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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-23 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm keeping a tally in my notebook of how many times you've called me "ridiculous" today.

Honestly, I like that even less. That means they don't care about what we have to say.
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-23 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ridiculous. [ :-) ]

And of course they don't care. They do not even understand half of what you have to say. An audience of the general public is hardly full of your intellectual equals.
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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-23 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[... that's adorable, and it does get a smile from him]

Four.

OUR intellectual equals. Stop discounting yourself. It's our work, Viktor. Yours and mine. I'm just delivering it.
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-23 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. We are both geniuses, of course. It is not intellect where I am lacking.
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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-24 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not trying to be harsh. I'm just saying that you should give yourself more credit. You deserve it.
This project wouldn't still be going, if it weren't for you.
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-24 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
And it would not have started, if not for you. Are we to compliment each other's brilliance eternally? I think that will cut into our demonstration planning time.
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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-24 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Our? So you're coming to the demonstration?
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-24 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

Someone will have to hold the bucket for you to throw up in.
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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-24 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll be happy to have you there, in whatever capacity you want to be there.
You can make sure I don't say something stupid, like "burnt umber".
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-24 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I never said stupid. I said ridiculous.

[ "Ridiculous (affectionate)". Very different!! ]

I will stand in the back. We should put our best face first.
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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-24 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Five.

You have a nice face too, you know. When your bitch face is less vigilant.
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-24 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
It is not my face I worry about.
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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-24 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

[As much as he tries to reassure Viktor that it doesn't matter, there aren't many others in The Academy who seem to feel the same.]

I do feel better when you're there, though. Even if you're not up on the stage with me.
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-24 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, yes. I will say ridiculous things so that you don't panic.
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[personal profile] boyofprogress 2025-05-24 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, can you?
Maybe you're too uptight to be ridiculous.

(Six, indirectly.)


[He's teasing, but Viktor's fun to poke at.]
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[personal profile] modification 2025-05-24 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
You would not call me uptight if you knew how many complaints I have fielded from the safety committee.