None of this is even slightly important
OOC: crossposted from theatrical_muse today.
This may quite possibly be the most trivial batch of questions I've answered.
Or maybe not. I've answered a lot of utterly trivial questions, after all.
Prompt 324: If you as a child could see yourself now, what do you think you would say?
"Man, everybody else in the Continuum got so boring! But at least I/you don't/didn't, otherwise I'd just have to kill myself, and since the Q haven't yet figured out how to kill ourselves I'd have a lot of technical problems with that."
Okay, maybe that isn't what I would have said. But if I was a child now and I met my future self who is the me I am now, I would most definitely say something like that.
Either that or "What's up with the humans? They don't look like they're all that."
Prompt 339: What's your favorite sport?
Taunting Klingons.
Okay, taunting anyone, actually. But taunting humans takes work, and creativity. When I really just want to kick back and relax and do something that requires less than .000001% of a picofraction of my vast intellect, I taunt Klingons. It's like taking candy from a baby, really, but oh such yummy candy...
Prompt 352: How do you respond to pressure?
How does anyone respond to pressure? By compacting and becoming denser and more tightly packed, of course. What, don't you know physics?
Prompt 354: Planes, trains, automobiles - what mode(s) of transport do you prefer and why?
I'm really fond of teleportation, myself.
If I had to pick one of the above... if I had to pick one of the above, I think I'd never leave home. How can you people possibly stand it?
Prompt 355: What socially acceptable practice do you disapprove of?
Marriage.
I should clarify -- I don't disapprove of two or more beings who feel intense positive emotion toward one another, who are roughly equals, and who desire their relationship to be sexual, in whatever terms their species defines sex, codifying their relationship into some sort of formal bond and undertaking a joint project together, such as raising a child, or managing a house, if they're a species that has houses, which mine does not. My problem with marriage is the concept that married partners own each other's bodies. That it's not just okay, but in fact almost demanded, that married partners rigidly police each other's sexual contacts with other beings, denying their partners the right to any form of sexual gratification with any being who is not them.
If you want to give your lover exclusive rights to your body, as a present, more power to you. Not really the present I personally would be looking for -- to be frank, I'd rather have a nice tie, and I'm incorporeal and can manufacture any clothing I like and besides I don't even wear ties when I'm doing human historical period costuming -- but sure, if that's what you want to give, fine. But if your partner demands that you give that, as a contractual obligation where they will be entitled to withdraw their love from you and disengage their lives from you if you violate the agreement -- well, I'm sorry, but I fail to see the point of love if it doesn't make you happier and freer to be yourself, and letting your lover dictate to you what you get to do with your own body seems to me akin to voluntarily letting your lover chain you up in a dungeon. Well, okay, actually the dungeon thing could be hot on occasion, with appropriate props and if you know you could get out of it if you really really wanted to. Whereas there is absolutely nothing attractive whatsoever about your lover trying to dictate the terms of your life to you.
(And by the way, Q, if you are bothering to read this, don't even try to claim that I do it too. I most certainly don't. Unless you take up with a being who's such an incredibly awful choice that the fact you would choose me and then that thing makes me look worthless to everyone else with taste. Which is what you did that time. I was fine with you having sex with anyone who didn't nauseate me; you never showed me the same courtesy. So just don't even bother.)
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
This may quite possibly be the most trivial batch of questions I've answered.
Or maybe not. I've answered a lot of utterly trivial questions, after all.
Prompt 324: If you as a child could see yourself now, what do you think you would say?
"Man, everybody else in the Continuum got so boring! But at least I/you don't/didn't, otherwise I'd just have to kill myself, and since the Q haven't yet figured out how to kill ourselves I'd have a lot of technical problems with that."
Okay, maybe that isn't what I would have said. But if I was a child now and I met my future self who is the me I am now, I would most definitely say something like that.
Either that or "What's up with the humans? They don't look like they're all that."
Prompt 339: What's your favorite sport?
Taunting Klingons.
Okay, taunting anyone, actually. But taunting humans takes work, and creativity. When I really just want to kick back and relax and do something that requires less than .000001% of a picofraction of my vast intellect, I taunt Klingons. It's like taking candy from a baby, really, but oh such yummy candy...
Prompt 352: How do you respond to pressure?
How does anyone respond to pressure? By compacting and becoming denser and more tightly packed, of course. What, don't you know physics?
Prompt 354: Planes, trains, automobiles - what mode(s) of transport do you prefer and why?
I'm really fond of teleportation, myself.
If I had to pick one of the above... if I had to pick one of the above, I think I'd never leave home. How can you people possibly stand it?
Prompt 355: What socially acceptable practice do you disapprove of?
Marriage.
I should clarify -- I don't disapprove of two or more beings who feel intense positive emotion toward one another, who are roughly equals, and who desire their relationship to be sexual, in whatever terms their species defines sex, codifying their relationship into some sort of formal bond and undertaking a joint project together, such as raising a child, or managing a house, if they're a species that has houses, which mine does not. My problem with marriage is the concept that married partners own each other's bodies. That it's not just okay, but in fact almost demanded, that married partners rigidly police each other's sexual contacts with other beings, denying their partners the right to any form of sexual gratification with any being who is not them.
If you want to give your lover exclusive rights to your body, as a present, more power to you. Not really the present I personally would be looking for -- to be frank, I'd rather have a nice tie, and I'm incorporeal and can manufacture any clothing I like and besides I don't even wear ties when I'm doing human historical period costuming -- but sure, if that's what you want to give, fine. But if your partner demands that you give that, as a contractual obligation where they will be entitled to withdraw their love from you and disengage their lives from you if you violate the agreement -- well, I'm sorry, but I fail to see the point of love if it doesn't make you happier and freer to be yourself, and letting your lover dictate to you what you get to do with your own body seems to me akin to voluntarily letting your lover chain you up in a dungeon. Well, okay, actually the dungeon thing could be hot on occasion, with appropriate props and if you know you could get out of it if you really really wanted to. Whereas there is absolutely nothing attractive whatsoever about your lover trying to dictate the terms of your life to you.
(And by the way, Q, if you are bothering to read this, don't even try to claim that I do it too. I most certainly don't. Unless you take up with a being who's such an incredibly awful choice that the fact you would choose me and then that thing makes me look worthless to everyone else with taste. Which is what you did that time. I was fine with you having sex with anyone who didn't nauseate me; you never showed me the same courtesy. So just don't even bother.)
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG