alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

pokémon black version is a bit heavy on story battles relative to ground covered (presumably also white version)

i guess that's just what new york city is like tho

violinist busker on the train home today. played hey jude and then i’m not sure what he’s playing now.

the glorious moment when one of the players figures out the clues to your puzzle

mmmm thick rice noodles

@Lady @aescling amusingly there are well-respected phoneticists who consider gemination in general as being not a lengthened consonant but two separate instances of the consonant! (well, strictly speaking the example i have to hand died in 2009, but probably he wasn't the only one)

i should probably start wearing my jean jacket before it gets too cold to wear it.

@Lady @aescling is this really physically impossible? it’s also attested in Klallam (for several non-glottal stops and affricates, including [t], though it instead geminates the glottal stop and all fricatives). i don’t see why it should be less possible than sequences of different stops? it certainly seems easy to pronounce e.g. [cæt.te] with the first t released briefly before the following one (though it is as always possible there’s some other sound sneaking in to separate them that i’m missing)

i also read kakeochi girl (run away with me, girl). very good but very emotionally intense. it does work out in the end but damn these women go through some stuff first

in yuri manga reading news:
i read superwomen in love! honey trap and rapid rabbit. my favorite part was when she said “It’s Yuri Time” and they yuried all over the place. (joke. that was not actually the best part, but it genuinely did happen)
more seriously it was fun. nice light break between some of the heavier dramas i was reading. it did also have a satisfying if a bit simplistic overarching plot.

@aescling beautiful. far from transparent. but those lesbians sure beared the storm

lesbian bear storm watch with my wife complete

i finally actually opened an rpi i was given like years ago. the little bag the computer itself comes in is cute.

cuts on fingers are peak annoying injuries. completely trivial but it makes so many things slightly less convenient or more unpleasant.

i barely even remember the BFR fic but it does cause me to be amused everytime i think about my raichu in sleep with BFS (Berry Finding S subskill, finds more berries to feed to snorlax)