IC: Poll About Sexual Orientation

[sythyry]

So, this is primarily for primes, but I'll let anyone answer it. I may try to do some statistics on the result, if I get sufficient energy. I really need to get my clients to answer it, but I don't know how to do that discreetly.

I understand that the answer to the question "how much do you lust for Cani" is subtle and tricky. Do I mean -- how much do you secretly want them? How much do you try to sleep with them? How much do you succeed in sleeping with them? Some other choice? Well, pretty much, I do mean that, more or less any of that. I will let you take your own definition, though I am more interested in what you like than what you do. This isn't a very careful survey anyhow.

[Poll #1587395]

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

The thought of loving a prime-shaped creature with an animal-level mind makes me shudder, and the reverse is confusing.

I prefer prime-shaped primes with prime-level minds, myself.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Yea, but you don't have an animal minded creature that looks *exactly* like a waterform orren living in some of your rivers, lakes, and oceans!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Some Orren I know aren't much better...

Actually, we do have animal-minded waterform-Orren-like mammals, called otters [in translation], plus norren who are monster-minded waterform-Orren-like mammals, and so on.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Huh, I wonder how much difference there is between your otters and our otters. The obvious thing I can think of is that they are probably made of a small number of elements like corpador and aquador and spiridor, and ours are made of large numbers of elements with names like hydrogen and carbon and oxygen, though I wonder, outside of the smallest scale, how they would be different -- like in anatomic details and such. It'd be interesting to know!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Give me your transdimensional address, and I shall be glad to send you a pair of them to investigate.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Nooooo, they'd make a mess of EVERYTHING and pull drapes down and chew on my clothes and scare my pets, and, and, I don't have a big enough pool!! I don't have ANY working pool! AHHHH!

[kris-schnee.livejournal.com]

That's what spontaneous magic is for! Spontaneous magic by excited transdimensional otters!

From what we know of the Tree's physics and biology, their "otters" would probably have a simpler brain structure, since most of the actual mind/spirit is a distinct entity from the body. And there wouldn't be much of an immune system, since disease is almost nonexistent. If anything like DNA and protein existed, they'd be stylized magic-element-based structures... imagining a protein being assembled in WT is boggling. We're told some of primes' abilities are based on magic-using organs, including shapeshifting for orren and hovering for khytsoyis. Stomach acid would be some kind of Aquador, probably. Even breathing would be some weird analogous version of what it's for in Earth animals -- snagging oxygen as part of a chemical reaction to break down sugar to recharge energy-storage molecules. I picture the gods saying, "How can we make the biology look something like what we're used to, despite completely different physics? Let's make something that looks like breathing and tie that into some part of this world's physiology."

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Presumably some sort of translation would have to work so that the creature can exist in other dimensions, but when WT creatures travel places with vastly different elements (ie, they have something that WTizens would recognize as having many of the attributes of "water" [use the term specifically for the stuff you drink] but doesn't scan as "aquador" [use the term for the innate element behind all liquids in the world tree], and still be able to interact with it in a useful way and gain sustenance from it, and such. How exactly does that sort of thing work? Don't the 7+12 generally want traveling Primes and such to be seen as "relatively powerful" when they are...abroad? So surely they set some things up to work well in foreign areas... just... what happens?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

The other option (aside from being transformed during dimension travel) is to carry a bubble of your own physics with you.

I think the magic-while-offworld works by the gods specifically intervening and making it work?