◜ 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 ❛ ㅤ 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ㅤ 𝑷𝑰𝑪𝑲 𝑨𝑵𝑫 ㅤ 𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑶𝑺𝑬 ㅤ 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼'𝑚 ㅤ 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟-𝑀𝑎𝑛! ㅤ𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 ㅤ𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑐'𝑠 ㅤ𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 ◟ㅤ

I just did talk about something— and that was my daily quota of feelings.

Do I look like I can afford therapy?

Do I— … ? No. No, I don’t. What I said was not concerning! But, you know, if you need one I wouldn’t be really opposed to it.

I already have a hard time trying to keep alley cats from getting into my apartment when I leave the window open. It hadn’t really occurred to me.

“… Alright.” He’s all wide-arms, and then the back-pat thing that guys his age always do. He won’t admit it, but that helped.

“You have…” sigh. “So much energy for these things. I’m honestly impressed— it’s annoying, but impressive.”

“Very forward too. Anybody ever tell you that? It’s grating.” Pete’s being an asshole and he knows it; he doesn’t know how to talk to people anymore. “Don’t listen to me. I don’t know what I’m talking about.”

Just the way it is— and I’m serious, kid, the universe doesn’t go pulling its’ punches. You roll with ‘em, you get back up. And you try to be ready for the next.

That is not a ‘bummer’, dude. It’s sage advice from somebody who’s been around the block.

Tough luck.

Yeah, yeah he isn’t so fun these days. Self-awareness probably makes it worse, right? But he’s too tired to keep looking for the good in things. But she gets chuckle out of him, and even he didn’t expect it. “Yeah— eheh. Yeah it has, huh?”

Don’t do that, man. Don’t try it. I don’t want to punch a kid— I know I’m a hardass, but I don’t wanna punch a kid.

Deep sigh.

I’m not fighting a fifteen year old, no. God— I’m sort of a prick, but I’m not a supervillain. Ugh… you’re all so trigger happy with the fighting.

“Get out more and do what— socialize? Go ice-skating at Rockefeller? Grab a coffee and sit at that nice bookstore a few blocks down? It’s not… look, kid, I get that you’re trying to help and that’s great, that’s good. But you can help better people than me.”

Yes. All. All of you. Spider people. Spandex, webs, occasionally extra limbs or a clone or anything else. I don’t get it anymore.