#eta-reduction

[princessdraconic]

really good post miss charlotte i like it a lot

thanks ive been trying to figure out a way to work in "tired office lady hitting on a magical girl" into the follow up but im a little too drunk to make it work

[ichorvid]

nine, eleven, nine plus eleven?

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Hi doll!

9. Tell me a piece of gossip.

I had to look up "examples of gossip" to answer this, but my friend at UT says that grants for fission reactor research are getting way easier to get. I didn't think that was something that university was even adjacent to.

11. What is a childhood quirk you never grew out of?

Counting! Although I suppose that's been pathologized now by my doctor. It's very useful for my boyfriend; he'll be baking or cooking something and I'll have a record of the amounts of everything that has or hasn't entered. I don't usually "count up", though, it's usually looking at something and immediately knowing how much there is (like, a setting shot for only a single second where i immediately say "there are only thirteen people in the crowd")

20. Describe yourself how your love interest would describe you in a book.

I don't like thinking about myself so I asked my real life love interests and complicated them! "Beautiful face with princess-like curls and looks perfect in a frilly dress. You try to drink so deeply of things that you drown and you cough back to the surface going 'Never again! Never again' and before I can even turn around to look you're already trying again. You have such an immediate and deep understanding of systems that you try to learn the consequences of. I'm seethingly jealous that you make milk and you're the original it/its is they/them for girls." Really cute when I turn super still and quiet.

I editorialized and added a little bit, so this is my own genuine answer too, I just needed help to not catastrophize.

[princessdraconic]

miss princess charlotte. would you please give us some sparks (the ones that ignite the flame breath) without any fire. the commoners would like a show.

as per my recent post on the matter, you really aren't showing nearly enough cloying desperation or embarrassing effusive praise to make such a request of me

[ichorvid]

seventeen and twenty-nine, too

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Hi again, eta!

17. What’s something random/odd that you find hot/attractive. 

I really like when someone is able to like, make systems that have a lot of depth. That's maybe a bit too far from the juice the question intends, but I just really enjoy when a girl can whip up something I don't understand like it's nothing. The board game I drafted years ago was me trying to be one of these girls, but I am very attracted when someone else has a good understanding of Making something. Oh god is this sounding like a vague "I'm attracted to intelligent people" I hope not

29. What is a book/story from your childhood that has stuck with you?

Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was such an impactful book to me that I've had four copies of it to gift three out. It was responsible for so much of my surety that there was always something underneath, for some reason to understand.