alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

it’s weird how so many pokémon are assigned a metal. and especially weird that the two options are iron and copper, considering it’s called Steel type

was a pretty fun movie. kinda amateurish-feeling in some ways (they are not good at lyrics) but aesthetically great.

(i watched it with my betrothed)

alas, there's an unusually large amount of dengue in argentina currently

last night in Blue Rose the Narrator addressed my problem of "my character is a knight but she never gets to fight mounted and now she's stranded hundreds of miles from her horse" by having a sentient giant snake with a human face volunteer to let me ride her.

downside: i haven't really gotten to know Ksenia (the naga) yet but if she's much like her mother she's kinda evil and might try to eat us if she gets bored.
upside: maybe i can convince her to be a better person? i would definitely be the only knight of the blue rose to have a naga mount/companion.

at some point i should actually figure out what página12's editorial stance is regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine.

it is somewhat hard to tell from their coverage that i have read, since it has mostly taken the form of "[official] [of country] said [claim]", possibly juxtaposed with "[official] [of other country] said [conflicting claim]", without any explicit indication of whether they credit either claim.

tho i did notice them specifying that Crimea is a Ukrainian peninsula («en el norte de la península ucraniana de Crimea, anexionada por Rusia en 2014.») in one thing i read today.

@aescling https://draconicdeityarts.tumblr.com/post/709178750645993472/important-psa

npc: "I have a friend who runs the place"
[the place is an undead-infested corrupted ruins of a destroyed ancient city]

it’s so hard to do.. anything without aggravating my neck pain. half keyboard mode on my phone helps a bit but it’s not super comfy for my hand to use my phone one handed

on the other hand, multiple of them did say at the start of the campaign that they wanted things to be more difficult than in the previous campaign we played together

oops the players are almost certainly gonna lose this fight when we finish it next session. maybe this enemy was a little too tough haha.

anybody got recs for apple arcade games. new phone came with a few months free of it

(from https://feministkilljoys.com/2015/06/25/against-students/ , where she is using it to contextualize the inadequacy of safe spaces and trigger warnings as "technique[s] for dealing with the consequences of histories that are not over").

«a response to a history that is not over is necessarily inadequate because that history is not over»

or in addition to at very least

unicode should have made ☐ an emoji instead of 🗳️