Colored a page from Dover Coloring Book Fairy Fashion by Scott Altmann. I’m using jumbo crayons so I don’t get hand cramps. Coloreds this Canadian fairy in honor of Robin Scherbatsky and Cobie Smulders.
Shang-Chi is all “1996” and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing how those aren’t synonyms.
Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang 📚
I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 and nothing will convince me otherwise.
🍿 Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and our parents’ expectations, and the way these questions stay with us in adulthood.
Added “A very enterprising, mildly annoying young lady” to my bio. Thanks, #TurningRed!
Wordle Walkthrough - 03/14/2022
As promised, here’s a walkthrough of my thought process for playing Wordle. This is the game for 03/14/2022.
I begin most games with the word ATONE. This uses 5 of the 6 most frequent letters used in English (etaoin).
After this, I know that the word will have T and E in it. I have eliminated one possible position for each of those letters.
My next goal is to do two things:
- Systematically eliminate other location possibilities for T and E.
- Include as many of the remaining letters from the 12 most frequently uses letters as possible (i shrdlu).
So I try TIERS, which moves T to the beginning and brings in I, R, and S.
This locks E in the middle position, tells me that I chose the wrong position for T, and lets me know that S will be in there somewhere, but not in its current position.
I actually get a bit less strategic now. I only have two more possibilities for where T could go, so I figure I’ll try it at the end, as that seems more likely than the next-to-last place. That leaves me with 3 possibilities for S, so I start with the first of those. Now I’ve got to fill in two letters. So far I’ve got S_E_T. I try not to repeat letters this early on, which eliminates a lot of possibilities. I look at what’s remaining from letter frequency (HDLU). I consider and reject words with repeats like SHEET and SLEET. I think through other possibilities and settle on SLEPT.
Now I’ve got 4 out of 5 letters and know their positions, since L is in the word by not where I put it first. I’m looking to fill in the blank for S_ELT.
This is when I just start looking at the keyboard and plugging letters in. Swelt? Shelt? Skelt? Sbelt? Those aren’t words. What about SMELT?
At first I think that can’t be right, it’s just a joke word as in “He who smelt it dealt it.” But then I remember no, you can smelt iron, because smelt means “to melt or fuse (a substance, such as ore) often with an accompanying chemical change usually to separate the metal” (Merriam-Webster. (Also it’s a legitimate past participle of “smell” so " He who smelt it dealt it" is perfectly good English .)
So I try it.
Boom.
I hope this is helpful as you build your own Wordle workflow. Take care!
I like to ask from time to time and I haven’t in a while: what’s my brand?
Whoever wrote that thing about how 13 yos don’t write fanfic has everybody on Twitter talking about their Sailor Moon fanfic. I wrote mine (the redemption of the Spectre Sisters) at 14. (Also had a Star Wars fic where my sister was sister-insert version of Luke & I was Leia.)