God, I feel like Sukuna definitely doesn’t care who knows how recently they fucked, but I bet Megumi accidentally lets things slip.

Like, they’re out with friends, and they’re sitting between Uraume and Yuuji and Sukuna gently shoves Megumi’s shoulder when he’s lost in thought.

“You ready to go, doll? We’ve still gotta walk the dogs.”

Megumi blinks back to life, and nods— then suddenly he whips around to Sukuna, completely forgetting the circle of friends around them. “I thought we called the dog walker tonight.”

“We didn’t. We decided against it.”

“Oh.” Megumi’s pensive again.

“Why, sweetheart?”

Yuuji and Uraume are only half listening, until—

“Can I sit on your face in the car, then? If we do it after walking the dogs I’ll be all sweaty—”

Megumi’s realizes it the second the other three choke mid sip, and clasps his hands over his mouth in shock.

Sukuna’s grinning like a little SHIT as they leave.

Megumi doesn’t go out with the group for three months.

Hi bestie! It’s very interesting to see how people interpret scenes differently! I need to go back and review how I worded it, but the way I INTENDED was no, Sukuna did not notice Megumi was teary eyed.

He also doesn’t feel that he has two choices to pick between right now— Megumi’s words in the car made Sukuna “realize” that he doesn’t have anything to lose.

As for the next day, we shall see! I’m actually a little concerned about how packed this next chapter will be, I’m considering breaking it apart. But I’ll just have to start writing and see if that’s a better approach.

For the remainder of the slow burn, I don’t plan on any “parts” for each month! Every month will be a stand alone chapter.

OH MY GOD, THIS QUESTION IS SO CUTE? I'M TEARING UP, I'M NOT KIDDING.

It's something so small that I thought about including somewhere once, but I truly just didn't have the space to put it anywhere: when Megumi, Tsumiki, and Maki were still hanging out, going to the park and spending their afternoons together, there was one afternoon that they found a bird being tormented by a cat.

Megumi stepped in, and without much thought to himself or what to REALLY do with it, he took it back to his aunt's place, clutched between soft, small palms as carefully as he could. The bird didn't struggle- birds are generally too stunned to react in those kinds of situations.

He ignored Tsumiki and Maki's criticism about picking up a wild animal. He ignored his aunt's shrieking, and he went straight to Gojo, who just so happened to be by.

And Gojo didn't necessarily know what to do, but it was a moment that he realized Megumi trusted him to do the right thing and helped. So after extensive googling, they learned how to best approach the traumatized little creature Megumi was holding: check it for wounds, then put it in a dark safe enclosed area to let it calm down.

Megumi helped look over the bird while Gojo stretched out its wings, checked its feet, checked its eyes and tail feathers. Other than being shaken up by the cat and the kid, the bird seemed okay.

So Megumi and Gojo let it sit in a warm, dark place. Gojo let Megumi know every 15 minutes to open the little shoebox they had poked holes in to see if the bird wanted to come out.

A half hour later, they were able to watch it fly off, and Megumi's heart felt as light as its feathers. 🥹

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING THIS.

It is. It’s fucked up that the terms of service that went into effect today made it to where artists and writers could no longer opt out of training X’s AI. Their work can be scraped and utilized by people who don’t care to receive direct consent.

It’s fucked up that even if you deactivate, your tweets still live on in X’s archive and can STILL be utilized.

It’s fucked up that I had to pay money to mass delete 13K tweets and thousands of direct messages that held fond memories, connections with people I adore, and content that I was extremely proud of but had no time to gather.

It’s fucked up that because of ONE sleazy money hungry piece of shit who helped get a racist criminal elected for president, (who mind you, wants me deported from my home country) I had to leave the platform I have held so much faith in for over a decade.

Is that enough? Or are we in agreement that it is indeed fucked up?

bestie this made me SOB in the bathroom I shit you not. today's been so overwhelming on my emotions (in a good way) and this sent me over the edge, thank you. 🥹 I can't even believe people were willing to read Firehouse when it's unfinished, let alone at the slow burn pace I'm going. It means so much.

Oh I agree so wholeheartedly about the 0-100 vs 10-20-30! They've both AMAZING approaches to take but I've loved being able to build their world, their personalities, and see them fall in love. 0-100 love is beautiful, but 10-20-30 is just as valid and just as beautiful to watch. They've been constants in each other's lives for half a year now, and they've still barely scratched the surface of one another. I love that for them, and I love that I know once they reach the point that they boil over, they can't stop. There's not a single force that'll pry them apart because they YEARNED IT AND EARNED IT.

Thank you SO so much bestie, your kind words made me smile and I feel so grateful that you have been with Firehouse since the beginning. 🥹 My little heart can never find enough words to thank you!