@Elizafox *nods* that's true, but this wasn't like the French revolution(s) that attempted to unseat a firmly established government. A weak colonial garrison was overthrown, not THE KING OF ENGLAND like we pretend we did here in the States.
@Elizafox I've long disliked that the "American Revolution" is called a "Revolution". It was no such thing. It was a bunch of relatively comfortable colonial patriarchs deciding that they could risk kicking over the traces and run things themselves. And that's just what happened.
@kara_dreamer @zebratron2084 Also I admit you caught me as I was considering moving to another instance XD Like @alyx@icosahedron.website I've become curiously restless.
@zebratron2084 @kara_dreamer The neurodivergence exhibited by the protagonist of that story, Clyde Bromely, is a disabling tendency to get lost in wild chains of association connecting whatever's in his mind at the time to popular idioms, snatches of old songs, &c. Sometimes he can corral it, sometimes he goes right off into the unknown....in any case, the story presents a darkly amusing picture of "maladaptation" as Bromely meanders away from correspondence with reality.
@kara_dreamer @zebratron2084 *looks up from her pile of notes* Unfortunately this instance seems curiously to lag behind others so I did not even see the citation of this deity until you drew my attention to it, Kara. Perhaps I should look for somewhat better quarters. But indeed I find no reference to an "Oaraeu". Perhaps it is a name of @zebratron2084's device.
@kara_dreamer @Ulfra_Wolfe @Storyteller @kel I am glad to see you put it to use.
@Efi My dear friend @Ulfra_Wolfe has been a source of wisdom and comfort to me for many months now, and I recommend her highly.
@kara_dreamer All the same, you get a Pearl Point for finishing that task. *puts it on Kara's shirt*
@kara_dreamer Learn to proofread and double-check before publication, young woman.
🎶 Home, home again / I like to be here when I can / When I come home, cold and tired / It's good to warm my bones beside the fire / Far away, across the fields / The tolling of the iron bell / Draws the faithful to their knees / To hear the softly spoken magic spell...🎶
lewd gandalf secks
@cnc @alyx@icosahedron.website Tolkien's work is so sexless that any attempt to inject obscenity into it comes across as strange indeed. Still...
All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth (I'm glad to say)
Is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz (there's a dirty old man!)
(Tom Lehrer)
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@cnc *snaps her fingers, indicating @alyx@icosahedron.website* Al, would you please noogie this jokester
@kara_dreamer _festina lente_. it is all right. you have accomplished a few things already.
Seattle transwoman, horse, Pearl, scientist, classicist, Stoic, scholiast: @alyx@icosahedron.website's future and holder of @kel's leash. One of the members of @kara_dreamer's plurality; I function as her librarian, amanuensis, and disciplinarian (as much as I can, with such a troublesome gang to work with.)