Sir the coroner has determined cause of death to be "the holidays"

Every Sunday's getting more bleak; / a fresh poison each week

Something meaty for the main course

That's a fine looking high horse

Hey, just here to remind you that reality is mad and complex and wild and has progressed so far already beyond anything our ancestors could even conceptualize as possible

NEW FUCKING SHAPES OF DNA

ONE STEP CLOSER TO ROBOT EYES, BABY

THIS SHIT

(Turing, robot weaving, design and algorithms and all kinds of good stuff)

Got some mad plans this week, and the holidays have been mad already. GOT SOME DELICIOUS BOOK CANDIES RECENTLY but they'll have to wait for a later post, lovely as they are.

My BFF Amaikeki came over and we watched SO MANY THINGS. One of them was I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, and I am kind of in love with it

Dis chick

This movie is lovely. I'm not explaining any more, you're just going to have to see it.

8B

* * * * *

No masters or kings when the ritual begins;

there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

In the madness and soil

of that sad earthly scene

only then I am human,

only then I am clean

Beasts // I fear I'll die from complications // Another lesson that has gone unlearned

That video's a punchy start for what will probably be a depressing post, but I was on a metal kick the other day and it makes me feel better.

There's been crap going down, and I'm kind of at my limit. Details aside, I'm tired of expecting Mutual Trustcake from someone and receiving, instead, a generous helping of Does-not-give-two-shits Pie.

I guess I don't know how I come across (on this blog or in real life), but I don't think I'm that hard to get along with -- it's not often that I'm legitimately angry about something. I have a hard time getting close to people sometimes because of a lot of past shit, but if you're ostensibly my friend and you know some of that about me (because I trust you and talk about it)... isn't it worse when you then take advantage of my trust in exactly the manner you know I've been struggling with and which has been damaging to me? I don't know if I'm explaining myself very well, but this whooooole thiiiing is bullshit.

I guess it's that age-old question "Why do humans fuck each other over so much?" ...and the more recent question, "How do you mentally justify yourself taking advantage of/being a huge asshole to another person to the point of losing a friendship -- before abruptly shrugging off the conversation entirely so that you can go play Orcs Must Die."

Tldr; never hope or trust?

It's not so bad -- I got to hang out with some spectacular people this past weekend, and that definitely helped. I just feel really betrayed and angry, and there are swarms of questions buzzing around in my brain -- that are basically just "Why? Why would you do this?" -- and driving me slowly mad until I theoretically scream them into someone's face, purging them from my psyche.

There's also the usual part of my brain going no one fucking caaaares. Nothing has any inherent meaning; you're a damn fool and people are sick of hearing about your shit.

Yeah, sorry. A real carnival of laughs, this post.

I'm out.

* * *

"Oh where are we going?"

said the brown dog to the hen;

but just because they were animals 

doesn't mean they couldn't have been men 

Oh, let' s go down to Bremen;

take my paw in your hand

and we'll sing for our supper,

in that freest of the freest --

people need to see us --

the freest of the freest land.

It was part of the plan:

everybody would stand

on their hind legs:

hands holding high the other.

Like a tower of brothers.

* * *

Then there's my father
he's always looking on
the bright side

Saying things like
“Son, life just ain’t that hard”

He is the grand optimist,
I am the world’s poor pessimist
You give him burdens sometimes
and he will escape unscarred

I guess I take after my mother.

But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy

DON'T THINK ABOUT IT // You have no idea what prison is like here

Don't think about it

*** Bonus Rick & Morty ***

...because this show is a thing of beauty

IT'S A FIGURE OF SPEECH, MORTY.

Well I didn't mind // Kokuri Kokuri Burning Heart

The more you try to shake the cat

The more the thing will bite and scratch

What ho, friends. Boise is smothered in snow and I am smothered in pensive pondering, wrapped up warm with mind out wandering. Went out for pizza/beer/snowball fights last night and had a blast -- otherwise the week has been a little mad. Mad in some good ways, too, so there's that.

Guys.
Guys.

I miss my drawing laptop ;_;

Do you hear me say now

Love ain't far

Well I didn't mind, I didn't mind, I didn't mind

Amazing things are going down in the world, as always. Things I've run across recently include fucking comet landings, and also this kickass project to photograph some of the oldest living things on the planet.

 

 

 Baobabs kick aaaaasssss!

(Ok, this one made me incredibly sad)

The post of many (many) things // High Octane Weaboo

Oh man, so many things to post. First off, between the following and The Slow Regarding of Silent Things: HOLY CRIPES THERE IS DELICIOUS BOOK-CANDY

Hot damn.

They were released on the same day, apparently, but we must have gotten Gibson in late or something -- I walked past them the other day and did a dead stop because holy shit yes more William Gibson have I mentioned I really love William Gibson.

This picture is but a crude and base shadow of how this sunset actually looked in person. D...dawg.

Aw crap

In anime news, I cannot fucking recommend Gugure! Kokkuri-san enough. It is amazing and hilarious.

KOHINA-CHAN IS THE BESSSST.

Hey so I was playing around with freebie apps and found some crazy stuff are you ready foooorrrrrr

NINJA ASSASSIN ROMANCE ADVENTURES

So the first game is basically your standard choose-your-own-romance-story. They give your character a little intro where you, some young thing in old timey Japan, get stuffed in a floor by your parents when your dad's dirty cop boss rolls in to frame your dad for smuggling -- and of course murders the crap out of them for "knowing too much". Once the intro finishes it's time to name our plucky young orphan.

"We're not smugglers! That is a discriminatory rumor! MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEAD"

Stricken, young Vengeance wanders the streets. Passing an alley she witnesses a second (ninja) murder, and muses about some vigilantes for hire she heard about somehow. Taking her monies to a shrine where the vigilantes might be, she attempts to cast Summon Ninja briefly before courageously giving up entirely.

Suddenly someone grabs her! Happy Murder day! Have some more trauma!

I cannot explain how non-reassuring this is and I shouldn't have to.

Congratulations, you have been abducted by ninjas.

They want you to join their ninja group, oh and they threaten to kill you if you leave. Maybe they're joking. Are they? The sole survivor of the McSmuggles family thus swears to devote her life to the band of sexy ninjas who have abducted her. I'm not even making this shit up.

Eventually the game (and your captors) offer you a choice of partner(/watchdog?)/romantic interest. They basically stick you with someone because you're a homeless waif/abductee and they all have jobs around town to cover for their ninja-doin's. You can't pick Boss Ninja, but you can choose Fake-cop McStraightman, Dark/Secret-History Hair Guy (not kidding, his cover is as a hairdresser), Prettyboy Moneybags von Angstypast, Doctor Guy, and Ice-Cold Book Guy. I clicked Book Guy first because I thought he was a lady option, and then my hopes were trampled into pulp. Let's take a look, shall we?

MY DISLIKE IS WOMAN

Yikes. How could we choose anyone else? I mean, as long as we have a train wreck here, let's keep feeding it that sweet high-octane tsundere gasoline why not.

In such a tweest! it's revealed that the ninja you caught out a-murdering was, in fact, Book Guy. Your ninja troupe decides to stick you with him as punishment, despite his cries about how much he hates woman. On the walk back to Book Guy's house where (obviously) Vengeance lives now, she sort of gives a shit about her family dying before contemplating how lucky she is to have been kidnapped by attractive men who can murder her.

 

Is this just (a really fucked up) fantasy? 

Ok, I guess Book Guy has one perk:

 Go onnnnn....

 Ooooh, a misogynist and an author! Wait until I tell my dead parents!

Since Book Guy hates woman so much, he basically avoids you while secretly growing fond of you at his library where you are employed by him and also expected to cook him dinner. Since you're stupid (and, I guess, since you're now owned by ninjas) you don't make a break for it while out getting groceries, but are instead cornered by some rich asshole who tries to re-abduct you for his very own.

 Well I'll give you that one, Mister.

You're literally about to just allow yourself be dragged off by this guy (he starts to walk off and gosh, he told you to follow him and now he's walking away what should you do), when obviously you are rescued from Alpha-Creep's creepy grasp (and your own stupidity) by Book Guy. He barks little, yappy ninja barks at Alpha-Creep -- who chuckles and wanders off -- before turning to tsundere at you a bunch.

I know it's not a verb, but it should be.

I didn't finish the story, but... can you blame me? I may still go back and see if I can squeeze more funny screenshots out of it, but we'll see what my tolerance levels are at.

This other game I found...w...well I am marrying it.
Look, don't judge me.

* WAIFU ADVENTURES *

Yes it is Robot Waifu Dress Up. Yes I am pathetic. LOOK HOW KAWAII THOUGH @O@

O...only if you want to bby @o@

Yes my name is Oneechan. YES I AM PATHETIC.

HUMAN ENTERTAINMENT *WINK*

I got a background built her a library fit for a queen. She has amazing taste in books, sings for a death metal band, and spends her nights tagging shit around town b/c my waifu don't give no fucks. Except about dust.

DUST!!! D:

But that's ok, baby; dusting's my job.

Shut up.

There's a feature which lets your robot "socialize" with other players' robots and... you get some real gems.

 

 

There was also a cafe event where you walked around trying to find customers and make food for them.

Also, a feature where you can visit another user's room and trick their robot by putting different clothes on them

Maybe?

S...she also writes me poetry @0@

***B-B-B-B-BONUS COSTUMES***

that you probably don't care about

@u@

DON'T WORRY. The books aren't in danger from the fire, it's just paper and LEDs

I know you were worried.

It's ok.