fifth ☕✨ tinder / moonlacing mingle!

[cadeuces]

( Ping! Your profile needs updating, there's hot singles in your area, it's a swipe frenzy— you all know the push updates with dating apps, right? Maybe you need to brush up your Chroma to buy a place in Amegahara and it just sounds like it's worth a shot, or someone gets ahold of your device and "helps" you along. Upload some new selfies with that new Moonblessing of yours, drop in an About Me, and get to swiping!

And Please— someone please come up with a better name than Prismates because the moons alone make sure we're more than just mammals and no one's obligated to do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. We all know the drill by now, don't we? Swipe right or left, yes or no, mark yourself down to moonlace and flirt or just rile a friend up with a big red X— try to include an opening message! Happy Hump Day? )

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, 26 (Iris)

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Comments

[nojohnyouare]

All right. Unsure how to sound fun. I don't do much.

[trivialization]

That is an area where you will find me no help at all. Most of my hobbies are individual.

Have you made any friends?

[nojohnyouare]

Some. I think. Some people talk to me.

[trivialization]

More than once? That's something.

You can always ask if you can join their activities. You'd best start with something physical.

[nojohnyouare]

So I don't start crystallizing. Again.

[trivialization]

I wasn't being euphemistic. Since you don't speak much and you're very fit a sport or physical competition would be a good way for you to show something of yourself.

If you have that much trouble with moonlacing come live with me for a while.

[ She just throws that out there like she's suggesting a brisk walk. ]

[nojohnyouare]

Sometimes it's difficult. Understanding what people mean. Sorry.

I don't think I do. Anymore. Is that common?

[trivialization]

Learning to deal with it, then? That's good.

Is which common?

[nojohnyouare]

Difficulty. Or taking people home to keep them.

[trivialization]

If you drop a person in a completely alien environment with not a familiar face in sight intimacy won't be the first thing on their minds. For some even the desires the moon cycle brings about will feel like an imposition they're being forced to meet, and asking a stranger to join them is too shameless to contemplate. You see some talking about it on the network from time to time.

If I was 'taking you home to keep' you'd be here and kept. I doubt there's anything quite that dramatic. But the mixture of functional caretaking and forced intimacy is everywhere.

[nojohnyouare]

It makes sense. Especially when you're not used to being close to people at all. Common. Even for normal people.

[and not, you know, people who can count all their friends and all their facial expressions on the same hand.]

[trivialization]

Are you going to become normal?

[ Not that it's easy to tell over text, but she considers that a very heavy question. ]

[nojohnyouare]

That can mean a lot of things. I don't know. In some ways, no. In others, I can try.

[And in some ways, she had tried, and that hadn't gone well for anyone.]

[trivialization]

I'd like to discuss what it does mean to you. In person, I mean.

[nojohnyouare]

If you want to. Since it's important. Complicated. As a warning.

[trivialization]

A warning? If I thought your answer would come easily, without reflection, I wouldn't be interested in hearing it.

I leave the time and place to you. Unless you've changed your mind about being stolen away.

[nojohnyouare]

[????????

Okay, she has to decide on a place. Just flipping through the app, she knows she saw some ads in here, if she picks one of those places it'll at least be more normal than when she picked the grocery store in a panic with Soundwave. It's not surprising, then, that with a one-track mind for anything animal-related, she quickly lands on the cat cafe ad.]

Do you like cat-san.

[trivialization]

[ How do you say you're too cool to like cute animals without actually saying you're too cool to like cute animals? ]

Not something I've thought about. If that's what appeals to you, you have my leave to choose it.

[nojohnyouare]

Okay. Cat-san cafe. I'll be there.

[Definitely not an excuse to sit around surrounded by cute animals all the time.]