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[godcomplexed]

Hello there! Now quickly, I'm bored, tell me what's going on.

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[crusthatecean]

[He's obviously not listening which just kind of kills all his rant momentum, thanks. He just sort of growls at him.]

Whatever, at least you know.

[And presses play on the movie.]

[godcomplexed]

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So are these films for girls on your planet? Because on Earth, I'm quite certain girls are the ones watching them. I've watched them before with my friends, and it always involved a lot of cooing and sort of... stunted crying.

[crusthatecean]

No!

[Yes.]

Why should they be for girls? What, girls are the only ones who care about rom? That's exactly why human romance is so retarded. A civilized species doesn't apply arbitrary gender classifications for no reason other than to complicate things!

[They're totally for girls, though.]

[godcomplexed]

Don't look at me. I'm not human.

And it's perfectly okay for boys to like these sort of films. Even if they're not very exciting and everyone acts rather silly.

[crusthatecean]

I know it isn't. They're not for girls, though. I just don't know what to tell you if you think in depth examination of sociologically complex stories of the cultural consequences of romantic pursuits is silly and not very exciting. Except that it makes sense that you get yourself all tangled up in stupid pointless blackroms because you're so repressed you don't realize how much you crave emotionally complex relationships.

[godcomplexed]

...You have no idea how complex my relationships are, honestly.

Perhaps I just can't take anymore complexity of relationships in my life. It gets a bit exhausting you know.

[crusthatecean]

Bullshit, you crave complexity. You know you intentionally ignite rivalries.

[godcomplexed]

I do no such thing.

[crusthatecean]

What the fuck is up with the major then? Why are you always encouraging him? You know that you just make him want to pull more shit.

It's obviously unresolved blackrom leanings. I mean, I'm not saying that you're actually romantically interested in a fatass psychopath fuck, but I'm saying that you crave that kind of interaction and deny it.

[godcomplexed]

...[Wow, looking extremely offended. And grossed out.]

I'm just trying to deal with him in the only way he knows. I don't encourage him. I just... respond to him!

Besides, at least I don't have to put up a wall between myself and everyone else because I can't fathom the fact that anyone should properly like me.

[crusthatecean]

No. Believe it or not, I'm actually aware of my own issues. I'm not arguing that I personally am the master of any quadrant or relationships in general. I'm an abysmal failure at blackrom, I'd be a laughable auspistice, my pitiable flushed escapades should be the stuff of legend, I'm the shittiest moirail ever, and I'm a terrible fucking friend. There, talking about me time is done now.

But yes, you encourage him. Guess what? He messed with my moirail and that really pissed me off, so you know what I did? I hung up on his ass and didn't engage him, and he has never bothered either of us again. Your threats and responses are exactly what he's looking for and you aren't dumb enough to not be aware of that, so I can't help but conclude that you like the idea of that kind of rivalry.

There's nothing wrong with that! Blackrom is a great thing, more species should appreciate the idea that hatred can be a positive and healthy thing. But if you're in denial you're screwing yourself over.

[godcomplexed]

I don't...

[Scowls.]

I don't hate him. I have other things to hate. But fine. Maybe I do encourage him. But spend 5 days a week with him and you would too.

And you're a fine friend.

[He leans back, fiddling with his box of tissues, and looks back at the film.]

...So are they going to get together. Or... go red or whatever.

[crusthatecean]

Maybe I would. Look at me, I'm the example you want to base your life around in terms of when it makes sense to pick fights.

[Scowling at watching the screen.]

Yeah. So Will Smith's matesprit left him and he doesn't think he believes in love anymore, he just wants someone in that quadrant for when the drones come, like, just a temporary thing. Eva Mendes already got past the drones so she doesn't really think she needs redrom at all now, she's only looking for black. But her moirail is still looking for red, so she's trying to help her out so she can survive culling.

Also, Eva Mendes is stalking that seadweller woman because she thinks Kevin James can't really be courting her black, I mean, look at him, she'd just cull him and be done with it. But Will Smith is helping him out and there's some genuine budding black attraction there.

[godcomplexed]

...

Yes.

But he's going to change his mind and go red for her really and Eva Mendes is also going to fall for him.

Right?

[crusthatecean]

You want me to spoil it?

Okay, fine, yes, they end up becoming matesprits and the seadweller becomes Kevin James' kismesis after realizing it was him and not Hitch's advice that was making him so hateable all along.

[godcomplexed]

You can always sort of guess with these films.

But that's... very nice. Very complicated and real.

[crusthatecean]

You don't know troll cinema, there really can be room for surprise. Sometimes they don't get together and get culled in the end. There's a really good one where instead of becoming matesprits they flip to black and kill all the other characters instead.

[godcomplexed]

I see.

That sounds very... hm.

Surprising.

[crusthatecean]

Shut up. I know it's just average every day stuff, but not everything can be conquering planets and explosions, there have to be some movies that are just about ordinary people and their ordinary lives. Cull me for liking to watch it.

[godcomplexed]

Well, in most other cultures an ending where two people kill everyone else would be quite surprising in this sort of film! I don't think it's ever happened at all.

Though I don't know, I've never met an ordinary person. Perhaps there's not that many people who are simply ordinary.

[crusthatecean]

I guess if you want to be hung up on semantics. The trolls in this movie are ordinary, though. That's the whole point of them, they're supposed to be just completely normal, so the audience can use them as a cipher for whatever they want the movie to be about. And some people are more ordinary than others.

[godcomplexed]

But wouldn't it be more interesting to see ordinary people... trolls, doing extraordinary things? While still kissing.

[crusthatecean]

Not really, to me. But I think most people feel that way.

It all comes down to what works as escapism, probably. Contrived dramatic improbably bullshit doesn't do it for me.

[godcomplexed]

[The Doctor crosses his legs on the couch, unable to keep still.]

But they're fun. And aliens are cool. Though, yes, improbable compared to reality.

Contrived... perhaps.

[crusthatecean]

Aliens aren't what's contrived. My species is spacefaring, too, you condescending fuck. There's no one who lives to adulthood who doesn't go off planet conquering foreign species and whatnot. There are plenty of rom movies set on vanquished planets.

It's the entire plot structure of that kind of action crap, where plausible reality isn't considered important when it doesn't service the dubious goal of sick awesome explosions. It's just stupid.