That would be a fun scandal for everybody to talk about for a few days: Jack & Annie move in together and then right back out. But I don't see that happening. You have a lot of stored up good will. We could probably survive me falling into the toilet in the middle of the night at least four times. Should I put in for a housing transfer for the ... 21st? Frankie Medina, Sage of Colchester, suddenly has a wide open schedule all next week.
(A training routine? Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I'd rather you subsume my subconscious than someone else's. In fact, it would make me like... scary jealous if you made a Mind Palace with another person.) Hmm, I can see that. Or like an art house movie theatre where you only hire youths in the middle of their Adventureland summer. Y'know, give 'em a space to figure things out.
You're in rare form today, Jack. You've got me spinning around in my desk chair like a total dork. What's next? Twirling my hair? [...] I know I'm the one who used the word lucky first, but do you feel like it's luck? Sometimes I think it's more than that.
We can go slow. I just want to hear your inner voice.
Annie, if you fall into the toilet, I promise to always fish you out. That’s my wedding vow. But you won’t, because I’ve been keeping track and my success rate for putting the seat down is 100%. […] Also because I put a sticky note on top of my toilet tank that says “DOWN, DUMBASS.” But yes, the 21st, let’s do it. I have day shifts all this week so I can drive us up to Colchester whenever you’re off work. And I’ll make our Montreal bookings for […] the 19-20? More days? […] Fewer? If something big happens at the Station, I guess the both of us need to be around.
([…] I think the main reason I subsumed you is because on some level, I wanted to. I kind of doubt I’d be able to repeat that with anyone else. Anyway, by training routine I meant more like improving my ability to work metal, or selective mind-linking.) Curmudgeon arthouse theater owner begrudgingly shepherds youths through their growing pains, and sometimes his Talmudic scholar wife pops in to dispense eccentric life advice. I dig it.
I can think of a few other things, now Frankie Medina is free. […] And no, it can’t just be luck. Rifts opened in the sky and made impossible things possible, so it has to be more than luck. […] That’s how I feel, anyway. We met at the wrong time and then the right time—not many people get that kind of a second chance.
We’ll go slow. […] Do you like when people play with your hair?
Look at you. Regular B.F. Skinner over there. Has spending time with me made you more reliant on the scientific method or have you always been like this? [...] Do you think you could take an extra day off on short notice? I'm not sure what you have planned for Montreal, but if I get my way, we'll be spending a lot of time in the hotel room, so maybe budget that in. I'm not worried about the Station. We can always drive back if it's a huge emergency. And it better be a HUGE emergency.
(I won't lie. I was scared, at the time. But only because I wasn't sure what was going to happen to my body if we couldn't find our way out. I don't mind that you saw my memories(??). Honestly, I'm glad it happened, although it's okay if you don't feel the same way. If it turns out that we can share expertise through a mind-link, I can be your personal inorganic chemistry tutor inside your head. Not that I think you need my help or anything.) Yeah, that's a good one. I like imagining all the different lives I could live with you. What're you gonna do in the time line where I run off to become a horseback acrobat?
Yeah? Like what? 😇 [...] I feel the same way. I just have this sense that we're meant to be together reconnect this way. And that maybe we've connected before.
I would like it very much if you played with my hair, yes.
Edited (stares directly at the fourth wall) Date: 2023-08-12 05:56 pm (UTC)
I like running personal experiments. 🙂 […] I’ll take the 18th off. When’s the soonest you can leave work on Thursday?
(At the time I was scared, but I was angrier at myself that it happened. Now that it’s over, I’m glad too, in a weird way. Obviously I enjoy talking to you, but it’s kind of a relief that you might understand things about me now without me having to explain much. And vice versa? Is that what you mean? Also, I was terrible at inorganic chemistry, so I appreciate any help, even belated.) Hm. Die, probably lol. I’m kidding. […] In that one I probably just go to see your show, we make eye contact, then I go home to my ordinary life and never see you again. But I feel changed. There have to be a few like that.
Nice try, Annie. I’m not about to air out my libido on IRIS intranet. Some things have to stay between us. And it’s possible, I like that idea. But I also have a lot to learn about you here and now, where you’re not a horseback acrobat and I’m not a Dune mentat or anything.
Will you still run experiments on me after we're married? I should be able to leave by 2:30? 3?
(Yeah, that's what I mean. And it made me realize some things about myself too. Although I do really love talking to you. I hope we don't stop just because we can touch. When I think about us together, I don't usually imagine us kissing, actually. I picture us talking quietly, is that lame? I'd like to hear about your happiest memories and your dumbest ideas and all the things you'd still like to do. I mean, maybe not in the heat of the moment, but I find it satisfying to think about us helping each other get what we want from life.) Eep. To think that was almost this life, except instead of changing you into a jaded daydreamer with an inexplicable obsession with leotards I just changed you into a faster reader.
Can't fault me for trying! [...] You're right. Let's just live this one for now. Although you know I would make a baller Bene Gesserit.
To the list of things I like? You can cross out feet. Or put a little footnote that says 'No more than is usual and acceptable.'
Only with your consent. But also isn’t being in a relationship living out one extended double-blind? 3 is good, we can leave here by 4 and that’ll get us to dinner in Montreal no later than 8ish.
(No, let’s keep talking. The mind-linking thing can be for when I need to share an observation quietly. Information-rich footsie, you know? But everything you just wrote, I want that too.) A faster reader with the appropriate level of awe and appreciation for bugs and insects.
You’re kind of already halfway there. Can you do the Voice? I feel like you could, if you really put your mind to it.
Hah. No, foot fetishes are out, scalp massages are in.
Hmm, I suppose. Although I hope that if you want something from me, you'll just ask. No need to build a Skinner box. [...] And that sounds perfect. I'm very excited.
(Secret spy footsie?! Yesss, I love that. We'll be even more annoying and more incomprehensible to other people than ever before.) 🪳💖
Honestly, I bet I could. I think I probably have inadvertently used the Voice in the past, actually. I'm not really keen on finding out, in this life, at least.
This Dating Jack thing just keeps getting better and better.
I’ll ask, and you’ll ask. I’m mostly kidding, anyway—I mostly meant relationships are a double-blind in the sense that neither of us knows what will happen. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
(🦶 can take on a new, noble meaning.)
[…] Ah. Shit. I’m sorry, Annie, stupid joke. Forget I said that, please.
💆🏻♀️ It’s like every single emoji was made for us.
No, I see what you mean. And, of course, we don't know for sure what will happen. But I tend to be of the opinion that things like relationships are more within my control than not, although maybe that's not the case this time.
It's okay. Really. The fact that I've more than likely made people do things that they didn't want to do or say things they didn't want to say is something I'll need to come to terms with eventually. See above.
Anyway, you make me feel 🥰 and I trust you, so I'm going to try not to worry about it.
Noting some tendencies here. 📝 I have actually noticed you have a take-charge kind of attitude. Even in school you made things happen. I’m not saying I’m passive (although you’re free to think so), I just save my assertiveness for special occasions. You’ll see. […] And I mean that generally.
Oh. […] That’s cute. […] 🥰 haha. […] Was that good, or should I not do that again? Anyway, I’ll let you do what you gotta do. Talk to you later, Annie. […] ☺️
Edited (Jack took a screenshot of the last part of her message.) Date: 2023-08-14 09:44 am (UTC)
I know you're not passive. A passive person wouldn't be here right now, doing what we're doing. You're gentle, but firm, and I really, really like that. And I don't mean as a general preference. I like it when you are assertive with me.
You can send me all the blushing emojis you'd like, if the spirit so moves you. You don't really need to ask permission from me. Talk soon, Jack 🥰
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Date: 2023-08-12 01:04 am (UTC)(A training routine? Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I'd rather you subsume my subconscious than someone else's. In fact, it would make me like... scary jealous if you made a Mind Palace with another person.) Hmm, I can see that. Or like an art house movie theatre where you only hire youths in the middle of their Adventureland summer. Y'know, give 'em a space to figure things out.
You're in rare form today, Jack. You've got me spinning around in my desk chair like a total dork. What's next? Twirling my hair? [...] I know I'm the one who used the word lucky first, but do you feel like it's luck? Sometimes I think it's more than that.
We can go slow. I just want to hear your inner voice.
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-12 02:05 am (UTC)([…] I think the main reason I subsumed you is because on some level, I wanted to. I kind of doubt I’d be able to repeat that with anyone else. Anyway, by training routine I meant more like improving my ability to work metal, or selective mind-linking.) Curmudgeon arthouse theater owner begrudgingly shepherds youths through their growing pains, and sometimes his Talmudic scholar wife pops in to dispense eccentric life advice. I dig it.
I can think of a few other things, now Frankie Medina is free. […] And no, it can’t just be luck. Rifts opened in the sky and made impossible things possible, so it has to be more than luck. […] That’s how I feel, anyway. We met at the wrong time and then the right time—not many people get that kind of a second chance.
We’ll go slow. […] Do you like when people play with your hair?
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-12 05:56 pm (UTC)(I won't lie. I was scared, at the time. But only because I wasn't sure what was going to happen to my body if we couldn't find our way out. I don't mind that you saw my memories(??). Honestly, I'm glad it happened, although it's okay if you don't feel the same way. If it turns out that we can share expertise through a mind-link, I can be your personal inorganic chemistry tutor inside your head. Not that I think you need my help or anything.) Yeah, that's a good one. I like imagining all the different lives I could live with you. What're you gonna do in the time line where I run off to become a horseback acrobat?
Yeah? Like what? 😇 [...] I feel the same way. I just have this sense that we're meant to
be togetherreconnect this way. And that maybe we've connected before.I would like it very much if you played with my hair, yes.
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-13 03:10 am (UTC)(At the time I was scared, but I was angrier at myself that it happened. Now that it’s over, I’m glad too, in a weird way. Obviously I enjoy talking to you, but it’s kind of a relief that you might understand things about me now without me having to explain much. And vice versa? Is that what you mean? Also, I was terrible at inorganic chemistry, so I appreciate any help, even belated.) Hm. Die, probably lol. I’m kidding. […] In that one I probably just go to see your show, we make eye contact, then I go home to my ordinary life and never see you again. But I feel changed. There have to be a few like that.
Nice try, Annie. I’m not about to air out my libido on IRIS intranet. Some things have to stay between us. And it’s possible, I like that idea. But I also have a lot to learn about you here and now, where you’re not a horseback acrobat and I’m not a Dune mentat or anything.
Adding it to my list.
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-13 03:56 am (UTC)(Yeah, that's what I mean. And it made me realize some things about myself too. Although I do really love talking to you. I hope we don't stop just because we can touch. When I think about us together, I don't usually imagine us kissing, actually. I picture us talking quietly, is that lame? I'd like to hear about your happiest memories and your dumbest ideas and all the things you'd still like to do. I mean, maybe not in the heat of the moment, but I find it satisfying to think about us helping each other get what we want from life.) Eep. To think that was almost this life, except instead of changing you into a jaded daydreamer with an inexplicable obsession with leotards I just changed you into a faster reader.
Can't fault me for trying! [...] You're right. Let's just live this one for now. Although you know I would make a baller Bene Gesserit.
To the list of things I like? You can cross out feet. Or put a little footnote that says 'No more than is usual and acceptable.'
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-13 05:07 am (UTC)(No, let’s keep talking. The mind-linking thing can be for when I need to share an observation quietly. Information-rich footsie, you know? But everything you just wrote, I want that too.) A faster reader with the appropriate level of awe and appreciation for bugs and insects.
You’re kind of already halfway there. Can you do the Voice? I feel like you could, if you really put your mind to it.
Hah. No, foot fetishes are out, scalp massages are in.
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-13 07:55 pm (UTC)(Secret spy footsie?! Yesss, I love that. We'll be even more annoying and more incomprehensible to other people than ever before.) 🪳💖
Honestly, I bet I could.
I think I probably have inadvertently used the Voice in the past, actually.I'm not really keen on finding out, in this life, at least.This Dating Jack thing just keeps getting better and better.
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-14 01:11 am (UTC)(🦶 can take on a new, noble meaning.)
[…]
Ah. Shit.I’m sorry, Annie, stupid joke. Forget I said that, please.💆🏻♀️ It’s like every single emoji was made for us.
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-14 06:35 am (UTC)It's okay. Really. The fact that I've more than likely made people do things that they didn't want to do or say things they didn't want to say is something I'll need to come to terms with eventually. See above.
Anyway, you make me feel 🥰 and I trust you, so I'm going to try not to worry about it.
DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-14 09:43 am (UTC)Oh. […] That’s cute.[…] 🥰 haha. […] Was that good, or should I not do that again? Anyway, I’ll let you do what you gotta do. Talk to you later, Annie. […] ☺️DM, 8/10
Date: 2023-08-14 05:28 pm (UTC)You can send me all the blushing emojis you'd like, if the spirit so moves you. You don't really need to ask permission from me. Talk soon, Jack 🥰