the 3ish interactions that Tisarwat and Seivarden have are so fucking funny. suicidal teenager mad because Mom’s (Breq’s) situationship is being nice to her and doesn’t know that she was briefly a 3,000 year old tyrant. well-intentioned side piece (Seivarden) trying to be nice to the step-kid and mildly baffled as to why a 17-year old has access to top secret military gossip. there is absolutely no situation like it. thank you Ann Leckie.

Really cool day at the rainforest cafe

Mild spoiler for The Last Graduate ahead, but:

Asking "any questions?" to a group of 3-9 year olds is showing me that there is a wide range of when kids figure out what a question is.

To be fair, adults at both academic conferences and fan conventions also have trouble identifying the difference between a story/comment and a question the moment they have access to a mic.

love the bit in Fugitive Telemetry where Murderbot needs two meat shields to block cameras and immediately calls the Besty and the Worsty, making sure we the audience know that it called Ratthi while he was at a sexy cool guy lunch with his hot fuck partners and it called Gurathin while he was eating a Lonely Sad Asshole Lunchables for One by himself and reading a book about stamps.

@teaandaces wins the tags

Don’t get me wrong I have no issue with reading sex and romance but as an aro/ace looking to read about strong and complex character relationships both original and fan-fic it feels a lot like if a morally neutral witch cursed you so that no matter what you ate the very last bite always, always tasted like peanut butter

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

r/Murderbot mods really said "if you can't use it/its for a fictional character, get over yourself".

imagine being Gurathin in ASR taking a looksee at your scary Military Boston Dynamics Dog’s brain storage and all you see is video compilations like “Eden being the smartest Sanctuary Moon character for 50 minutes straight” and 100-page .txt files like “Evidence Sparga Delfin is actually a clone [EDIT:IM ALWAYS RIGHT]”

hating a popular character is actually much more soul crushing than liking an unpopular character, as someone who does both constantly. liking an unpopular character gives you the chance to be the Number One Character Fan and everybody knows you as the Character Guy and even if the fan content is scarce, you are adding positivity to the fandom. absolutely hating a fan favourite character will have you twisting yourself in knots going yes yes i acknowledge their complexity yes yes i will never ever post hate in the main tags yes yes you're allowed to like them. when what you really wanna do is post about how much character sucks. but you Cant.

“my sentient sword came out to me as transmasc, i mean, talk about un-she/they-ing your blade!”

it's so funny Brennan says "if he were a god, he would not be fleeing. he is just a man, and he can be killed." when, like, well, the gods in Aramán were killed, I see what you're getting at, but the gods were very much killed

curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)

I was going to suggest fettuccini but twisted with the ends connected to form a Möbius strip, but then I realized that would fuck like hell.

@fishofthewoods I did NOT expect to get such a strong contender so early.

@alilcajun @aralioideae

a couple of challengers emerge

You are all fucking madmen

Gloves