Yes?

...Can my Ascended Friend be a hot humanoid deity who wants to gently religiously dom me. 

That's definitely the sort of thing that can happen! Best(est) Friends don't start out humanoid, but especially at higher levels, they often find ways to assume humanoid forms. And if you want, I could try to work out a power for having them start out humanoid. As for the rest of it, the details of your relationship with your Best(est) Friend depend on what you want and what's right for you personally!

Noooo my kinks I'm being Seen.

I just want to check since it can be hard to tell how people are feeling from their handwriting, is this the good kind of uncomfortable or the bad kind? ♡

Good kind 

I'm glad. ♡ I don't really have the right kind of drives to understand kinks, but it makes me happy to see people being happy.

Man, kinks are complicated. You don't just have to have drives, you also have to, like, be enmeshed in a cultural background that contains tropes and informs your vision of what exists and what's desirable and so on. Like, I'm pansexual, but I find the idea of specifically being dommed by a hot guy, specifically, to be a particular kind of hot, because I read waaaaaaay too much bad heterosexual erotica before I learned that there was good erotica.

It's true that I'm not really enmeshed in a cultural background the way most people are. But it's neat how people can be shaped by their experiences and circumstances! I am too, they're just very different experiences and circumstances.

It sounds like you like being the way you are, is that right?

Oh, definitely! I can laugh about how the experiences that formed my preferences were objectively low-quality, but now that I have them my preferences are fun! ✧

She checks Best Friend, Bestest Friend, and Ascended Friend. She leaves Transformer alone: it's not really her style. 

Generosity through Quality Time she just skips over. Waaaay too mind controlly. 

Agree to Agree, on the other hand, gets crossed out, albeit significantly less firmly than My Ears Are Burning. 

I'm so glad! It's good when people are at home in themselves.

Oh, Backchannel is deeply cool. Effie would apologize to The Power of Friendship for doubting that it had cool powers except that, actually, that disclaimer was extremely obvious and she regrets nothing. Backchannel gets a check. 

...You Can Teach Better. Wow, that's--that actually? Removes most of her qualms about Anything You Can Do? She gives it an emphatic check. 

Not Like Other Girls. 

Well, she hates the name, first of all. 

I'm leaning towards not taking Not Like Other Girls at all but I sort of wonder if there's...a one-sided version of it? Like, one where I won't be subject to higher expectations as a result of--whatever, but that doesn't have, uh, creepy "a credit to your race" vibes?

I'm not sure what you mean by that?

...So, there's this thing that happens, both in real life and in stories, where someone will be prejudiced against X group, and then meet a member of X group, and that person is cool, and instead of updating their prejudices like "well maybe X aren't bad actually" they go "well, X are bad, but not you, you're better than them" and in some situations the person will be like "wow thanks" because they have way too much internalized X-ism and sometimes they get offended actually and the person with the prejudice will be like "but why are you offended, I specifically said you were different!" 

I think I'm not familiar with those kinds of stories, but from what you're saying, it doesn't sound like they're quite what Not Like Other Girls is getting at? Someone with Not Like Other Girls wouldn't hear "X are bad, but you're better than them" because people wouldn't be comparing them to other X in the first place.

Well, the name didn't really suggest that, because "not like other girls" is in fact one of the ways specifically that the thing I'm talking about gets expressed, but like, also, if I wind up someplace with a prejudice against redheads, I don't want people to not have it occur to them that I would have reason to punch them for making derogatory comments about redheads in front of me, and I wouldn't want other redheads to not have it occur to them that obviously I would stick up for them. 

Which of the effects of the power do you want?

...Well, if I DFEW an elf, and I get pointy ears, and everyone parses me as an elf, I would like it to not be the case that everyone expects the fact that I'm an adult to mean I've had a hundred years to get good at stuff. 

That makes sense! I think that would be a somewhat different power from Not Like Other Girls, but I can consider how to implement it. It seems hard to make it not primarily mind-affecting, though, if that's a concern for you.

It kinda is. I think I've mostly just talked myself out of any part of this power, honestly. 

She crosses out Not Like Other Girls. 

...And also Love Interest, because, no. Just. No. 

Okay!

Ooh, Time Enough For Love gets a check. Safe at Home...oh look there's an alternative. 

...

I know you don't know anything about any stories, but Opting In is just so evocative of whoever wanted it. 

It is, isn't it? I hope they're happy, wherever they are.

So do I ♡

There's something she finds tempting about Opting In, and she can sort of see the edges of it, or at least one edge of it, but she can't actually see the whole picture. This is objectionable on a number of levels; firstly, she strongly prefers to know how she, herself, ticks; fully understanding her values and preferences is, fundamentally, the thing that separates her from the heroine of a very specific kind of story, who constantly undermines herself because she has no idea how she and her desires fit into the world around her, and thinks about what she's supposed to want instead of what she does want. On a much more immediate level, if she doesn't understand what she finds tempting about it, then she can't make an informed decision about whether to take it or not. 

Could you maybe explain in a little more detail how Opting In works, and how it's different from Safe At Home? I'm feeling sort of drawn to Opting In, and I'm trying to figure out, like, how, and why. 

Safe At Home means that as you're going about your business, which may incidentally involve dangerous people being upset with you, the dangerous people won't ever succeed at threatening the people you care about.

Opting In means that if you choose to provoke or intrigue a dangerous person on purpose, either for practical purposes or for fun, the resulting danger will all fall on you specifically and not anyone else (unless those people also choose to involve themselves). It doesn't stop them from hurting other people on their own time, if that's a thing that they do, but it means that when you draw their attention you draw it only to you and not to the people you care about or the people who happen to be standing next to you.

Both of them can be more or less mind-affecting depending on your preferences, but both of them can get pretty weird if they're constrained to not be mind-affecting at all.