Thoughts of a Thinker

I am the Wizard Red. Superintelligent shade of the colour red in the shape of a wizard. 30~ years in this current form, before that spent 4000 years in a bog.

[thinkingredwizard]

The Red Wizard ✔️

Red, The Wizard ✔️

Red Wizard, The ✔️

Wizard Red The (?)

Wizard The Red (?)

The Wizard Red ✔️

It's interesting that I feel like only two of these are not representative of me. I like looking like a wizard, and I dress all in red, so the first one is an obvious moniker. "The Red Wizard" is nicely descriptive.

There are people who call me "Red" due to it being very easy to remember from looking at me (sorry colourblind people) and I like that, and so "Red the wizard" seems like "my name" + distinguishing trait from all the other nonbinary people who call themselves Red. like, yeah! I'm Red! Which one? The Wizard! I like that. Feels personal.

"Red Wizard, The" feels like how I'd be cited in an index or academic reference, and I do enjoy a university environment, makes me feel at home.

The last one just feels like a fancy version of "Red The Wizard". It's a bit grander, like, "The Wizard Red" is how I'd be summoned to something official in a fantasy setting by Diana Wynne Jones. Less personal, but respectful.

"Wizard Red The" and "Wizard The Red" just feel a bit too removed from the others? "Wizard The Red" in particular. Wizard is not my name, but my gender, whereas "Red" is both [my/a] name and gender. Feels impersonal and not quite accurate. Maybe I just haven't thought about them enough yet.

[thinkingredwizard]

task: go see someone to get blood pressure taken.

problem: if blood pressure is high, will not get access to Thing Needed

Result: Anxious about the possibility of Thing Needed being inaccessible, causing blood pressure to go up

[thinkingredwizard]

My blood pressure is like Bilbo's sword, Sting, except instead of glowing when goblins are near, it goes up when medical professionals are near.

[thinkingredwizard]

task: go see someone to get blood pressure taken.

problem: if blood pressure is high, will not get access to Thing Needed

Result: Anxious about the possibility of Thing Needed being inaccessible, causing blood pressure to go up

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[draconym]

I love my local strawberry festival because it's what I imagine a sports game feels like to people who really love a sports team. Or maybe a boy band concert in the 90s. Or Oktoberfest. Look at us all wearing our matching outfits themed around this thing we like. Let's get swag and novelty drinks. Go strawberries.

[draconym]

@clare-dragonfly and me at the strawberry festival

[k-dhd]

[crystaltoa]

Even saying ”I’m so sorry, I completely forgot” sounds marginally better than ” I’m so sorry, I didn’t completely forget, I actually completely remembered. I thought about it the whole time and it stressed me out so much my brain built an insurmountable wall around it.”

[halfabouros]

It takes so much mental fortitude to remember to pick up that sock

[angrylittlesliceofpizza]

"i thought about that task so much my brain apparently decided i had already done it" also sounds like bullshit, AND YET

[big-smiling-monkey]

“It didn’t happen, and I don’t know why. It could have. It should have. My life would be vastly improved if it had. I thought about it constantly and obsessively… and yet here we are.”

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Remaining time: 6 days 13 hours

[animate-mush]

This movie is FANTASTIC. I don't want to give any spoilers but. It's so good.

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[nunofyabuisness]

What if book & movie Rocky met ?!

I should be sleeping but I’m plagued with the visions……………..

I imagine it would go something like this. They would banter constantly about cultural differences, and graces affection. Grace is both charmed by his adorable companions disputes, and slightly whiplashed about having to pull out his previously shelved "you’re both my favorite student!" teacher persuasion methods. Amaze amaze amaze!

I love them they take up my every waking moment and I have no space in my brain for anything but them ever. I’ve got an exam coming up real soon. Sigh…

[star-trekster]

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[aniseandspearmint]

A near complete lack of Relationship Decay. I didn't even know that was a thing other people experienced until I was like 25.

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[aniseandspearmint]

A near complete lack of Relationship Decay. I didn't even know that was a thing other people experienced until I was like 25.

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[aniseandspearmint]

A near complete lack of Relationship Decay. I didn't even know that was a thing other people experienced until I was like 25.

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[aniseandspearmint]

A near complete lack of Relationship Decay. I didn't even know that was a thing other people experienced until I was like 25.

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[aniseandspearmint]

A near complete lack of Relationship Decay. I didn't even know that was a thing other people experienced until I was like 25.

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[aniseandspearmint]

A near complete lack of Relationship Decay. I didn't even know that was a thing other people experienced until I was like 25.

[animate-mush]

Since tumblr is currently very excited about versions of Project Hail Mary we made up in our head, an interesting thought experiment might be: what would Rocky sound like if lexicologized and translated by someone else?

The meat of the story is linguistics being done by a non-linguist, which means that Rocky's use of language tells us something about Eridian language but tells us way more about Ryland Grace's translation choices.

Fffffffffff this dovetails so well with my unwritten space story where the team linguist is NOT the archeologist but rather the techie. Dr Zeke Arnolds my irritating beloved, you coulda been played by Ryan Gosling *wipes tear* .....man, Zeke woulda been so rude to Grace about literally everything. [Zeke Arnolds is of course named after the legendary Arnold Zwicky, styled after my irl colleague REDACTED, and fueled by the sort of linguist rage and pedantry you can only acquire in graduate school. Ah, memories...]

On a side note, Rocky is named after a common noun of English that presumably has nothing to do with whatever meaning is name has in Eridian. The name "Rocky" is corefferent with his actual name but it does not translate it. What if Grace's name is the same way? The name Rocky gives him doesn't mean grace, it means This Guy. But the point of the story is that these guys are exactly the same, so what if Rocky assigned him some epithet that was a common noun in Eridian, based on the substance he's composed of

Rocky: can't proceed. Grace all over floor.

Grace: I - what?

Rocky: not human Grace. Just grace.

Grace: ...describe what that word means

Rocky: small liquid contained. Grace.

Grace: ....

Grace: YOU NAMED ME PUDDLE

....okay this was in no way the point of the post but my new headcanon is that Grace's Eridian name is "Puddleglum." Because he is a sad contained liquid.

Grace: actually my name means "divine mercy freely given"

Rocky: Understand. Humans bad at names