004 With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

[speterman]

[Everyone, it is that time of night.]

Because I'm utter rubbish at actually following along with drama... So instead of doing.



Why do we wash towels when we dry off with them after getting clean?


..Seems a little redundant to me.

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[eighttimeshandy]

It does. I didn't know if it was weird that I had noticed that or not. But really, they're the most perfect shade of blue I have ever seen.

Maybe. But I like it. c::::

They do say names have a tendency to influence their bearer. I did also notice your name was

Well, I don't know if it's intentional, but it was used in Charlotte's Web.

[taleweaving]

[Wow now she's blushing. Good thing she's already tucked up in her bed, studying behind the curtains so no one can see.] I. Thank you Eriq. That's very sweet of you.

Perhaps I will indulge in it more then ::::)

Oh it is intentional. It 8ecomes even more notica8le if you look at my full name, Aranea Eleanor Joy. Eleanor standing in for Nellie, as Nellie is a diminutive of Eleanor of course.

My grandfather used to read it to my mother, and she is herself a Charlotte, and then she read it to me as a child, so we 8oth have a fondness for it. She thought it would 8e funny I suppose, that a Charlotte would have an Aranea for a daughter. I suppose it fits fine in the magical world, though I may have run into trou8le had I 8een a muggle.

[eighttimeshandy]

Wow, that's

That's really something, actually. That books was kind of my introduction to spiders, actually. Well, aside from apparently trying to eat them as a toddler, I kind of had this habit of sticking anything that I could get my hands on into my mouth. Which I don't do anymore. But yeah. My mom read it to me as a kid all the time too. That, and Casper.

Oh, I know how the unusual name business goes. I'm Eriq with a Q. Do you have any idea how often teachers would ask me if I was sure I was spelling it correctly as a child? It didn't matter that I could read and write before school, it was always "Are you sure it's not with a C, sweety?"

Yes, I can spell my own name, thank you, go away.

[taleweaving]

It is, isn't it? Though it is a mouthful.

It's still one of my favourites I must confess, even if though my reading levels has 8een long a8ove it. 8ut it's always nice to curl up with for a lazy read.

An don't worry so much, toddlers are like that. I once ate my mother's entire stash of tea leaves if she's to 8e 8elieved.

[She's giggling a little at how annoyed he seems at this. Which she probably shouldn't but oh well]

For what it helps I think it's a very nice name.