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She is sitting in the library, studying. It's her most common pastime, by hours; spending time with her sister is more enjoyable but Jaromira prefers to socialize more broadly and Katarzyna would only get in the way. This is better on net; the two of them share a room, so it isn't as though her sister's time is entirely hogged by the other girls who call this boarding school "home." Or at least "prison." Katarzyna doesn't mind it, though; the school library is excellent, and basic manners and care for the books has endeared her to the librarian to a sufficient degree to lubricate the interlibrary loans process when there's something she wants to read that they don't have.
Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
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fabulous_ones
"Oh, my mom does that too! I know some good ones but they seemed a little sketchy for a first date, next time I can take you to the weird Filipino place."
fabulous_ones
"Awesome. They have this naturally purple cake that's pretty yummy."
"I admit I'm not sure if that's how it's pronounced, I get most of my vocabulary from reading so I've been wrong before."
fabulous_ones
"Renée says 'oob' and they haven't corrected her but I really have no idea."
"Let's check," she suggests, taking out her phone and googling 'how is ube pronounced'.
"Ooh-beh, apparently."
"I can see why your mother would think that, though, it's the natural Anglo-Saxon extrapolation of that spelling."
"I know an incredibly large number of things of widely varying levels of usefulness."
"The heaviest bony fish--as opposed to cartilaginous fish like sharks--are the members of the genus mola, also known as sunfish. They eat jellyfish and look incredibly silly. They're harmless but curious."
fabulous_ones
"It's weird that an animal can look incorrect! You'd think either they'd all be weird or none of them would be weird. But like, jellyfish, jellyfish don't look incorrect even though ancestrally we wouldn't have seen many of those around either."
"We don't have anything for jellyfish to be an incorrect version of, though, and there are lots of other fish that were around in the ancestral environment."
fabulous_ones
"So you think this is purely cultural and sunfish don't look incorrect if you see them all the time?"
"It could be. It could also be that we're programmed to find sunfish incorrect but wouldn't be if we hadn't evolved around other fish."
fabulous_ones
"Hmm, I guess. Why don't penguins look incorrect? They don't look like paradigmatic birds, but they don't look incorrect."