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[DisQ/relationships]
KatDadof4 · 2w posted:
Fellas how gay is it
Edit: SERIOUS REPLIES ONLY
Fellas how gay is it to give your bro X and bro is like hmm nah, so you go okay sorry bro lemme just delete X from existence and bro is like, I will now go insane from X deficiency thank you.
How gay is it? I'm asking for a friend. (dogface)
Edit 2: This is wildly exaggerated in scope and simplified in tone to make it sound stupid as hell because this entire situation is stupid as hell, and I’m stupid. For the life of me, I just cannot figure out how to fix it.
Yes, I’m the friend I’m asking for and I’m also the bro. I was trying to find out how it might look to an Outside POV in hopes of finding a breakthrough point.
Top Comments:
RV-Summoner · 2w:
@Gay-or-Not-Gay, verdict?
> Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Gay
>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
May I ask why?
>>> Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Do you need a reason to be gay? Are you a homophobe? Ptui, you cur! I bite my thumb at thee!
>>>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
What else did I expect; follow stupid ideas, get stupid results.
V RV-Summoner · 2w:
Then what were you expecting, genius?
V> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
Idfk, but I certainly don’t feel like a genius.
V>> Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Aight, I’ll bite, what is going on?
V>>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
Bro A gives Bro B a thoughtful present, Bro B makes stupid comment, Bro A act distant since then and avoids Bro B, Bro B is a fucking idiot at wit’s end and makes a forum post as a Hail Mary. Happy?
V>>>> Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Not at all. If it’s a Hail Mary, then y tf would you sabotage yourself like that? Do you even want to fix the relationship, gay or not?
X KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
…thank you, you’re right. I was being childish. Something I usually accuse him of being. (sigh) I’ll edit the post again.
X> RV-Summoner · 2w:
Holy shit, a civil exchange right off the bat? Here on DisQ/relationships? Maybe there’s hope for you after all.
X>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
Er, thank you? Why did you have to word it like that?
X>>> RV-Summoner · 2w:
Bc if you fucked up enough to end up here and still have the mood to crack jokes, I would summon AH-or-Not-AH next. Happy to see I don’t have to do that. Yet.
X>>>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
Yeah, no need, I was the A-hole. I’ve been brainstorming and modeling it for days now. Even if the present was intense and caught me off-guard, I should’ve conveyed it more kindly and with more appreciation, because it really was thoughtful.
This is not an excuse, but I’m just not used to such effort and openness. I really think it might be a cultural difference. It should’ve been obvious given that he’s literally a foreigner, but he speaks so fluently and I’ve always just thought of him as doing him-things, so I didn’t connect the dots. Like an idiot.
He’s always been more straightforward and the physically affectionate type, and I am floundering without the channel of communication and, well, reminders of his existence.
I guess I just have to accept that there is no perfect apology method. He’s the one who gets to decide whether or not to forgive me. There are no guarantees we’ll be back the way we were before. There will never be any guarantees.
XV Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Woah, there! Very mature and everything, but then you veered right off into angsting like an emo teenager.
XV> RV-Summoner · 2w:
Yeah, chill bro. It’s really not that deep. Rather than writing a whole essay about how much you hate yourself, you could’ve used that time to apologize to your friend and tell him how sorry you feel and how much your friend means to you.
Gay or not.
XV> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
…thank you. You’re right. I texted and asked if we could talk over dinner.
XV>> RV-Summoner · 2w:
That’s the spirit!
XV>>> Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Congrats! Btw, I still think it’s Gay.
VVV>>>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
(=_=) Sure, whatever makes you happy. I have more important things to do, like buying fresh fish and frying it for soup. I don’t have time to prep a deep-fry. FML.
XX Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
????
XX> Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Damn bro I was joking, but now I think I really think it’s Gay. If it has to be with food, wouldn’t cracking a cold one with take-out or an invite to a restaurant suffice?
XX>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
How does that show any sincerity?! And food is how my culture shows appreciation and care. The more effort and homemade, the better.
XX>>> Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
Don’t pull the culture card on me, mine does too. Unless you're a mad kitchen aficionado or hobbyist, no one will think of that first thing. My mom used to coax me with dinner instead of apologizing because she was too prideful.
At least you got over your ego for your good bro, but sincerely saying sorry is already a big deal in most (male) friend groups. And that clearly seems to be the case for you.
You either want to be your bro’s father, you’re Gay for him, or both.
News flash, the former is still pretty damn gay bc being the bro’s daddy is always a Joke, but you’re actually Serious.
XX>>>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 2w:
You don’t know us and you don’t know me. Maybe I am a really good cook, and saying sorry was never the issue. It’s about saving our relationship. My 4 kids “+1” (eyeroll) are hungry and must be fed. Bye.
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With that, Zhou Mingrui pocketed his phone and got up from the couch with a pat on Dwayne’s butt. The senior British shorthair silently rolled off his lap, immediately beginning to groom his mussed-up coat that had been messily stroked.
The engineer grabbed his winter coat and keys. While slinging a backpack over his shoulder, he turned his head and met slit copper eyes.
“Keep watch please,” he told the Maine Coon.
Gherman gave no reaction or response, but Zhou Mingrui knew that the home was in safe hands, or rather paws.
Soup and vegetarian dishes were settled; that only left the meat dish undecided. Should I get lamb or beef…? Definitely something richer, perhaps braising? Braised beef shank? No, that takes too long, meaning lamb potato stew is also out.
Leonard really likes lamb skewers, so perhaps a cumin lamb stir-fry. I’ll treat him to proper skewers and a drink tomorrow after work.
I have the tomato and eggs, the water spinach, and regular firm tofu for the soup. I should get more eggs though. Would firm tofu, no, silken would be better. I need to hurry. The lamb still needs to marinate, and the soup takes half an hour.
He was so focused on his next steps that he did not watch his physical ones, cursing under his breath as he slipped out of the boot again.
After a hurried toss of the fresh and slimy tri-color hairball over his shoulder, the door clicked shut.
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XXV Gay-or-Not-Gay · 2w:
I’m gonna bust a kidney stone laughing at your BS. Us before me? Never the issue? You really thought refuting my Gay allegation with something even more Gay was the way to go?
There are ofc best friends for life and brothers from another mother. It’s not about what you said, it’s about the order and way you revealed information.
Whatever, I don’t have time to waste with you either. This is all just stupid anonymous internet fun. I have a DnD session to prep, toodles.
XXV> RV-Summoner · 2w:
Holy fucking shit, I’ve never seen GoNG crash out like this, not even in the group chat. This is too fukcng funny LMAO I’m crossposting this into DisQ/funny and DisQ/rareair
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XXV>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 12d:
So YOU did this to my inbox.
XXV>>> RV-Summoner · 12d:
And I’ll fucking do it again (doghead)
XXV>>>> KatDadof4 [OP] · 12d:
Thank fuck this is a throwaway, or I’ll have to nuke this account. Learnt my lesson and disabled all notifications settings.
XXX RV-Summoner · 12d:
Noooo don’t go! If you have to, at least tell us how the dinner date went? Are you and him okay now?
XXX> KatDadof4 [OP] · 12d:
It went well, we’re okay, but I think things are still a bit weird. Also, ‘date’ between friends over dinner, sure, dinner date then. Why the fuck not.
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Zhou Mingrui slowly exhaled and closed the window after logging out.
The popularity of the post had really caught him off-guard. His phone had been dinging and vibrating almost continuously ever since clocking in, but he couldn’t put it on silent in case someone was trying to reach him. It was very easy for him to miss such cues while engrossed in work.
It was just that the trill he had set for Leonard had not made an appearance.
But dinner really had gone well.
His raven-haired friend had brought egg tarts for dessert and the pointedly missing Sherlock, whose small head poked out from over the scarf, snug as a bug.
“I’m sorry, I couldn’t find your allergy pills,” he said as he handed over a tissue. “Did they run out?”
“Yes—it’s all good, I’m fine, hi Gherman, I already took them,” Leonard waved his concern off after blowing his nose, hanging up his coat.
His runaway son had refused to come down, meowing in protest until the cajoling was given up and he was allowed to reside in the kangaroo pocket of his short-sleeved hoodie.
He did accept the lint roller though, pulling up the collar to get to the white undershirt glaringly littered with short black cat hair. The red-tipped nose twitched. “You started cooking. Almost done, it seems.”
He touched his own nose. “You can still do the dishes like always,” he weakly argued.
“I guess so,” Leonard said.
He then smiled while following him. “Hey, did you see that the Baba Is You dev is working on an official level editor?”
“Yeah, why?”
“You should back-up your game,” he warned, making a small ‘oof’ sound upon getting pounced from behind. “He said the in-game editor will break soon. Hi Dwayne—Ow ow, claws!”
The calico didn’t care. He swiftly climbed up Leonard’s back and into the hood, making himself comfortable with a smug chirp.
“I’m sorry,” Zhou Mingrui apologized again. “But hey, at least Merlin didn’t vomit a hairball into your shoes.”
A snort. “Fair enough. I guess he let me off easy, eh?”
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[mc-syndrome-recoverist
never thought i’d be flattered by a cat Not barfing into my shoes
truly, i’m almost touched enough to compose a poem about it
no-slack-only-slacking
Why almost?
mc-syndrome-recoverist
Why are you asking?
no-slack-only-slacking
I would like to thank it.
mc-syndrome-recoverist
(○ ｀ｰ´)○☆)ﾟoﾟ)/
I hope your whooshing deadline boomerangs you in the head
no-slack-only-slacking
That requires it to whoosh in the first place. My editor has already booked a hotel…
mc-syndrome-recoverist
lol]
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