haunted lullabies! he's random in his sense of humor so if he knew about that then he tried to make his songs about heartbreak more gothic just for her benefit, like if edward rochester wrote lyrics, and it's really just ridiculous at that point. but on the serious side, yes to being a sounding board about writing in general, and a half serious promise you helped, so i'll dedicate whatever song/ep to you, which he's probably forgotten since. june to august works, and those headlines were probably a good recovery from the earlier negative attention. are you okay with one of his videos for a new release being a compilation of just random clips of their road trip? maybe they did a couple of lives/brief insta stories like we might just give it all up and become the next. the dialogue thing is totally something he'd do, he's shaking his head and cringing hard at some of those fics but it's hilarious so why not