@aphostate SAID: you wanna take my clothes off. ☆ MEME: ethel cain’s preacher’s daughter sentence starters ☆ send FANMAIL!
Ben does love to play his cruel heterosexual games — completely unprompted, too. ( Although, perhaps one could make the argument that the hungry, drunken way Zero had been looking at him counted as prompting. ) It feels awfully mean-spirited, the way he likes to bring it up, taunting him with his unattainability. It’s all very bully-jock-circa-1995; sometimes he thinks he can hear the homophobic slur dancing around in Ben’s throat, stopping just shy of jumping onto his tongue.
But, going by that same logic, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the teasing reminders are a sort of prompting of their own: I’m curious, I want you to try; he just can’t make the first move, because that would send a message he’s too much of a pussy to send. Very bully-jock-circa-1995 indeed.
❛ Projecting, are we? ❜










