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[personal profile] outplayed 2025-07-15 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
every once in a while is fine.

[ he's ignoring how this makes him sound friendless. he is, but that is neither here nor there. ]

are you the type who wants to be the one who gets invited for every invitation, or do you not mind?
fromsprouts: (smiley)

[personal profile] fromsprouts 2025-07-15 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm fine if it's not every invitation. What really works for me is just getting occasional casual texts, even if you don't have much to say.

Selfies, pictures of a cool plant or a sunset, whatever food you're eating. I like when someone shares pieces of their life with me.

Of course if you start doing that, you'll get garden pics and stuff in return.
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[personal profile] outplayed 2025-07-19 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ this gets yet another "hmm" from him. he contemplates for a few moments, and ultimately ends up sending a picture of the full moon over a cityscape. judging from the lighting, it was probably taken from inside a building, at a relatively high floor — there's a glare that looks like a window reflection. ]

like that?
fromsprouts: (vegetables!)

[personal profile] fromsprouts 2025-07-19 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, just like that.

[Umemiya's absolutely grinning about the picture, and sends back a picture of a plant with a bright red ladybug on one of the leaves, from earlier today.]
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[personal profile] outplayed 2025-07-19 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
well, thats simple enough then

[ he says this as if he needs to convince himself it's easy. ]

what do you get out of it, though? seeing the pictures

[ not that he disliked seeing the picture he got in return, though it doesn't occur to him to clarify that. ]
fromsprouts: (listening and hearing)

[personal profile] fromsprouts 2025-07-19 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Knowing you thought of me enough to share a part of your life with me. Is that weird?
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[personal profile] outplayed 2025-07-20 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
i have no fucking idea

[ at least he's honest. ]

but i think it makes sense
ive read that self-disclosure is one of the fundamental aspects of building relationships with others
fromsprouts: (hubba wha)

[personal profile] fromsprouts 2025-07-20 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
You do a lot of reading about relationships?
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[personal profile] outplayed 2025-07-20 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
if you say it like that then the connotation is really unflattering, you know??
no, i generally like to read books about how people think...