Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@monorail i’d put it right on the border between the two myself, there’s definitely some finding out that happens during experiments but its also a continuation of the fucking around for sure

@monorail I cant find the original source for this but:

@Lady it did for me

@Lady i mean when you’re learning it definitely makes it a lot easier to debug

Honestly I might just start calling him that myself

@cassolotl@queer.party was this supposed to post twice?

Today in Overly Qualified: someone just called Octavian "the best Roman emperor to that point"

@tindall@cybre.space i mean thats kinda what happened

@georgespolitzer@monads.online @monorail i’ve mostly heard in in the context of like, “you need to speak up if you need help or no one will know” in the US

@Lady reasonable

@Lady they should definitely be reading fanfic at least occasionally then

@Lady why were you in a room full of published authors

@netkitty *patpatpat*

@technomancy 4th of July has already got fireworks, easy enough to add some founding father effigy destruction in!

i messed up the a & b labels here but ah well you kno what i mean

@Lady yeah i’ve definitely seen the tragic mirror of this trope as well

But like, i do think ‘last minute save’ is an established variant

I realize this is highly specific but I feel in my heart that it's a trope and I'm struggling to think of examples (besides the one that inspired the q)