enchanted book: secret satina!

[cozen]

FORM: Magic book (and word of mouth + transcription for anyone who can't read).
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Responses public unless otherwise stated so feel free to comment/threadjack. Deadline to sign up is October 24, 2024. You'll be PMed the name of your gift recipient(s) on October 25, and the deadline to ICly shoot them a comment with their gift will be November 2.

SECRET SATINA
To participate in this year's secret gift exchange for Satinalia please provide the following.

1. Name
2. Likes (colors, foods and flavors, genres, activities, and so on)
3. Dislikes (see above)
4. Deepest secret ☺

If you choose to sign up your reluctant friends without telling them & they do not look in the book to notice & stop it, make sure you are also willing to get a gift for their assigned recipient on their behalves if they do not give in and participate.

<b>1. Name:</b> <b>2. Likes:</b> <b>3. Dislikes:</b> <b>4. Deepest secret:</b>

Comments

[aberratic]

Memory is too fallible! Sound is impermanent! When the last person who knows the story dies, it's gone, and before that what if they decide one day that the story is boring and they should change it to be more interesting? And some things are too complicated to ever be properly rendered in oral tradition—calculus, algebra, chemistry, how could you learn those things by just hearing them?

Books matter. I'm not strange for thinking so!

[laruetheday]

Writing can be changed too. There are sooo many written Greek myths that have like five different versions because someone decided they wanted to change some details later on.

Besides I never said books aren't important, just that some people don't like reading.

Never said you were strange either.

[aberratic]

Yes, books can be changed too, which is why in the library where I grew up anyone who defaced a book got their hand cut off.

[ which probably explains a lot about ness, like, generally.

after a moment, grudgingly, ]

What's Greek?

[laruetheday]

[ woah what the fuuuck ]

It's

[ hmm, how to explain this? ]

my religion/family.

[aberratic]

[ uhhhhh what ]

Like... a cult?

[laruetheday]

no??

[aberratic]

Oh. I just meant that cults usually refer to themselves as family, that's all.

[laruetheday]

it's literally my family.

[aberratic]

A family that is also a religion?

[laruetheday]

My father is a god. he expects offerings and prayers and all the usual religious stuff, but he's also just my dad.

[ It's a weird dynamic, okay ]

[aberratic]

[ opens mouth. closes mouth. ]

That does not seem like very easy parentage to have.

[laruetheday]

ναί. it can be hard.

[aberratic]

Was he a good father, despite the difficulties? Do you miss him?

[ another moment— ]

You do not have to answer, I know this is a very public forum for such a personal question. Or, if you do not mind answering but wish the conversation to be more private, we could continue via crystal, or over a drink at the tavern. Whatever you wish.

[laruetheday]

[ There's a longer pause than usual. ]

Sure, I could get a drink