↬ February 6, 2014

[knightly]

Somehow, it's only now that I've reached the human experimentation portion of my senior project that I've realized my senior project involves human experimentation.

[WARDED TO SENIOR RIBBONFINS]
No, this isn't official business. Well, it is, if we want to discuss giving each other homework help. [...] Actually, let me make a list of which subjects we'd be willing to organize for.

But only after I say what I wanted to say! Which is to say, I warded you all because I wanted to ward my friends, but then I realized I had far too many friends at this school. At that point, most people would give up and simply write this as a public post, but upon considering that for precisely six seconds, I started getting heart palpitations at the thought of making my love life subject to public discussion. Yes! You read that right. Ravinder Dhaliwal is proverbially "eating crow" over those years of saying he's not interested in dating, and will never date until well after graduation. I'm not going to ask how many of you made bets over when I would cave, because I'd like to optimistically think the answer is "none."

Why do I make so many terrible jokes when I'm uncomforta Right. So. I have a boyfriend. His name is Diego. He's an Azurcrest. And beyond this highly embarrassing announcement is an important question: do I get him flowers? If so, what kind and how many? Because roses seem rather serious, don't they?

Tabitha, I hope

[WARDED TO DIEGO MORALES]
Hi.

Comments

Senior Ribbonfins

[knightly]

BIG FISH STUDY GROUP

I've only included the classes which are more heavy on book-learning, but if you think something else should be here, just say so? But there are the people so far who've volunteered to help with certain subject(s):

Charms: Ivy
Herbology: Sun-mi
Hermeticism:
History of Magic: Ravi
Potions: Zoey
Transfiguration:
Astronomy:
Defense Against the Dark Arts:
Magizoology:
Wizard Literature: Ravi
Animagus Studies: Asher :)

Senior Ribbonfins

[guthriegazette]

Siiiiiiiggghh

(I can help with Transfig too if needed!)

Senior Ribbonfins

[knightly]

You're my hero, Asher Guthrie. Have I told you that lately?

Ravi

[indiefolk]

Hey.

What's up?

Ravi/Diego

[knightly]

Nothing, I was just thinking about you
I finally told my friends so I suppose
I wish it wasn't almost after curfew


How well do you sleep? Do you ever have strange dreams?

Ravi/Diego

[indiefolk]

It takes me a while to fall asleep... and then takes even longer for me to get up in the morning. As for dreams, I guess I do? They're either surreal nonsense, or sometimes I have this recurring nightmare that I'm still in Astronomy even though I dropped it this year. But in the dream I didn't realize I hadn't actually dropped it, which means I wasn't going to any of the classes and I'm going to fail and there's a big test tomorrow etc.

I was so bad at that class it traumatized me.

Why?

[gdilevi]

Hiiii, Ravviiiii.

[knightly]

Hello, Levi. (Or should I say, Levviiiii?)

To be clear, I'm not looking for volunteers... yet. I'm still trying to figure how I can determine that this is safe.

[gdilevi]

Raaaviiii~ My sweet Ravi~ 🎵

[Ravi]

I BET DIEGO WOULDN'T MIND EXPERIMENTING WITH YOU

[duelled]

What's the worst thing that could happen to me if I drank this potion? Could I grow gills?

SENIOR RIBBONFINS:

Ravi. You have a boyfriend.

[knightly]

Ideally, you'd have a good night's sleep and pleasant dreams. Worst case scenario... you're trapped in horrific nightmares and you never wake up. [...] Or you grow gills. Oh, God. Should I experiment on mice first?

[Senior Ribbonfins]

It occurred very suddenly and somewhat beyond my control. Honestly, I'm still trying to decide if this is an early April Fool's joke. You would expect this kind of thing from Azurcrest.

[...] That's not honest at all, I'm making a bad joke. Yes, I have a boyfriend.

Senior Ribbonfins

[valentinez.insanejournal.com]

RAVI. Wow.

YES, GET HIM FLOWERS. x

Senior Ribbonfins

[knightly]

But just a few flowers, or a lot of flowers? [...] He stole got me flowers a few days ago. Just three lilies, but I put them in a jar on my desk. Since it's Valentine's Day, should I be doing more than that?

[guthriegazette]

[Senior Ribbonfins]
Agree 100% with the others that flowers are a must! I've always been a fan of the single flower route when going for less intense flower-giving experience, if that's what you're aiming for. Simple, effective, just sappy enough.

[Ravi]
I knew itttttttttt!

I'm really happy for you - I'm glad you came to your senses sorted this out. I was a little worried about you.

Senior Ribbonfins

[knightly]

Single flower route. Hmm. Maybe you're right. It can still be romantic, if you write a nice note to go with it?

[Asher]

Was I that obvious?

Thank you, Asher. To be honest, you probably weren't wrong to be worried. [...] It's still sort of terrifying. I don't know what I'm doing.

[gonnabefamous]

That sounds interesting!

[knightly]

Thank you, Cameron. Hopefully it's still interesting several months from now, when I have to present it to the teachers.

[ninjaleo]

I'm the only human I have to experiment on for mine. Yours sounds like more fun.

[knightly]

I haven't dismissed the possibility of self-experimentation yet. We'll see if I grow gills.

What's your project?

Senior Ribbonfins

[solveforx]

Huh? Huh. Huh, Diego
You guys will have a lot of fun! I cannot advise on the flower front, man, just thinking about it stresses me out. Is just one too little? Is a dozen coming on too strong? But knowing Diego he will be thrilled no matter what you get him.So don't worry too much.

And you know I am always up for imbibing experimental liquids in the name of SCIENCE if you need another guinea pig.

Senior Ribbonfins

[knightly]

Ah, and there's the terror again. Please let me borrow your dice. Is there a 12-sided one? Or should I just go with a d4, since there's four options? [...] No, no, no, no. I probably shouldn't leave this to chance.

Why are all of you so eager to volunteer as a guinea pig? This is making me very concerned for your prefects. Who's going to walk into these conversations and say, "hey everyone, maybe you shouldn't drink an experimental potion put together by someone who's barely holding onto his A in Potions"?

[henshinyo]

[Senior Ribbonfins]
Raaaaaviiiii.

You are the most ridiculous person that I know. Of course you should be buying flowers.

Do we need to carefully debate the pros and cons of each bouquet size?

[Ravi]
If he does anything to hurt you You are much happier with this decision, yes?

Senior Ribbonfins

[caritasmitis.insanejournal.com]

[ooc: huge inkblot, no further comment]

Tabitha/Ivy

[duelled]

You alright?

Tabitha/Ravi

[knightly]

[...]

I'm sorry. Please believe me when I say I really didn't want to hurt you.

You have the right to be upset with me. But I'm not [...] asking you two to be friends. I don't expect that at all.