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[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.]

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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.

[parodeity]

Wait wait wait.

[ this hand gesture is less vague, holding both palms up to stop dirk. ]

What kind of clingy bullshit are you not doin' that you aren't sure is permissible?

[splinten]

Nothin' really big.

[Uh.]

Hangin' out with you a little longer, mainly. Admittedly, we're in that situation right now, but this isn't the kind of hanging out I was thinking about.

[parodeity]

What kind were you thinkin' about?

[ dave you were supposed to be answering a question from dirk not asking him questions

oh well ]

[splinten]

[Er. Uh.]

More in the manner of sitting in one place discussing things, possibly watching something or engaging in stupid board games or the like. Not. Me sort of standing in a metaphorical doorway unsure when I will have overstayed your desire to be near me.

[parodeity]

Are...you standin' in a doorway rn.

[ um. ]

[splinten]

You told me to leave about five minutes ago?

[So. Yes.]

[parodeity]

Well yeah because I keep sayin' dumb shit.

[ save yourself? ]

And all weathermen at Dave TV agree that the forecast for foot in mouth syndrome is looking spectacular today. Like, if you want to witness that. Not if you want to avoid it. The outlook for avoiding it is pretty poor overall.

[splinten]

It isn't the kind of weather I feel any need to avoid.

[As he has mentioned: he is okay with Dave's toe fungus.]

[parodeity]

So, uh, which part. Did you not understand if you understood the clingy bullshit part?

[ circling back around. ]

[splinten]

[He'd been waiting for that loop.]

I understood that it was in some way clingy bullshit. What I don't think I fully grasped what was part of it was clingy, or exactly what the nature of the bullshit was.

[parodeity]

The worst ways? Or the weirdest ways. I would have liked to have been like...there.

[ illuminating ]

I'm not goin' to make this any clearer holy shit am I. Like - it's just one of those weird things? It isn't even a thing I mind? You've only said about - two, maybe three things that upset me and they weren't that.