LOVE STORIES

[romancenovelist]

Hi everyone! I was reading back through the posts here looking for information and I noticed all the dating surveys that popped up! I know most people didn't really like seeing them, but I thought that there's no reason not to make the best of things, right? So Nana and I decided to match up everyone with a survey! It is so romantic to think of escaping from here to start your life with someone new! Love blossoming out of a terrible situation!!

Sorry if you don't like your match, it was kind of hard to figure out exactly what was accurate from what was printed. And if we missed you, or you'd like to be matched, too, just let us know!

So, without further ado!

Bill Adama/Laura Roslin (I know: duh, right?)

Jim Fenner/Ariana Osgood

Donna Noble/John Preston

Simon Tam/Savil Ashkevron

Grell Sutcliff/Soubi Agatsuma (here's your prince, Grell!)

Toshiko Sato/Sebastian Michaels

Lee Adama/Kara Thrace

Voldemort/Shell Dockley

Vergil Spard/Deitrich von Lohengrin

Nana Komatsu/Tsuzuki Asato

Hisoka Kurosaki/Remus Lupin

Comments

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

Well, if you didn't want them to do something to you, you shouldn't have let them! It's hardly the snake's fault.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Let them? I didn't let it! Voldemort had me all bound up with magic! I couldn't do anything to stop it!

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

You could have, if you'd wanted it more.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Could not! What could I have done?

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

I wasn't there to see the situation, but there's always something. You could have untied yourself, you could have told the snake No, you could have stopped Vodemort, but you didn't. You allowed it to happen. I'm certain there were events you could have changed that would have prevented the situation from occurring.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, you can really just tell a snake 'no' and have it listen. And I couldn't untie myself. Hello, magic rope, remember? And Voldemort's really powerful and stuff. There's no stopping him unless you're one of the magical types.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

Well, you can ask the snake and give it a reason not to bite you. That's a start.
A magic rope is easier to untie than a regular rope.

There's no such thing as 'magical' type. Everyone can do magic if they want to.

You don't know very much about the world, do you?

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Um...snakes can't talk. I can't talk to snakes. I don't have a way to make them understand me and...since when?

I can't do magic. Unless I have a shen gong wu or something that has magical powers on it's own, but then it's the item, not me.

Um...I don't know.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

It doesn't talk like you, you mean? You're likely correct then, that you can't talk to snakes. They can still understand you just fine however. They're not so limited in their skills they'd need you to help them.

Amulets and magical items are useful, but no substitute to doing it yourself. Reliance on things other than yourself and your potential is what limits you. Mere items can have magical properties but you can't?

I think your issues stem from your complete lack of self-worth.

[adept-herald.livejournal.com]

Finally, someone who understands that kicking a rock is much easier than pushing it with magic.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

Easier, and without potential devastating consequences.
You don't toss a stone with magic unless you're prepared to accept it will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the world. You don't kick the rock without accepting it could break your toe.

Does anyone think about whether you should move the rock at all?

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Sure it is. Especially when you can't do magic.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Right. And of course it seems perfectly reasonable to expect me to talk to a snake while I'm being threatened.

Nooo, I can't. I'm a normal human. No magic. No powers. Maybe in the magical land you come from, people have magical abilities, but where I come from, most people don't.

So what, I'm worthless because I'm human and don't have magic?

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

It would be doing something, wouldn't it?

You could, if you wanted to. If you believed in yourself enough to try to learn. Where you come from, do people dream? If they can dream, they have the ability to work magic.

Most people are worthless, and some of them can do magic. Your worth is calculated on a different scale than the ability to use magic. But it's not completely exclusive of it. It does factor in.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Sure, but so would patting my head and rubbing my tummy. Doesn't mean it would make sense to try.

What does dreaming have to do with magic?

Riiight. That's kind of bigoted, you know, against non-magic people.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

You're equating a useless action with one that could be effective. The comparison is flawed.

Dreams are where you prepare your mind for magic. They're the training grounds to being fully human.

There's no such thing as non-magic people. Only the willfully ignorant and perhaps vampires.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Riiight, because talking to animals is frequently effective!

Uh-huh. And having magic is part of being fully human? Since when?

Is too.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

It can be. Yes.

Since always. Since the birth of humanity. And the knowledge was taken from you. You endure but you never grow into your potential. Always a tadpole in the pond, because growing legs is too difficult. Only you've forgotten you can have legs. I think if you grew them, you would cut them away like a tumor.

I wont be drawn into an "is, is not, is too" argument.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. You're crazy.

Right. You know, if I could have magic, I'd love it. I really would. Unfortunately, outside of your crazy, humans don't have magic. Sorry.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

Is everything that does not conform to your limited perspective of existence equate to 'crazy'?

You could, if you wanted it. Humans have magic. Those who don't have have magic are less than human. Tell me, how do you know you don't have magic? What rules govern your thinking?

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Nope. Just you.

How do you know I do? I know because...because I've tried to do things I've seen magic types do when I'm in a room alone and I can't.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

So as long as it were someone else who was saying what I say, then it would be acceptable?

Had you considered that magic is nothing as simple as riding a bike? That it takes years and lifetimes to perfect? So because you can't perform what others can, it simply isn't possible?

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

Depends. Would they insult me?

Lifetimes? Uh...yeah, I only get the one lifetime. Sorry. And you can't really blame me for not managing to do something that it takes lifetimes to learn.

[cobra-tribe.livejournal.com]

If you said the same nonesense to me that you just did, then probably.

Well, it used to take less time, but now you need to unlearn everything you think you know and start from nothing, like infants. But if you want to learn, it's possible. Laziness is another issue.

[greatevillaugh.livejournal.com]

You're forgetting something. I only get one lifetime. Then I'm dead, and I can't learn things.