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@devurandom@cybre.space it appears that I'm wrong about landscape pages – when people in china invented books, they used similar page proportions to modern books.

@devurandom@cybre.space on the other hand, though, I think books would probably be differently shaped if they originally came from a society that had vertical text — more landscape pages, possibly? — and that would influence the way people designed technology

@devurandom@cybre.space although status bars would probably be vertical too, so the same tricks apply

@devurandom@cybre.space that's ok!
I think it's a good thought

@devurandom@cybre.space (was this meant to be a reply to my post?)

In just a few days, right after I finish tabling at Play Fare this Saturday, you'll be able to purchase the Tome of Rites and Rituals, a roleplay aid filled with evocative descriptions of magical ceremonies from a strange land. It's a good read.
fenreliania.itch.io/rites-and-

I would love to see the alternate universe where top-to-bottom in columns going left to right writing systems dominate, where wikipedia looks like this:

(from the Mongolian Script wikipedia page)

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the answer appears to be "it displays it horizontally anyway"

Does it work inside a toot itself:

test ᠴᠣᠷᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠭᠠᠭᠴᠠ ᠪᠣᠰᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠄ ᠮᠣᠩᠭ

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I wonder what happens when you put vertical text in a mastodon username...

Doctor Who • Audio Dramas 

It looks like they stop doing paranormal stories after Main Range 26: Primeval

thank goodness for that... I think the oversaturation of the audio dramas with Supernatural Nonsense That Turns Out To Be Aliens is starting to get a little draining.

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If "colonel" is pronounced like "kernel" shouldn't "colony" be pronounced like "kerny"

Doctor Who • Audio Dramas 

MR 10: Winter for the Adept
features a poltergeist

MR 13: The Shadow of the Scourge
features creatures from another dimension which feed on dark thoughts

MR 19: Minuet in Hell
features "demons" who feed off fear and anger.

That's 37%.

37% of the main range stories so far feature either paranormal themes or emotion eating psychic creatures.

and the next one?
it features a werewolf.

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affection 

@unknown_user@cybre.space 💖 ♥ 💖

Doctor Who • Audio Dramas ░ Main Range 19: Minuet in Hell 

Also I'm getting an increasing sense of "the audio dramas like to make paranormal things real or have creatures that feed on emotions"

MR 2: Phantasmagoria
features an occultist and seemingly supernatural phenomenon

MR 4: The Land of the Dead
features ancient creatures from Koyukon mythology

MR 5: The Fearmonger
features a creature which feeds on fear.

MR 9: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
features a Spectre/imp

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