"As soon as I can find a good position, I intend to take a firm stand." -Ashleigh Brilliant Sometimes, healing leaves us even more powerful. Thy skin changes country and colour, And shrivels or swells to a snake's. Let it brighten and bloat and grow duller, We know it, the flames and the flakes, Red brands on it smitten and bitten, Round skies where a star is a stain, And the leaves with thy litanies written, Our Lady of Pain. -Algernon Charles Swinburne "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)" (1866) The Orals Board is master of the Examination. Only the defending author stands before them. I want to walk in the open wind. I want to flock like horses do. Want to dive into your ocean. ...Is it chilly out here? "You can really taste the circulating vitamin D!" "You can really taste the circulating vitamin D!" Read more → "It's always Fish Taco Tuesday somewhere!" "A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure." -Inception (2010) This team has it all: charmers, entry specialists, analysts, and mus(cle/tel)! What if I have flourished too greedily? "Sure, *you* might find that it's not easy being green, but we're built different." Feelin' fine, feelin' like bein' me's a good place to be. "The dead don't return," they say. Well, certainly not if we can help it! LOOK AT THEM! LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE BLINDING FURY OF THESE ADS! "I'm worried that those other pups at the dog park are a bad influence." "The indignity! To have been outrun by a tree!" "With you busting their chops and my bypassing their doors, no one can stop us!" "You're calling a propeller biplane a jet?" "Hell yeah." I'm gonna solve all the mysteries! I'm indestructible! "I'm not just fucking around. I aim to find out." Exiting through the gift shop is *so* 2010, after all. "According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the earlier reports." -Ashleigh Brilliant Gain one free attack of opportunity per turn when wielding a bludgeoning weapon. "Sure, the plane's already in the air, but there's plenty of time to finish building the landing gear!" The better to smell our enemies with, my dear. "Don't stop, don't stop, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go." -Dean Martin, "Go Go Go" (1951). New horse? Bring it here, let's see those teeth. Don't forget: There were multiple French Revolutions to overthrow monarchs, and we're already up to the Fifth French Republic. Did it just... chuckle? How dare you tell me I can't flip this table?! It's pretty to look at, so surely it must be safe to ingest! (Geez, who put all these labels on this thing?) They say robojazz is all about the lines of code that you *don't* run. If he remains risen for more than three days, consult your exorcist. How am I gonna hold all these eggs?! These sun fighbirds sure are brave and fighters! "Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught." -Ashleigh Brilliant A low center of balance, and they got it where it counts. Delicious high fructose corn sweetness. "Everybody's got an angle!" The heretics are looking forward to the feast. Most tales once told now have tellers now long-dead. I cast a spell on me. 'Cause I'm mine. "Plug me in, coach, I'm USB compatible!" "I’m like the resident bad boy here, I can say whatever I want." Jacob Andrews, "The Most Majestic Creature" (Drawfee, June 23, 2014). The silver lining for a masquerade, which we can't count on elsewhere, is that everyone unmasks at the end. Strange things are ahoof down on the ranch! Time to get out into sunlight and start frolicking! The moral of the story is: You better be darned sure you can put down anything you decide you want to pick up. I like my dance partners like I like my house band: Acoustic. I'm sorry to report, Count, that the review board has asked for your human subjects protocol to be revised. "Did you really think daddy could stuff his hog in public and not arouse any criticism?!" Sometimes you gotta do it yourself, even if someone else *ought* to be standing up for you. "It's not the world that's ending, just one or both of our stories." This is my pie! It was made for me! "Never gets real cold down here. 12.778°C." “Hold your gratitude, little one. The dead are stirring.” Some who worship him call him The BeelzeBull. "Boy, they sure do love to sit up on their tall chairs and do nothing for hours!" -All dogs with scholars for owners No password? No problem! There are no boring numbers, only boring number crunchers. What we gotta do, you see, is just one one of each of the freakiest little guys we can! That'll bring in the crowd! And they're like, "Yes, more boba, please!" Let 👏 rodents 👏 have 👏 Internet! 👏 Old religions, for a new age of obscurantism and paranoia! "I hope he can see this 'cause I'm doing it as hard as I can." -Ignignokt the Mooninite Everyfroggy brings something new to the table. Got shells so thick, you can't even hurt our feelings! Are you sayin' to me the dogs weren't put in the kennel until last night?! Who can even remember if I hunted you or if your song overpowered me? "When your life is on the line, you want to make use of all your tools." - Miyamoto Musashi, *The Book of Five Rings* (1645), as translated by Thomas Cleary (1993). No need to pay them a salary, they find their snacks along the way! When it seems they're heading for the (final) (curtain), smoking Kools makes worse what ails, (that's for) (certain). Hey, creatures born with natural weapons? Check your privilege. "His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white." -H. H. Munro, "Srendi Vashtar" (1911). What is an idea? A miserable little pile of secrets! The boxes three with the wind-up key. "The secret to looking this good at our age? Layers. Lots of layers." "We run 'til we drop, baby, we'll never go back!" -Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run" (1975) Let the bodies hit the dance floor. Watch out, they got a glow about 'em. The blues? No, this is deeper, darker. It's very calm actually, very relaxing. "Please don't tell me to relax - It's only my tension that's holding me together." -Ashleigh Brilliant Young love sure is something to behold! "Just because we like to keep it casual on a Friday doesn't mean we don't put in the effort, you know?" Wholesome times in the den of vipers. I hear they make them all themselves. It's not enough to win the battle. "Ohohoho, looks like someone brought a mouse to a cat fight." More like phage, amiright? "That's awful, honey, but it also seems like it might be a skill issue." "They're taking the Twizits to Isengard!" Mother knows meanest. "Your weapon only makes us more powerful." See you tomorrow! "You know how you said you were worried about living alone? Well, good news!" These beaks were made for honkin'. "Nail-tough and untiring, try me and see." And I'm like, I'm better on wheels. Damn right, I'm better on wheels. I could show you what that speed reveals. "Hey Tim, anyone ever tell you that you kinda have a type?" It's important to give your sharks the breathing room to really be themselves. It's fine if the park the money here, it's fine! It's not like he's going to spend it. The head office had prepared some good stuff to fill your head right to the brim! "When investigation is outlawed, only outlaws will investigate!" "Oh geez, did y'all just collect my buddy? Am I the last one left?" That means you can make yourself into an even dumber masterpiece! A play in three acts! My thousands of fans who all believe me can't be wrong! "We get some kind of weather here nearly every day." -Ashleigh Brilliant A top vacation spot! (For ruminant herbivores) Feel free to fly in your lucid dreams, if you like. I'll do mine while lucid waking, thank you. All good puppies! No problems here! Turns out, you can only live on a rock for so long. Be especially wary of the library's third leg. "Well, gentlemen, this is quite an historic moment. We're about to step across the threshold of a new era. Space Burial and Resurrection Now." -The Loved One (1965) Terrible is the beast who feeds chiefly from meager larders. When you're playing for real stakes, infinite games can only stay infinite for so long. Birdgirls are the word, girls! No need to hit the gym if you don't have elbows or knees! That's what makes them so dangerous. Whatcha gonna do with all those donks? All those donks dressed up like twonks? "Wait, did the pointer just barely miss an outcome that says Kill Nathan?" Imagine what it will be worth in five years! I can only imagine they're nice people under all that shell of theirs. Are you looking at them? Look at these beans. "A friend under glass stays a friend as years pass!" Everyone pictured here can chew through concrete with their bare teeth. CONDITION: RED | EMERGENCY | CODE: 102 "We're being issues arms made by the lowest bidder. What were you expecting?" Be sure to get your pets spade. I hear they're the same all the way through. "Look, I don't got nothin' against ya. But this one, he's got a lot of questions." Huge owls are desired by many. This causes a variety of problems. Eat, drink, and be naughty! This green won't Ever all by itself. Vaults of paper, ribbon, and cardboard. "A shifting black pillar dominates the room, writhing and contorting as though in agony. As you approach, you see glinting beaks and mad eyes and, here or there, the shape of a wing." -A House of Many Doors (2017). Gimme fifty. "Byakhee, byakhee, what must I do, to go for a ride with you?" "Byakhee Byakhee", A Shoggoth On The Roof (2000). Lemme tell you, steppers don't come much higher than these! Just in time to get these wrapped and onto the sleigh! "I'm a little worried about how... clean these dungeon walls are." The card(sharp)s know and the card(sharp)s tell! I'll be slipping into dream any moment now! Maybe the real treasures are the foes we bound along the way. Bullet heaven above, bullet hell below. "The vintage Furby is good condition and has been tested and is working properly. The Furby's eyelashes have come loose and are being kept with the Furby but are not attached." You snooze, you delay losing by ten additional minutes! "I think you'll find that our enemies... get the point!" "If you've got to go somewhere, then you better go somewhere far." -EL VY, "Return to the Moon" (2015). You're not going to manage a triple double unless you rack up some assists. "Every nine years nine men enter the house so that I may deliver them from evil. I hear their steps or their voices in the depths of the stone galleries and I run joyfully to find them. The ceremony lasts a few minutes." -Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion" (1964). "If we work together, we can really make this place into a home." How'd they get all that pointy into these round shapes?! Out of the oven, into the tummy. Descending the segmented spiral. "Got room in there for one more? Look, look, I'm definitely on the list." "Cyberpsychosis isn't a personality, Xris." "We're not so different, you and I..." You fools! Did you think you could glimpse the mysteries with *uncorrected vision?!* Together, they fight sleepytime crime. This soft water is delicious, but be a doll and bring me a bottle of some of your hard water next. The Goose, The Swan, And The Birdly. "OK, so we can fit this on the shelf if we move this here and that there and this over here..." That smoke's got me thinking we might need to change some of those plowshares back. "We both want your career to move forward. But why would you expect that would mean a pay raise?" The beauty of the forest is that it's so much bigger than you are. "I've been sleeping a thousand years, it seems." -Evanescence, "Bring Me To Life" (2003) Normally, he's the White Trapezoid, but he doing a big steppy. Seriously, though, why don't we see more chocolate-tea collabs? "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster." -GLaDOS, <em>Portal 2</em> (2011). You'll have to train 'til you're a hundred to land a hit against these sinuous beasts! "You can rely on nobody, and nobody will always be loyal. Therefore, nobody should be your constant companion." -Zote The Mighty "These torches? Why, they're just to make your village suitable for building." Make sure to drink your nutrients! This, surely, is the future of transportation. These production lines involve an awful lot of blades. You're not going to find it staying in the office and reading the reports of others. Could it be... everyone? Sadly, flightless birds to still have to pay the shipping costs, since they can't keep themselves aloft under their own power. "Hey, Atropos, you sure you didn't want to go for something a little more intimidating?" "I've got the sinking feeling my creator doesn't have my best interests in mind." Coins with holes is best because shiny necklaces! "You idiots! We've all got tentacles!" If you see something, say something. (The something is a dog.) Globe Earths, balled fists, let's go! A sweet treat that only gets better with age! I just looks so strong now, dontcha think? Leave the comforts of the scaffolding behind and spread your wings! In the culinary justice system, some candies are especially heinous. What do you mean, they're all starving? Not sure where all the robes figures came from, though. I think they've been here the whole time? You know, if we don't look at the clocks, we can pretend they're on time! "Two steps in the extrusion process reach temperatures capable of reducing bioburden in the feed." "I fear there will be any more picking up our toys after this." It's like there's a field of little guys, permeating the cosmos... We're more fun than the leopards, too. Buncha sticks in the mud, them. "If you can't keep in sight, at least keep in touch." -Ashleigh Brilliant It's not just inexpensive: It's an investment! They really got us packed in here, huh? I need to place this piece very careful. If they win, the moon falls! Sometimes, they run all through the night until dawn, trying to outrun their dreams. You can fit so many volumes into one of these! ...that's a moray. "Hey, you ever think about how the monarchy seemed like a good idea?" "No! It's real! And we're all dinos here. Everyone drifts, all the time. It's impossible to drive straight!" -Dino Duke, <em>Overdrift</em> (2007). Finally get to the end of the bridge, and what's waiting for you? That's right: Another bridge! We're going to need to synchronize watches, we're way off. Sing, my angels of hairspray! "Dear Diary. The nobility have yet to discover my secret that I am, in fact, not an Asian pear at all, but a humble Golden Delicious." "Europe was then able to get back to the important business in which it has been engaged for hundreds of centuries: Chewing off its own leg." -Harlan Elison, from <em>Mindfields</em> (1993). Past the ice, it's ten times as nice! "I was born hungry." -Ashleigh Brilliant "When everyone holds an iron swords, the odds again are even." Lucretius, <em>De Rerum Natura</em>. Just imagine, a store that sells everything! Sometimes, it be entirely the brain that make be snakes. Take a page from the funny papers. There's no need to chew if you simply open wide enough. "It results from the encounter!" It's only natural. These herbivores aren't going to eat themselves. ...Perfection. What were you expecting? A happy ending? Oh Yes, the bees! The bees! But I think I'm probably going to have to do it all over again. Chew on this! Good heavens, it's all spilling forth, isn't it? Have you spilled your share of ink today? Turns out, none of us really knew Jack. What, did you think this was going to be a dialogue? Please put your whole ass into this escapade, if you don't mind. Better keep writing, you're going to need another couple chapters to adress the remaining loose ends... Just be sure not to admire at a distance, let's not go feral about it. Now that you mention it, our food came even faster than expected, unsettlingly so... We're just incredibly comfortable right now, what's going on with you? With the record selection and the mirror's reflect, imma fighting with myself, oh oh! "I know who I really am, but I'm keeping it a secret from myself." -Ashleigh Brilliant "Let's see how strong your bones are after I'm done with ya!" The only place where Big Head Mode is considered the ideal mode of play. "That's why we're so excited to partner with Ground News™." Unfortunately, this is unlikely to bring His crime spree to an end. Compared to this bunch, the bumblebee seems downright plausible! The galaxy is, well, I guess the best you can say is that it's not technically at war. These grazing beasts... are any of them giving you weird vibes at all? Every means of locomotion is permitted, nay, encouraged! If it ain't brake, don't drive it! I've heard of the moody blues, but this is ridiculous! "Sure enough, I must have been mokus and so out of focus to miss the first half of the show." - James Taylor, "Once More Go Round" 1991 On the face of it, there's really only two sides to this one. "Still too soon, buddy, still too soon!" "I have a message! It is that someone in your neighborhood likes to feed the crows." A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Let me know if you are actually an unfeeling robot." "I try to serve life, but you only seem to want to destroy it." Eat, drink, and be welcome! "So that when the moment comes, I can say I did it all with love." -"Monument" (Royksopp & Robyn, 2014) The impossible dream of harmonious coexistence. I hate that you hate that they hated that. Fire: The most enthusiastic of the elements. It helps when the bullets steer themselves, of course. You gotta work *with* the updrafts. No point in working against them! "We decided to go for more of a melded style along the ramparts." "What we're working with, they're not strictly speaking *chemicals*." You know what they say, one man's thief is another man's trash collector! "Look, we just need ot be at war with *someone*, who that might be isn't so important." No Link required! We just puff up when we croak, we're not all inflation enthusiasts. "Oh, oh, I do so love being free to follow your orders!" "I feel like the heroes were very orb-coded." Dancing on the speakers. Are you peaking with the tweakers? Fiddler on the hot tin roof. "You know, Frank, this really would be a *lot* easier with CAD software." I hear it's best if you wait a few days to slay the beast, if you're looking to make bread. Brand new bird, same bold heat. No acts of persuasive mimicry here, nothing at all to worry about! "We've got a lot of strong contenders this year, I think it'll be a while before any of them blink!" A multi-purpose greeting card is configured to read, "Peace between cats and dogs!" What do you mean, it's all reflections and refractions?! The forecast indicates we will also be blue in the afterward times. We're going to need some smaller bling "You'll never get anywhere else if you don't leave if you are now." -Ashleigh Brilliant "Point is, we're at the center, not you!" Where they're going, they won't need eyes to see. Though I sleep no longer, the vision of a city beyond the clouds remains with me still. "It's Deluxe, Son! Deluxe! It's not that hard!" -Deluxe_247 You can have the oxygen, but I'll be keeping this carbon to add to my schemes... If Utopia is "no place," maybe this is the road to get there? I'll be honest, I've just got the shoot button taped down. It's not so much a matter of creating something that is alive as it is altering a living thing beyond recognition without killing it. "Hmm, I don't know, sounds like a skillet issue." Why yes, we *do* have merch with the logo on it. Hang on, can any of these boats survive the open ocean?! "I can behave normally, but it takes an abnormal effort." -Ashleigh Brilliant "None of you are supposed to be in the air! Get down from there!" Go for it, just splash it wherever. "Tell you what, I'll spend it if you don't ask me where I got it. Deal?" If I start early enough and fly fast enough, the day need never end. Sounds like someone needs a time-out. "Haven't you heard? the past is over! And we are the only survivors." -Ashleigh Brilliant If you're lonely, why not reach out an impact someone's life? This egg has met its end, after all, but the chicken goes on. Don't think for a second that you're coming into this house. Ever experience the New Wave? Next Wave? Dream Wave?! OR Cyberpunk?! Will someone think of this poor woman? She's maintaining her composure but she's also clearly melting. "You have improved beyond all recognition. In fact, I forgot who you were." -Ashleigh Brilliant One plus one plus our prey makes three. What do you mean, shake it to see what falls out? I'm so glad you could come over. Can I offer you a spoonful of honey? Tell you the truth, fashion's about the least secure system I've ever broken into. All gentle souls, but it's the paper tigers you *don't* see that you really need to worry about. After all, the dogs are hot, the ice cream is cold, and we've got plenty of loaves. "Don't you wanna just scoop them up and put them in your pocket?" Welcome to the mediocre cinematic universe. Putting up with him would leave a sour taste in anyone's mouth. The fight is good if it is worth fighting for. Progressing inexorably past the point of no return. What a relief that, in this moment, what we have is one another. "Well, I could hardly carry this burden if I wasn't still standing." About time someone stood up to him, it was getting to be a real circus around here! I'm going to need you to focus up, Joe. You can't make an industry without breaking a few spirits. If you know exactly what you're doing, every problem is a nail. "If you got real hair, real fingernails, you got a job, you goin' to school, and y'all don't need nobody to help you handle yo' business, make some noise!" -DJ Kool, "Let Me Clear My Throat (Live)" (1996). The story of the tower's collapse begins at its conception. It's not a real flavor, it's a fiction that someone made up. "What's in it?" "Typewriter ribbon!" -"H.R. Giger At Home," Superego Podcast She'll hunt down the heretics, he'll hunt down the hisetics. Nothing is as it seems aside from everything seeming very uncertain. Thing are heating up and love is blooming! "I swear to God, if you don't do this, I will take your bones." -Angoose, as read by Drawfee in "Drawing Animals Based On Their Skulls" (2021-04-27) You think that's loud? Wait until the square gets cleared. I think I get the message; it was rather pointed, after all. "I, too, enjoy eating fruit, it great that we have so much in common." If I'm being honest, the last one didn't so much get away as there just wasn't much left on those bones. There's nothing you can bird that can't be borb. The world is brimming with scenes to peep, if only you go out and find them. "Hey, will you babysit my Tamagotchi® while I'm away for the weekend? My last one died and I can't go through that again bro." You wouldn't guess it at first, but their personalities are actually all very different! Look, I know our first eight plans weren't good enough, but this time I think we really cooked. Well, did you follow the recipe or not? I'm going to need you to all get on my wavelength. This little note of mine, I'll pass it down the line. There's no "I" in wolf. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. What's the matter, can't take a little heat? "What's a' matter? You feelin' yellah'?" Forget your name while we collect our claim. "Everyone drifts, all the time! It's impossible to drive straight." -Overdrift (2007) Is someone going to tell him that his horse is made of wax?! Sometimes nothin' is a real cool mask. You can help by keeping your distance and gathering some firewood. Maybe try less hard. AM HAPPY. AM IN TROUBLE. NO WAIT, AM HAPPY. "I think you'll find that reports that it is impossible for us to remain airborne on account of the Earth's inexorable pull have been grossly exaggerated!" Hang on, the music of what now? You'll have to spook yourself, I'm off the clock. School's out forever. "Don't get well too soon. Your suffering is an inspiration to us all." -Ashleigh Brilliant "Mind if I just hum?" Thing is, there's technically also a last time for everything. "And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that, uh, that blizzard thing." And we were both ghosts?! "Prodigal son wants to return to where the dogs play pool." Frank, "Frank" (2014) "SAMUS: Ridley killed my parents. RIDLEY: One time!" -Awkward Zombie (2014-09-21) Take a moment, you deserve it. Think I might need both hands for this one. "If the facts don't support my theory, the facts must be wrong." -Ashleigh Brilliant This is an obsidian doll. All craftsmanship is of the highest quality. "So we get funky in the house, you know what I'm saying?" -LL COOL J A justice no less hard for all the softness of its color scheme. "I learned this strategy from Dorian Smiles, but I put a little twist on it." -Brian David Gilbert, "Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss" (2020). And I watched it as it disappeared. This collab knows how to make it train! And there was much rejoicing. You know that he'll be hard (Here he is) Return of the Bard (Once again) Pretty sure it's a skill issue. A sword hath sharpness to slay a savage beast, or butcher innocent folk. Any magic worth doing is worth doing in jealously-guarded secrecy. "Why did it have to be snakes?!" -Indiana Jones, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) So many suitors, my heavens, how will I ever choose? "And when I stand on my head, you never react. I can't get you to crack, I can't get you to crack, not one fucking smile" -Veruca Salt, "Stoneface" (1997) You mess with one of us, you mess with most of us! "Hey, do you ever get the feeling like maybe there's an imposter among us?" "I don't want a machine to replace me - do you?" -Ashleigh Brilliant A dream about being a person. What do you mean, it's just painted on?! What do we make in this state? We make money, son! I mean, I tried, but I decided that returning to target owner's hand was the best course of action. Our hero is about to shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark. Why do you think they call all the junk they stuff in there "flyers?" It don't matter where you parade. You better plan for rain, just in case. Enter a world of tiny, iconic delights! "I want a suite, a shower, a shave, the feel of a suit!" "One well-placed bomb could ruin my whole day." -Ashleigh Brilliant "Hi! It looks like you're collecting pins." -Pinny the Pin Assistant, Wondermark The flavor matters little, young one, you have come here to grow. More like can't kill the messenger. Too slow, laid low. Good thing we all thought to bring out protective headgear. What better place for it than my vaulted art cavern? It's going to take a lot more than that to stop them. DOGS! 👏 DESERVE! 👏 IMAGINATIVE! 👏 SPACES! 👏 Hey, you ever wonder what the aliens find so interesting about about watching us struggle to survive? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? "All right, so, first things first. Romaine goes up in S tier." Behold these modes of transit fit for a rarified heir. Beware those who worship aesthetics but seem to have very little to say of substance. Haha, that's so random! So, anyway, just curious, who's you're parole officer? In our defense, we got rich doing it, so how were we supposed to know any better? Just me? That's fine, I should be the one in charge after all. There's none smaller, quod erat demonstrandum. They're all around us, even now, even though we can't see or feel them. You'll cheam your creezies when you speep our Pestist Grevias! These two really know how to breathe fresh air into their relationship! Looks like we're going to have to take nature into our own hands! Every bnuuy needs some bduuy to love. Not sure that I enrolled in this school to do this, but I guess it's what we're doing! What do you mean, they made my plans illegal?! "I could do great things, if I were'nt so busy doing little things" -Ashleigh Brilliant What we gotta do, you see, is build them too big to succeed! Slow and steady topples the edifice. Orbs, yes, but not quite heavenly. Because if not by our hands, and then by whose? They get to hang out and play, and they have lots of friends, but unfortunately we can't go visit them. At first they gathered two by two, then rallied four by four, and finally in a sea of blue they breached the sealed tomb door. This honkin' snoot's a beaut. I'm gonna let it hoot. Wah-wah-wah-wipeout! Y'all ready to form some bonds?! Everything old is new again, so in a way, there's already a preliminary chart of the territory. "I need more time, and I probably always will." -Ashleigh Brilliant Yours is fine, though. Nothing wrong with yours being smaller. Things will work themselves out, no doubt, no doubt. If you liked this word, you're going to *love* that word. For when you need an orb delivered from anywhere on the glorb. "Lord, it's deep, and the sides are steep, and the night are long and cold" -James Taylor, "Down In The Hole" (1991). Brighter than the tallest lighthouse! "You want me to do what? No way, get meow'da here." He sees you. You’ll do this again. "We're thinkin' we might go cruising around later, maybe pick up some 'goyles." Darn it! I was supposed to ger here 10,000 years ago! "That'll be first month, last month, and a security deposit. What, it's not like any of you can afford to own." We cannot now know the consequences of our triumphs. If you need me, I'll be encased in stone. "I'm a needle on a spiral in a groove." -Jethro Tull, "Something’s on the Move" (1979). So perhaps you might consider making a small donation to support a free resource from which so many benefit? "Have you considered changing everything?" As if you thought we could be stopped, or even slowed, by inclement weather. Back to the homestead we go! Don't you dare collect the Hammer Fragments to repair the Ball Hammer. "Nurse come in, please, where are you?" -Dr. Octagon, "General Hospital" (1996). "History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth." -Ashleigh Brilliant Love police, I think I'm forming, I'm forming a crush. We'll get along great if you stand *right* over there. "I'm cold and I'm bold and I don't do what I'm told." -Information Society, "Mirrorshades" (1990). I'll have you know that I underwent the ritual, and it ordained me as fit to have only good opinions! There is no need to cry when everybody Hz. Feels like making progress toward the goal is harder than ever. We figured we could storm one last megashroom together, just to cap things off. "If you’re bold enough to go mask off, you’re bad enough to get smacked on." -2 Mello, "PULL UP" (2021) I could let them, but I'd have to charge. "Want something?" -VHS Head, "Frozen" (2014) There's not too much you can do about, they're eventually going to find a way in. Those aboard, at no extra charge, may stay on with us for all remaining stops. "Corporate city, lucky for some, richest island in the sun." -Public Image Ltd, "Bad Life" "We wanna invite you to go hunt with us." "Some conscious light gets through somehow, yet I fail to notice, then I'm heading for the ground" -BT "Running Down The Way Up" (1999) The only thing I'm looking to break is even! There's a lot going on, dress warm and keep watch. I hope it is! There might be five minutes in it! "I am afraid of the unknown... and also many parts of the known." -Ashleigh Brilliant Don't given 'em the satisfaction, is how! From kinky timber no chaste thing was ever made. Revived out of a sense of begrudged duty. Surely, this will be sufficient! (It wasn't.) These dogs do *not* have a job. If you read the fine print, a castle on a cliff is actually required under the terms of the Holy Rome Owners Association. The trick is to work to keep their disorganization from becoming a feature rather than a bug. They will be the ones to tell you so. "Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window." -Ashleigh Brilliant Do you want to build a ski lift? It's all in the game, though, right? Don't dream it's clover. Thanks for havarting my back, you're a life shaver! My boots! My boots! My controlling shares for my boots! Friends keep their friends dry, and open up to one another. "Everything must finally fall. In war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash, the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes." -Orson Welles, *F for Fake* (1973). What you're making in a year, I blow it in a week. In a way, the most powerful sorcery is that which has nothing at its center. Now that's some good eating! A curious war. The only way to win is not to kill. Seriously, who forgets a whole island?! If you're just now joining us, this is buffo tenor Ultros, performing the opening number from *De Vermis Mysteriis*. Come on in! The water's cold and under enormous pressure! Love is free. Love is free. Love is free. Love is free. (Ready to kick some ass!) If you stack one atop the other, you can make yourself a staircase to anywhere. Look to the sky, and you will see, in its vastness, all things. "Just watch me pulling up my socks, and then they get away right out from under me." -Dragonette, "My Legs" Feel like a winner; where air is thinner; take it from me. Rejections by mail don't get any easier when they come from across the veil. A future we can all aspire to: "Become your best self. You can do it. We can help." "Stare into the subliminal for as long as you can." -They Might Be Giants Nature, uh, finds a way. Quit stalling and get in the sleigh, gramps. There's treasure everywhere! So really, you should be thanking me for all these great gifts. These fun guys are now making all metropolitan stops. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. You ever get the feeling that the scissors had better watch out, because they might not be the victors in this encounter? They want you to know what's in the books; they do not want you to take them. Poison Dart Froogo is a little bummed to learn they're not the biggest frog in the land. The next big things arises from what came before, even if it need not be of the same stuff. Been a long time gone, Leningrad. Why did Leningrad get the works? Things keep rolling along, but at what cost? Where I'm going, I won't need color to see. This hall of whispers ain't quiet enough for the both of us. They say that creatures can perceive the beings beyond the veil that we cannot. Shuffle the deck, cut the cards, bury the evidence, and throw away the knife. Some dogs are created more orb than others. If you don't watch out, there's gonna tamagetcha! Conviction is a terrible thing to concede. Once you get to know the Big Guys, they're easy enough to get along with. Invaders beware: This Kasbah's ready to rock back. Or angry? Or ready for dessert? They make me feel less alone, but I'm starting to worry it's not in the way I intended. One need only point out where the artifact is hidden and command, "Fetch!" Turns out, the world is actually overflowing with things we should be thankful for. I'm as surprised as anyone. I was alarmed to discover that the bear could not only speak, but knew all my sins. Never mind what's fueling my unstoppable flurry of blows. Come on, daddy needs another couple hundred tickets. Please turn to p. 104 and consult the Wheel Table. Let's just say there's been some real *combustion* in these internals, you know what I'm sayin'? "It's even more exciting, not being able to see where they lead, don't you think?" It's always brunch somewhere! Her witch hat brings all the dogs to the moors. She could walk them, but she'll stay indoors. The morning air's still crisp, best to keep the java warm. We're gonna need a bigger magnifying glass. None can contest that this hoard is mine and that it is safe in my keeping. Keep your finger on the X button, this sequence is brutal, and it goes on *forever*! Forgive me. It's not you, nor is it me, it's just autumn. It's a very slow dance, but on a truly grand scale. This little cloud of mine, I'm going to make it thine. "Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand." -Luke Jackson, *Cool Hand Luke* (1967). Watch as these even dumber drawings speak to ravenous, feral audience! Three of two of them. Devastating momentum! (Mediocre turning radii) Our geodes runneth over. They say the only way that anyone ever comes to know her is in passing. Oh, him? He's definitely not on the list. Deception is a dish best served by an unwitting mail carrier. "When people ask me what I do in the mountains all day," the mole quipped, "I tell them I'm boring!" "Scum of the Earth, overpaid to rob anonymously from a distance" -Metric, "Doomscroller" (2022). "The Dark Wizard further encouraged me to build visualizations and tools to reinforce my superstitions." -Thomas Walter Murphy VII Can't look away, now that they've fallen into orbit. Big smile, head empty, ready to be filled with candy. You wanna know how I got these wings? Orange above, dew-chilled below. "Open up for me, Max. I've got something I want to play for you." -Barry Convex, in *Videodrome* (1983). All you need to do is turn your eyes toward the things creeping at the edge of the frame. From purple timber no good thing was ever drank. We keep it tight, you know? Gotta be there for the wolf pack. Though it be cool, and dark, much grows in the waters of the bog. Fast fashion, you say? Well, they're available for a limited time, I'll tell you that much! It's remarkable what you can turn up when you're a journalist by day. Dealer vs. dealer, the edge is going to go to whoever has more arms. Above us, the celestial fire. Below us, the infernal heat. I'm nourished by the lives that wove the web inside my haunted head. Creatures with which one might relax/ensorcel. The committee of independent consultants has decreed: It kinda seems like an extra city would just be redundant. "starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost" -vamprisms, 2022-09-17 🎶If you want to destroy your reason, trace this thread to its origin.🎵 These raptors are capable of velocities their ancient ancestors could never imagine. Not sure how you can be so salty but not salt your password tables. Watch party at our place! We're going to binge Candle Cove! Feed them, Seymour. "And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee." -Harlan Ellison, "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (1965). "My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs." -Dragline, in *Cool Hand Luke* (1967). It seems you've got a reply for my every quip. You wouldn't happen to be my foil, would you? Remember, everyone, it's about what your embodying, it's about attitude, it's about transformation! Remember the four Cs of gemstones: Color, Clarity, Cut, and Cpecial Abilities. Sometimes, it's nice to visit a theme park whose theme is modest sincerity. Cogito ergo that's some people, I tell you what. Cornifer, from Hollow Knight, explores a cave described as "cold, dark, damp, and stinky." Stay outta my personal space! Following the upheaval, life must go on. "The biblical Tower of Babel was built so high as to defy understanding. Those who built it began to talk nonsense. The tower could no longer be comprehended. There was simply too much of it." -Jon Bois, "Troy State 253, DeVry 141" a.k.a. "We're Serious About Success" (2017). "I was an animal then. Behind all this, I'm an animal now, and someday, some grim situation or another will, with its claws, steal from me my humanity and leave me for a moment in philosophy a shattering animal. Today, I'd like to hope that's not me. I'm not there. I'm here. I will always be right here." -Tim Rogers, "action button reviews boku no natsuyasumi" (2022). “Sax, who's paying for all this?” Sax tilted his head, blinked. “The sun.” -Kim Stanley Robinson, *Red Mars* I shall stop and think, from time to time, and from the ocean of my mind, I will pluck a memory of you, and smile. If the bounty of the earth is sate my every hunger, why do I still feel uneasy? Let me tell you, when these gummies hit, they *really hit!* Birk a bork today, and you'll both bark at a berk tomorrow! Is this your first time on the path? Knuckles the echidna said "Fuck TERFs" and it roared across the battlefield from his mech's broadcast system. Why is it that the owner class so frequently don't have any class at all? I hear that there's no comparison, that this is peak duck! The bigger they are, the harder these little guys bring them down. "As long as the lookout manages to stay hidden, you can hide here as long as it takes to recover." "We will be the hands that lift you up and we will be the arms that hold you high. We will make you say our name forever. We will make you want another try." -Röyksopp, "Skulls" Crossing the veil's not so hard when you can relax to fill the contain you've been placed in. Crowds part when I go out on the town with my ball & chain. I don't know where this idea comes from that we're the quiet types. We're chattin' about delicious mortals all the time! Everything just gets more imposing with adulthood, doesn't it? Next stop: Exceeding 300 kilometers per hour! Look, everyone, I'm sure one of us is going to crack their ICE eventually! When the only tool you've got is a lever, every problem looks like a fulcrum. All it takes is just one dropship, order yours today! Welcome to the haunted world of HORRIBO. "And bein' the baller that I am, I talk to them; Givin' a damn about them not feelin' my attitude." -Chamillionaire, "Ridin'" What will be the face you wear after The Change sets in? Once upon a noontime sunny, while I pondered something funny, written in a quaint and curious book of a romantic strain — while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my window pane. “’Tis the breezy trees,” I muttered, “tapping at my window pane, only this, the wind's refrain.” It's not just about kaiju; it's about kaijhistory. Owl be seeing you later! "Well, it's very simple. See, if you inflate a balloon and seal it, at which point you've got -1 holes..." "There's nothing sexier than giving the last blow to a candle that's about to go out." -I-No, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R "What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp; Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" -William Blake, "The Tyger" By land, by air, or by sea, we've got the world covered. "I hope you'll excuse my cheap wit, but the hour is late and it's all I have left." -A humble crow. What better way to honor her contributions than to post via wifi? I'm just coming back from the shops. Hope these supplies aren't too haunted! Maybe you can't take it all with you, but this paraphernalia's gonna let me bring 'em all back! "I never thought so much would happen that I never thought would happen." -Ashleigh Brilliant Two frogs go on a coastal hike. One is bringing the sense of adventure, and the other is bringing the snacks! And if you can believe it, it's Friday once again, Chère. "Pull this lever," they said. "It opens all the cages at once, easy peasy," they said. See them run hither and thither, each sporting their own accessory! Those copper-bottoms are no match for our shell-tops. Just add ears (imperative)! "This would fix me," said many furs. We're sorry/thrilled to take over/leave it to you! Pikmin! Five of them! Just think of it, a land created by Lord Larethian for all our kind. We'll just need to relocate these pesky humans. While we're at it, any chance we could get your plow as well? We're going to need some battering rams. Backed by the full faith and credit of the company, some exceptions apply, void where prohibited. "Now, fellas, how exactly are we going to proceed with no judge or jury?" A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Hope you had a pleasant recuperation!" This retro aesthetic has a particularly appealing crunch to it! Look, Eunice, the company has done quite a lot to wind you up, it's only right that it get the song and dance it expects. "I did my makeup all by myself! Well, maybe one person helped." She's navigating that tenuous Middle Kingdom between cat girl and catgirl. I know some people say think they're very one-dimensional, but I sure think they've got depth. It's like I've got this whole dense orb on my back! Won't anyone take pity on the burdens felt by the powerful? When all you have is a skull, every problem starts to look like a fortress gate. I hope this doesn't corrupt any sectors in me... It's almost as though what the heart wants is not necessarily precisely what the body needs. That your car? Pretty nice, I love convertibles! It's kind of wild how much the flora of an ecosystem rely on flowers to round out their collective color wheel. Take heart! There will be fascists enough to punch anon! Look, the expected value of going again is infinite. So hit me. Hit me. Hit me. Sweet things come from those who fly! A rare window into how royal succession plays out after the chess game has concluded. Within these pictures, we will no doubt find the hidden secrets that will reveal the identity of the murderer! This design is also available on one of our commidi-tees, available in the gift shop! (grumbles) "Goddamn group projects, how come I'm always the one picking up the slack at the last minute?" These felines bee-line to bumper gleams and laser beams. This is the luckiest thing to happen to Mazura since he got kicked out of Parapa Palace. I'll tell you what, when we're done down here, it's going to be all mine! I'm hot 'cause I stayed out in the sun too long. You ain't 'cause you showed reasonable levels of restraint in the face of a fiery sky orb. If you think she's going to make a splash when she hits the waves, wait until you see how big a splash he makes! Sure, some things end, but in the grand scheme, everything keeps on going. Sure, the sun's out and life feels easy, but do you ever get the feeling that the shallows are getting less shallow all the time? "It's our spilled milk, and we'll cry if we want to!" I heard that, back in the day, they'd put a whole sausage in your burger if you asked them! "You say you can't stand me when I'm quiet, and so I shot you with my silence. I can't get that trumpet out of my head." -Lykke Li, "This Trumpet In My Head" (2008). Beware the prisons we build for ourselves, invisible to others, that trap us in our own minds. You're going to need to put a lot of heads together to outsmart this wolf pack. "Who do I know this man?" -The hosts of Drawfee I'll keep them close so I'm never alone! As above, so below. All that remains is your execution. This shaggy trio of pups looks like trouble! "Why be among the last to do what's right, when you can be one of the first?" -Ashleigh Brilliant High Priestess Luna bids you to mind your manner in her domain, for it is where her beasts are at their most powerful. Make your immortal rodent happy. Give her the cheese she has relied on for over 75 years of Constant Nutrition®. Time to get out from these narrow confines and stretch our limbs! With DOS on your PC, you'll be blown away by the discussions about DOOM and SSI you'll have on AOL. LOL! I'm hearing a lot of good things about, I think they're called "Lancers?" All the rage, I hear. You'd never guess which of the two has the higher power level. Froogo's having a grand old time living that monospaced life! Discard your ideas, replace them with orbs, for a spherical future! It was in the Vosges Mountains, they're famous for it. Eggbug's doing the best they can, but let's just say it's a lucky thing they can fly! RIP to Laurent de Brunhoff (1925-2024), who carried the torch for a father taken from him far too early. Sure, the Moon is a lot smaller than the Sun, but it's also a *lot* closer! These sculptural creations are ready to make some mayhem, and are also immune to critical hits! What reason do you have to doubt? Have you ever met a pig who tells lies before? "What do we make? Motherfucker, we make *money!*" All it takes is a bit of the old one-two, one-two! As everyone knows, benevolent clowns favor bicycles, while malevolent clowns have all flocked to these new "motor vehicles." Betcha can't kiss the Spider Woman just once! The future is not yet determined, but we may know ourselves in the present moment. You know what would really get us ready for out astral raids? *Costume jewelry!* With family like these, who needs mortal enemies? Watch as I inject this code straight to its root. Marx: "Don't you know the emancipation of the working classes can only be achieved by the working classes themselves?" Lenin: "No, but if you hum a few bars I'll try and fake it." Don't count this silly little mouse out just yet! Even so, it's going to be *quite* a climb, with some gnarly battles along the way. "Surely someone can just buy some carbon offsets to make up the difference," they said as they struggled to understand one another. If that girl's going to keep her hearts full, she'd better use a spin attack! People sure seem upset about something on campus, but so long as I've got my barrier up, I can ponder my orb in peace. They're technically all woofers, even their tweeter! A businessman is beset by sexy wingsuited beachgoers with knives! This is making everyone else nervous. Whatever they're doing, it's not thinking. If it wasn't for the certification, you'd never even know the place was haunted. Bulma is excited to reveal the DBZ Spacelab to the audiences of Earth. Don't mind him, he's just pining for the fjords. A nibble here, a nibble there, and before you know it, you've made a treasure from someone else's trash! Robots! We're doing our part(s)! They say that by the time you make it to the deep end, visibility goes down to zero! "I wonder." -President Lindberg, *The Fifth Element* (1997). Despite early accusations that the hare had thrown the race, a deeper investigation revealed a more complicated web of culpability. I can fix him in post. Things aren't going so hot for these amateur rocketeers! What a mysterious collection of bones, behaving in most unexpected ways! No need for the stick, the carrot's all the incentive anyone needs. Just one problem! Someone put all the racing stripes on sideways! United, she sits. Divided, we fall. LOL, owned. Oh my goodness! Do you mind? Can I get a picture? We need to claw back these resources before nature does it for us! They say she's got specimens to die for. The stripes make it hard for you to tell how many of them there are. At whose behest are the cities remade? At yours?! "Text me back in like 30. I'm watching that episode of SpongeBob where he has a 3-day rager with his jellyfish." -Alfred Pennyworth Ponder it, won't you? Ponder the eternal and beautiful orb, seen across so many orders of magnitude. "I'm just really feeling the 'action' part real intense, like. I could honestly take or leave the 'direct' part." This looks like a job for Claude Chappe, inventor of wireless long-distance semaphore! A serpent of a thousand miles begins with a single mis-step. Like my graduate adviser used to say, if you want to study a good boy, study yourself! "Just make sure you don't leave this one out overnight like you did your last bike." Cut through the air like a hot knife through butter with these fashionable, aerodynamic helmets! Bears shouldn't walk on sunshine! Not like this! "Everything that its developers would need to crank out GranTurismo sleeps in Motor Toon Grand Prix's prehistorically simple action gamey race flow." -Tim Rogers, 2019 Think what you will of these cats, they've certainly thought a great deal about you. If enough of us force ourselves into this box, you won't even be able to tell there's an echo! Maybe y'all better go home, because I'm about to go big. Raise the iron curtain on the first of many acts, but never lower your guard! "In a logic that perhaps no man will ever understand, the true winner is the last to finish the race." -Dr. Nils Hellstrom, *The Hellstrom Chronicle* (1971). "Distance doesn't really make you any smaller, but it does make you part of a larger picture." -Ashleigh Brilliant Who needs spinal column when you've got all this brain power?! Integers! They're only natural! Why work together to accomplish something, when you can shun the company of others and complain to strangers? I think you'll find that the meaning this duel takes depends entirely on where I cleave things. In today's 'Feat Head-To-Head,' we'll be comparing two different options for spicing up your NPCs Our best bet is to stick together and find a nice sunny patch where we can all photosynthesize! Come to the fortified city of Provins, guaranteed to be safe from armies with small-to-moderate siege capabilities! "Spring has sprung! And all the lovers knowing that spring has come!" -Terry Taylor, "Spring Has Sprung" (1997). When the worshipers of the Golden Capybara came into contact with the worshipers of the Golden Eggbug, the Golden Horde was born. Maybe she's born with it. Maybe she knows some really talented craftspeople. My health is assured! I'm gonna live forever! I shall remake this world in my image. Starting with this tree that I shall punch. "Are these dreams a clutch of stifled memories? Was there something in my mind? There are things they say man was not meant to know... Is this shadow out of time?" -The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" (2007). Every turn you make, you're heading downward, and yet there's never any bottom. You can't surprise me! My vision's periphery all the way round! In the criminal justice system, the wealthy are represented by two separate, yet equally obnoxious groups: billionaires, whose demands outline what is and is not lawful, and cronies, who enact those demands. "Come closer. Closer." (Whispers in your ear) "Now fight me like a man." *On the Fresh Grave of Your Lifelong Love Who died of Consumption and Being Found the Next Morning Unconscious, Naked, and Nearly Frozen to Death by the Groundskeeper. "Dinosaurs are not dead! Dinosaurs are life!" "Now, you say you spell 'slaadi' with two As? Fascinating." On the Internet, everyone knows you can't possibly be a ghost who died before 1969, because they never received the necessary operating system upgrade. The beauty of analog systems is that you can always given 'em a good hip check if they're not behaving! My journey shall take me beyond the shore, beyond the sea, beyond even the sky itself. Why go to work when your place of work can come to you, direct as the crow flies? We all saw you both from across the room, and we agree: We like what you've both got going on. Guess I'll wait here until someone restarts the level. Vee are going to PUMP YOU UP! "Sinuously erect?" Looks, *New Aeon*, you said it not me. "Did you think such a treasure would have only one protector, waiting around bored and alone for you to blunder in and take it?" I didn't give my heart to a rubber wasp, so much as have it stolen. From the north to the south to the east to the west! Elasmobranch fish are the boss and the best! It's the first of April, and you know what that means! That's right, FISH, FISH, FISH! They're the reason for the season! And I realized it wasn't a blade at all. It was a key. These ladies aren't going anywhere. It is the world around them that will change. The discrepancies of scale are not a bug of the polycule; they're a feature. Unfortunately, as reliably as the conveyer belt provides ants, food preparation times quickly add up. 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The streets of the old city are teeming with schemers, miscreants, and those just trying to get through the day. Lost in an bush with Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. Of course I'm going to let him come right back, I'm still wearing his denim vest. I emerged from the disorienting journey changed in ways I could not have anticipated. Which of of the sky's faces will it turn towards us tomorrow? All I need is water, and fruit, and to impress my friends. This is not a genre-defining collection of contributions that transformed multiple creative industries. This is just a tribute. I touched the giant geodesic orb at the American Pavilion and all I got was this self-referential chost. When you're looking at the world while you've got the blues, a blue Moon just looks like the Moon. It's a tough market out there, no horsin' around permitted. Behold, the first feed manufacturing facility to shift the focus from responding to contamination of the supply to preventing it. Just who is being protected from whom, here? This couple of aces doesn't get their rocks off like an ordinary couple. A place for every color and every color in its place (not you, pink). "I'm addicted to shiny things," they said, as they both reached for the lizard. When the trees are under the spell of winter's anesthetic stupor, we teach the blade-bearers how they may be safely diminished. These troublemakers are about to blow their tops! Things are gonna get hot! Some doors will only open to a stranger who you feel deeply that you knew in times past. This motley crew of brash trend-setters are making their way downtown the way *they* would prefer to travel. These saxa aren't going to frangere themselves. Some voids swallow the light that shine on them, but others wholly deflect it. The centaurs have been over this before, but sometimes the spirit of jazz is too strong to partake in archery. Fortunately, someone brought a spare bow. "In an orderly world, there's always a place for the disorderly." -Ashleigh Brilliant In the future, music will consist of food sounds, and be prepared by those no longer among the living. They say the uprising was started by a cadre of Jameson-type cyborgs. The spirit of the millennium is alive in the mix of Rs and Bs. "If you think about it, Platinum, the whole rest of the world is Sheep, isn't it?" Republic Space Force: The Wings of Hollandaise "You never know when you're making a memory." -Rickie Lee Jones. "I went to see a psychiatrist. He said, 'Tell me everything.' I did, and now he's doing my act." Richard Prince. What if a tingus and a tangus... fell in love? A lizard prince sits in a library, reading, wide-eyed. Machines should do the work. That's what they're best at. People should do the thinking. That's what they're best at. "I got no complaints, it's regular hours, and I can jog to and from work on the parkway." If it were Ours, We'd make it much bigger. This crew's so gently pliable, they've not got one bone between them. No book in the world held the secret I sought, so I gave myself the book in dreams. A lancer pilot sits atop a stone wall. Ahead, a pastoral landscape of rolling farmland. Behind, a darkened industrial hellscape. All the armaments known to the artist that are mightier than the sword. SNAKE FARM SNAKE FARM SNAKE FARM "When asked by a noted art scholar the appropriate distance from which to stand when viewing his magnum opus plainly entitled Loss, Tim Buckley famously responded 'What? Fuck You!' and banned me from his forum" -Hareton Splimby These feathered fellows bring the "smash" to "smashing the chains of the oppressed." Food fights: Questionable. Kitchenware fights: Unconscionable. The essence of the chaotic alignment is a little less conversation, a little more mayhem. Just sit back and let them do all the cutting. Folks will do whatever it takes to be these dogs' best friends. Are you telling me that cats dressed as finely as we should feel hunger? Preposterous! Film's future is so bright, we've got to wear shades! A charging armored knight is no match for a nude longbowman whose aim is true. No more fearsome collection of bounty hunters has ever been assembled! "When all other means of communication fail, try words." -Ashleigh Brilliant "Reach for a book and you touch the stars," they said. "As above, so below," they said. And look at us now! Sure would be a shame if we took these, the only remaining Talismans, into the Valley with us! From blunt force all sharp things are made. A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The animals will feel an overwhelming peace descend when you are around." Be grateful! The seasonal staff have been working through the night to lay out the white carpet for you. Two test tubes, and within them, two individuals. Their respective genders are not for others to decide. "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target." -Ashleigh Brilliant A mountain guide stands near a warm cabin and points across a vast expanse of snow at a shimmering peak. They say you can kill over 200 pounds of rabbit and bison with just 1 Bullets card. Is that really true?! "You are becoming Gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you. You've unraveled DNA, and at the same time, you're cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing. D'you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? **You lot?**" - *The Second Coming* (2003), as sampled by Orbital (2004) on "You Lot" One might go so far as to say that we live in a society. I dunno, if it doesn't, can you *really* say you're living the dream? "Tutto quello a cui riesco a pensare è prendere altre patatine!" -Every seagull in Venice, probably. Now that they've been adorned with flowers, there's no denying that these are the beasts of all time. Together, these two owls break the law to get justice. Ah, Paris. City of love, city of cake. To go on this journey, goat north. What do the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, the mandolin, and the fiddle have in common? Sicks shreds. Check out the eyelashes on this one! Just don't step into the circle. "Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down." - Weird Al Yankovic, "I Think I'm A Clone Now" (1988) It would be best if you simply do what these giant women say. These bugs are some next-level moon fanciers, so they deserve nothing less than The Moon, fancier. It's race to discover land between the lookouts in the crow's nests and the crew looking into the water! Four intimidating figures, each a force to be reckoned with, indicates the object of their sinister ambitions. Who keeps so many birds in boxes?! Sunset with the girls. What's not to love? Behold the future conveyances of ages past! The moon is not a place for people. It will never forgive these people for trying to be Selenites. One of these bozos show their face, and you're getting that *special* boss music! Ladies! Now available in blue. The jeans are from grandma, the Nintendo is from Uncle Red. Zardoz gets to play Santa this year. The results are surprisingly heartwarming! When you're a resurrectionist, you get to be in everybody's will! Beneath the city, the harbor. Beneath the harbor, a sleepy community and fish. Beneath that community, a friendly slumbering mass. A woman, dressed warmly, gathers some flowery sprites in from a garden overtaken by frost. See how they sparkle, see how they shine, see how you're drawn from yours into mine. A shady ne'er-do-well pulls himself from the ocean only to discover more than he bargained for. Where my guinea pigs at! Come and get some citrus! Look, I'm just saying, these creatures are, like, *all wing*, know what I mean? A duel is when two people agree that the other person dying is more important that keeping oneself alive. Crimson acid can hear what they're saying to her. This gnome's got a sword, and a dog, and a wardrobe that just don't quit. Beneath the canal, and deeper out beyond the harbor, there are things in the water. "Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'? Isn't that weird?" -Calvin & Hobbes, 1993-06-14 Stripes, checkerboards, it's as plain as black and white. It's a chimeracle! I'll lead, you follow, try not to get burned. You know what would look great in this untamed landscape? A housing development. Oh, they laughed at me at the academy, but who's laughing now?! The heart want what it wants, which is trouble if the heart wants the heart. Just *every* kind of animal, all hanging out together! Hold me closer, dabbing Lancer! Each and every dog normal, not made of unusual materials at all, don't worry about it. Let me introduce the team: The Muscle. The Bankroll. The Fixer. The Infiltrator. Tell us experience that we can earn. The Grand Palace is getting positively mobbed by flying aircraft. The aftermath of deuterium and tritium loving not wisely, but too well. "There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." -Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin If you do it with a twist. Yes, artistically. You have nothing to lose but access to a power supply! Can't hardly ponder 'em all, there's so many orbs out here! Sure, these reptiles can get flat, but they're flexible. What other other shapes would you like them to make? Would you like you memories with tea? Or with gravy? Nothing shiny is safe from this clever birb! "The name of the story will be Time, but you must not pronounce its name." -Robert Penn Warren Surely reading all this trashy gossip isn't bad for me! Arduino? I hardly hippo! Don't get it twisted, the bozo on the horse knows what he did. Emmy Noether, iconic physicist and mathematician, was operating on a whole different level. When you stare into the maze, the maze stares back into you. "One of the book's signs is the sounding of seven trumpets, the fifth of which brings forth a swarm of locusts." The material world is behind you. Ahead is the world of spirits. All! About! Bees! Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Well, maybe go ahead and hate, it's great for our metrics. Even your sharpest barbs aren't making it past this armor. A feast fit for one or more rodents! Games have rules, so it follows that they probably also have those who think themselves rulers. We greased the rails at the station terminus, and you won't *believe* what happened next! A squeezebox, two flutes, and *three* stringed instruments?! Now that's what I call a party! It's November, and all around, the natural world is settling into its slumber. Something about them all, can't quite put my finger on it... A couple meets under a starry sky filled with fruit. Say 5 degrees by the next 100 years and it sets the world on fire. You think the people aren’t just going to sell the Earth and move? A crowd of real cool shades-wearing dudes can be found on the streets of Los Angeles 2019. A salamander fires an alcohol-based superhero out of a cannon at William Shakespeare. You know, like you do. American cereal manufacturers ask: What if the Bride of Frankenstine was instead his no-strings-attached DJ cousin? A bunch of beaky busybodies band together. Hunted by horrors, Horace had his heart humbled and his hopes hollowed. Long after the collapse of the imperial core, a long and cryptic shadow is still cast by its ghosts. A man and woman ponder an ord, within which is an alien who ponders them back with an order of its own. From the beyond, further orbs, and further pondering of this pondering. What more does a witch need than the Moon, the stars, an orb, a tower, and ten or so animal companions? Person: "Guys! What if everyone got replaced by robots and I'm the last real person left?" Narrator: "He was." Make way for the new goth royalty. "In the final analysis, everything depends on everything else." -Ashleigh Brilliant A macaw, a parrot, a crow, and a raven walk into a bar. The bartender looks up at them and says, "What is this, some kind of chost?" In the abyss, a face. Upon the face, sweet honeyed mans. The salt is implied. Mary Anning (1799-1847) was one of the great paleontologists of the 19th century. Food is broken down into smaller pieces through chewing (mechanical digestion), while the extensive process of chemical digestion begins. As food is chewed, saliva is produced and mixed with the food. The saliva contains enzymes, like amylase and lipase, that begin to break down carbohydrates and fats. Look, it's just a bunch of little guys! They don't have top-shelf gear, leave 'em alone, don't worry about it! Just some frogs taking the express train to the lake. Have you considered... the cheese unknown to science? This motley crew's only got one thing on the mind: Dem bones. Vaccines make you figuratively (literally?) demonproof. Yellow his room, with a new yellow curtain, and two yellow eyes, and everything is jaune for him. A bipedal cat, a degenerate, and a two-faced scoundrel welcome you to a world of illusion. Team Rocket takes a tumble from a castle into the trash. This little sprawling gloom, she's gonna let it loom. In a state of nature, nobody knows you're *Canis lupus familiaris*. Now, all is dark, and we may let the strings sing to those beyond the veil. It's autumn, and what better time to share our reflections with one another? These are *original* vampire characters, they are *not Dracula*! The light from the early universe is right there, waiting for us to grab it. "The axolotls were like witnesses of something, and at times like horrible judges. I felt ignoble in front of them; there was such a terrifying purity in those transparent eyes." -"Axolotl" (Julio Cortazar, 1956). Strength? How about this dog show you what strength looks like? Cannot attack if defending player controls no islands. If at abt time you control no islands, bury Dandân. This bird had it all figured out, or so they thought. Look out everyone, Drawfee is being horny on main again, and the community is *wound up*. In fact, we're better than nice. We are unbelievable! Two beaked warriors with blades drawn are ready to protect a beaky baby. A bad day for small boats out on the big, big ocean. For thousands of years, cats have had homes. Now, they have demands. A salmon is dead, and the culprit has been identified by a witness. The powerful gather in secret to toast their unassailability. Scavengers gonna scavenge. So yeah, mind if I grab a couple fries? A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The pets are happy for your safe return." Bespectacled British scholarship is no match for theropods! The Zee shines with all the colors of the Neathbow. Nothing to do on a rainy day but take it in stride and dress appropriately. Bookmaking is a machine for turning forests into knowledge. A diminutive kobold is ready for training with the swordmaster. Cube. Pyramid. Sphere. Hexagon. Crescent. Perfection. "The triffids are coming! The triffids are growing! The triffids are killing!" Three imposing figures consider their respective blades. ’Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world. Now could we drink hot blood, and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on. "If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system" -Ashleigh Brilliant. A pink zebra is looking to get a trio of animals drunk; only the one with the worst judgment is interested. The car's not going to know what hit it. A pair of stegosaur sailors discuss the dream of starting over on a new continent. The Great Wheel is the hottest date spot for singles in all of Paris. Princess Zelda is very unimpressed by this clown's Android. An antelope has the undivided attention of seven dogs. Assassinate the Imperator with the power of light! You see a world made different when viewed through cracked glass. Space bear was promised space whales, and boy are there space whales! Walk slowly through the forest, for it is full of resting creatures. Imagine, if you will, a field with every kind of flower. Was she rescued from the water, or is she merely humoring her gormless suitor? Lady in stone, her crew made of bone. A stretch of ocean separates the ambitions of the explorers on the left from the predations of the pirates on the right. You can really feel the notes of regret and lament as it goes down. These dinos are *very* cool. The world is so much simpler when it's this complicated! It's hot in this desert, it's boring, and it's time to go home! The future corpses of America face down the power behind the throne. The fruits of the past are delicious today, the fruits of today are delicious forever. "How to survive eating animals in the wilderness: The tongue, eyes, and brain are all edible." These cats are cross, so leave 'em be. There are a dog and a cat inside you. Each contains multitudes. Warning: Coffee may be the brutal, searing temperature of the sun. A space telescope gazes across a starry expanse at the white-hot chaos of a black hole accretion disk. What if praying mantises, only Byzantine? Such meat and cheese that you'll think you've become titled royalty. WereGarurumon se gare sur La Rue de la Gare, aux ecart de la rousse avec la roue dans la route. These pups don't run! A pair of rabbits find themselves way off the agreed-upon route. 
