JakJak3d ago
/etc witch
my partner is currently referring to computers as "domesticated rocks"
Feb 2 at 1:27amWeb
Show thread/etc witchFeb 2
disclosure: muted this a few hours ago
Show threadWill 💜Feb 2
@iliana the pet rocks we made along the way
Show thread🍋 Superball ☀️4d ago

@Skirmisher and some of them petabytes 😁

@iliana

Show threadPiperFeb 2
@iliana I love that!
Show threadrk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyFeb 2

@iliana

To be fair first we had to put lightning inside them.

Show threadmymFeb 2
@iliana @rk the fancy etched crystals are enrichment for the domesticated lightning
Show threadIrenes (many)Feb 2

@iliana oh

yes, good. new headcanon

Show threadF3715HFeb 2
@iliana isn't it "fancy sand"?
Show threadnyckiFeb 2
@iliana electricity is mana by any meaningful definition and its always kinda cool to think about how you can get it from earth and air and fire and wind sources
Show thread9pfsFeb 2
@iliana isn't that weirdly accurate in a bizarre way
Show threadsport of sacred spherical cowsFeb 2

@iliana

Am old enough to remember integrated circuits being sold with googly eyes and a glued on yarn tail as "computer bug" pets, akin to a pet rock.

Show threadenderFeb 2
@iliana they are so right
Show threadjosh g.Feb 2
@iliana oh great, we gave sand anxiety
Show threadÁngela Stella MatutinaFeb 2

@joshg @iliana

Not yet, no matter how strongly slopsuckers want to believe that.

Show threadjosh g.Feb 2
@angelastella @iliana (true, true)
Show threadsoloFeb 2
@iliana @aperture
Show threadAngua Feb 2
@iliana

Hmmm, in a way: yes.
Show threadjackFeb 2
@iliana there was an excerpt from a TTRPG manual about pet rocks and cursed pet rocks, which the owner must constantly hold and look at and be distracted by and never ever discard... basically describing smartphones
Show threadRooneyMcNibNugFeb 2
@iliana Math Sand
Show threadFaraiweFeb 2
@iliana Humans melt sand, imprison lightning in it, tell them to think for us.
Show threadgkrnoursFeb 2
@iliana do you have googly eyes on hand?
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen5d ago
@iliana I feel like that's a better descriptor for nuclear fission
Show threadHeather 👻4d ago
@iliana "horny sand" more like.
Show threadZwifi4d ago
@iliana nice euphemism for "sand electrocuted into doing maths"
Show threadJeremy Mallin4d ago
@iliana
Plastic boxes full of mostly melted sand. They're domesticated sand boxes. 👍
Show threadNicro4d ago
@iliana I personally like "awakened piece of gravel".
Show threadAeáro, a SeaWyrm 3d ago

@iliana

Feral rocks are generally much harder to teach tricks to.