Welcome back to my journal's Sad Winter Colour Scheme, as we careen into Ye Colde Monthes. :(
I have a few more fun fic-writing questions that I stole from who only knows where and will probably play with next month... but for now, a little hodgepodge of silliness courtesy of this week's
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1. If you could instantly become an expert in something, what would it be?Swedish. Like, do I think flawlessly fluency would make me any more competent when talking to people? Probably not. But I am slowly learning that having confidence in one's ability to understand things can be pretty effective in tricking one's brain into not freaking out and catapulting itself into Freeze Mode when it
doesn't understand things. So, y'know, for the placebo effect, and also because it's good to be an expert in the language I have to actually use.
2. If you could do anything in the world as your career, what would you do?Probably the same thing I was doing before I moved here -- transcribing old correspondence, writing footnotes and biographical appendices, general academic busywork. Y'know, the part of my job that was my
actual job, not all the high drama and way-beyond-my-grade stuff that came with it.
3. If you could be immortal, what age would you choose to stop aging at and why?I mean, given the deciding word here is "could", I would ask very politely to... not. Like, given the choice between "immortality" and "we will kill you on the spot right now", I would hesitate all of zero seconds before choosing the latter. But, like, if I didn't have any say in the matter... early thirties, maybe? Old enough to be past the point of still-growing and/or still-learning, young enough to not yet have started the period of physical and psychological decay.
4. If you could be any supernatural creature, what would you be and why?Probably a witch's familiar. Magic-adjacent, good at running errands and keeping cool old ladies company, but still, you know, a mostly normal animal that doesn't bring any major cultural stigmas or expectations. That sort of thing.
5. If you had to teach a class on one thing, what would you teach?How much prep time do I have? Like, completely on the fly, "oh no, I'm suddenly standing in front of a bunch of people and have to talk about stuff", probably the art of folding fitted sheets. But if I had, say, a week or whatever to research and prepare and whatnot... um, actually, probably the same thing. I'm not sufficiently well-versed in anything that I'd trust myself to teach a class and not just bullshit half of it and send those poor kids away with misinformation. We've got enough of that already these days, y'know?
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