text; un: Jetshard

[dubiouslychthonic]

o)+ ALright, foLks, quick PSA before this has a chance to become an awkward issue, since I have friends around here and for some reason so does JaiLbreak:

o)+ TroLLs have a greater variety of romantic reLationships than humans usuaLLy do. Some of these are more or Less equivaLent to human romance - we caLL those ones red romance, generaLLy sPeaking - but we aLso have a couPLe of modeLs of bLack romance, which is founded PrimariLy in confLict and contention rather than more Positive emotions.

o)+ Kismessitude is normaL and heaLthy in my sPecies, and JaiL aPParentLy has a sense of adventure more usuaLLy associated with PeoPLe getting eggs Laid in their thoraxes. She seems to think she knows what she's getting into by continuing to needLe me. We're both aduLts and abLe to Look our for our own interests.

o)+ As such: it's ok to react to PubLic disPLays of contention with the same sort of miLd censure with which you'd treat equivaLent PubLic disPLays of affection. I wouLd request that you foLks not attemPt to arbitrate between us without exPress invitation. Doing so is imPoLite at best and tantamount to a ProPosition to a different romantic quadrant at worst.

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[founderinglight]

I don't go out of my way to pick fights with most people.

[Yes there's one exception to that right now and he can hear your smug grin on the other side of the text, Jetshard, don't go there.]

I just wanted to be sure that I wasn't being rude by not doing so.

[dubiouslychthonic]

[What was that? She should absolutely go there?]

o)+ Ah, no. Be as civiL with my Pitch interest as you PLease. I Promise any annoyance I've exPressed with yours has been entireLy ProfessionaL in nature.

[founderinglight]

...You're quite terrible. I've not even broached the subject.

[Beyond having a dawn duel with him and staring at his arms. Yeah. Izunia, you're obvious.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

o)+ You get sPades in your eyes anytime I've seen the Pair of you in the same PLace, but then, I suPPose his obLiviousness is a matter of record at this Point.

Still text I'm mobile

[founderinglight]

I fear that Ardyn may have been on to something with the neon sign idea.

gently threadjacks

[myocordial]

I beg your pardon?

[founderinglight]

...

. . .

♠?

[myocordial]

[izunia please]

I'm sorry, is there something you would like to talk about?

[there's only one question mark, yet you can just feel the "???????"]

[founderinglight]

...Possibly later and somewhere less conspicuously public.

[He has SOME sense.]

[myocordial]

Really.

[Really.]

[founderinglight]

I mean if you want me to be really obnoxious about I could pour my feelings out in a letter.

[myocordial]

Please don't.

[founderinglight]

(❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ*

But, genuinely, only if you're interested.

[myocordial]

Currently, I'd say I'm more confused than anything else.



:|

[you actually made him sort of emoji, i hope you're proud zuzu]

[founderinglight]

Consider it an open statement of interest, figure out how you feel about the idea, and get back to me?

[He's super accommodating! ... Which is one of the things Heart finds annoying, really.]

[myocordial]

[He absolutely does.]

You're being entirely too reasonable about this.

[founderinglight]

Again: Annoying you is fun and satisfying, actually hurting you isn't. Especially given the impact it could have on the wider social situation.

[Because the wider social situation is kind of fraught given the people that would want to protect them on both sides if something did happen.]

[myocordial]

I'm really not worried about you hurting me. At all.

[founderinglight]

Yes, so I've noticed.

Your refusal to admit that you can be hurt, in spite of very obvious evidence to the contrary, is reasonably high on the list of things that frustrates me.

[myocordial]

There's nothing to admit. What happened during our fight was a fluke and not worth mentioning.

So forgive me if I continue not to worry.

[founderinglight]

Uh. Huh.

(This is the part where I give you an obviously disbelieving look, but don't explicitly verbally call you on your bullshit.)

[myocordial]

Right, I forget. Because you have such an incredible understanding of what does and does not hurt me.

This is the part where I would punch you, if you were physically present. For the record.

[founderinglight]

Even if I couldn't read your face, I know what a traumatic freeze looks like, Heart.

It's not like I'm going to think any less of you, I don't understand at all why you have this thing about it.

[myocordial]

I was momentarily distracted.

I don't have a thing about it!

[founderinglight]

You absolutely have a thing about it, which is stupid, because it's perfectly easy to accommodate, you delightfully intolerable stupid bastard.