Tinder

[romancereturns]

the tinder meme Maybe you can't find a date. Maybe you don't want to find a date. Maybe this whole thing was set up by your well-meaning friends, or your prank-playing enemies, or your over-involved mother. Whatever the reason, you're on a swipe-based dating system. Call it tinder, cuddlr, e-harmony but for shallow assholes... you're on it. What's the worst that could happen?

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Comments

[lonedanger]

You're not gonna overwork yourself in the meanwhile.

[taediosum]

Anything... but that.

[lonedanger]

You said anything.

[taediosum]

Yeah, well, that was before.

[ Before Len rudely tried to force him to take care of himself!! ]

[lonedanger]

Before you realized you'd have to cut back on working yourself to the bone? I don't wanna get back and find you looking worn and ragged like a body left out in the sun.

[taediosum]

Well, I'd prefer you didn't come back looking like the walking dead, either, but we can't always get what we want.

Besides, what else am I supposed to do?

[lonedanger]

Those occasions are rarer now and you know it.

You telling me you don’t have any other hobbies?

[taediosum]

Reading and drinking can only fill so much time.

[lonedanger]

You don’t have ANY other interests?

Doing me doesn’t count.

[taediosum]

It doesn't? Wow, you're really painting me into a corner, here.

Interests, sure. Hobbies? Not really, no.

[lonedanger]

Huh.

[taediosum]

"Huh"?

[lonedanger]

I don't know, I guess I just thought you might have a hobby or two, especially since you're pretty well settled at the fort.

[taediosum]

Sorry to disappoint you?

I do remember warning you a few times that I wasn't a very interesting person, when we first met, though. I'm not sure why you're finding it so surprising, now.

[lonedanger]

You're never disappointing, doc.

Just don't drink too much much while I'm away.

[taediosum]

Ne quid nimis. You haven't been gone long enough yet for me to start wallowing in despair.

[lonedanger]

Baby, you don't really wallow, do you?

[taediosum]

Only when you're gone for a week or more. Then I spend at least eight hours out of every day lying face down in the dirt, communicating only by sighing dramatically.

It's become a very serious imposition around the Fort, I'm told.

[lonedanger]

[ Okay, ha ha, very funny. Len can’t exactly picture Arcade pining over any man, past or present. That requires emotional vulnerability they both know isn’t A Good Time. ]

Nearly had me going for a second there.

[taediosum]

[ Sadly, it has happened. But that was a very long time ago, and he was a very different person, then. ]

There really needs to be a better way to convey sarcasm in text.

I'm worried by how often you seem to take me seriously.

[lonedanger]

Well, if I’m being honest, your no-bullshit attitude tends to lend itself to seriousness in most situations.

Over text it’s a little harder to read when I can’t see your face. Your expression is always your tell.

[taediosum]

Maybe I'll just start adding footnotes¹ to all my texts?



¹This one, for instance, is obviously not intended to be taken seriously.

[lonedanger]

I think I’d just prefer it if we had the majority of our conversations face to face.

Or mouth to mouth.

[taediosum]

In an ideal world.