Wow this sure is a deer-in-the-headlights expression!

After a few seconds of blinking, he says, “...Let’s figure out what’s on.”

"...probably a good plan, I just remembered I live in a studio and don't actually have a place to sit other than the bed." He looks up movie times. "There's the new Star Wars, The Good Dinosaur, The Big Short"-- slight hesitation-- "the Danish Girl--"

“...To be honest, I don’t know half of those? I don’t really... keep up with movies. Do, um, do you have a preference?”

"The Good Dinosaur is the new Pixar movie, I don't know anything about it. The Big Short is about the 2008 housing crisis and the guy who notices that it's going to happen and makes billions of dollars. The Danish Girl is about"-- slight pause--"the first trans woman to ever get sexual reassignment surgery. Star Wars has spaceships go BOOM and lightsabers go VRMMMMM. --if it were up to me I'd go for the Big Short but that's just because I like fantasizing about being very smart and then getting proven right and having billions of dollars." 

“The Big Short sounds good to me? Um, on my own the only movies I watch are the sort of pretentious art films, I don’t know if The Danish Girl is like that but I can conclusively say that Pixar and Star Wars are probably not. ...Some Pixar movies are really good too but I haven’t heard of this one at all so I’m going to assume that it’s probably not.” There is no non-awkward way to ask if Lev will bounce if they go see The Big Short, which is deeply tragic because Lev bouncing is very very good. 

"I'm sorry, my taste in movies is absolutely awful. Books too. I read the entire Wheel of Time series. --We can watch something you'd like, I bet I would like an actually good movie. Or we can see the Big Short."

“Let’s just go with the Big Short.”

Archiving archiving archiving until it is time to see the movie!

(Organizing things is surprisingly satisfying.)

And eventually it is time to see the movie!

Martin is blushing a lot, though this is admittedly pretty normal for him. 

Lev is bouncing! And explaining the 2008 subprime housing bubble via dramatic hand gestures!

Lev bouncing is adorable!!!!!!!!!

—Oh, he can probably just. Say that now. 

“You’re, um. Really cute when you’re explaining things.”

...what does that mean.

Do straight people say that to their friends.

He really should have paid more attention to Asher's social interactions.

"Thank you?" he tries.

“You’re. Welcome! You’re welcome.”

Oh no he did something wrong again. Aaaaaa. Awkward silence?

“...I’m sorry? I’m. Sorry. You can. Go back to explaining?” Aaaaaa wow how did he fuck things up that quickly. Nice going, Martin. 

Social interactions are terrible and difficult and he is going to talk about subprime mortgages with much gratitude.

Lev explaining things remains so good!!! Martin is rapt. 

While they get popcorn he gets distracted by explaining election forecasting! And then he talks all through the previews and is visibly resisting his desire to talk through the rest of it.

Martin is going to be staring at Lev rather than the screen for a solid percentage of the movie! Lev is just very unfairly cute. 

After the movie: “Okay, what did you want to say through all that, you looked like you were ready to explode from how much you wanted to say things.”

Bounce bounce bounce here is a list of all the factual inaccuracies in this movie Lev is not really thinking and is autopilot walking towards his flat.

Gosh! Bounces!!!! Martin is not really thinking either but his feet are following Lev!!!!

Well unless he objects they're going to autopilot to Lev's flat and have nowhere to sit but his bed.

Martin is going to make a valiant effort to take up as little room on the bed as possible when he sits down, which is hard because he is 6’4” and not thin.

His blush is steadily worsening. “So. Um. What do you... Want to do now?”

"...uh probably I was going to keep lecturing you about subprime mortgages? Unless you want to do something else? That would be pretty reasonable. I mean you don't have to keep hanging out with me."

“No! No, that sounds great, actually!”