#isoraqathedh

[raitrolling]

Hello Sharle! Do you happen to have to deal with all the sponsors on your shirt yourself or do you have an agent to handle them?

Th3 t34m h4ndl3s th3 sponsors. My p3rson4l sponsors 4r3 Cull4s4ki... 4nd Nut3ll4, which prob4bly sounds 4 littl3 str4ng3. But 3h, it brings in mon3y 4nd th3y giv3 m3 good d34ls.

[trolloled]

Having only ever read and not heard the name, all I can think of is <Xrumon> /ˈɛks.rəˌmɔn/. I would like to ask if this is correct.

I've been pronouncing it with a hard Z sound, like Z-roo-mon. Like how xylophone has a z sound at the start.

[cloudbattrolls]

Hello. This is going to sound a bit strange, but the fact that you abbreviate Etuuya's name makes me think the e- is a prefix and therefore "electronic Tuuya".

I have been approached by people with the manners of Black Friday deal hunters, you’re perfectly polite and all good with me.

God forbid the vampire also be a cyborg tbh. That’s their palecrush’s job.

I abbreviate it because they do, and for once, there is no deeper reason beyond “they like it better that way.”

[itsbenedict]

Wib c'vajt jün! (We are to fight a unit/object/item!)

a giant monster attacks! but you take advantage of the lexical ambiguity of the phonemes and graphemes involved, transmuting the foe into a Guy-Ant Mons Stir- which is to say, Ant-Man from the MCU, who wakes up a team of pokémon to do battle against us. it’s definitely a lot more manageable than before, though, especially with you reversing the name of the track- Back Beat Battle (Hard)- so that i can be hard, battle, and beat back the enemy.

[itsbenedict]

For each element in the Look-And-Say sequence (OEIS A005150), add the digits together (e.g. 1 -> 1, 11 -> 2, 21 -> 3, 1211 -> 5, etc.). Then answer all the questions associated with the new sequence.

oh my god, dude. did you just come up with a really specific and convoluted way to ask the set of questions you wanted to ask, or did you just need a way to generate some pseudo-random numbers? actually don’t tell me.

so, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 23, and it doesn’t go up to 32

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

General outlook on the human condition: read Meditations on Moloch. Aesthetic: play Ghost Trick. Current mood: listen to It’s Good To Be Alive. Really understanding a person: maybe possibly do something other than consuming a media???

2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?

Well, no, not really, because I think I’m too weird for anyone to think exactly like me, but while Scott Alexander is maybe too much of a serious grownup who cares about serious grownup things to count, I’ve agreed with him on practically everything he’s ever said (except the occasional exaggerated complaint about feminism). Also @eternalfarnham and I tend to be on the same wavelength when it comes to writing.

3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with.

Idk if I’m really anything-fandom, and I like too much stuff for this to be a useful question, but here’s a 2-year-old post about my favorite characters from a bunch of stuff that’s still pretty accurate. (Peridot has edged out Garnet as my favorite SU character, and in more recent stuff I’ve gotten into, Sans is the most relatable Undertale, Rui from Gatchaman Crowds is #lifegoals, and Hououin Kyouma from Steins;Gate is practically my goddamn self-insert OC)

5. do you think of yourself as a human being or a human doing? do you identify yourself by the things you do?

what

um. kinda? sorta? i guess it would be the latter since i can’t exactly wrap my head around what the difference between the two would be. i guess the former would be if i was really attached to some identity category or categories??? which i’m not?

8. what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime?

Most of my favorite artists I like because their music is fun and makes me feel good, not because of a connection to their lyrics. I don’t think I’ve really felt connected to an artist, but the closest would probably be (don’t judge me) the Beatles (musical persona John Lennon, as opposed to real-life abuser John Lennon, is one of my favorite people. i agree with like 85% of Revolution, sorry). Also, since nearly every one of TMBG’s songs is like a portrait of a deliberately atypical character, there’s no escaping having a few of those songs that really resonate with me.

10. do you have a creed?

I’ve been debating writing a manifesto, yeah. It would probably boil down to “try really hard to like things, value forgiveness and mercy, treat everyone as if they think they’re the hero of their own story, and recognize that group psychology is totally different from individual psychology”.

Or maybe more concisely, “Insist on a happy ending”.

13. inside or outdoors?

outside’s got too many bugs and when it don’t got too many bugs it’s got too many colds. D-

16. if you’d grown up in a different environment, do you think you’d have turned out the same?

like. definitely not? no? i’m a product of a whole lot of very specific and unusual circumstances, and i can’t look at how massive shifts in my personality were precipitated by recognizable environmental factors and... somehow imagine otherwise

23. how often would you want to see your family every year?

My gut reaction is “NONE, NO TIMES, NEVER AGAIN” on account of I have to deal with them every single day and it’s incredibly stressful, but realistically I’d probably miss some of them enough to go to like, a yearly family gathering or something. The four consecutive months I spent by myself in a college dorm weren’t enough to make me homesick, though, so at least that long.

[itsbenedict]

ŋ, を, Ᏻ

iso you know i have no idea what any of those are

that letter G looks pretty badly injured what with its head being chopped into pieces, so i’ll give it a hug; the approximately-japanese-looking character reminds me of the tattoos the Draketooth illusionists wore, and they were pretty slick, so they can have finger guns

and that lowercase n needs to put some freaking clothes on, nobody wants to see its junk hanging out like that. frying pan.

[itsbenedict]

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[itsbenedict]

20: on the flip side, which webcomics do you have a genuine distaste over? I have a probability of 0.7 on xkcd and 0.9 on Polandball. (For the purposes of this question, please select only from the webcomics that you have read, from the beginning if there is one, at least 0.1% of the content. However, you may, upon indication, choose comics that do not fit this criterion.)

Nah, I like XKCD a lot, and I’ve never heard of Polandball (I googled it and it looks… kind of eh? I imagine it could be funny if I knew more about European politics but, whatever.)

I’d have to say… hm. I dropped Ava’s Demon because I was getting increasingly mad at how it was framing TITAN’s villainy, what with it focusing on how unnatural it was over the actual evil coercion aspects. Plus the pacing was really slow? The price it pays for gorgeous art in every page, I guess.

Also maybe Monster Pop? I just couldn’t get into it, I liked a lot of the character designs but the writing was bland when it wasn’t being preachy as hell. I’m not gonna say “don’t draw a comic about your OCs’ high school romantic drama”, like I’m sure Maya Kern is having fun with it, but it’s just completely the opposite of my speed.

(not worth mentioning the stuff everyone agrees on, like Ctrl-Alt-Del and LICD and stuff)