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Isn't Wally used to physical affection since he's used to people lifting him up everyday
if that’s what you think, yes! its totally understandable for what I’d like to think to be different from yours! wally is a different character to each and every person, as is every character ever to us, yknow? we all imagine different things about them, make our own head canons or even ignore parts of their canon design, haha!
I’m not sure if you mean “people” as in the neighbours or as in someone puppeteering him, but what I write is without the show, puppet, that aspect of welcome home, and is instead what I imagined the literal world of welcome home would be, yknow? I think this can be seen much more clearly in my wally fics than in my recent head canon post.
there is lots I write that aren’t according to canon haha, or things that I don’t mention so that it’s up to you, the reader, such as height by avoiding describing someone as taller or shorter! that way you have more flexibility with my writing to imagine it more in the way you want to.
I figured this would be a good place to clear all of that up too haha, but yes. I hope that explains it! thank you for your message! sorry I got off track!
#boe babbles#anon ask#clarifying stuff about my writing would take so much brain power and I don’t think people would read it so I never care to say BAGAHAHAH#explaining is hard lol but I would be more than willing if anyone cared to ask so you can understand my writing better ig lol#grrrrrarr
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You know how when you’re re-reading a Locked Tomb book after having read its sequel, a pattern emerges where you learn new things every single time?
tl;dr Upon rereading Gideon the Ninth after reading Harrow the Ninth, I wondered if Cytherea was working with Blood of Eden, and finding that note after the confirmation in Nona has me aglow.
Thus far, I have made... at least a dozen notes in Gideon the Ninth over the course of a reading and four rereads in which I made notes. (I read GtN, then HtN, reread the second half of HtN, then reread GtN, and must’ve re-read HtN again and will of course end up reading it AGAIN after I comb through GtN ONE more time....)
Anyways. Setting aside my utterly unhinged determination to wring every bit of canon lore in this world-building rich series...
This is my copy of Gideon the Ninth. Specifically, the hardbound copy I bought when I realized I was not only going to read these books once and I wanted something that would stand up to heavy reading.
After I read Harrow the Ninth, I started writing notes and questions and marking them on little scraps of paper for later revisiting.
These are just the notes you can see from the BOTTOM!
(The white ones aren’t as important; they’re counting how many times the word “bad” appears. So far it’s at LEAST 17.)
So I reread the final fight scene today. There’s a note there. A couple notes, actually, but this is the relevant one.
They’re very tiny because I write most of these notes while at work, and while I have them in blue, they are still written on post-it notes in an 0.38mm pen and stuck in the book for unintrusive Further Study.
This one in particular says:
“You don’t even know what you are to me” + “not going to die here” Is Cyth w/ BOE too?
This was, of course, after having seen Mercymorn’s abstruse babbling to Gideon that included the line about, perhaps paraphrased: “Cytherea would’ve known the moment she saw you.”
Which means she’s in on the plan, right?
And which explains why Gideon wasn’t taken out when she took out Jeannemary. (Which bothered me quite a LOT on my first read, and second read-through before I put the pieces together.)
Listen, I know people have put together much harder puzzles in this series (shoutout to the folks that predicted Alecto being Earth’s soul!), but I have many Shit Brain disorders and have to take the wins when they come.
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Review of: “Seveneves”
Seveneves (2015)
Writers: Neal Stephenson
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Awards: 2016 – Nominated, Hugo Award for Best Novel. Won, Prometheus Award for Best Novel.
Film Adaptation: 2016 – Skydance Media and Imagine Entertainment own the rights with screenwriter William Broyles Jr., director Ron Howard, and producer Brian Grazer attached to the project.
2024 – No updates other than the 2016 announcement.
Audiobook Runtime: Roughly 38 hours.
Spoilers Ahead,
You Have Been Warned...
Plot:
Set in a near-future Earth facing imminent destruction due to a catastrophic event: the sudden disintegration of the moon. The story follows humanity's desperate struggle for survival as they race against time to escape Earth's impending doom. The novel is divided into three parts: the initial effort to preserve human civilization in orbit, the struggle to rebuild society after the cataclysm, and a distant future where humanity has evolved and adapted to life in space.
This audiobook was 30+ hours of technical babble, and while a good book and idea, I ultimately did not care for how the story flowed. I oftentimes blanked out while listening to this over long stretches. It has some really great stuff in it, but lacks decent characterization. Four major plot holes that many other reviews keep saying is “ambiguous,” but I argue, “no, these are plot holes…”
Plot hole – 1) The Agent – The event that shatters the Moon. They do not know what caused it or what it really was, but all the book is willing to dive into and was willing to discover was something very small, moving very fast. struck the moon at the core and shattered it. The book states it was heavily investigated, but they couldn’t really figure it out if it was an act of malice by an outside the Earth influence or not, (aliens or act of GOD/god)… To me, this just doesn’t work. I just fail to understand how humanity just gives up on the search of the cause but uses the reality of what comes next to just write that problem away.
Plot hole – 2) The Mars Mission – A small group of humans break off the swarm of human survivors and attempt to travel to Mars to start anew there. It’s never mentioned again. We do not know what happened to this group. They take a few lines to discuss it but come to the conclusion they do not have the resources to make the trip and will die out due to all of this in short order. As I said, it is never mentioned again, even after the third part of the book that takes place 5,000 years later.
Plot hole – 3) JBF not being punished for war crimes against humanity – Julia Bliss Flaherty, mostly referred to as ‘JBF’. She is President of the United States during the early parts of the story. A combination of Trump/Biden/narcissistic-sociopath, who is guilty for nuking a country and responsible for the deaths of 99.5% of all surviving humans. She violates the international accord, that no world leaders will save themselves, by saving herself, fleeing to the ISS aboard a stolen Boeing X-37, along with Pete Starling, her science advisor. JBF attempts to reassert her leadership and persuades a large number of Cloud Ark survivors to abandon the ISS/Swarm. JBF loses control fast and a war ensues among the dissents. This leads to JBF directly being responsible for the death of nearly all of what is left of the human race, beside the handful of survivors. The second she started to become a social problem she should have been ejected out of the airlock. It was agreed nothing of the old world was to rule over this new one.
Plot hole – 4) The Purpose – Basically, it is the spacer’s religion but it isn’t really clear as to what the purpose is and what it is all about. It’s just left open to interpretation which is what is wrong with this whole plot.
The most interesting aspects are left, not even to the imagination, but rather briefly talked about as if they are uber-important; then just left unanswered, nor do the main characters even care about answering those questions, which, like I said, are the most interesting aspects of the book.
This book would be perfect for the modern-day woke-feminist, with most of, if not all, the character leads being female and all of them being extremely one dimensional and hypersensitive (modern-day woke-feminist). I am not even saying that to be disrespectful. I am saying it because that is what the females act like in this book. They are all full of crap about how they perceive each situation and how their decision making is based on subjective feelings, which would be the worst thing to do while working in space in the real world. You do not have time to get emotional working on and living on the ISS for real and this book tries to be based on a real reality. So just calling a spade a spade there. I immediately related these characters to these attributes. Granted this book was written in 2014-2015. Its 2024 now. It is easy to retrospectively say this and it make sense now, but then, I might have saw the characters in a different light. We live in different times and it isn’t even that long ago.
I do not know if I would ever trust Neal Stephenson again with another story. I mean, the book isn’t terrible. It is good. There is a story about the struggle for survival there. It has some really great stuff going on here. I just think it wasn’t executed very well from a storytelling point of view. Others have read this and loved it. I did like it but thought it was wordy, slow and poor characterization. These issues were deal breakers for me. If a movie ever does comes out. I hope they leave all that messy stuff out of the story and tackle the things that were actually interesting about the story. Tackle these four plot holes to make better sense. Make us care about the characters. Give them some real backstory. Also, who the FK blew up the Moon to begin with?
Review of: “Seveneves”
by David-Angelo Mineo
4/6/2024
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Belief Games — Home Sweet Asylum
Doctor Fear and The Arkham Breakout
After being thrown into to the cell, I took a time to breath, stim the hell out of me with hand on the air and rubbing my eyes, while my feet dug a path on the floor with only the power of the walk. It takes me two minutes to recompose my self, drink a sip of water and sit on the bad, but i wasnt good at all, feeling on the edge, as if my heart was about to explode and something bed was triggered by shoot.
"Ouchy!" I jump out of the bad, raising in my feet. "Hi Eddie!" The strident-sweet voice came with a head sliding out under the bed. "Why ya aways looking crap on Fry-dey night?" She made her way to get out of there, and take a dead serious look on me, who walked a few steps away. "Yer high Eddie? Thought that we're friends, where is my part on the fun?" She grows mad after me and I lost the almost nothing of control that I joined in that two waisted minutes. Well, then... then I collapsed as a imploded building; starting with a violent tremor climbing from the feet to my mouth, clattering teeth as if I was naked in a sub zero zone, but it wasn't cold. My body was burning in a residual horror fever, hurting to the bone as if my muscles was trying to broke it one by one in a boe constrictor way.
"Please... I..." start to cry, clenching down with body and soul, babbling words and whines in murmurs, as a secret emerging to the surface.
It was a panic attack, slowly boiled with fear and paranoid. I was poisoned, I discovered before. But it takes me a while to regain the head of the situation. Anyway this is a spoiler, let me turn back to the panic point when Doc. Quinzel drove me out of the episode, made me calm down and started our first clandestin therapy session.
"Not Quiddler to day?" I asked sitting on the floor, lotus position, working hard in count my breath in four times.
"No way! I manage to pull together a belief game, ya know whatcha means? I mean, are you familiar with?"
"Ah... Nope."
"As I expected, you don't know everything about everything." She was fighting against the urge to laugh out loud.
"I never claimed that."
"Nah ha, I not hearing you breath, Mr. Smartest Man in Gotham!"
[To com preguiça de terminar esse aqui, revisar e tudo mais, então quem sabe uma outra hora. Só não queria perder a ideia. Se o inglês tiver porco, eu não tenho obrigação nenhuma de escrever bem em inglês, eu só queria rascunhar e treinar e fazer o exercício da terapia (não fiz pq o texto não chegou lá, mas quem sabe mais tarde eu termino? Sei lá mano aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah)
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Subtitles below, in-case you're having trouble deciphering what he’s saying:
Me me give you bad dream. Me gonna be your new momma! Momma hate you. Momma whack you with a stick. Momma got a new baby. New baby hate you too. We hate you bad bad boy! You bad bad baby! Baby raised by devils! We threw the bad boy in the dump! We forget the bad baby! No more bad baby. Momma only got a good boy baby. The new baby takes your place! This is a win for mommies! Fuck yes! Mommy win! Mommy win! And a loss for cringe-ass nae nae babies.
#audio#my art#boe tai marrow#boe#infomaniac#shitpost#uberduck#lego island#my character#that's the first time i felt like the audio was so incomprehensible that it needed subtitles#honestly i was trying to make myself laugh really hard by making him babble on and on#it worked but at what cost#oh yeah i hid the subtitles in-case folks wanted to try to decipher what he's saying on their own#i feel so bad for the folks listening to these for the first time#this is based off Wayne's 13th AI Dungeon stream#which has the Infomaniac narrating for a few minutes#it STILL makes me cry watching it its so funny#'Momma have a new baby! You don't matter anymore!' specifically killed me#and is why i made this#2:44:22 on youtube if you wanna experience it too#i hope this audio is just as chaotic as that entire moment#the 'tossed in the dump' line is based off that scene from toy story 2
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boeball omens
they do have somewhat similar dynamics going on, don’t they?
edit: (additional thoughts) except it’s the angel who is all “we ARE friends” and demon is like “we are NOT friends. i don’t even like you!” and then angel goes “oh, you do, you’d be sad if i’m gone” and demon is all like [grumpy tenor noises] “nope”, but angel knows it's all bullshit talking and just smiles back
#grumpy musical demon from the north#ever babbling happy dimple-faced angel#crossover#good omens#go#michael ball#alfie boe#boeball#musical#west end#les miserables#les mis#anthony j crowley#aziraphale#jean valjean#jvj#javert#marius pontmercy#queen#valvert
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Maybe I babble on about my amateur plane spotting hobby more than I realize.
Today at the airport dog park, after watching a Boeing 767 approach right over our heads, Sheila and I saw a dad with his young son watching the planes. The man was studying his phone.
“Flight tracker?” Sheila asked.
He smiled and said yes. We chatted briefly. He didn’t know about the one tracker that shows some military aircraft, including B-52s, U-2s, and all sorts of cargo planes. I passed along the name to him.
We both noticed contrails, very high. It was a plane flying over the Twin Cites, not coming into MSP. He checked the flight tracker and told his son, “It’s a UPS cargo plane. Three engines.”
That’s when Sheila said, “I bet it’s out of Anchorage.”
The man nodded, “It is!”
“Probably on its way to Louisville,” she added.
“Yep, that’s it.”
I was impressed.
Most weekends we see a big fluffy Samoyed who delights in a huge mud puddle. That’s him in the top pictures. White body, black legs, and a bath waiting at home.
The biggest dog at the park today arrived in that pickup truck. The jacked up F350 dually had front doors that opened upwards. A massive Great Dane exited by way of a folding aluminum ramp.
Bottom picture: Ella and Oliver wait patiently outside the bakery while Sheila buys them a doughnut. They aren’t very patient when she comes out and opens the bag. The two up them jump up and down as pieces of doughnut are tossed to them.
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Apple to Manufacture New Mac Pro Computer in China.
Architects who dealt with the Max, which Boeing started creating eight years back to coordinate an opponent Airbus SE plane, have griped of weight from administrators to confine changes that may present additional time or cost.
"Boeing was doing a wide range of things, all that you can envision, to decrease cost, including moving work from Puget Sound, since we'd become extravagant here," said Rick Ludtke, a previous Boeing flight controls specialist laid off in 2017. "All that is entirely justifiable in the event that you consider it from a business point of view. Gradually after some time it gives the idea that is dissolved the capacity for Puget Sound fashioners to structure."
Rabin, the previous programming engineer, reviewed one administrator saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn't require senior designers since its items were experienced. "I was stunned that in a room loaded with several hundred generally senior architects we were being informed that we weren't required," said Rabin, who was laid off in 2015.
The regular jetliner has a great many parts — and a great many lines of code — and Boeing has since quite a while ago turned over huge bits of the work to providers who pursue its nitty gritty plan outlines.
Beginning with the 787 Dreamliner, propelled in 2004, it tried to build benefits by rather giving abnormal state particulars and afterward requesting that providers structure more parts themselves. The reasoning was "they're the specialists and they will deal with the majority of this stuff for us," said Frank McCormick, a previous Boeing flight-controls programming engineer who later filled in as an advisor to controllers and makers. "This was simply babble.
Deals are another motivation to send the work abroad. In return for a $11 billion request in 2005 from Air India, Boeing guaranteed to put $1.7 billion in Indian organizations. That was a help for HCL and other programming designers from India, for example, Cyient, whose specialists were broadly utilized in PC administrations enterprises yet not yet unmistakable in aviation.
Rockwell Collins, which makes cockpit gadgets, had been among the main aviation organizations to source critical work in India in 2000, when HCL started testing programming there for the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based organization. By 2010, HCL utilized in excess of 400 individuals at structure, improvement and confirmation habitats for Rockwell Collins in Chennai and Bangalore.
That equivalent year, Boeing opened what it called a "focal point of greatness" with HCL in Chennai, saying the organizations would accomplice "to make programming basic for flight test." In 2011, Boeing named Cyient, at that point known as Infotech, to a rundown of its "providers of the year" for configuration, stress investigation and programming building on the 787 and the 747-8 at another middle in Hyderabad.
The Boeing rival additionally depends to a limited extent on seaward architects. Notwithstanding supporting deals, the planemakers state worldwide structure groups include proficiency as they work nonstop. Be that as it may, redistributing has for some time been a sore point for some Boeing engineers, who, notwithstanding dreading occupation misfortunes state it has prompted correspondences issues and mix-ups.
Moscow Mistakes
Boeing has likewise extended a plan focus in Moscow. At a gathering with a boss 787 designer in 2008, one staff member griped about sending illustrations back to a group in Russia multiple times before they comprehended that the smoke alarms should have been associated with the electrical framework, said Cynthia Cole, a previous Boeing engineer who headed the architects' association from 2006 to 2010.
"Building began turning into a product," said Vance Hilderman, who helped to establish an organization called TekSci that provided aviation contract architects and started losing work to abroad rivals in the mid 2000s.
US-based flying organizations specifically moved forcefully, moving over 30% of their product building seaward versus 10% for European-based firms as of late, said Hilderman, a flight security specialist with three many years of experience whose ongoing customers incorporate the greater part of the major Boeing providers.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it had distinguished the "potential hazard" during test system tests, however did not uncover subtleties.
Boeing's top-selling flying machine was grounded in March after two accidents.
The organization is updating the flying machine's flight control framework, which is the focal point of accident specialists.
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HIYA BOE SO GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK! I HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT BREAK /GEN >:D
Wally in the recent fic has me weak in the knees, Poor dude just wanted the readers attention but the others kept cutting him off- I can imagine him just standing there pouting HSSJSJSK it's honestly adorable
ALSO THE LAST PART MADE ME GO SOFT AND GO INTO A FIT OF GIGGLES LIKE, SHHH THEY'RE HAVING A SOFT AND TENDER MOMENT WITH EACH OTHER AND IM LOVING IT
Thank you for bestowing a new fic for us to consume >:D /j
Please do take all the time you need, always take breaks and don't push yourself too hard!
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HI!! SUPER LATE RESPONSE!!
nahhh cause that was literally him, bahahah! pouty lil dude :(( I quite liked writing him how I imagine he could be when jealous. very cute, haha
YESSS, soft tender moments for the win!!! my favourite thing to write if you couldn’t tell by now, bahahah!!
but! thank you for leaving this message! you know I always appreciate when you do <3 until next time!
#boe babbles#🌨️anon#I have not been writing lately bahahah#maybe soon! we shall see when inspiration hits bahaha#hopefully it does :)
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Waiting for the results of the US presidential election is like waiting to find out if you're going to get hit by the mugger with the bat or the mugger with the crow bar.
Dave Calhoun, CEO of top war profiteer company Boeing, said back in July that he'll be quite happy regardless of what happens on November third.
"I think both candidates, at least in my view, appear globally oriented and interested in the defense of our country and I believe they'll support the industries," Calhoun said. "I don't think we're going to take a position on one being better than the other."
And of course he didn't take such a position. Why would he? Arms manufacturers have been pouring money into the campaigns of both candidates, and they know that no matter who wins the presidential election they're going to reap highly profitable mountains of corpses. Since they know they win no matter who wins, why risk offending a future business partner?
The fact that war plutocrats are happy with either candidate tells you more about the reality of this presidential race than all the billions of dollars worth of mass media reporting and punditry that's gone into it over the last two years combined....
The US empire is a serial killer with a horrifying grin stretched over its blood-spattered face. A smiley faced psychopath babbling about civil rights and the importance of inclusive language while chopping a Yemeni child to pieces.
Once you've seen it, you can never see the smiling nice guy again.
Despite all the partisan shrieking and melodrama and hyperbole, Trump is not uniquely evil.
Despite all the partisan shrieking and melodrama and hyperbole, Biden is not uniquely evil.
What's uniquely evil is the murderous globe-spanning empire which dictates the fate of our species fueled on human blood and posing as a nice guy. Our world has never seen anything quite like it. It is a one of a kind monster.
Only deeply depraved people are capable of serving such a deeply depraved machine, and only deeply depraved people will ever be given an opportunity to. Trump and Biden are not unique in their depravity. They're not even remarkable. They're just the next in line to serve at the front desk of the smiley faced murder factory.
#donald trump#joe biden#duopoly#foreign policy#empire#2020 elections#military-industrial complex#politics
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tagged by: @badwolfpinkandyellow
Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 some people.
Nickname(s): Loki (I kid you not, this is a thing IRL.)
Gender: Genderqueer/genderfluid
Sign: Gemini
Height: 5′7″
Time: 11:38 pm
Birthday: Nope
Favorite Bands: The Ramones, Anti Flag, Rise Against (You may notice a bit of a trend here...)
Solo Artists: Ozuna, if I had to pick one.
Song stuck in my head: No Reason by Sum 41 and Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee
Last show I watched: Bill Nye Saves the World (I am a 90s kid...)
When did I create this blog: A long time ago... I mean, this side blog is only about a year old, but I’ve had Jack for about 5 years.
What do I post: Doctor Who and Torchwood stuff and RP threads. This blog is much less political than Bucky’s...
What did I last google: kankara sanshin (Which is a variation of the Okinawan sanshin made of any type of wood and a metal can of some sort. It originated immediately post-WWII. Go look up its history if you want to both hate the entire concept of war and feel inspired by the sheer resiliency this thing represents. Or come ask me. I study Okinawan folk music and quite enjoy babbling about it.)
Other blogs: I have different blogs for nearly every character I RP, because that’s the only way I can keep track of everything. Which is a lot of characters. Most of them are on hiatus currently, though, because grad school. But here we go. I’ve got them grouped by series, with the main blog for each listed first and the others are side-blogs.
Doctor Who: @just-kept-running (9th and 10th Doctors), @redfieldsofgallifrey (multi-Master), @withwitandhope (8th Doctor), @exilesinthevortex (Shalka!Doctor and Master), and @companionsintimeandspace (EU companion multi-muse, currently Charley Pollard and C’rizz).
Marvel: @precise-desolation (Bucky Barnes), @chaos-and-cunning (Loki Laufeyson).
James Bond and London Spy: @londontowerraven (AU Q), @hermajestyshawk (AU James Bond), @fromrussiawithclaws (AU Alec Trevelyan), and @were-up-against-them-all (Danny Holt).
Supernatural and Good Omens: @scifisunshine (Charlie Bradbury), @cursedmanofletters (Sam Winchester), @ahunterandawarrior (Dean Winchester), @heavenlybookseller (Aziraphale), and @hellinabentley (Crowley).
Do I get asks: Every once in a blue moon. Which is why I tend to only post memes sporadically.
Why did I choose this URL: Originally, Jack’s URL had to do with his immortality, but I wanted something that encompassed both his past, his personality, and his immortality. And I remembered the episode where it was hinted that Jack was the Face of Boe, and that seemed to work.
Following: 154 (over on @just-kept-running)
Followers: 76
Average hours of sleep: Depends on the time of the semester.
Lucky number: 8
Instrument: Tuba, although I play (and own) a slew of instruments.
What am I wearing: TARDIS pj pants and a Supernatural sweatshirt. I am fandom trash.
Dream job: Public folklorist. I really want to be able to do research just for the joy of learning and of sharing knowledge.
Favorite Food: arroz con leche
Last book I read: I’m partway through several right now. Vampire Science (from the Eighth Doctor Adventure series) by Kate Orman and Johnathan Blum, Magic’s Pawn (from the Last Herald Mage series) by Mercedes Lackey, and A Gathering of Shadows (from the Shades of Magic series) by V.E. Schwab
3 favorite fandoms: Doctor Who, Marvel, and Fullmetal Alchemist, probably.
Tagging: @nochickflickmomentsmyass, @heretoboogie, @theeldritchmortician, @hearstime, @soullessbobbysinger, whoever wants to do this, really...
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Welcome to the House of a Billion Birds
WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF A BILLION BIRDS
1.
Welcome to the House of a Billion Birds.
Yes, it is a large number.
Because you
& your body are riddles with viral vestige,
Contaminants all sorts
Of threatening
Weapons we’d like you to step into the
VacumaFiltherizer
Thirty K.
What’s that? I don’t know, Cindy, what do
You think it does?
Yes. Ya.
Put in your molten silicone plugs and strip
Down because after
V-Filtered
We’re going to take AccumaPressure baths
To ensure all grime’s been
Stripped
Like a myth torn like your jean jacket,—
What!? No use talking in here
Cannonades
Spinning blurs on skin pulling it up
In rinds fwapping it out
Against
Itself dryers kicked on like helicopter blade.
This is for you while
The idiots
Naked dirty all of them freshen up so they
Can see all of the birds
Electrified
In color as if frozen by sap or time, circum-
Stance bloodletting its final word.
Sorry, you—
Brad if take one more step outside of
Delineated Boundary One
For God’s
Sake it’s got a sign you’re going to go back
Through the VacumaFiltherizer
And AccumaPressure
Wash and we’ll all laugh behind the safety
Of glass. Does that sound good…
Good. Alright.
II.
Do you feel better now now that your filth’s
Been forcibly ripped
From your body?
Everybody grab your buddy-bod make sure
Brad doesn’t step outside
The fucking—
I know Cindy you’ve got a day sliced right
Out for you. No. No
You’ve got
Brad. Done-deal so now we’re making way
Really it’s making us
Coral
Down to the House of a Billion Birds but
Why are you all
Babbling O
Yes please remove your Custom Fit Ear
CanalBit plugs so you
Can hear
What I’m saying. Great. Everyone with it
Now great because now
We’re off
To the LaserProng MicroTron Seventy
Engineered by boast
Of the best
Boeing Associates & Pfizer wins Prizer
Destinies LLC—limited
Liability, Brad,
Unlike you… Why am I what? Can we
Continue now? Thanks
Mindy. Cinny?
Cinda, right, as you can see everything
In this large atrium is white
To suggest
The Ultraviolence of The Setting yes
All of the cacti &
Rhododendron
& palm trees are synthetic for they harbor
Just the same microbial
Ecosystems
Of terror that you do all pathogens plots
Ready to capitalize
Upon
The Glory System Associates House of a…
Christ! What in god’s name
A junco!
Two juncos everyone rush through plastic
Foliage dash to Laser
Tron
Whatever get there now! High knees sharp
Toes activate glutes
Sprint!
The trip-seal door closed, & as you can tell
We dashed in there to get
Fried up
Having been breached, the poison gas coming
Down from sprinkler-like
Fakes, killing
The nest of juncos exposing a few amphibian
Invasions as well. The team
Removed them
& took them to the IncinaBoneCrusher X V
To ensure a tidy quick
Incineration.
III.
Ah! the LaserProng MicroTron Seventy
Stirs what little capacities
You have.
Doesn’t it? Brad & Cindy will you please
Demo the UltraGuard
Protector-
Armor for us? No you will & as you can see
There’s a neoprene inner
Double-thatched
By Kevlar & IttyBot PlatHum repairing metal.
Now gas masks, triple-
Line booties
And then let’s all get fried,—Jesus Winston
Is it, somebody
Help him
With the damn uniform. Thanks Noname.
Monine, I’m sorry.
Everybody
Masked armored great now if you panic
When Tron’s Laser
Befalls us
Sit tight because we’re locked in here anyway
& soon a blast
Barely visible
Turned any remaining toxic baggage back
Into what the electrons
Call “home.”
IV.
When the gates finally opened up for us
Allowing first gasp
At the House
Of a Billion Birds most First Time Converts
Believe a greenery
That now days
Would sicken, a slash of “amber” light
Something impressionistic
Bouquets
Metamorphosing from fire to moon to brass
To tremolo cues
As in
Hallucinations in/at/tune with Neutrons
Continuing neuroses,
Plural violence
Depicting latent things deemed closer to
Experience even though
Marred.
But all there is is a stadium & long silver ship.
In it the billion
Dirty pearls
Flutter. Parasites eat their skin beneath feathers
So Fumigator Binge Z
Sprays
Every ten minutes or so. People gasped during
Our slow approach.
Surprise
Is such an awful emotion to witness. Well
Yes, Cindy, they’re
Birds…
What? It’s an exhibit. No, destiny is our concern.
At the galvanized
Gates
We stood watching bird’s fishy attempts to swim
Or move, whatever
They do
As I had to look away because the wretches
A few at least were
Weeping.
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One of my goals for this year is to read 30 new-to-me books, and so far, it is going swimmingly.
Read so far (these are in vague order, but I was a bit lazy about putting in exact dates on Goodreads):
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley*
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee*
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky*
Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
While I’ve enjoyed everything I read so far, the asterisk marks the books that absolutely blew me away.
Many, many thanks to @servantofclio for introducing me to The Craft Sequence (the books by Max Gladstone), which have such a cool take on magic (and that backstory!), and are totally potato-chip-reading. I plowed through the first three books in the series, and totally expect to do the same to the other three.
I’ve babbled a fair bit about how much I enjoyed The Stars Are Legion, which surprised me because I wasn’t that impressed by Hurley’s Worldbreaker saga (though I’m probably going to finish that series), but if you like your science fiction on the truly fucked-up, gross, transgressive-but-not-exploitative side, please read it. Hurley’s strength is her worldbuilding, and this book really drives that home.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms was lovely, and I see a lot of Jemisin’s central themes appearing there, but as much as I liked it, I read The Fifth Season first and very few books are as excellent as that one.
Mur Lafferty has a great podcast, and I love her on social media, so I was a bit disappointed in Six Wakes (and not just because I started working on a similar original fiction idea before I read her book) -- the narrative is a bit flat, there’s a lot of unnecessary telling, and the ending feels rushed. But she took a ton of risks in this story, and explored some cool themes, so I’ll definitely check out whatever she writes next.
Ninefox Gambit was totally not what I expected, and I am still not totally sure what it is about (technology has progressed to a point where it resembles magic, but keeping that technology working relies on a shared belief in a calendrical system -- I think?), but it’s ambitious and is packed full of intrigue and fantastic technology and it’s a story that respects its readers. I’m really interested in the next book in the series.
Children of Time -- another book where I had no idea what to expect, but I ended up being so moved and inspired and just satisfied with the overall experience. I don’t want to give anything away, because it was such an expected (and at times, tragic) delight, but the author’s voice is assured and calm, the protagonists are very unexpected, and I’m so sorry it’s a standalone because I would read a full seven-book series in this world (though I would not recommend this book if you have a phobia of spiders -- but not for the reason you think).
I was kind of eh after reading both A Darker Shade of Magic and The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe -- I enjoyed both books, and I’ll finish the series for Darker Shade, but the former book felt needlessly trope-y in places, and a late-game revelation came out of nowhere, with no hint in the story beforehand, and the latter book just sort of...ended. Which may have been the point, but in both cases I was left feeling like I hadn’t gotten a whole story, or a whole part of a story, if that makes sense.
The Library at Mount Char had so much going for it -- all knowledge is contained in a library hidden in suburbia by a godlike figure known only as Father, who trains twelve orphans to be masters of their catalog. Then Father disappears, and the librarians have to deal with the real world, and Father’s enemies, all while being vastly fucked-up and powerful people -- but I’m not sure of the ending. It was good enough to make for a reread later, so maybe I’ll get more of out of it then.
Anyways! This has been me rambling about books! I’m happy to get into more detail about any of these stories, spoiler-free or otherwise, and I would always love recommendations!
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Scarborough: Heartless Republicans “Ready to Euthanize” the Elderly
Coronavirus had brought out the worst in hyperbole, panic, and fear-mongering from the mainstream media, and Trump’s usual critics are reveling in the hysteria. You’d think from their overstated claims that Donald Trump got together with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, went into an underground laboratory, and created the coronavirus to kill off everyone in some strange effort to win the 2020 election. It’s the damnedest thing, the way they’re trying to turn this into a Republican disease.
Take MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who spent his time on Thursday insisting that the Trump administration is trying to kill off the elderly with their heartless policies.
“Right now these conservatives are making Democrats who are pro-choice actually look more pro-life because they’re only worried about the unborn,” Scarborough said. “It is the born, it is the weakest among us. It is senior citizens who they’re ready to euthanize because they want Boeing’s corporate earnings to not dip too low. They want to make sure that people that own businesses in their district or in their states will keep giving them campaign contributions. I grew up in a Baptist church and I heard a lot about abortion on the front end of life and euthanizing seniors on the other side of life.”
Oh, the hell you did, Joe. The people who believe in euthanizing seniors are the exact same people who believe in unrestrained abortions, so don’t even try it.
Scarborough got on this kick because there is this infinitesimal minority of “conservatives” out there talking about sending everyone back to work, coronavirus or no coronavirus. People like Glenn Beck, who said he would be willing to send everyone 50+ into the marketplace so that the young can survive and the economy can stay on track. C’mon. This isn’t Trump supporters, writ large. This isn’t, certainly, the actual Trump administration. These are a handful of babblers, doing what they do best: babble.
On the other hand, this idea that we can just shut down the entire American economy without worrying about it is just as ridiculous as the idea that we should just ignore the coronavirus and let it kill 2 million people.
This week, unemployment claims went up to a startling and unprecedented 3.3 million. That cannot be ignored. It cannot be ignored what this slowdown/shutdown is going to do to millions of American workers and millions of American small business owners. And yes, these impacts could end up being just as – if not worse – than the effects of COVID-19 itself. We’re not saying that’s an argument to “get back to normal,” but you can’t just wave it away with a shrug, either.
It is absurd and obscene to say, as one news outlet recently did, that Democrats are the party of life and Republicans are the party of business. That isn’t fair, and it isn’t true. The reality is, this isn’t a dichotomy. The reality is, both are important. The reality is: If the economy goes into complete (or even partial) collapse, catching the coronavirus may be the least of your worries.
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That post about selfies reminds me that i need to save up for a good 70-200mm lens for my nikon. the 35mm f1.8 is great when i can get close to the subject but not for like distant mountains
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