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[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.

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[lempereur]

I am sorry I cannot return those feelings. It has nothing to do with you, it's a matter of poor timing. It isn't anyone's fault.

You say you want help. You say it does not exist. But you have not been here for long, have you even looked?

[pale_blue_arrow]

you returned the feeling well enough until you decided i was too trashy for your tastes. guess you must've traced a sixth sense from someone.

all the psychologists here require cash. cash i don't have. i don't have enough to pay for the booze i drink, i definitely don't have enough for some shrink who'll charge a hundred dollars a session.

[lempereur]

You're right. I led you on, and I didn't intend to, but that doesn't matter. But it was because I was compromised by a lot of things, not just alcohol. Not because I think you're trashy.  What did I do to make you feel that?

Would you see someone, if you could afford it?

[pale_blue_arrow]

if you're 'compromised' enough to talk shop and make out with somebody like me at a party, maybe you're the one who needs help. god knows you're the one who's earned it.

if this conversation is about to go to easy legally ambiguous ways to make money then no. if that's not where it was headed then yes.

just. be warned my mom was crazy as a shrink didn't fix her, he only made her marginally less take-off-for-a-few-weeks-without-warning and more leave-a-note-and-money-and-be-gone-three-days. not all broken people can get fixed, sirenito. i know it's not what you wanna hear but it's how it is.

[lempereur]

You might be right. I have it under control, I think. Things have settled down.

I was not going to suggest anything nefarious. I have enough of that already. Only wondering if there was anything else stopping you.

I can keep my expectations reasonable. We can settle for 'functional', for now.

[pale_blue_arrow]

if i get help you need to get it too. you have issues that go beyond just being here. it's written in your eyes. and i don't know who hurt you or how to make it better but i want it to be okay.

there doesn't need to be anything else stopping me. money or more accurately is a damn good roadblock in life.

functional has a high price tag. you sure you wouldn't rather get drunk with me instead? i can steal booze, i can't steal sanity.

[lempereur]

That party was only days after a personal catastrophe, you did not see me at my best. I have help. Plenty of it.

I am not used to having money. Some of it is probably not...reputably earned, but if I am to use it, I would prefer it to go somewhere useful.

Have you been stealing alcohol? You don't have to do that, I could give you Reggie's power for a couple of days.

[pale_blue_arrow]

so long as you're sure you're okay...

i'm not putting myself in a position where i owe anyone a favor. half because i never know what they'll ask for and half because i know that i can't deliver on it when they call that favor in, here. i'm not gonna set you up to be let down again, sirenito, i care about you enough to at least do that.

of course i have, i don't have my parents around to swipe it from and the guy i got fake ids from is back home, too. can you believe this place doesn't have skittles vodka? it's fucking tragic. but nobody guards the rubbing alcohol in heropa. morons. anyway i'm stocked up so no thanks.

[lempereur]

what

Is that a joke?

Don't drink rubbing alcohol

If you won't accept my help at least don't go out of your way to worry me. I do care, as foolish as it may be, and so I would prefer for you to drink yourself into a stupor with something at least meant for human consumption.

What are vodka skittles?

[pale_blue_arrow]

don't overreact. i've been drinking it since i was 12. worse case scenario i throw up a little blood but this healing factor thing really makes that a non-issue. tastes like hell but it'll get you where you need to be.

seriously it's fine. i'm fine. i know my limits with alcohol. not so much with anything else but. this i have on lockdown.

skittles' vodka is candy flavored vodka. reminds me of christmas. you'd like it.

[lempereur]

Please?

I don't even know what I like, how would you?

[pale_blue_arrow]

i am not hauling myself off this floor and crossing town for better booze when serviceable booze is right in front of me.

all guys who are into guys like it. i have seen women use this as a test and it has never not worked. by that metric that shit is your holy grail, sirenito.

[lempereur]

Your perception of serviceable is probably different than most people.

My holy grail? What are you saying?

[pale_blue_arrow]

i have a healing factor, i can afford to lower my bar for 'safe things to ingest'.

i get a very gay vibe off of you. like, on the kinsey scale you're a four or five. i never presume sixes because they're statistic outliers but. yeah, you're a skittles vodka and art gallery bathroom make out session guy. but a high class one. like, a really nice art gallery and the skittles vodka is probably in a champagne flute.

[lempereur]

A very gay vibe.

Forget I asked.

And I have never kissed anyone at an art gallery. Especially not in the bathroom. I would be far too busy with the art.

[pale_blue_arrow]

well, more like very gay-leaning bisexual vibe but everyone seems to view this as a binary instead of a spectrum so i just go with 'gay vibe' otherwise i run the risk of dealing with people's internalized biphobia and eventually i bring shakespeare's queer subtext into it to make a point and nobody knows what i'm talking about, which just makes me sad.

why the fuck would you not kiss someone at an art gallery?? that would be incredibly romantic. you are wasting golden opportunities. i hope whoever you're into is patient as fuck, they're gonna need it.

[lempereur]

I am not afraid to like both. It just isn't something something I think about often. Admittedly, I have no idea what I am doing.

It would be disrespectful to the artists. Unless that were the type of passion they wish to ignite.

[pale_blue_arrow]

were i more sober i would offer advice but idk you seem to have party make outs on lockdown so. just make out with everyone, you'll figure it out.

so if a artist WAS trying to get that reaction and nobody made out does that mean the people were disrespectful or the art sucks at its' intended purpose?

[lempereur]

Should that be taken as a compliment? I would not use the word 'lockdown' myself, I am not planning on kissing people indiscriminately any time soon.

...an artist cannot force his audience to feel the way he feels, he can only try.

[pale_blue_arrow]

take it how you will, you never seem to factor in the intention behind other people's words to begin with.

so a little of column a, a little of column b. got it.

[lempereur]

I can admit that. My upbringing was quite isolated. Give me time to catch up with you, if it is not too much to ask.

[pale_blue_arrow]

you know, going from isolation to parties was probably not a good idea. and i'm drunk so if i'm saying something is bad, you really need to rethink your choices, sirenito dulzero.

just. stay safe and try not to make out with anyone who you're not actually into, that'd be a great start.

[lempereur]

Probably not. I was told I needed it, at the time. It was a long week.

I'll try to heed your advice.

[pale_blue_arrow]

did nobody tell you not to make out with people you're not into? we could have avoided so much of this if you'd shoved me off one kiss into it.

[lempereur]

It was a joke.

And I was into you.