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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1h

And outside the Steppe, the only issue I could see people running into is knowing how to spell their names after they've introduced themselves! I imagine they've seen all kinds of interesting interpretations.

Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1h

Their tribe name Sulnas is also unusual for many other Xaela. It's a tiny tribe, virtually unknown. This is less of an issue outside the Steppe.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1h

OOC, I had one person pronounce Yzie like "Izzy." It's close, but missing a syllable.

IC, other Xaela back on the Steppe would have struggled, particularly with Yvae's name because the letter V in Mongolian acts as a W. Their names came to their mother in a dream, so......

eriyu @eriyu.bsky.social · 1d

#wolqotd do other people ever have difficulty remembering or pronouncing your WoL's name? or is it so common they meet other people with the same name? what does your WoL think about that?

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1h

Dreamt about roleplaying some yvaezuna stuff... woke up remembering they're both my OCs and Izuna doesn't exist in-game so anything I do with them would have to be written entirely on my own as fanfic

And we all know I'm not great at writing fanfic

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

Ftr Yvae would volunteer for the task because an unjustice was dine. Yzie would only get involved if she was paid

Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

Yzie would be the one to figure it out. She'd point and go "Yvae, sic'em" and Yvae would pounce and, ahem, subdue them before turning them in

Melody ✨ FFXIV @lumiiiixiv.bsky.social · 2d

#wolqotd would you wol/oc figure out who robbed the louve

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HB 👻 @heebiebeebies.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 6d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

Yvae Sulnas: Then starve 💀

flow. @themeteia.bsky.social · 1d

Zenos Viator Galvus: And hungry still for our reunion, I rode the light of the stars to you.

Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

So I think I'll be sticking to parrots for the foreseeable future.

Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

If I were to get a pet rodent ever again, I would probably opt for a chinchilla, since they're long-lived.

There are a lot of animals I'd love to have as pets, including dogs and reptiles, but time, money, research and my own health have to be taken into account.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

And it still took several years before we made a habit of going to the vet. It's regrettable, but it's better late than never.

But back to mice... rodents are amazing, but their short lifespans are a big deterrent for me. It leads to so much heartbreak.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

Longer and much nicer lives.

Aside from fish, that was our first experience as pet owners - and we wouldn't have any other pets until April of 1999 when we brought Paulie home. Even then, we only went to the vet when she was deathly ill, maybe a month or two before she passed.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

Rocky eventually came down with some kind of condition that caused him to scratch off both of his ears and eventually his tail. This led us to the decision to humanely euthanize him.

Aside from that, we never went to the vet for them. Had we done that, they probably would have lived-

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

For reference, we bought them in 1997 when we lived at our old house in Gatineau. That summer, we moved to Québec city. Eddie died before the move - I don't remember when Rattrap died, but Rocky came with us on the move.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

He spent the rest of his miserable little life dragging himself from place to place until he just kicked the bucket. I honestly think I made the poor little creature suicidal. It haunts me to tis day.

The last mouse was Antoine's, Rocky. He lasted a whole lot longer.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

I was seven and had no idea how to care for an animal. One night I gave him a bath by submerging him in water in the bathroom sink. When I exited, he jumped from my hands, landed, and repeatedly jumped high several times before stopping. He became paralyzed from the waist down.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

We had three white mice, one for each sibling. The first to die was Eddie, Louis' mouse; he was crushed to death in his sleep because the other two slept on him. The second was mine, Rattrap (yes, from Beasties/Beast Wars) - and it's mostly my fault!

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 1d

Drawing mice for this story in my contract has made me realize just how precious mice hands are. I never really took notice of that when I had mice as a kid. It kind of makes me miss having mice... but uh, the experience also left me kind of traumatized.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 3d

They can either work together and you can switch between them, or you could choose between which one of them you want to play as, and have different gameplay for the same story. Yvae's path would probably have an easier difficulty pffft

Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 3d

Don't even bother! Yvae will just kick through it!

... but if you need to remove some screws from a panel then yeah, Yvae isn't a screw driver. But still, she has steady hands, so she can handle those tasks as well.

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 3d

Yzie may be better with book smarts and puzzles, but Yvae is better at reading people because she's significantly more sociable. Plus, if anything requires a tool to break down a barrier or something, Yvae can just... brute force it. Oh, you want an axe to break down this door stuck in its frame?

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought was a turn-based JRPG, and my close second was... Pokémon. But isn't that also a turn-based JRPG?

Sooo then I thought about the phone games I've been recently playing: mystery logic puzzle games.

Yzie would be the star here, obviously!... so where does that leave Yvae? Well--

Warren Castille @fourtharbiter.bsky.social · 4d

a new #wolqotd for you, ready?

your wol/oc has to feature in another genre of video game. what is it?

okay, you're not allowed to pick that one. pick a different answer! bonus points if you say what your reflex answer what and then how long you had to think for the second.

recycling with a twist!

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know there were such meet-ups at all! When and where is it?

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Evy @paperparrots.bsky.social · 3d

Frocobo