IC Contact Post

[pale_blue_arrow]

This is Brendan Frye. If it's urgent, you might have a better chance o' tracking me down on foot. If I'm not answering, chances are I've gotten in over my head with something, not that I'm refusin' to give you the time of day. So leave me some words and I'll get back to you as soon as I don't have a fire to put out.

Comments

[lempereur]

What are you TALKING ABOUT

[pale_blue_arrow]

we need contingency plans in case this relationship goes south. i may not be your bf but i can still keep you safe, sirenito.

[lempereur]

You need to stop. none of that is happening

[pale_blue_arrow]

it could. abuse cuts across all socioeconomic boundaries. preventative measures are worth thinking about.

[lempereur]

pipe bombs are not a preventative measure!

[pale_blue_arrow]

they are if you don't detonate them. just let him know you have friends in low places. just in case.

[lempereur]

No! I am not threatening someone into loving me

I can't believe I'm acknowledging this at all

should I go into hiding?

What is your contingency plan against me?

[pale_blue_arrow]

no, it's threatening someone into not mistreating you, there's a difference.

you already fucked my heart over, there is no contingency plan against you. you won because you struck first, before i could even process that you might be able to emotionally knife me. congrats, btw. very few people get past my paranoia at all, let alone that quickly and that well.

and the really fucked up thing is i'd still be your booty call if you asked me to and i'd still make you a pipe bomb if you had a reasonable-ish use for it.

[lempereur]

Will you stop?

What are you trying to accomplish?

I admitted where I was wrong and apologized, and you use it to jab at me while refusing to do the same.

There is no victim here. Only a misunderstanding.

[pale_blue_arrow]

i think the victim is common sense.

and i'm trying to make it clear that if shit doesn't work out you could have me as a second-choice option just by snapping your hands. take that as you will.

[lempereur]

THAT would be using you, and I told you, I'm not doing that.

[pale_blue_arrow]

it's not using someone if they offer it first.

[lempereur]

Not according to everything you have thrown in my face thus far.

[pale_blue_arrow]

it's not using someone if they know BEFORE they show up you're not into them. clearer?

[lempereur]

I'm still not doing that.

[pale_blue_arrow]

...you're a virgin aren't you.

[lempereur]

...yes, how is that relevant?

[pale_blue_arrow]

it explains A LOT

consider everything retroactively fully forgiven with my apologies.

[lempereur]

How generous of you.

[pale_blue_arrow]

so are you gonna try to get laid with this guy you've got your eyes on or are you a take-it-slow type? you seem like the latter unless you're drunk but sometimes being drunk makes first times easier. i don't judge.

[lempereur]

Eventually, maybe. It isn't a top priority.

[pale_blue_arrow]

you need to plan this out in advance. come up with a really cool Halloween date. sexy costume + romantic candles or something. think about it.

[lempereur]

I haven't even told him yet. I am not planning a seduction via cosplay.

[pale_blue_arrow]

yeah, about the telling him part. WHY haven't you done that already? it's not like you're not clearly serious about him.

and forget cosplay, you'd look incredibly fuckable in a vampire outfit. but a classy one, an aristocratic blood-in-a-champagne-flute vampire.

[lempereur]

I know I have to, but there is never a good time.

He has a lot on his plate. The most dangerous of those things, we share, but he never had to deal with that sort of thing, before. He doesn't need the added burden of my feelings, not until things quiet down.