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dolphalinor is to baseline eyes a wretched hive of scum and villainy. before turning into a dolphin mermaid, some have been horrified at the lawlessness. but afterwards, they but smile and chuckle - they now understand it perfectly

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(octopus person <> tentacle people, different octopus ppl cant share thoughts directly with each other by default)

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dolphin mermaids are like elves, once they have exhausted their time on this earth they swim into the depths, only rarely to visit the baseline humans

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this world has underwater cities bc of aquatic people!

octopus people have tentacle people (about as smart as monkeys) each with their own unique and quirky personalities. theyre all good friends bc they can communicate telepathically

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...to be possible for baseline humans to maintain them and portia transformations are uncommon enough that they're expensive to hire

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also in this world there are spider people who work like portia spiders, they stand still for hours then have a single superintelligence-thought. cutting edge of cybersecurity is all portia-complete though mainstream stuff is like it is in our world because still needs...

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oh sorry forgot the framing device. okay the challenge was to write a tweet where it was ambiguous whether it was about me or you

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bought one step from eden because theres a character with like, those, head wongle things, which i think is neat

the martian fans / casey and andy enjoyers / zhek purveyors

gf who thinks she could beat a gorilla bf who thinks he would lose to a rat

black and brown stripes on pride flags are semantically weird but i like them because it makes the pride flag look more like a resistor colour code diagram, as it should

thinking of using the word “liberals” to describe non-EA altruists regardless of political leanings, it would be a fun bit

opt-in pvp discourse where by default ppl are only allowed to rationally and reasonably debate you, but optionally you can choose to allow yourself to get fired by mobs with other people who've made the same choice

i use duckduckgo out of principle but to find anything i always start my searches with !g which defeats the point

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