The other day while playing on The Language Owl I learned that wi-fi in French is "le wi-fi", pronounced so that it sounds like you can't *quite* remember the name of Mario's brother, which certainly tests the "everything sounds sexier in French" hypothesis.
And I understand that if you arrange those letters in that order and follow the standard rules of French pronunciation then you wind up with those sounds. And "le wi-fi" is doubtlessly better than some twee academy phrase that people would ignore anyway.
And of course the English phrase "wi-fi" is nonsense to begin with, a rhyming pun on an unrelated technology in a different field in which the pronunciation of "fi" with a long i sound is completely arbitrary.
So the point of all this isn't that French is weird and silly, but that language is, and it tickled me.
Mario et le wi-fi.
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The novel I started writing this weekend name checks a bunch of actual web sites, brand names, video games, etc., and Elon Musk, but for some reason I decided to refer to what is transparently Duolingo as "The Language Owl" within it and that tickles me.
This is my second stab at writing a long form apocalyptic story involving computer sciences where Elon Musk factors in somehow.
The previous attempt involved the simulation hypothesis and one of the precursors to the end of the world was Elon Musk, having figured out what was happening, launching himself into space unprotected so he can flip off the universe as the plug is pulled.
This weekend I decided I'm going to switch off between melatonin and valerian supplements on alternating weeks, because the melatonin seemed to work great for like a week and a half, then I had two days of insomnia.
Don't know (and really can't know) if the dopamine didn't work this weekend because it had stopped working for me, if it was working just as well as ever and couldn't do anything about a spike of insomnia.
Also don't know and can't know if the valerian would have done better.
But I know I've had stretches of time in my life when I took melatonin and it worked for me and ones where I took valerian and it worked for me, so I'm going to try switching off between them and seeing how it goes.
Hello, creative mania my old friend. I'm here to write 16,000 words of an epistolary novel in 24 hours once again.
Not that I have ever to my recollection specifically done this with an epistolary novel in particular, but the feeling is very familiar even if the form is new.
I haven't even spent all day doing this. I was watching Muppets for a lot of it. I chopped vegetables. I had dinner and watched @dropout with my family. I napped. I dinked around and played video games. I had a video chat with a friend.
That said, I won't be surprised if the situation with that character winds up being more nuanced than the introductory song implied, not just because of comics canon but because Wanda's powers are still running the show.
So it's possible that in learning that someone else has been pulling strings, Wanda immediately mentally cast that person as a card-carrying, metaphorical mustache-twirling villain before learning anything else.
I understand people thinking the book seen in Wandavision is the Darkhold but I don't understand people thinking it's going to tie in Agents of SHIELD and Runaways into the canon. Those shows used a completely different design, so I'd say if it is the Darkhold it's severing them.
The Darkhold seen in previous Marvel Television shows had a cover with its title printed as an ambigram (a usually unsatisfying lexicographical trick where a word is supposed to read the same if mirrored, famously used in Angels and Demons).
If Hmm-mmm-mmm's grimoire IS the Darkhold, I'd say it's a superior design, especially since fans immediately identified it as the Darkhold on sight whereas the one with "Darkhold" stamped on it is... hard to identify as the Darkhold, because of the weird orthography.