Kait’s Reviews > You Should Be So Lucky > Status Update

“Rooting for a team doesn’t always mean that you need them to win; some to med you just want them to see them fight, do their best, or even just keep showing up sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: ‘well he’s ducked, but he’s trying.’”

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“‘I love you,’ Eddie says, and Mark may not say it back, but Eddie can feel how he responds, the impossible yielding of his own body, a sound like a sigh.”

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I love them so much!!!

“There’s a violence that baseball, at its best, disguises in a way that other sports leave out in the open. Baseball has a way of looking like fun even when it’s grueling. Eddie thinks that he had to get to the throat if the ugliness in order to play the game again. He had to see it for what it is. Maybe he had to find something to fight.”

Welcome back Yuna Hollander (the TV version).

IYKYK

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Oh mark darling!!!! You really are such a sad sack (/affectionate).

“He hadn’t expected to realize that the fondness he felt for the man next to him was love...It had felt so real it was nearly tangible, taking up actual space in his chest. He hadn’t known then that it would grow. That’s it would out down roots and fill up all the spaces inside him, fusing with flesh and bone until there wasn’t any way to separate it from the rest of him.”

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“And Mark is at home. He has no idea why that matters so much, why this feels fundamentally different from sex in a hotel room…It’s just—this apartment has always felt safe, protected. HIS. And this, what they’re doing, deserves that sort of safety.”

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Well fuck me i didn’t hi i I’d be sobbing about watch bands at 2:30 am 😭

“It’s not their fault. Mark doesn’t expect anyone to turn their lives upside down and open themselves to violence and persecution.

But that doesn’t mean he has to like it. It doesn’t even mean he has to stand for it.”

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