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OOC: crossposted from theatrical_muse, today.

Haha! And you thought I was going to make another joke about catchup, didn't you?

344. Talk about something cheerful.
( Cheerful! Sure! I can be cheerful! )

345: Are you well organised?
( At a biological level I'm better organized than *you* are )

346: What haven't you finished?

Living. Learning. Changing. Growing. Raising my son. Developing understanding and wisdom. Having fun. Annoying the living daylights out of everyone in the universe.

I realize that to your perceptions, one of these things is not like the other, but from my perspective it's all part of my life, and I won't be finished with it until I'm dead, and given that I'm immortal, I'm expecting the universe to end first.

347: Where are you going?

Anywhere I want to, but that's the wrong question. I'm not going to a "where", except in the trivial sense that I travel all over the universe, all the time. I'm going to a "what". I'm going toward all the things I haven't finished yet.

348: What phrase or saying do you find most irritating?

"What do you dream about?" "What happens when you go to sleep?" "What was your favorite day?" "What will be on your tombstone?" "What secrets would you like to know?" "Money." "Death." "Earth's solar calendar." "Physical objects." oh, and really, just about any other phrase or question that implies that the person you're talking to necessarily has human limitations. Like being doomed to die someday. Or having to go to sleep on a regular basis.

You know, just because I'm immensely superior to all of you, with vastly more intelligence and nigh-infinite resources to draw from, doesn't mean I'm not a person, folks. An entity could start to feel left out around here.

OOC: Crossposted from theatrical_muse today.
Prompt 294: Passing.

If you want to know the truth, it's really not my favorite thing, passing. I've done it, of course. Any Q who wants to interact with mortals does it, fairly frequently. If you can't walk among them in the form of one of them and pretend you're one of their kind, you're not going to be able to pull off any other kind of direct interaction -- your ability to impersonate their gods or simply present yourself as a powerful alien being depends at least in part on your ability to pretend to be one of them. Otherwise you're going to end up like a Thasian or a Melkotian, appearing as a shadowy form or a big ball of light or a glowing disembodied face or whatever, and honestly? That's completely lame.

But I don't like pretending to be mortal. There are things I feel very, very comfortable about lying about, and there are things that I don't, and my status as an unimaginably powerful being of pure thought is one of the ones I'd rather be honest about. I really would rather interact with mortals in a way where they'll know what I am... which, since I'd also rather interact with mortals in a way that doesn't result in them *worshipping* me like besotted idiots, often results in me getting myself declared a demon, or at the least a very untrustworthy god. (They call me the God of Lies on Brax, which pleases me. If I'm going to be a god, let me be known as a trickster god, at least, not some sort of benevolent deity.)

( Going a little too far with the passing thing. )
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG/VOY

OOC: crossposted from theatrical_muse today.

I actually rather like the letter format. It allows you to say things to people without giving them any opportunity to talk back to you, so they can't interrupt or misunderstand before they're done reading the thing. Also, it allows you to talk to people and then destroy the letter without them ever actually reading it. I know, I could just have a conversation with someone and then wipe their memory (well, if they're not a Q, anyway), but that seems like cheating.

( The great thing about sending letters to dead people is, they're dead, so you don't even have to go to the effort of not sending it. )

( Maybe I'll actually send this one... and maybe not )

( Definitely not sending this one. I think. )