Open question of the day!
What chemical element do you most strongly identify with?
Alternate question, what element in any other elemental system do you most identify with?
@literorrery I'm curious what you think about this question since you've put more thought into elemental associations than anyone else I know.
@Oneironott I don't win any points for guessing that :p
@starkatt Used to be water. I think I've got that down pretty pat at this point.
Now if I can pick up fire and not _drop_ that... that'll be the trick.
@starkatt . . . Generosity? Laughter is a close second.
@starkatt Air. This is probably not a big surprise n..n;
@starkatt The element of disquieting alienation, found sparsely in the pages of her earlier works, would bloom unfettered in the asylum's sterile grounds of constant yet impersonal observation. It would, once rooted, prove a hardy variant indeed. [ footnote 17 ]
@starkatt Alternate system: electricity. Music. Magnetics.
@starkatt Historically, that would be Mercury, symbol of magic and communication. Manifestation of water (emotion) in the sacred metals and one of the Gea Arxia (Three Primes) along with Sulfur and Salt. Symbol of transformation.
That said, I'm at least making a concerted push towards Gold, fire metal, manifestation of will. It's historically been a weak point, but you dress for the job you want, not the job you have, so....
@starkatt H...He...Helium...
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@starkatt maybe germanium? semiconductor, metalloid ... it's sort-of a number of things, falling in gaps between a number of things, kinda unusual but still useful ... that works for me
@starkatt I'm pretty sure it's Silver, for me.
@starkatt Carbon. It has so many forms and is used i so many different ways and is very versatile. Keeping to itself but always willing to jump in and bond with anything.
@starkatt this is an interesting and difficult question!
...boron, maybe? That one you never think about very much but it can do some really interesting things.
@starkatt Or maybe germanium. Mostly used in old electronics, just like I'm mostly interested in old-fashioned analog stuff.
Or perhaps copper? Thematically appropriate for an electrical engineer.
Incidentally, Rosemary says zhe's fire and refuses to accept that fire isn't a chemical element. x3
@starkatt Silver, probably?
@starkatt I kind of end up identifying with Earth and water kinda equally, but if I had to put one over the other it'd be earth first, water second.
@starkatt Some years ago I'd say Cobalt. :-)
Now, probably Bismuth. It makes beautiful crystals!
I think I might be copper?
Or maybe magnesium?