the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Reminder that the bat-eared fox has the binomial name _Otocyon megalotis_ which literally translates to "Eardog bigears".

Bllhh. Today is a Day. -.-

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so why exactly are regexes on mastodon case-insensitive again?
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5754

@ashkitten@dev.glitch.social​ Well, I learned why the regex you made doesn't work. Mastodon's filtering is case-insensitive. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5754

What is gender?

We just don't know.

beep morning

A ton of people is only like a dozen people.

@VoxSomniator and that's about all I have! What do you think?

@VoxSomniator because the more adept mages will set up stalls where anyone can come and get changed however they wish--Akʔan natives can use the Reshaping instinctively, but outsiders are unable to make use of it at all, in general

@VoxSomniator they take off these body parts (Akʔan life is all modular! Because I'm me.) and assemble a new being from them. Since every being starts out with a copy of their parent's brain, they have an ancestral memory thing going on.

The natives, I should mention, take the form of traditionally twelve-limbed marbled-polecat-like beings, which are capable of using any of their limbs as either arms or legs as the situation demands.

The Longest Day is quite a tourist attraction, not least

@VoxSomniator (the transformative Blue Flame basically supercharges the natural healing and restorative effects of life magic so that things are healed before they're even damaged, basically). The locals call this period the Longest Day, and it's the only time they are able to reproduce: their method of reproduction is simply to use the combined magic of Akʔan and the Blue Flame to grow new body parts, then

@VoxSomniator Now, perhaps the most interesting thing about Akʔan is that for roughly five earth days of its about-thirty-earth-day orbit the planet is _inside_ the Blue Flame. the Blue Flame itself is also a manafount, of mutative magic in this case. The interaction of the two manafounts protects the planet from suffering any damage from this passage through the Blue Flame

@VoxSomniator​ oh right, I was going to tell you about Akʔan (yes it's intentionally awkward to pronounce)

So in this universe, there's a binary star system with several planets, some habitable and some not. The locals call the stars the Red Flame (the larger red one) and the Blue Flame (the smaller blue one). Akʔan is a lush planet in an improbably tight orbit around the Blue Flame; the reason it's not a scorched wasteland is the sheer amount of life magic on it; the planet is a life manafount