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A'ight, just sayin'.

[ this is about to be mind-numbingly boring, but probably the good kind. dave actually does like numbers. and he legitimately asked for this to be a thing. cool as it would be to just. never get an education beyond whatever he could grab up to the age of thirteen. ]

Which one are you lookin' at?

Calculus.

[He has always liked it a lot; it has the logic of computer code, and is a major underpinning in physics.]

I think this is very nearly the most normal-person thing we've ever done together.

[ for the record. ]

Completely removing it from its context.

[He glances over at Dave.]

Any objections?

To what? Doing a normal-person thing?

[ also screw you he can remove anything he wants from context it is a TALENT ]

To our particular effort to do this normal person thing.

[Flipping through the book look at the numbers and stuff. Amazing.]

No, that was the opposite of an objection. I like doin' normal-people shit.

[ actually. so. HE WAS...EXPRESSING JOY...DEADPAN...god he's as bad as dirk sometimes ]

I know, it was more... [Time to just own up to something stupid. Do it, Dirk.] Worryin' whether or not I was doing the normal person thing right.

[WAS HE NORMAL TO YOUR DESIRED SPECIFICATIONS, DAVE

god he's a loser]

[ dirk...what the fuck.........this earns him a startled kind of confused look. ]

How would I know?? [ NEITHER OF THEM HAS THE BASIS FOR THIS, even if dave can guesstimate it from pop culture. it always seemed weird and alien even so. ]

You willingly gave up a bunch of time to grab textbooks and help me go through 'em with the intent to help me make some bullshit math and sciences course from them, so? I don't know where we fall on the normality bein' done right scale, but I - appreciate it?

[ and that's still such a small word. thanks and i love you and i appreciate it are all such small words. ]

[Oh.]

It's a thing I enjoy too.

[Maybe even double oh. Er. Uhhh.]

How goes it?

[WITH. DATA MANAGEMENT.]

You're right, I do mostly know how to make like, charts and graphs and shit.

[ incidentally he's also really good at money math but ??? ]

A few of 'em are newish, but. Shrug. [ why did he just SAY THE WORD SHRUG WHILE NOT SHRUGGING ] How's calculus?

Pretty familiar. What did you find that's new so far?

Moooostly the last chapter or so?

[ he's just skimmed anything he recognizes. ]

It doesn't look, like, hard. But I never taught myself any of it.

Do you want to learn it?

[The most important thing in Dirk's autodidactic methodology: does he care enough to learn.]

Yes. [ like, it's not SPEAKING TO HIM from the depth of his soul or anything, but: ] I'd like to not be stuck at "nearish to thirteen years of education, kind of, based on whatever I could teach myself" forever, I guess? Not for like...anyone else. But for me. I'd like to learn it.

[ and he actually has the time and resources to do that. it's one of those lowkey nice realizations. ]

Then put a post-it where the new stuff is.

[He hands Dave a RED POST-IT! You know, the tab ones. Dirk has his own set which are orange and he has put one or two tabs on the book he was looking at.

A little more quietly, after:] I think it's really cool you're doing this. In the way that actually matters, and not the one that doesn't.

[He respects it and he's happy about it. It's why he wants to help so much.]

[ he'll take the post-its easily and start putting them in the book. god this is so ridiculously organized of dirk, compared to...any educational plan dave has ever made ever. it's only half of why he tapped dirk for this project. rose probably would have been thrilled about it, too, if he'd asked. though she'd be better at english and shit, dave thinks. it's not a thing he plans to advertise, if only because he's habitually lowkey about the shit that actually matters to him.

his eyes flick to dirk when his brother speaks, although he never took off his shades so it's probably hard to tell. ]

Oh. [ he needs to come up with better filler text, fuck. ] I think it's cool you're actually willin' to help me with it. [ completely free of judgement or censure, although dave's not sure...why. he ever expects that to any degree from dirk. logically, he shouldn't - he's never once gotten it, really, aside from "don't hurt yourself". ]

Life would be easier if you could just like, have people hold on and compose a track instead of say words.

[ he remembers the shades thing belatedly and his still ongoing but unacknowledged verbally attempts to try to wear the shades less in the tower, and takes them off to just clip to the front of his shirt. it is still the easiest way to deal with them beyond killing sylladex space. ]

[Dave's shades go off, but Dirk's already were. There's something playing at the corner of his eyes.]

You could technically freeze me, make a composition, and then toss it over to me, only to wait two or more months before decoding it.

[ dirk is way too willing to commit to a course of action dave still hasn't even really said aloud they should do?????

also: dave makes a face, groans, and flops his head further back on the beanbag. ]

If you're gonna be like that about it, maybe we don't have to decode them at all. But - we can...do that. Whenever. Not today, I am doing maths. And sciences. But like. Later whenever. However, I promise you I will want to die and may actually expire from sheer embarrassment.

I'm not worried. Embarrassment isn't likely to be Just or Heroic.

[He is happy to let Dave die of it in fact. He stretches his foot away from his beanbag to poke Dave's.]

Trade me Data for Calculus.

[They can see what they need to learn in each other's books and then try another pair.]

[ dave promptly nudges dirk's foot back, and then. closes his book and tosses it to dirk rapidfire? he fully expects dirk to catch, while passing his book back SORRY DIRK ]

You're gonna die from embarrassment, too. I am takin' you down with me so help me god.

[He catches it easily yes while swapping over the one he's holding to Dave.]

We should be careful. That death might count as Just.

[ it's so nice and relaxing to hang out with someone whose reflexes are exactly dave's kind of bullshit. ]

It'd be worth it.

Cold, bro. Ice cold.

[Also flipping through textbook number two! He has a few more things to mark up on this one, because while some data stuff is stuff he has handled, he has not ruined a crocodile stock market.]

[ on the flip side dave is...marking more of the calculus since he straight up never got into most of that. oops. stock markets are his JAM though. if only because money management was at one point a thing he was in charge of. including stealing money from john.

honestly dave did not do anything very ethical in terms of money in game wtf ]

You'd be fine, don't front. Oh, hey, btw - do you have anythin' in particular you're interested in for dinner tomorrow?

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my computer CRASHED while i was halfway thru this tag

your computer hates strider bullshit

I GUESS i lost like all my tabs feel for me

i do pity you. I Do

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