Inside the dream, a case for wanting

[sovay]

I am having a miserable night on the mental weather/physical embodiment front, so I am recording for posterity that my godchild called me earlier this evening in order to tell me that I was their happy person to talk to and they wanted to tell me while they were thinking of it instead of risking forgetting it by the time of our next video chat. And that was really cool.

Comments

[mrissa]

Solidarity on this, my godchildren wanting to talk to me about actual stuff is the best.

[sovay]

Solidarity on this, my godchildren wanting to talk to me about actual stuff is the best.

I'm so glad!

From mine, I have learned several things about the failure modes of remote learning, recommendations for children's TV I'd never heard of, and (this one thrills me) their opinions on Lloyd Alexander, who I introduced them to.

[mrissa]

The book talk is so good. The rest of it is great, too, but when you really connect with books--ahh, amazing.

[sartorias]

:-)

Such moments can make all the difference.

[sovay]

Such moments can make all the difference.

It definitely made my evening.

[asakiyume]

I'm really sorry about your miserable night, and really glad that your godchild called you earlier. Children are marvelous for that because they say those things unselfconsciously, with no ulterior cheer-you-up motive, but simply because it's true.

[sovay]

Children are marvelous for that because they say those things unselfconsciously, with no ulterior cheer-you-up motive, but simply because it's true.

I know children can manipulate because I have been present for the old chestnut but the other parent said it was okay! but in this case, I think you're right, and it makes me really happy.

[heliconian]

That's a lovely thing to be told, how sweet!

[sovay]

That's a lovely thing to be told, how sweet!

Thank you! I told them I was so glad they had called to tell me.

[choco_frosh]

I am having a miserable night on the mental weather/physical embodiment front

:(
< hugs >

[sovay]

< hugs >

*hugs*

[selkie]

Bleh, why are bodies. *hugs*

[sovay]

Bleh, why are bodies.

Random collisions of stardust in the universe produced the processes of evolution, and now we are all in the gutter, looking up at Oscar Wilde.

*hugs*

[alexxkay]

As it turns out, for truly *satisfying* hugs, you still need bodies. I wish someone would find a workaround

[sovay]

I wish someone would find a workaround

A working body would do!

[minoanmiss]

I hear you, so much.
*wafts star to Godchild*

[sovay]

*wafts star to Godchild*

*hugs*

[nodrog]

For what it’s worth, I think you are charming, and I don’t doubt that I would find you so in person as well.

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[sovay]

For what it’s worth, I think you are charming, and I don’t doubt that I would find you so in person as well.

Thank you (and for the wish for health as well).

[a_reasonable_man]

Your godchild is a wonderful human being, and it does not surprise me in the least that they feel about you the way they do.

[selkie]

...right now they’re three egregious boundary violations and some stim behaviors in a trenchcoat, but they are really good at judging character.

[sovay]

...right now they’re three egregious boundary violations and some stim behaviors in a trenchcoat, but they are really good at judging character.

I still like them.

[sovay]

Your godchild is a wonderful human being, and it does not surprise me in the least that they feel about you the way they do.

Thank you. I am pretty attached to them, too.

[thisbluespirit]

♥ *hugs* for the misery.

And also awwww, what a lovely thing.

[sovay]

And also awwww, what a lovely thing.

Thank you!

*hugs*

[ashlyme]

It is very worth remembering. You are a good person. For what it's worth, I'd not be without your friendship. *hugs*

[sovay]

For what it's worth, I'd not be without your friendship.

I don't know that I knew that. I am very glad you are. *hugs*

[gwynnega]

I'm so sorry about the misery. But that is really nice about your godchild.

[sovay]

I'm so sorry about the misery. But that is really nice about your godchild.

Thank you! I did not take for granted that they would be attached to me and it makes me so happy that they are.

[pameladean]

What a good perceptive child!

I hope the misery takes itself off soon, if it hasn't already.

P.

[sovay]

I hope the misery takes itself off soon, if it hasn't already.

Thank you. There is a currently unalterable baseline, but it's not as acute at this precise moment.

*hugs*

[swan_tower]

That is delightful!

[sovay]

That is delightful!

Thank you!

[kore]

That is lovely!

Maybe it helps to know that in the comments to this interview, someone says they sat behind Jason Isaacs, hottie extraordinaire, on a bus and he smelled of fresh-cut wood and lemons, which somehow seems exactly right. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/21/jason-isaacs-interview-apologise-anyone-met-me-before-30 (Also I read that and thought "I must let sovay know what someone thought Jason Isaacs smelled like")

[sovay]

(Also I read that and thought "I must let sovay know what someone thought Jason Isaacs smelled like")

I am delighted to know both the fact itself and the meta-fact; thank you.

[jesse_the_k]

Sorry about the local weather and thrilled that your godchild is so wise.

[sovay]

Sorry about the local weather and thrilled that your godchild is so wise.

Thank you.

[brigdh]

I am holding out hope I will be this myself, for my (currently too-young for full sentences) niece. So congratulations!

[sovay]

I am holding out hope I will be this myself, for my (currently too-young for full sentences) niece. So congratulations!

Thank you! I wish it for you.