"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

carrying the world around his neck

"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."

Ok I did the thing. I’m awful tho he’s going to need someone to look after him for a while oops.

“You look good.” A pause, almost cheeky. “Well, save for the disheveled hair and the fact that I can tell you were sleeping most of the day — and I’m smelling car oil so I’m guessing you were part of that spill on the road this afternoon — you look good. Great, even, I’m sure they’ll let us right into the restaurant. “

There’s a long pause, before she sighs, because really after everything that’s been going on, isn’t it better to be seeing him at all? Maybe they can have another go about that…that new elephant in the room. This ‘friend’ thing was actually harder to manage than anything else they’d ever faced, giant lizards and all. She isn’t hurt over this, really, because it’s Peter, and she wouldn’t really have him any other way when it came to his clumsy dressing. It just worries her — and again, the elephant in the room that makes her so conflicted even if her path is so set.

Oxford.

”..Let’s just go to that food truck over there, Peter. It’s okay. We’ll go get that ice-cream again, and start over. And you have to stay the whole time. Hopefully nothing cataclysmic will happen while we’re there.” With a gentler smile than maybe she should grant him, the blonde reaches for his hand, and tugs his dazed figure along.

How many times will she be able to do this again?

GWEN STACY FROM THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN.
[ Granted I already have a blog for her, I don’t know if I’d app her here but she is one of my muses and one of my most precious! I haven’t read the comics honestly so I don’t know all the nitty-gritty, and I know there are a lot of differences, but she’s kind of like LOL my girl-spirit animal. I can’t help but want to be like her, smart, intelligent, witty and kind. I STILL PRETEND SHE’S IN OXFORD TO THIS DAY AND YOU CAN’T TELL ME OTHERWISE…]