#a sour answer

[springingsour]

Heehooo!! I always wondered what he others would react when MC sings Once More To See You by Mitski ᕙ⁠(⁠＠⁠°⁠▽⁠°⁠＠⁠)⁠ᕗ

Hello there! I'll be sure to check this song out, I haven't heard this one yet. MC is going to be singing plenty of songs and genres that each catch an interest's attention. Some characters will be amazed by the music, while others will listen and understand it. Relate to it or even be empowered by it. Songs will be one of the main ways they become interested in MC! Thank you for sharing this song and for the ask.

[bonefall]

[ID: Ask from @storiesandsquirrels, transcribed in alt text]

also: link to Cow Lore

There's one major misconception here I've gotta correct before answering earnestly; Holsteins do need Super Duper Food. This is one of their major problems as a breed, you need to give them high quality feed for high quantity, low quality milk.

But! That said! These are valid questions that deserve real responses. In spite of the quick correction, I actually want to answer them as you phrased them because I think it would be more illuminating. I'm going to try and summarize them as I go along;

Question 1: "Why wouldn't we want to use The Most Efficient Cow?"

The simplest answer is disease. My ""prediction"" came true, and bird flu has mutated to spread extremely easily through the infected udders of Holsteins. No one has died of bovine-contracted HPAI yet, but with Brainworm Bobby and his love of raw milk in charge of the CDC...

well. my last prediction was prophetic. let's hope this one's not.

Minmaxing a breed for one specific purpose always means intensive inbreeding. Like I mentioned, 9 million Holsteins are genetically equivalent to 60 individuals. A more genetically diverse population is one that will be better at preventing disease outbreaks, and reducing their severity when they do.

And what even is the Most Efficient Milk Cow? If you're only selecting for pure milk production to drive down its cost, you get a breed of cattle that lacks every other important trait that would make it good livestock;

They get sick more often, due to inbreeding depression and lack of physical fitness, requiring more antibiotics and veterinary care.

They are bad parents who will need more human intervention to birth and raise calves

They won't be good grazers, meaning they need a specific food grown for them, increasing how much "functional" land is actually dedicated to cattle husbandry.

Their carcass won't yield as much meat, so more cattle have to be raised and slaughtered to meet demand.

Their bodies will burn out much quicker than a healthier animal, meaning you need to replace your livestock more often.

When it comes to living beings, "efficiency" is "fragility." It's not a stable system to begin with.

Even with the pure logic aside, just, step back here and look at the situation with a heart. We'd be making unhealthy, short-lived animals lacking critical instincts to lead good social lives. AND we probably haven't even fixed the "less land" problem, just shifted the land off-site.

For what? For more milk? We have SO MUCH milk we don't even know what to do with it!

Question 2: "Isn't an overabundance of cheap milk a good thing?"

no.

Under the infinite genius of Capitalism, thousands of gallons of milk just gets poured into the sewer daily because there's too much of it. Transporting it to a processor would cost more than it's worth, sometimes the processors turn milk away because they don't want to overproduce products, and even the US government can't subsidize every last drop; it still has 1.4 billion pounds of cheese in various caves and warehouses across the country.

The price of milk cannot get any lower because it's already being sold below the cost it takes to produce it, and yet, we're still here literally pouring it down the drain.

[photo from bill ulrich who photographed a farmer dumping milk back during the pandemic. this isn't even a recent photo. this happens every time there's a milk surplus. im using this photo because i like the farmer's cunty little pose. look at him. "just ain't right"core.]

And milk being dumped into the sewer is more than just wasteful. It's a biohazard.

Milk doesn't stop rotting when it's dumped. If you live downstream of a milkhouse, improper milk disposal reeks.

It's full of nutrients, too, which causes diatoms, cyanobacteria, and other types of algae to go into overdrive-- causing a Harmful Algal Bloom event in the water, or HAB.

HABs are horrific. There's HUNDREDS of different types. They can suck up oxygen and create "dead zones" which kills all aquatic life, they can poison the water supply for an entire town, and some can even cause toxic fumes that make it hard to breathe on land.

Now, listen, I don't want to scare you into never dumping out rotten milk or anything! It's that on an industrial scale, it's REALLY REALLY bad if a farm overproduces milk-- especially crummy milk that can't be made into decent cheese or other dairy products.

In fact, if we did produce milk on a smaller scale, it would be better for everyone! Unless you're a Milk Guzzling Fiend like I am, you probably wouldn't need to buy a whole gallon at a time. In countries like Italy, it's sold fresh and in smaller containers, and you're just expected to pick it up as you need it.

This is why milkmen used to exist, and still do in places that are cool; they'd deliver your supply fresh from the creamery. Less waste, less stress! The "subscription model" is actually sooooooooooo much better for milk production, since it helps to stagger out those "surges and drops" of demand that leads to milk dumps.

Question 3: "If the cow eats less, doesn't that mean less land for pasture, which is a good thing?"

There's a lot to unpack within this sentiment. It's actually based on a couple of common assumptions on a few levels, which are incorrect in fascinating ways. Challenging this means opening up your worldview on how complex keeping livestock actually is!

I'll start with the simpler part;

You could cut fresh pasture out of the equation entirely and shove a cow into a concrete pen with a food box-- but are you counting the land growing the fodder?

When you grow corn the way that we do on industrial farms in the US, it's unbelievably destructive. Unending oceans of monoculture. Fogged with pesticide, pumped full of fertilizer which causes HABs like dumped milk does, sprayed with thousands of gallons of wasted water.

When you look at this image, I need you to understand you are looking at a dead zone. Like a suburban lawn, just because it's green doesn't mean it's good. Nothing grows here but corn and pests of corn, which gets poisoned and dies without returning any of that energy to the ecosystem.

This is usually what is being given to "grain-fed cattle," either when they're sent to a feedlot to hit their slaughter weight, or when they're lactating so they need the extra nutrition. It's also so nasty it's inedible to human beings.

Now, a lot of cattle farmers will just supplement their cow's diet, doing a mix of pasture feeding (much cheaper) and grain feeding (quicker gains). But the facts on this are clear; pasture-kept cattle result in LESS emissions and need LESS total space than cows in confinement.

In fact, there were a LOT of benefits!

Overall gas emissions from the cows dropped by 8%

Ammonia pollution was down by 30%

Not needing to run farm equipment for fodder planting and harvest reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 10%

Rotated crop fields didn't sequester carbon; but the newly converted perennial grasslands store as much as 3,400 pounds per acre.

The outside cows did produce less milk volume, but the milk they did produce was higher quality. So, looking at all the benefits here, it's clear that pasture is actually something that should be embraced for ecological reasons, not rejected.

In FACT, it should be EMPHASIZED. Because, this is the mind-blowing part,

Pasture can ALSO be an ecosystem.

In fact, I'm a Warrior Cats guy who once did a deep dive on moorlands just so I could write WindClan better. There are entire biomes that only exist because of grazing, and British lowland heath is one of them!

Keeping cattle in a sustainable, ecologically sound way is going to look different depending on where in the world you're doing it. So many earnest, good-willed people have bought into the lie that humans are a problem, and that everything "associated" with us becomes a barren wasteland as if we are tainted. YOU are not the problem! The problem is, and always has been, exploitation. Unsustainable relationships with the land we're part of.

Indigenous people in Europe, Asia, and Africa have been keeping cattle for thousands of years. In North America, cattle can be used to maintain ecosystems that have been badly affected by the colonial eradication of the American Bison. In South America, Brazil specifically has been making incredible advances with highly efficient integrated crop-livestock-forestry farming.

Generally, pastures here in the US are not as intensely managed as an equivalent crop field. Some people fertilize them, or water them mid-summer, but absolutely not to the same extent as industrial corn farms. Cattle are typically rotated between pastures, allowing each to re-grow before they come back to graze again.

Obviously, yes, overgrazing can be an issue. Not every open space should be converted into a pasture, and the destruction of other environments to turn into cow land is a problem. But that is an issue of bad land stewardship, not the mere practice of keeping livestock.

Bottom line, though? Cattle who can graze and survive outside are better for the environment than cattle that can't.

...but hey, you know what Holsteins happen to be really bad at?

EVERYTHING. GRAZING.

They are notoriously terrible grazers. They can't do megan THEEEEE thing that cows are known for. Fragile frames, a lack of fat to keep them warm outside, increased demand for food, distaste for any rough forage, horrible mothering instincts, the list goes on. Holsteins are a NIGHTMARE to try and keep outside all year round compared to other breeds.

(especially heritage breeds, like the Milking Devon, Florida Cracker, or Texas Longhorn. Between these three, you'd be totally covered in 80% of American climates.)

I've already explained why it's not actually very good or important that we minmax milk volume, but even if that was actually something we should value, there are so many downsides that they would absolutely not be the dominant cow breed in a truly "efficient" system.

"Less cows means less cow food and cow land" is sound logic, but Holsteins are not the right cow for that job.

Question 4: "How could this be done in a way that doesn't increase cost of living?"

I'm not sure how to answer this question, simply because I'm not Bonestar, Leader of AmericaClan. Wish I was. I would rule tyrannically.

It's worth noting that Brazil is the second largest producer of beef in the entire world, AND the number one largest exporter of it, AND only puts 30% of its land to total agricultural use. The USA dedicates over 50%. And also Brazil is net reducing its amount of agricultural land while increasing output.

It seems clear to me that the USA actually has a massive food waste and resource distribution problem, to the point where the price we pay for stuff is actually wildly disconnected from the actual value of the goods and labor.

I think the way that us Americans tend to frame our conversations on these topics as "growth" vs "cuts" instead of asking how to minimize waste by making existing systems more efficient prevents us from solving problems. We're also just... really culturally resistant to the idea of anything being more "expensive," even if it ends up costing us a lot more money in waste or mismanagement later.

Penny wise and dollar foolish ass country.

Question 5: "What can we personally do about this?"

I mean, I wasn't making a call to action in Cow Lore, I was just explaining to one of my regulars why I don't like Holsteins LMAO. Since you're asking though...

I don't think we can change the wider trend in the dairy industry without actual government intervention and regulation, though, and that's very unlikely in the current political environment. they just sent random dudes to Ausalvador-Birkenau and when the Supreme Court said "bring this specific person back" they said "nuh uh." fellas I don't think we're getting better dairy regulations in the foreseeable future.

So I think the most productive thing to do is focusing on supporting small farms and heritage breeds. Get involved in your community garden or heritage society if you have one.

Not only is that generally a very rewarding thing, but it will be helpful to you in case The Situation Gets Worse. Knowing your neighbors and having real human connection is your best defense against economic recession.

Supporting the locals is always a great thing to do, which can be as simple as going to farmer's markets. You don't need to buy fancy food every day to make an impact on your community-- it can be a treat sometimes!

You could also subscribe to the Livestock Conservancy's free newsletter, where they talk about the work they're doing and upcoming events. If you're a knitter, crocheter, or any other kind of fiber artist, you could even join in on a challenge they're running where you make items out of rare wool for prizes!

Should you end up liking the work they do, you can become a member for 4$ a month, or go to one of their educational events.

Even just talking about the problem can do a lot! Did you know the Highland Cow was actually critically endangered in the USA within the past 10 years? It was the work of the Livestock Conservancy, plus a surge in their popularity, that helped to bring their numbers up. Word of mouth is a powerful thing.

All that said, remember, you can't solve every problem. It's a big world and there's a lot of them. Being made aware of an issue doesn't mean you have to drop what you were previously doing-- just care a lot about something that you want to improve, and let that guide you.

[sirazaroff]

All I'd seen of you was your fluffy gelphie fanart, so when I saw your au where Morrible abuses Glinda- OUGHHH I SCREAMEDDDDD

Isn’t it fun? It’s all cute and loving and then BAM. I ruin your day 😌 This has been the meanest I’ve been to a fav character in a while, too, I’m enjoying it~

Besides! There’s gotta be some kind of angst to balance all the fluffiness :> otherwise you’ll get a toothache with all the sweetness

[its-haughty]

ain’t no goddamn way this man should be in a long term relationship. especially with Shin. that is a Recipe for disaster…

and so that’s why they r perfect

[chrissv4mp]

can u write olivia smut PLEASEEEEE🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

౨ you know you belong to me ৎ

olivia master & taglist // main masterlist

☆ a choked gasp fell from your red, swollen lips as olivia curled her fingers against your sweet spot, the pads of her digits touching you just right, "still enjoying this, hm?" she mutters against your ear, lips grazing your earlobe as she smirks. you nod dumbly, the only other thing your capable of right now aside from rutting your hips against her hand.

her lips press kisses down your jawline, descending down to nibble at the tender skin of your neck. the marks she left earlier were now fully visible, and she just planned to make even more. she wanted everyone, especially those guys who wouldn't stop fucking staring at you at her shows, to know that you were hers. and by the way you let those guys touch all over you, it seemed like you also needed a reminder.

"gosh, you're such a whore," olivia whispers, thrusting deeper to punctuate her words. your back arches off the mattress with a loud moan as you throw your head against the pillows. your legs trembled underneath her body as you struggled to form a sentence. the brunette smiles as she feels you clenching around her fingers once again, and she tilts her head at you expectantly, "wanna hear you beg for it, baby."

your eyes flutter shut as you sigh shakily, shaking your head as you babble, "no, no—mhh, fuck.. can't—" olivia only hums in faux sympathy, pouting her lips at you as her fingers threaten to stop completely. as she watches your eyes snap open, a low giggle leaves her, "no? well, then, i guess you won't be allowed to cum." your hands come up to grip onto her back, nails digging into her skin as you pull her closer to you, "please, liv, need to cum s'bad. wanna cum all over your fingers, baby, please? please, please, i need to.."

the sentence gets cut short as she thrusts into you and curls her fingers once again. when her free hand comes up to wrap around your throat, you lose it. as your eyes roll back, you grip onto her back tighter, surely leaving marks in the shapes of your nails as you cry out your girlfriends name in pleasure. her fingers never stop, though, not faltering in their pace even as you come back to your senses, "liv, no.. please, can't take n'more, please!"

"you can. you can take it, baby. c'mon, tell me somethin'," her lips press to yours, kissing you softly before pulling away and dragging your lower lip with her teeth, "who do you belong to, huh? wanna hear it from that pretty little mouth of yours." your lips part in an attempt to speak, but the only things that leave your throat are whimpers and words that are inaudible to her. when her fingers wrap around your throat tighter, a choked moans sounds throughout the room, and you cry out her name.

"mmh—fuck, i belong... belong to you, liv. only you, just—oh my god..!" olivia smiles proudly as you cum around her fingers again, eyes darting all around your face as her grip on your throat loosens. her thumb moves up to rub at your clit once again, making tight circles on your swollen bud as she feels your twitch and squirm underneath her, "mhm, that's right, baby." her head tilts to the side dauntingly, "but i think you still need to be reminded."

word count: 572

authors note: soooo matt angst fic will probably be out this week🗣🗣🗣

@l1lass @ijustwantttoread

[sourtomatola]

Okay so regarding the Moon hammock post, I have three options, and all are very tempting.

1. Answering the age old question, what happens if you sleep in the bed.

2. Leave it a mystery to keep everyone imaginations running to their own interpretation

3. The funny response.

[sourcxre]

I LOVE your R&D redesign, could we possibly see it up-close/in higher quality? :0

a close up of my R&D drawing??? but of course (;

here you go! my favorite! my treasure! my beloved Razzle & Dazzle!

[xaytheloser]

i may have put mercurial in a maid dress by request not long after finishing the unarmored sprite by

ahdawe i'm dying

I feel like they would be friends ijowcensirujkenhcrgiujrdbgfnuik-

[sourpatchys]

RE: kink post. Daryl is touch starved, and has a thing for tits. Develops the biggest housewife kink in Alexandria, plus a breeding kink after having the baby talk. Indulges in the hunter/prey thing after being asked by his partner. Enjoys bondage, probably.

I agree with this whole heartedly!

The housewife kink is something I’ve never thought about though! I have a few ideas brewing from that!

(This ended up being much longer than I expected. It was originally just supposed to be a small summary, but it’s 3am and my creativity juices were flowing)

You aren’t together, not really. Everyone knows you care for one another and they’re just waiting— begging— for one of you to break the ice and make a move. Daryl being the closed off, touched starved man that he is— honestly never let himself think of you of anything other than someone he trusted, someone he could count on no matter what the occasion was.

Coming to Alexandria was a rough patch between the two of you. You loved it, you wanted to believe this was what you deserved after fighting for survival for so long, you craved the safety net that the prison had given you before it was taken away. Daryl wanted it too— he needed it— but he refused to believe it was a dream come true. So instead he got angry.

He was angry with the group, and worst of all he was angry at you. He wanted this for you, the smile on your face while you were doing something as stupid as brushing your teeth with toothpaste dripping out of your mouth made him want it even more. But it wasn’t real— it couldn’t be real— and you were making him crave it.

Hungry is the best word to describe it. He was hungry for your happiness, hungry for the domestic bliss that shadowed your every move.

Baking cookies, sweeping the floor, propping his disgusting boots by the door to make them ‘look nice’. You ironed his shirts and got upset at him if he didn’t take care of himself— you had even started to pack him lunches when he would go outside the walls.

That’s when the flutters started— that’s when he realized what he felt for you was more than just companionship.

He started to look forward to seeing you doing your self-designated chores.

Then one day, after a run that went south, he found you in the garage stitching up a rip in the seam of his jacket— and suddenly it all changed.

Now, Daryl wasn’t doing this to hurt you— no, call it a scientific experiment of sorts. He started dirtying up his clothes on purpose, rubbing dirt on his cheek when he knew he had a rag in his back pocket, taking his sweet time getting up if he found himself knocked on the ground— he got messier with walkers too.

In any case his experiment paid off— and if the tightness in his jeans was anything to go by— something else was going to change too.

[gen-is-gone]

This is perhaps bitchy and uncharitable and certainly almost a year late to really be complaining about but fuck it, we complain anyway.

Yes, I am still unreasonably upset about Sutekh clinging to the side of the TARDIS since The Pyramids of Mars, and upset because I was sort of foolishly hoping we might get some actual characterization fallout from that addressed properly this series, which of course isn't going to happen. And the reason I'm upset about it while it seems fairly few people care all that much is because it's a litmus test for the degree to which any given person sees the TARDIS as a character in her own right. And it's fairly obvious now that rtd doesn't, or at least, only does when it suits him.

Because the thing is, if the TARDIS is a character, is a person, then the manner in which Sutekh uses and usurps her, and the ambiguity in whether it was consensual ('seduction' vs 'coercion') becomes extremely important to the Doctor and the TARDIS's relationship, and the TARDIS's characterization as a whole, both going forward and echoing back. Like bearing in mind that what actually happened is so ambiguous, what Sutekh being 'there the whole time' even fucking means, that trying to pull a point out of it is almost an exercise in futility from the jump, but to borrow some wildly inadequate or perhaps even inappropriate language, it's the difference between whether the TARDIS has been cheating on the Doctor for more than half the length of their entire relationship, or whether she'd been being (sorry) raped that whole time and the Doctor just hadn't noticed.

And yeah, evidently it was too much for me to hope that there would ever be any kind of real emotional or plot-relevant followup about that, because, again, that requires you to see the TARDIS as a character whose choices and emotions and relationships matter beyond their immediate relevance to the plot. And this isn't new by any goddamn means. This isn't actually the usual split between the traditionalist and the avant-garde camps. The TARDIS's sapience and autonomy do not begin with The Doctor's Wife; this is established (more or less) in The Edge of Destruction, the third ever serial in the history of the show, all the way back in nineteen sixty-fucking-four.

And y'know, yes, it would still be a big deal if Sutekh jumped on in Wild Blue Yonder (as would make way more logical sense) rather than Pyramids; the ambiguity of consent that the show either doesn't care or lacks the stomach to address would still be a blow, but it wouldn't have the unutilized capacity to fundamentally alter the relationship between the two longest-running characters in the franchise if it was the span of a season, rather than thousands of years in-universe and nearly five decades in real life. And not to be conspiratorial or assume categorical bad faith on rtd's part, but yeah, it's hard not see that particular unnecessary detail as a petty response to Moffat and Chibnall's own continuity-and-paradigm-altering retcons, and an attempt to get his own shot in.

And it's just. Never gonna get talked about, huh. 'Cause it doesn't actually matter, right? 'Cause it's not like the TARDIS is really a person, right?

[springingsour]

Hi hi

I really hope i didn't sound rude or anything after this ask but if you don't mind me suggesting something.

I noticed that the levels of affection would be a problem in the future, for example if in the future you wanted add more characters it would probably overfill and bit hassle to handle. So like i said i really hope i don't sound rude or bossier or something like that, would be better if you did something like this?? For example:

In this chapter the only character appearance are Knockout, Optimus prime and HotRod

So in the level of affection only Knockout, Optimus prime and HotRod.

But like i said it's only a suggestion have a nice day/night and stay safe and drink water

Hello there, ( ° ∀ °)ﾉ

You’re absolutely right! It just hit me that I need to tackle the list of affections next, and that’s going to be an interesting journey! Its going to take up a lot of space.

I truly appreciate your fantastic suggestion - I love how thoughtfully you shared your ideas; it means a lot to me. It is also a great idea! Wishing you a wonderful day or night ahead! Remember to stay safe and hydrated. Let’s do it together! Best regards, A Sour Author.

[encantresse]

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"oh, i'm beyond familiar with men like him. i've seen it all...and yet it still surprises me that anyone could find him remotely charming in any capacity. really, i'm not sure what more i could add when his actions already speak volumes about him. disingenuous, crass, cruel… shall i continue? a man so set on preaching morality to others and bemoaning his own heartache, yet he has no issue hurting those around him. there might've been a time when i'd have felt sorry for him, were he not set on making people's lives miserable."

[shikai-the-storyteller]

It's taking me ages to write this chapter because every time I look through old VODs / notes to check something, I come across moments like this that make me want to lie down face-first on the floor:

[Context: Pac commits to the idea of taking the Happy Pills so he can create a cure. He's about to write a note to Cellbit to explain his plan.]

Pac: If Cellbit puts himself in this position, it's worse for everyone, because Cellbit is smarter when it comes to coming up with strategic plans, so he is the thinking mind of the Favela Five group, so if he no longer has the mind, he’s not capable of solving this whole problem, you know? But if I put myself in this position to help Cellbit so he can get the cure... You understand? It's better if I'm the bait. Right? I can't- I can't carry things alone guys, I've already lost Mike [...] if I lose Cellbit and I alone had to carry things, I won't be able to. But I think Cellbit can manage better. He is more independent, and he has Roier. He has a husband. I'm trying to– to be lucid here, understand? That's all.

Date: September 11, 2023 || Timestamp: 03:10:10

[rapidhighway]

salad...

[faemytho]

The silly is back.... his apron looks a bit out of place and his lore isnt baked up yet but his gameplays already running around in my mind......nneed to animat....e...

Imagine the dough strand like a strudel or pastry or tart or WHATEVER ELSE kind of thing and it has that yk sugar baked on top

Based on different things ive baked in the past bc thats basically my fav activity and i love sour cherries (i always go on rants about how theyre a different fruit from normal cherries and i am RIGHT.)

I SAW U POST HIS FINAL DESIGN AND HE LOOKS SO GOOD!! ughhh i love dark red designs like this, he's SO pretty to look at!! id be so excited to read any lore u come up with for him 👀

[numberonetacostan]

im #1 french taco fan (🦐) hc dump time

mic encourages taco to keep a journal/write in something after everything with ii so she can vent out somewhere if mic/mepad (shhhhh) aren't available. the entire thing is in french and she doesn't even need to hide it that way because who can read it ??? (she does still hide it from mepad sometimes)

taco's first language is french instead of english, her day to day speech is often sprinkled with french words (contrary to her letters because she is a lot more careful when she writes things as compared to saying thinfs on instinct)

oui/non instead of yes/no

gets a headache after too much english if that makes sense (mepad helps her a lot by being someone she can rely on to converse with in french/being able to understand her) (i get headaches after too much english as well)

talks a mile a minute in french when panicked

she's probably still really good at english don't get me wrong, it's just the instincts

assuming that you are reading this during your break: i hope it is very enjoyable !! :)

assuming that you are reading this after: hope you feel better now after :)

Hi Shrimpy!!!^^ Welcome back, and thank you for sending in an ask!!! :] And thank you for your kind words at the end <3<3<3 I'm feeling much better about getting back to the blog!^^

However you are WRONG because I am the #1 French Taco fan thank you very much. /lh But I will forgive you since you provided some lovely headcanons.

Taco adopting Mic's habit of journaling would be so sweet!!! And her doing it in French to maintain privacy is a very Taco thing to do!! It would be a good mix between Taco getting her feelings out and not having to make them public as she's working on getting better at opening up emotionally. Mepad could totally read it though, so she'd probably keep it in her shell when she isn't using it.

Her first language being French rather than English is intriguing!! I like it!!! Especially if she sprinkles in French at least partially because she's prone to forgetting English words, with her having been alone and just thinking to herself in French for so long. "Mic. Mic I need my tir spatial (space shooter; google translated french)" "Taco I don't know what that is"

Her doing oui/non instead of yes/no is so cute but also she'd get relentlessly mocked I think. If Knife says "oui" in a mocking British accent one more time she will find a way to kill him again.

Mile a minute french!!! Not even Mepad can keep up with what she's saying lol.