Jenny H @lambdagrrl@witches.town

@Alda the means of flag production. So, I guess a haberdashery?

Jokes about global warming? Please, not in the current climate.

What fool called it "mini" and not "car.gz"?

Why so much vore and so little quaff?

*to the tune of "Ache With Me"*
I've got some cuddles for you, come on and date with me

sometimes being trans feels like a process of perpetual mourning

@edensaesthetic My program catches that this isn't strict pentameter, but doesn't yet tell you why. Ideally I'd like it to print out an error message highlighting the offending word, like a compiler would for a programming language. You could then use that as a tool to help write poems or teach people about the rules of meter.

@edensaesthetic Sonnet 130 begins:
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

The second line is not strict iambic pentameter, because you cannot say "co-RAL", only "CO-ral". But Shakespeare wrote it anyway because it sounded better that way. Stressing the first beat instead of the second in that manner is called "inversion" or "substitution".

@edensaesthetic I'm programming in the definition. So a line is in iambic pentameter if it can be said in five iambs, i.e. five pairs of syllables with the stress falling on the second of each pair. I'm using CMU's pronunciation dictionary to look up the possible pronunciations of each word, and then seeing if there's a way to say the line that fits the pattern.

@woozle I mean this is step 0.0.1 on my quest for an IDE for lyrics

Now to work out
a) How to get it to tell me /why/
b) How to tell it that the bard doesn't care

I wrote a program that successfully tells me that the first quatrain in Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is not in iambic pentameter.

@TipsyTentacle are board games allowed, cos Twilight Struggle

...CN says it all i guess

@woozle voice, guitar, anything sonorous that makes itself available

@woozle I enjoy these anatomy-affiliated assonances.

I think I have like an album's worth of genderfeels songs at this point. I really need a band.

at least dysphoria helps me write songs. sometimes.

wtf happened to me, I used to feel motivation instead of just despair I'm sure

@grime_witch Folk songs about gender passed down from mother hen to hatchling.

@grime_witch True. I was thinking more of music tho.