Notho es Dicta Lumine Luna

[pm] [ user wonders if the donkey braying is a metaphor for something that happened in this airbnb commercial. ] Yeah. Right. Kids' brains do weird shit sometimes, I guess. [...] I don't listen to much music at all.

[pm] Ah. So, new plan for my off time: I'm gonna find music for you. Good music that you'll actually like. And if you hate it I'll find you different music.

[pm] Yes!

[pm] Hi god it's me Diana I know we don't talk but DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP SENDING CURIOUS PEOPLE MY WAY

[pm] Okay moved to private messages. What do you know??

[pm] GIRL You really are determined to know about the frog thing, aren't you?

Thanks. I've got really classy humor. Can I interest you in a dick joke?

I'm good.

It is something else. The things I've seen...the horrors. so. much. nudist frog. energy. bring back the worms for the love of god. anyways. no shame in hating that. It's a totally valid thing to hate if you have to hate anything. But if I'm being honest which I physically have to be, it's pretty odd that they're targeting specifically you in this whole nude frog cult leader discourse.

I would take the worms over this. Hell, even the shrimp cult is better than the frog nudist cult. It is odd. Only it isn't if you know the part of the story where I got turned into a frog and then wasn't a frog anymore and all the other former frogs were n But I live in the fun circle of hell that is the weird happenings of Wicked's Rest...

Oh, yes, I will do this. I am trying to convince him to take worms. I think he would love them, as told by others!

Well, he has partial custody of my worms (according to the worms, mind you. I did not state this, nor is there any sort of written agreement. The worms named him their king.) and they fear that I will run their kingdom into ruination. Never mind that I've been getting them flowers and moss and compost. Such is life...

[ user clicks the link, but gets an ad for airbnb and thinks this is what she wanted to show him. he watches it dutifully and is confused. why would this scare four year old diana? is she afraid of vacationing? but he doesn't want to embarrass her. ]

[pm] Ridiculous, I know, but the donkey braying got to me, I think. It was one of the few normal kid moments I think I ever had. Not usually a musical person. Sondheim gets the exception. Most of the time I just listen to music without words. My mind is loud enough without more words to think abo

[pm] Okay. Find me the clip that traumatized four year old Diana. [...] I don't know who that is, but he was probably wrong about a lot of things. [...] Well, I don't think not listening made me any better off, so maybe there is no good way to be. Maybe it sucks either way.

[ user links the scene. ]

[pm] A scene in a movie for children is traumatizing? [...] I don't know about that. I was never very good at listening. Hard to keep my head in it, sometimes. Made me harder to raise train.

[pm] I'm going to find you a clip of that scene so you can imagine what a four year old Diana experienced. [...] Okay, so maybe you heard, and Mister Sondheim was wrong with his observation of children will listen. [...] For what it's worth, I think I listened too much. Made me feel safe in knowledge as an adult, even though safety is never guaranteed. I would've been better not to listen a little.

[pm] Ah. Feels familiar to you now that you have been turned into a frog. [...] That sounds more like my mom. Don't think I ever paid enough attention for her.

[pm] Haha very funny. No. Yes. Maybe? I would argue that the donkey scene and actually being turned into a frog are equally traumatizing. [...] I think children listen... I know I listened so much when I was little. I think it's the understanding that doesn't happen until it's much later, or too late... Not to bring down your frog interrogation.

[pm] Oh. [...] My mom didn't show us any movies. Never showed any to my kid, either. Were they [...] helpful to you? Help you [...] know what fae were like a little better?

[pm] I was four, I think, and I don't think I remember much more than the scene where Pinocchio gets turned into a donkey. [...] I kind of remember my dad looked at me and told me Pay attention Diana, because this is how people fall into deals on accident. They think it'll be a happily ever after. Or something along those lines. But pay attention Diana was a commonly heard line.

The frog lady doth protest too....hoppily. I toadally believe you, BTW. I won't FROGet that you said this. Ribbit-Ribbit. How's my accent? I didn't say something offensive did I?

[ user heavily considers blocking this person ]

[pm] Who is Disney? They know a lot about princesses?

[pm] Walt Disney? No? Disney was a guy, an animator, and he started a company with the same name. Lots of fairytale movies and things like that. I vaguely remember my father showing me Pinocchio when I was little just to show me the Blue Fairy and tell me that that was not what the fae were like.

[pm] This is something princesses can do?

[pm] According to Disney, yes. So I guess, only the animated sort.

Hydrangeas are a wonderful place for worms to flourish! How many worms do you have?

A kingdom. Called Wormalot. [...] You should ask Emilio about them.