dallasdwarf

[dallasdwarf]

gabriellelovelace:

I respect that. We’re like, reality TV for you, but without having to see us through a screen that supposedly burns your eyes and brain to smithereens or whatever. I mean… I don’t have to get you a cone to wear, but I could. It would be hilarious if you were suddenly a conehead, don’t you think? What are your friend group goals? Do you have a list? You seem like you’d have a list.

Precisely! I don’t have television screens, but there’s something about live interactions going on around me that’s so much more wonderful. I’d be fine with being a conehead, so long as it was a transparent one to not obstruct visibility! I’m more of a record-things-as-they-happen kind of gal, I don’t make lists unless I have experiments based on them, which was all my way of saying that I don’t have friend group goals. For the longest time, the only friend group goal I had was to have a friend group.

#field research (dash) #case study (gabi)

[dallasdwarf]

TEXT ✉ DALYO

Cayo: Oh yeah! I can ask, but she lives in like... the snowiest place on Earth, she might want a whiter Christmas. Do you think she'd wanna take me home instead? I wanna meet her reindeer!

Dallas: I think she could definitely offer to take you home - if you go, take notes on Arendelle, please! It sounds like a wonderful place, albeit cold LOL.

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT ✉️ DWARLETON

Darcy: Lol you really can't decide which one of them you like better? Didn't Kori used to bully you? You should join Team Noli! Both of you guys should, but at least Kori was nice to Tristan so I'd get it if he didn't. Sort of. He might still get caught in the prank crossfire.

Darcy: No problem, that's what I'm here for :-p To remind people not to be scared of stuff. And to be cute and fun :-p

Darcy: Nah, it's not weird! That stuff is fun. Like, really, really fun. It can't hurt to ask, even if he's not ready yet it'll like... get him thinking about it, since he might think YOU'RE the one who doesn't want to and that he shouldn't think about it.

Dallas: It isn't about "which one I like better". They've both proven to be valuable friends and since it took me until I came to Walt to make real friends, I don't fancy the idea of losing any of them, especially not to something that I highly hope is temporary; if anything, it's more likely that "declaring teams" will lengthen the time it takes for them to make up. Prank whomever you want, but don't hurt Tristan please, I need him.

Dallas: I figured it must be fun because people make such a big deal of it but it's good to hear confirmation! And what if it scares him? That I'm thinking about it? I don't want to be framed as The Aggressor.

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT 🔎 DALTAN

Tristan: There's always the 'lock people in a room until they solve their problems' method, but I worry that Kori might be... violent? I don't know that they've ever actually hurt someone but I'd hate to be the reason their empty threats turned full.

Tristan: How much effort would we put into a campaign, though? Studying the behavior of candidates is an important variable as well and I'm afraid we'd lack integrity on that front.

Dallas: How often does that usually work? I feel like we'd have to measure the variables very carefully there - make sure the room was weapon-free, for starters. But you never know, tensions run high in enclosed quarters and we don't need that on our conscious. There must be another way.

Dallas: Perhaps just announcing our intent to run? We may have a friend or two who's willing to run the actual campaign while we study the other candidates, mayhaps?

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT 🔎 DALTAN

Tristan: I'm trying not to take sides in things, no! I like Bronte, Kori, AND Noli, although Kori seems to think that I should be dropping Noli completely to stay loyal to them. They said they'd do the same to you if we ever broke up, but that feels less like the truth and more like a guilt tactic :-p Or at least that's what our previous studies of people would lead me to believe.

Tristan: There's no place in the world I'd rather be! Although we've gotten to see a prom ruined by a prank, hopefully ours will be the prom that goes off without a hitch for comparison purposes. Voting for pairs that seem to be 'partners' never seems to be very fruitful, does it? It's fascinating how that keeps turning out. That WOULD be the most scientifically sound way to do it, and couples never seem to actually win... But it might be fun. Almost like inside investigation.

Dallas: Our previous studies lead me to believe that's a guilt tactic as well, though busting out something that level of desperate indicates that Kori really feels that they need support. And after talking to Darcy, I can see why they think that - apparently Sylvie and Darcy plan to prank and bother Kori all next year! The situation spiraled a lot faster than I would have presumed it would. I wonder what could be a catalyst towards a resolution...

Dallas: Of course, for comparison purposes, and not at all because our prom being the uninterrupted one would feel fantastic. And it would guarantee we couldn't vote which would ensure our objectivity and we'd be there as observers rather than actual options, given that actual couples never win. Should we go for it?

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[dallasdwarf]

gabriellelovelace:

Don’t you? It’s so fake, and it makes people weak. I wasn’t coddled at all, and look how awesome I turned out. Do you actually want to watch, or do you just want to rat me out? You’re gonna need to wear a cone of silence if you’re going to have a front row seat to all of this. Or it makes people think you’re less of a freaky robot, even if they don’t like your personality they respect you for having one. I thought the slap bet was awesome. If I have ever ringlead a real friend group, I’m going to institute that with my pals.

I’m more of an observer than a variable - that is, I’m more likely to watch someone’s behavior than I am to either coddle or condone them, just like I’d have a far better time watching the mechanics of a prank than I would stopping it. Most everything is worth taking note on, even if it means a cone of silence which I’m really hoping isn’t a literal thing to wear. It’s nice to have friend group goals. I wish you luck with that one, mainly because I’m unbearably curious to know what kind of humans would even agree to subject themselves to that.

#field research (dash) #case study (gabi)

[dallasdwarf]

TEXT ✉️ DWARLETON

Darcy: Is it still arson if it's accidental? I thought there had to be like, an intent to start a fire. I hope you know that I'm going to torment Kori all year next year anyway, so anything you do just gets Sylvie to help - and Sylvie's ideas are nicer than mine, so you'd actually be doing Kori a favor. I'm mean :-p

Darcy: Have you met me? I boss Victory around all the time, it doesn't mean I don't love him. Or that he couldn't easily turn the tables if he actually WANTED to take charge instead. Maybe it's not comparable, but I'm just telling you everyone's different. If you want to do more than kissing, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you and Tristan are both into it.

Dallas: I guess that would technically be reckless abandon and endangerment but either way it isn't good. That's good to know? The whole Kori-Noli situation is too complicated for me to make sense of the best course of action so I'm going to let Tristan decide, he's better with this sort of thing - I'll pass your information along as a point of consideration, though!

Dallas: It's not comparable necessarily but it does bring up an interesting point. Thank you for that, really. Not that it means I'll bring it up with him yet but when I feel ready to it'll be less daunting.

Dallas: Is it weird to want to be doing that stuff already? I never thought I had much of a libido but I really like kissing and I'm naturally curious and I think I think about it too much.

Dallas: Sorry, tmi.

Dallas: AHKFDfjaof

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT ✉ DALYO

Cayo: Oh! Yeah, and most school spirited, but you know what the coolest award I got lately was? King of Kamille's heart! She's totally my girlfriend now!

Dallas: Oh wow, congratulations! It's an era of love for the Dwarf clan, I suppose. You should bring her home for the winter holidays. You know the dads would love her.

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[dallasdwarf]

Have you ever had an orgasm with a partner?

No, I have not. As far as my studies go, kisses don’t typically result in orgasms, so it isn’t an abnormal result in any way.

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[dallasdwarf]

gabriellelovelace:

It’s not something I spend a lot of time thinking about, no. People just expect to be coddled too much so my automatic response is to do the opposite, whether I really believe what I’m saying or not. Does that mean silly string is flammable? Because if it is, sweet, I’m going to have to capitalize on that. I don’t know, detention, someone wanting to get revenge on you, people not trusting you – nothing that really matters. I mean, if it stays your turn to prank back forever, then you can just stress your enemy out and not actually have to do any work. Like the slap bet on How I Met Your Mother.

You dislike coddling people so much that you’d rather insult them even if you don’t believe it? Were you coddled too much as a child, or not coddled at all? Silly string is completely flammable, so good luck with that and please consider telling me before you pull a prank using that so that I can record what happens. All of those consequences matter to me - detention, a nemesis, lack of trust, it all gets in the way of my grand mission as an objective scientist, but ah well. It’s fun enough to record everyone else getting in on the fun. The slap bet was so weird. I thoroughly expected more violence within a friend group thanks to that show.

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT ✉️ DWARLETON

Darcy: That's not a prank, that's arson. What kind of weirdo criminals do you know? Of course I am, prank wars are fun! And it would give me and my roommates something to do - although they'd totally believe it was Kori and not you so you wouldn't even get any shit for it! Not a lot startles me, though, you're right. Except for those snakes in peanut brittle tubes.

Darcy: You could just have sex with your boyfriend because he's your boyfriend and you want to! That's a thing, too. Uh, I kissed Victory for the first time at Waltfest and had sex with him on Christmas, there's no timeline you have to follow. GOOD TRANSITION :-p Uh... well, for starters, you don't stand, the best goals are made in motion.

Dallas: Things happen on accident a lot more readily when pranks are involved - flammable ingredients like silly string, a lack of attention to a lighter, and bam, pranks become arson in the flash of an eye. I suppose it'd be intriguing to try... although now that Kori is getting a fair amount of flack for a friendship falling out, I don't know that I'd want to add anything to their load.

Dallas: Well, that's a separate thing altogether and one no one else brings up because it's more fun to imagine I treat him like a guinea pig or something so thank you :-P You and Victory have had a different set of rules and pacing your entire lives though, it's not comparable. Making a goal in motion sounds a lot harder and a lot less predictable but that makes sense in a game, I guess.

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[dallasdwarf]

How often do you masturbate?

There aren’t many, if any, studies about how often teenage girls masturbate, so I’m not aware of what the norm is. I can say that I’ve attempted it, but I quickly lost interest. There are a lot of other things to be paying attention to besides my questionable libido.

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT ✉ DALYO

Cayo: I don't know, she's just... awesome. Like, normally when I'm excited I feel like I'm only floating one foot off the ground, but when I'm around Kamille it's like, five feet instead. Dallas! Come on, you've known me my whole life - well, your whole life, you're the little one! Have I ever been the type to go home BEFORE I go big?

Dallas: Normally I'd ask you to elaborate on that feeling but strangely I think I get it :-P And lol you raise a valid point; you swing for the fence. I suppose that's why you won Most Athletic :) Congratulations!

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT 🔎 DALTAN

Tristan: I don't know. I'd like to think I'd have been smart enough to figure it out sooner or later. After all, zero offense intended, but people tend to view me as the one more in tune with emotions anyway. It's almost nice that our roles were reversed when it came to the most important thing of all, in a weird way :D

Tristan: Well, another year, another round of observations down. And next year it's finally our turn! To be the ones who people see as deserving the 'perfect prom' at least. Although I must say, the two proms we've spent together already have been nothing short of spectacular. Even with the whole 'evacuation' thing, it was still an honor to be your date, girlfriend. And to see how our scientific equilibrium of voting for the jock power "couple" vs. the band "geeks" turned out. I wonder who our voting options will be next year, is it too early to start wondering?

Dallas: No offense taken! I know what our public perception is lol and I know we're both more than that. I certainly don't have complaints about the way it went down :) In fact, I almost feel as though I owe Bronte a present... if that didn't feel too much like taking sides, anyway. You haven't taken sides, right? And if you wanted to, you would tell me?

Dallas: It feels almost unreal that our prom is the next one on the docket! I can hardly imagine anything happening to make it unfun, so long as I'm there with you like I know I will be, boyfriend :) You're just as good of a date as you are a research partner, which is saying something LOL because you're exemplary at both. It should've been more predictable that it'd be one of each, jock and geek, but I'm glad for the results nonetheless. It's never too early to start guessing! For the sake of objectivity, should we not run? Not that I'm assuming that we'll get nominated or anything, but weirder things have happened.

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[dallasdwarf]

gabriellelovelace:

Truthfully? If I’m doing it right, you wouldn’t be able to tell at all, sorry ‘bout it. You’ve just got to make your best effort to crack the code and if you’re right, good for you; if you’re wrong, oh well. Wow, lame. But I guess it saves paper so that’s nice of you or whatever. You could also try silly string instead, that’s not killing any trees to produce and it’s almost as hard to clean off. Of course I’ve done that before, and what are they really going to do with me? Turn me into the Walt cops? Get me detention? Play pranks back? None of that sounds terrible to me. Detention’s a rite of passage! Just once is still kids stuff.

Fascinating. By making insulting-sounding speech part of your patterns, you’re able to mask when you mean it; is that something you have to work towards or at this point is it just the natural way you talk? I’ve checked, Silly String also isn’t the most environmentally sound. It’s about 75% propellant, which helps to deplete the ozone layer, so I wouldn’t want to do that either. What were the consequences then? Detention, it sounds like, but I’m trying to clarify. Getting pranked back sounds bad to me but only because I anticipate an steady climb of prank activity and humans are scary when we go too far.

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT ✉️ DWARLETON

Darcy: Okay, then maybe some people have boring limits then :-p You won't get addicted to it, I get rushes from all kinds of things that are fun and exciting. But getting away with pranks is awesome, too. Prank me, prank me!

Darcy: Why not? You and Tristan have been practically married since the 9th grade and you could just say you're testing it in the name of science :-p Still, you could have gone for soccer instead of sex lol. I see you, Dallas Dwarf. I see your priorities :-p

Dallas: Some people have boring limits UNTIL they're pushed too far and then they crack and "prank you" by setting your home on fire :-P I get rushes from research and interviews and gemstones, aka the things I"m kind of addicted to so LOL. You're offering yourself up to be pranked? That's so nice! You're, like, a top level person to prank though. I can't picture you being startled by anything.

Dallas: Because I'm not going to have sex with my boyfriend 'in the name of science'! Why does everything think that's a thing we would do? I would hate to make him feel like an experiment ever. And we may have 'been practically married' for a while but we just had our first kiss three months ago, there's such a thing called pacing. FINE LOL would you talk to me about soccer, then? Where do you stand to make a goal?

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[dallasdwarf]

TEXT 🔎 DALTAN

Tristan: Perhaps. Or perhaps we would have found some other way to each other. Do you think you would have told me, had Valentine's Day gone differently? At any point, really, not necessarily just that day.

Tristan: I would guess there's not a correlation, actually. I think that people going with dates might be too nervous to ask their date to dress on theme with them, so singles might dress on theme more because they have more time and independence. Well, Trixie and Dixie are running together, which is quite peculiar and not a situation I'm prepared to endorse. Does that mean my vote should fall to one of the Lumos twins, then? And I don't know much of the boys besides Cayo.

Dallas: There's no way of knowing for certain; although I was planning on telling you should we get paired together at the ball, I very possibly could've chickened out. I was so scared of shaking the status quo or hitting you with unrequited emotions that at any juncture, me telling you always ran with a high probability of me not getting the words out of my mouth. Do you think you would've told me if we hadn't had our dance?

Dallas: Interesting! I would argue that mob mentality would surely effect a group - if one or two people didn't want to dress on theme, peer pressure might persuade them into all matching. Or it could have the opposite effect and make them all not dress up, we'll have to see. Singles more likely to dress on theme, though, is something I concur with, let's see if evidence supports our hypotheses. Discounting the Tweedles is a good idea. I was hoping you'd say that so that I didn't feel rude, but they're outliers and should not be counted. One of the Lumos twins seems like a good option - I know Vivi doesn't particularly like them but I appreciate them for what they are. I think it can be split into cheerleading candidates, aka Lana and Lux, and band candidates, aka Lyssa and Dudley, if my information is accurate. Although Lana dropped out which might make that easier.

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