Pathetic.

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So this is his latest obsession. He stages a revolution in the Continuum, wins it, has a child, and he's *still* completely besotted with ridiculous mortals, to the point where he's got nothing better to do than send them letters. Using this ludicrously primitive network, no less.

If you're going to play at being a mortal, do it. Immerse yourself in it. Don't take to yourself the privileges of omnipotence and yet obsess over communicating with mortals. I can't believe how absurd he is. And talking to them as if they could actually give him insight? Whining endlessly about his problems with the child? (Which, frankly, don't surprise me. The child is spoiled rotten. I might have expected Q to have no concept of discipline.)

How completely ridiculous. Also, completely expected. I knew he'd be up to something stupid, although I boggle at quite how stupid.

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Yes, I'm the bad guy, aren't I? "I can't see how she can be so cruel to her own child." You know perfectly well that when you say things like that to humans you conjure up visions of bread and water and coat hangers.

I do not abuse the child. I tell him "no", a concept you apparently have trouble with.

You see, Captain, Q apparently thinks that the appropriate way to train a child is to let him do more or less anything he wants and then clean up his messes afterward. Since this is what the Continuum did with *him* for most of his existence I can see why he believes this, but he was never actually a *child* and it wasn't the right thing to do anyway. *I* believe children need limits, particularly immortal, omnipotent ones who'd *have* no limits if their parents didn't impose any. I believe that punishment should be consistent and that letting something go three thousand times and then turning the child into a flea and keeping him that way for a week on the three thousand and first is a completely ridiculous way to teach a child right from wrong. Not that Q's grasp of right and wrong has ever been all that solid, and I think he lets the child get away with so much because he's vicariously enjoying the chaos the child creates.

I do feel passionately about my beliefs. What Q is overlooking in his description of how negotiations are *supposed* to go in the Continuum is that this has never, ever worked with him. He simply doesn't compromise. At all. The only time he ever has was after we turned him mortal for a day up until Quinn's death, and since winning the war he's been even more insufferable. I *can't* argue him into submission; the child would be an adult before he backed down. The Continuum can override him and ignore the fact that he won't agree if a majority decide otherwise, but in any interaction one-on-one with another Q, he wins, and I can't get the Continuum to back me up because they hate me now. And I can't apply the kind of consistent discipline and limits I think an omnipotent child desperately needs with his other parent undermining me at every turn.

Perhaps this custody sharing arrangement will work. I certainly hope so, since we can't seem to agree at all on how to raise the child together.