No, I haven’t heard it
Yea,
I know it
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We high five and our hands meet in the air.
how her fingernails quickly flick through, photo after photo,
You open up your phone and go to his Insta page,
your
Ay-yo!
Yea, that’s why most people get small ones...
Then just before sunset he came out with his beautiful man bun and tatted left sleeve and I ‘bumped into him’, like:
Awe man, lets not talk about that but maybe one day you’ll use it.
You
how
I feel like some people can either rock tattoos or they honestly just look bad and have to live with that shit for life.
I love your work and I came all the way here from the west coast to get my tattoo done by you, so is there anyway you could pretty please help me out?
So I left and waited outside.
~Chasing Wings ~
You tap to the next photo of your neck.
Not like in high school when some hot dude named Billy Flanagine or something walked by you at the gym and you got really competitive with your friend running next to you and just ate it?
photo
makes me think you has a quick mind.
Guy I Might have Made Out With?
how your fingernails quickly flick through, photo after photo,
Well done!
Then ask,
Yea.
So what does your app do exactly?
Wow Dope story, so are you part American Indian and Asian then?
Did your tat make it on here?
Receptionist
NO.
after
I really like a lot of his work because of his multi-level shading and he only does custom designs.
Yea but it was such a process getting it done.
Rain
And he kinda laughed,
baby you’re the third person to try this today.
What about you? Do you live here?
Actually I’ve only read like the first ten pages…
Yes
It’s like a geometric star under a liquid?
Yuri Trico
Woah yea look at that one!
Yes.
Cause reservations for him were 14 months out so I decided to just go to his shop in New York and try to talk the receptionist into squeezing me in but she just rolled her eyes and told me,
And I’m visiting from Sacramento.
What is it exactly? Is that a dream catcher?
Well what do you want to get done?
Well no but I’d like to and I’m actually here for work.
You sort of mumble,
That’s a unique combination.
Hello Hardly Strickly
Never?
through
Oh shit is that the woman who’s husband killed himself running on a treadmill in Mexico?
Thanks, it’s actually done by this famous Russian tattoo artist that lives in New York.
You
photo
Thanks,
So I unslung my backpack and showed him my dream catcher sketch with the Japanese Rising Sun.
we
One of my characters in this arty tech thing I’m working on comes here for a girl so I need to write some different scenarios about what they do, so I’m curious what you guys are up to.
So pop quiz, what page are you on?
What?
no.
flick
No, no it looks dope and that’s good cause it’s a fucking neck tattoo, neck tats are serious, and its pretty complex.
Basic? Then you’re calling a lot of people basic.
Well I live here actually.
through
You hold my eyes with yours...
Always good to get into women’s minds for female characters; you trying to meet up with someone?
You laugh.
Then at the same moment we both realize, how we have drifted, away from the group subconsciously following a puddle of sunlight, which managed to make it’s way through the San Francisco fog and Sycamore branches to warm our skin.
He looked at it for a long time, twirled his golden hair with one finger and then started nodding,
Dating Apps...
No but I’d love to, that’s like the mecca of all of ‘em.
It’s written by the CFO of Facebook.
Say
Same
Oh that’s so cool! Have you recognized people from around the city?
Awesome tattoo by the way.
flick
Rain speaks.
Enough that I’d tell my CFO Facebook wife… Honey, you can risk you’re life but I’m not about to risk mine, embrace the dad bod.
Yes I like this, where do you want it?
I used to…
Wait, have you not fallen off a treadmill?
Have you?
Meandering
into
Golden Gate Park
But shit, remember?
Nice.
Hey, have we met?
I notice the tattoo design on her neck.
Oh no you let your brained get hacked?
You both look at each other and sort of grin
Just whenever I see one on a guy’s phone, I think its like the most basic thing ever.
What?
quickly
This is what they warned us of!
Yea, definitely.
You look like someone I made out with.
But I feel like sometimes with the job market…
You both laugh.
Yea, a guy I met the other week is coming.
Well, how many times have you fallen off a treadmill?
Oh...
Those adults when you were a kid saying,
Well, actually I’m reading one right now a coworker got me about woman in tech.
So what brings you to Hardly Strictly?
It’s like dating, sometimes things just don’t work out, nothing against you or them.
That's awesome.
um maybe?
Oh cool… Dating App?
I don’t remember that.
You shrug.
Fuck no.
I laugh and drink more wine,
Fit.
Damn, well I don’t have to tell you how dangerous those machines are…
Like for fun.
And that’s how I got it!
I do that on occasion.
But shit he probably had somethin’ sweet on his neck or something.
Then at the same moment we both realize, how we have drifted, away from the group subconsciously following a puddle of sunlight, which managed to make it’s way through the San Francisco fog and Sycamore branches to warm our skin.
Just happens.
Sounds intense. I used to just rock a sugar packet whenever I’d go out.
But probably wearing too much makeup underneath those shades.
Alright
Yea, like when was the last time you read a book…
Someone we’re waiting for gets out of the bathroom so we head in, the two of you leading the way, EndFragment
realize,
Oh thanks, it’s actually my grandma's
Exactly, romance me good sir!
I mean they might be.
Why?
Sounds fun.
Cool, cool, yes I could try to fit you in tomorrow night if this is good for you.
Says Rain.
Yea. It just became this thing I constantly checked
Is that him?
Sweet, go Housing Coops.
both
Yea I think we did.
So I said,
Haha amen, Shakespeare baby.
He says.
Yes, there are fewer and fewer of us, Native Americans, we’re going to go extinct soon, that’s partly why I got it.
Or they just don’t like dating.
Oh just so I, or whoever, could sprinkle some wherever they wanted.
Or at least that's what I'm forcing myself to believe.
Back of my neck.
I know we all like talking about sex but….
Yea and you ladies like to be romanced.
I can’t tell,
Who?
Rain and I lived at Deshain together.
Shit. Brain hacking... It’s real dude!
I like your shirt.
So what are you working on?
I try to shift the conversation
Well I don’t like do it that often,
Like for eating someone out.
Call it a built in defense mechanism...
We all laugh.
fingernails
Right there?
He contextualizes, EndFragment
Exactly, just opened up my phone and next thing I know I’m swiping.
You said
Yea do you guys ever incorporate food with sex?
Vicente butts in,
But probably wearing too much makeup underneath those shades.
Dating’s dating.
Oh yea?
Like remembering no one’s as happy as their Instagram, being picky, and not falling for someone too hard too fast, but if you are falling too hard too fast and its working, she’s probably worth it, and by being worth it, someone else’s heart is probably getting fucked.
Maybe we should talk about other stuff?
No, but I was talking to this woman at a conference who works it and I ended up just interviewing her for like an hour,
No, but kinda looks like him.
This is Mortell, he went to UCSB too, lived at Newman.
Guy I Might Know
You say,
Whatever this guy sucked on some dude’s neck last week.
You hold my eyes with yours...
fuck.
Haha that’s definitely true.
The guy who I might have made out with goes,
The guy I guess I made out with goes,
your
I drink more wine.
Rain, Jamie
Wait so are you saying my tattoo looks bad?
Gave him a mad hickie.
Guy I Might Have Made Out With.
Well I gave my boyfriend a blowjob with pop rocks once.
Haha to find out how she got the gig.
You hold my eyes with yours...
The group settles on a spot and puts down a blanket.
Like remembering no one’s as happy as their Instagram, being picky, and not falling for someone too hard too fast, but if you are falling too hard too fast and its working, she’s probably worth it, and by being worth it, someone else’s heart is probably getting fucked.
Isn't it also 'cause San Fransico is now 'Man-Fransico'?
Oh cool, do you ever dip everything into something?
Yea. It just became this thing I constantly checked.
Oh look! All three of us have septum piercings.
Oh shit.
how
Guy I Probably Made Out With?
He didn’t really like it.
Damn that’s so dope.
He asks,
Ah...Naw.
Septum club!
Was she like a music journalist first?
A guy I think I might know stands next to me.
Guy I might have made out with
No she was a volunteer for a year to show her commitment and then they offered her a job.
I’d rather let the girl have control over where they want to do stuff.
The three of you take a selfie.
I gesture to the art in the park
Yuri Trico!
Guy I Guess I Made Out With.
What are you guys talking about?
I’d love a job like that. Being an art director for a music festival.
Those adults when you were a kid saying,
Rain looks at her phone and suddenly you tug on her shoulder and point:
When everyone catches up the two of you are talking.
Vicente
after
Oh wow she/he’s going to be a heartbreaker.
Burning man, have you been?
moment
I gallop ahead and crack open my wine bottle.
same
Well I wrote this novel but I feel like no one reads anymore so, I’m trying to reinvent the written word for the user.
And a population trying
its hardest to vibe
the
Now we're the adults and you two look like heartbreakers.
Oh and drinking can help.
So what are you working on?
Fuck no?
at
Then you say,
Then he said,
You’re cute.
then
So I guess this is the path?!
And then you both laughed in your matching jean jackets
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You eye my drink.
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