Tag: numbers guy

Idle thought

I’ve been idly thinking about this for a while.

The first time I really interacted with Numbers Guy at a social occasion, we were playing Cards Against Humanity, and someone brought up the fact that CAH removed one of the cards that used to be in older versions because it was transmisogynistic. And Numbers Guy goes, Well, why that one specific card and not any of the other truly awful, e.g. racist, cards? What makes that one worse? In the way that you do when you want to see if anyone will argue with you. (And I didn’t say anything because my brain is slow.)

The same evening, I think, I played a question card along the lines of “What am I giving up for Lent?” (I think that’s what it was. I don’t remember exactly.) And Numbers Guy played “hormone treatments” as his answer, and said something to the effect of, it makes sense as something I, Minty, personally would be giving up… (And I didn’t object or anything because (a) I was kind of stunned (b) the thought I managed to have was okay, fair, I have a hairy upper lip and I can take a joke.)

Recently at a party, people were talking about painful medical procedures, and it led to Numbers Guy asking me if I’d ever been kicked in the balls, although he rapidly moved on to had I ever kicked anyone else in the balls?

Now, he wasn’t nasty about any of these things. He wasn’t leering. He didn’t act like he was expecting an answer; he was perfectly willing to move on from the subject. But I’m still kind of like

*head tilt*

Does he actually think I’m trans???

What am I supposed to do with this?

Numbers Guy said the sweetest thing ever.

He told Sparkly he wants to kiss her on New Years but that, “chronologically speaking”, he thinks I should get to kiss her first because I started dating her first. Oh my GOSH.

(And apparently he and Sparkly had a great Thanksgiving. So great that the cap for a bottle of lube is lost somewhere in our bedroom. So, yeah. But also Sparkly met some of his relatives and it went well.)

Cute things for Sparkly

Sparkly’s new boyfriend, who I’m calling Numbers Guy, made an offhand comment about “if they live together sometime” and she’s really excited.

And now that I’ve gotten to know him marginally more, I can say that I like him, and I think we can get along, and it’s okay with me if he’s around in the long term. (It’s been three months ish now? and things between them seem to be going great.)

I really do like him. He’s easy to talk to. If we can get a computer game in common it’ll be great, and we’ll annoy Sparkly immensely, I’m sure.

Sparkly wants me to write down sweet things about him, I think, but the problem is none of them are things I’ve seen, I’ve just heard her mention them once or maybe twice. And it’s hard to draw details out of my memory with just that. So. Things she’s mentioned several times.

So, Numbers Guy is in [fan organization] too. And a while ago things got reshuffled so that he and Sparkly are actually working together on organization things. Before they were assured that it wasn’t a problem, he said he’d give up his leadership position in [fan organization] rather than break things off with her.

He said he’d actually, seriously fight a duel with this other guy to “defend her honor” or something along those lines. She was joking when she suggested it, but he said he actually would (not to the point of anyone getting seriously injured, I assume/hope.)

 

For Sparkly- cute things

So, Sparkly and her new date are getting along really well, it seems like. She’s always talking about how nice he is, and how much fun she has teasing him (sexually and otherwise.) It’s really sweet. They have two running jokes already, which Sparkly loves and keeps telling me about:

He uses his unreasonably good memory for numbers to tease her about how little she eats (e.g. “You bought a whole order of french fries and then you only ate twelve”)

She tries to maneuver him into saying something “rude” about her (like commenting on her weight, or how she doesn’t know much about math/hard sciences/etc) while he tries to turn it into a compliment. Generally ends in him saying “no comment” and both of them breaking down laughing.

In better news

How did I not mention this here before?

Sparkly is dating a new guy. Let’s call him Mr. Numbers.

It’s all extremely sweet, and they’re taking things slow, more or less.

At one point they sat in a park late at night and made out, and Sparkly ended up with a ridiculous number of mosquito bites.

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(Sometimes she comes home and she smells like him how does that happen things like that aren’t supposed to happen in real life)