What would you do?

[resonant]

So suppose you could do anything you liked, anything at all, and know that you couldn't do harm to anyone, including yourself, or suffer any negative consequences. (Think of it as a personal reset button, if you like.)

What would you do?




This question went around my old job for a while, and I was always very surprised at the answers I got. The Tech Goddess said, "It would involve a police car and a mall with a big glass window." The spouse said, "LSD."

Me myself, I don't have a lot of violent desires that I'm aware of, and I dream so vividly that the idea of an acid trip bores me, and I already drive as if I lived in a virtual world. Give me a reset button and I'd have a lot of sex, with a lot of variety in the areas of gender and number, and I would do a lot of nonviolent looting.

Maybe I'd throw some watermelons off of freeway overpasses.



Now: what would your favorite characters do?

(Yes, I'm bored; how did you guess?)

Comments

[vickita.livejournal.com]

*g* My answer is similar to yours. Not so much a question of what I would do, but *who*.

I have a list.

[anotherslashfan.livejournal.com]

haha. it was my first thought, too - having lots and lots of sex... - orgies :)

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Yup, sex. If there were no repercussions, I would have sex with a wide variety of people to whom I have felt attraction, some quite inappropriate. Well, also, you know, married and everything.

I might also eat cheesecake, which I love and which makes me ill. Or maybe meat, which I don't eat because I believe it hurts animals and people, but in this no-consequence world? Steak tartare.

I also sometimes fantasize about smashing people's windshields with a tire iron. Well, so, I have some violent impulses.

My favorite characters...hmmm. A lot of my favorite characters are restraining themselves from having sex, which is, I suppose, no coincidence whatever. Stephen Maturin in Patrick O'Brian's novels has several potential liasons that he doesn't--liase.

Snape is holding himself back from hitting children, and maybe from biting things.

I'd have to think about other characters I love and what they don't do.

[reginagiraffe]

I would have some things to say to my boss.

And maybe I'd go stalk David Hewlett.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm really enjoying picturing Snape just going from room to room biting things and people!

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

He has so much simmering rage. Rarr! Bite you!

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

...so if I stole a lot of money, then hit the reset button so nobody would miss it, would I get to keep it afterward? :D (I am also the kind of person who would wish for more wishes.)

[carta.livejournal.com]

I'd come out, completely.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I would totally fuck some shit up. I'd grab a crowbar and just walk around smashing up property, it would be kickass.

And, okay, the sex thing is a good idea too :P

And, hey, I could go bungee jumping without a cord! I imagine once you've jumped off a building or two nothing else is ever quite as scary.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Sex and bank robbery, you bet. Then I would be RICH and SATISFIED. \o/

Also I would not go to work AT ALL. I am late today and I DUN WANNA.

[elbomac.livejournal.com]

LSD has always been my answer to that question.

And really tell people what I think of them.

[tingler.livejournal.com]

Anything?I'm going to have to go with the sex. I suppose there would be rich food and a ridiculous number of musical instruments, as well, but really, mostly teh sex.

And ponies, of course.

But, um, not *during* the sex.

[wordwitch.livejournal.com]

Personally? I'd go into space, and then I'd fly a really cool jet.
(not allowed due to eyesight and health and age reasons. forever. bleah.)

My favorite character? Well, Miles Vorkosigan would get a stepstool at the Winterfair Reception, and every single female member of his fleet would come by and kiss him while his wife looked on approvingly and made comments. And maybe backup-kissed a few of them. Like Taura.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a fascinating question. I'm fifty and I'm not the violent sort. Three decades ago I already did the LSD thing (once, and I'm glad to have had that experience, but that was enough) and I already did the sex thing (men, women, threesomes, orgies, pretty much anything else you can think of; I'm glad to have had those experiences, too). In fact, I've pretty much leapt off all the really tempting cliffs, over the course of my life; only a couple of them proved to be really stupid.

At this point the only thing I can think of is that I'd pick up the phone and call Bruce McDonald (director of Hard Core Logo and a lot of other things I like a great deal) and see if he'd be willing to talk to me for a while.

What I'd really like is a big honkin' reset button that would take me back eleven years so that I could not get married. Ah, well. So it goes.

[fullygoldy.livejournal.com]

Hey, isn't it funny how if you put this question out to a bunch of slash fans, you get a lot of "sex" answers? LOL, so predictable! But that's exactly where my brain went first (specifically blowjobs. for people I wouldn't normally get to do ::blush:: and without those nasty condoms)

[china_shop]

I'd travel around and meet all my favourite fangirls. Health stuff and life obligations and deeply embedded roots (and, to a lesser extent, finances) stop me from doing this for real. And I mean, I love my life how it is. But if I could go a-wanderin' without harm to myself and then hit a reset button, then yes please.

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

I'd go back in time and plant 2-3 BIG OAK TREES on this lot and make sure nobody ever cut 'em down--and then I'd tear this house down and build one I like. I love being in Canada, but I can't stand this house or the treeless back yard. (Well, there are now 3 baby fruit trees and a linden--but I'll never live long enough to see 'em taller than the house. I need TREEEES!)

Or, easier, jiggle time around so we had more than 2 days to househunt, in off season.

Actually... I'd eliminate corporate lobbying in government and make it impossible for women to get pregnant unless both partners were willing. And set a shut-off so nobody would have more than 5 kids, tops. Those Fundy breeders scare teh shit out of me.

[jcalanthe]

Oh! I totally didn't think about food, but that is so totally it. I have terrible food allergies, and with no consequences, I'd eat at all the fabulous restaurants in the area that I avoid. Cheesecake yes, and Indian food, and there's an Afghani place nearby I've been wanting to try, and Korean, and... wow, a lot. Definitely that. Excellent idea!

[singingscience.livejournal.com]

I'd steal money, cars, jewelry....stuff...lots of STUFF. I know that money and possessions aren't really supposed to make you happier, but I'd like the chance to find out.

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

Get my hands on enough money so I wouldn't have to work afterwards and have madsex with Adrian Pasdar.

[whatifisaidno.livejournal.com]

I imagine Snape would hex somepeople and murder others. Then he'd kick Remus in the shins and tell Dumbledore what he thinks of him because he's still too nervous around him to do much worse, and then lock his door and get wasted while his mark burnt his sitting room down around him.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I'd do the kind of horse riding I'm afraid to do in real life in case I get badly hurt.

Neat question!

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Yes! We can eat things that are bad for our bodies in various ways, or that we avoid as bad for the planet, or that are against our religious beliefs. I used to eat shrimp--okay, actually, I think that former treat might disgust me now. But how about caviar! Real, sturgeon caviar--on an ivory spoon, which is really horrible if you think about it. Buckwheat blinis, fried in butter, with a big dollop of the stuff.

Or peaches and sour cream with sugar.

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

<3 "back up kissed." Heh. Yeah.

[whatifisaidno.livejournal.com]

Daniel Jackson would conduct some of his anthropological experiments, be an aggressive flirt and an even bigger pain in the ass.

Sam's would involve guns.

Rodney's would involve Atlantis contraband, robots, and shocking the physics world to it's core. And like Daniel, he would have something to say to certain poweful people.