
[ he's possibly in his head like "you will see where i used to live and where stuff i like is and further information about me will be perceived, what a nightmare." again, he is a chump. it took him this long to even refer to his sister by name. ]
do you just live in an empty room with a bed in it or what
not being sarcastic, actual question
[ he's possibly in his head like "you will see where i used to live and where stuff i like is and further information about me will be perceived, what a nightmare." again, he is a chump. it took him this long to even refer to his sister by name. ]
do you just live in an empty room with a bed in it or what
not being sarcastic, actual question
we should go, then
I want to see all the places you used to go too, if they're around( and then here's bucky walking right on a land mine, being curious in someone he likes like a normal person. )
it's not a studiothe bedroom is separate( which doesn't confirm or deny anything else. )
if you want to, sure
most of it's kind of lame and shitty though, dead ass
i like it because i remember it, yknow
but it's the neighborhood next to coney where everything's kind of dirty, everyone looks kinda pissed off, and everything's in russian
there's a really good bakery place that's still around afaik
the baklava is hella
we can do other shit too yknow
oh shit dude have you ever walked the high line???
[ while he's on some thought spiral of what is cool enough to share with bucky vs too lame, bucky's apartment situation has come to distract and sit in the front seat. ]
right, okay
so you live in an empty room with a bed in it attached to an empty living space?
most of it's kind of lame and shitty though, dead ass
i like it because i remember it, yknow
but it's the neighborhood next to coney where everything's kind of dirty, everyone looks kinda pissed off, and everything's in russian
there's a really good bakery place that's still around afaik
the baklava is hella
we can do other shit too yknow
oh shit dude have you ever walked the high line???
[ while he's on some thought spiral of what is cool enough to share with bucky vs too lame, bucky's apartment situation has come to distract and sit in the front seat. ]
right, okay
so you live in an empty room with a bed in it attached to an empty living space?
I doubt I'll find them lame or shitty
I want to know what it was like for you and how things wereI'd feel closer, knowinghaven't been to the high line yet
we could do that tooit's not empty I have chairs, a TV, a media console( one dining chair, one armchair, one miscellaneous other chair. all of the furniture was left by the previous tenant also, so it's not like bucky put any effort into getting any either. )
Edited 2024-07-04 00:24 (UTC)
[ oh my god bucky you can't just SAY things like "i want to know what it was like for you / i'd feel closer knowing." it makes a wall he built inside himself crumble while his insides liquify. he doesn't know what do do with all that gentle and sincere attention. besides get slightly flushed. ]
really? for sure, if you really want to
although to be real i lived in sheepshead bay longer than brighton
it's more suburban and kinda boring but there's piers
and a cool bridge
[ how much he trusts bucky: he would rather die than tell literally anyone else on earth one of the things he misses is a "cool bridge." ]
but anyway high line is one of those things that's like
it's fuckin sick because a park that used to be railway tracks or whatever is cool right
but then it turned into a gentrification thing. yknow like
here's a nice park let's build new hipster shit and raise rent by a ton about it
it caused that motherfuckin bitch ass beehive alien nest looking piece of shit building getting built
you've seen that thing right
fuckin hate it dude
wait what
you don't have a table
or a couch
the fuck is that about
really? for sure, if you really want to
although to be real i lived in sheepshead bay longer than brighton
it's more suburban and kinda boring but there's piers
and a cool bridge
[ how much he trusts bucky: he would rather die than tell literally anyone else on earth one of the things he misses is a "cool bridge." ]
but anyway high line is one of those things that's like
it's fuckin sick because a park that used to be railway tracks or whatever is cool right
but then it turned into a gentrification thing. yknow like
here's a nice park let's build new hipster shit and raise rent by a ton about it
it caused that motherfuckin bitch ass beehive alien nest looking piece of shit building getting built
you've seen that thing right
fuckin hate it dude
wait what
you don't have a table
or a couch
the fuck is that about
( cute. you cute, alexander. )
I really want toI don't tend to say stuff I don't meanand it's cool
I grew up in Flatbush so it's not like I'm super familiar with where you were living anywaylike a day visitor, at bestshow me the cool bridgeand yeah I can barely afford my rent
NY has changed a lot
and not in all very good waysguess that's why I really enjoyed Boston? reminded me of when pricing was fairing among other thingsguess any major city is a nightmare nowadays thoughand I have tables ( two whole end tables. )look, if you want to stay somewhere else, that's fine
you don't need to grill me about my placeI just figured it'd be more convenientI'm not as rich as you are or whatever legit
it'd probably be way different back then anyway
it kind of blew up in the 70s when everyone was like "fuck the soviet union, i'm out" right. i think it's more central asian now anyway
[ he worked through "this is lame and boring why am i talking about this" feelings, and for that he should be rewarded. with a treat, like a cheeto. ]
idk if i'd say all that about boston though
housing shit is BAD
in some ways i think it's kinda worse than new york because the space everybody's fighting over is smaller and more crammed in
like i said i see people be really fuckin desperate about it at work
i get why you'd like it though
but yeah
[ oof — a (needed) privilege check. just because he doesn't think of himself as ✨ rich ✨ doesn't mean he... is not. "it's not the same, i just get whatever i want all the time" is a really goofy justification once he thinks it out loud in his brain. ]
whoa dude i didn't mean it like that
i was just surprised
and a jackass
look bro do you wanna get a couch and a coffee table
from ikea or one of those furniture stores where a pillow shaped like a dog bone costs a cool thou
it'd probably be way different back then anyway
it kind of blew up in the 70s when everyone was like "fuck the soviet union, i'm out" right. i think it's more central asian now anyway
[ he worked through "this is lame and boring why am i talking about this" feelings, and for that he should be rewarded. with a treat, like a cheeto. ]
idk if i'd say all that about boston though
housing shit is BAD
in some ways i think it's kinda worse than new york because the space everybody's fighting over is smaller and more crammed in
like i said i see people be really fuckin desperate about it at work
i get why you'd like it though
but yeah
[ oof — a (needed) privilege check. just because he doesn't think of himself as ✨ rich ✨ doesn't mean he... is not. "it's not the same, i just get whatever i want all the time" is a really goofy justification once he thinks it out loud in his brain. ]
whoa dude i didn't mean it like that
i was just surprised
and a jackass
look bro do you wanna get a couch and a coffee table
from ikea or one of those furniture stores where a pillow shaped like a dog bone costs a cool thou
Edited 2024-07-04 11:42 (UTC)
guess we'll see when we go, then ( he's not exactly a brooklyn historian so he doesn't know all of that as such, but he doesn't mind humoring alex's interest either. the way things shift with time can still be interesting, despite the implications. )at work? I thought you only did the stuff for the fox guyI wasn't really talking about the housing when I was saying I enjoyed Boston
that was more in expansion on saying how much NY has changedI did check a bit, and it seems like it's reasonably on par anywhere further out from where you live. ( much, much further out, anyway. )if it means you'll stop asking about my furniture, sureit's really not a priority for me when I live alone and am gone 90% of the time yeah, stuff for foxface is work
it's weird to talk about "sketchy errands i run for some guy" so
but yeah
i kinda get it
it's probably not as big as you feel it but
whenever i go back to visit, everything's all different. like someplace closed and got replaced with something more boring that probably makes more money so who gives a shit, right?
like okay stay with me here
fuck times square right but when i was a kid there was this big ass toy store
like two stories, whole ass ferris wheel in the store you could RIDE, arcade, giant t. rex
going there was like the sickest shit in the world
then it closed because they couldn't afford the rent
and now it's fuckin old navy or something
anyway
seriously dude i'm sorry
it just kinda made me sad idk
but it's your space, don't listen to me. it's not like i'm on interior design weekly
i dunno if that's a real magazine but i'm not on it
it's weird to talk about "sketchy errands i run for some guy" so
but yeah
i kinda get it
it's probably not as big as you feel it but
whenever i go back to visit, everything's all different. like someplace closed and got replaced with something more boring that probably makes more money so who gives a shit, right?
like okay stay with me here
fuck times square right but when i was a kid there was this big ass toy store
like two stories, whole ass ferris wheel in the store you could RIDE, arcade, giant t. rex
going there was like the sickest shit in the world
then it closed because they couldn't afford the rent
and now it's fuckin old navy or something
anyway
seriously dude i'm sorry
it just kinda made me sad idk
but it's your space, don't listen to me. it's not like i'm on interior design weekly
i dunno if that's a real magazine but i'm not on it
oh okay
thought it was just the collecting debts thingdidn't realize there were other errandstimes square is a good example though cause when I heard tourists love going there now I couldn't wrap my head around it at allsince it was a red light district beforeuntil the 70s? or something like that but yeah that's all I knew it forstrip clubs and sex workerssad? why sad? really?
that's fuckin bonkers dude
it's the worst now
everything's loud and people are always riding your ass
not in the 70s way
thinking of you coming back from a long day of avenging whatever the fuck to a room with a couple chairs and your mason jar full of water makes me sad, okay? i don't fuckin know
because you deserve better
that's fuckin bonkers dude
it's the worst now
everything's loud and people are always riding your ass
not in the 70s way
thinking of you coming back from a long day of avenging whatever the fuck to a room with a couple chairs and your mason jar full of water makes me sad, okay? i don't fuckin know
because you deserve better
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