Summary: A Series Of Moments In The Lives Of Sonic And Sally, Showing The Reflection Of Their Childhood

Summary: A series of moments in the lives of Sonic and Sally, showing the reflection of their childhood selves in their later relationship. The more things change, the more they realize what they had all along. Continuity: Sonic SatAM (with a little bit of game stuff where it fits) Tags: Fluff, Friendship/Love, Then and Now, Slice of Life Relationship Tags: Sally/Sonic

6: Reflection Sometimes old times don't feel so long ago.

Fans of the Saturday morning cartoon may recognize "Blast to the Past" here (still one of my favorite episodes). Why not have fun playing around with it a bit?

Also this is the earliest point chronologically for the "past" segments.

I learned to touch-type when I was in grade school in the 90s. We had a "computer" class, which really was just to teach us how to type (it was 1992. I was 10). We used software that came on 5.25" floppy disks, and ran on black-and-green monitors. I didn't really see the point at the time because none of our classes required typing. Half of us had no computer whatsoever at home.

Well, then I hit middle school. I discovered I could write stories. I discovered that I could not only write these stories, I could type them up. I could write a novel. I could write multiple novels. And my parents, bless them, actually let me print them out, even though it used up paper and printer ribbon. I still have those printed stories.

My kids don't get typing classes in school. I guess the idea is "computers are so ubiquitous these days that kids will naturally learn to type at home." My oldest did, sure, but it's just reasonably fast hunt-and-peck typing with just two fingers.

I should probably show my kids how to set their hands on the home row and then have them do typing practice before internet time. Typing is a valuable skill for anyone.

Wait I just saw a lot of replies on a poll that some of us writers were never taught to type and still struggle with it. Is this as common as it looks on that post??

Personally, my answers are 'writer' and 'yes'.

When I was maybe seven years old, my mom made a rule that I had to type up a paragraph of text from her book before I was allowed to start using the internet for the day. No rules on time, just that I had to do it with my fingers resting on asdf and jkl; between presses.

Impatience taught me FAST.

you can speak to other writers for advice. You can post snippets and get feedback. You can trouble shoot on social media.

Writing groups were a thing long before generative AI entered the picture. Why do people act like this is no longer a thing?

The thing that really gets me about the NaNo AI thing in a this-would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-so-frustrating/infuriating/tragic way is that yes NaNo is about writing and creativity, building habits and creating etc.

But it's also about community and a lot of the bullshit reasons they cite for promoting AI tools are problems that are solved inherently through community. Things like "some people struggle with certain aspects of writing" and "some people don't know what do at this point" etc.

They say you need AI because you can't afford certain services but you can speak to other writers for advice. You can post snippets and get feedback. You can trouble shoot on social media.

Obviously they fucked up with their forums but prior to that they had tonnes of resources for structuring, editing and the craft in general - both technically and creatively. They could have focused on rebuilding that instead of pushing AI tools that scrape people's work and aren't anywhere near as nuaced as humans are.

Community on the internet is dying so I'm not saying it would be easy (see every single post by a fic writer on tumblr for the past three years as fandom is treated more and more like a commodity) but a large org like this should be better placed to try right?

Summary: A series of moments in the lives of Sonic and Sally, showing the reflection of their childhood selves in their later relationship. The more things change, the more they realize what they had all along. Continuity: Sonic SatAM (with a little bit of game stuff where it fits) Tags: Fluff, Friendship/Love, Then and Now, Slice of Life Relationship Tags: Sally/Sonic

5: Mind Being sick is more bearable when your roommate cares.

(If you've been having issues reading any of these prompt fills this week due to AO3's server issues, I do also post to my FFN account, where you can find this prompt collection for reading. It's not my preferred place to post, as the formatting sometimes gets messed up, but it is a backup location if needed.)

My facepalm moment for the day:

Saw this post, read the first line, and my New York-raised brain didn't even pay attention to the vague shape of the map in my peripheral vision and just focused on the city names.

(Bonus: Syracuse is on the paler blue line Google suggested as a secondary route)

Yeah, go ahead and tease the Americentric viewpoint. I deserve that one. (Though it would've taken Odysseus a lot less time to get home if he'd been in New York state rather than the Mediterranean. 😉)

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

Summary: A series of moments in the lives of Sonic and Sally, showing the reflection of their childhood selves in their later relationship. The more things change, the more they realize what they had all along. Continuity: Sonic SatAM (with a little bit of game stuff where it fits) Tags: Fluff, Friendship/Love, Then and Now, Slice of Life Relationship Tags: Sally/Sonic

7: Transformation Through everything, she still knows him.

What can I say? SatAM didn't have any transformations outside of roboticization, but the first two things I thought of when I saw this prompt were "Super Sonic" and "the werehog." So this is me shoehorning them into implied plot. (And I still manage to reference roboticization anyway.)

Also I just keep getting longer with these things (aside from #5).