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WHAT in person
WHERE all over
WHEN 32nd day
NOTES it's a deage post

[it's a beautiful day!

by someone's standards!

which is to say, the entire town is darkly overcast and gloomy, and starting in the morning, there are scattered showers intermittently around the town. it's light enough that it isn't bothersome, barely noticeable, really, but you may find yourself feeling a bit different after you've past through one. like it's taken a few years off your life— quite literally.

or maybe it doesn't effect you at all! and you just want to go for a walk in the rain. you do you.]

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Cuddling and a movie is usually a pretty solid option when you feel like shit.

[suddenly: a cute white fox dropping down, sitting at your feet]

[Makes an alarmed noise, jerking a look to the side for Tristan only to find him gone.]

JEGUS christ, don't suddenly turn into a wild animal without saying anything??? I didn't even know you could do that.

[Tristan's voice in your head, amused]

Sorry. Surprise. Pick me up.

[Dave does as he's told, kind of awkward shifting until he thinks he is holding him acceptably.]

We're not watching Fox and the Hound, that's not going to make ANYBODY feel good.

[more amusement, as he settles comfortably. surprisingly light.]

No, that would be some kind of masochism.

Sentimental masochism. I was going to make you watch Troll Hitch, which is a totally different kind of masochism.

Troll Hitch. Do I even want to know?

It's exactly like the 2005 romantic comedy starring Will Smith, including warped and toxic depictions of its native culture's romantic paradigm .

Well, I'm sold.

I won't say it's better than it sounds but you will definitely learn things you didn't want to know, and Troll Will Smith's cops as a loveable goofball are basically memetic.

It definitely sounds distracting enough.

Yeah. I've forgotten whether I've given you the whole rundown on quadrants or not, I'll pull up a diagram when we get to my place.

I got the 101. I think I'll need a cheat sheet, though.

That's okay, there will definitely be a running commentary as if I could plug my shouthole for the entire length of a feature film. Anyway I'm still working out my dissertation on Hitch across multiverses. For me it's really at the bottom of the stack as far as romcoms go, probably because it's shot from the 'perspective' of a dude.

It sounds fascinating.

[Dave, continuing... ]

Direction is better than human Hitch but that garbage has the charm and comedic timing of a wet rag being repeatedly run over by a middle-aged guardian in a slightly used sedan. Dude probably on his way to the DMV, pulls to the side of the road and repressurizes his tires while filing an insurance claim.

[He scritches Tristan's ears after he hits the button for the elevator]

[just leaning into that touch, listening attentively, amused]

And since the direction completely fails to highlight any parallels or emotional resonances, 90% of the movie is just two sets of things happening in the same timespan with absolutely no tension. It's the cinematic equivalent of a muscle relaxer.

[They are in Dave's apartment now. His living room area is lived in but not very messy. There are a couple of game consoles hooked up to the TV. Stacks of movies, mostly romcoms. A book of medical shit that belongs to Kei. A couple of cookbooks, including a Guy Fieri cookbook titled "Faygo On Fire: 666 Recipes For Kickin' It With the Rude Elixer". Dave's bedding is dumped on the floor next to the couch.]

[could just listen to you babble for decades]

It looks cozy here.

[Glancing around, like he's evaluating the place against Tristan's statement.]

Could use some themed handtowels.

[gently flops on the couch with Tristan in his lap. He taps off a quick text before he forgets about it.]

[curls up comfortably, a heavy furry heater, quite comfortable]

Themed, huh?

Yeah you know back on Earth there used to be a series of things called "Christmas and Halloween" to mark the passage of time, the flow of the seasons, and the rise of capitalism.

Familiar with those things, yeah.

Was Halloween big among demons?

[Grabs a controller after briefly giving him another ear scritch]