Feedback please?

I’m pretty sure my son would have been into this

Coela can ths ?

By "fish people" do you mean like Deep Ones?

Hang on, are special interests a mating display behavior???

There was a study indicating it was a common flirting tactic for some neurodiverse people and it kinda went viral.

I would probably fall in love if I got to hear a 30 minute, passionate info dump on a date.

Definitely. I'd totally fall in love. With coelacanths

I’d spend 30 min back arguing on the correct pronouncing of qualiacontiks

honestly, neurodiverse people shouldn't date neurotypicals.

neurotypicals are too weird.

It's true. They think we're boring, we think they're boring. I remember dating a definitely NT person and was baffled that they never wanted to do deep dives on any topics with me.
Who wouldn't want to spend all weekend with their partner learning about the history of weaving and how various textile related machinery works, then cap it off by marathon playing Loom in robes?! Weirdos.
- my NT ex said that me talking about my interest is abuse, yet she has no trouble abusing me till suicide.
Excuse me, neurotypicals aren't weird enough. Normal is boring.

If that was me, i'd text her right after the date asking to subscribe to fish facts.

Him* 🖖🏼

Their loss. Nothing sexier than someone being passionate about their interests. I’ll listen to someone tell me about their collection of severed heads if they’ve got passion for it

"aren't you going to open your present?"
"If it's a severed head I'm going to be seriously upset."
- I mean, if it's a sufficiently cool severed head....
Same, passion is sexy

Too specific. Needed at least a quick refresher on all ocean life first. Gotta let them get warmed up before you hit them with the good stuff.

It's like this idiot had never heard of foreplay
- Pardon, but did you just refer to our @Stamets@lemmy.world as an idiot?
  ...
- Yeah you gotta leave them wanting more. If you give up the coelacanth on the first date, he doesn't have a reason to come back for a second date.

Once you hit'em with the "coelacanth is closer related to us than gold fish" gambit, which leads to the "what is fish" manoeuvre, and finish them with a "whales are fish and birds are reptiles" pincer attack, they're as good as gone.

Wait.

There's no such thing as a fish.
- Don't be absurd, you silly fish.
- Harkin, is that you?
Hank Green has helped me see the light. Whales are fish! Whales are fish!!!

Me: Rambling about some esoteric topic that has no practical application to any part of my life.

My Wife: Listening intently even though she has no clue what I'm talking about.

I usually realize how long I've been going on when she starts smiling because she "thinks it's cute."

I don't often feel like I've won the jackpot, but I sure did with this lady.

I also choose this guy's alive wife.
A keeper for sure. Just be sure to respond in kind.

Next time tip the scales in your favor with a more positive approach. Little less coelaCAN'Th, little more coelacCANth.

And absolutely no coelacanþ.
- þis is þorn erasure!!!1! 😤

So she's knowledgeable and passionate about something and can hold a conversation instead of making the other person do all the work?

And he ghosted her???

Was it a conversation or a knowledge dump without a lot of interaction?
I like the other person to show a little bit of interest in me, but that’s just me. I could be wrong.
- Hey if the dude never contributed to the conversation, that's on him. You gotta ask the nerd questions so you can get MORE information
He* 🤦🏼‍♂️
- No, OP and OOP are I'm pretty sure different people.
  To the extent there is such a thing.
- She. Her name is Casey Zinkiezich. Shes the OP, she goes by She/Her as indicated by her social media.
- Huh
Exactly my thoughts. Not just knowing a lot about something but also being willing to talk about it. So many people with actual interesting shit to say keep it to themselves until several interactions in. Like Yeats said
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
- I thought that part was just about internet and irony poisoning.

I would love to meet someone who had so much enthusiasm for a topic that they want to teach me about it. I may not always understand, but I would listen to her all night long.

This is how my wife courted me, except with René Magritte instead of coelacanths.

You may be entitled to seek compensation.
- Why, did someone take an apple to the face?

what's a coelecanth?

Based on the replies you've gotten so far I suspect this may be a joke I'm not getting, but I'm choosing to react as if it's a genuine question anyway.
A coelacanth is a super old fish that everyone thought was extinct, and then one day we just happened to find them alive! They're a "living fossil" animal in that they haven't changed much in a very long time and give us a window into the past. Here's a picture I stole:
- Too many fins. Don't like it because it didn't evolve into something on land. Selfish jerks.
Understandable, I only know what they are from Animal Crossing.
It's a fish you can only catch while it's raining.
oof, I can feel the secondhand embarassment
Tell us tomorrow
it’s the single hole used for both shitting and sexual reproduction
- Cloaca*

This is me. Im in this meme. I love coelacanths and fish.

swoons 
 I love all topics evolution and nerd-adjacent. This is the type of date I wish I could go on instead of everyone conforming to some imagined idea of fleeting coolness or throwing money around. 
 retches 
 Relevant video
- I wish my nerds would throw a power point party, that seems like it would go over well with this crowd. (Not so sure about them)

I fell in love just reading that. Tell me more about the coelacanth!

If this happened to me I'd probably propose right there on the spot.

mary me mommy

Coelacanth facts are hot. But you’d best be prepared for an equal measure of trilobite facts.

Best I can offer is four hours of railway trivia with the occasional rant on whatever specific subject my stream of trivia happens to hit upon

Calling a mere 30 minutes “extensive” is a wild take. 2.5 hours into googology and I haven’t even started talking about Rayo’s number, tetration, or up-arrow notation yet.

What about TREE(3) though?
- Kruskal's Theorem:
  ^you ^wish ^I ^was ^joking...
- lol I’d thought about adding it, don’t know why I didn’t. BB-n too, I reckon. Good thing you brought it up!

Should have gone with Babirussas

I love coelacanths 🤤