fandom_muses Topic 29: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." -

[gotcanewillpoke]

Topic 29: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." -Blanche DuBois (in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

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[dontkeepkosher]

You can forego the thank you for beinga friend thing, and I'll just pre-emptively say "You're welcome".

[gotcanewillpoke]

*A nod, eyes intense, then looking away, a look that says more than words about how thankful he is. Because expressing that isn't going to happen any more than it already has*

[dontkeepkosher]

*notices but purposefully pretends he doesn't notice*

Besides, kindness has never worked on you. That'd be like waving a red flag in front of a charging bull.

Stubborn works better. Fight fire with fire, that kind of thing.

[gotcanewillpoke]

Shut up. *Dismissive wave of his hand*

[dontkeepkosher]

That works, too.

I'll just do as you say and not as you generally do.

[gotcanewillpoke]

See, I knew I liked you for a reason.

[dontkeepkosher]

Liked. Wow. We're getting into the big words now.

[gotcanewillpoke]

I'm trying to stick to words I know you'll understand.

[dontkeepkosher]

This is the part where I'm supposed to say "ouch".

This might come to some surprise to you, but my vocabulary stretches further than you might realise.

"Like" doesn't appear in your everyday conversation. You sure that's not something that's a little too verbose for you?

[gotcanewillpoke]

Okay, Chief. Spill it. What's really bothering you?

[dontkeepkosher]

*looks a little taken off-guard*

Huh? Wh- Nothing. I'm just... saying.

[gotcanewillpoke]

You're getting awfully bent out of shape over my word choice. It's a cliche, Jimmy. "I knew I liked you for a reason". Pick on the cliche, not one word within the standarised saying.

Although, now that I think about it, you are merely backing up the point about conformity not suiting me. It so doesn't suit me that you're picking on my meager attempt to conform to use a phase that is so widely overused that it's become meaningless.

[dontkeepkosher]

So, the word "like" is meaningless? You liked me for a reason, which technically means... nothing.

[gotcanewillpoke]

That's exactly what I'm trying to tell you.

[dontkeepkosher]

Considering I was originally being sarcastic, this conversation has steered in a strange direction.

[gotcanewillpoke]

Because you never know when to quit.