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Oh, man, I am so jealous for (of?) all of y'all going to BP. This continent is too big and flights are too expensive and being a Responsible Adult sucks. So I've been distracting myself with reminders that I am traveling this summer, just later and in the other direction. One of my friends is renewing her vows in Delaware (she and her man eloped this past summer and will be doing the friends and family celebration). So I'm driving east in July, and probably-hopefully seeing sisterofdream in her native habitat. And possibly other people? WHO KNOWS. Planning: not my strong suit. Though tell me if I should bug you while I'm near the Eastern Seaboard.
I was talking to formerly-irises the other day about edging back into comics because of Marvel's movies -- except for X-men: First Class which never really grabbed me. So OF COURSE I bumped into a rec for danegen's Perfect Drug that same day which subsequently ate my brain. In my attempt to articulate why I didn't like the movie, I mentioned my utter lack of swinging-sixties nostalgia, and the vid pretty much cuts that out entirely. Also, I'm a nine inch nails fan, so the song hooked me. But there's also the compression of Erik's (failed) hero's journey and the central focus of the emotional arc and... I don't know, it's good and I feel like I'm dancing about architecture here. Mind the warnings, particularly if you haven't seen the film.
Speaking of my brain I sucked it up and called my doctor and am back on the cabergoline. And what do you know, my energy levels are already up (meaning I've become such a gym rat right now, you have no idea, but I really want to do the Run For Your Lives zombie obstacle course thingy and I really am starting with no upper body strength) and I'm able to string words together to form fiction again. I am such a moron sometimes.
Speaking of brains, Schuldig or Charles Xavier? Not in a fight -- I come down pretty strongly on team Xavier in a head to head match up (it's late here; the word play will get worse). I mean, hm. I'm not sure how to put it... world view? Probability?
Basically, do you think telepathy would make someone a better person (Xavier), or a worse one (Schuldig), or just amplify the person they'd have grown up to be anyway (either/both)? Would the when of it matter - does the answer change if someone could always hear others' thoughts versus growing into the ability later?
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I was talking to formerly-irises the other day about edging back into comics because of Marvel's movies -- except for X-men: First Class which never really grabbed me. So OF COURSE I bumped into a rec for danegen's Perfect Drug that same day which subsequently ate my brain. In my attempt to articulate why I didn't like the movie, I mentioned my utter lack of swinging-sixties nostalgia, and the vid pretty much cuts that out entirely. Also, I'm a nine inch nails fan, so the song hooked me. But there's also the compression of Erik's (failed) hero's journey and the central focus of the emotional arc and... I don't know, it's good and I feel like I'm dancing about architecture here. Mind the warnings, particularly if you haven't seen the film.
Speaking of my brain I sucked it up and called my doctor and am back on the cabergoline. And what do you know, my energy levels are already up (meaning I've become such a gym rat right now, you have no idea, but I really want to do the Run For Your Lives zombie obstacle course thingy and I really am starting with no upper body strength) and I'm able to string words together to form fiction again. I am such a moron sometimes.
Speaking of brains, Schuldig or Charles Xavier? Not in a fight -- I come down pretty strongly on team Xavier in a head to head match up (it's late here; the word play will get worse). I mean, hm. I'm not sure how to put it... world view? Probability?
Basically, do you think telepathy would make someone a better person (Xavier), or a worse one (Schuldig), or just amplify the person they'd have grown up to be anyway (either/both)? Would the when of it matter - does the answer change if someone could always hear others' thoughts versus growing into the ability later?
View poll: The good, the bad, the telepathic
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