🤣 cough Yuki, you uh, you could have done that a bit more gently. Maybe explain why you want Inari to stay put, then ask Kate to please look out for him until his power returns?
Connie
August 21st, 2026 7:21 AM
“Auntie Kate?”
“you’ll be “mom,” too, in time, but I’m being respectful and waiting before jumping to that stage of the relationship.”
But not predating evolution, since biology split from geology already 4.3-4.2 billion years ago, when the primordial ocean was still around 70 degree Celsius (and it was unlikely much of land existed). Life was no snowflake!
If not ice existed before, the first snowball Earth episode happened over 2 billion years ago. True foxes (Vulpes) evolved at least 7 million years ago according to fossil finds, which might make them the earliest Canidae in the Old World. [Wikipedia]
Yeah, but Sage has said that “the first snowfall” refers to the first time a being was intelligent enough to recognize snow as snow
Magic is, at a fundamental level, fueled by belief/thought/awareness in this universe, the concept of “snowfall” didn’t mean anything before there was someone able to define it
John
August 21st, 2026 10:03 AM
Well at least we can guess which of her kits was the ‘unruly’ one…
Foxes being foxes, that was probably all of them at one time or another. 😄
Torbjörn Larsson
August 21st, 2026 11:47 AM
Getting spanked by Yuki is probably a very narrow threat that works with her children. Everyone else will line up for spanking, if Demoness is a guide.
Martin L,
August 21st, 2026 1:09 PM
If Inari really needs a babysitter. Kate is the best avaible choice.
Hevensdragon
August 21st, 2026 1:22 PM
Shouldn’t it be “Do you think that just because you’re a adult I won’t spank you”
Or
“Don’t think that just because you’re a adult I won’t spank you”
It reads rather awkwardly as is.
No, it’s a correct way to say it I believe. You certainly don’t say ‘a adult’ in place of ‘an adult’. Hey, I don’t get to point our corrections often! Give me this! XD
I’m not a native English speaker, but I want to give you that.
Since I had a hard time with the double negatives I asked Google, and it points out while the sentence is “mostly clear” and understandable that can be a problem. It also suggest direct statement for comic flow. Something like: “Just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean I won’t spank you.” Google’s 2p, not mine, but after my confusion I’ll take that.
Mom used Threat of La Chancla. It was super effective.
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🤣 cough Yuki, you uh, you could have done that a bit more gently. Maybe explain why you want Inari to stay put, then ask Kate to please look out for him until his power returns?
“Auntie Kate?”
“you’ll be “mom,” too, in time, but I’m being respectful and waiting before jumping to that stage of the relationship.”
Yuki’s idea of parenting might seem a touch out dated, but she is an old-time gal in a geological and mythical sense.
She is also a fox. Foxes aren’t shy with discipline for unruly kits.
That brings up an interesting question. Which came first, foxes or Yuki?
She is “the first snowfall”, right? That would have to predate fox evolution by millions of years.
But not predating evolution, since biology split from geology already 4.3-4.2 billion years ago, when the primordial ocean was still around 70 degree Celsius (and it was unlikely much of land existed). Life was no snowflake!
If not ice existed before, the first snowball Earth episode happened over 2 billion years ago. True foxes (Vulpes) evolved at least 7 million years ago according to fossil finds, which might make them the earliest Canidae in the Old World. [Wikipedia]
Also keep in mind that the snowfall in question is the snowfall as a phenomenon perceived by humans, not the objective meteorological phenomenon.
Not quite, I think, see the Paradox-ical comment.
Yeah, but Sage has said that “the first snowfall” refers to the first time a being was intelligent enough to recognize snow as snow
Magic is, at a fundamental level, fueled by belief/thought/awareness in this universe, the concept of “snowfall” didn’t mean anything before there was someone able to define it
Well at least we can guess which of her kits was the ‘unruly’ one…
Foxes being foxes, that was probably all of them at one time or another. 😄
Getting spanked by Yuki is probably a very narrow threat that works with her children. Everyone else will line up for spanking, if Demoness is a guide.
If Inari really needs a babysitter. Kate is the best avaible choice.
Shouldn’t it be “Do you think that just because you’re a adult I won’t spank you”
Or
“Don’t think that just because you’re a adult I won’t spank you”
It reads rather awkwardly as is.
No, it’s a correct way to say it I believe. You certainly don’t say ‘a adult’ in place of ‘an adult’. Hey, I don’t get to point our corrections often! Give me this! XD
I’m not a native English speaker, but I want to give you that.
Since I had a hard time with the double negatives I asked Google, and it points out while the sentence is “mostly clear” and understandable that can be a problem. It also suggest direct statement for comic flow. Something like: “Just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean I won’t spank you.” Google’s 2p, not mine, but after my confusion I’ll take that.
Hm. Still double negatives, but no longer widely separated, it seems to help. Or I’m just easily talked into suggestions …
The part I am saying is awkward is the “Don’t you think that”.
I am aware, but it is not a mistake and it does read correctly.
That’s what all parents say.
Dang
“FULL NAME” moment XD