#kingstonposting

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happy kingston waking me up with breakfast in bed day <3

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i think one of the really, really good things about how long it took me and kingston to get together is that we worked out the conflict around my weed smoking well before there were any feelings on either of our parts.

definitely would have been a much worse fight otherwise

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absolutely blindsided by "i can touch people and make them feel better" in tuc ep 3 every single time jesus fucking christ

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i'm starting a TUC rewatch, and ughhh i missed kingston and all of my friends so much

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florist and tattoo artist, arranged marriage and royal and guard AU for Kingston!! -@selfrinsert

ooh okay i think kingston runs the flower shop, and i'm the tatoo artist.

we met when i got a client who wanted a very realistic floral design, so i went across the street to do research. it started with mutual respect for each other's passion and skills, and soon i was buying flowers just for an excuse to see him.

he's the one who broke the holding pattern and asked me out.

obviously kingston's the royal guard and i'm the royal.

not unlike our actual getting together story, our Moment is when i get very nearly incredibly injured/maybe would have died. he does some Heroics and then is so soft and warm in making sure i'm okay, and i'm in love. he realizes just how important i am to him, how deep his affection for me runs.

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i was looking at the artificer spell list, because i want to actually make a character sheet for my unsleeping city s/i, and i found something interesting.

the message cantrip. especially since i'm always fidgeting/moving my hands in ways that don't make sense to other people, it'd be really easy to disguise the somatic component.

the flirting shenaniganery potential is IMMENSE and i will not use it responsibly.

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Kingston loves so deeply. He loves with his entire being. The fact that he loves me like that? I am so lucky.

He loves his city and its 8 million people so much that it grants him incredibly powerful magic. That kind of love focused just on me? It's almost intoxicating.

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Heartbreak Feels So Good, Heaven Iowa, and Flu Game for Kingston! :] - @selfrinsert

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2: "Heartbreak Feels So Good" - Who confessed first? What drove them to do it? Did you immediately become a couple after that or did it take some time before you both became one officially?

I'd said some things implying my crush on him, but he was the one to properly confess first. He had to be. You know Kingston- if anything that he'd consider possibly selfish to accept is offered to him, he'll deny it a hundred times over. It has to be his call to take the steps to go for it. And it's no small thing for him to get over himself and do that. In this case, it was good old fashioned jealousy. Sofie decided that I needed a partner, so she started trying to set me up with people. At that point, my feelings for Kingston weren't really serious and I'd gotten no indication that they were returned at all, so I went on the blind dates she'd set up. Never any second dates, because I found myself comparing them to Kingston, and they never measured up. But I did fuck most of them, and didn't beat around the bush about it when Sofie asked how the dates went. (I gave her a different reason for not wanting to go out with them again, of course.) I'm not shy about my sexuality and Sofie has boundary issues (love her to death, but it's true), so she asked TMI questions I totally answered. Turns out Kingston didn't like that so much, and one day he found a moment to talk privately and it turned into a fight. I asked why he gave a damn and that's when he confessed. Didn't mean to, but he did. Then we made a mistake and fucked instead of talking about that. It was a while and a few more hookups we both felt guilty about after before we actually talked about our feelings and got together. Secretly, of course. So I told Sofie that I was tired of the one night stands and needed to take a break from all that and asked her to stop trying to set me up with people.

5: "Heaven, Iowa" - Is there anything about you/your s/i that your f/o finds oddly charming— something that others often overlook or ignore but they’re completely captivated by?

None of the movements are big, so it's easily missed, but when I'm really deep in thought, my inner monologue is a conversation with myself, essentially, so often I'll be moving my hands or mouthing words as I work on whatever the project or problem is. Totally subconsciously. Kingston loves watching me when I'm like that. He says it's beautiful, like watching a dancer or an artist at work.

9: "Flu Game" - How open are you about your relationship? Do you prefer to keep it private, only tell a selective few about it, or do you let everyone know about your relationship?

We keep our goddamn mouths shut and hands to ourselves if anyone else is around. Can you imagine the amount of shit everyone would give us? It'd be good hearted, but god they'd be insufferable. We'd never get a moment's peace. At some point we'll tell everyone, just not for a while. (tbh I think we'll get caught before that happens, but we'll see) I think Pete and/or Sofie suspect that something's up, but I've got no evidence for that, so Kingston says I'm just being paranoid.