In case you’re missing someone tonight, from me to you: “Missing someone feels like standing in a quiet room after the music stops—
your ears still ring with what was there,
but the sound is gone.
It’s a kind of ache that hums instead of hurts,
soft but constant,
like the sea remembering every wave that’s ever touched its shore.
You reach for them in small ways—
in the songs they loved,
in the scent of their coffee,
in the shape of a laugh that doesn’t quite sound right anymore.
Missing someone is love with nowhere to go,
so it sits beside you,
waiting,
hoping they’ll walk back through the door,
and the music will start again.”
i duo queue with my ex every couple months
we don't talk about it. it just happens.
2am. both online. she sends the invite. or i do. neither of us acknowledges who sent it first.
the discord call is 90% silence. no "how have you been." no "seeing anyone?" just pings and callouts.
"flash down."
"jungler bot."
"nice."
that's the whole conversation.
here's the thing though.
our 2v2 is still nasty.
she knows when i'm going in before i ping it.
i know her cooldowns better than the last 6 supports i've played with.
we don't communicate because we don't need to.
400 games of muscle memory doesn't give a fuck about relationship status.
we'll go 7-2 together. maybe 8-1 on a good night.
then it's "gg" and we're offline for another 2 months.
no follow up. no "we should do this more often." nothing.
because we both know what this is.
it's not friendship.
it's not rekindling.
it's not even nostalgia.
it's that neither of us has found better synergy.
and that's the uncomfortable truth about duo queue.
you can break up with someone and still be stuck with them competitively.
you can hate someone's guts and still combo perfectly in a teamfight.
you can move on emotionally and still be hardstuck trying to replace what you had in game.
some people have exes they still fuck.
i have an ex i still duo with.
honestly not sure which is worse.
study the saskio way
Shunya Yamashita (b. 1970, Japan) is a renowned illustrator and character designer, known for his pin-up style art and iconic work on Final Fantasy X/X-2. His fusion of anime aesthetics with pop culture has also inspired Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo statues of Marvel, DC and more ✨