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realmof_themuse today.
2009.10 A.1. In the words of the singer Meatloaf, "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that." What is "that" to you?
*boggle* Are we actually seriously discussing the works of a musician named after food? And lousy bargain basement food at that?
Fine, fine. It's an interesting question, even if posed by a fat man who can't sing and names himself after his mother's culinary disasters.
There are many, many things that I would not do for love, which would probably be utterly unsurprising to anyone who knows me... in fact the more surprising idea is likely the concept that there's anything I would do for love. Oddly enough, I don't disapprove of the principle of sacrificing for love, entirely. But in my opinion, love itself becomes a travesty, chains that bind more cruelly than any captivity by an enemy could do, when your lover wants you to do certain things, make certain sacrifices for their sake. They prove in that moment that they are not worthy of love, and if you actually do it, you prove that you probably aren't either.
List of things I would not do for love:
Change my essential nature.
Give up my powers.
Give up my hobbies.
Give up immortality.
Actually go to sleep. Ever.
Merge with my lover and become a single entity (if they're a Q.)
Do everything for them, shelter them and make them a helpless pet with my powers (if they're a mortal.)
If they're mortal, I will not win their wars for them, interfere in their politics for them, keep all of their friends and family from dying forever for them.
If they're Q, I will not promise them monogamy, love for eternity, or even that I won't screw around with mortals. (I could promise a mortal monogamy, only because their lives are so short and a mortal that interests me usually interests me enough that until they're dead, they're my obsession. I won't promise any such thing to a Q.)
List of things I actually would do for love:
Refrain from doing things they find morally wrong. Most of the time, anyway.
Use my powers on their behalf, as long as they don't want anything I happen to know would destroy them, damage their society, or that I would consider morally wrong.
Help them out in small ways with what they're trying to accomplish.
Stay with them while they sleep, despite the fact that it is really boring to watch mortals sleep.
Put up with being bored, sometimes.
If they're Q, I'll argue for their pet projects in the Continuum (or if I think it would be more effective, I'll argue against them and get the We Hate Everything Q Suggests brigade to vote for their project.)
If they're Q, I might actually be willing to pretend I need their help with something to make them feel better. (I might do this for a mortal if they'd actually believe me, but no mortal I would fall in love with would be stupid enough to fall for that, given the power differential between me and a mortal.)
If they're my kid... put up with endless crap from them, apparently.
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
Words: 504
realmof_themuse today.2009.10 A.1. In the words of the singer Meatloaf, "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that." What is "that" to you?
*boggle* Are we actually seriously discussing the works of a musician named after food? And lousy bargain basement food at that?
Fine, fine. It's an interesting question, even if posed by a fat man who can't sing and names himself after his mother's culinary disasters.
There are many, many things that I would not do for love, which would probably be utterly unsurprising to anyone who knows me... in fact the more surprising idea is likely the concept that there's anything I would do for love. Oddly enough, I don't disapprove of the principle of sacrificing for love, entirely. But in my opinion, love itself becomes a travesty, chains that bind more cruelly than any captivity by an enemy could do, when your lover wants you to do certain things, make certain sacrifices for their sake. They prove in that moment that they are not worthy of love, and if you actually do it, you prove that you probably aren't either.
List of things I would not do for love:
Change my essential nature.
Give up my powers.
Give up my hobbies.
Give up immortality.
Actually go to sleep. Ever.
Merge with my lover and become a single entity (if they're a Q.)
Do everything for them, shelter them and make them a helpless pet with my powers (if they're a mortal.)
If they're mortal, I will not win their wars for them, interfere in their politics for them, keep all of their friends and family from dying forever for them.
If they're Q, I will not promise them monogamy, love for eternity, or even that I won't screw around with mortals. (I could promise a mortal monogamy, only because their lives are so short and a mortal that interests me usually interests me enough that until they're dead, they're my obsession. I won't promise any such thing to a Q.)
List of things I actually would do for love:
Refrain from doing things they find morally wrong. Most of the time, anyway.
Use my powers on their behalf, as long as they don't want anything I happen to know would destroy them, damage their society, or that I would consider morally wrong.
Help them out in small ways with what they're trying to accomplish.
Stay with them while they sleep, despite the fact that it is really boring to watch mortals sleep.
Put up with being bored, sometimes.
If they're Q, I'll argue for their pet projects in the Continuum (or if I think it would be more effective, I'll argue against them and get the We Hate Everything Q Suggests brigade to vote for their project.)
If they're Q, I might actually be willing to pretend I need their help with something to make them feel better. (I might do this for a mortal if they'd actually believe me, but no mortal I would fall in love with would be stupid enough to fall for that, given the power differential between me and a mortal.)
If they're my kid... put up with endless crap from them, apparently.
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
Words: 504