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Rondella d'Elamfort is one of Śina's friends, a four-armed Levendish woman who collects swords in her spare time between missions for the Guild. She's moderately competent at fighting with them, but is extremely knowledgeable about the craft and history of swordsmithing. She knows the trademark styles of smiths going back centuries and can appraise a new weapon's construction and balance with just a few test swings. Rondella and Śina have gone on a few ventures together in search of rare or unusual weapons, and even if they turn out to be a bust, they both end up having a good time.

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now consider: pigeon, but fancy

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I kind of want to talk about some worldbuilding stuff we did in an rpg yesterday but I don't have the energy to type that out so someone remind me to tomorrow

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so apparently the entire stackexchange network is currently blowing up over a *very* poorly implemented change to the code of conduct to mandate people use the correct "gender pronouns" (their term, not mine)

this is following a huge storm when a mod was fired without going through the normal procedures because she proposed allowing the use of gender-neutral language even when pronouns are given (e.g. even if someone's profile (which no one ever checks) states that their pronouns are she/her, you would be allowed to still use they/them because, again, no one ever checks profile pages, it's a question-and-answer site, not a social network)

I don't know how to feel about this

the majority of people are supportive of nonbinary people and neopronouns but the way the moderators are handling it suggests they have no idea what they're doing, the new rules are far too strict and far too rigid

reminder that the only thing that actually determines whether or not something is a casserole is whether you cooked it in a casserole dish

you can make almost anything that gets baked into a casserole this way

and if we could get the rest of society to work around the idea of flexibility with stuff like this there would be so much less stress

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they cause far too much stress and things don't usually *have* to be done by some specified time, they just have to be done

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not like, high-speed internet levels of data transmission but like morse code telegram levels of data transmission

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worldbuilding thought: bowden cable being used for data transmission in a pre-electrical society

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every now and then we remember that the sun's atmosphere is orders of magnitude hotter than its surface and no one knows why and that's frustrating to us

why is it like that

"sex fiend? No, I said I was a *sax* fiend. I'm really good at playing saxophone."

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