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mmm maybe we should just keep em separate
alex barnes sounds so white bread but my name already barely fits the character count for credit cards and shit

i just mean because you don't want anything hella fancy
you're still gonna get the best coffee table ikea can buy

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Alexander Karanes maybe
or Alexander Barmov?
I'm assuming you wouldn't want to use your original last name

( since he changed it. )

oh
right
well yeah like I said we can go look for something together

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i mean it's still my "real" name. i just don't give it to anyone
anyway those need some work
if you're really trying to russian it up, it would be more like baronov. or barnsov, barnesov. let's go nuts, barnznakov
one of those wouldn't be too bad 🤔

yeah for sure
nothing as hella romantic as the warehouse lighting in an ikea, deadass

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didn't know how Russian you still wanted it
since I'm boring white bread compared to you
British background and all that
Barnznakov feels very intimate
I like that
I was trying to make it easier on your credit cards though 🙂

what's wrong with the warehouse lighting?
I think IKEA is nice

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come on don't be like that
you're great white bread
like a good sourdough
anyway it's the same length as karamazov so 🤷🏻

i was joshing you
talking shit
hey do you want a shark

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I meant my suggestions, silly 🙂

you mean the IKEA plush? ( yes, he uses the internet. )
sure
maybe we get a couple
one for each of us 🙂

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your suggestions were a good swing at it. but now you're sourdough 😎 🖤

yeah, blahaj
i used to have one but something happened to it so
sounds like we've gotta get two
it's really gonna bring your place together

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cause I'm soft and fluffy on the inside?

oh damn
well we definitely have to fix that then
and yeah I think that'd help
it wouldn't feel as empty that way because part of you would always be here

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yep. and yet still kinda sour

[ sir?? SIR??? what kind of gay shenanigans??? "it wouldn't feel as empty that way because part of you would always be here"? kill him. right here, on the spot. stop just SAYING these things! he's gonna have to go have a smoke to calm down from this, the fuck. ]

well if you want to decorate with parts of me, you just had to ask
hmm
that came out pretty wrong huh

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we like to call that character

and
I
feel like the only way that makes sense is something dirty
but I'm assuming you also mean a specific kind of dirty and not like
blowing you up in my apartment or whatever

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i said wrong, not dirty
it was more wrong in the what the fuck kind of serial killer bullshit sense

but i was really going for a blanket or coffee cup or something though
in general

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oh
right
I'm not opposed to a little blood or knives though
I'm just
saying

uh


we can have those too 🙂
and also a toothbrush

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is that so
how about you expand on that. wrong way or dirty way?

aw, i'm glad you took time to think about my oral hygiene
i mean i was gonna just bring some of my shit over
like i said just some little whatevers
so you have something nice

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if by dirty we're talking like sex and stuff then definitely dirty

well you don't have to leave one here if you don't want to

( leaving one there would just imply that alex will be back again soon, though. )

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sick, me too 😏

what?? i wasn't being sarcastic, i thought it was nice
sweet. adorable even
i just meant the other stuff
not-toothbrush stuff

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the blood and knives?

oh
I mean
right
that makes sense
sorry
just not wanting to be too weird I guess or whatever

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yes! geez

oh man don't worry
being weird is story of my life, deadass
i'll bring a toothbrush for keeps
it'll be a hella bright colored one or some shit so everyday you can see it in your bathroom and say
what the fuck is that

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just making sure!
but good 🙂 very good

'what is that color anyway, the color of then inside of Alex's brain?'
I'll make sure it sits very noticeably by the sink

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i was thinking yellow or orange so that makes me worry for my brain now
i feel like you're angling for pink and it doesn't bother me but but it IS kind of silly

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why pink? cause I said it was the inside of you?
I didn't really know what color to pick, honestly

( pink was also not a color men avoided in bucky's time. )

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yeah. it's more of a brain color than red
although neither are really internal organ-colored

[ it's okay bucky, alex wasn't that heavily invested in anti-pink slander. especially when he can go on a tangent... ]

yeah i dunno, i think if i had to pick my favorite color besides black, like color-color, it'd be yellow
it's really in your face, yknow? like caution tape
funny thing about yellow though is that nobody goes out of the way to pick it, so when you do, they're like "wow you must like yellow"
like yeah my car is yellow, maybe i fuckin like it. i don't go up to people like "wow your favorite color must be dirt gray"

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bones are also like a yellow white
eggshell I guess
and there are those blue veins and such, on the matter of just body colors

yellow is nice
lively
like the sun
yellow isn't really an option for a lot of things though, so I think part of that is also just the people with money trying to dictate what people feel about colors
what's your favorite animal then?

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those don't really fit the "ultra bright color you can't ignore" thing i was going for for your bathroom though

and yeah that sounds about right for people with money
fuck them

i know you're not asking after all the time i spent talking your head off about sharks dude
great white all the way

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maybe not
I figured you'd probably just pick something neon honestly

hey you never specified
I knew you loved them a lot but that doesn't mean they're they top #1

I love a lot of animals and I don't even have a #1

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exactly

yeah well, they've been my favorite since i was kid and that means i'm not about to change it now
name some of your favorites then, go
can't lose since animals are better than people anyway