When I came back from living abroad for three years, no one here used turn signals in our sad little roundabouts to indicate which exit they were going for, but it felt helpful to do anyway. Maybe people would trust me enough to enter a little sooner if I was trying to show them I was going to get out before I reached them. Idk.
Four years later, I think it's fair for me to take credit for people slowly starting to use turn signals in our sad little roundabouts, especially when I see them use their left turn signal to show they're going most of the way around not just a quick first exit on the right run.
i think jesper and kaz would have a lot of inside jokes (even when kaz acts like he doesn’t give a shit) and i would like to explore that more please
like when jesper was dropping something into his office in the early days of being in the dregs, he’d be unable to resist fidgeting with something on the desk. kaz shouts at him for it, so he doesn’t touch anything from then on, but having no concept whatsoever of where to stop with his joke, then starts to make something on his desk slightly crooked every time he goes in.
after a year of this random thing they do, jesper goes a step further and buys a little name plate that says “Bastard of the Barrel” to put in there. every time he’s in the office, he flips it upside down or moves it into a drawer or balances it precariously on the back of his chair like a ridiculous game of elf on the shelf, and every time he goes back in it’s perfectly straight and centre again
surprisingly, kaz doesn’t shout at him for it. in fact, specht swears he once saw his lip curl up when he saw the plate being used to prop up the window, but with a string tied around it so it couldn’t get lost
AND HE WENT INTO THE TREE TO GET INTO THE WORLD OF DREAMS!
OK OK OK I GOT IT
I HAVE SUCCESSFULY PARSED A MYSTERY EVENT
Also I think I actually love that Lava Lamp pulled Seishirou’s own move against him. Seishirou did this same thing in Edonis and just left mid-fight, and Lava Lamp was clearly watching and thought that’d be a pretty good idea actually.
The other thing it echoes is Infinity. Which means it’s confirmed: the traditional way into the world of dreams is to not tell anyone you’re going and then cause a shocking spectacle as your family watched helplessly from the sidelines as you vanish before their eyes. It’s tradition after all!
I do admit I thought retrieving Sakura would be like at the END of the plot.
But what does that mean? ARE we in the final stage of the plot? Are things really about to take off now? I assumed we had more worlds to go but maybe we don’t! Maybe this is it!
Lae'zel is pretty fluent in Common but since she still sometimes messes up some words, I don't believe she understands a third of all the big words Gale uses casually. My headcanon is that she memorizes them during the day and then goes to demand elaborations in the evening, and Gale is very happy to have someone to teach linguistics to.
By the end of the game she can call Vlaakith an pernicious, diminutive old fuck, cut to Gale in her corner wiping away a tear of pride
so i wrote a book that comes out soon and having that be real feels like falling down stairs because i wanted this since i was 7 years old so now what do i want after it.
so tell me why today all i care about is the word trundle, that the word trundle exists. of course i have things to do and emails to send and a world of suffering to protect but today my brain won't let me look away from the sheer linguistic improbability of trundle.
i saw a truck doing it. i imagine animals did it first. or people maybe. to trundle comes direct from old english. cows do it on occasion, but more often sheep (in my experience). someone had to name lope and someone had to name slog. the verbs to run and to leap make sense; they are singular and important distinguishers.
but we can bask rather than relax. we can scuttle rather than crawl. sometimes when i move in dance class it is to undulate rather than roll. someone had to name things like sonder and whimsy. of course we had words for tangible things like tree and grass and root. i love those words, i'm eating them.
i don't know the word for this thing. where it's real-now. sometimes i feel it when i am dating someone i actually like-and-love and i realize that is real, i am dating them and it's real that i like-and-love them. sometimes i have this feeling when i have been planning a vacation or an event for weeks-and-months and it finally happens - the feeling this is happening, it's happening right now.
it happens randomly sometimes too. i will be at the carnival or at an ice cream stand or with the last light of summer in my hair and i will feel it again, that sense - i have waited my whole life for this, and im finally experiencing it, and i need to pay attention to it.
but it's real! how amazing! how horribly tragic! it's real. it exists. the moment is here.