tfln open post

[byanyname]

***

either leave a message (or set of muses) for one of my assholes, or request a message from one of them. choose messages from the classic source, from your own skull, or whatever you may please.

Comments

2/2

[onefellswoop]

A language known or a cute ploy; it might have been either.

Listen when I speak, Puppy. Do you know my bite from my query, or don't you?

[honeystuff]

[ A length of "..." here, though Enri is stunned to wordlessness.

No one knows Greek. He only gets the opportunity to speak it with Felix - or, ha, Lydia. When Lydia feels like speaking at all.

What does he do with this? (Or. What does he do with Darius, or the absence of Darius after this week, when everything feels so fucking perfect now?)

He curbs his excitement - mostly. He does respond in Greek. ]

I don't need ploys to be cute.

[ Other than acting like a brat. ]

I admit when I don't know something. I thought you would know that by now. I'd give examples, but I'm not allowed to say 'fucking' anymore.

[onefellswoop]

You're an incorrigible brat, aren't you?

Capably cute without ploys, as well; I'll allow as much.

Though regarding your aversion to 'deadass lies,' I might direct our collective attention to the boy whose response ran, 'yeah. googled it.'

Tsk, Enri.

Do you meet many people who hold fluency in Greek?

1/2

[honeystuff]

[ There's a lengthy pause here. Enri stands stock-still in the lobby of the hotel with a coffee in one hand and his phone in the other, and frowns.

And.

Says out loud, mournfully, Shit, drawing some skeptical looks from passers-by. ]

I didn't think about it.

I guess it was a lie, though.

[...]

I'm sorry, Daddy.

2/2

[honeystuff]

I don't know anyone who speaks Greek except my parents cousins.

And my brother.

[...]

I lied about something. I can't tell you the truth or what the lie was. But there's a lie and I'm sorry for it.

I don't want to lie to you. Ever, about anything. You're my god.

[onefellswoop]

There's no need to say 'I'm sorry.'

What was it earlier, Puppy? That you didn't have an answer prepared?

I asked what you knew: you gave me geometry, flawless Greek, and an apology.

You offer a feint that might barely be called a lie, and you speak what I assume constitutes a necessary lie. Nothing fatal, hm? And you offer an apology.

We are all permitted our mistruths, Enri. Even before god.

I don't want to hear you apologize.

My space of doubt was not that you COULDN'T wield another language; Greek happens to be - as you have yourself indicated - a relative rarity here.

You aren't a dull young man.

[honeystuff]

[ A space of silence again. In this, Enri staring at the words Darius sent, and then looking slightly right, as though to see -

Whether he's being observed. Whether someone might spot him indulging in something he's not permitted. (Seeking anyone who might come along and laugh. Who might call him a dumb fuck for wanting to believe Darius.)

He has to. He has to remember, this is only for now. This is only for the week (which is now shorter, which is so much shorter than he wanted it to be), and when it's over, no one's going to tell him not to apologize. No one's going to say he's not 'a dull young man'.

But. It feels good.

To have Darius's approval.

No one needs to know. ]

[...]

i know a few.

other languages.

[...]

latin, french, russian (can't write that one though, no keyboard for cyrillic)

[...]

german.

some arabic, but i wasn't there too long. enough to order food and ask for directions or tell someone to drop their weapon i guess. (can't write that one at all)

trying to learn cantonese but if greek is a 'relative rarity' then chinese is a unicorn in iowa.

[...]

my brother says it [...] gives us the opportunity to be dumbasses in multiple countries.

[...] his name's Felix

[ And then, recalling his earlier comment about a lie he couldn't rectify, Enri offers a piece of information rarely shared. Thinking -

Not thinking at all.

(But wouldn't it be nice. Not to have secrets from Daddy. No lies, nothing hidden? Only them, and pure honesty?) ]

we're twins.

2/2

[honeystuff]

[ And - and. Darius asked about earlier. Enri should, he thinks, answer that question. ]

earlier we were talking about cor 'choric'.

maybe you don't think i'm stupid but i read what you said four times and still don't get it.

so i am sorry, even if you don't want to hear it.

[...]

if you say i'm not dull people are going to look at you like a fucking flat-earther

probably should keep that with 'the moon landing was faked' and 'i saw bigfoot'.

1/2

[onefellswoop]

Boggling at me one moment, bleeding from the nose the next.

What do they know, hm?

You'll find that few people possess more than an ounce of cleverness. Fewer still prove capable of recognizing acuity that doesn't vaunt its competence.

There's no need to listen to them, Puppy. They are unworthy of your belief.

You're sharper than they know. And I'd wager that no more than two or three of them own your apparent facility for language (and your brother's?). It isn't nothing, my boy. And I don't believe it scratches the surface of your capacity.

You'll have to show me what you know. If you care to. See if you can charm Daddy in six languages, plus change.

2/2

[onefellswoop]

The word was used conceptually, Puppy.

The salient point: Your voice sings with the strength of a chorus.

It can. It does.

There's resonance in the sound of you. And there is more that might be said - about your cries, about your choric intonations - but the lesson would be more potent with a demonstration.

Something I can readily arrange. I'll set you singing, my Enri, and so conjure the choric in you.

[honeystuff]

[ The word makes absolute perfect sense now. And truthfully, Enri is more than eager to hurry back to their (their!) suite and make some choric noises. Or make Darius make some.

Again.

Enri has in a few short days learned that he has an aptitude for fucking. And for being - thank you, again, Google - submissive. (If all he’s good for in life is getting off his Daddy in six languages and change, are things really that bad?)

(Yes. Because that’s not his life.)

What catches his attention isn’t any of that, however.

(Mostly. He does veer into French for the sake of the challenge put to him. ]


You’d hit someone because they said I’m not smart?

[...]

Fuck, that’s hot.

[onefellswoop]

[ And, likewise in French, smirking all the while— ]

Of course I would.

For you? Without hesitation.

[honeystuff]

You'll get plenty of opportunities this week.

[...]

Good thing it's just this week, I guess. Can't fight everyone.

[...]

It's a good word.

choric.

What's the word when something has the right sense to it.

"apt".

For how you make me, with what you do.

And for how you sound when you

[...]

[...]

i have no idea how to say "come" in french. it hasn't come up before.

weird. usually you learn the dirty shit first.

i could probably directly translate the word or a euphemism but i don't like to do that. euphemisms are cultural.

[...]

that's why i don't use google for translating by the way. it can do word for word but not idea for idea and i don't trust reddit.

[onefellswoop]

'How you sound when you come' would be a standard phrasing for it. We'll save alternative options for face-to-face instruction, I think: a lesson to conjoin with our choric explorations.

[ In Russian, before shifting back to English— ]

Perhaps we'll conjure phrases of our own, my boy. Euphemisms drawn in the moments of experience. What words might you lure from me? What will I in my ministrations evoke in you?

[ ... ]

Sensible as well as clever, Enri? Not everyone devotes such care to the work of translation. Or thinks to consider culture's role in language formation. And I trust it goes without saying that your distrust for Reddit does you credit.

[honeystuff]

jesus

i'm trying to get back there as fast as i can

[...]

do you want me to tell you when you're turning me on or do you already know?

not that it's hard difficult to do.

i don't know if it's a thing you like to be told all the time. maybe sometimes you just want a conversation and not an unsolicited dick pic update.

[...]

and i kind of get the idea that fucking isn't the fun part for you.

really isn't easy to get you hard

seems like it works okay so you're not impotent righ

[...]

i can't answer the russian right now. i'll dl a keyboard later.

we can take as much time as you want to invent some euphemisms. it's not just your [...] attention that calls me out. everything about you [...]

you're magnetic. or quicksand. i haven't decided yet.

not that it matters either way.

[...]

how many languages do you know?

1/2

[onefellswoop]

Oh, plenty. Perhaps I'll run you through them sometime, hm?

I'll admit to certain gaps in fluency: My Japanese was never what I wanted, my Danish is half-hearted at best, and my Farsi could use some polish. Beyond that, I'm no displeased with what I know.

2/2

[onefellswoop]

I believe I have a fairly solid sense of when I've engendered my Puppy's excitement. Though I'll never say no to your updates.

Your updates or your updates.

What gives you that idea

Do you have a problem with

[ ... ]

Regarding your supposition. If I were to say It's a small part of the picture.

Which is to say, Enri, that you aren't entirely misguided.

1/3

[honeystuff]

[...]

[...]

well that's one way to really make a guy feel special: enthusiastically fucking him when fucking's not your thing.

2/3

[honeystuff]

[...]

and i guess letting him finger you before breakfast.

[...]

probably goes without saying because you have a pretty good grip on doing what you want and saying what you don't want.

but you can tell me 'no'.

as darius, i mean. just in general. if something goes where you don't like or maybe you're not feeling it.

[...]

i'm not giving you permission or anything. just saying i won't be a shithead about it.

doesn't bother me if you're ace.

i get off either way. ;)

3/3

[honeystuff]

japanese is a grind. tried it but the only people to practice with were those weebs girls with hello kitty bags that sit up in the manga section of b&n.

and i don't like j-pop.

[...]

easier to learn a language when the music's good. good rap out of france. some of the best rock comes out of germany, but more from denmark. makes it worth learning. that one's been on my list.

can't be half-hearted if you like the music.

[onefellswoop]

As simple as that?

[ ... ]

Do you know, Enri, you evince more cleverness with every message. And a nuanced perspicacity that would credit a man ten years your senior.

[ ... ]

You're right, of course; I don't require your permission. And I make no practice of acting outside my own intent. But what you've said is not unwelcome [ ... ] welcome.

And noted.

I lay blame for my Danish disinterest at the feet of a particularly noxious ambassador. Perhaps a decent music recommendation or two could swing the balance back in the language's favor. I'm willing to permit the possibility.

What else is on your list, Puppy?

1/3

[honeystuff]

wasn't wisborg

shared a twix with her once. not noxious at all. busy, mostly.

you didn't say to the US though

or that they were danish

nvm.

[...]

why shouldn't it be simple? i'm still getting mine, right? i can see if you didn't want to do anything like that with me, it could be a problem.

it's like if you brought me a twix. you don't like twix. easy: i get both halves. and if you want a bite sometimes, that's fine too.

everyone wins.

2/3

[honeystuff]

cantonese
danish
spanish
portuguese
korean

nothing's not ON the list

yet. japanese is on thin ice.

3/3

[honeystuff]

you think they sell twix here somewhere?

1/2

[onefellswoop]

Not Wisborg, no.

Danish, yes.

In Zagreb. A brief and infuriating assignment.

The name is unimportant. Fucker doesn't deserve the recognition. Snide fucking pretentious fucking rat.

I half considered stabbing the bastard. Lucky for him, those were my more circumspect days.

[ ... ]

As it happens, I take no interest in Twix, though I understand they have a following. If the hotel shop fails you, I suggest hassling guests until you turn up a secret stash.