naps, they are no good

[cmonkatiekatie]

The time change has screwed me up so much. SO MUCH. I hope the alarm on my phone decides to work tomorrow, because going off an hour early was no fun. Basically at 6:30 in the morning I'm not functional enough to grasp the complexities of time and how it can apparently only go forward

Comments

[pyrimidine]

SUPERPOWER

[cmonkatiekatie]

I keep coming up with all these caveats to immortality, but that could totally work. Superpower had not even occured to me, for I am the most dim.

[pyrimidine]

SUPERPOWER...WITH CAVEATS

[cmonkatiekatie]

has caveat lost all meaning for you too? LIKE I AM NOT EVEN CERTAIN I USED IT CORRECTLY ANYMORE.

[weatherfront]

Em's explanation is so much better than my IMMORTALITY IS A RECESSIVE ALLELE

I am excited for this fic, Kat *____*

[cmonkatiekatie]

Ohhh, but I want it to have like never occurred to Arthur that it was even possible to be immortal. BUT AGAIN, it could be like a Time Traveler's wife situation where it's this new thing. Basically I'm just impressed that you pulled out recessive allele.

Oh god, it's terrible and I loooooove it.

[fosfomifira]

Superpowers are the best thing ever. Trying to account for them is hell and I think that's why I'm stuck with the Brad as a winger lizard-type creature thing.

Maybe immortality doesn't kick in until the moment you start to age, which sounds stupid, but there's actually something of a sciencey explanation to this. As I remember it, there are basically two groups of age markers when it comes to human remains (bones). There are markers that change as you grow up (bones fuse), then are the markers that come with old age (like arthritis and such). So, maybe immortality in this case doesn't become evident until that point when you stop growing, so to speak. Think of aging as an upturned curve of sorts (^). The growing up would be the (/) side, the growing old would be the (\) side. Immortality would start working around the time (\) shows up.

I promise promise it's not as confusing as I made it sound, but I had weird dreams and I need my breakfast before I start thinking. Evil time change is evil.

[cmonkatiekatie]

Ahahaha, you are so much smarter than me.

[fosfomifira]

I most certainly am not. However, I did take a few physical anthropology courses while I was an archaeology undergrad and they stuck like glue to my puny brain.

[cmonkatiekatie]

I was an anthropology minor. /o\

btw, I'm totally going to respond to that comment properly when I am not cheating on my day job to do so!

[jibrailis]

I am suffering the same time change nap problems. ;___; Let me hold your hand.

Radioactive spider immortality. But ma, I thought it was just a rash!

[cmonkatiekatie]

I will hold yours if you hold mine. And I will not nap today, no matter how much I want too. Okay, maybe just a little one.

Oh god, what if you lived forever but the consequence was that you had the rash for forever.

[jibrailis]

Then I suppose you better hope for an eternal supply of baby powder as a secondary superpower. ;___;

I know, I take the sexy out of everything.

[cmonkatiekatie]

I choose the sweet release of death, please.

So true. Rashes were so sexy before you got your hands on them.

[wanderlight]

I have nothing helpful to add, except that you could either go in the pseudoscientific direction or the ~magical direction, and that either way, OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU TO WRITE MORE THINGS. ♥

[cmonkatiekatie]

I do keep thinking about a fallen angel scenario with bonus amnesia where they have to go into Arthur's subconscious in order to figure it out, but, like I don't even know how that kind of thing would work. I can't even manage the most basic of plots much less...that. Writing is hard, man.