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Oct 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
hey twitter, help me come up with coworkers for my main character in #RazingBabel!! these are all going to be people working in fantasy locust plague prevention, so think field biologists! just throw out character traits or types that you like seeing or think would be cool 👀
me: okay, who’s going to be the *still smoking from being electrocuted after pulling lever* “but we have to pull it a second time to verify cause and effect and rule out chance”

me:

me:

me: omg, it’s my main character, isn’t it.
my favorite part of prompt challenges is combining prompts until they reach critical mass
AMAZING. NO NOTES very fiercely slamming a ne...
everyone in the replies is so creative and amazing omg 😂 I love all of these tropes, I was just gonna do a couple small background characters but this is uh, becoming a vast network… befitting of sociolinguistic scifantasy, lol
I have already incorporated some suggestions, thank u all, words are finally happening

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S. Qiouyi Lu 🪷 陸秋逸 🧮 Lù Qiūyì Profile picture
Oct 27
ohhhh my god I had to have tinted like… omfg… at least 30 five-gallon buckets today… countless single gallons… I’m gonna estimate 2,500 pounds of paint, each one lifted five times
reps: take paint down from storage, put paint on tint machine, put paint in shaker, take paint out of shaker, stage it; sometimes there is an additional rep if I gotta set it down again in between
I wanna get RLY GOOD FOOD but idk what… I just want… MEAT
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Oct 27
today I did 13 × 5-gallon buckets in 41 minutes, including doing swatches and staging (1.58 gallons/minute)

however, it took me 11 minutes total to dispense the colorant into all of them, which requires lifting 715 pounds of paint twice, or 1,430 pounds lifted in 11 minutes
I actually had one of the colorant tanks disabled because it was running low; if I had had the time to fill the machine, I would have been able to dispense them all in about 8 minutes, I think
I can’t believe I can lift the equivalent weight of an adult water buffalo in like 10 minutes
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S. Qiouyi Lu 🪷 陸秋逸 🧮 Lù Qiūyì Profile picture
Oct 27
okay everyone, I must know:

are locusts halal?

are locusts kosher?

are locusts a vegetarian food?

and a question one layer deeper: how permissible is it to cook recipes designed for a philosophical dietary restriction using restricted ingredients? i.e., to “un-restrict” them
basically I’m sitting here with my character rattling off a list of locust dishes and I’m like “hang on, we gotta find out if locust latkes would be kosher, terribly offensive, or if it would like, spark a dozen threads of debate and start a Discourse”
also note that “vegetarian” here includes pescatarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian, various types of chinese vegetarianisms that permit picking vegetarian items out of something that is cooked with meat, etc.
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S. Qiouyi Lu 🪷 陸秋逸 🧮 Lù Qiūyì Profile picture
Oct 27
everyone seems to think yoda is just being a goofy little goblin with riddles when I’m just sitting here cry laughing like “this is every shifu dispensing chengyu in a martial arts movie”
like “do, or do not. there is no try,” just imagining some shifu like “只有是否成功，沒有試圖”
like, I don’t think people realize how much yoda’s speech relies on topicalization, which is also a heavily used grammatical feature of chinese that happens much more rarely in english
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Oct 27
I’m so tired of “born this way” narratives of queerness because I’m like, cool, so you’re going to simultaneously marginalize questioning people while also leaning on eugenicist logic, ok. it truly does not matter if this is ~*in our genes*~, what matters is just treating us well
I need everyone to remember that the Q in LGBTQ stands for both “queer” AND “questioning”
not all people are born this way. some people realize they are queer because they meet queer people. that isn’t ~*contagion*~, that’s like becoming a marvel fan because you went to see some marvel movies with fans. for the love of gourd
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Oct 26
I'm dying, it's called "cordyceps" in english but in chinese it's just fucking called "bug grass"
look, I just... I'm just... I'm just gonna let this narrator narrate and take the back seat What’s the fungus called? O...
when I say "*gestures wildly*" on twitter I... I mean a lot of this kind of thing 😂 I'm not sure how much it comes off on twitter that I am key & peele valets irl
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