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*plays the clock town theme*

okay someone mentioned to us that whatsapp is an IM service and.

I could _swear_ we've seen the name whatsapp applied to some kind of keyboard heatmap generator thing, something that tracks what keys you press on your keyboard and uses that data to show you what buttons you press most frequently

in other words, something Very Different from an IM thing

so what is that that I'm thinking of, if the name we thought it had belongs to something else....?

If anyone knows please do answer

AUGH this is. really frustrating

our mom has a great habit of calling us every few days at Really Late o'clock, after we've already wound down and gotten ready for bed, and then starts trying to help by asking if we need to clean up anything or go shopping or this or that or

and it always, ALWAYS gets us really worked up and anxious because it's like, yes, we need to do these things, we should be doing these things now, we can't go to sleep yet because we need to do so many things

and it always manages to be when Rose is fronting too which means we have to switch because zhe doesn't like talking and that adds another level of inconvenience and augh

not that canned tea is really any good anyway but seriously the food industry in the US has a serious over-sweetening problem

tea does not need to be saturated with sugar

unfortunately we don't have any tea or even the spoons to make any right now and because of what i am sure are probably bad reasons, it's nigh impossible to just buy premade tea that isn't sweet

weird craving for tea right now, for some reason

I suppose other languages probably do that too but of the languages we know: english does not and latin doesn't have any concept of punctuation

Every now and then I'm reminded that French style guides put spaces between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation and that just feels intensely strange

today in Felthry Gets Upset Over Tiny Things, Suikoden 1's north american box art

just look at this bland travesty of a box art, compared to the Japanese one on the right

I'm really glad this is getting attention! I should do more with this character... I miss doing worldbuilding and character design stuff

why didn't any later games use the kirby 64 system of combining power-ups, it was really neat and good

A mindblow moment to start your day off right:

In a system of n elastically-interacting objects, conservation of energy is an ellipsoid in 2n-dimensional (linear+angular) velocity space.

Take a moment to think about that and understand it.

Aditi owns and operates a bakery in the closest thing his small college town has to a downtown, and lives in an apartment above it.

She's very close with his older brother, a tauric transmasculine demiboy.

The best way to describe her mental situation is one consciousness spanning two minds. She can have two completely separate trains of thought at once, or devote his full attention to each of two different things at once. Another person(s) with exactly the same setup could well have developed into two distinct individuals with a very strong mental link; Aditi just didn't.

Though he has two names, and responds equally well to either, he prefers Aditi in general.

So, I was talking elsewhere to people about a character I've had for a very long time, one of my favorite character concepts yet one who I've not yet managed to really write out a world around.

Aditi, aka Aaron, is a two-bodied ferrets. He has two complete bodies, independent and not physically connected in any way. This led to some awkwardness growing up; until she was around four or five years old, her parents thought he was twins, and had been raising him as such. Multi-bodied individuals are not unheard of in this setting, but they're sufficiently uncommon that it just wasn't something Aditi's parents really considered a possibility at first.

Being raised as two people simultaneously had some effects on her mentality. For one, as he was raised simultaneously as a boy and as a girl (one of his bodies is afab, and the other amab), she manages to be genderqueer and nonbinary (bigender, specifically, both male and female at once, but emphatically not something in between or half-and-half) and yet also technically kind of cis at the same time.

This, incidentally, is why the pronouns are weird here. He uses both she/her and he/him semi-randomly intermixed. It's also why he has two names.

While she has one "male" body and one "female" body, she doesn't generally care that much about gendered presentation, and dresses both bodies from the same wardrobe. He does have an eye for fashion, making sure to look good, but she doesn't go out of his way to keep the masculine outfits on her masculine body--he can absolutely look fantastic in a dress whichever body wears it.

Aditi is technically still legally considered two people, mostly because she just can't be bothered to go through the whole process of getting that updated. It doesn't generally cause problems.

A comparatively little-known spinoff series of a popular video game series generally marketed towards children and not exactly known for its story is not where you'd expect to find what is arguably the best story I've ever read but PMD Sky is that anyway.

Canis lupus familiaris and Brassica olearacea both have ridiculous numbers of breeds to the point that I wouldn't be all that surprised if there was one breed of each that were visually indistinguishable from each other

okay yeah I probably would, just.

you know you have a job you like when you're looking forward to the _end_ of a break rather than the beginning of one.

Space really isn't all that far away, it's just moving really fast and hard to catch up to

anyone else remember that brief craze about like, stacking plastic cups quickly?

or is that just something we dreamed up