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kohikariIn the order in which I did them (is that sentence grammatically correct?):
If you could choose one super-power, what would it be and why?
- already been over this, word for word; goes with “wishes”. But if we’re doing superpowers, in a world where they’re like vaguely common and the government doesn’t dissect you...of the classics, flying, fire, weather, ice, etc. are cool. Let’s go over the one I wrote a year ago...
“The first and most obvious hurdle is, should I wish for world peace? (Or something along that line of inquiry.) Me being me, I came to the conclusion after a while that major global, national or even local change would just be fucking with shit I don't understand, and the world has a precise and proper balance, and some shit just needs to happen for the good of the future, and yin-yang/light-side-dark-side/use-the-fork-Luke/who wants to be blamed for the Apocalypse anyway.”
However, if there was some cosmic apocalypse about to happen, like some object or phenomenon literally about to annihilate the earth, that’s definitely something to intervene with. (Also, if it wouldn’t cause undue harm to the economy or have some sort of backlash/unintended consequence, paying off the mortgages and affording college and health insurance would be a wonderful, wonderful thing.)
But back to the topic at hand. After finding, and languages, and the physics/temperature/pyrocryostuff, and the aminal whispering/underwater breathing/kinetic-lev-flight/hippie earth-water-sky stuff, and past observation, and weather/eckeltricity/energy/etc. Small magics are cool. Cooking/culinary/chemical/mad-scientist edibles etc. magic would be awesome, for cures and tonics and poisons and delicious, and textile stuff like Sandry’s awesome, and Daja’s and Briar’s metal and plant magics, or Evvy’s stone magic, or the glass worker Tris teaches, or...practical magic is awesome, really. Small stuff that is useful and you don’t expect it to win a war except for when it does.
As to Marvel and DC: No telepathy or empathy because of the “noise,” privacy issues (esp. my own), and stigma. With superstrength I would worry about hurting or breaking things. Superspeed...eh. Also issues. Personal fast or extreme healing just seems to invite interesting methods of torture. And the power to heal? Superficially awesome, but the moral dilemma with who to heal and who not to heal, and the whole natural balance and not having your own life etc. Invisibility isn’t very useful if you’re a noisy person, or if you can’t confer that effect onto things you’re wearing or carrying. Astral projection leaves your body too vulnerable. Wings, like capes, are just impractical. Rogue’s ability is admittedly cool, but the stigma and difficulty is too great; maybe if it was more easily controlled, but still. Mystique’s power is kind of awesome though. Unfortunately, not so much if you can’t bring, like, clothes with you. It’d be really awkward to have to find a convenient fern every time you assume a human form. I would hate seeing the future—so depressing, and takes the fire out of life—except if it was something like grab the person next to you and duck because here comes a meteor. The sort of avoidance of imminent danger might be useful, like a spidey sense without the spiders. I’ve addressed my aversion to fucking with time before, so I won’t repeat it. Reality-warping would just be bad; unintended consequences sort of multiply like bunny rabbits when it comes to that, plus the difficulties of balance and free will etc. etc. etc. Teleportation is kind of problematic if it comes without some form of safety net, like kinesis if you accidentally ‘port off a cliff or barrier/shield something if you wind up in fire or lava or rock or something that would cause your life to go kaput.
Illusion—the manipulation of light and shadows and colours etc.—would be cool. Also unmagic, some sort of immunity to powers—awkward if you need magic healing, but excellent for defence etc. And maybe what a situation really needs is a professional damsel in distress. Someone who’s good at being a hostage, leverage, kidnap material and ransom fodder. Someone vulnerable but durable, so that there wouldn’t be any deal-breaking mishaps. Weapons/fighting magic I suppose would be convenient, sort of Slayerish but without the dramatic oops-I-cracked-your-ribs bit; a subtle enough increase on agility, flexibility, reflexes, strength, speed and instinct so that it’s not anything bizarrely inhuman but weaponed or weaponless fighting comes easily and is proficient at. Yes, I know, I just broke the English language, boohoo, like it wasn’t mangled to begin with.
(haha, I think too much.)
What three items would you place in a time capsule to help future generations understand you?
(a) a diary or electronic file of some sort containing a bunch of things I’ve written/drawn/taped, about myself and my world and everything else; (b) my little stone, the pretty one I found on the playground when I was five and I’ve treasured it ever since; (c) MY MUMMIFIED CORPSE AHAHA not really, uhhh...I dunno. Music maybe? Or something from a precious person, like Kate or Kathy. Maybe Stacey’s jacket. Or something about my godson. Or, I dunno, something.
What (if any) books would you ban from a high school library? Are there certain subjects that you feel are inappropriate for teenagers regardless of literary merit?
Haha censorship can kiss my ass. YES there are things five-year-olds should not be exposed to, NO treating teenagers like five-year-olds will not solve anything. All censorship does is cause more problems—like making people want to read the things you ban, or bloating something’s scandalousness or significance beyond what it needs to be, or creating complexes that take years of therapy to undo, or generally being an asshole. Bitch.
What is your favourite holiday and why?
HALLOWEEN. Halloween Halloween Halloween. Part of this is what Sprite says, that Christmas is when you get free stuff and Thanksgiving is when you get to eat until you’re sick and New Year’s is when you get to party all night and Halloween is when you can do all of these and you get to dress up. Part of this is that if there is a god that cares about holidays, it must be Halloween, because I’ve seen shit weather on every other holiday (messy nasty miserable Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Fourth of July, etc.) but for some reason Halloween is always beautiful, either clear or cloudy, warm or cool, but never rain or sleet or snow or hail or lightning or anything, it’s gorgeous. Also, October is the most wonderful month of the year: you don’t hate school much yet, it’s getting crisp and cool finally, the deciduous trees are breaking out in colour, it smells amazing, it’s apple season! and and and so, so beautiful, and harvest moon and weather and perfect perfect perfect. (Yes this is influenced by the fact that I’ve lived in Boston, Massachusetts, USA for all of my life. What can I say? It’s beautiful up here.)(...Okay, and I now attend college in Salem, Massachusetts, the Halloween capital of the planet Earth, and I do enjoy the crazy and the free and the controversy and the awesome. Halloween has some of the richest mythos of any holiday. Also, FREE CANDY :DDDDD yes please~ ♥)
If your best friend forgave his or her partner for cheating and lying, would you try to forgive him or her too? Would you find it difficult to spend time with them as a couple?
I feel (and this may be outrageous, because I still struggle with this whole interpersonal people stuff) that it is my duty as a friend to be a small lion. I beat up the ex and console and make very bad jokes and help graffiti and burn in effigy and am a shoulder to cry on and someone to talk to, even if I’m usually not much help. If one of my friends’ partners hurt them I would rise up in indignation; if my friend forgave them I would support them in their decision but invest in a metal baseball bat just in case. I would indeed find it difficult to spend time with them as a couple and keep my sympathetic hostility under wraps; however, I would do my best to be open-minded.
If you could have one extraordinary talent, what would you choose and why?
Uh is this not exactly the same as the superpower thing? Jeez, people, try to be original once in a while. Knitting and crocheting and sewing and other textile-related things would be nice, to be able to design and make garments and such for myself and others, but that’s not really extraordinary; it’d be awesome if I could cook really well. Martial arts would be cool. Greater flexibility and strength and endurance go along with that. It’d also be nice to have less difficulty with everyday life. Less bizarre anxiety and depression would be great, really. Then maybe it wouldn’t be painful to even contemplate writing that fucking paper that’s the reason behind me doing this “writer’s block” shit, because it’s not writer’s block so much as a block between me and being a fucking human being but this is not the forum for that rant so yeah, hahaha, later. Ha. *sulk*
(...Because, because, I actually am kind of really awesomely smart and talented, but I can’t exercise this because there’s always that mental block, that fear and difficulty that makes it hard for me even to keep a diurnal schedule and feed myself. It’s so fucking stupid, but it’s....there, and I’m always struggling to get around it. Also, I think I did shit on my Bio lab practical exam because I was fucked up by withdrawal. Goddammit. Of all the classes to mess with, it has to be the one I have the least difficulty with. *headdesk*)
If you could choose one super-power, what would it be and why?
- already been over this, word for word; goes with “wishes”. But if we’re doing superpowers, in a world where they’re like vaguely common and the government doesn’t dissect you...of the classics, flying, fire, weather, ice, etc. are cool. Let’s go over the one I wrote a year ago...
“The first and most obvious hurdle is, should I wish for world peace? (Or something along that line of inquiry.) Me being me, I came to the conclusion after a while that major global, national or even local change would just be fucking with shit I don't understand, and the world has a precise and proper balance, and some shit just needs to happen for the good of the future, and yin-yang/light-side-dark-side/use-the-fork-Luke/who wants to be blamed for the Apocalypse anyway.”
However, if there was some cosmic apocalypse about to happen, like some object or phenomenon literally about to annihilate the earth, that’s definitely something to intervene with. (Also, if it wouldn’t cause undue harm to the economy or have some sort of backlash/unintended consequence, paying off the mortgages and affording college and health insurance would be a wonderful, wonderful thing.)
But back to the topic at hand. After finding, and languages, and the physics/temperature/pyrocryostuff, and the aminal whispering/underwater breathing/kinetic-lev-flight/hippie earth-water-sky stuff, and past observation, and weather/eckeltricity/energy/etc. Small magics are cool. Cooking/culinary/chemical/mad-scientist edibles etc. magic would be awesome, for cures and tonics and poisons and delicious, and textile stuff like Sandry’s awesome, and Daja’s and Briar’s metal and plant magics, or Evvy’s stone magic, or the glass worker Tris teaches, or...practical magic is awesome, really. Small stuff that is useful and you don’t expect it to win a war except for when it does.
As to Marvel and DC: No telepathy or empathy because of the “noise,” privacy issues (esp. my own), and stigma. With superstrength I would worry about hurting or breaking things. Superspeed...eh. Also issues. Personal fast or extreme healing just seems to invite interesting methods of torture. And the power to heal? Superficially awesome, but the moral dilemma with who to heal and who not to heal, and the whole natural balance and not having your own life etc. Invisibility isn’t very useful if you’re a noisy person, or if you can’t confer that effect onto things you’re wearing or carrying. Astral projection leaves your body too vulnerable. Wings, like capes, are just impractical. Rogue’s ability is admittedly cool, but the stigma and difficulty is too great; maybe if it was more easily controlled, but still. Mystique’s power is kind of awesome though. Unfortunately, not so much if you can’t bring, like, clothes with you. It’d be really awkward to have to find a convenient fern every time you assume a human form. I would hate seeing the future—so depressing, and takes the fire out of life—except if it was something like grab the person next to you and duck because here comes a meteor. The sort of avoidance of imminent danger might be useful, like a spidey sense without the spiders. I’ve addressed my aversion to fucking with time before, so I won’t repeat it. Reality-warping would just be bad; unintended consequences sort of multiply like bunny rabbits when it comes to that, plus the difficulties of balance and free will etc. etc. etc. Teleportation is kind of problematic if it comes without some form of safety net, like kinesis if you accidentally ‘port off a cliff or barrier/shield something if you wind up in fire or lava or rock or something that would cause your life to go kaput.
Illusion—the manipulation of light and shadows and colours etc.—would be cool. Also unmagic, some sort of immunity to powers—awkward if you need magic healing, but excellent for defence etc. And maybe what a situation really needs is a professional damsel in distress. Someone who’s good at being a hostage, leverage, kidnap material and ransom fodder. Someone vulnerable but durable, so that there wouldn’t be any deal-breaking mishaps. Weapons/fighting magic I suppose would be convenient, sort of Slayerish but without the dramatic oops-I-cracked-your-ribs bit; a subtle enough increase on agility, flexibility, reflexes, strength, speed and instinct so that it’s not anything bizarrely inhuman but weaponed or weaponless fighting comes easily and is proficient at. Yes, I know, I just broke the English language, boohoo, like it wasn’t mangled to begin with.
(haha, I think too much.)
What three items would you place in a time capsule to help future generations understand you?
(a) a diary or electronic file of some sort containing a bunch of things I’ve written/drawn/taped, about myself and my world and everything else; (b) my little stone, the pretty one I found on the playground when I was five and I’ve treasured it ever since; (c) MY MUMMIFIED CORPSE AHAHA not really, uhhh...I dunno. Music maybe? Or something from a precious person, like Kate or Kathy. Maybe Stacey’s jacket. Or something about my godson. Or, I dunno, something.
What (if any) books would you ban from a high school library? Are there certain subjects that you feel are inappropriate for teenagers regardless of literary merit?
Haha censorship can kiss my ass. YES there are things five-year-olds should not be exposed to, NO treating teenagers like five-year-olds will not solve anything. All censorship does is cause more problems—like making people want to read the things you ban, or bloating something’s scandalousness or significance beyond what it needs to be, or creating complexes that take years of therapy to undo, or generally being an asshole. Bitch.
What is your favourite holiday and why?
HALLOWEEN. Halloween Halloween Halloween. Part of this is what Sprite says, that Christmas is when you get free stuff and Thanksgiving is when you get to eat until you’re sick and New Year’s is when you get to party all night and Halloween is when you can do all of these and you get to dress up. Part of this is that if there is a god that cares about holidays, it must be Halloween, because I’ve seen shit weather on every other holiday (messy nasty miserable Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Fourth of July, etc.) but for some reason Halloween is always beautiful, either clear or cloudy, warm or cool, but never rain or sleet or snow or hail or lightning or anything, it’s gorgeous. Also, October is the most wonderful month of the year: you don’t hate school much yet, it’s getting crisp and cool finally, the deciduous trees are breaking out in colour, it smells amazing, it’s apple season! and and and so, so beautiful, and harvest moon and weather and perfect perfect perfect. (Yes this is influenced by the fact that I’ve lived in Boston, Massachusetts, USA for all of my life. What can I say? It’s beautiful up here.)(...Okay, and I now attend college in Salem, Massachusetts, the Halloween capital of the planet Earth, and I do enjoy the crazy and the free and the controversy and the awesome. Halloween has some of the richest mythos of any holiday. Also, FREE CANDY :DDDDD yes please~ ♥)
If your best friend forgave his or her partner for cheating and lying, would you try to forgive him or her too? Would you find it difficult to spend time with them as a couple?
I feel (and this may be outrageous, because I still struggle with this whole interpersonal people stuff) that it is my duty as a friend to be a small lion. I beat up the ex and console and make very bad jokes and help graffiti and burn in effigy and am a shoulder to cry on and someone to talk to, even if I’m usually not much help. If one of my friends’ partners hurt them I would rise up in indignation; if my friend forgave them I would support them in their decision but invest in a metal baseball bat just in case. I would indeed find it difficult to spend time with them as a couple and keep my sympathetic hostility under wraps; however, I would do my best to be open-minded.
If you could have one extraordinary talent, what would you choose and why?
Uh is this not exactly the same as the superpower thing? Jeez, people, try to be original once in a while. Knitting and crocheting and sewing and other textile-related things would be nice, to be able to design and make garments and such for myself and others, but that’s not really extraordinary; it’d be awesome if I could cook really well. Martial arts would be cool. Greater flexibility and strength and endurance go along with that. It’d also be nice to have less difficulty with everyday life. Less bizarre anxiety and depression would be great, really. Then maybe it wouldn’t be painful to even contemplate writing that fucking paper that’s the reason behind me doing this “writer’s block” shit, because it’s not writer’s block so much as a block between me and being a fucking human being but this is not the forum for that rant so yeah, hahaha, later. Ha. *sulk*
(...Because, because, I actually am kind of really awesomely smart and talented, but I can’t exercise this because there’s always that mental block, that fear and difficulty that makes it hard for me even to keep a diurnal schedule and feed myself. It’s so fucking stupid, but it’s....there, and I’m always struggling to get around it. Also, I think I did shit on my Bio lab practical exam because I was fucked up by withdrawal. Goddammit. Of all the classes to mess with, it has to be the one I have the least difficulty with. *headdesk*)