Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

there's an icebreaker question

what did you name your first computer

my parents still have the first computer they got - i fuckin forget what it is. it's named, of course, HAL

and i played HOURS of this fuckin fantastic game where you could make faces from different bits. i think it might actually be called FaceMaker since names were simpler in ye olden times lol.

HAL still runs, i think it's had some RAM go bad but my dad combed through the error messages, figured it out, now that's on his to-do list

@maple you got me deep in nostalgia now LMAO

i know a lot less about old computers than i should honestly, but ti-99s are intensely nostalgic

needs the wood trim colorway though

i was always too scared to play space invaders myself but i'd beg my mom to come play it so i could watch, lol

@maple holy shit

honestly i want to believe so bad that all of them are real. that all of those are real names real people really put on things, ESPECIALLY roberts paddle iv and super design ending-man bs-500 as

@maple i'm going to say the robik because it seems the most like a cohesive name for something and therefore not adequately ludicrous

i feel like i've heard of the exidy sorcerer and possibly the super child prodigy though

"now all swastikas are nazi flags now i guess", coupled with quips in the history like "gonna go all rulefag", "this year you get a free loli with entry"

yeah okay that's one way to make a block obvious through 'joking references' i guess. does anyone have some spare febreeze so i can get the 4channer stench off my fedi timeline, y'all know how that shit clings

if this bit of allergies is an ear infection brewing i'm gonna be super smad about it

oof ok this headache has settled in good and proper and made of me a foolish fool after i jinxed myself by floating the idea of writing tonight

hmmmm maybe with ice cream and beating back this headache a bit i can do.... another writing night in a row?????

i don't know why it's viscachaposting time but i support it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPxA6nasvQc

me, before namazu tribe quests in #ffxiv : why on earth did they do NAMAZU instead of SOMETHING COOL ugh

me, now, hitting rank 7: I LOVE ALL MY IDIOT FISH CHILDREN. *sobbing* look at them they're so dumb and so good!!!!

i mean honestly

if jk rowling can't even fucking wikipedia american history to put forward an idea that all of modern usa would be covered by one school in late 1600s, like it was all one english-speaking culture at that point, (HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!),

i can probably skate by as i'm there googling what time lavender harvests are in france and what typical eurostar schedules are so i can have a throwaway detail be accurate

@georgesquares@snouts.online CHRIST the additional pottermore stuff has just been so awful and depressing

like... why did anyone think these were good ideas to publicise. why has anyone allowed this to happen on every level.

it does make it easy for me to feel much better about my fanfiction though.

@georgesquares@snouts.online that's one of the scenarios that really grates on me! i mean, fuck, there were surely a lot of kids who used HP books as a refuge from bad shit like, say, realization that they're a product of rape. and what an absolute shit sandwich to be served up there.

@InspectorCaracal completely valid tbh

i've not really watched any dr who, but i think very little of him because of how bbc sherlock ended up, even if i don't think he's wholly directly responsible for the crimes against the character of Irene Adler there

i mean jfc when the victorian source text is more feminist with a stronger woman heroine than the modern adaptation, It's Bad!

@georgesquares@snouts.online honestly? yes.

i mean, tbh, i'm not entirely opposed to those 'force of nature' villains. especially in YA lit. but they have to be a force of nature while still being *interesting*.

i feel like several times Rowling stepped up to the plate to try and make him sympathetic - and more interesting! - and whiffed it EVERY SINGLE TIME. just swing and a miss straight into "also evil 'cos he's evil".

in the end, Cursed Child is like a friend saying she's going to cook a great roast dinner for you, you're going to love it. you mark your calendar, get all excited. you're sitting at the dinner table. it smells amazing. she tells you how she's been working on it all day, AND brining it all night, and basting it, and all of this. she pulls it out of the oven and it looks fantastic.

then she carves off all the meat, tosses that in the trash, and proudly serves you a single drumstick bone

it comes close. it comes *irritatingly* close to realizing that.

but instead, in among all of the time-travel sloppiness, and in among the stories of that second gen of characters struggling with THEIR legacies!, voldemort's daughter just ends up...

well, a chip off the old block with some cliche daddy issues.

boring.

bland.

a disappointment.

these... these are interesting characters.

they get to be themselves, all wrestling with the same problem, some coming up with bad answers, some coming up with good answers, some trying to come up with good answers and failing.

they are messy, and real, and INTERESTING.

they are everything that Delphini ends up not being, yet *could have been*.