DRAX

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[rocketsmodernlife]

[ CAN YOU HEAR HIM SIGHING FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHIP. MAYBE YOU CAN FEEL A SMALL BREEZE ]

you like things at different levels, right?

[hyperliteral]

[ it was such a small breeze he barely felt it. sigh more strongly next time if you want it to affect him ]

What do you mean?

[rocketsmodernlife]

[ he'got little lungs!! ]

oh my god
i mean
okay you like certain kinds of food more than others, you've got your favorite things and then the ones that you like more than normal and the ones that are sort of okay
you can say 'i love this knife more than all my other knives' and it doesn't mean the same thing as when you say 'i love this sandwich', right
or person, whatever

you can do the same thing with 'no', there's just not another good word for it

[hyperliteral]

[ poor lil' racoon ]

I do have a favourite knife
but words are not knives

[rocketsmodernlife]

the knife part was not the point here
disregard the knife part
think about the food part
you can dislike a food and you can be allergic to a food and they're both negatives but one of them is MORE negative, an

actually don't disregard the knife part
all knives are knives, but some knives are better for things than others, but sometimes you only have the one knife
all words are words but the same thing applies

that's my last example okay if you want a grammar lesson go talk to gamora
or star-dick if you wanna keep being poorly-informed

[hyperliteral]

[ he still can't make sense of it exactly, but they're clearly not getting anywhere with this, so he just gives in.

it doesn't matter. ]

Okay

[rocketsmodernlife]

[ rocket's still p sure drax doesn't get it and he's just. he half wants to try and half just doesn't give a shit by this point.

But. there's still a small matter. ]

so how did me doin THAT to HIM even come up in conversation, coz i'm just dyin to know

[hyperliteral]

he called you a dickmunch

[rocketsmodernlife]

[ Peter called Rocket a 'dickmunch', and naturally, Drax had to ask about what that meant. Now, if Rocket knew anything about Peter, it was that his idea of a 'dickmunch', actually had nothing to do with munching dicks except in the most figurative of manners.

But Drax doesn't do figurative.

In about 0.4 seconds Rocket has decided this is all Peter's fault. To be fair, he already had more or less assumed that, the odds were just. Nobody wouldn't take those odds. But even so - that honestly only shaved about 0.17 seconds off the end total.

Drax has clearly had 'dickmunch' explained to him, so Rocket's just. No. ]

i am not what that conversation- I don't do that.

[ A couple of minutes later. ]

although if you can separate the meaning from the actual word, then yeah i kind of am.

don't your people have shit for this, like. titles or something? "i am drax, the serious warrior with an underdeveloped humor gland" idk

[hyperliteral]

[ drax doesn't do figurative and peter does figurative all too often. drax has at least understood that sometimes, things are metaphors.

so: ] Dickmunch is a metaphor?

We do not use titles in that way. Do not talk about my glands.

[rocketsmodernlife]

YES. Yes. Dickmunch is a METAJPHOR

[ sorry, tiny paws, sudden anger, just, shhh, move on. don't ask don't ask. ]

i won't talk about yer glands okay?
weirdo. [ 'weirdo', yes, bUT. it could have been 'jaggoff', so. he's calming well enough. ]

so how do you guys use titles then, enlighten me with wisdom of the ages

[hyperliteral]

There are some titles for offices, but most people know who does what, so they aren't needed often.

[ idk lemme just make up stuff about alien cultures w/e ]

sometimes i can't tell how to write his dialect

[rocketsmodernlife]

[ i make up stuff about our cultures all the time. also i did sort of ask you about something the movie told us literally nothing about sooooo ]

i guess i shouldve expected that
so you'd you get 'the destroyer' then
i guess you just get called that by other people

[hyperliteral]

yes
because i have destroyed a great many things