@tilia-cacophonous i’m glad you asked!!! personally i love calamari hardware and i’m definitely going to steal that that. but since you asked, it’s meant to be a combination of the name cal + malware ^^
if you can believe it, the cal part is not meant to be a reference to lil cal, but i can see why a lot of people assume that it is ;^^ this is a homestuck blog, after all. it originates from an inside joke with some friends of mine where you could nickname someone cal and 1) it’s gender neutral, so people wouldn’t know if it’s for a boy or girl name and 2) people would assume it’s short for a normal name like caleb or callie but it could secretly be something silly. like calzone. or calcium. or california. so we would come up with even sillier names that start with cal for it to be secretly short for. i also wanted to incorporate part of my old url into the new one, so in a way cal is also short for calibrator
the malware part is just bc i like evil robots :)c
