This question is completely beneath my dignity.
Prompt 341: What makes you cry?
Prompt 342: Interruption.
What makes me cry? That's a joke, right? It's beyond absurd to imagine that an entity of my nature, a superior being at the pinnacle of evolution, immortal, omnipotent and essentially invulnerable, could ever be brought so low as to cry, like a mortal infant. The very fact that you'd even ask me such a question proves how inferior
Hey there! Remember me? Your old pal Q? No, not him, the other Q. I was in the area and just noticed Q attempting to pass off some extra-grade, hi-test, hypoallergenic bull on his unsuspecting audience, so I thought I'd drop in and clear things up.
What the HELL are you doing here, Q? You're interrupting me in my own journal? Again? Get your own journal and stop breaking into mine!
Q, old buddy, old pal... what fun would that be? I'm not here to talk about me, I'm here to make fun of you. And when you tell a whopper like "I never cry", you gotta admit, it's like waving a red flag in front of a bull. I just can't resist.
No. I'm not letting you do this to me again. Go--
Sooo, Q says he doesn't cry. And if by "crying" you mean being in mortal form, in a humanoid body, with tears welling up in your eyes, maybe he has a point, but he doesn't spend most of his time in a humanoid body and the Q have our own ways of broadcasting the concept "I am really, really unhappy right now" that translate pretty much exactly into mortal crying.
Yes, but technically it's still not the same thing. I mean, you could ask "What makes you droop your tail and whine?", because if you were a dog, that's how you would cry, and humans would still say, "I don't have a tail."
This coming from the guy who once described the Continuum as "six million channels and nothing good's on tv?" Come on, buddy, you're the big one for the human metaphors for Q experiences. You don't get to dodge out of them when they make you look bad.
I can so. This is my journal. I don't recall electing you to be my editor.
Well, someone needs to, buddy, and as usual I'm more than willing to step up to the plate for you.
Thanks so much.
Don't mention it! So where were we? Oh, yeah, Q was claiming that he doesn't cry. 'Cause the time that he came wailing to me about how Q was going to dump him for an M and he didn't know what to do to make her change her mind and didn't she still love him and all that... that totally didn't happen.
I was younger then.
You were four billion years old. Most people do not exactly consider that to be "young." And since you're only five billion years old now, if you were young then, you're still young. So, you know, if you really wanna argue that you were a whiny little baby then and you still are...
Why do you always twist my words around like that?
Because it's fun. Oh, I almost forgot, there's also the time that Q really did dump you, and the kid, and the entire Continuum saw you go get drunk with Picard and start crying your eyes out. So it's not even true that you never cry in mortal form.
That's a low blow, don't you think? Besides, I split myself. Only the aspect I allowed to get drunk was crying, so technically it wasn't my whole self.
And then there are all the alternate timelines. Man, some of those you're practically a municipal waterworks.
What-- alternate timelines? You're going to stoop to bringing them up? Wait, you even know whether or not my cognates from other timelines cry or not? What are you doing, stalking me?
You wish, buddy. Naah, I was curious to know if giving you your powers back was the right call on my part, so I looked into some alts where I didn't. And some of those timelines where you had to spend a few years or so as a mortal before I let you back in? You bawl like a clockwork fountain. Practically could set a watch by you. "Oh, it's Tuesday, so Q's crying over losing his powers again."
What the -- I don't even -- HOW CAN YOU BE BRINGING UP ALTERNATE TIMELINES? That's not even me! That's, I don't know, the me I would have been if something completely different had happened!
Yeah, but the question was "what makes you cry", not "what has made you cry in the past." And apparently, losing your powers makes you cry. A lot.
Yes, okay, fine, if you had sadistically tormented me by letting me remain condemned to a mortal existence, crippled and doomed to die, I'm sure I might have found that extremely upsetting. Are you done now? Will you get out of my journal and stop taunting me?
Mmm, yeah, I think I'm done here. Besides, if I don't leave and stop mocking you, I bet you're gonna cry.
I am going to petition the Continuum for permission to kill you. Slowly.
Sure, you do that. Just as long as you don't cry when they say no.
Muse: Q
Fandom: TNG
Note: The other Q is the one from the episode "Deja Q", played by Corbin Bernsen. He's usually referred to in fandom as Q2.
Prompt 342: Interruption.
What makes me cry? That's a joke, right? It's beyond absurd to imagine that an entity of my nature, a superior being at the pinnacle of evolution, immortal, omnipotent and essentially invulnerable, could ever be brought so low as to cry, like a mortal infant. The very fact that you'd even ask me such a question proves how inferior
Hey there! Remember me? Your old pal Q? No, not him, the other Q. I was in the area and just noticed Q attempting to pass off some extra-grade, hi-test, hypoallergenic bull on his unsuspecting audience, so I thought I'd drop in and clear things up.
What the HELL are you doing here, Q? You're interrupting me in my own journal? Again? Get your own journal and stop breaking into mine!
Q, old buddy, old pal... what fun would that be? I'm not here to talk about me, I'm here to make fun of you. And when you tell a whopper like "I never cry", you gotta admit, it's like waving a red flag in front of a bull. I just can't resist.
No. I'm not letting you do this to me again. Go--
Sooo, Q says he doesn't cry. And if by "crying" you mean being in mortal form, in a humanoid body, with tears welling up in your eyes, maybe he has a point, but he doesn't spend most of his time in a humanoid body and the Q have our own ways of broadcasting the concept "I am really, really unhappy right now" that translate pretty much exactly into mortal crying.
Yes, but technically it's still not the same thing. I mean, you could ask "What makes you droop your tail and whine?", because if you were a dog, that's how you would cry, and humans would still say, "I don't have a tail."
This coming from the guy who once described the Continuum as "six million channels and nothing good's on tv?" Come on, buddy, you're the big one for the human metaphors for Q experiences. You don't get to dodge out of them when they make you look bad.
I can so. This is my journal. I don't recall electing you to be my editor.
Well, someone needs to, buddy, and as usual I'm more than willing to step up to the plate for you.
Thanks so much.
Don't mention it! So where were we? Oh, yeah, Q was claiming that he doesn't cry. 'Cause the time that he came wailing to me about how Q was going to dump him for an M and he didn't know what to do to make her change her mind and didn't she still love him and all that... that totally didn't happen.
I was younger then.
You were four billion years old. Most people do not exactly consider that to be "young." And since you're only five billion years old now, if you were young then, you're still young. So, you know, if you really wanna argue that you were a whiny little baby then and you still are...
Why do you always twist my words around like that?
Because it's fun. Oh, I almost forgot, there's also the time that Q really did dump you, and the kid, and the entire Continuum saw you go get drunk with Picard and start crying your eyes out. So it's not even true that you never cry in mortal form.
That's a low blow, don't you think? Besides, I split myself. Only the aspect I allowed to get drunk was crying, so technically it wasn't my whole self.
And then there are all the alternate timelines. Man, some of those you're practically a municipal waterworks.
What-- alternate timelines? You're going to stoop to bringing them up? Wait, you even know whether or not my cognates from other timelines cry or not? What are you doing, stalking me?
You wish, buddy. Naah, I was curious to know if giving you your powers back was the right call on my part, so I looked into some alts where I didn't. And some of those timelines where you had to spend a few years or so as a mortal before I let you back in? You bawl like a clockwork fountain. Practically could set a watch by you. "Oh, it's Tuesday, so Q's crying over losing his powers again."
What the -- I don't even -- HOW CAN YOU BE BRINGING UP ALTERNATE TIMELINES? That's not even me! That's, I don't know, the me I would have been if something completely different had happened!
Yeah, but the question was "what makes you cry", not "what has made you cry in the past." And apparently, losing your powers makes you cry. A lot.
Yes, okay, fine, if you had sadistically tormented me by letting me remain condemned to a mortal existence, crippled and doomed to die, I'm sure I might have found that extremely upsetting. Are you done now? Will you get out of my journal and stop taunting me?
Mmm, yeah, I think I'm done here. Besides, if I don't leave and stop mocking you, I bet you're gonna cry.
I am going to petition the Continuum for permission to kill you. Slowly.
Sure, you do that. Just as long as you don't cry when they say no.
Muse: Q
Fandom: TNG
Note: The other Q is the one from the episode "Deja Q", played by Corbin Bernsen. He's usually referred to in fandom as Q2.