semicharmed: (a little sad i didn't stop at 69 icons)
Matthew "The Boy" Jamison ([personal profile] semicharmed) wrote in [personal profile] peasant 2024-07-17 01:28 am (UTC)

Oh.

[ A pause between texts. ]

I'm sorry.

[ Which is the wrong thing to say, but everything he wants to say right now would be wrong. Fuck. Lacks specificity. That's not fair. True, but what is?

What he'd really like to do is give her a hug. Let the compass of his arms, its warmth and tangible sincerity, break down all the bullshit of class and gender and distant universes. That might be the wrong thing to do too, but it's the best he's got. ]


Well, I'd prefer to invest a lot of money in infrastructure, but that's a hard sell to municipal governments

so other tactics include making more spaces for plants. Bigger sidewalks. Giving people places they can be outside their homes where they're not expected to spend money.

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