spiralicious | Snowflake Challenge #3

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In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know?

Whenever I get asked a question like this, I find it nearly impossible to answer. Mostly because of over-thinking all the ways every option could/would go horribly wrong. An example of the kind of places my brain goes would be the fic Excuse Me Waiter There's a Bullet in My Salad by Xanthos_Samurai; Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent are just trying to have a normal day out with a very young in training to be Robin Jason Todd and a sniper starts trying to take out Clark, all the while they are trying to make sure no one notices. It's a very cute and silly fic, but it sort of represents my fandoms as a whole. With nearly all of them, the mere presence of virtually any of the characters is a signal of the beginning of chaos and possible injury to my person (if I were there). It's fun for reading/watching and making and consuming fanworks for, but I don't need that kinda drama.

Add to that, thinking about talking in person to new people brings on bouts of nausea and the beginnings of a panic attack, let alone actually doing it. Which is why I don't ask questions at conventions, don't buy or enter contests for one on one zoom calls, etc and sometimes have to leave during the middle of just watching QnA convention panels on YouTube for a while.

That being said, having tea with Uncle Iroh (Avatar: the Last Airbender) and/or Alfred Pennyworth (Batman/DC Comics) could be worth it, even if I would have to endure thinly veiled, unsolicited life advice.

It would also be fun to watch Henry Cavill and David Hewlett just be colossal nerds together. It would probably result in the kind of lab accident that creates supervillians, but worth it.

And, assuming I didn't just short out and die at their very presence, it would be cool to get a lesson on makeup geared towards cosplaying male characters from Mx. Macabre.