Frivolous February

[moon_custafer]

The trouble with Purity Test/Never Have I Ever type of games is that they always focus on “which drugs/kinds of sex have you had?” questions, and never the more interesting ones. Oh sure, they usually ask if you’ve ever ridden in an ambulance or a police car, but they never ask “have you ever—” 1. handled a live bat? 2. worked as an artist’s model? 3. had to clean ashes out of your hair? 4. donated someone’s body to science? 5. participated in a sleep study? 6. composed a sonnet? That kind of thing.

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[kore]

-- OKAY SPILL (have you done all these things?? most of them?)


I'll go --

1. handled a live bat? -- Yes! Part of a science exhibit. SO SOFT. So fuzzy.

2. worked as an artist’s model? -- Yes, for a group of friends who were in an art class with me. Clothed, though. It's interesting to learn what positions are easy to hold, but challenging to draw.

3. had to clean ashes out of your hair? -- Yes, after camping trips with my dad as a kid. We were not Scout material.

4. donated someone’s body to science? -- No.

5. participated in a sleep study? -- YES and they are fucking miserable. You have goop and electrodes in your hair and a band around your forehead and a band around your chest and another one around your middle and a pulse ox clip taped on your finger and an infrared camera aimed right at you and you are supposed to sleep on your back and not disarranged all the tapes and buckles and glue and shit. I think they even had something on my calves, or maybe it just felt that way. They give you a sedative but otherwise no music, no book, no TV. I don't think I have gotten less sleep in one night in my insomniac life.

6. composed a sonnet? Yes in my younger and wilder days. Used to write a fair amount of them. In imitation of the Brontes. Fortunately they are all gone with the wind.

[sabotabby]

This is good. Have you handled a live bat?

1. Yes! I got to touch a flying fox when I was a kid. It was about the cutest animal that is not one of my cats. I love them so much.

I also had to remove a bat that got into my house during a very raucous party. That was also fun in a different way because my roommate and her boyfriend at the time kind of saw it go in, but weren't positive, and then the next morning found out and flipped that they might have rabies, so I womanned up and engaged in pursuit of the thing with a tofu container. It had gotten into her closet and she'd gone as far as to remove all the clothes. I made a bunch of noise and the bat flopped out but was super sleepy so I was able to catch it in the tofu container. Obviously I wanted to keep it as a pet as it was hella cute (not as cute as the flying fox, though) but that would be cruel, so I snapped some pictures of it and then set it free on the roof.

2. Yes. Clothed. There is a great published comic in which I modelled both a transgender teenager and the assholes who bully her.

3. Do campfire ashes count? Because a lot.

4. No.

5. Yes. It was unpleasant.

6. I think everyone has to in high school.