I *really* don't understand humans.

[qcontinuum]

Yesterday I snarked at botanist_keiko for her immature and primitive hysterical jealousy of the blatantly-obvious-and-yet-they-won't-admit-it relationship between her husband smiley_miles and doctor_bashir.

So she asked me out to dinner.

Humans can still surprise me reasonably often. To an entity who's billions of years old and has seen and done it all, that's a very valuable trait.

I also have to confess that after being turned down by two starship captains and a thief (not that the thief wasn't doing me a big, big favor by getting out of my life when she did), I find it flattering to have humans throwing themselves at me, even if the objective is obviously just to make her husband jealous. (As for whether he has anything to be jealous *of*... well, a Q doesn't kiss and tell, but if I claimed I'd been a perfect gentleman would anyone actually believe me? :-))

But this human monogamy thing. Also this human desire to deny same-sex attraction. You people have *got* to get *over* it.

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[smiley-miles.livejournal.com]

Um.

That's outrageous, you charlatan. Stay away from my wife, you hear me?

I hope that'll do...

The sincerity virtually oozes from every pore.

[qcontinuum.livejournal.com]

I probably shouldn't be involving myself in this at all, but it's far too much fun.

[smiley-miles.livejournal.com]

You homewrecker. I am upset. And very angry.

I can tell.

[qcontinuum.livejournal.com]

You sound positively enraged.

(Why *didn't* I ever go back to DS9? Just because Sisko was too easy to provoke? There was so much entertainment to be had with everyone *else*...)

[smiley-miles.livejournal.com]

Look, you, are you insinuating something?

Why, whatever could make you think that?

[qcontinuum.livejournal.com]

To be *insinuating* something, I'd have to have something to insinuate, wouldn't I?

And you've so thoroughly assured the entire universe that there's nothing to be insinuated. Why, *everyone* believes you when you protest your mere friendship for doctorbashir.

Hmmph

[smiley-miles.livejournal.com]

So they should. We have a non-gay friendship in which no wistful yearning is involved. At all.

I am a happily married man.
I suspect that in the circumstances that may not work. Damn.

If you're so happily married...

[qcontinuum.livejournal.com]

...why is your wife exploring the wild flora of the Cretaceous Era with me?

Well, aside from the fact that you can't travel in time.

[smiley-miles.livejournal.com]

She's always been very keen on her flower thing, yes.

Didn't you make fun of me for doing this?

[amanda-the-q.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall some words about how sordid I was and how it was overly human of me to be having sex with people and stuff...

Jerk.

Also hypocrite. (See, I *do* know more than one word.)

No hypocrisy here.

[qcontinuum.livejournal.com]

No, child, I said that you were behaving entirely too much like a Q for someone whose avowed ambition is to prove to the universe that "we're not all jerks. At least I'm not."

Observing a tottering house of cards and putting just a teeny tiny card on the top to see if it will finally collapse is a very Q-like thing to do. I am utterly consistent.

Still a jerk.

[amanda-the-q.livejournal.com]

You're doing this to someone who has *kids*. I know kicking over anthills to watch them scurry is a Q pastime, but you of all people should know better than to do it with someone who has *children!*

You are such a jerk.

Because it's so much better...

[qcontinuum.livejournal.com]

...for children to be raised by two people who hate each other.

It's exactly *because* I have a child, and experience in the matter of hating your child's other parent, that this strikes me as a perfectly valid thing to do.

People who have nothing but resentment and anger for each other should break the hell up and share custody as far away from each other as possible. Believe me, this I know all too well.