ask meme!

[queenlua]

stealing a meme from necrophilia:

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

Ask away. ♥

(my answers might, uh, take a few days *stares at Friday deadline for a thing* but feel free to ask away in the meantime!)

Comments

[lassarina]

If you had a sizable chunk of money to fund a new charity organization, what issue would you address and why? ("Sizable" here means "enough to make a difference", basically.)

What would your Teixcalaanli name be?

[queenlua]

honestly i thought the method Mackenize Bezos used for deciding how to donate her fortune was an extremely classy and intelligent and down-to-earth approach. she basically picked a couple issues she cared about, hired some people to research the most effective organizations/approaches for addressing those issues, and donated to the orgs that worked the best. sounds both a lot less stressful and probably more net effective than me funding my own organization, lol.

but as for the issues i'd address, hmmm. probably something related to increasing housing supply in urban areas in the US, especially actually affordable housing for lower-income folks (which potentially would need to be a political/advocacy type thing? like, i know what the problem looks like, just don't know the best way to address it given present systems, hence hiring smart people to tell me what might work :P).

also re: teixcalaanli name.... Three Lark, or, if lark is too organic for them, Thirteen Plume (with "Feather" for a nickname). i'm predictable, lol :P (three's a favorite number, and i just plain like unlucky numbers...!)

[lassarina]

That's definitely an issue that's on my "if I won the lottery what would I do" list! More "frivolous" causes include getting kids in underserved schools more access to books, writing classes, art classes, etc. (and just better funding for underserved schools in general; the difference between CPS schools on the south side and the north side - in the same district, even! - is sickening.)

Color me so surprised that you have a bird. XD