↬ 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 :)

Ravi

[indiefolk]

Hey.

What's up?

[gdilevi]

Hiiii, Ravviiiii.

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?

[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.

[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.

[gdilevi]

Raaaviiii~ My sweet Ravi~ 🎵

[Ravi]

I BET DIEGO WOULDN'T MIND EXPERIMENTING WITH YOU

[bambae]

Safe how? What are you experimenting for?

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?

[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.

[knightly]

Ravi/Levi

[knightly]

...Ah. Diego told you. Of course he told you, you're one of his best friends.

It's not that kind of experimentation. But thank you, Levi.

Ravi/Levi

[gdilevi]

No, I mean that kind of experimentation. Like, your senior project could be testing chimaera repellent and I bet he'd be down.

... I'd be down, that sounds cool.

[sheepish]

Mice?

[knightly]

It's a variant of sleeping draught. In addition to giving you a good night's sleep, it's supposed to guarantee good dreams as well. Most sleeping draughts on the market tend to either produce entirely dreamless sleep, or leave it up to chance.

Unfortunately, I've come to the realization that the only way to verify that it works is if I have someone drink it and report on their experience. Seems chancy.

[knightly]

For the record, I don't want to do that. I'm not a fan of animal testing, even with assurances that it's relatively safe. "Relatively" is always the keyword there, and I don't like the risk.

[duelled]

But what if the mice get trapped in nightmare land??

[Senior Ribbonfins]

That's great. Diego is I know you And just in time for Valentine's day.

You should do flowers! They have all kinds, not just roses. Honestly I like the tulips more than the roses.

[bambae]

That sounds so much more thoughtful than my doomsday rings.

I have insomnia, I'll try it.

[indiefolk]

Look who's smart.

Ravi/Diego

[knightly]

Oh dear. That sounds terrible. You're lucky you dropped it, otherwise I'd be forcing you to study Astronomy with me, and I suspect that might quickly make you reconsider how much you enjoy my company.

Oh, it's just my senior project... which you can see now. And which will probably make you wonder if I was trying to do clinical trials on my boyfriend. I realize the circumstantial evidence is rather damning right now, but I swear to you that I was not.

[bambae]

I mean duh. It's Ravi.

Ravi/Levi

[knightly]

Ah, but what if the chimaera repellent was poisonous and instead gave you semi-permanent chimaeric characteristics? An occurrence like that rather seems like the death knell for a relationship not even a week old.

Ravi/Levi

[gdilevi]

SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.

[knightly]

Your doomsday rings?

I'm learning a lot about people's sleeping habits today. [...] Thank you, Chris. I'll consider it.

[sheepish]

I can test it instead? Dreams don't bother me. I experience sleep paralysis sometimes so I'm fine with being trapped.