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Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster?

Sort of, the last time I was in the UK! It was smol and low-quality, but since there are none in my home-country, it was still #amazing to me.

What’s something you can never forget about?

Um, as in as long as I live? Well, when I was very smol, I had a special interest in insects that let me remember all sorts of minutae about them. Once my mother asked me why my memory was so bad in some areas but so good in others. I tried to explain that it was all about interestingness. The specific example I gave was “I will never, ever forget that monarch butterflies migrate between Mexico and Canada every year”.

Eleven years later, I still remember that. However, the reason I remember it is not because of the special interest (which has since faded) but because I used it to illustrate something I can always remember. And, somehow, my brain has ensured that I will stick to my word.

What’s something you care desperately about?

OK, ‘saving the world’ is suuuper cliché, but it’s kinda that? Making everything Good and Correct Forever. Smolison literally broke down crying at times at the thought that she might not save everyone and would just have to settle for saving most people.

In primary school, they once made us do a personal-development-test-thingy (I don’t remember what they called it). Three of the questions were: “What is one thing you would give to your friends?”, “What is one thing you would give to everyone in the world?”, and “What is one thing you would give to yourself?” My answers were: “I don’t have friends”, “Everlasting joy”, and “Superpowers so I can make that happen”.

Favourite book?

…Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. *throws self in trash*

What’s something you wish would happen, but know won’t?

…Most possible answers are way too personal to put here. (Personal as in “contains other people’s info”. I am mostly an open book.) Um, I wish I had the emotional energy to support and take care of and protect a thousand people. At the moment, ten is more realistic (though I’m leveling up with time!).

Wait, let me get this straight. You wished for superpowers that would allow you to bring the world everlasting joy, and a few years later you turn up with borderline (for now! growth mindset!) mind-control abilities.

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#reply via reblog #at least it’s among the more pleasant apocalypse scenarios