Crystals | OTA

[aforethought]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Melys
RECIPIENT: Everyone!
WHAT: IC Would-you-rather
WHEN: Now-ish
WHERE: ~Everywhere~
NOTES: Threadjack like mad, please.

[ without preamble, ]

So here’s what: You make up two choices. Maybe they’re both shit, or maybe they’re both alright, but you say them — then you gotta say which one you’d pick, if you had to.

And maybe why. And then everyone else’s gotta answer too. Like this, 

Would you rather not be able t'lie, or only be able to? 

— And no one gives a damn for who you’re fucking or who fucked you over, so don’t go dragging that mess in here or I’ll puke on your shoes.

Comments

[aforethought]

[ this is not the stupidest argument she’s been in lately, somehow, and it takes her a moment to decide not to go dragging after the point. ]

Can't soft-boil nightmares.

[ she grouses, but it's mostly on principle ]

[lionheartedman]

[ That makes him laugh. It's not particularly robust, but it's the first time he's laughed at all in a good while. ]

You can't broil insomnia, either.

All right, my turn. Would you rather... eat nothing but sweet foods or nothing but salty foods?

[elegiaque]

If you start eating an all frilly cake diet, you're going to be Commander Tubbyford and we'll have to roll you in and out of your office. I'm saying salty, for Puppy's sake.

[lionheartedman]

I assure you that you are the only person I eat frilly cake with.

[elegiaque]

So what you're saying is that in my lack of a sweet tooth, I am actually a hero to the people.

[lionheartedman]

One of the many reasons, yes.

[elegiaque]

More people could learn from how you appreciate me, Commander, honestly.

( #shutupgwen )

[lionheartedman]

I'm happy to offer instruction to any pupils you'd care to send my way.

[ #leaningintoit ]

[elegiaque]

You watch, I may yet hold you to that--

[lionheartedman]

It would not shock me in the slightest.

[ It would have, at one point. He's learning to adapt to the world according to Gwen, though. It's a very different place. ]

[faithlikeaseed]

All right, hold up, what about foods that are both? Where do those fall for the purposes of this question?

[lionheartedman]

Since the point is to choose one thing over another, I believe the question must be about sweet or salty foods, excluding anything that is both sweet and salty.

More's the pity.

[faithlikeaseed]

[Forlorn sigh.]

Right, right.

I'd give up sweet, in that case.

[lionheartedman]

Apparently so would I, for the sake of the Inquisition as a whole.

[ Beat. ]

I probably would, regardless. Sweet can be too sweet after a while.

[aforethought]

Only eat salt, you'd die right quick. 'S like drinking the ocean.

[ but.........eating it ]

[faithlikeaseed]

You only eat sweet foods and eventually you can't move when the dragon-sized nug shows up to take its due.