Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@naye yeah esp when we usually visit (just before the solstice) its usually gotten a lot of rain and its not too hot yet so everything is just in full-on growth mode. Its so wonderful

@wallhackio @aescling it was a good post!

@JessMahler yeah definitely do not want to mix up Mentha spicata & Mentha pulegium!

@soph_sol @yesterdaychild @Betty personally I would never refer to a person with it unless they’d explicitly requested it, but I’m not bothered by its application to animals generally—even ones with more obvious sex markers like chickens

@yesterdaychild @Betty @soph_sol there are definitely cultures where babies under a certain age get inanimate pronouns! you even see it sometimes in older english texts (and heldover in stock phrases like “is it a girl or a boy?”)

@compostablespork @eldang the range shift might have happened regardless tbf—so many plants & animals are having the southern sides of their ranges curtailed by climate change right now

we’ve pretty much given up on trying to plant things where we’re at the very southern edge of the native range bc we just don’t get the frosts they expect anymore, while p much every plant where we’re on the alleged northern edge is doing leagues better than it should

@Betty we never see any women get poisoned with it in canon! its entirely possible they’re just immune and it never came up!

@Betty @soph_sol obviously the bitter flame poisons progress is uhhh *checks notes* aggravated by testosterone? Yeah sure that sounds as right as anything that happens in canon

And no one wants poor MCS to get osteoporosis so you gotta replace all that testosterone with *something*

@platypus yeah i’m kinda into it! its definitely a short enough cap that the “one letter off” issue is Very Real but that’s true for any procedural way of creating a short latin alphabet/alphanumeric as well so