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[buckycap]

gotta be honest i’m tired of seeing so many non americans laughing at america’s situation as if a) what america does doesn’t affect other countries (spoiler alert: it does) and b) as if all america is is white people who jerk off to american imperialism and not full of. you know. marginalized people who suffer daily. it’s not as simple as just voting trump out when our voting system is flawed and corrupt. there’s people who are seriously suffering here but i’m glad that’s funny to some people

[crispsevans]

my last two braincells…

[aldenbergnet]

Aiden searches the other face for a moment hoping for positive reaction. It is not like he didn’t spend the entire baking these cookies wondering how Cole would react. He also totally did not let his mind conjure up some more scenarios in his head as he waited for the other to open the door. But, then those familiar rosy lips curl into a smile and he remembers that he is dating the kindest boy with a kind heart.

“I brought it them as an I’m sorry,” He beams at the kiss, even if there was a slight burn in his chest. His eyes lit up under Cole attention. “and a hey, I missed you” Aiden admits lamely, taking Cole’s hand into his. “You gonna invite me in?”

Cole shrugged slightly and said, “It’s okay, I mean you came back and you brought cookies. I get needing space.” Cole smiled and said, “I missed you too. A lot.” He steps aside and says, “Yeah, come in, of course.”

[eqxilibrium]

@aldenbergnet

Aiden moves away from the door after knocking for a few moments. It is not unlike him to show up at the other’s place or vice versa but this was a lot less than a random pop up and more like resurgence. This is very Aiden of him, to disappear for awhile when he’s feeling extremely overwhelmed or completely unwell and unruly.  He swings a small basket in his hands, full of fresh baked cookies waiting for the door to open. “Hello! It’s me, the boy with cookies.

[aldenbergnet]

Cole blinked still a little surprised when he opened the door, Aiden been gone for a while and normally Cole wouldn’t notice someone's absence but Aiden was another story. Though Cole wasn’t entirely surprised because if he hadn’t been waiting for Aiden to come back sometime soon he wouldn’t have gotten up to answer the door.

He smiled a bit in the doorway and said, “Yeah I can see that.” He looked Aiden over a bit before stepping closer and wrapping his hand around Aiden’s wrist gently pulling him closer before kissing his cheek and whispering, “Hi.”

[paperiinqs]

— ✧ ( based on this )

                 ‘shit’ evan threw his phone against his bed at the texts, not a word. not a word for weeks - ghosted, his pleads to save their relationship, his cries, this break up was one that hurt him more than anything, the man stayed in his apartment and didn’t do anything except drag his sorry ass to work, a deep slump due to their break up and no matter how many times he tried to contact them to sort things out, he was left on read - causing him to give up. he spent the nights at his twin sisters house when he didn’t want to be alone, but now he was sitting in his home, finally able to smile and move on, thinking about installing tinder and seeing where his options lay, but now ??? an unexpected text that caused him to panic, his heart beating, his blood boiling as his heart rate was at an all time high, his fingers fidgeting as he tried to keep calm and not reply - but he couldn’t help it, evan was just too in too deep to leave them on read. he stopped, wanting to give them a taste of their own medicine by not replying, maybe they were drunk, maybe they got the wrong number - so he caved, his fingers typing as he replied a few moments later. “can i see you?”

[aldenbergnet]

                cole hadn’t had too much to drink, just a beer or two, but he tended to be a lightweight, or rather it didn’t take much for his inhibitions to lower and for honest to come pouring out of him. darwin had convinced him in this more relaxed state to text evan and bare his heart. and patrick hadn’t been around to nix the idea in its questionable quality. he’d bee pulling away, in his typical fashion. he wasn’t the soft gooey feelings type and when things got serious he often wasn’t on the same page. in this case, he was but he still ran in the opposite direction scared of that feeling. he felt a lot safer behind his laptop, in the world of code and logic.

cole rubbed his face as the new text came in and had darwin leaning over his shoulder telling him to say yes. drinking also always made cole a bit more open to affection and he wanted to see evan. so he texted back, “yeah. i want to see you. i miss you.”  

[eqxilibrium]

uhm like for a starter pls

[aldenbergnet]

you can consider this a like 😗

[aldenbergnet]

Childhood Friends/High School AU

[aldenbergnet]

“I am so not a bad influence. I mean besides always passing you drawings in class and drawing on your arm. I am just a really good persuader besides you like my pancakes,” Aiden teases, the smile lingering on his lips. The young man clears his throat for moment, expressing that his was going to make some grand announcement,“ But of course I promise I will not do any late night cooking and for the whispering, I reserve the right to whisper very softly if I have a very pressing question or if I have a nightmare but it will be very quiet,” he assures. Even though there is a joking tone to his voice, there is lingering truth between them, an understood sharing understanding of protection and playfulness. Of course, Aiden knew better to disobey any Cole’s mom rules; he certainly didn’t want to cut their sleepover short. It’s nice being at Cole’s house, there are rules and concern for one another.

“I know… I know but I still think it’s fun for you to guess!” He says with that same large beaming smile spread across his face before sitting up for a moment. Aiden softens his grip as makes the big reveal, an obvious blush rushing to his cheeks at the others compliment, “thank you but no. I got nominated and won to be Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper. It’s no art competition win but I mean, I do get to like know early what school trips we’ll have and the theme for the dance which are both things only I care about but still.” He glances to his friends with that oh-so- enthusiastic look, waiting for a reaction.

He shrugs and says, “Still a bad influence whether I like it or not.” Cole sighs and says, “Fine, though I hardly see how ‘what is the theme song to that one show we used to watch in middle school with the cat’ is a pressing question. But if you have a nightmare, of course, you can wake me and I’ll talk you down.” Cole stroked Aiden’s wrist gently with his fingers as he said it. He knew Aiden had his share of nightmares and Cole was always happy to pull Aiden closer and whisper in his ear what was real and what wasn’t, and fall back asleep with his arms wrapped tightly around Aiden’s waist and his face tucked in his neck just below his ear.

Cole normally wouldn’t care less about this sort of stuff, but everything, when it came from Aiden, was filed away as important. He beamed and said, “That’s great Aiden. You’ll be amazing, way better than anyone else.” Cole pulled Aiden into a tight hug, one arm wrapped tightly around Aiden’s waist, and his other hand pressed to the top of Aiden’s back hugging him close so their chests were pressed together in a warm embrace. When he pulled back he smiled at the color in Aiden’s cheek and the happiness on his face. He liked to see that and wanted nothing more than to reach out and touch his face and feel the happiness at his fingertips. 

[aldenbergnet]

Childhood Friends/High School AU

[aldenbergnet]

Aiden taps his finger against the table like the beat to a song that he can’t dance to. He glances around, once, twice; looking the lavish cafeteria over to see if Cole have gotten out of their classes yet. He groans when realizes he’s not back yet, and proceeds by sitting back in the hard, uncomfortable chair and crossing his arms over his chest, stretching his legs out. One of his black Vans is untied, but he’s too lazy to stretch down and re-tie it. He flicks his fringe from his eyes and looks again toward the doors, but, to no avail. He was anticipating news to see if their sleepover was still on. Aiden loved sleepovers with Cole. His family is warm and welcoming and Cole was there when he went to sleep and wake up.

It’s not even the whole protective thing. Cole is his best friend, he makes Aiden feel rational and seen.  Sometimes Aiden feels like he cannot control himself from taking off into his own world, over bubbling with sentiment and Cole is his anchor; the only thing keeping Aiden from floating away.  He knew Cole was his best friend when he was hysterically crying over the death of the main character in My Girl and Cole just held his hand.

He picks at the little string hanging off the sleeve of his white shirt, rolling his eyes at Cole scaring him in  his own seat but excited to see other, jumping out of his head to turn to the other. “Okay, I promise that I will go to bed at midnight sharp. You have to hold me to that, don’t let me ask any questions in the middle of the night,” Aiden warns the other. He takes an excitable inhale with a giant smile, “do you notice anything different about me or did you hear anything about me lately huh? You have to guess” Aiden was struggling to keep his secret concealed even excitement is pouring out his smile. The boy squeeze the other’s hand lightly encouraging him to guess.

Cole laughs and says, “I’m not good at policing you, that’s why she brought up the pancake incident. I would have never done that myself, so obviously you’re a bad influence,” he grins. Sure Aiden influences him to do things like that, but Cole on his own is trouble of his own kind. Aiden causes his own trouble, and Cole is happy to follow along for the sake of being near him, and Cole has his own brand of trouble, and Aiden is often at his side there too. 

He looks over Aiden carefully, he’s bad at this, spotting differences, details aren’t his strong suit unless they’re in code. He frowns slightly and says, “Come on Aiden you know I’m terrible at this sort of thing.” He sighs and says, “I don’t know, you look good, but it’s something I could have heard about. I don’t know Aiden did you win an art competition? Come on just tell me Aiden,” he says tugging at his hand a bit and tightening his grip on his hand.

[aldenbergnet]

Childhood Friends/High School AU

@eqxilibrium

Cole had been best friends with Aiden ever since elementary school. He’d seen Aiden crying after some boys had knocked him down and were calling him giraffe. So Cole had picked up one of the balls that were nearby and chucked it at one of the guy's heads. Cole had stood up to them even as the shortest boy in the entire class,  and they’d shoved him down but they’d backed off. Cole had helped Aiden up and though he’d tried to pull his hand away, Aiden had held onto it. And as far as Cole was concerned he’d never let it go since and Cole was okay with that.

 Aiden and he were as close as two friends could be, there was no one Cole cared about more than Aiden. Aiden made him feel understood where his family didn’t, even though he and Aiden couldn’t be more different, he made Cole feel not so awkward or like he was incapable of emotion, that it was okay that his emotions were buried beneath the surface, that they were still there even if they weren’t obvious. And while he was someone who didn’t like to be touched all that much, there wasn’t a time when he didn’t want Aiden to be touching him somehow.

Cole hated his classes without Aiden, though the teachers prefered them because Cole went from someone not entirely engaged because he was whispering back and forth with Aiden, to someone completely silent. He was quick to rush to the lunchroom where he and Aiden would be side by side again. He saw Aiden sat at the lunch table him and their friends all sat at and rushed up behind him and gripped Aiden’s shoulder before sliding in beside him as close to his side as he could. He nudged him and almost out of muscle memory slid his hand into Aiden’s and said, “So my mom said you can sleepover tonight, as long as we don’t stay up past twelve again or let you convince me that we should make pancakes at two in the morning, also if she hears us talking even if we think it’s just whispering past twelve we’re not allowed to have a sleepover for two weeks again.” 

[thegayfleet]

Cyrus and Jonah dancing together!

[bisexualcrises]

Cyrus and TJ, Disney Channel’s first gay couple, in the Andi Mack series finale

[thegayfleet]

Tell me what you’ve done with your toast.

[aldenbergnet]

@eqxilibrium okay but cole with aiden whenever he has to cook anything even simple something simple

[lesbvan]

More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I’d stopped myself from blurting the thing I’d never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.

[aldenbergnet]

@eqxilibrium this is them in a childhood friends who fall in love au i’m telling you.

[thesamebutgayer]

Eric Stoltz & Ralph Macchio in Naked in New York (1993) Dir. Daniel Algrant

[aldenbergnet]

@eqxilibrium (I mean I tried to do an equal response, but you are clearly superior.)

The Archer - Aiden & Cole - Part 2

Dark side, I search for your dark side But what if I’m alright, right, right, right here

[eqxilibrium]

aiden x cole  »  the archer by taylor swift ( @aldenbergnet )

Help me hold on to youI’ve been the archer, I’ve been the prey Who could ever leave me, darling But who could stay?

[aldenbergnet]

Aiden easily melts into the other’s touch with a slight smile, “I’ll take your word for you it. I don’t actually believe you, of course because of who my parents are and how they act.” He reasons which is true, they are all social people but in the worst way, in which ever single event is interrogation or network event or in this case both; but Cole is smiling nevertheless and Aiden is glad he is. “You think so? Like they’ll like me and alll,” He asks, looking up too enthusiastically. The young man, realizes what part of him that is coming and almost cringes at his own words, working to correct himself. “I’m kind of really kind of excited to be meet them. I’ve got a lot of questions to ask, I want to hear all about wee little Cole,” he teases him. There is apart of him that is excited to meet is family, hoping to meet Cole’s sister and listen to them chat it up. It occurs to him that he is missing a big part of Cole’s life and he knows he could just ask He wants to make it work, and make them like them.

He carefully runs his hand down Cole’s shoulder, and a feeling of fondness strikes through Aiden’ body. “Ah, yes. We are family now. I don’t have much to offer besides super expensive birthday presents and the occasional baked goods,” he says gently, “I wasn’t worried about you impressing them. You are pretty impressive guy. I mean, I am dating a genius. The worry lies with them overstepping, which they did but… all is well.” The young man places a kiss on Cole’s cheek, “So you think I look good in a suit huh?” he teases him.

"Please,” Cole says squeezing his arms tighter around Aiden’s waist, “I think if a blind person was to meet all of us they’d think my family was yours and yours was mine. My parents are bubbly and nice like you, and yours are overly ambitious with a tendency to be a bit cruel like me.” Cole smiles and says, “But they really will love you. Ugh, yes, my mother will be at the ready to show you so many scrapbooks, and tell you so many stories. As a behavioral psychologist particularly in adolesecents, she kept quite the catalog on all of us, to an embarrassing degree. So lucky you.”

Cole smiles and says, “You offer a lot more than that. Besides you and me can be our own little family unit with our own combined traditions, besides I like the baked goods and I can definitely get on board with being bought expensive birthday gifts, and I’ll always make sure to show up for your art shows and any of the other social gatherings you want to go to, and if anyone ever annoys you or pisses you off I can hack them and put a virus on their computer. See combined traditions,” Cole shrugs.

He runs his hands along Aiden’s back and says, “It’s okay, I’m used to people overstepping. I mean I have pretty narrow boundaries, so people constantly cross them so I’m kind of used to it at this point. But this was for you and as far as I can tell thus far when you’re involved my boundaries seem to be pretty much limitless,” he smiles slightly. Cole moves closer when Aiden kisses his cheek and moves his mouth by Aiden’s ear. “I really do, I think you’d look really good out of it too, but that goes without saying,” Cole grins gently squeezing Aiden’s hip and kissing along his neck whilst holding him close.