The question
How would you describe what love feels like to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage
Like a cosy cloud of softness coupled with an orthopaedic mattress underneath.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
Warm and bubbly.
An umbilical cord.
For me, love is working through things when it’s not going well.
Being lit from within.
It was such a beautiful summer’s night and I had pink hair and my band was doing really well and my mum was there, my mum was still alive. It was very magical for me and to get the honour of my city, to be blessed by their respect, it was delicious.
My dog’s trust in me.
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
Myself. I have never been harder on anyone else.
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