Starting a couple days late ;;; but here’s for TMAtober Day 03: Favorite Relationship. I.e. another excuse for me to go back on my spider!martin moth!jon bullshit.
ARCHIVIST: Oh… uh… he was actually a lot smarter than I thought he was. He’s very smart, you know? And I wasn’t very good to him…
MARTIN: It’s fine, it’s fine. We’ve talked about this, Jon.
ARCHIVIST: I know, I know. (sigh) I just, I mean…
MARTIN: Don’t you worry about it. I love you.
ARCHIVIST: I… concur. Um, you know what? One is… Martin is very, very, very good at crossword puzzles. Like, scary good. And so when I found that out, I started bringing him crossword puzzles, and it became… I don’t know what I was trying to accomplish…
MARTIN: You were trying to say, “I found out something about you, and I wanna show you that I’m paying attention.” Which was good. That was sweet and good.
ARCHIVIST: I, uh… I think I’m saying, it’s - thank you.