Ooh! one of my asterisks of thought (yes, yes, I think in asterisks) just grew a few more branches and it’s delightful

previously:

Sark calls his lieutenant “Null-unit”

branched into:

- “Null” is also one of the terms for the type of non-humanoid sexual anatomy that I usually write for Tron programs in fanfic

- as Sark is one of the few programs I’ve ever written having humanoid sexual anatomy, the idea that he’d call his assistant that is very funny to me. Like constantly calling him “dickless”

- “null” is similar to “ken doll anatomy” but I’ve usually only seen “null” used on works about furry characters, often with fetishes like dollification and latex transformation

- could a program get dollified? Maybe by editing line by line until they turned into a markup text document

-…LaTex transformation

But as if that glorious firework of an asterisk wasn’t enough… I recently got another little burst while having a conversation about the Sark’s Lieutenant points of that one

- Null Unit = Null Eunuch?

- oh no. Does this make him Sark’s faithful court eunuch

- ….Unix

yep. I’m still a pattern recognition program.

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