Will (@xaques) • Collective gay friends app

Will @xaques

26. 5’4 short king. Horror Head. Computer Engineer-in-Training. Lover of blue hours and gloomy weather. USC grad ‘21✌🏾

Pony up and salute your town 🐎 Chasing my sins away with brown 🥃

The brilliance of Kerry James Marshall.

from the moment I heard “Cozy,” I knew it would basically be my personal thesis statement. And it’s remained that way. Comfortable in my skin.

this game is where Gen-Z gays learned retail/management skills

Whenever I put my mind to something, I’m unstoppable. No one can indict my talent, and especially not my work ethic. Despite often being self deprecating, when I really think about it, I’m that guy.

going looney, time to delete my account here

i guess it should’ve been fairly obvious that I was a Horror fan and probably not-exactly-straight when, at only 5 years old, my favorite movie was “Freddy vs. Jason” and one of my favorite scenes was Brendan Fletcher rubbing his bare butt cheeks on a window.

i miss early 00s America. the Yellow Wendy’s with the thumb in the chili America. the texting with analog buttons on a Qwerty keyboard America. the Virgin/Boost Mobile paying for cell phone minutes and text messages America. The “Coming soon on Video” bumper on Disney VHS tapes America. The Oprah surprising guests in her audience America. The music video countdowns on MTV America. The renting something from a video store America. The lining up for new books or CDs or video games America. The recording your voicemail with a song playing in the background America.

Hyundai kinda snapped with this, idk dolls

on a quest to be as unremarkable as possible. We put way too much pressure on ourselves to be some grand, extraordinary person when most of us never will be.

i sometimes randomly remember Ace Carter matched with me on Tinder in 2020

I wanna hear an American poem. Something American, you know? Some sassy shit.

🏳️‍🌈 friendships >> (he won’t get his gay ass on Collective)

I’ve heard it said That people come into our lives For a reason

I’m so damn pretty. Look at this face card 💳

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF THE BEST SEASON! 🍂 ☕️ 🎃 🍁

more design work 🎨

I really am so brilliant. Honors degree from a T-30 U.S. university, and then immediately started working on a second B.S. in Computer Engineering (aiming for 2030, y’all 🤞🏾). Learned web dev/UX Design on my own, netting me an internship at Snapchat. And this is all during a 5-year long ongoing depressive episode. I’d love to see happy, healthy me.

us broke bitches wear our ASOSes, fuck a Calvin

it’s going to feel so damn cathartic ripping my useless college degree in half. Good riddance.

was in my Fall bag when I was making this, clearly 🍂

not many things I can put in my mouth that make me react like this

the warm mesh gradient with some noise on top. It had some “Jenny say quack” to it idk...

some of my old design work 🥲

shadow of a man.

so painfully behind in life. 20s have not been the kindest to me. but onwards I go

‘twas a night out in WeHo

MORE CUTESY INTIMATE GAY STUFF PLEASE. I wanna see (ideally fully-clothed) gays just • holding hands • cuddling • running hands through hair • kissing foreheads • laughing together • resting heads on shoulders What am I missing on this list?

it was, in fact, not Texas.

getting lots of attention in person but never in virtual spaces, and then not knowing how to react because you’re not used to getting attention

@cal is Milo from Atlantis and nobody can convince me otherwise

being a sane American right now feels like this.

Has anyone else kind of just...made a sudden drastic decision about their lives? After like 5 years of learning Product/UX Design and Web Development, which got me a Design internship at Snapchat, I deleted everything last month. My designs, my portfolio, my GitHub, my Figma account, all of it. Still not sure how to feel about that decision, but it felt like time to move on after so many job rejections.