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xp_daytripperSomething I was thinking about after talking to Angel yesterday. She's so... excited about being a mutant and other people's powers and the like, and I realised something. Being a mutant sometimes is bloody awesome. Yeah, there's the bigots and the bastards who take advantage and all the rest of that shite, and there's a lot of people doing their bit to stop all that, and there's powers accidents and people getting blown up and getting addicted to their power and fuck knows what other downsides.
But sometimes you need to think about the positives too. So, here's my list. Five things that I like about being a mutant.
1) I never have to stub my toe looking for the lightswitch in the middle of the night. Having your own personal night-light is fun.
2) If I've had a shite day, all I need to do is go sit and listen to the city for a while. Perks me right up.
3) Travel. Who else would get to visit five or six different countries in ten days just to test their powers?
4) Mutant metabolism. I can eat as much junk as I like and still fit into my jeans.
5) I met the best friends I've ever had through Xavier's and Snow Valley.
So, here's the challenge - name five things (funny or serious, trvial or not) you like about being a mutant. No angst allowed. ;)
But sometimes you need to think about the positives too. So, here's my list. Five things that I like about being a mutant.
1) I never have to stub my toe looking for the lightswitch in the middle of the night. Having your own personal night-light is fun.
2) If I've had a shite day, all I need to do is go sit and listen to the city for a while. Perks me right up.
3) Travel. Who else would get to visit five or six different countries in ten days just to test their powers?
4) Mutant metabolism. I can eat as much junk as I like and still fit into my jeans.
5) I met the best friends I've ever had through Xavier's and Snow Valley.
So, here's the challenge - name five things (funny or serious, trvial or not) you like about being a mutant. No angst allowed. ;)
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Date: 2006-09-10 07:42 pm (UTC)1. Who would not want to have an ability? It makes one special and incredibly interesting.
2. Nothing is ever out of my reach.
3. I can still have both hands free, no matter how much I am carrying.
4. I have never, and will never, have a bad hair day.
5. I have incredibly fond memories of the games my parents made up that would not have been possible without our powers...or would not have been the same at least.
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Date: 2006-09-10 08:03 pm (UTC)2. Um...there is no two. This is sort of like trying to figure out why I like my red hair. Except that's easier. The color, the length, the fact that Bobby likes it. *g*
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Date: 2006-09-10 10:45 pm (UTC)2) I don't break.
3) Very little in life compares to the smell of a cold winter's day just as the sun's coming up over the Canadian Rockies.
4) Smoke and drink whatever I want, as much as I want.
5) As far as anyone knows, I'll never die of old age.
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Date: 2006-09-11 05:02 am (UTC)Re: Fine.
Date: 2006-09-11 10:37 am (UTC)The smoke dulls the nose a little, and the booze just tastes good.
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Date: 2006-09-10 11:48 pm (UTC)2) When I was younger my dad tried to teach me how to make fire by rubbing two sticks together because it was a wilderness survival skill. If the results then are any indication I should be really glad I can start fires with my brain.
3) Perspective. I experience the physical and psychic world in ways others don't.
4) Most don't feel comfortable trying lies on the telepath-stare. Or what everyone believes to be the telepath-stare after hearing what I do, anyway. I'm not very receptive but people assume otherwise.
5) Self-defense isn't much of an issue.
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-11 05:06 am (UTC)Either way, now it's just easier to invoke spontaneous combustion.
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Date: 2006-09-11 10:38 am (UTC)The best way? Hardly.
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Date: 2006-09-10 11:50 pm (UTC)2. Coffee cups fear me.
3. If you need something broken, damaged, dented or obliterated, I am your man.
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Date: 2006-09-11 12:28 am (UTC)2) I can walk on my hands. That's new, today, by the way.
3) 29 hot dogs. Just sayin'
4) I don't get colds, the flu, spring allergies or anything like that. No more scraped knees, or cutting myself shaving or ingrown toenail.
5) The smell of fresh bread.
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Date: 2006-09-11 12:40 am (UTC)Yes. And open doors with his feet. That was entertaining watching him practice.
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Date: 2006-09-11 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-11 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-11 01:25 am (UTC)2. I can throw myself into a fight without having to worry about seriously bad things happening.
3. I can smoke and drink heavily and still outlive the cockroaches.
4. Some people would pay good money to get the horns that just showed up on my head one night. I'm the envy of body mods everywhere.
5. I have an excuse for running around half-naked. It's not my fault the bones tear up perfectly good clothes.
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:29 am (UTC)2: Never having to read the instructions.
3: The ability to take something and make it work more efficiently, thus conserving resources and improving things both economically and environmentally.
4: I might be unique in this one, but my mutation's really profitable.
5: Saving lives. I know other people do it every day, doctors and nurses and EMTs - but I get to use something that is uniquely me to improve people's lives on an almost daily basis.
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Date: 2006-09-11 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-11 02:05 am (UTC)2.) I am music. I can feel every element of any piece of music you put before me. Every instrument, every harmony, every beat of the bass.
3.) Gotta love the energy manipulator metabolism. I only buy new clothes to stay in style, not because I outgrow them.
4.) Silver.
5.)
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:20 am (UTC)2. Related to the bubblegum -- playing teddy bear (wolf) for the little ones. Hugs!
3. I've not smelled the same things as Mr. Logan, but I like a lot of the ones I have. (I suppose the downside is that I sometimes know more than I really wondered about what people have been doing, but on the good side again, if I'm shifted, a lot of... um, biological smells... don't smell bad even when they're stronger.) And nothing else yet smells like the pack in an Asgard winter.
4. Running and hunting on four feet.
5. Asgard wolves have less fleas than the humans. ;)
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Date: 2006-09-12 11:58 pm (UTC)Maybe I can show you what I mean. On a crisp cool night, away from the stink-pit that is the Mansion, out in the woods, you can just _breathe_.
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:42 am (UTC)1. My flowers will never lack for rainwater, or sun.
2. The ability to zap annoying friends when they try to steal your coffee (not that I would ever do this now).
3. Feeling the earth all around me and drawing strength from its presence, every day.
4. Knowing that I have improved and saved lives because of it.
5. Being able to meet the new generation and work with them to make their future brighter.
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:59 am (UTC)1a. Mark's facial expression at seeing a two foot tall blue dreadlocked man in a toga carry a large mug of tea from the kitchen to my office.
2. Knowing just enough about the future to be prepared, and not enough to lose the factor of surprise.
3. If I wanted to, I would never have to do my own nails.
4. Having a perfectly good excuse to come into work at noon if I need to. Even if it means working until ten or eleven at night.
5. Being able to see my blueprints in three dimensions without having to build models.
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Date: 2006-09-11 02:35 pm (UTC)1b. Mark's expression when said imp dissolved into goo when you were done with it.
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Date: 2006-09-11 05:00 am (UTC)1. Being able to swear at people in any language that comes to mind.
2. Destroying the worldview of people around the world who look at me and think "idiot American college student", and snark about me in their native language.
3. I'll be corny and say everyone at Xavier's that I wouldn't have met without being a mutant. Well, except Forge. You can have him back. ;-)
4. Being an international man of mystery. Just saying, globetrotting and getting paid for it is pretty awesome.
5. That sense of accomplishment when the pattern clicks and everything falls into place.
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Date: 2006-09-11 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-11 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-11 05:20 am (UTC)Flatterer. I brighten everyone's lives by my mere presence. Besides, you make a good tech assistant. Much better than if you'd stayed at home and been "Dougie, the Prancing Polyglot of Denver Flats."
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Date: 2006-09-11 05:03 am (UTC)1. Flying. (powered)
2. Flying. (the Blackbird)
3. Knowing at the end of the day I help do good and make the world a little better place, whether it's as a teacher or an X-Man.
4. Harry's Hideaway.
5. Doing something more for myself than spending the rest of my life in the mines.
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Date: 2006-09-11 09:43 am (UTC)2. I always know where I am (it's just not alawys where I should be ;)
3. no excuse for being late
4. good skin (maybe I'm conceited, but I almsot never break out so there is no need go nuts looking for makeup to conceal blemishes)
5. it is REALLY hard to kidnap me or make me go someplace I don't want to be.
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Date: 2006-09-11 09:04 pm (UTC)1.) I get to attend Xavier's.
2.) I can feel the earth.
3.) If I can create volcanoes, then I can stop them as well. Potential to save lives and cities.
4.) My magma form makes me invulnerable to extreme light and heat.
Four out of five isn't bad.
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Date: 2006-09-14 11:29 am (UTC)2) Not many other kids get to go to school that's housed in a mansion without having to pay a fee consisting of the debt of a small third world country.
3, 4 & 5) Lorna's cooking.