before i write this ishmael tag i had to actively go: okay, has the word 'govern' or 'government' ever been said in any project moon official media, because i don't know if she knows what a government is.

it pops up Once in lobotomy corporation from a particularly erudite character in the context of 'governing behavior'

so conclusion:

she knows what governing is. she can extrapolate to figure out a government might be.... an establishment... that governs. but she has never used the word in her life or heard it

ah, the good old "man I hope canon mentioned this somehow"

govern/governing is a stupidly old word that originally meant "to steer/rule", so it probably still exists in general

i have this problem with Harry who comes from Earth A Little To The Left

oh god i feel this so hard

board of governors

maaaaaan /high five

does the city have full-body prosthetic replacements and multiple direct connections to the collective unconsciousness? yes. do they have livestreamers? yes (albeit they're a new concept in-universe). do they have GPSes? no i'm pretty sure they don't

they EXPLICITLY do not have planes

and if you showed ishmael a normal whale she would go 'what is that. is that a fish'

mood

getting nostalgic about that one ep of avatar where everyone is flummoxed by a bear

the bear episode is basically the energy here

what do you mean this whale doesn't eat people and transform them into mermaids. what do you mean it's only that big. that's barely a whale!

jdlka every other world just has dumb baby whales

some things I still headdesk over, but I've started taking joy in one particular thing with Ulla. Namely, making up ocean-suitable idioms to replace land-suitable ones

"when the silt settles" instead of the dust
"cross that current when we come to it" instead of bridge
etc.

me sticking space references into jedao's versions of phrases

armand does this sometimes which is extremely funny considering he is, in fact, from earth

love a good fantasy idiom

my favorite thing I ever did

was have a character who was a sentient spider

curse "mites!"

as in, aw mites, dude, that's terrible

omg i love that

psa to every sff authur PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHARACTERS SWEAR A FEW TIMES. JUST SO WE KNOW

MOOD

I want all the fantasy swears!