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Well, that sounded smoother in my head... Damn it.

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[secondhandsome]

......yeah fine i know you love angel and all that

[And maybe that's not great. Because being liked by Jack can be almost worse than being disliked and he knows that one from experience.

But he knows it's genuine. Just. Fucked.

Just really fucked.]

idk if fun is the word but

whatever

for what it's worth i guess uh i hope things are going okay with you and angel

[For her sake, of course.]

[thedifferencebetween]

they r, i think

we hung out @ prom, had a daddy daughter dance, it wuz gud

shes calling me dad again i think were over the worst of it

but i wuz honest w/her, i kno she wants sum huge fundamental change or sumthing but ffs i dont have THAT in me

small stuff sure! i dont even insult the friggin vault hunters in public anymore. i dont even tell her i wish she wouldnt hang around w/ppl who want to kill me. i feel like i deserve some acknowledgement for the efforts ive made

[secondhandsome]

what, you don't even call them up to have long monologues about how much they suck and you want to kill them anymore? then what's the point

[he... can't entirely tell if he's making fun of Jack or joking with him and he's not fond of that, ugh. uuuugh.]

but uh

good

i guess?

[thedifferencebetween]

not even when they pop up on the public network! i even ran into them n TRIED 2 have a civil conversation. i wuz even helping with the current crisis, but they just shit all over me n told me 2 fuck off! n im not bugging u all the time, either, even tho its totally in my rites 2

u kno it really sux 2 keep trying n keep trying but its like nobody even cares

hey asshats, maybe id make more of an effort if everybody else did, 2

[secondhandsome]

right

okay

[this feels less like a conversation he's having and more like a conversation that's happening to him.]

i mean you know there's kind of a lot of feelings involved. to put it mildly. but. uh. is that... what you want???

like for people to care that you're trying or

what?

[thedifferencebetween]

?!?!?!

of course i want ppl 2 care! they spend years @ me bitching how im terrible n treat them like shit but then when i try not 2...nothing changes??? if it werent 4 angel i wudnt even b trying

i have feelings 2, u kno

ppl seem 2 forget that a whole friggin lot

[secondhandsome]

i mean yeah i know you have feelings too jack

i mean

kind of had to copy them a lot so if anyone would know right

[hhhhHHHHHHH BOY]

[thedifferencebetween]

yea u did

so u kno!

u KNO me

i kno i project a super suave and cool public persona but im a sensitive guy with a lot of feelings!

[secondhandsome]

yeah

that's a thing i know

[.............okay jack.]

okay so what have you been

doing

[thedifferencebetween]

have u ben reading anything i wrote?

i dont harass them, i dont threaten them, i try and b polite when we run into each other, i call u by ur name n let u live ur life....

im doing a lot!

[secondhandsome]

okay so that's a list of things you aren't doing, i.e. not being a dick

which tends to be the standard for most people

i call you by your name do i get something for that?

[thedifferencebetween]

no, tim, bcuz u dont literally own me and didnt have me sign away my name n identity

n honestly i think u could b a little more grateful that im willing 2 release u from that contract

u pulled all that bullshit, ran out on me, stole from me, sicced athena on me... i SHOULD crush u under my heel like an annoying bug. but im not. im being gracious. wuts the worst ive even done 2 u since y been back, huh? sent u a box of glitter n questioned ur taste in chicks?

n u KNO wut i can do 2 u. even here

[secondhandsome]

[...]

so when you say things like this

that doesn't help your case

[thedifferencebetween]

wut? me being super generous n basically pardoning u is a pretty friggin gud example of sumthing nice i did that i didnt have 2

[secondhandsome]

[jack for fuck's sake HE'S REALLY TRYING HERE CAN YOU BE LESS YOU]

so first of all that contract is literally from another dimension and holds like no legal water here

the only reason i kept working for you for a while when i first got here was that you uh

you made it pretty clear what would happen if i didn't

and talking about how you SHOULD do that but aren't is not really gonna win you any points with anyone, it doesn't really come across as gracious

which

i think is what you're shooting for

somehow

[thedifferencebetween]

that contract is valid anywhere u n me both r

wtf do u even want??? u kno if u pulled the same shit back home, ud b long ded by now. u kno wut i can do 2 u here. but im letting u b u n live ur life n sumhow thats NOT GRACIOUS?

[secondhandsome]

what did you put in a dimensional clause or

...no you know what, that seems very hyperion

[He's talking to a wall. Why is he still going.]

i don't really want anything from you actually

this is about what you want, which is wanting people to care that you're trying, and i'm telling you what you're currently trying isn't gonna work for that

i've met some real assholes that still manage to call me by my real name, just as an example? calling people their preferred name is kind of like

the baseline

john

[thedifferencebetween]

hey

thats a low fucking hit n u kno it

ive been keeping this civil, ive been god damned nice

im sorry i cant friggin live up 2 ur hi as fuck standards but give me sum freaking credit here!

[secondhandsome]

you think that when you tell me what you could do to me but you've decided not to that's being nice

[thedifferencebetween]

yes thats nice!

how is that not nice??? not nice wud b doing the thing! nice is NOT DOING IT!

this is really simple logic here, timmy

[secondhandsome]

i

genuinely don't know how to explain to you that not being actively shitty and being nice are two different things

[thedifferencebetween]

bcuz ur talking crazy

how r they not the same thing?

[secondhandsome]

[how does he explain this to someone like jack]

not being shitty to people is just. neutral.

you don't really get anything for not being as bad as you could be

this is not like an advanced concept

[thedifferencebetween]

yea wut im hearing is u have impossible standards