#twilight_tone

I told Tanya (twilight_tone) bc we are dating and that's not the kind of thing you hold back.

to be clear: our relationship is not exclusive. We're really close, obvs, but it's more of an open poly thing. Lots of our interests overlap, but some don't, and that's okay! honesty's the most important thing.

so yeah I told her. I did not expect her to say, "oh that reminds me of a lucid dream I once had" and launch into this epic story about meeting a fantasy version of herself and going on a voyage of self-discovery, but maybe I should have, bc she does that sometimes. retells dreams. it's mostly cute.

i ABSOLUTELY did not expect her to end it with "but then we actually had sex, so it was a little different from what happened with you."

Tanya Miller! "twilight_tone", or just TT for short. sort of an in-joke that stuck. Trans woman, (she/her). couple years younger than me. significantly taller (sorry, I'm bad with feet and inches). sorta looks like uhhh Raven from Teen Titans? i don't watch that myself. anyway, we are dating.

lol yeah, surprise! girlfriend! polyam girlfriend! we met years back at a flea market... actually, no. wait. First, we met in a dream. THEN we had the physical meet-cute at the flea market.

sounds weird, right? agreed! Coincidences happen a lot but not like that. We started talking, realized we're both magicians (of a sort), and ended up hanging out for the rest of the afternoon, sifting through interdimensional bootlegs. Then we bailed, and I crashed at her apartment, and I, uh... got that second taste.

see... Tanya is a Dreamer with a capital D. She's not hooked up to Oneiroi or w/e, she just sorta falls asleep and roams the collective unconsciousness, all wild and strange. Sometimes she finds art. Sometimes... nightmares.

or maybe memories?

hard to tell sometimes.

...ANYWAY. turns out she's pretty accepting. We've been dating ever since. We're good at keeping each other grounded.