this isn't just a dry rehearsal

I want to be very clear: I did not schedule this to post on Easter weekend.

I want to be very clear: I did schedule this to post on Easter weekend

Inverted Animal Crossing where you play as the fuzzy alien "mayor" of a community of ostensibly human villagers, with the unstated meta premise that this is a game made by whatever species the player character is, from a developer who's only ever read about humans and never actually met one.

Sometimes you'll bump into a villager who's clearly the product of the dev getting fiction by humans mixed up with scholarship about humans, like your neighbour is just randomly a Klingon or something, which the writing seems to be convinced is, like, a country on Earth?

There's a whole category of pointy-eared but otherwise unremarkable villagers who the character profiles consistently identify as "French".

Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do

I’m fine

I need divine intervention

​it’s not an understatement to say I think about this all the time