Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

hey folks, what's up on computerfairi.es

@noelle @Momentrabbit @Ulfra_Wolfe @kel I've seen a lot of cute furry couples I love but the cutest pairing I've seen was wolf/ram.

(getting real nerdy here)

@Momentrabbit @Ulfra_Wolfe @kel Y'all argon-na love the puns around here

@Momentrabbit @kel @Ulfra_Wolfe heh *tailswishes* the periodic table's been my playground for, gosh, thirty human years

@kel @Momentrabbit @Ulfra_Wolfe if you can't helium and you can't curium then you'll have to barium

@Momentrabbit @Ulfra_Wolfe when the chemist died and the undertaker took the body away, what did the undertaker do? Barium.

gee if there were a Mastodon instance specific to chemistry I'd be _so_ there

@Ulfra_Wolfe that just seems really cool to me. kinda wish I'd had that chance, when I was younger and had so much easier a time reading big blocks of stuff :/ sort of hoping that it gets easier after I start HRT and my mind's working a bit better.

@Ulfra_Wolfe I mean, I _did_ get into some of that stuff, but she was trying to get me to read Thomas Mann when I was like twelve, and you can imagine how well that worked out

@Ulfra_Wolfe I know <3 just like my new hero that I know about thanks to @kel, and that's Dr. Alphys! (link: https://darkmagic-sweetheart.deviantart.com/art/Dr-Alphys-NERD-617913593) https://computerfairi.es/media/KWuny8yX4Doikc9HKzQ

@Ulfra_Wolfe oh, no, it was more that my mom thought games were stupid. she only wanted me getting into stuff that was grownup and respectable

we're gonna be doing a more or less modernistic setting with a dash of urban fantasy, and I created a young science / engineering whiz kid who's been in trouble with the law and ran away from home. Named her Julia Grignard. (yes I named her after the organic chemist. I name all my OCs after organic chemists.)

@Ulfra_Wolfe I think maybe a notch would be better?

So, @Ulfra_Wolfe and her friends have been giving me my FIRST EVER introduction to role-playing games, and walked me through creating a character! Folks have been kinda surprised in the past that I've never done anything like DnD or even played any computer RPGs, even though I grew up right around when DnD was a big deal. I just...well, wasn't really allowed to have that sort of friend *eardroops* So it's exciting finally to get a chance.

@Ulfra_Wolfe I can RP it! :p

@u2764 I'm reminded a little of the fetish for "elegance" that creeps into certain sciences, especially those weak on empirical basis (or utterly devoid of it, q.v. hypotheses involving "strings" or the multiverse)

@Alamantus@cybre.space heh, I like little coincidences like that. saved you a trip to the dictionary!