York is something else. He's smart, and unbelievably handsome, and way too charming for his own good. He was second only to Carolina on our old team. You know how the moon takes light from the sun and reflects it back so brightly that it puts everything else in the sky to shame? That's what they're like, when they work together.
Pretty much. Although "not normally into girls" is an understatement. Carolina is technically my first girlfriend, unless you count the time my sister and I switched prom dates so that we didn't have to come out to our parents.
After a certain point, pretty much. You know, until a certain age it's not really something I thought about. It's perfectly alright not to know, though. Sometimes you just think one thing for so long that it's hard to realize you might be something else. Questions like that are a totally normal part of growing up.
oh haha pfft yeah i know that i mean im not here because i have questions im here because alright yeah i had QUESTIONS but not veiled personal me type questions just questions stemming from a place of cultural curiosity and i guess ignorance ok so for context ive spent most of my time the last few years slogging nostril deep through a rank cesspool of alien culture as preserved by the alternian equivalent of a gaggle of psychologically damaged thirteen year olds with no real exposure to contemporary earths social moorings to balance it out and like they sort of have a multiperson concept of romance except they subdivide their "romantic" partnerships into different categories of relation that i dont think humans traditionally view as romantic or even desirable and i totally rebuffed my bro when he was trying to explain that shit to me probably because he wasnt my bro at the time and also he was trying to shoehorn himself into what i viewed as an exclusive relationship i was having with his ex or maybe shoehorning me into weird fraught emotional territory i wanted fuck all to do with and just being an asshole about her i mean his ex whos now my ex too in general too much info probably but i was saying stuff about humans fundamentally not doing any of that shit on principle and it looks now like maybe i was talking out of my ass so i wanted to hear how that kind of thing maybe does work for us sometimes
[For a second, that's all he's got, sorry Dave. Give him a second for his old gears to wind up.]
I don't really know much about the tradition "culturally," I grew up in small-town Wisconsin and then joined up with the military.
But if you're still curious, I can do my best to answer any questions you have. And if you do have any of the other kind of question, I'm here for those too. Being a teenager is hard.
well are you sure obviously these discussions get pretty personal even when im trying to be cool and respect your privacy and junk by just picking at the fringes of the questions i got
Well, so long as you don't mind me waxing poetic talking about York and Carolina, I don't see any harm. I'm afraid you are too young for the juicy details, though.
If you have anything you want to know about my sister, I'll be happy to tell you about her, too.
[You know, what it's like being an adult with a twin, growing up a twin, whatever you want to know, Dave.]
No, God, that's not what I meant. My sister's intimate relationships are very high on the list of things that I never need to know about. Ever. I just meant
Let me start over. If you ever need someone to talk to about your sister, or if you're curious about what it's like being an old man twin, I'm happy to talk about that with you, too.
oh oh no yeah its ok like i said for most of our lives we didnt know we were related so in a lot of ways shes just like a really good friend whos similar to me in a lot of uncanny ways both physically and brainwise and who i feel like a little more connected to i guess but you can tell me about your sister if you want i dont know a lot of grownups in general so thinking about how relationships change when youre older is somewhat blowing my mind actually atm
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did you know she sent me a happiny meal toy for my birthday
im seventeen years old who does that
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Nobody's too old for a happiny meal toy. Granted, I usually get them for my team and not myself, but the point still stands.
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whats he like
i dont think ive talked to him
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He was second only to Carolina on our old team. You know how the moon takes light from the sun and reflects it back so brightly that it puts everything else in the sky to shame? That's what they're like, when they work together.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
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[This is the gayest thing Dave's ever clapped eyes on, and he's sat through the mushy parts of pale troll romcoms.]
so youre not
normally into girls?
but its different because its those two
am i basically getting that right
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Although "not normally into girls" is an understatement.
Carolina is technically my first girlfriend, unless you count the time my sister and I switched prom dates so that we didn't have to come out to our parents.
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youve known for a long time then
did you always know?
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It's perfectly alright not to know, though. Sometimes you just think one thing for so long that it's hard to realize you might be something else.
Questions like that are a totally normal part of growing up.
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i mean im not here because i have questions im here because
alright yeah i had QUESTIONS but not veiled personal me type questions just questions stemming from a place of cultural curiosity
and i guess ignorance
ok so for context ive spent most of my time the last few years slogging nostril deep through a rank cesspool of alien culture as preserved by the alternian equivalent of a gaggle of psychologically damaged thirteen year olds with no real exposure to contemporary earths social moorings to balance it out and like
they sort of have a multiperson concept of romance
except they subdivide their "romantic" partnerships into different categories of relation that i dont think humans traditionally view as romantic or even desirable
and i totally rebuffed my bro when he was trying to explain that shit to me probably because he wasnt my bro at the time and also he was trying to shoehorn himself into what i viewed as an exclusive relationship i was having with his ex
or maybe shoehorning me into weird fraught emotional territory i wanted fuck all to do with
and just being an asshole about her
i mean his ex whos now my ex too
in general
too much info probably but i was saying stuff about humans fundamentally not doing any of that shit on principle and it looks now like maybe i was talking out of my ass
so i wanted to hear how that kind of thing maybe does work for us sometimes
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[For a second, that's all he's got, sorry Dave. Give him a second for his old gears to wind up.]
I don't really know much about the tradition "culturally," I grew up in small-town Wisconsin and then joined up with the military.
But if you're still curious, I can do my best to answer any questions you have.
And if you do have any of the other kind of question, I'm here for those too. Being a teenager is hard.
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are you sure
obviously these discussions get pretty personal even when im trying to be cool and respect your privacy and junk by just picking at the fringes of the questions i got
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I'm afraid you are too young for the juicy details, though.
If you have anything you want to know about my sister, I'll be happy to tell you about her, too.
[You know, what it's like being an adult with a twin, growing up a twin, whatever you want to know, Dave.]
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your sister?
what about her
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OH
oh
no thats fine
my sisters been involved with a girl alien for like three years now so im pretty much covered on that front
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My sister's intimate relationships are very high on the list of things that I never need to know about. Ever.
I just meant
Let me start over.
If you ever need someone to talk to about your sister, or if you're curious about what it's like being an old man twin, I'm happy to talk about that with you, too.
[Solo twin club.]
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oh no yeah its ok
like i said for most of our lives we didnt know we were related so in a lot of ways
shes just like a really good friend whos similar to me in a lot of uncanny ways both physically and brainwise
and who i feel like a little more connected to i guess
but you can tell me about your sister if you want
i dont know a lot of grownups in general so thinking about how relationships change when youre older is somewhat blowing my mind actually atm