#aster being aster

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so here's some more random connections from the pattern recognizer

according to some lore (most notably the name of the jail Sam Flynn goes to in Legacy) the Tron movies are set in "Center City."

this is a fictional place. but i have seen some people assume it was in Pennsylvania, because if you look up "Center City" most of the places you'll find are in Pennsylvania

which is simply because "center city" is Pennsylvanian for "downtown." (Pennsylvania has a whole lot of interesting linguistic/dialect things going on.) (ask Yinzler.)

anyway though.

Pennsylvania is not the only place that has Center Cities.

personally I've always headcanoned that the one in Tron is a fictional suburb of Los Angeles

that fits with the mentions of Los Angeles in the Betrayal comic. and it is plausible enough. Los Angeles is bigger than some entire nations. Los Angeles has so many damn suburbs that, for all anyone knows without looking it up, there totally could be one called Center City. And most importantly, the Tron movies absolutely do not LOOK as if they're set ANYPLACE else besides Los Angeles

But

if we were to imagine that they are set somewhere else

that opens up some truly hilarious possibilities 

while I lived in Los Angeles, my roommates loved to watch "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia." and, according to them, the funniest ongoing joke in "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" is the obvious but never-addressed fact that it is not actually sunny in Philadelphia at all

and that the show is very very obviously filmed in Los Angeles, not even slightly trying to look like Philadelphia or anywhere else in Pennsylvania or anywhere else outside Los Angeles

...And I think it would be uproariously funny to imagine the same thing is going on with Tron.

Headcanon that Tron is canonically in Pennsylvania, hence the Center City

it's just... not real-life Pennsylvania.

It's the same Los-Angeles-coded, alternate-universe Pennsylvania that "Always Sunny" is set in.

...Crossover time.

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[astercontrol]

I was thinking about Shakespeare's will, which included a mention of his "second-best bed" being left to his wife

... and I began to find the whole thing just unbearably funny when I started imagining how I might address beds in my own will.

I have four beds, if you count the extra one for disaster shelter in the basement... or five, if you count the couch, which technically is a small bed... or maybe eight, if you count each of the three king beds as two twin beds, which they technically are, underneath the mattress toppers.

And this is just mattresses-- the "bedframes" are all made up of low NSF shelving with bed slats over it, and there isn't a whole lot of difference between any of the beds in that respect.

I intend to have, eventually, a polycule of at least four... sharing all these beds in some arrangement or other, though probably not an unchanging one.

And, if I somehow fail to be immortal and have to leave my worldly possessions to my polycule.... I could just royally mess with everyone by being almost but not quite as vague as Shakespeare.

"My second-best bed goes to my best spouse. If two spouses are tied for best, the second-best bed may be either divided into two twin beds (if it's one of the kings) or shared in perpetuity by the two best spouses, who are now forbidden from ever separating"

"My second-best bed-- which is the second of the two twin mattresses making up my best bed-- goes to my second-best spouse, and my first-best bed --the first of those twin mattresses -- goes to my first-best spouse. In case of debate over which mattress of my best bed is the first and which is the second: the first is the one on the right side of the bed. (Not as in right and left, but as in which side of the bed you have a better day if you get out on.)"

"My second-best bed (as decided by majority vote via a ranked-choice ballot among my spouses) goes to my second-best spouse (as decided by majority vote via a ranked-choice ballot among my beds). Whether something counts as a bed or a spouse is decided by how often anyone has slept on top of it within the past 6 months."

(Whoever I end up living with, they better not EVER let me die, hahaha)