Random stuffs

Me: oh, just this couple that posts really sweet cosplay reels on Instagram. I don't even know half the characters they dress up as, but I'm hooked on their content

Sophia: cosplay is...fancy dress, isn't it?

Me: yep

Sophia: wait! She's wearing classical draperies and handing him a bow! I know that one!

Me: oh yeah, that's Penelope and Odysseus. I think a new movie version of the Odyssey just came out, so it's on everyone's minds

Sophia: couples still do fancy dress as the great lovers of literature? like they did at those masquerade balls that made the papers, when I was alive?

Me: apparently so!

Me: oh, just thinking how there aren't any lasting or celebrated stories about loves like mine. It wouldn't have been considered a good thing for a woman to show everlasting devotion to another woman exclusively, because you would be assumed to be single your whole life and everyone would constantly be trying to force you into marriage with a man

Sophia: constancy of love has always been a treasured virtue

Me: yes, but they didn't consider it love in that sense; they just considered it friendship

Sophia: it might be that sometimes they saw one and we took it for the other. Can you read those stories and pretend that the women in them feel as you feel?

Me: often, yes

Sophia: then perhaps they did, in spite of the authors' intentions

Sophia: ... also, my friend Estelle never married and frequently compared herself and her beloved Charlotte to Penelope and Odysseus regardless of gender

Me: were they separated for a very long time?

Sophia: she did this every time she had to go to the market and Charlotte stayed home

me: okay so do you know Jules Verne's books

Sophia, the ghost from 1875 who came with a lamp I got at Brimfield: yes

me: a whole world of that

Sophia: I beg your pardon

me: your world. but with the technology of a Verne novel, everywhere

Sophia:

me: there are a lot of decorative gears on things usually

Sophia: I want the Nautilus

me: :D

hmmm. well i know i overthink things. but people rarely ever tell me to my face that i overthink things. they will give me annoyed looks, ask me to stop talking. i know they might think that i overthink things. but they never have said "you overthink things". so im going to say "strongly disagree", since saying something out loud and feeling something are different

"the tags on my shirt or the texture of my clothes bother me"

actually all my shirts are tagless. and i only buy clothing in fabrics that i like. my clothing isn't irritating because i only buy clothing that i am comfortable in. why would i buy something i hate wearing? strongly disagree because they dont bother me

"i think that people may see me as pedantic or overly specific with definitions, or a stickler for rules"

i dont think that, i know that. im not making any guesses, i know they see me that way. strongly disagree, because it's a fact rather than an assumption