Just insert another pun about catchup here. I'm feeling lazy.
OOC: Crossposted from theatrical_muse today.
Prompt 261: Which fictional character would you like to be?
I already am a fictional character in numerous timelines. In fact, so are most of you.
Prompt 258: What words would you like to see added to/removed from common use?
I would dearly like to see the words "portmanteau", "de rigeur", "psychopomp" and "eidolon" used much more often than they already are.
To be honest, I am not the person to be adding words *to* your language. Until you make up a word to describe a concept, I have no way of knowing whether your primitive mind can even comprehend the concept or not. That being said, I really do wish you had more verb tenses to describe alternate futures, pasts that didn't happen and presents that are occurring in some other timeline.
As for removing a word... sadly, removing a word rarely removes the concept from your minds. But if I could remove a concept from anyone's mind, it would be "propriety". (Not "proprietary"; I can on occasion be *quite* fond of that word.) The concept of the right and proper thing to do based on the traditional rules of a society is an idea I would dearly love to make everyone in the universe forget. Sadly, although I actually have the power to do that to mortals, it's really the Q I'd find it most useful to remove the concept from, and *that* I can't do.
Prompt 250: Write page 57 of your 300-page autobiography.
The only way I could get my autobiography down to 300 pages is by micro-compressing it, so here:
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Did you get that? If you just received a burst transmission containing a summary of approximately 5 million years, good for you. If all you see is some random symbol, your brain's too primitive to handle my compression algorithm.
Prompt 251: What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done while sober?
While I have done many, many embarrassing things in my eternal existence... seriously attempting to make William Riker a Q must rank up there with one of the most hideously embarrassing things I've ever done.
I'd say "sucking up to Worf", when I lost my powers and was trying to talk him out of throwing me in the brig, but I don't consider the state of having my vast consciousness compressed into the tiny space of a human brain to be exactly *sober*.
Prompt 256: What do you hope for?
Better questions next time?
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek Next Generation
Prompt 261: Which fictional character would you like to be?
I already am a fictional character in numerous timelines. In fact, so are most of you.
Prompt 258: What words would you like to see added to/removed from common use?
I would dearly like to see the words "portmanteau", "de rigeur", "psychopomp" and "eidolon" used much more often than they already are.
To be honest, I am not the person to be adding words *to* your language. Until you make up a word to describe a concept, I have no way of knowing whether your primitive mind can even comprehend the concept or not. That being said, I really do wish you had more verb tenses to describe alternate futures, pasts that didn't happen and presents that are occurring in some other timeline.
As for removing a word... sadly, removing a word rarely removes the concept from your minds. But if I could remove a concept from anyone's mind, it would be "propriety". (Not "proprietary"; I can on occasion be *quite* fond of that word.) The concept of the right and proper thing to do based on the traditional rules of a society is an idea I would dearly love to make everyone in the universe forget. Sadly, although I actually have the power to do that to mortals, it's really the Q I'd find it most useful to remove the concept from, and *that* I can't do.
Prompt 250: Write page 57 of your 300-page autobiography.
The only way I could get my autobiography down to 300 pages is by micro-compressing it, so here:
µ
Did you get that? If you just received a burst transmission containing a summary of approximately 5 million years, good for you. If all you see is some random symbol, your brain's too primitive to handle my compression algorithm.
Prompt 251: What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done while sober?
While I have done many, many embarrassing things in my eternal existence... seriously attempting to make William Riker a Q must rank up there with one of the most hideously embarrassing things I've ever done.
I'd say "sucking up to Worf", when I lost my powers and was trying to talk him out of throwing me in the brig, but I don't consider the state of having my vast consciousness compressed into the tiny space of a human brain to be exactly *sober*.
Prompt 256: What do you hope for?
Better questions next time?
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek Next Generation