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Comments

[peccatore]

A smartphone!

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Really? I've wanted to get my hands on one of those since I showed up! Can it Goggle?

[He means google please save this man]

[peccatore]

In theory it's ABLE to, but unfortunately you would need an internet connection.

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Fiddlesticks. Can it still run its other programs? I've heard they can be used to play games or music.

[peccatore]

Oh, yes, I think so!
It should all work as long as it can run offline.

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[The concept of a game that absolutely cannot run without the Internet is absolutely foreign to him.]

You mean to say there are programs beyond email that absolutely require a connection?

[peccatore]

Some of them might require it, some of them might have added features and so on and so on.

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I reckon you're going to have to show me. It's a lot to conceptualize only in theory.

Also, you know that conversation you're having with < crowed > is public, correct?

[peccatore]

Oh, sure, that's th [Aaand he was halfway through that sentence before Fiddleford sent that second line, which is why his fingers fumble with the keyboard and just leave that "the" hanging there.]





That's just my roommate don't mind him

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It's kind of you to stick up for me. Seems like half the peninsula's convinced I like fellas.

[Which has... actually put the idea in his head, whether he likes it or not. It was easy to ignore when it was just a couple of people with a very mistaken idea of his relationship with Stanford, but it just keeps happening. They have to be getting it from somewhere, right?]

[peccatore]

Don't


think much of it or anything.

I know for a fact that a few of those people are just trying to mess with you.

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But what if they're on to something? What if they're all just noticing something I'm not seeing? Even you thought I was.

[peccatore]

[Oh lord.

Oh sweet lord.

Oh sweet merciful lord this just makes things MORE COMPLICATED.]


I don't kno
I don't know! That's not really something I can tell you one way or another it's

You have to

figure it out for yourself!



:)

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:8(

[Marco, that's not helping. See this little emoji face? It's the face of a very confused snake who's been having a hell of a couple of months. He killed man in a public pool, he's been growing steadily more hungry and bloodthirsty since, he died! He was murdered! And on top of that he's been doing his best to deal with the niggling doubts and confusion and worry that this thing he's accepted as an integral part of himself his entire life might actually be something as foreign to him as the scales he grew in March.]

I've been trying to. I know for certain I like girls. [His ex-wife and Justine are concrete proof of that.] And folks keep saying you can want both but it's awful hard to wrap my head around the idea. You can't write a function that returns two different answers.

[peccatore]

People aren't numbers, Fiddleford.
You can't

You can't shove sexuality into math.

[Is it even right for Marco to help with this? Does he not have an ulterior motive?]

I mean speaking of science you could experiment
With somebody you trust, if you're comfortable

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[ah]

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I could count the people I trust in this place on one hand.

And the last time I tried to get intimate with one of them she nicked me with some sort of venom and I had about the weirdest trip since college.

[A few seconds later he adds:]

It wasn't on purpose.

[peccatore]

[... Okay that's not where he expected this conversation to end up.]

Right.

Well you don't HAVE to get
intimate. With anyone.

Just...

I don't know, think about men and see how that makes you feel.

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[Honestly, he'd have just ignored the whole thing if people didn't keep bringing it up and forcing him to acknowldge the possibility. This is one of his problems he can't will away by just saying it's fine until he believes it. The issue is that only leaves his instinctive need to Fix Problems. Marco's right, this isn't something he can do math to, but in his opinion just sitting around ~thinking about boys~ until it solves itself isn't a solution.]

That's what I've already been doing and it hasn't solved anything.

[peccatore]

[It's probably a good thing Marco isn't going to read too much into that statement.]

Then
I'm not sure what to tell you.

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[Yeah, it probably is, because while Fiddleford didn't exactly intend it like that he can't deny he's been entertaining thoughts of some hypothetical situations. How else is he supposed to figure out if he's into men?]

Well. Thank you for trying.

You can stop by with that phone whenever you fancy.

[peccatore]

Oh it

's actually Soeki's phone, so I was hoping you could come over just so I don't have to keep it away from him or anything.

[terribibble]

Oh! Sure. I could do that.

Where do you two live?

[peccatore]

[There is an address here, as well as one or two identifying landmarks.]

Or I can come pick you up if you want.

AAAND ACTION ?

[terribibble]

Oh no, that ought to be good enough. I'll be there in a bit.

[Sure enough, not too much later there's a knock. He chooses to be pleased with himself for finding the place instead of worried that he's already so good at navigating Bavan. Sure, he intends to stay here if given the choice, but he can still be worried about how quickly he's settling in.]