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We're already in some magical land that makes our dreams come true - mostly the bad ones - so let's think about the impossible some more.

[Leonard may be calling it "impossible" mostly to heckle one specific Brit, given he's travelled through time himself, but maybe it will also flush out other time travellers. May be interesting.]

If you could travel to any point in history, where and when would you go, and why?

Also, if you could travel to any point in your own personal history, your lifetime... Same questions.

Would you try to change anything?

[He has experience with trying and the resulting failure too.]

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wow i walked right into that one

guess it's true that you can get used to just about anything given enough time

That and I use my humour to hide the tears.

[Is he kidding? Probably.]

and here i thought you weren't really the kind of guy who did feelings or admitted they existed

When I'm joking I can even make it sound like I have a heart sometimes.

you know, saying that is practically begging the universe to have something happen that'll make your shriveled, nonexistent heart grow three sizes

You got me there. I've waited all those years for my own personal Cindy Lou Who.

you're a mean one, captain cold. but just give it some time. the true (commercialized, non-religious) meaning of christmas will get you one of these years

What, no rhyming?

Will that be before or after the ghosts of Hanukkah past come visit me?

i'm no good at rhyming

that's the jewish holiday around the same time as christmas, right? my knowledge of human religions is a little sketchy

On the other hand, you have super strength, so maybe it balances out.

Yeah. Different lore, around the same time. I'm Jewish, technically. Goes by the mother.

Never really been religious, but anyway.

honestly? the super strength has some serious downsides

huh. that's pretty cool. i didn't think earth had very many matrilineal things at all

Do I even want to ask?

Used to have more, from what I gather. Minoans were big on it, until whatever wiped them out happened. Judaism is a pretty old religion, blood is important, going by the mother is the sure way to tell that someone really is from the same bloodline.

imagine what it would be like if you lived in a world made of tissue paper and you had to be conscious of how fragile everything is all the time

i knew a little about the minoans thanks to the time i spent with the amazons, but those two were the only real ones i'd heard of.

that's a really interesting point about bloodlines. krypton was patriarchal, at least in that there were a lot of left over vestiges from old times before gender equality. surnames for kryptonian women are patronyms--zor-el was my father's name. zor of the house of el. but it would make more sense, if you're concerned about bloodlines, to have it go through the person you know can't lie about whether or not they were involved in a person's conception

Gotta be tough. Was everyone where you're from like that? Seems wildly impractical.

Amazons, huh? I only read different theories about them, but I'm guessing you got actual experience. Do share.

You'd think it'd make more sense. I gather it was relatively common back when and as men took over, everyone stopped doing the logical thing. Not that surprisingly, I guess.

no. i didn't have any powers at all until i landed on earth. different types of solar radiation is what gives kryptonians our strength--under a red sun like krypton orbited, we're powerless

the amazons were created by the gods out of clay, given strength and might beyond that of mortal men. they lived on an island called themyscira or paradise island. i trained and lived with them for a while when i first came to earth

you know, i think you're the first person i've ever heard to call men illogical like that

Ahh, gotcha. Interesting how evolution worked. Did you land on Earth on purpose, because of our kind of sun?

Damn. See, that's the fun kind of fantastic. I'd want more of that.

Men bend the laws of nature when they indicate that they're not the ones supposed to be in charge. Can't get much more illogical than that.

in a roundabout way. i think the sun is why my uncle sent my cousin there. then i was sent there because that's where my cousin was. he's the last of my family and i was supposed to look after him

i'll let you know if any of them ever show up here

good point

Huh. Well, if he's anything like you, I'm guessing he can look after himself.

So, technical question. The sun here, it does the same for you as the one on Earth?

as far as i can tell it does. i don't really trust it, though

Let's face it. Would you really trust anything here?

not really, no

This place not making sense is about all we can really count on.

ain't that the truth

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text. ... why are you awake isn't it butt o'clock on your side of the globe?

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