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[hashtagafreakingghost]

oh crap!!
oops I didn't mean to make you laugh that much! sorry!!

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[It takes a moment to calm a cranky Togepi, but Dave's learning to get good at this.]

wow who said i was laughing
more like groaning
creaking like a battered schooner in the tempestuous seas off cape CORN

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

I'll think what I want!
you're insulting prime material pal
this is the stuff you use to woo a girl

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sure maybe in the PITY quadrant

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

you're not using that right you know
pity encompasses two different quadrants and one of them just so happens to correspond to what we know as traditional romance
what I'm saying is your burn backfired

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blaaaghhh it was a joke
why cant i enjoy my obnoxious cultural insensitivity in peace

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

you're trying it with the person who meets an alien and immediately becomes enthralled in a lecture about different kinds of romantic entanglement
a miscalculation

I kind of wasn't sure if you knew or not though

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there were twice as many trolls as humans on that meteor and i was there for three years
of course i know
i mean i know the basics
i dated a troll i couldnt really get away with not getting at least that much

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

really?
you hadn't

uh you don't have to talk about this if it's weird or anything
basic disclaimer
it just seems like you're not into the whole quadrant thing
so I wouldn't have thought you'd date someone who grew up with them

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i mean
yeah
i had some concerns
and it turned out i couldnt hack it i couldnt deal with her hatedating someone on the side
even though to her it probably wasnt "on the side" its just part of how it works and it shouldnt have to be all furtive
but she made it like that anyway?
i dont know if it was because she didnt think i could handle it or if something else was going on but i got sick of all the sneaking around and talked to her about it and
well
yeah
we called it off like a year ago

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

it sounds like



I can just
whip out another dad joke if this is too awkward
seriously

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nah i dont really mind talking about this if its actually interesting to you
its kind of awk but
well
to address the oliphaunt in the room
weve both talked about WAY worse stuff than my failed teenage ex capades already

[Haha...ha.]

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

[Ahh.... Here it is....]

oh
yeah
I was kinda trying to give everyone involved an out to engaging in that
if that wasn't overly obvious probably
I just
I don't know I'm nowhere near an expert and wasn't there or anything and don't know her or anyone else involved but
I was just gonna say it sounds like there was just
more issues going on than the whole quadrants thing
it seems like
I talked to this guy York
a bit ago
about like
dating more than one person at once
and how it can work and it can't but it takes a lot of communication
I wonder if that's how it works for quadrants too

it's that time of night I'm just going on tangents you can like
ask me something unfortunate or weird if you want
I didn't mean to get all
high and might dispensing advice or something

[stop typing ashley just stop typing]

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[Oh, North and Carolina's boyfriend. Hm, popular guy.]

probably any relationship takes lots of communication
which is probably why i historically dont really

[...

Yeah, nope, too awkward.]

ok heres a question
what was the first book you read that you couldnt show your parents

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

oh



um



dragonflight by anne mccaffrey

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huh
whats that about

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

it's the first of the dragonriders of pern series
it


humans on another planet with psychic bonds with dragons and
settlers living in medieval society rather than technological
and
dragons

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so
why
is that a problem
are your parents like staunchly anti dragon or something

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

no it



ok i was like 8 and just wanted to read something with a girl being cool and fantasy
i didn't realize



the dragons mate and their riders the humans they're


well
psychically linked and it
causes stuff to happen


like kinky gimli on legolas action kind of stuff in case that wasn't CLEAR

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oh
OH
oh my god thats
hahahahahaha holy shit
did eight year old you even understand what was going on??

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

nnnnnot at FIRST but I had an IDEA and then
i got curious
it's a damn curse

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you know
i always sort of wondered where bad dragon came from culturally speaking
like what touched our collective unconscious and at what point to make people want to put rainbow naga dildos up their no no places
i guess i finally have an answer

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

jesus
how is THIS the subject we landed on
why

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probably because i was subconsciously thinking about the fact ive literally never dated within my own species
this is how i do
my mouth just says things and its like welp there it is thats me

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[hashtagafreakingghost]

never? really?
I mean no that makes sense from what you told me
- closest friends all live apart
- meteors
- The Meteor
all that
kind of just assumed MOST other people have more dating experience
(I dated one guy in high school for two weeks?? that's it)