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[stylo-90]

drinkeing

sourest espresso

[medebaki1]

Day 14 free prompt

Just adventure meta knight :D (bit lazy)

[shortmania]

Would you say that Olga is more imaginative or detail-oriented?

So I had to google this because I thought it was such a weird question, and apparently this is a whole thing? A question of creative vs. rational, artistic vs. scientific, detail-oriented vs. big picture thinker. Basically, this is that old right brain/left brain discourse in disguise. Well played, Anon, if that was indeed your plot.

Taking this at face value, I’m just gonna start by saying that Olga is a delusional idealist and that takes imagination, lol. She’s definitely very romantic and she has a lot of the same kinds of interests as Helga, those being theatre, poetry, literature, along with some Helga doesn’t have, like music–so she’s definitely imaginative, definitely creative.

But she’s also a perfectionist, and being a perfectionist means being agonizingly aware of every little thing Wrong with whatever you’re doing. I’ve always headcanoned that she has laser-like focus for these things, and just generally has like a fifty-step plan in place for everything she does, no matter how trivial. She gets up at dawn just to get fresh groceries, cook breakfast, grind her own coffee beans, and bake something complicated and unnecessary before anyone else is even awake. I bet she irons her clothes, too, at 6 in the morning. She’s insane. She’s also won awards for everything from science to music to math to language arts. So she’s universally talented. A genius. Readily aware of both the big picture and the underlying details at all times, the systematic and the fanciful, the rational and the imaginative. Truly the worst sister anyone could have.

So, final answer: 

That said, it’s important to remember that Olga is hella disassociative. She does understand that her parents have kinda fucked her and Helga up, but she doesn’t think about it much beyond feeling self-pitying and clinically depressed from time to time. That whole delusional idealist aspect of her character tends to dominate everything else in most real world scenarios, like with Doug when she just impulsively decided to drop out of school because Unconditional Love. Her emotional needs and wants always win out over her intelligence, because she’s damaged and desperate and people-stupid. So though Olga might be able to identify the overarching meaning behind a poem or an equation as a detached observer, I don’t know that she could in her personal life, at least not any time soon. It might break her to understand too much. So, y'know. Jot that down. Peace out.

[earthtreaderfen]

[snarp]

me reading scanlations of a bad manga I remember liking ten years ago: this chapter’s translation is so awkward... why do I remember this specific chapter so clearly it’s not exactly memorable compared to the last one... why do I know this really specific scientific vocabulary used to talk about the monster-of-the-day...

me:

me: i am credited as the translator

me: i hate this

[yonamies]

[schnaideranton]

[deficiencies]

everyone needs to shut up so i can think