speaking as someone who's tooootally spun it off as a joke before usually it's not. usually it's more like
like if he flirts and you aren't into it it means he can back off and say he was just kidding. Especially if he's from our time, y'know? not everyone's chill about it.
[Back home, they wouldn't have had the luxury of going up to any dude they were interested in and flirting as if it wouldn't have consequences. There's a lot of nuance and vetting that goes into it.]
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like if he flirts and you aren't into it it means he can back off and say he was just kidding. Especially if he's from our time, y'know? not everyone's chill about it.
[Back home, they wouldn't have had the luxury of going up to any dude they were interested in and flirting as if it wouldn't have consequences. There's a lot of nuance and vetting that goes into it.]
Different-weird? like not what you're used to?
...have you tried flirting back?