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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.

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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.

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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.]

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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.]

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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.]

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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.

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[ 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.]

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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.]

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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]

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I...yes?

[ that is also a thing that is true and sounds less embarrassing and pathetic. good job. ]

I just...it's the uniquely bullshit experience that you have like, a shit ton of the time, and it's really stupid on my end. It's not a huge deal, dude. Actually I think it is best we not explore that particular avenue of our shared issues because at least your side has reasons that aren't dumb.

[splinten]

Wait. [He feels like he's not getting this.] What is the thing that's happening here that you aren't telling me?

[This was just a conversation about how much Avatar sucks. He needs help.]

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Nothing?

[ #super convincing. ]

It's like...hats.

[splinten]

You don't like seein' me wear hats.

[So he is. Not following.]

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Ok, that was a bad example, or maybe an example of why it is less stupid on your side for this kind of situation?

[ howwwwww does he put this. ]

I'm not upset? I don't know if you get upset about it, even. I'd classify it as a weird feelin' and leave it there, personally.

[splinten]

I... don't know why it's weird. Or what you're seeing on my side?

The second one may help at least a little.

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No, no, like -

[ he's moved onto vague hand gestures. ]

Isn't it kind of like a weird bummer moment for you when there's just a thing you don't get to do with me, ever, because I already have done the thing and there's bad connotations? Shit that's one of the things we shouldn't talk about okay fuck I can save this give me a minute. [ he's gonna fix it. alternately: he will just continue to ramble with more emphatic and less clear hand gestures as he goes. ] I think it happens with everyone and it isn't a bad thing it's just a weird thing and it's one of those weird things you're socially not supposed to comment on because it's not a thing that is actually a bad thing or even a weird thing even if it feels weird, it's a perfectly normal human being thing in literally every perfectly normal human being relationship. So I am not sure why the fuck I felt the need to bring it up, except for the part where I apparently cannot follow the social cues of normal shit that happens and never gets mentioned and go ah yes that's the fuckin' ticket, that's the good shit I absolutely gotta bring up right fuckin' now, whereas the stuff that society would be like yo maybe you wanna discuss it I just kind of look at and then slide off the table and dump it underneath for the family dog to eat. Fido always sits by me because I am stellar at givin' him all the table scraps.