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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[parodeity]

i dont speak japanese but i speak google translate
i dont think you did anything wrong
unless
you count not giving me a personalized signed flyer to ninja warrior
hand delivered and like embossed in gold
i guess that could be considered wrong
with comic sans

[doitrockapella]

...Dave?

I didn't

You're not even NEAR each other in my contacts, what on EARTH...?

[parodeity]

couldnt say
you werent trying to reach someone on the network were you
because thatd make sense in the haha how fun were having misfire city again way
but it makes less sense if you slipped to my name on a normal whatever

also yeah this is dave
if anyone else starts using #e00707 in everyday texts i may have to sue
for stealing my moves

this about the spotty cell shit?

[doitrockapella]

Unfortunately. I've been sending texts, but either they don't go through and bounce back, or they bounce...somewhere else, like this one did.

Sometimes I think they've gotten through, but then I don't get a reply, and that's not like him...

[parodeity]

mentor guy?

but yeah i havent been having a lot of luck w/ emails either
i send a fair amount b/c of my site
but that and calling ppl seems to be
less than stellar right now
it wont improve in the next week either
i doublechecked

[doitrockapella]

That's him. There are things I've been wanting to talk to him about, so this is a touch of Murphy's Law, it seems like.

...You doublechecked. You mean you skipped ahead to sneak a preview?

[parodeity]

i dont think i can hold a candle to potentially japanese dude
but ill listen or whatever if you want ever
im good about keeping secrets
other peoples secrets
and mine sometimes

and yes
im serious about proper internet care and i wanted to know the odds of it being a thing thing or like
a bad cell service thing
ftr things also get stupider
but like
thats mostly irrelevant and more why tho

[doitrockapella]

He's the reason I know Japanese at all, actually. The longer I go without talking to him, the more I keep noticing all the little influences he's had on me. The way I fasten my coat when I go outside. My habit of leaving house slippers next to my front door. Idle little ways he's been important to me.

Sometimes I don't like the way he makes me feel as though I'm fifteen years old again, when we talk. But sometimes I catch myself wanting to feel fifteen again, a little.

[parodeity]

sometimes even when you werent that young as a kid
you want to go back to a time when someone took care of you i think
even if you dont really actually want to be that kid again not able to do certain things on your own
but
the comfort of it
its easy to miss that

[doitrockapella]

...I just realized the other day, why he picked out the house that he did. For me here, I mean.

He's the one who made all the arrangements, when he made me come. I never really put much thought into why he found such a large place when it was only going to be me and an adopted cat.

[parodeity]

so you could fill it up
or because you prefer it
?

[doitrockapella]

Because it's too big. It's impossible not to notice how big it is.

He made it impossible for me to feel claustrophobic anywhere in here because I can't NOT notice how open and vast it is.

[parodeity]

yeah
you seemed not entirely at ease with our little locked room venture
not that i can talk
i like having escape routes
and that didnt have them

he sounds pretty amazing
to be able to think of that
i think not everyone does

[doitrockapella]

It's not really a secret, exactly; I just don't see any reason to spread it around. But you saw that nightmare of mine, so.

That's when it started. I remember the roof falling in on me, and ever since, that apprehension is something I've never been able to shake.

You're right, though. I can't think of anyone else who would've thought of something like that for me, and accounted for it.

[parodeity]

i think the people who realize that theres shit you cant shake
and that you can learn to deal with but that you maybe shouldnt always have to
because you deserve to feel safe and secret and calm and not just forcing yourself to be
anyway i think those people
are pretty fucking precious
like fossil fuels
or something you cant renew
or like a diamond or
a star or something

its nice that they exist
and im sorry youre having trouble getting in touch with polaris

[doitrockapella]

Are you going to make up a thousand nicknames for him if I never tell you his real one?

[parodeity]

yes probably
but
idk sounds like a north star to me
am i that far off?

[doitrockapella]

You're not wrong. Not by a long shot.

At the risk of getting a little mythological, you could also say he's the Daedalus to my Icarus.

[parodeity]

except the wax wings he built for you didnt melt
?
i dont mind getting a little mythological
some shit just goes better for references to that
like
sisyhphus
good reference just his entire experience is like
mood sometimes

[doitrockapella]

Oh, no, they still melt. But he knew me well enough to know I wouldn't listen to being told not to fly too high, so he came prepared with a way of turning the sea into feathers beneath me while he was at it.

...You're right, though. Sometimes Sisyphus really is "big mood", as the kids are all saying these days.

[parodeity]

daedalus but craftier

thats exactly how we say it
air quotes included
i feel that way a little every time we start a new month
with more weird shit
but admittedly a lot more of it is "why not"
my memories have trained me not to bother being that bothered by weird shit

[doitrockapella]

Daedalus but well aware that his fool of a child likes flying too much to be afraid of falling.

Have you gotten back any unsettling ones recently? Memories. Or is that "same old", too?

[parodeity]

i remembered dying again
but thats same old
so
ymmv

[doitrockapella]

...

That's not something that ought to be same old, Dave.

Is that one of the secrets you've been keeping lately?

[parodeity]

its like my thing tho
and anyway
death was cheap
more or less

idk if thats a secret
its just something i dont see the point in talking about