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[sunmon]

well, you responded, so something about it apparently worked.

[brandingissues]

I'm just saying it's a strong opening gambit! You could start with like 'hey Kate, I think you're cool and you're great at archery do you want to get a coffee bc the coffee in the down is shit and I feel for you' but if you're going all in right away, where's the mystery

[sunmon]

in the spirit of mystery
who exactly is it you think you're talking to, kate?

[brandingissues]

Gwen, right?

[sunmon]

unfortunately not

[brandingissues]

oh no.
ooooh no.
noooo.

okay one (1) this city is bullshit because do you know how often I try to send a stupid message on this stupid thing and it actually goes to the right person? I'm going to guess at this point like a solid 50% of the time - that's a terrible ratio when it comes to a communication device.

also two.

sorry. that was.
kind of not the best way to introduce myself.

also sorry if you've ever tried to get a quota partner by asking them how often they like to be choked. You do you, that's what I say.

[that is literally not what she just said, but they're going to roll with it, here]

[sunmon]

quota partner?

[ somehow, alina has never used that term in all her time here. admittedly, her engagement with the concept is unusual. her first attempt at a quota partner quickly became her crush and then boyfriend. everything else, the darkling aside, has been too casual to call 'partner.' ]

[brandingissues]

yeah.
Like, you know.
Someone you don't really have romantic designs on, but we've got to get to our certain amount of bumping and grinding so it's like a friend that you

you know

quota with.

[sunmon]

if you like them enough to be friends with them and to quota with them consistently, why isn't it romantic?

[brandingissues]

well.
I mean.
there's different types of attachment right? or maybe they're tangled up in somebody else. Or they've got a whole complicated thing with someone they actually are trying to make a partnership with but they're not ready to get to the romance stage.

but the city says we have to do some stuff, so it loses some of the whole--connection piece.
Well okay.
not connection, I guess, but the like 'i'm saving this activity for the person I love' kind of thing that comes with sex, right?

[sunmon]

yeah
that last part was really hard for me when i first got here.
i have a boyfriend back home.
had?
it was complicated even before i got here but i think for a while i still wanted to protect that somehow.

[brandingissues]

yeah. exactly.
I didn't have a boyfriend.
Or a girlfriend.
but like.
it used to mean something, right? Like--if you chose to do it with someone. But here it's like a handshake or a hug. Hey, I just met you, let me put my tongue in your mouth. Hey, you're new, I'm new, let's talk about fisting.

It's a lot.

[sunmon]

is fisting what it sounds like

[brandingissues]

Uh.
If what it sounds like is a whole fist
in
I mean
inside of someone else
then
yes.

[sunmon]

i get the feeling you've had a worse introduction to the city than i did.

[brandingissues]

What??
Oh.
No.
I haven't.
Nobody's--
not to me, at least, I think people have somewhere at some time. I mean it happens, I guess, but it hasn't happened to me.

[sunmon]

but you found out about it somehow

[brandingissues]

[andddd is this the time to bring up to a stranger you accidentally texted about fisting that like maybe sometimes you've seen porn?]
Yeah, I mean like you don't have to have personal experience to know things.
There are books.

[sunmon]

you read books about fisting?

[brandingissues]

What? No!

[sunmon]

then the question remains

[brandingissues]

okay, okay.
okay.
maybe.
(hypothetically)
I potentially watched some porn about it.

[sunmon]

and?

[brandingissues]

It--

seemed compelling.

[sunmon]

really?