#quizzicalqueek

[frith-in-tombs]

Space dinosaurs! Or space owls (with/without antlers and creepy eyes)

What excellent ideas! Space dinosaur currently has first layer of paint drying... (This is the problem with painting, I do it and I want to SHOW EVERYONE but obviously I can’t put it in my scanner until it’s completely dry, boo...)

[threefolddefencespeech]

...I may have taken to doing weird pictographic versions of Wolf 359 characters' names (via things named after their namesakes) on the flat's whiteboard. @frith-in-thorns @vivelabagatelle @quizzicalqueek as requested :p (Ie a Minkowski diagram, Kepler's second law of planetary motion, and a Jacobian)

[threefolddefencespeech]

A relic of the holiday, created by yours truly to record a groundbreaking conversation. Bask now in the wisdom of the Scribes my friends discussing pyjamas. @ashby-santoso @howlsmovinglibrary @quizzicalqueek

[threefolddefencespeech]

Prometheus, Norrell, Eric Bittle

Aww, than-

...I don’t know how to react to that middle one. Or the last one. :P Norrell does at least have an excellent library, which would make up for all kinds of personal failings.

[canmom]

quizzicalqueek replied to your post “Hwae and the Genders (so far)”

Are you sure that the person mocked for delaying their choice of gender is Ingray's sister? The only person I can remember who did that was the police officer, and I'm pretty sure she's not Ingray's sister. (Not being pedantic, just thinking that certain later events in the book will seem a bit odd if you mistakenly think they're sisters)

oh i’m probably misreading! it is the police officer i’m referring to, and i thought she was related to Ingray somehow, but actually maybe she’s just a family friend? i need to read back over. thanks for catching me on that

[threefolddefencespeech]

I'm too lazy to look up the number, but top 3 dog breeds, just to see what happens. :p You have my permission to make up some if you can't think of any.

CURSES.

Very well.

1. The German Shepherd of Souls. So fluffy! So obedient! Except when you ask it not to hypnotise the growing crowd of strangers outside your house, chanting steadily more elaborate prayers to the greater glory of your dog. It doesn’t like that. That’s why this entry is being written from inside my own cupboard. Can I come out yet?

…I think the growl means no.

2. The Yorkshire Terror. Very small, very cute, very enlightened. Has transcended both natural and human laws. Enjoys playing with advanced philosophy and string theory. Also enjoys playing with string theorists. They don’t. Banned from most universities, and all of southern Europe.

3. King Charles Spaniel. Insists it has the divine right to rule. Very very cute, if it wouldn’t insist on the daily attempts at a military coup. But just look at those adorable ears! Ah, fuck, it’s invaded the kitchen with an army from the Netherlands.

[ashby-santoso]

Edible pronoun badges

If you decide you don’t like them, you can just eat your words

(And gender fluid people get to have their pronouns and eat them)

[centrumlumina]

4, 16, 30

For this ask meme.

4. Answered here.

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

I suppose this depends on what you mean by “the same”. It’s laughably easy to imagine ways in which, if my life had been slightly different, then my current living situation would be completely changed. It’s also easy to image that, if the society I was surrounded by was different, I could see myself totally differently.

However, I greatly resemble my parents in many ways and I do think that has influenced a lot of who I am now. So I think any me with the same family would be quite similar, although that’s mostly because I can’t imagine my parents raising me much differently to how they did.

30. pick one of your favorite quotes.

“Could it be that the heart you seek is no longer my own?” Stardust, Neil Gaiman.