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[splinten]

Any other size would be a disgrace to our household.

[he is not a barbarian]

[parodeity]

Then yeah we can have bean bag chairs.

[ this time the lip twitch is up into one of his easy smiles. ]

I think we'll draw the line at gold plated vacuums though?

[splinten]

Why don't you want us to have a dazzlingly clean apartment, bro?

[parodeity]

Too Lalondean.

[ although they also had more wizards. dave can think of a few more things he might not mind, but maybe he will bring those up like...later. ]

That was apparently an irl Lalonde thing, so.

[splinten]

[That. Is hilarious? Dirk... actually snorts a little.] Holy shit. Did Rose's Mom vacuum?

[parodeity]

Like, in the middle of the night ig? Wait shit it wasn't gold, it was uh, bronze? And also it was on a pedestal if I remember my Rose rants properly. But it still could be plugged in so sometimes her Mom would just turn it on in the middle of the night. Or just random times throughout the day?

[ HONESTLY ROSE'S MOM SOUNDED LIKE AN ECCENTRIC LADY but dave is pretty sure it was an eccentric he personally would have thrived under. ]

[splinten]

That sounds ridiculous.

[He. Kinda loves it?]

Any other requests?

[parodeity]

Her Mom always struck me as a really cool lady.

[ who really, really loved her kid. ]

Um. [ hm. ] I'll get back to you on other requests?

[splinten]

Sure.

[WAIT HE HAD A THOUGHT.]

How much tableware do you have?

[parodeity]

...Enough for me, so, uh, yeah we need more than that.

[ WHOOPS. ]

[splinten]

[That was not the point. The point was:]

We can put dumb prints on them.

[parodeity]

Oh, that'd be cool. They're just standard metal rn.

[ he did not steal anything Cool. ]

I actually didn't really do a lot of decoratin' full stop I guess? It's not like there wasn't time, but I just didn't feel like botherin'.

[splinten]

Would you. Feel like doing that together?

[Please, he is a dumb child, let him do arts and crafts with his brother.]

[parodeity]

Sure. But can we leave the walls bare for a little while? Not like. Entirely bare, just...mostly.

[ he'll earmark that for next month maybe. ]

However I warn you I do not have fully developed linen opinions, unlike my fashion opinions? I guess I do have some interior design opinions, but not like, a ton.

[splinten]

Yeah, sure.

[There's another pause. And then. Dirk slightly leaning a little bit closer to Dave, a little. Not enough to be in his space? Just. A subconscious movement.]

I don't have that many opinions on that sort of thing either. We could... try to work out our opinions together?

[parodeity]

Sure. I always liked, like, modern-y stuff. Not that I implemented a lot of it?

[ some. he had that weird sword and wall hanging setup in his room, and the dead things shelf. dave doesn't shift away, at least, so whatever he was asking for the wall thing being held off for reason wise, it wasn't apparently bad or anything. ]

And black and red and white, because I'm predictable trash. Orange? Dumb retro shit.

[splinten]

You've seen my general interior decorating tastes. We can give a general pass on wire horse statues.

[a pause.]

But, uh. I'm more excited to work out the things I don't already have opinions on. Since they weren't really a thing I got to make choices about. [Like dumb tableware, and linens, and getting bean bag chairs. All the things that the wreckage his Bro left him would not let him make choices about.]

[parodeity]

They aren't anythin' I ever had choices about, either.

[ since. will smith gesturs @ bro strider. ]

I'm excited too? Also thank fuck about the wire horse statue pass. No offense. Did you, uh, sculpt that? I did not ask back then on the grounds I was tryin' to process the whole...that. Just. That.

[splinten]

[thanks bro]

It wasn't an inheritance, if you were asking, but no, I didn't sculpt it. I used to kill time diving into the ruins of Houston. That was in the Contemporary Arts Museum.

[parodeity]

I was mostly askin' if you like, had crafted it yourself. Because if you want to make weird art sculptures you can maybe just a little less equine in nature??

[ maybe ]

But uh we can work together on havin' opinions on linens beyond "they should probably be clean".

[splinten]

Wiring art can be a thing we look into later. After the linen opinions are settled.

[Another pause.]

Okay, I am still at a loss as to what you meant, but I haven't forgotten it. It's highly unlikely you'll compel me to mark it as insignificant either.

[parodeity]

What I meant when?

[ he confuses dirk often enough dave actually has to ask for clarification on his confusing nature. Why this. ]

[splinten]

A lot of things, speaking generally, but this was in reference to the issue of movies.

[He knows Dave baffles him a lot but this is the one on his mind!]

[parodeity]

Oh. Uh. Stupid clingy bullshit sums it up?

[ and here we have more vague hand gestures ]

[splinten]

That part of it I did manage to understand, I think.

[Another pause. Hm.]

What you may not yet have come to appreciate, despite my frequent efforts to express it, is simply that while I am in favour of virtually every kind of clingy bullshit, it can be hard for me to discern what is permissible. Your blanket approval was a kind gesture, but it misses the mark in terms of my need to have specific actions okayed or vetoed to feel secure that I am not, to put it technically, turning everything completely fuckin' pear-shaped by acting things out.