Just another future song // Late post / Loss post

I started pulling this post together (well) over a week ago and it kind of got away from me. Actually, I guess it was over two weeks ago, because it was right after David Bowie passed away and I was holding off because I wanted to write some stuff about how his challenging of gender norms affected me as a young little thing growing up in Idaho. Maybe I'll write that sometime, but hopefully that gives you an idea of how crazy things have been.

I'm just going to post this as it's been existing in post-limbo -- with this small addendum:

About a week ago we lost this little guy to a car on a busy street. The loss is something else I'm endeavoring to write about in more detail, but for now I'll just say that during that week back in October when everything went sideways for me, this guy was my special little buddy. He seemed to know something was up and would come snuggle me and help pull me out of freak-outs when I was on my own.

On top of that, he was just such a character, this guy. I'll write more sometime, but this is still kind of a rough topic so I hope the pictures will do for now.

RIP, Bast/Munchkin/Little Man/Cutie McBeantoes: Prince Among Cats.

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In the year of the scavenger, the season of the bitch

sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the ditch

just another future song

lonely little kitsch

(there's gonna be sorrow)

try and wake up tomorrow

Slip into the car, go driving to the farthest star

Look at these fucking moths // Fluff aesthetic

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@U@

Also this thing

Book-out post outpost // #CAPSPOST // Of Orcs and Nazis

Hello, you all remember my robot wife, waifu-bot-chan

Me too, mon petit chou-fleur~

Basic decorum thus observed, I declare this party started.

Earlier this evening I When I started writing this post I had consumed a microwaved chocolate cake which had taken form within the likeness of an elder god and which contained potent magics. Don't blame me if shit gets weird.

HEY LUCIFER AND THE BISCUIT HAMMER IS GREAT!

Seriously, I can't believe I haven't mentioned it on here before; it's a fantastic story and the characters are so heartfelt and look it's great okayyyy

HEY SOMETIMES WORK GETS REALLY META

THIS BABY IS HAVING A GREAT TIME

NOT ME BRO

WHOA DAMN DUDE

Ok, yeah, this party got weird

More book stuff?!?!?!

MORE COMICS BOOKS

Descender
Aliens! Robots! Robot genocide?! A boy robot and his dog bot and ancient robot space technology, in space! With aliens!

• Awesome art!
• Telsa's hairrrr
• That robot scientist guy is a huge dumbass though, goddamn.

Rumble
Two mortals dragged into a godfight with a scarecrow who has a sword. I liked this one a lot! The dudes are a little tropey maybe but I dig Rathraq so far. Dat swoooord! Possibly my favorite of the three?

• Awesome art!
• MISTER BILDAD
• Bonus points for SASS
• AND FRIENDSHIP
• *makes swooshy sword noises*
• *accompanying hand gestures*

Injection
I didn't read all of Transmetropolitan, but this comic reminds me more of (what I have read of) The Invisibles...plus some Constantine, maybe? A crew with various skills is assembled and something about un-stagnating the future, which they do via SOMETHIN BAD with some wild techno-magic biz. They hacked up some dark magics? They injected a spell into some code and summoned something into an AI which broke reality in order to shake up the future. Man, just go with it. It's later now, the team broke up, and things bad! Evil spriggans? Maaaagiiiicccc swoooords?

• Awesome art!
• Maria Kilbride!
• *quietly makes swooshy sword noises*

OK
ARE YOU READY

NO PROBABLY NOT; I WASN'T

I'm not sure where to begin.

I saw this at work and snapped a picture, but Luke remembered hearing about it on Harmontown -- apparently this book contributed to D&D being misinterpreted as "satanic." So uh of course I checked that shit out. I haven't finished it yet, but here are some highlights

• This man thinks he is Hardboiled Detective af
• Look at this omfg
• 
• A bulletin board full of pushpins is A MYSTERIOUS PUZZLE
• Almost lets himself get run over by a train
• Pays a guy $50 to run him a D&D game
• (it is hilarious)
• FOR EXAMPLE (emphasis mine):

[when captured by orcs] "...Bound up by characters who give new definition to the word ugly and whose intentions make those of the Nazis seem pure in comparison..."

• Basically falls asleep afterwards (because Hardboiled Detectives™ know that not sleeping helps keep you sharp or something)
• The kid they're looking for was cooking dreeeegs but D&D is the real monster here ok

We flipped through some later parts and it looks like there are some real gems in here, like this one, which I found again just for you, Internet:

" [A different (gay) PI Hardboiled is considering bringing aboard] ...'I think I have to go deeper underground, to places where you would never pass muster. Bathhouses, for instance. They make you prove you're gay before they let you in.'

'Prove it?'

'Usually a tryst with the manager.'

'No thanks.' "

Oh the eighties, when clubs really made you prove how gay you wait what
Or what about (again, emphasis mine):

"...Searching for an activity that permitted him to escape from an existence he found increasingly unbearable was as inevitable for him as looking for water would be for a man dying of thirst. Predictably, once he found a way out, however temporary, he would want and need more of his "fix," like a junkie craves the needle, until the game was using him, not the other, healthy way around. At this moment he might be playing out the ultimate Dungeons & Dragons game, and that was frightening."

Ok, he has a website, and I'm dying.

That post got long, but I think we all learned some important things, like about how orcs are worse than Nazis.

In conclusion, please pause for a moment to appreciate the following very handsome gentleman:

Holidaze // Anime Time: The Weabooening

Ahoy, fronds; it's been a time.
Made it through the hoolidays technically, but things haven't slowed down much -- Christmas was tricky, but New Year's was quite nice. Today's been pretty good too, except I'm behind on a few things, but at this point that's my own fault. I'M FUCKING GOING TO SC IN MARCH. They played Willy Beamish on the SGF stream tonight?!?! What the fuck is even happening.

Is this the real life?

I started medication a week and a half ago; I think it's been helping but I can't always tell how much. Sometimes I feel kind of "evened out," and that feels nice, but it hasn't helped (and may not be able to) with the jaw stuff, which tends to lead to headaches -- actually, one of the first nights I think it might have kicked me into a (really) bad migraine, but luckily that hasn't happened again.

Maybe the medication's been helping more than I'm giving it credit for; I think today in particular has just been a little off -- and if that's the case then I just need a little time to shake it off.

On to lighter things!

I got some sick-ass Christmas biz:

As did my Coven Sistress because look at this fucking cat breads

Also:

1. This bread is called "anpan"
2. Cat sound = "nyan"
3. So obv. this is Nyanpan and it is the fucking cutest and best thing in the galaxy

* * * Book Intermission! * * *

Hey, this was good! I have more of a book post in the works, and among its treasures it includes some serious what-the-fuck! Intermission complete! \o/

Ok time for this!

* * * TIME FOR WEABOO SHAME * * *

MANDATORY SHAME RITUAL COMPLETE NOW LOOK AT THIS ANIMES

Uh yeah

Shirobako has kind of a goofy premise if you read the description (Five school friends in the animation club, and "...After they graduated they still pursued animation and swore on some donuts that they would make another anime together.") and yes, the donuts thing is cheesy af...but I like the realism it goes for with regard to representing a wee little studio in the animation industry, and I like the characters. It's fun :3

I also signed up for a premium Crunchyroll trial, so BACK TO ARAKAWA, the best story about a guy falling in a river.

Yes.