The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?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.
Earnest, driven, Gemini.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 November 2025 source ↗
Content, assured, indecisive.
Slow but trying.
Nice, direct, loyal.
Fun, fab and fearless.
To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.
Greed, lack of empathy. Same thing.
Human, evolving and faithful.
Leaving the stage from a panic attack in my 20s. Hearing the audience angry.
I cried last week after talking about marriage equality with my daughters. My oldest let slip that she believed that if the supreme court overturned Obergefell, she wouldn’t have parents any more. I felt angry with my country and ashamed that I didn’t consider the possibility that she might think that.
A lifelong sleepover.
Chris Bryant, Paula Wilcox, Erin Doherty, Leona Lewis, Ciarán Hinds, Mark Bonnar
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