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  1. (11:16:03 PM) irc.skaia.net: (notice) ventricularPipefitter invited amaranthineSwell into the channel.
  2. (11:17:01 PM) amaranthineSwell [[email protected]] entered the room.
  3. (11:18:59 PM) ventricularPipefitter: ...is this a passive-aggressive thing to see which one of us breaks and speaks up first, or should we keep uneasily looking at eachother across the virtual table?
  4. (11:20:04 PM) amaranthineSwell: Excuse me for avoiding a hit from a Bishop.
  5. (11:20:12 PM) ventricularPipefitter: You're excused.
  6. (11:20:14 PM) amaranthineSwell: If you'd /like/ for my face privileges to be revoked...
  7. (11:20:32 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I'd rather not, as it happens.
  8. (11:20:51 PM) amaranthineSwell: ... yeah, I gathered that.
  9. (11:20:53 PM) amaranthineSwell: So.
  10. (11:21:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: So.
  11. (11:21:34 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [>Ross: Sip your coffee.]
  12. (11:22:11 PM) amaranthineSwell: [>Ock: muss your hair agitatedly with both hands.]
  13. (11:22:23 PM) amaranthineSwell: So apology acknowledged and accepted.
  14. (11:23:06 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [>Ross: Inhale. Exhale. Slowly.]
  15. (11:23:11 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Thank you.
  16. (11:23:32 PM) amaranthineSwell: Mm. You're welcome.
  17. (11:24:50 PM) amaranthineSwell: ... you've never been in an ashen relationship.
  18. (11:25:09 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I haven't.
  19. (11:25:35 PM) amaranthineSwell: And never been in any sort of blackrom.
  20. (11:25:59 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Never known a human has has without being exposed to the concept by a troll first.
  21. (11:26:25 PM) amaranthineSwell: Point taken.
  22. (11:27:08 PM) amaranthineSwell: So you're blundering around in a relationship that's not familiar to you and you don't know how it's supposed to work.
  23. (11:27:18 PM) amaranthineSwell: ... that wasn't meant as an attack. Just as a statement of fact.
  24. (11:27:41 PM) ventricularPipefitter: You'd spice it up a little if you'd meant it so.
  25. (11:28:41 PM) amaranthineSwell: Mm.
  26. (11:28:42 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Working out how combine 'contrition' with 'expressing a desire to continue a relationship based on antagonism that I only half-understand' is a bitch.
  27. (11:28:58 PM) amaranthineSwell: Sparring partners is a good way to describe it.
  28. (11:29:28 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Elaborate, would you?
  29. (11:29:31 PM) amaranthineSwell: And you can be /fond/ of a person you're in blackrom with. Hell, you miss a good kis when they're gone.
  30. (11:29:46 PM) amaranthineSwell: Nrgh, then. Elaboration.
  31. (11:29:47 PM) amaranthineSwell: Right.
  32. (11:29:49 PM) amaranthineSwell: It's.
  33. (11:30:01 PM) amaranthineSwell: You know how you break in mechanical parts so they run smoother?
  34. (11:30:22 PM) ventricularPipefitter: 'Course I do.
  35. (11:30:22 PM) amaranthineSwell: Chip off all those microscopic peaks in the material faces where they mate and lubrication isn't good enough?
  36. (11:30:54 PM) amaranthineSwell: Blackrom does that. It gets rid of the stuff that bogs you down, makes you more fine-tuned.
  37. (11:31:16 PM) amaranthineSwell: But you can't do that on your own, because people are awful at picking out their own faults if no one points them out first.
  38. (11:32:24 PM) amaranthineSwell: Just like sparring partners attack each other to make the other one learn to suck less while practicing their own techniques and seeing how it works.
  39. (11:32:43 PM) amaranthineSwell: Does that make any sense at all?
  40. (11:35:52 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Going to say "Yes."
  41. (11:36:23 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Turning this over in my head. Comparing it to what I already know.
  42. (11:36:45 PM) amaranthineSwell: What /do/ you already know?
  43. (11:44:12 PM) ventricularPipefitter: That you're not the first person I've let be aggravatingly /right/ when it comes to getting my head out of my ass, but she's known me for longer, and it started in-person. And that I can't help but be somewhat reminded of the confrontation on the Earthsea Borealis with one's shadow-self, and the, hnagh. That's personal shit. The catharsis afterwards.
  44. (11:46:25 PM) amaranthineSwell: I see.
  45. (11:46:45 PM) amaranthineSwell: But unlike your NMH, I'm not someone to be /defeated/.
  46. (11:48:36 PM) amaranthineSwell: Conciliatory. Means we work together.
  47. (11:49:06 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Right.
  48. (11:50:47 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [>Ross: Sit up straighter. Lean in.]
  49. (11:52:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: No-Cultural-Background-For-Ash Question Time. Why does this involve three people, then?
  50. (11:52:26 PM) amaranthineSwell: Well...
  51. (11:52:30 PM) ***amaranthineSwell sighs.
  52. (11:52:49 PM) amaranthineSwell: Normally because it doubles or functions primarily as a way to prevent caliginous infidelity.
  53. (11:53:34 PM) amaranthineSwell: There are Ausp couples, too.
  54. (11:53:45 PM) amaranthineSwell: 'Specially if one of them takes issue to the entire world.
  55. (11:53:48 PM) amaranthineSwell: Or just the idiots in it.
  56. (11:53:54 PM) amaranthineSwell: Which is really essentially the same.
  57. (11:54:14 PM) ventricularPipefitter: This conversation sounds familiar.
  58. (11:54:42 PM) ***amaranthineSwell snorts.
  59. (11:55:00 PM) amaranthineSwell: Do you know how annoying it is to have an Ausp who's a time-traveler?
  60. (11:55:26 PM) ventricularPipefitter: No, but if I'm unlucky I may find out what it's like to have an auspitee who is.
  61. (11:55:46 PM) ***amaranthineSwell snickers.
  62. (11:55:58 PM) amaranthineSwell: It would build /character/, Vents.
  63. (11:57:29 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I get to use that excuse the next time you complain, now.
  64. (11:57:56 PM) amaranthineSwell: And look, he can learn.
  65. (11:58:05 PM) ***amaranthineSwell chuckles.
  66. (11:58:06 PM) irc.skaia.net: (notice) ventricularPipefitter invited invincibleOption into the channel.
  67. (11:58:17 PM) ventricularPipefitter: I'd be dead if I couldn't.
  68. (11:59:09 PM) amaranthineSwell: And that would be a /damn/ shame.
  69. (11:59:36 PM) ventricularPipefitter: Would it now? Paradox space would be one idiot bronze fewer.
  70. (11:59:49 PM) amaranthineSwell: Yes, but you're /my/ idiot bronze.
  71. (12:00:00 AM) amaranthineSwell I'd have to go on some sort of roaring rampage of revenge and those are never pretty.
  72. (12:01:46 AM) amaranthineSwell: ... just as a warning, though. Li might still tear into you.
  73. (12:02:25 AM) ventricularPipefitter : On account of?
  74. (12:03:02 AM) amaranthineSwell: On account of she's as.
  75. (12:03:03 AM) amaranthineSwell: Mm.
  76. (12:03:08 AM) amaranthineSwell: How do I say this?
  77. (12:03:43 AM) amaranthineSwell: She gets as protective of her own as I do.
  78. (12:05:15 AM) ventricularPipefitter: I'll take my lumps. You've very lucky to have her, and, yes, she -was- involved in kicking me into writing that. Don't think it fits her standards yet, though. Couldn't write *that*, tired of saying *nothing*
  79. (12:06:31 AM) amaranthineSwell: She has demanding standards.
  80. (12:06:59 AM) amaranthineSwell: And I'm the luckiest thing that ever crawled out of the ocean 'cuz I have her.
  81. (12:07:50 AM) ventricularPipefitter: [>Ross: Refrain from asking why she isn't your Matesprit, then. ]
  82. (12:08:42 AM) amaranthineSwell: Mm.
  83. (12:08:46 AM) amaranthineSwell: We'll have to see if she remembers.
  84. (12:09:57 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Haven't seen her online recently. A little worried.
  85. (12:10:13 AM) amaranthineSwell: Fuck. No one I've asked has.
  86. (12:10:27 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Piss.
  87. (12:10:47 AM) amaranthineSwell: Mm.
  88. (12:12:34 AM) ventricularPipefitter: A thoroughly unrelated question from earlier. Eye colour aside, why the /hell/ do I ping as snotty entitled military aristocracy to you? What is this 'Bronze,' Ockzel Tewbor, that you speak so ruefully of?
  89. (12:13:08 AM) amaranthineSwell: It's not snotty entitled military aristocracy.
  90. (12:13:28 AM) amaranthineSwell: It's confidence and arrogance and the way you move in the community.
  91. (12:13:39 AM) amaranthineSwell: Bronzes are movers and shakers, when they want to be.
  92. (12:13:42 AM) amaranthineSwell: Tell me you're not.
  93. (12:15:03 AM) ventricularPipefitter: I built this place. What kind of a Founder would I be if I couldn't do those things?
  94. (12:17:19 AM) amaranthineSwell: There you go.
  95. (12:18:31 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Bronze-by-bootstraps. Heh.
  96. (12:30:39 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Githra's on. You should say hello.
  97. (12:30:51 AM) amaranthineSwell: She is? Huh.
  98. (12:39:54 AM) ventricularPipefitter: I'm glad you and her have that rapport.
  99. (12:40:35 AM) amaranthineSwell: Someone has to be here for her.
  100. (12:41:58 AM) ventricularPipefitter: I /tried/. She didn't want me.
  101. (12:42:16 AM) amaranthineSwell: You've got the goldblood, don't be greedy.
  102. (12:42:32 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Wanted to be there for both of them.
  103. (12:42:33 AM) amaranthineSwell: 'sides, I don't blame her for disliking people in authority.
  104. (12:43:55 AM) ventricularPipefitter: No?
  105. (12:44:05 AM) amaranthineSwell: That's her story to tell, not mine.
  106. (12:44:06 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Suppose not, with their background.
  107. (12:44:48 AM) amaranthineSwell: And she's a seadweller. I understand her better than you ever could. Sorry, but them's the breaks.
  108. (12:45:34 AM) ***amaranthineSwell 's computer has been crushed!
  109. (12:45:50 AM) ***amaranthineSwell disconnects from the memo!
  110. (12:54:32 AM) ventricularPipefitter: Piss in the bucket.
  111. (12:57:28 AM) ventricularPipefitter has left the memo!
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