Look, maybe I'm culturally insensitive, but do the website buttons for rating posts gotta be those troll symbols? Every time I like a post, it feels weird. 'Cause, to my knowledge, the buttons translate to hornylike, hornyhate, hornyfriendly, and hornymediate. Yanno, 'cause of the whole... pail, drone, bucket thing.
You're tellin' me with a straight face they did it on purpose?!
That's kinda what makes it weirder to me, though? The symbols have a lot stronger cultural contexts for them, and knowing what they are, it's even *weirder* they don't just have a thumbs up and a middle finger or what have you.
When II send a heart, II send iit lliike II"m giiviing hugs and kiisses. =:D
I am merely speculating. But considering how spite is deeply valued on Alternia, it is fairly safe to assume that YES, it was indeed, on purpose.
You flatter me, ma'am.
Again, what I have said to Mr.Crowbar, seeing how much this culture values and encourages spite, it seems in character for them, so to speak. Again, however, I am speculating. I am no troll, so I can not speak for an entire species.
I know, right? These idiots flip each other off all da damn time. They gotta know 'bout da thumbs up.
D-->To insinuate that our quadrants are nothing more than preamble to filling a bucket is deeply disrespectful. I do not assume that all of your relationship symbols lead to various forms of intense, sweaty dancing and therefore are erotic in nature. Ne%t time you decide to so confidently e%pel such rhetoric I advise you take a moment to e%amine the deeper meaning of our system. #nsfw
They do, though. Both yours and ours. Anyway, I'm just sayin', if one of the fellas on our end made a web site, we ain't gonna use our own romance symbols for like buttons. Kinda the whole point of what I'm sayin'.
D-->Then your view on both our relationship cultures is bare indeed. The Pale and Ashen quadrants are not necessarily se%ual. While the multiversal nature of this platform may have f001ed you otherwise romance does not mandate the filling of a bucket to function, that process was enforced strictly by the Imperial system and in many universes including my own neither moirails nor auspacious third parties of a quadrant would need to provide genetic material for a filial pail as none would e%ist to be filled for either quadrant, their purpose was more cultural than government enforced. I should also point out that these icons are clearly just metaphors and not in-fact brazen solicitations to fill the quadrant they represent. And, unlike any website theoretically produced by leprechauns or humans, gives way to a breath of e%pression without lacking in nuance such as the human equivalent or being bloated and unnecessary such as any website created by leprechauns would bound to be.