three 💕 text ( un: inaban )

[dereban]

so.
i know a lot of people have done ads like this in the past but i kind of want to get shitposty w/ mine bc that's how i roll www

bad news: i'm running low on chroma, i need a moonlacing partner, send help.

hi!
i'm inaba, 17 (almost 18!! next month!!!! soon i will be Legal™ and it'll be great)
interested in fellow people who can shoot the shit
likes video games, computers, just tech in general tbh
and also mobage.

bonus points: 1) if you're from japan, bonus BONUS points if you're from yokohama 2) you can WALK TF to my apartment, i'm dying 3) if you're from the future and you have flying cars in your future 4) i actually met you already?

pls make sure your account is verified and i have the right to refuse anybody

in exchange for moonlacing i can offer for the low, low price of FREE:
1) help with computers and tech in general but esp programming
2) creative memes involving you and your friends!
3) writing. i will write shit for you. i'm mostly versed in professional article writing, but i accept bullying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i think that's all. reply asap, ty. much appreciated.

( ooc: As a heads up: if any moonlacing action threads decide to get more involved than handholding/hugging, I'd like to have those moved outside of this post, thank you! )

Comments

[tigerpoet]

I am an adult, but I can offer handholding and some hugs. I also am able to walk, am from Japan, have met you already, and can talk about writing for an hour if not stopped.

[dereban]

i will accept handholding

and also please talk to me about writing for an hour i need a distraction

[tigerpoet]

I'll come right over. Should I start with classical Chinese literature or modern Japanese novels?

[dereban]

please do

the address is linked below with map directions etc etc

and you know what, surprise me.

[tigerpoet]

Understood. Shouldn't take more than ten minutes.

[And in slightly under ten minutes he arrives! And immediately gets to holding Inaba's hand as soon as she lets him in, because he's also concerned, because he's an Atsushi.]

So I recently reread Water Margin, it's been a few years since my last read through, and I noticed one of the themes I hadn't picked up on before-

[this is an hour of talking about a novel I have not read and probably never will. it may become two hours if he switches to talking about different novels. i'm not writing this.]

[dereban]

[ And the concern is appreciated!

Very much so, because living in a large apartment by yourself gets a little... lonely sometimes. Or rather, a lot of the time, in fact. But hand holding it is! And she does find herself relaxing a bit, sighing as she listens and even comments about the novel as well. ]

You're honestly really well-read, huh. Most of my reading back home has been a lot of... weird things, let's just say that.

[ Like trivia.

She knows so much trivia. ]

[tigerpoet]

Writers usually are. [Even if he only sort of considers himself a writer, hardly worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as Akutagawa or Natsume.]

What sort of weird things? I do like surrealist fiction as well...

[That's weird, right?]

[dereban]

Well, I clearly need to read more if I want to call myself more of a writer.

[ That much is the truth, she feels. ] Haha... I'm not telling. You'd probably laugh at me.

[tigerpoet]

I wouldn't do that, that would be rude.

[vaguely hurt that she even thinks he would do something so mean??]

[dereban]

. . .

[ She groans a little bit before letting out a heavy sigh. ]

I used to read a lot of trivia, when I was younger. Like, I was a huge nerd.

[tigerpoet]

Oh, I love trivia. Did you not know that I am a huge nerd?

[Like, he's a teacher and famous author who can ramble for an hour about Chinese literature. Of course he's a nerd.]

[dereban]

Really. . .?

[ She sounds just a little bit astonished. ] And I figured you were a nerd, but like -- trivia is a completely different level!

[tigerpoet]

Is it? I don't think it's much worse than most other subjects people are nerds about.

[He gives her hand a squeeze. It's fine!]

[dereban]

A part of me is worried about what your thoughts on what is worse, but I can already imagine some of it.

[tigerpoet]

Well... maybe people who collect things, like stamps? Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[It's just Pretty Nerdy.]

[dereban]

Stamps are definitely weird, too. . . it's not something that I'd admit if I did that. I don't, though.

[tigerpoet]

Much more particular than video games and memes.

...How do you make memes?

[He knows about funny pictures on the internet at least.]

[dereban]

Not many people would make fun of you for collecting games or memes, though.

Well, I have a photo editing software on my laptop that I can use.

[tigerpoet]

And you can make them with anyone? Like if I wanted one of me and the other Atsushi here...?

[teach him meme-senpai]

[dereban]

As long as I have images of them, yeah.

[tigerpoet]

Well, I have a few pictures with both of us in them.

[dereban]

You should send them to me.

[tigerpoet]

I can do that. I really want to see what kind of meme you come up with.

[I place my life in your hands, Len.]

[dereban]

Well, I might come up with several. . .

[ Although the first one he'll get is this.

You're welcome. ]

[tigerpoet]

I certainly won't complain. Especially if it helps you feel better about this.

['But I only wrote the one novel??'

Thank you, you are a delight.]