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Mac McDonald ([personal profile] morebetter) wrote in [community profile] piper902021-01-08 12:07 pm

Mac Gives Dating Advice

[ooc: Mac's opt-out post, as this thread will undoubtedly contain misogyny, alcoholism, homophobia, etc, is here.]

So it’s come to this. Some of you have reached out to me, and I don’t blame you, for dating advice. I am, after all, very experienced in scoring with women, and they usually find me pretty irresistible as well, as the walk-in clinic can attest.

Anyways. I used to have a system called the “M.A.C.”, a.k.a. “Move in After Completion”, where I’d help my buddy seduce a chick by pretending to be the booksmart friend and then when he ghosted her, I’d go comfort-bang her, but it turns out that that got really old after a while because they’d like, cry all the time, and women are already gross and whiny enough before they’re crying, and also she’s expect you to read her poetry or something and that’s really gay. So I dropped that one. I guess I recommend it if you’re really into getting snot all over your shoulder and pretending you give a ████, but that’s a weird kink, bro.

There’s also one I’m pretty sure works, which is breaking and entering into someone’s house to make sure they know that you’ve scoped out the weaknesses in their security system and thus, are a more securer person than whatever idiot originally installed it. That demonstrates your mastery of protecting them. If you do it in the middle of the night, and you don’t wake them up, you can use that time in the morning to do some pushups or practice your karate or something so that when they come downstairs and see you, their first thought is holy ████, that dude is RIPPED, and I’m going to let him into my body’s ████ areas immediately.

Finally, the best dating advice I can give is to lie. Lie about everything. The more you lie, the more mysterious you are. If you lie, for example, about being a secret agent fighting the KGB, and they start to ask you what that’s like, you can look at them very seriously and go [putting on a serious, dark, movie-style voice] “I could tell you but I’d have to kill you” and they’ll just swoon in mystery. You don’t even have to lie about cool stuff. You can pretend you have a car and then say [putting on a serious, dark, movie-style voice again] “I could tell you but I’d have to kill you” and they’re going to assume you drive a flying Lambo for the mob that goes to space or something, and there is nothing, nothing, nothing sexier than having sex with someone you don’t trust and know nothing about who says he’s gonna kill you.

Anyway, apply literally any of these, and you losers will be swimming in ████ by sundown.



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[personal profile] hot_dad 2021-01-13 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not PR.

[Though they have had some pretty solid PR since the 60's. Hell, the trend of the Arcana using saint names for their family names was a very deliberate PR move to feel more familiar to a human race that was still shitting its pants over magic being real.]

Most of folklore and mythology is just an extreme game of telephone. One human sees an Atlantean aspect that takes the form of a burning bush, the story gets twisted in retellings, and suddenly it's part of the Biblical narrative. Historically, when humans didn't understand something, they came up with some story to explain it and that became their myths. Encounters with magic and monsters tended to fall under that umbrella.
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[personal profile] fromfryingpantofire 2021-01-13 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[The reply comes several minutes later. Because Sam needed to take a few moments to nab Julio's comm. The fact that the Rig rocks almost immediately afterward is...not something anybody needs to know the reasoning for.]

[Sam has the other comm in hand as he returns to the video feed, though.]


I'm pretty certain I'm not quoting it wrong. I can go get the book, but the line spoke to me a lot when I was a kid.

Look, man, I'm going to be honest. Your dad sounds like a mega douche. I'm glad you feel you can still love him and all, but...yeah, that doesn't sound healthy at all.
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[personal profile] fuckcable 2021-01-14 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ From somewhere offscreen, Ric can be heard borderline yelling at Sam. ]

No! No! You tell him the @/($ing truth - if his dad’s a piece of &$@( that wants to @/;)ing eat him, that ?!(-head needs to &”@?ing step back before he gets Dahmered by his !?@;ing father.
Edited 2021-01-14 00:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fromfryingpantofire 2021-01-14 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[That strain is almost good to hear. It means that there might be a couple of neurons firing away in there. Maybe not a lot, but a few.]

Whatever politician you heard it from was probably quoting the book. The book's from 1878.

[Sam glances back over his shoulder.]

Dude, chill. I'm working on it.

[This is not the sort of thing you just...break to Mac.]

That said. Julio has a point. It does sound like your dad is toxic as hell. I trust you that you were exaggerating about the eating thing. [He absolutely does not trust that Mac was exaggerating about the eating thing, but baby steps.] That said, in my experience, loving parents don't threaten to kill their kids. Or insist they sneak drugs in past prison guards.
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video

[personal profile] googledox 2021-01-14 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Brainy does a video just to pull a face.]

Why would you even speak that mental image into the world?
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video

[personal profile] walkingballpit 2021-01-14 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Robbie is more concerned that he’s broken some sort of relationship code which mandates jealousy. ]

Because he’s acting like a total turd, and nobody even asked him about interspecies dating! He thinks you’re an it and not in a non-binary way. I didn’t mean you’d kiss him.
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Re: video

[personal profile] googledox 2021-01-14 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't think you really thought I'd kiss him, I'm just fighting down nausea at the image it unintentionally provoked.

This is me declaring a loud BLARGH to the world.

[That is not the expression of someone actually mad.]

Don't worry about the rampant xenophobia. I'm not. He's an imbecile.
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[personal profile] walkingballpit 2021-01-14 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Blargh, huh. So humans aren’t your type. Dude, that’s got to suck. We’ve got you surrounded.

[ It’s a smidge forced, because Robbie is secretly dying to deliberately say something that can be perceived as flirting with Brainy, where Mac can see it to goad him.

At the same time, Jorgmund. Robbie hedges hard and leaves it for Querl to dictate the interpretation.
]

I think we should put something in the constitution about defending a teammate’s honor when we get back. I’m tired of not fighting this harder.
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[personal profile] bothbarrels 2021-01-14 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
No, believe me—they have nothing to feel proud about.
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[personal profile] zerofield 2021-01-14 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
How has your normal state been altered?
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2021-01-14 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
NOrmally I don't notice women at all [ And boy admitting that to Tio is even more awkward. ]
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[personal profile] googledox 2021-01-14 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Please don't engage in honor duels with brain-damaged bigots on my behalf.

It's a waste of energy.

Your time is much better engaged elsewhere.

[It could be just be fact or it could be subtle flirting.]
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[personal profile] walkingballpit 2021-01-14 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
You can consider it a standing offer. I’ll sing a dramatic song and everything.

[ There are several 80s songs that would be a delightfully cheesy fit. ]

Like what? When we aren’t needed, I’m at a loss for what to do. At least I’m medically cleared for strenuous activity again, did you see that? I’m actually looking forward to training tomorrow.
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[personal profile] googledox 2021-01-14 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Why not meet me in our room? I found an intriguing book I wanted to show you.

[Ha ha no he didn't.]

We have a door now, by the way.
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Video >> Action

[personal profile] walkingballpit 2021-01-14 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, that’s a big lie. It’s not that Brainy has a tell, just that Robbie’s had a front row seat to Brainy’s opinion of the Jorgmund library.

Oh. Oh.
]

It better be the Outsiders, with a build up like that.

[ He sighs like he’s making a real sacrifice here. ]

I’m on my way.

[ Fifteen minutes later, Robbie is knocking on their door with exaggerated politeness. He’s at least ten minutes “late”, because he went and sucked up to the cafeteria staff until they gave him a wilted bunch of celery. The bow around it is the drawstring of a trash bag. ]
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[personal profile] googledox 2021-01-14 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] runes_brand 2021-01-14 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)

Instead they made them everyone else's [BEEP]ing problem.

[If Brand had any connection to his biological ancestry than other words on a screen or a page, he'd have a few more things to say about the English.]

I ain't saying New Atlantis is perfect or anything, but we don't have to [BEEP]ing bend ourselves into pretzels about enjoying sex with whoever.

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[personal profile] zerofield 2021-01-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Speaking from the position of having had to readapt to having emotions in the past, I can understand how that would be...awkward.
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[personal profile] greyerrant 2021-01-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Very awkward.
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[personal profile] bothbarrels 2021-01-18 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You are taking that the opposite way that you should, you know. That's desperation and possessiveness. Something most people don't like in a romantic prospect.

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