Rats are so easy to please. I shoved some sweet potato into cardboard toilet paper tubes, packed in with shredded paper towels. At first they were just excited about the paper towel shreds and started making a nest, then they found the sweet potato and lost their minds. Like they couldn’t believe what a good and gracious world they lived in that there could be sweet potato and paper towel at the same time.
YES. like. he was like ‘fuck i’ve died and gone to heaven and also seen the face of God’. Like. I don’t think I’m exaggerating in saying it was fucking LIFE-CHANGING for james. both bc,as you say, Thomas is excellent in bed, and also because…it would be so gentle and loving and I don’t think James has ever really had anything like that, especially not with another man. Anyway yeah he probably lies there dazed for a good half hour until Thomas starts to get worried and James just shakes his head to dismiss Thomas’s worries (because who can SPEAK? not him right now) and maybe buries his head into Thomas’s chest. Thomas just chuckles fondly and it’s the best sound james has ever heard, and he buries his head more just so he can feel the vibrations of Thomas’s chest when he’s laughing. It’s Good.