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[preanimator]

You know, it's the strangest thing, but I've been feeling rather nice all day. Even the stupid goat following me around isn't as annoying as usual. I wonder why it used to bother me so much?

[pause]

That's not really the point of this entry, though I have noticed that people often like to write about very mundane things in their lives. No, I was actually a bit bored this evening, so I wondered if anyone needed any help with homework? I've gotten all mine done, and it just seems like it might be a nice thing to do for people. Of course, I wouldn't actually do it FOR anyone, but I could probably help make some of the difficult concepts clearer. I'm quite a bit smarter than most of the people in the school, not that that's really anyone's fault.

[pause]

Holmes, we never did find you, I think, what happened with your goat?

[pause]

You know, really looking on it, I think I might be a homosexual. It was bothering me for awhile, for all sorts of reasons. But it's like the goat thing - suddenly it doesn't seem to be so important.

Comments

[moveslikejaeger]

[preanimator]

God, that's a bit eye-searing, isn't it? You're not really a girl, are you, Jaeger? ;)

But you don't need to welcome me to my own club. Well, my and Eriq's club, since he really started it. I think. I'm not really a part of any other clubs.

[moveslikejaeger]

wouldnt you like to know sweetheart~<3

but i meant the homosexual club although i am only partially homosexual but you know
alternate lifestyles club i guess
the club of absolute fabulousness

[preanimator]

You're not homosexual, you're bisexual, though I suspect a better term would be omnisexual, because if there were other sexes, you'd probably be into them as well, wouldn't you?

And it's not really a lifestyle for me, I haven't done much about it, and I don't think I'll be doing anything more any time soon. The person I'm fairly sure I fancy has a girlfriend.

Nor am I fabulous.

Looking at it logically, I don't really belong in your club, sorry. I might just like to stick to medicine, especially if Holmes lends me his dead goat!

[moveslikejaeger]

probably i just dont know all those fancy words and things for it i just go with the flow i mean i did just learn that polyarmory is a thing that you can be

doesnt mean its not a part of you or that you wont meet other people you fancy its so silly how people always seem to think their first love will be their only youre only what 16 you got like another 60 years at least anything could happen!

you could be fabulous

what do you want with a dead goat?

[preanimator]

Polyarmory means multiple kinds of armor. I think you mean polyamory, which is multiple loves? Usually it just means multiple spouses, though, like those people in America.

And I didn't say he would be the only person I ever fancied, but realistically, even if I did find someone else as fascinating and brilliant any time soon, it's not likely they'd be interested in me. Statistically, certainly, and most people don't like me, you might have noticed!

[And because he's just relaxed, not completely stupid, he'll put a filter on this one.]

Oh, I want to try and reanimate it!

[moveslikejaeger]

oh well whatever lots of armor sounds cool too

your not being so bad right now if you were like this all the time im sure youd have much better luck in that area

[Filtered]
zombie goats cool that actually sounds like fun!

[preanimator]

Yes, I think someone might have drugged me. It's not something I can be bothered about right now, though. Anyway, I'm not really interested in better luck in that area. Sure, it can be lonely sometimes, but I think maybe being enamored with someone might get distracting, even if it feels really, really nice at the time. REALLY nice. It's important to have priorities in life!

Fancying someone and then not knowing they like you back like that takes up too much time to think about, and I'd much rather do science. I know I can succeed there, and I know the rules and how to break them. I'm brilliant at science! Fancying someone just made me feel stupid a lot of the time. I guess it would be different if he'd really felt the same for me, but who knows? ANYWAY THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT NOW.

[Filtered]

It might well be! I've never tried to bring back anything with such a complex central nervous system as a mammal before, just bugs, and they're very simple. If I could succeed on a goat, do you know what it would mean?

[wwistful]

It wouldn't be the only strange thing that's happened today.

Congratulations on your revelation.

[preanimator]

Really? What other strange things have happened, sir?

And I don't know if it's the sort of thing to be congratulated on, it isn't as though I ACHIEVED anything. I just sort of am that way. Really, it's just a matter of percentages, population control, all that.

[wwistful]

People feeling different, waking up in strange places and ending up with some form of never ending desserts if the journals are any indication.

I'm sure it comes as a small relief to realise. Personal growth is to be celebrated, apparently. Though I'm hardly going to start handing out points for it.

[preanimator]

Oh, I hadn't been reading the other entries much, things have been a bit busy. That does all sound very odd. What could cause something like that?

And it doesn't really come as much of a relief, more like a curiosity than anything else. Certainly not personal growth. All it would really do was narrow my chances, statistically, of getting romantically involved with anyone if that was what I was interested in. Which I'm not. The only person I know of at Hogwarts of any possible interest fancies girls, and from what I've seen, that kind of entanglement only makes people unhappy in the long run, anyway.

[wwistful]

I'm unsure. Obviously it's magic, but it doesn't seem to come from any particular source, nor does it react to our own magic.

Admitting it is a lot harder than you'd think. Perhaps it's a consequence of your strange mood.

[preanimator]

I've never heard of magic like that. I do hope you lot, I mean the professors, figure it out soon.

And it wasn't very hard to admit, I don't think, as it has no personal relevance to my life. It would be much, much harder to admit I was bad at maths, or something like that. Not that I am. But if I was.

[wwistful]

I should hope so, before the Inquisitor feels the need to become involved.

I suppose you are an exception to the majority, then.

[preanimator]

I'm not much like 'the majority' in many ways.

[Though, in this, he actually is - he's just under the influence of magic right now. He's going to be mortified when the spell wears off, really.]

[wwistful]

I had come to notice that, yes.

[preanimator]

Thank you, sir!

[selfhatred]

AND HERE I THOUGHT YOU WERE STILL NECK DEEP IN NARNIA.

[preanimator]

Excuse me?

[selfhatred]

[Siiiigh.]

NARNIA. IT'S A BOOK WHERE KIDS FIND A MAGICAL WORLD IN A CLOSET.
WHEN SOMEONE USES NARNIA WHEN TALKING ABOUT DENYING BEING GAY, IT MEANS YOU WERE SO FAR BACK IN THE CLOSET YOU'D FOUND NARNIA.

[preanimator]

Oh, yes, I know the book, I think everyone does, except the purebloods. That's kind of a ridiculous term, isn't it, pureblood? It doesn't make any sense. But I didn't realize that it was also used as a euphemism for homosexuality. Interesting.

I don't think anyone's ever accused me of it, though, so I couldn't really be denying it.

[selfhatred]

THERE'S THIS THING CALLED THE INTERNET. YOU SHOULD GET TO KNOW IT SOMETIME.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ACCUSED OF IT FOR IT TO BE TRUE.

[preanimator]

I know the internet! Obviously, most of the resources on there are bunk, but it's useful for finding scientific articles and some of the published research.

And that's correct, I don't have to be accused of it for it to be true, but I do have to be accused of it to deny my homosexuality, which is what 'in the closet' means, correct? I haven't denied it, I just only recently realized it. It was a bit uncomfortable, really. Have you ever been interested in someone the same sex? Disconcerting. I even found myself 'checking out' someone I didn't like as a person!

[jeet]

I am very confused right now.

[preanimator]

Are you? Do you need some help clarifying something? That's why I made the offer!

[jeet]

Why are you acting so strangely?

[preanimator]

Oh, that. I believe I've been drugged. Possibly hexed, though I'm not sure when that would have happened.

[Voice]

[zazzerpan_cg]

HELLO HERBERT.

[Voice]

[preanimator]

Oh, hello. You don't have to shout. Who is this?

[Voice]

[zazzerpan_cg]

I AM ZAZZERPAN.

AND I AM NOT SHOUTING. BUT YOU ARE VERY QUIET.

[Voice]

[preanimator]

Oh, I'm not familiar with-

Wait, isn't Shinra's goat named Zazzerpan? Why do you have the same name as a goat?

[Voice]

[zazzerpan_cg]

YES. THAT IS ME.

[Voice]

[preanimator]

I didn't think goats could talk. [cautiously] So either this is some sort of trick, you're a person who thinks you're a goat, or you're a goat with a spell cast on you.

[Voice]

[zazzerpan_cg]

OF COURSE GOATS CAN TALK. I AM A GOAT AND I AM TALKING TO YOU RIGHT NOW.

YOU TELL FILTHY LIES.

[Voice]

[preanimator]

I haven't told any lies, I was speculating! You're quite rude for a goat.

[Voice]

[zazzerpan_cg]

PERHAPS YOU ARE QUITE RUDE FOR A HUMAN.

BUT I AM GLAD YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT I AM A GOAT.

[Voice]

[preanimator]

Well, if it is a prank, I'm going to feel really daft. But it seems easier than trying to argue with you, and you've got a really odd voice.

[speterman]

What.

[preanimator]

I know, it's unusual, but I really am bored. You often lack focus, Parker, do you want some help?

[speterman]

With what? I don't need help.

[preanimator]

Homework. Or whatever else, I guess.

[speterman]

No.

[preanimator]

All right, then, fair enough.