part 353 whalers on the moon

[aphanon_meme]

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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[kingkongeriget]

[JABBED and laughhacks a whole bunch and holds up a finger]


[dude, you've got to give him a sec to compose himself after that little spectacle]


[oh, man]


[oh]


[okay, he's okay]


[steadies himself to whang a shoe at it]

2/2

[kingkongeriget]

[frisbees that shit]






[BOWL DOWN!]


[succeeds in spilling a few candies, but it looks like most of them got trapped under the bowl when it flipped over]


[(good luck uprighting it now)]


Did it!

[(Anonymous)]

Junebug, junebug
Do you realize it is almost July

[(Anonymous)]

The exoskeletons they left behind always horrified me as a kid, like I couldn't go on the swings if one was left on the bars

Even though it was HARMLESS it always scared me

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.red.fm/entertainment/trendingonline/weird-water-cake-takes-social-media/

This looks so cool! I want to eat one.

Look, it's tangentially related to Hetalia because mochis

Re: ooc≁❀

[wild_kuken]

Not a problem at all anon, though it's 3am so forgive me if my reply is an incoherent mess lmao.

They most certainly have the ability to pick up on all the language changes I agree (and to borrow from assby, if they have to remember 1000s of years of history surely they can fit 1000s of years of language), and I'd even say they can understand many more dialects than they can speak, even beyond what what a human might consider the edges of mutual intelligibility, but yeah it's just the massive amount of change most of them have seen over their lifetimes in their languages...like damn if they were real you could learn so much about the boundaries of mutual ineligibility and processing synchronic change and just wow. AND THIS ISN'T EVEN TOUCHING THE FACT MANY OF THEM ARE LIKELY MULTILINGUAL ON TOP OF THAT.

It works like humans but on a much more massive scale is a nice answer when I'm not staying up 'til 3am contemplating the intricacies of it all and why my modern Prussia and my Teutonic Knight can talk to each other lol, that's mostly the context in which I fret over this.

For the stopping point though, oh my god, could you imagine if any of them did know PIE though, so many people trying to get their hands on them. Of course Austria at least has a canon birth year (976) so I think it's PRETTY SAFE TO SAY PIE is way outside the realm of possibility. Though it makes me wonder how far back Germania goes...maybe he spoke Proto-Germanic??? The Scandis bring up an important point about how the cultures use and view the older variants of their language too. I bet retention rates vary wildly despite the absurd language facility we're giving them for our amusement. Japan is another nation I can see with a confident grasp of the older variants of his language.

Given all the national variations on how to read Latin, I would say despite the fact many of the European nations probably had Latin as a native or highly productive L2 as kids, they probably do fall into your last point of unconscious pronunciation shifts. Imagine Grandpa Rome coming to visit from heaven and the Italies, France, and Spain all have the strangest and different accents to him.

I know I'm gonna dream about this now lmao.

itt: who watched legend of korra and/or girl meets world

[(Anonymous)]

And what did you think?

[(Anonymous)]

It looks like one of those edible water bottles(youtube.com/watch?v=YLjzsfgk198), but as far as I know they just kind of pop and don't really melt?

Re: itt: who watched legend of korra and/or girl meets world

[(Anonymous)]

Korra = pretty good. I'm cautiously optimistic about this scene. Also: ZUKO.

Girl Meets World = ehhhhhhhhhhh. Not that great. I hope it levels out, right now the pacing is awful.

[(Anonymous)]

Shedding exoskeletons? Do you mean cicadas? I love those things, and their wings.

But the junebugs I'm thinking of are the plainest things I can imagine and I don't think they shed. I think they're only good for getting eaten and crunching really loudly when pets eat them or they get stepped on.

Re: itt: who watched legend of korra and/or girl meets world

[(Anonymous)]

I'M SO MAD I HAVE TO WORK SO LATE AND IT MAKES ME MISS IT
I MISSED EVERYTHING

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I thought, too. But I thought those were supposed to be more durable than something that disintegrates in half an hour. Although I'm sure all this mystery and novelty is great for sales.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I have my doubts that this would taste like anything more than mildly sugared water turned into a very delicate jelly.

But I still want to bite one. Just look at it.

That water cake better watch its wobbly back.

[(Anonymous)]

He used to have a moustache~

[(Anonymous)]

D:

[(Anonymous)]

I'm

not sure how I feel about this

/same, I decided

[(Anonymous)]

At least it matches his ponytail.

Re: 2/2

[iceandheather]

Hmph.

[Excuse him; he's got his fingers in his mouth. Fuck, that zap was stronger than he'd expected.]

You'd best be happy now; I ain't lendin' you a hand again.

[(Anonymous)]

China

China no

Re: 2/2

[kingkongeriget]

Yeah? Don't nee-


[hey, what's with the hand-]


[oh]


You okay, there?

[greatwallofyao]

Mr. China looks so wise~!

[(Anonymous)]

China confirmed to have more testosterone than all the other guys combined (though Hungary still has more)

Re: 2/2

[iceandheather]

I'm fine.

[The zap mostly went to his ego.]

[Gives him a Look]

But you're goin' to have to share, here.

[(Anonymous)]

Pervert France
Pervert France
does whatever a pervert can
strokes his dick of great size
shoots his jizz between your eyes

look out, here comes the Pervert France

[(Anonymous)]

China bb no