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[splinten]

That would depend on what you mean when you're asking what my favourite colour is.

[dave-tale no mercy run]

My preference would be for chat clients. It feels unlikely that I'd actually enjoy using most other forms of social media.

[parodeity]

List the possible meanings I could have for that exact question.

[ but moving on ]

I'm deciding twitter for you. [ THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS ] You'd enjoy that one if you remotely enjoy talkin' to me ever.

[splinten]

You could be asking me what colour I prefer for myself and objects I own. You could also be asking what colour makes me happiest to look at, or which colour I find most soothing. You could be asking what colour I'm predisposed to think positively of.

[stop him]

Okay, it's Twitter.

[parodeity]

Ok, do all of those in order.

[ no ]

You really would've liked it, I think. I liked to follow the shitpost twitters that were like - just absurd I guess? I think you would have liked those, too. Maybe?

[splinten]

Orange, pink-green-blue, see above plus red and purple, red.

The last one's recent. The started using red about six months before we met. It wasn't appreciated.

[#sentimentalloser]

Horse ebooks. [please stop him] I looked into birdsrightsactivist's archival stuff too. They were hilarious.

[parodeity]

That would be a good reason not to be happy about red being a thing that exists, yep. I remember his text was Rose's but my color.

[ also: ]

Never heard of either of those so I assume they started tweetin' after April 2009. As always, I feel my pop culture relevance sharply droppin' off. I gotta hit the archives.

[splinten]

Yeah. So the positive predisposition is new.

[Like, three-quarters-of-a-year new.]

Sorry for your irrelevance. Which ones did you follow?

[parodeity]

Cool.

[ he drops the topic, although it's hard to say if it was the color thing or something else that cause a minor mercurial mood change, or if there even was one. dave frowns, trying to remember who he'd bothered to follow. ]

Jonnysun for like a week before d-day, dril, everyword, that kinda thing?

[ he would have loved nihilist arbys and shit. like wtf. and horse_ebooks, yes. ]

[splinten]

[Dirk indeed can't make that call. He tries not to read into it. As always when it comes to resisting overanalysis, he fails.]

Add Nihilist Arby's to your archive dive. You'll love it.

[parodeity]

Nihilist what now.

[ wHY did the world end TOO SOON. social media was just! getting good!!!!! ]

[splinten]

Nihilist Arby's. It was a fuckin' masterwork in my universe, brilliant critiques and top notch humour as society plummeted into reality television absurdity and ubiquity of the baked goods corporate tyrant. We'll have to see if it was as funny in this world, or if it existed at all.

[parodeity]

Ok so far the only upside I'm seein' to not goin' past April 2009 pop culture wise is...yeah I have yet to actually meet a thing post that which I've experienced and super hated.

[splinten]

Avatar got multiple sequels.

[Only Dirk hates Avatar enough to want the world cancelled in 2009.

Dirk, and John after seeing his Ectodad's painted butt.]

[parodeity]

I still haven't seen the first one.

[ so he is like. ambivalent on the topic. dirk hates it but dirk also hated snakes on a plane. ]

[splinten]

I thought you and Jake were going to watch it. With Rose and a bunch of other people.

[And not Dirk. To his eternal sulking.]

[parodeity]

Oh, we never picked a night I guess? I completely forgot about that. The last movie marathon I went to was that whole...romcom dealio, and I barely remember what the fuck we watched there.

[ he prefers his movies more bad, absurd, or comedic. ]

Also the main point of that was just to give you a hard time because you minded so much?

[splinten]

I got that part of it.

[He realized, eventually, that he was indeed being wound up.]

One day you'll understand.

[Dave can never understand Dirk's hatred because while much of that hatred is actually really reasoned and fair, part of it is being jealous that Jake wants to bang an alien furry.]

[parodeity]

It would've been more fun if you'd agreed to watch, too.

[ not an attempt at manipulation: just an honest statement of facts, said deadpan neutral. ]

[splinten]

[Sorry, Dave, but it strikes an emotional mark. Dirk shrugs, his shoulders curling in naturally at the end of the movement.]

Maybe some time.

[parodeity]

[ an eyeroll as he turns to face dirk this time. ]

I didn't mean it like that. I think most movies are more fun when we watch them together, is what I meant. Which isn't to say we ever gotta watch shit we hate just for the sake of it?

[splinten]

We still need to watch The Last Airbender and Sharknado.

[Possibly, that answers what Dave is saying.]

[parodeity]

Ok. [ it possibly answers it but he wants to try to explain himself again. just a bit. ] I think I mean that it would be cool if someday we watched shit neither of us had watched together, and hated it or loved it. The temporal disparities means that usually doesn't happen one way or the other, and we just go into everything media-related full of opinions or havin' already made up our minds about what it'll be like? Or. Somethin' like that. I'm not sure what I meant it like, but I didn't mean force yourself. Just...yeah. I do like the guided tour through post April 2009 to the extent you're willin' to give it?

[splinten]

[Oh. Hm.]

Do you want to watch more movies with me?

[Ugh he is so awkward and embarrassing but at least he managed to ask.]

[parodeity]

Uh. Yes.

[ leT'S GO WITH THAT IT'S LESS EMBARRASSING THAN WHATEVER VAGUE EMOTION DAVE IS TRYING TO CONVEY HERE. ]

Sure?

[splinten]

[Okay, not quite that.]

Do you... want to share totally new experiences with me, not burdened by the baggage of our pasts?

[help him here]