The Ideal Nerds

"A braintank with an external heartdrive." The real adventures of an INTJ and ENFP in love.

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ENFP: I like how whenever I’m doing something silly, you just acknowledge it silently and keep going.

INTJ: That’s because I would never finish a thought if I paid too much attention to your shenanigans.

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ENFP: (hands INTJ her keys to carry)

ENFP: Hey, do you mind?

INTJ: Always.

ENFP: Thanks! Because I— wait, what?

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Struggling in Minecraft...

ENFP: (Growls uncontrollably in frustration)

INTJ: You need to calm down. There is a healthy and an unhealthy amount of growling.

ENFP: AND I HAVE EXACTLY THE RIGHT AMOUNT!

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ENFP: (Sits on uphill escalator rail, nearly loses balance.)

INTJ: Wow, you looked like you were about to have a lot of fun. And by “have a lot of fun” I mean die.

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How would be a friendship between a guy (INTJ) and a girl (ENFP) (both with 19)

Stellar. - The ENFP

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Celebrating INTJ’s birthday at a fancy restaurant...

INTJ: (Starts coughing while eating.)

ENFP: Don’t die.

INTJ: It’s okay. I died as I lived. Choking on powdered sugar.

ENFP: ...Is that a euphemism?

INTJ: Yes. For being married to an ENFP.

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hey! Do you think INTP is nerd (or nerdy)?

Abso-freaking-lutely! Of course, any MBTI type can be a nerd or, conversely, not a nerd. But the INTPs I have known personally have often been huge nerds.

...Come to think of it, I haven’t typed any INTPs that weren’t huge nerds.

But then again, I don’t know many INTPs.

Or many people in general.

I’m an INTJ, what do you expect?

- The INTJ

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Discussing a Shopping Trip

ENFP: Primark has a pretty good selection in a pinch. Well stocked with a lot of different stuff.

INTJ: I thought it was mostly for girls, does it have a lot of guy stuff too?

ENFP: Well, I was there earlier, and - gosh, you know the one thing about Primark is honestly that the layout is really crazy, and it's kind of sectioned off diagonally, and also the checkout points are super far away from each other. Like, earlier I walked over to the one checkout line I know about and there was no one there except a small group of shoppers going "There's no one here, how do we check out?!" And this other guy came up to us all and was like "The other check out line is all the way over there." So I walked over there with my bag of stuff, which took, like, four minutes, and of course its one that I've never seen before, at the complete OPPOSITE end of the store, but again, diagonally, so in the far back, darkest corner of the store where I never even looked before, and it was just really weirdly set up and kinda ridiculous.

ENFP: But what I was gonna say was "Yes."

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Eating messy food with ENFP:

INTJ: I’ve never been so scared of something that looks so good. Actually that’s not true. I married you.

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ENFP: (sings loudly to background music)

ENFP: Sorry, am I being obnoxious?

INTJ: Ye—

ENFP: GOOD.

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INTJ: You meet a lot of strange people.

ENFP: What can I say? I’m drawn to weirdos.

INTJ: Yeah.

INTJ: Hi.

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ENFP: Would you judge me if I ate all my Valentine’s candy before we left?

INTJ: Hmm... a little.

ENFP: Just a little? Well, maybe I will then!

INTJ: Does that mean if I answered “definitely” then you would definitely eat it all?

ENFP: Absolutely.

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INTJ: (hiccups loudly) Oh God I’m dying.

ENFP: Yeah usually.

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Admiring fluffy clouds...

ENFP: I still can't believe we can't jump out of planes and land in them. You have no idea how pissed I am.

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ENFP: (bites INTJ’s neck)

INTJ: Ow!

ENFP: Sorry. I don’t know why I’m like this.

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ENFP: (blows on bowl of miso soup)

INTJ: Oh, is it still too hot?

ENFP: Nah, I just like watching the stuff move around.

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How exactly did you guys meet? Cant really imagine an ENFP and INTJ being at the same place without someone setting it up or by sheer luck.

So I know it sounds like madness, but I have four other close INTJs in my life (aside from this one), and I met all of them by chance. Two were actors in the theater club with me all through high school. The third I met in college because we both kept walking past each other in the hallway of the music department, each of us wearing almost identical trench-coats with our headphones in. We kept smiling knowingly at each other each time we passed by, until one day he stopped me and asked my name. The fourth I met at a D&D game because we shared a mutual friend and both turned out to be huge RPG nuts. 

This INTJ, however, I met online. He messaged me first through my photography portfolio, and he still claims to this day that it was because he was blown away with my art profile that he’d found on another site. He was from my area and we ended up adding each other on facebook and talking a lot, until one day he asked me to meet him at the Great American pub nearby. The rest is history. 

- The ENFP