❪ 🎨 ❫ : with their main village man, tobias simply wanted to have fun. invite and get him out of the office mindset, stop letting him get fucked up with so many racing thoughts. it was totally not cool to have thoughts in a race all the time, three-legged and tied together, it was terrible. ( speaking from experience. ) his heart, a little flip at the concept of accepting the date — well, dates could be, like, whatever, and they glance over the rim of their glass at julian's shattered annoyance and scoff. “ it's about tasting and art, ju, not the drowning of a fucking macmillian wannabe. ”could splatter the remnants upon julian's canvas but tobias decides they don't wish to choose such artistic violence, pondering over the scattered hues upon the roof, and the ‘flames’ lifting upwards. “ dude, that's like … avant garde, you got like this autumn thing going on, that's legit. ” to anybody else, it wouldn't be. tobias compliments him anyways, lacking a sour tone, truly in awe of julian bothering to try.
“ also, working ‘round it does not a talented artist make. ” waggling the bristles-end of their brush at him. at least no droplets ruin the painting; tobias would have to throttle themself if it did. their stomach, in a soft flip-flop at julian’s side profile, quick to glance away and stare at their own canvas, a hyperrealistic take on what appeared to be scattered oils and more smudged landscape. hadn't reached the house as of yet, would they even include it in this theme? something, something, isolation. “ i got the eye for how it looks, but putting it down? i'm like a rat in an open spam can, dunno which way is out, just … getting like, fat on paint. ” lost the plot somewhere in there. they can hear their wallet crying for the idea of getting julian another drink, due to the extra ones no longer being on the house. “ i'm a glutton for good-lookin' shit, man. ”