TFLN

[protivvyter]

1. I am currently wearing a bowl of frosting on my head. I do not regret any of my life choices leading to this moment.

2. Sometimes I get confused on who I really actually know and who's lives I just know everything about via internet. It's a fine line.

3. Accidentally made a bowl of mac and cheese with a bottle of vodka. It's not that bad.

4. Or, ya know, text him.

Comments

[on_ur_left]

Bc youre rude & sarcastic & a huge troll.

[ Steve can't help glancing back and forth furtively, despite nobody even being around, let alone knowing what he just wrote. But that kind of huge hypocritical statement makes him feel like he's about to be pointed and laughed at. ]

[protivvyter]

What's the phrase Shuri uses? Oh, yeah. Pot. Kettle.

[on_ur_left]

I don't even like you. We're just friends bc we grew up together. I think they call it Stockholm Syndrome.

[protivvyter]

So you do like me. Because that's the one... wait, which one is that?

[ Forgive him, he's currently been reading up on mental health issues and got lost in the depths of Wikipedia. ]

[on_ur_left]

That's the 1 where hostages end up wanting to help their captors, bc they start to feel sympathetic for them.

[protivvyter]

Not the one I was thinking of then. I got lost in Wikipedia again.

[on_ur_left]

I've done that before. Nat calls it 'falling down the rabbit hole.' You know, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

[protivvyter]

Can't we just call it addictive? Also, Wiki's gotta be the best way to catch up. But it's hard on your browser. Nat says 'hi'.

[ That would be a 'yes' Nat put the bowl on his head. ]

[on_ur_left]

I think it's bc addiction is where you crave something. This is just you get interested, & next thing you know you've slipped into a completely unexpected place, & lost a bunch of time you hadn't realized. & how is it hard on your browser?

[protivvyter]

I had like... 50 tabs open or something. Just in wiki. Not counting the other tabs?

[on_ur_left]

I just go from one link to the next, in the same tab. You can always backtrack to keep reading. I usually do a lot of skipping around, but mostly in the same tab. Maybe open 1 or 2 I want to make sure to read later.

[protivvyter]

I never finish reading something before a link takes me elsewhere, and then that takes me more places and then... Well, you get the idea.

[on_ur_left]

That's the point you just admit defeat & close the earlier links, bc you're never gonna get back to them.

[protivvyter]

What else am I supposed to do in the middle of the night?

[on_ur_left]

... Sleep? Yeah, forget I typed that. Binge TV shows. Have you seen I Love Lucy yet? Or Star Trek?

[protivvyter]

[ Bucky is going to ignore that, because Steve knows why he doesn't sleep. ]

Not Lucy, not yet. But I'm on Star Trek Next Generation right now.

[on_ur_left]

[ There's a long pause before the text finally appears. Steve is choosing his words carefully, hesitating and deleting until he's satisfied that it's worded as painlessly as it's possible. Sometimes it's easy to be blasé about it, and sometimes he can barely even type the words out without a lump forming in his chest, discussing everything he - they - missed. ]

I started close to the years just after the war, kind of going in chronological order.

[protivvyter]

[ Bucky grimaces. There are years he wants to forget, that he remembers in blood and a gunshot. ]

I think I'm working backward. Except for Bogart. Him I went straight through on.