🐼 if you could meet anyone, who would it be and why?

tbh @idionkisson or @aeide-thea? which is like, a lot, i realize– sorry– but for both of u i really appreciate your internet presences and how we’ve interacted and i think you would be really delightful to meet in person!

i don’t really want to meet celebrities, and while i could come up with historical figures who someone should ask various important questions of, on a personal level i mostly just like having friends.

and, of course, anon, my dear roommate, i wish we were friends in real life too.

💥 what are some unpopular opinions that you have?

i tried to answer this and became transfixed for several minutes by my cat, who was washing his face. anyway. part of my whole thing is that i like my opinions to be orthogonal to popularity whenever possible, but with the consequence that i’m not sure what the popular opinions actually are, or even who is supposed to be having these opinions that are popular, because i exist in such a weird opinion space that i don’t think i encounter opinions that correspond to anything that’s popular in other spheres. literally i’ve been here for like ten minutes trying to figure out what people like and whether i disagree about it, but without getting into politics, which i hate and refuse to discuss here.

ok, uh, hamilton was never very good, tallahassee has good songs but isn’t great as an album, if something makes you sort of sick and you keep eating it that’s actually fine probably and anyway is your right as the owner of your own cells. generating a stem/humanities dichotomy and then ranking one over the other is stupid, but you can see where stem people get it from, whereas surely the whole point of the kind of thought cultivated by being a humanities or art ~person is you know better than to pull that shit. just kidding, neither of them makes you good at critical thought. people become interesting and smart through exposure to michigan winters or possibly by being lesbians, although neither of those, in itself, is enough.

🐶 send me 3 fictional people and I’ll choose my favourite!

to be clear, for the readers: pellam is my roommate’s dnd eladrin wizard, keet is my roommate’s dungeon world orca mermaid, @literalliterature is……………. best not to get into it.

anyway my ranking is 1. pellam 2. keet 3. platonic ideal of you. you in yourself are my favorite of the three, obviously, but what i like is the destructive interference caused by your interactions with the imperfect and fallen phenomena of the world. a you distilled, in isolation, does nothing for me.

i like pellam more than keet because i think emotional trauma and eye injuries are sexier than amnesia.