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zoey: when did you know you were in love with tobin?
leif: we were boiling water for pasta and he asked if boiling water would taste carbonated
———later———
zoey: when did you know you were in love with leif?
tobin: we were boiling water for pasta and i wanted to know if it would taste carbonated, so he put some in a glass and said i had to wait for it to cool first
I can't draw for shit, so here's a snippet I actually kind of love from the next chapter of State of Grace
These absurd dumbasses are in love, fight me
(full thing should be out tonight or tomorrow morning, but we are currently two weeks into this hiatus, and I want to contribute, dammit)
Let’s See What a Fire Feels Like
find it on ao3 here :
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Tobin and Leif go stargazing. Tobin listens to Leif talk about constellations. Tobin tries not to kiss him. Tobin almost succeeds.
- - - - -
It was a warm summer night, air cloying even through Tobin’s shirt, hoodie long abandoned on the blanket spread against damp grass.
“There’s the Summer Triangle, Tobes. Straight up.” Leif craned his head back, hands falling behind him to hold himself up. His left one landed on Tobin’s right, and he flipped his palm over to clasp Leif tighter.
“I see it, yeah.”
Leif glanced over his shoulder to Tobin, lips spreading into a thin smile. “The star on the lower left, that’s Deneb. It’s the tail of Cygnus, the swan constellation.” He turned his head back to the sky and Tobin leaned in, eyes following as Leif lifted his right hand to point.
Leif’s hand glided down slightly. “Cygnus flies south along the Milky Way. It’s right by Aquila… there, there it is. The eagle constellation.”
Tobin grinned to himself, gaze flickering between the stars and Leif’s face, open and expressive in a way it never was under harsh fluorescent lights. “Yeah?”
“Yeah. It used to be right next to the Antinous constellation, but they got merged together a long time ago. Kinda sad…” Leif turned his head again, a few inches from Tobin’s face. Tobin grinned and made a vaguely inquisitive noise.
“Antinous… he was this guy who either drowned or was sacrificed.” Leif’s voice was quieter, eyes glancing at Tobin, the sky, Tobin again. “His lover, emperor Hadrian, was so devasted he named a city after him, Antinoöpolis,” Leif said.
Tobin swayed forward a little. “Oh.”
“And he made a statue of him. He minted coins with his face on him across the empire, and said he was a God, and he, uh, named a constellation after him.”
“So he could always be with him?”
“Yeah.” Leif’s voice rasped. He cleared his throat. “Yeah.”
Tobin squeezed Leif’s hand. “That’s pretty gay, Leif.”
Leif let out a big laugh and leaned back, hand leaving Tobin’s to push his hair off his forehead. “Yeah! Yeah, uh, they were pretty gay, Tobin.”
Tobin tried not to miss the warmth. It was warm enough, anyway. Summer. He fell onto his back with a sigh. “Hadrian, huh?”
“Yeah,” Leif said, still sitting up. “He, like, focused less on imperialism and more on unification within Rome? So that’s cool I guess. He started a cult, though.”
“Gay rights.”
“Tobin.”
He laughed and tilted his head up to look at Leif, who was trying to look scandalized but was failing.
“Nah, but really, Hadrian sucked. For a lot of reasons. Like, slavery, dude.”
“Shit, yeah.” Tobin sat up again to face Leif. “Antinous, though. He was cool?”
Leif shook his head, still smiling. “I dunno, Tobin. It was a long time ago. I only read so much of the Wikipedia article.”
They fell into a comfortable silence again. Tobin watched a mosquito flit around the edges of the frayed quilt they were sat on. “Hey, look,” he said, wrapping one arm around Leif’s waist and gesturing upwards with the other. “Orion’s Belt.”
Leif turned up, then to Tobin, eyes soft.
“See, I can be smart for you, too.”
Leif melted against his side. His hand came up to cup Tobin’s cheek. “Everyone knows Orion’s Belt, idiot.”
Tobin’s eyelids fluttered, and he swayed forward half an inch, leg jolting slightly closer. “Admit it, you were impressed.”
Leif pressed his face against Tobins shoulder and slid his hand back from his cheek to against his neck. “Was not.”
“Was too,” Tobin whispered, and tilted down to press his lips against Leif’s hair. Leif lifted his head at the action and stared.
“...Was not,” Leif repeated dumbly, and Tobin smiled, and kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him.
title from Cassiopeia by Sara Bareilles
yes homo
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Leif: Was Love, Actually always like that?
Tobin<3 : weird and heterosexual?
Leif: No
Leif: Well yeah, I guess.
Leif: I meant a LOT of people fell in love with their bosses.
Tobin<3 : …
Leif: What?
read the full thing on ao3
Coder boyfriends is just two idiots calling each other "idiot" in a fond voice as the other does something stupid
this makes me so soft fr and i love this for them like. really stupid pet names spark joy.
i like to think that once they got together they made a game out of finding the weirdest pet name for each other, all diminutives of normal ones so like. instead of sugar leif says truvia. instead of dear tobin says moose. tobin unironically called leif his “love bug” once and so now tobin is his dung beetle.
still a thinking about the fact that in zep leif went to some fancy smart person college (idk if it ever says WHERE he goes in the show, if it does please lmk) and tobin went to jail for three years, and they got the same job.
it’s so accurate to millennials that this show really startled me sometimes :/
Ok but you CANNOT tell me that Tobin doesn't freaking P R E E N when Leif complements him. One off hand comment about his hair looking nice that day and Tobin spends the rest of his day very upbeat and proud and running his fingers through his hair
You are SO RIGHT
Leif tells Tobin he did a good job and Tobin spends the rest of the day telling his coworkers that Leif said he did a good job, did he say YOU did a good job? He thought not.
leif and tobin have the most obnoxious duo Halloween costumes,,,, that’s all
op, you’re right and you should say it.
tobin starts it, gets them those cheap couples costumes like angel/devil, but then leif starts taking it Way Too Seriously, to the point where hes planning it like a month in advance.
i’m just saying...
