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sure
can we do it via text

[ he assumed it would be through text since they barely see each other in person now but having it asked like that makes it worse ]

YEAH.
WHATEVER YOU WANT, STRIDER.
TEXT IS FINE.

i find it easier to talk about that kind of shit via text
if youre not ok with that you should say so
dirk prefers not to text

I WOULD PREFER NOT TO TEXT BUT YOU ALREADY ADMITTED THAT THIS IS A THING YOU ARE NOT TOO THRILLED ABOUT DOING?
SO WE NEED TO HAVE A MIDDLE GROUND SOMEWHERE HERE.

theres not really a middle ground between texting and in person
i dont think
like
either youre in person or youre not man
texting in person eliminates the things that make me more comfortable talking about this kind of thing via texting
so that suggestion is generally pretty dumb even by strider standards

OH MY GOD!
THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT.

[ he added asshole after that, but then deletes it since dave said he doesn't want to be... insulted anymore... ]

I MEAN THAT YOU ARE ALREADY DOING A COMPROMISE FOR THIS WHOLE SETUP.
SO IT WOULD ONLY MAKE SENSE FOR ME TO DO ONE BACK.
I CHOOSE THE ACTIVITY AND YOU CHOOSE HOW WE DO SAID ACTIVITY.

all right
that works

[ or it seems like it's what will help karkat the most so. same difference? ]

ALRIGHT.
THANKS.
ALTHOUGH IF YOU *REALLY* DON'T WANT TO DO THIS YOU DON'T HAVE TO. I DON'T WANT YOU TO FEEL LIKE YOU'RE OBLIGATED TO.

its fine
you dont think we can be friends if we dont right

WE PROBABLY COULD?
BUT JUST THOSE KINDS OF FRIENDS THAT YOU SAY HI TO WHEN YOU WALK BY EACH OTHER AND MAY OCCASIONALLY HANG OUT DOING SOME GENERIC ACTIVITY WITH.
I DON'T WANT THAT.
I WANT YOU TO TRUST ME AGAIN, EVEN IF IT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT?
I DON'T REALLY CARE HOW LONG IT GODDAMN TAKES FOR THAT TO BE A THING BUT I WILL WORK AS MUCH AS I CAN FOR IT.

i trust you with my life
thats not an issue

[ just maaaaaaybe not emotionally, which was the thing that happened to dirk. dirk also did not really take that well. ]

look
if youre wanting me to be enthused about it
that again isnt going to happen
i am legitimately never enthused about this kind of thing
but i agreed to it
so lets like
call it even

[ dirk and karkat have a lot of similarities, actually, it's just unfortunate that almost all of them are negative traits so. oops. ]

ALRIGHT OK.
AND I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO BE LEAPING INTO THE AIR IN JOY OVER THIS.
IT'S NOT LIKE I AM EITHER?
I AM JUST MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE SURE I AM NOT STEAMROLLING OVER ANYBODY.
LIKE IN THAT ONE SCENE FROM THAT MOVIE WITH THE ANIMATED RABBIT?
BUT INSTEAD OF BEING AN ACTUAL STEAMROLLER, IT'S JUST ME, DRAGGING PEOPLE AROUND TO DO THINGS.

its fine dude
youre gonna obsess over this until we do it anyway
which wont help anyone
and would make any other avenues of working on shit kind of difficult

I WOULDN'T SAY "OBSESS," AS THAT IS A VERY STRONG WORD.
BUT SERIOUSLY.
THANKS.

but you didnt claim it was inaccurate
just that you wouldnt say it

IT'S SORT OF LIKE MULTITASKING.
EXCEPT INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS AT ONCE, IT'S JUST FOCUSING ON ONE VERY PARTICULAR THING.

you just described the exact opposite of multitasking
without trying to be funny

IT IS A VERY VALUABLE SKILL SET TO HAVE.
MANY HAVE TRIED TO COPY MY RAZOR SHARP FOCUS, ONLY TO BE CUT BY ITS POINTY EDGES.

if you say so dude
anyway
did you have anything else you wanted to talk about

NO, THAT WAS BASICALLY IT, I GUESS.

all right
whenever we get to the point where you wont like
obsess over the minutiae of the conversations you want to pick apart
thereby making actually hanging out awkward and difficult
we can like
maybe set up a hangout time of some kind
maybe in a group

I CAN HANGOUT WITHOUT DOING ANY OF THAT!!
BUT OK.
WITH JADE AND JAKE AND THE REST, I GUESS.
OR WHOEVER YOU'RE OK WITH.

dirk and rose
or i guess
people from home basically

I FIGURED.
BUT YEAH, WHENEVER YOU WANT.

after whatever this is
if its just some kind of group hangout or movies whoever could come really

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