trying to figure out what part of the mental illness carousel the current bout of Unwell stems from and am starting to realize that i thought too much about gender recently, plunging me from my regular baseline of depression into some good ol' gender disphoria despair
At the edge of the map the landmass begins to disintegrate - into pure trigonometry. The ocean melts, becoming a tangle of sines and cosines, the mountain range turns into a sharp-angled azimuth.
after actually googling the character, he was apparently a girl called elma on german episodes and was voiced by a woman until 2012! so that explains a lot.
for some reason i don't remember elmo existing until my sister started watching sesame street. like, i distinctly remember watching it as a kid myself, but the character maybe just didn't stick in my head? or he wasn't on older german episodes??