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Noel Noa ([personal profile] rationalizer) wrote in [personal profile] outplayed 2024-12-04 07:35 am (UTC)

If I can't finish it.

[ which is very likely going to be the case, but there's a bit of silly pride in not wanting to give it up easily. he chose to entertain this indulgence - the ice cream, movie, kaiser lounging on his bed - so he should see it through. it's important to him to be consistent, if only for himself. if he hands over the ice cream, he'll do so when he feels like he's had as much as his palette can take.

(still - he does like chocolate. it was a small luxury in childhood that his mother would get him once a month. he made it last however long he reasonably could.)

for now he'll go silent and let the film unfold. it's a slow and drawn out start, which he likes. movies that rush to grab an audience's attention don't appeal to him. a murder mystery is introduced with odd deaths on a train line, and automatically his brain wants to pick it apart to see if he can reach the answer before the movie presents it. though this means he's split between watching and remembering to take small scoops every so often, small beads of chocolate threatening to escape past the cup rim.
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