@rejectedjokes I got it for my kids originally, but then really enjoyed it myself too. My only complaint is that I finished it, and now it is not as fun to play any more. 🤪
@CleverTitleTK This totally blows my mind, but I knew three of four of my biological grandparents and one great-grandmother, and one grandfather and one great-grandmother lived long enough for me to meet them, just not in my memory.
@NataniaBarron My five-year-old uses the formulation “I amn’t” all the time, and we have never corrected her, (or allowed the 11-year-old to do so,) both because it is super cute, but also because, to be perfectly honest, amn’t should be part standard english IMHO.
@jephjacques@KBSpangler A number of Iain M. Banks books include characters having technology that allows them to change their sexual characteristics around over time as their gender identities change. It is mostly a background kind of thing, not usually essential to the story.
@philgreen@DavidKlion R. Daneel Olivaw is definitely Asimov’s most memorable character for me (not from the original Foundation series, but does show up Prelude, Forward, etc).
“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.” https://t.co/XN2pSct54i