The Ship Name Post (un:happyaround)

[roundandaround]

Did anyone else have people at the Otherworlder Fan Merch Store tell you you shouldn't look at a section? Especially in the back of the store, where they have all the books and a bunch of them are sorted by those weird names. The store employee told me I wouldn't wanna see the ones with "Sparklecest" on the tag, but I was on so many of the covers there!!

Actually, I wanna find out what all the names mean! Do you know any of them?

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P.S. pet tax + kid tax?

[As is tradition, a photo of Leon sitting on a log in his enclosure, and a photo of Mecchan playing Candy Land with Hina... well, he's playing, she's trying to eat the cards.]

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text; UN: Intergalactic Baseballer

[starwill]

Maybe I should be glad that someone I know isn't here otherwise Sparklecest would take on a whole other meaning...

[roundandaround]

Wait, do you also have a sibling who sparkles, Stelle-chan? That's what Kantera-san said it means.

[starwill]

Nope. As far as I know, anyway.

I just know someone whose name is Sparkle who has an ability that works for a very specific trope.

[roundandaround]

Specific trope? Like... shapes??

[Rinku, that's trapezoid, not trope.]

[starwill]

Not like shapes at all.

Like... fictional stereotypes? Sparkle can transform into other people, so people could potentially make selfcest doujins.

[roundandaround]

Oh! That makes sense. Wait, if cest is on the names of the things where people are related, then what's selfcest? Of course you're related to yourself.

[starwill]

It usually deals with clones or duplicates of yourself in spicy situations.

[roundandaround]

Huh, that makes more sense. Maybe a lot of people would like that kind of thing. At least if they liked themselves, and most people should.

[starwill]

Gets kinda complicated when the other 'you' is actually an evil shapeshifter, though.

[roundandaround]

Yeah, if they're evil that does make it worse. Oh, but we have a bunch of people here who can shapeshift and aren't evil! Why don't we turn into each other more often? It'd be fun!

[starwill]

Hmm.

I had been thinking about something myself... I have the gender rings, so I can turn into my male counterpart. It'd be neat if I could confuse people with someone that looked like me while I was being Caelus.

[roundandaround]

That'd be fun! It's like you're protecting your secret identity! Or something like that.

[She doesn't get the whole "male counterpart" thing and may think Stelle is a superhero and/or drag king, probably both at once.]

[starwill]

It's not really a secret identity....

Especially since I just outed it in public.

[roundandaround]

Then it's a public identity?

[starwill]

Doesn't have the same ring to it.

[roundandaround]

Forbidden knowledge!

[starwill]

It's not forbidden, either???

[roundandaround]

I dunno, Muni-chan said that's what it's called when a vtuber's other identity is supposed to be hidden but everybody knows it.

[starwill]

I'm not a VTuber, though.

[roundandaround]

I guess. I dunno what else to compare to, though. How would you explain the whole "sometimes you turn into a guy with a different name and call him your counterpart" thing?

[starwill]

Being me.

[roundandaround]

Like... self-expression?

[starwill]

Yep.

[roundandaround]

[So she IS a drag king superhero! That makes sense.]

Okay! That works! I hope you have fun, Stelle-chan. And if you ever need someone to turn into you, just ask!

[starwill]

Have you turned into another person before??