literally every headcanon of kevin and holt meeting is gold check it out:
1. kevin writes a bad review in the newspaper of some musician holt likes and they start exchanging increasingly dry and petty letters in the classifieds
2. they both go for the last jar of cornichons at the grocery store
3. DOOR DUTY
4. embarrassing emo poetry group at the community center
5. set up by friends and they HATE each other until holt makes a lame joke and kevin dies with laughter
6. they yell at the same guy at the exact same time for talking during a movie
feel free to add!
7. Kevin is the advisor for a massively geeky and extremely niche student club on campus, and he organizes a group reading of a minor French philosopher. Half the students of the club don’t even show up and none of the “community” shows up except Holt. And Holt is two minutes early. And has read all the things.
8. They are both the only men at a chilly-weather Pride wearing 100% sensible v-neck sweaters. Ray puts a single rainbow star sticker on his cheek In order to flirt/show that he has a wild side.
9. Literally anything having to do with NPR. Anything. Just…NPR. NPR is the core of their relationship.
holt is two minutes early and has read all the things
10. They get into an email listserv spat about whether it’s “Ludwig von Beethoven” or “Ludwig van Beethoven”.
11. Or which of J.S. Bach’s sons was best. Holt knows that it’s Johann Christoph Friedrich, but Kevin will insist on Johann Christian.
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