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I was bored and asked Google AI mode three questions about myself

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Disclaimer: I seldom use any sort of AI chatbots for any purpose and I really miss the era when every text that you could find anywhere was actually written by humans. But I was bored as fuck today so I decided, why not?

First question: “who is cookiefonster’s favorite homestuck character”

Based on his extensive blog series “Cookie Fonster Dissects Homestuck” and subsequent reflections, Cookie Fonster has expressed a strong affinity for several characters, often noting their specific contributions to the narrative. While he doesn’t explicitly name a single “absolute favorite” across all posts, his commentary highlights several top contenders:

  • Dave Strider: Cookie Fonster has explicitly called Dave the “best character” and frequently praises his arc, particularly his relationship with his brother and his “ironic” humor.
  • Jasprosesprite^2: He describes her as a “really fun character” and notes that her lengthy conversations are a “complete laugh riot,” bringing much-needed energy to the story’s later stages.
  • Caliborn: In his deeper dissections, he admits to loving the way Caliborn “works around his subpar intelligence to accomplish anything he wants to,” often finding his chaotic presence entertaining.
  • Roxy Lalonde: He notes her importance as a “fan favorite” and discusses her “ambiguous flirting” and strong friendships with the other kids in a highly positive light. 

Throughout his “commentary” and “reflections” series, he also frequently focuses on Karkat Vantas and Rose Lalonde, often celebrating their complex emotional beats and leadership struggles. Are you looking for his thoughts on a specific part of the comic, like Act 6 or the Epilogues?

I mean, okay… this is a decent enough analysis but Google is kinda wild guessing here. I find it a bit odd that there’s no mention of John Egbert, a character I’ve often mentioned in my blog posts I particularly love. As for me calling Dave the best character in Homestuck, I guess I did going by a search on my blog, but that’s also kind of misleading. Here are all my Homestuck posts with the phrase “best character”:

  • Part 70: I mention the “best character” in Homestuck at the end, implicitly referring to Caliborn.
  • Part 71: I explicitly use the phrase in bold: “Caliborn is the best character in Homestuck.” How did Google miss that?
  • Part 81: I again refer to Caliborn as the best character.
  • Mini-post about Caliborn and Dirk: Ditto.
  • Part 4 rewritten: I refer to John as the best character other than Caliborn. Then I say “Dave uses Blogger just like me, which is why he’s the best character.” which a human reader could probably tell was meant in jest. But Google decided for some reason this proved that Dave is my favorite character in the comic.
  • Part 83: Yet again I explicitly refer to Caliborn as the best character. Google gave a reasonably accurate summary for why I like to call him the best character.
  • Part 7 rewritten: Ditto, but you’d only know the “best character” refers to Caliborn if you’ve read my other posts.
  • Part 84: Ditto.
  • Analysis of vfromhomestuck’s tweets: Uh, ditto?

I will give Google this: it was right that I love many different characters in Homestuck for many reasons. That’s true for every work of media I love, really. I don’t know if I can choose just one favorite character, but I’m rather surprised Google mentioned Jasprosesprite^2 and not John.

Second question: “what is cookiefonster’s favorite eurovision song ever”

Cookie Fonster has identified several songs as top contenders for his favorite, often shifting his top pick based on when he is writing or which era of the contest he is reviewing. 

As of his most recent “all-time” updates in 2024 and 2025, his primary favorites include:

  • “Dancing Lasha Tumbai” (Ukraine 2007): In April 2024, he explicitly stated that, “At the moment, I’d say my all-time favorite Eurovision song is ‘Dancing Lasha Tumbai’”.
  • “Ding-a-Dong” (Netherlands 1975): He has frequently called this his potential “favorite Eurovision song of all time”. He describes it as the song that truly “hooked” him on the contest and says he is “unreasonably obsessed” with it.
  • “Poupée de cire, poupée de son” (Luxembourg 1965): He refers to this as one of his “all-time favorite Eurovision songs” and a significant influence on the contest’s shift toward pop music.
  • “Europapa” (Netherlands 2024): While he hesitated to name it #1 immediately due to “recency bias,” he admitted to being “extremely addicted” to it and noted it might eventually take the top spot. 

In his deep dives into specific countries, he has also highlighted “La dolce vita” (Finland 1989) as his favorite entry of the 1980s and “C’est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison” (France 1991) as a “masterpiece”. 

Are you interested in his rankings for a specific decade, such as his favorite entries from the 1970s?

This, on the other hand, is spot-on. I don’t love “Ding-a-Dong” quite as much as I used to but yes, it was indeed my gateway drug to early Eurovision. Well done, Google!

Third question: “is cookiefonster gay”

Cookie Fonster has described his sexual orientation in varying ways over the years, reflecting a personal journey of self-discovery:

  • Aromantic (Formerly): In 2019, he stated that he was “firmly convinced” he was aromantic.
  • “Not Aromantic” / “Picky”: By 2024, he updated his stance, explicitly saying, “I am not actually aromantic. I’m just picky”.
  • Privacy: When asked for further elaboration on his identity in late 2024, he replied that he “would rather not elaborate on this publicly”. 

While he frequently discusses LGBTQ+ themes in his Eurovision reviews—identifying “undercover gay anthems” or critiquing “surprise gay kiss” gimmicks—he generally focuses on the music and performance rather than his own personal identity. 

It is important to note that he is a distinct person from other public figures with similar names, such as Sawyer Hemsley (co-founder of Crumbl Cookies), who publicly came out as gay in August 2025. 

Would you like to see his reviews of Eurovision songs with LGBTQ+ themes, like his analysis of “Marry Me” or “This Is My Life”?

I probably mentioned somewhere on my blog that I am heterosexual which is still true. Even during the time I claimed to be aromantic, I still considered myself straight. The bullet points about me updating my stance are from this Homestuck post.

So it’s weird that Google didn’t give a straight (no pun intended) answer to my question. Also, the bullet point about privacy is a nonsensical AI hallucination. In reality, when I said on my blog that “I would rather not elaborate on this publicly”, I was replying to a commenter asking why I had a falling out with someone I went to Eurovision 2024 with, because I like to keep that sort of stuff private. Nothing to do with my identity.

Also, who the fuck is Sawyer Hemsley and why is he relevant to this answer? And since when was there anything LGBT-related in the two Eurovision songs titled “This Is My Life”? (“Marry Me” is the one with the lesbian kiss at the end, so yeah, that one is pretty gay.)

My Experience and Tips Learning Spanish (after one month)

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As of this writing, I am on a family trip to Spain—a trip that unexpectedly got extended for me after I caught COVID-19. Catching a disease during a vacation is an awful experience that I wouldn’t wish upon anyone, but there is a silver lining. My parents were already going to stay in Spain longer than me and my sister, which means I am staying for a few more days and get extra time to practice speaking Spanish in a place where it’s the language of the majority. (Actually, my trip has been in the Catalan-speaking part of Spain, but Spanish is just as common in the major cities like Barcelona.)

Note that the tips in this blog post don’t just apply to learning Spanish. They apply to learning any language! Also note that I will use the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) a few times in this post: the sound represented by a letter surrounded by slashes means what you probably think it does, unless otherwise stated.

My Prior Impression of Spanish

I’m no stranger to learning foreign languages. For one thing, English isn’t the only language I learned since I was a baby. German is my mother tongue in a literal sense: it’s my mother’s native language, and while my German vocabulary isn’t as fluent as in English, I’d say my skills in it are still pretty good. I also learned French extensively in school, and though my French skills could use some work these days, I spoke it a few times during my trip because some strangers I encountered didn’t know English but could speak French. I even took Chinese classes during high school for a while, but I don’t remember much of the language aside from a few words and phrases, so I don’t count it. Learning languages runs in my family too: my parents met in a Russian college class, and my grandfather on my mom’s side was a French teacher, for a few examples.

Because of all this prior experience, I had often viewed Spanish as a boring language; the one that you learn if you need a foreign language credit at school and want a quick A. I imagined Spanish wouldn’t need any real effort to pick up, especially because in the United States, some signs are in both English and Spanish. But once I learned of this trip last month, I decided to take some time to learn the basics of the language in earnest, and I got much deeper into it than I would have thought. It’s also a much more fascinating language than I expected, and I’ll soon go over that.

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I’ve updated the homepage of this site!

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In celebration of the new year, I’ve done something that I have considered doing for quite a while: reveal my real name to the Internet. It’s Cedric Fausey, that’s my real name. The last name is pronounced faw-zee or faw-see.

This name reveal isn’t with much fanfare; it’s not something I’m screaming to the world, instead something I’m merely adding to my homepage so that it’s easy to find for anyone looking. I’m still going to make my content under the handle “cookiefonster”; it’s just that my real name is now out in the public. This reveal comes alongside a rewrite of the homepage’s content to be more focused and present myself better. The content that was there before was cluttered with random images and asides, and I reordered it to be more cohesive.

The new year is, as always, a time of new beginnings, and I hope this update to the homepage has made my content just a bit more presentable. I’m working a job unrelated to music or my other creative content right now, but I still want to present my creative work to the world in a way that’s just the slightest bit less self-deprecatory.

As for what content I plan on publishing to this site in 2022, I’ll be honest: it’s mostly going to be blog posts reviewing episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. I’ve already finished writing reviews of the first three episodes of season 3, and the first such post is going up on January 7.

I say something about every element in the periodic table

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Here’s a post that’s unlike the content I usually put on this site. You see, when I was a kid, I had many different obsession phases, one of which was a periodic table phase. And I can’t blame my past self for being so fascinated by the periodic table! There’s just something incredibly fascinating about that table listing names for elements that constitute everything in existence—some substances known since ancient times like copper and gold, some names you hear a lot in science like hydrogen and oxygen, some you hear about in nutrition facts like sodium and calcium, some scary names like arsenic and plutonium, and some weird ones you’ve never heard of like thulium and rutherfordium.

One day a few weeks ago, I thought it would be fun to say something about each of the elements with a twist—each element will have a description with the same number of words as its atomic number, meaning hydrogen will get one word and oganesson (the current heaviest known element) will get 118 words—and that’s how this blog post was born. If you forget which element is which and where everything is on the periodic table, just look it up on Wikipedia or something. Without further ado, let’s begin with the list!

(Also, if you see anything wrong in this list, don’t hesitate to leave a comment correcting it!)

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A horrible dream I had last night

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Hey, a blog post that isn’t about you-know-what for once. I had the description of the dream typed up but I’m too lazy to format it with proper capitalization and punctuation. Here goes regardless:

i was at the library on a computer there and was working with this really confusing google doc in chinese and mom over the phone made me do a bunch of shit i didnt want to do, like view it on my phone where a bunch of characters rendered incorrectly, and wouldnt let me go home until i finished with it. then the library closed, but i refused to go home until i found my cats eddie and phoebe who i had taken to the library so i could bring them back home, even though my siblings who had also gone to the library had long gone back home. i went up to the library staff, who had these computers running software that keeps track of pets brought to the library and their current status. a staff member told me phoebe was killed in a fire (but she couldnt pronounce the cat’s name), and i waited and waited and waited to at least know if eddie was ok, but didnt get a response before i woke up and realized it was just a dream. in the dream, i felt like a terrible person for bringing the cats to the library when they couldve been safe at home.

talktotransformer.com is so much fun oh my god

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https://talktotransformer.com/

A website that extrapolates from text you’ll input in surprisingly logical yet humorous ways, that at times you can just barely tell is from artificial intelligence.

One such extrapolation from my Homestuck post titles I find especially amusing. See for yourself:

That escalated quickly…

Try this website yourself, maybe with snippets from Homestuck or whatever thing you like. It’s way way way way way way way too much fun.

Cookie Fonster’s Vacation Stuff Part 3: Everything Else + Other Updates

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(part 2)

So I’m finally back home from vacation now. And I’m kind of sorry that I didn’t make more blog posts after the one about feeding birds. I did consider a few things to write posts about but I just didn’t bother with all that. It’s not that I didn’t do cool stuff, it’s just that I didn’t do things that I felt would make interesting blog post topics. If you want to know, here’s some stuff I did. I went to a super-relaxing warm hot spring pool, hiked around mountains that I got to with a cable car, ate a lot of food, and some other stuff.

The flight home was kind of interesting for a few reasons. The longest of the three flights started 3:30 PM and ended around 5:30 PM because it went six hours back due to time zones. Skipping ahead six hours in the middle of the night is one thing, but skipping back six hours in the afternoon is kind of weird. On the way there, I felt pretty sick after not sleeping for about 20 hours. But this time around it’s kind of different. After a long day of flying in airplanes, I decided that when I get home I would hop right into bed and get a nice well-earned sleep. But somehow I am wide awake a little after midnight writing a blog post in my twenty-fifth straight hour of being awake. I have no idea how such a thing is even possible.

During the vacation, I also thought about my blog posts. I’ve decided to continue my Homestuck posts as I did previously, with a new post every few days. I’m even more hyped than I already was about reaching Act 6 due to some random thoughts I had. But I also had the idea to write a commentary post series on Problem Sleuth, Homestuck’s predecessor. I don’t know when that commentary will start, but I imagine that starting within the next week I might work on Problem Sleuth posts alongside Homestuck posts, with Homestuck posts released more regularly. Before I start my Problem Sleuth posts I’ll write an introduction post similar to my Homestuck commentary introduction post.

I’ll get back to my regular blog posts tomorrow (technically later today), after I get a good night’s sleep.

EDIT: One more thing I forgot to mention. I plan on making a full real-life edited version of Detective Pony, something I’ll be able to feasibly do after I get a summer job and can buy supplies with my own money, stuff my parents would never buy for me.

Cookie Fonster’s Vacation Stuff Part 2: Birds Are Very Stupid

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I am in Italy now. I went there yesterday for the first time in my life and I will be there until around the 19th. Since writing my last post four days ago, I spent some time thinking about the next thing I want to write about, when earlier today I did something and thought, this would be a good thing to write about.

My family walked around somewhere for a bit, and at one point we sat on a bench and ate sandwiches we brought. There were some birds there, and we all started tearing off bits of bread and feed them to birds, something I had done before in an earlier vacation. When the first crumb was thrown, a whole bunch more birds came out of nowhere to fight for the food; eventually there was quite a flock of them.

It worked pretty much like this. One of us would throw a bit of bread at the group of birds, and whichever one catches it first eats the whole thing. But when I tried it out with a bigger piece, about half an inch in size, something funny happened. One of the birds grabbed the piece and selfishly flew away with it, as if it’s prized delicious food not to share with anyone else. I did that several times, and each time that same thing happened.

I seriously expected birds to be a bit smarter than this, maybe for each to gather around the piece of bread and start nibbling on it because the pieces of bread were really quite big for the birds, the same way multiple cats eat from the same bowl of cat food. The pieces looked too big for a single bird to store in its beak, but the birds would always fly away with the big piece stored that way regardless.

I think the moral of the story is as follows: never underestimate how dumb animals can be.

Part 3

Cookie Fonster‘s Vacation Stuff Part 1: Airplanes Destroyed My Sleeping Schedule

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Now I know I said earlier that I would not make blog posts during vacation. Well, it turns out that I actually will make posts; just not any Homestuck posts. It is only the second day of vacation and I already have a pretty interesting story to tell, so I figured it would make a good post topic. I got access to a laptop to write vacation posts, so I guess that’s what I will do whenever I have something interesting to tell.

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Something I Feel Cluey About

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A recent blog post from Wait But Why, a popular blog about pretty much any subject, talked about a weird kind of sadness Tim Urban, the writer of the blog, calls “clueyness”. It’s basically the feeling of guilt you get after declining a friendly offer or request even though the person who gave the offer probably forgot about it entirely. The word was coined from a story his father told him. Tim’s grandfather bought a game of Clue for his children to play. They came over to him and listened to the directions for the game, but when some friends came, the kids immediately left and he put the game away. One can only imagine how his grandfather must have felt back then, waiting for the kids to come back and play with him and then giving up.

Today I came across something that was in my clothing drawer for some reason:

and it’s something I feel pretty cluey about.

I got it for Christmas about five years ago. I dreamt of having music writing software back then, and asked for it for Christmas. I got the disc shown above from my aunt but I never ended up using it for some reason. I think I couldn’t figure out how to install it or something? I did get into music writing software about two years later but I still feel guilty about never using what I got back then.

There’s a lot of other Christmas presents I feel just as cluey about never using, but this one kind of sticks out.