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“I’m not loving your semen.” im SORRY
no longer accepting
They’re top and tail on the bed, which gives him room to put his foot in her face, giving her a push. Trying for disgust, trying to get her to give in.
Where he lies, Tyler scoffs, ‘you don’t think I’ve got good genes?’
@acidnitrate
Marla has been spending so much time in mine and Tyler’s house that I walk past her thinking she’s a piece of furniture. A sad, torn-cushion barstool with a twisted stem. A bread box growing mold in its belly. A moth-eaten old armchair that creaks and yawns when you sit in it.
I back up and stop to watch her because she hasn’t noticed I’m here yet, or maybe she has and she’s just ignoring me. Marla eats spite for breakfast. Maybe during the night she made up some imagined grievance with me, and now she’s down here, acting it out, one big pantomime.
I say, What are you still doing here?
I know she’s waiting for Tyler. But Tyler is out picking up business cards or the paper wrappers he puts around his bars of soap, like pink wads of cash in a briefcase, like he’s about to trade them off for a damsel in distress.
If any of us is a damsel in distress, it’s me.
The difference between me and Marla is that we’re both in distress, but my distress is like a pair of old jeans worn out through bent knees and scuffs against sidewalks and brick walls, and hers is the kind that they rub on with industrial grade sandpaper before the jeans ever get to be folded on shelves in a Levi’s or whatever. Her distress is artificial. I am Jack’s Cluster Headache.
11, 16, 18, 20, 25
character development
11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use?
Tyler is very particular in his speaking style for the most part and he enunciates his words very clearly even when whispering. He’s a natural orator and his voice can fill a room. Everything sounds definite and generally lacks hesitation or think-time around it, as if he’s had his speeches pre-written. He can be casual and slangy if he wants to sound more likeable and easy-going.
16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like?
Sleeping, Tyler experiences only darkness, no dreams at all. It’s like he just blinks out of existence. On the verge of waking, he has vivid dreams that he is a very active participant in, more like daydreams or lucid dreams. He usually dreams of the same thing - a world that is returning to its natural state, he hasn’t explored all of it yet and probably never will, which is the beauty of it in his view.
18. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why?
There might not be a ‘best’ outcome as Tyler is so committed to achieving whatever goal he decides to achieve. It would be worse if he was out for specific revenge. It’s most likely that he will fluctuate and some formerly defined things like his appearance will be less set in stone, as his selfhood is entirely derivative of who he engages with. I’m most interested in seeing what becomes of that, as there’s so much to explore with certain more fantastical aspects of his character.
20. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships?
It can’t be said that Tyler is not a giver, intimate relationships are given his absolute focus even if he’s not getting anything more than fun out of it. Just spending a short amount of time with him can be very rewarding as he’s a good listener. In a day-to-day regular relationship he’s very flighty and can be kind of a flake, brushing off questions with a shrug, and he has absolutely no desire to even consider the idea of ‘family’. He would rather play a relationship out as a long game.
25. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?
What Tyler desires the most is the chance to enact a kind of power, be it physical or psychological. This surrounds everything he does and if he’s unable to achieve it immediately, he’ll stick with it until he has and then move on, leaving the husks of other human beings behind.
“Your tongue must be hung in the middle so that it can waggle at both ends.”
the memest
Here’s where Marla, on those four inch purple-crocodile platform sandals, walks right into it. ‘Felt that good, huh?’ He lets his tongue dangle out of his mouth as he’s laughing, a dog with its head out of a car window. She can get a good look. He can’t keep his aloof silence anymore.
‘People with bifurcated tongues apparently experience enhanced pleasure, that’s giving and receiving, but that’s only according to people with bifurcated tongues. Decision’s gotta pay off somewhere.’
“I mean, I’m smiling, but I am very fucking furious.”
exceptionally old meme
She’s furious because he took her mom’s butt fat and made it into a bar of Lemon Verbena and Soothing Rosemary marble soap. Maybe she’s furious because he borrowed one of her favourite sweaters and stretched it out, didn’t clean it, left it in the rain. Maybe she’s furious because someone smoked her last cigarette. Or she’s had enough of the recurring surprise of him being there, the frenemy who also benefits. Whiplash can be more damaging than the sufferer initially realises. The best way to avoid a crash is to expect it.
At least she’s smiling at all. ‘Let me make it up to you.’
“Fuck off or I’ll punch you into a sticky pulp.”
really old meme
Tyler resets his jaw where she’s knocked it out of place, her wild little fists swinging, she landed where she was aiming. ‘Didn’t take you a minute to recognise me, huh? You’ve been saying my name in your sleep every night for months.’
“Two clowns, one joke between you. Work on your fucking material.”
really old meme
‘I can learn new tricks,’ his self-defence is just as much of a joke; the whole prank was Tyler’s idea in the first place, so everything that happened does rest squarely on his shoulders, even if those shoulders aren’t really his.
He’d heard Jack complaining about something or other, mentioning Marla’s name, and decided to spice things up by stealing all of the chemicals from Marla’s place, including everything from the bathroom and anything illegal. Maybe that was predictable. It’s doing her a service, really.
@acidnitrate
I see a woman asleep on one of the church pews. I approach her slowly. I touch her shoulder gently, I don’t want to startle her; I have a history of startling people. I have quiet steps, I guess. I point at the pew. In a soft voice:
“I actually think He invented things for that. Beds. Futons. Couches. Waaay, way comfier. Do you... have one of those?”
How do you ask someone if they’re homeless without sounding like an asshole?
