![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
TEXT; 001 - locked from laurent
[Faolan is definitely not the sort of person to use the network, not even to respond to it never mind to post to it. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and certainly this is a desperate time indeed.
How do people even usually address posts on this thing? He goes through the last month or so of them before giving up and just flying by the seat of his pants.
You don't even know how many times he rewrote this thing in the first place.]
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that there was something quite expensive that you had wanted very much, and that someone purchased that something for you when they really didn't have to. Let's say that you could never hope to come up with the money to pay them back in full, but you would like to do something comparable for them for the holidays.
What would you do in such a situation?
[Help him, Retrospec,you're his only hope he desperately needs some advice here.]
How do people even usually address posts on this thing? He goes through the last month or so of them before giving up and just flying by the seat of his pants.
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that there was something quite expensive that you had wanted very much, and that someone purchased that something for you when they really didn't have to. Let's say that you could never hope to come up with the money to pay them back in full, but you would like to do something comparable for them for the holidays.
What would you do in such a situation?
[Help him, Retrospec,
no subject
Does anyone even own a cassette player these days?
[Does Laurent, for that matter? How does his music get on there? He'll have to investigate his soundsystem.]
no subject
i don't think i've ever even seen a tape
burn it on a cd or something
anyway, this is 100% guaranteed to get the chick. staking it on my rep as a professional movie watcher
just don't pick lame songs
no subject
[Never even seen a tape good lord how old is this kid then...]
So songs that they like, or that I like, or that are important to both of us or are symbolic but are not lame. Have I got this down right?
no subject
you get the idea
it has to be all romantic and meaningful and crap but i can't help you there
i mean i could help you but i dunno if you wanna put trancecore on your mixtape
no subject
Trancecore? Like. Club songs?
[Ironically enough there is quite a lot of it on the soundsystem. Perhaps to help Laurent focus as he works? Or does Laurent truly like that genre as well. Still.]
Well... I suppose you're right in that it doesn't quite make the statement another choice might, no matter how much of it they listen to.
no subject
oh cool you guys have good taste
[there is probably nothing quite as off-putting in this world as a fifteen year old boy complimenting your taste]
but yeah maybe go for something a little less, uh, hardcore
what'd they get you anyway?
no subject
A keyboard. A digital piano, really. A very nice one.
Among other things. But that was certainly the icing on the cake
no subject
...man old people are boring
no offense
i mean sorry that's probably a little offensive
i'd ask for a motorcycle
no subject
I'll be sure to keep that in mind for the next time my birthday rolls around then.
[Though, come to think of it, it would be fun to drive around with Laurent riding pillion with him...]
no subject
if they're rolling in dough, you gotta milk that for all it's worth
oh and i guess like if you like 'em or something that's important too
but think of the dough
no subject
Anyway, I work for their family, I can't abuse their generosity too much. If I overstretch it they might not give me nice things willingly anymore.
[If only you knew how nice the apartment he lives in is (because he's a live-in bodyguard for this rich person he's talking about, of course).]
no subject
wait are you like a butler
are you butlering for royalty is butlering a word it's a word now
oh crap you're gonna be a prince or something man you gotta do it
if my mix tape gets you the girl will you remember me
no subject
Bodyguard, actually.
And I'm not certain.... It quite works like that. I mean even if they were royalty I'd never be.
Are you asking for a reward?
[Monetarily, he means.]
no subject
is that ok
i don't have much going for me in life so i figure i should be friends with cooler people
no subject
I mean. Do you really think that I'm cool or are you asking to be my friend because you think that I might become a prince someday...?
no subject
sometimes he doubles down on it]
well i mean
would you pass the chance to be friends with a maybe prince
it's a pretty sweet deal right
i got a lot to offer
like uh
mixed tapes
yeah that's about it actually
no subject
[which okay he supposes he wouldn't mind marrying laurent but honestly he's not sure either of them are ready for that level of a commitment]
no subject
follow my advice and you're gonna be on your way down the aisle before you know it
always works
[gar is a very confident fifteen year old]
no subject
So you have previous experience with this sort of thing, then?
[It's probably for the best that you can't see the skeptical look on Faolan's face, here.]
no subject
wouldn't steer you wrong bro
i've got a 100% success rate every time i tried this
no subject
[Should he be asking for references, here?]
no subject
ok zero but
if you think about it that's still a 100% success rate every time i tried so
you just gotta trust me bro
no subject
Look, I appreciate your support, but. I'm not sure that's a direction that they're interested in pursuing just yet. They're still only in university.
no subject
but you can still give them a nice present, right? c'mon, it's a good idea