rizzing up my current gf felt a bit like 4d chess i stalked her for a week or so to find out if I have a chance, informing the group chat of my findings (i referred to her as "the C girl"). we met on fedi and had only really talked about tech at that point but i read her gay fantasy posts and was crushing hard, also about her being a gentoo + C person

initially i was assuming i wouldn't have a chance bc I was poly and idk i guess i assumed everyone else is mono

then some day she made a post something like "girl who makes mechanical keyboards for the polycule" to which i replied with some blobfox bottom emoji then she said she can make me a keyboard and I was like "implying I'm part of your polycule" and she was like "you're cool so it could be arranged"

(it's funny bc, we've been dating for over a year now, many irl visits, and she still didn't make me a keyboard. well, some day maybe)

then she slid into my matrix DMs and a few weeks later we were dating