Oh, him? He's definitely not on the list. Deception is a dish best served by an unwitting mail carrier. "Scum of the Earth, overpaid to rob anonymously from a distance" -Metric, "Doomscroller" (2022). Can't look away, now that they've fallen into orbit. "Open up for me, Max. I've got something I want to play for you." -Barry Convex, in *Videodrome* (1983). 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. Above us, the celestial fire. Below us, the infernal heat. 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! "My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs." -Dragline, in *Cool Hand Luke* (1967). Remember, everyone, it's about what your embodying, it's about attitude, it's about transformation! 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." 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. Let me tell you, when these gummies hit, they *really hit!* Birk a bork today, and you'll both bark at a berk tomorrow! 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! 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! 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'" 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. "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! "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. Those copper-bottoms are no match for our shell-tops. Pikmin! Five of them! A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Hope you had a pleasant recuperation!" 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. She's navigating that tenuous Middle Kingdom between cat girl and catgirl. 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? 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! Look, the expected value of going again is infinite. So hit me. Hit me. Hit me. Within these pictures, we will no doubt find the hidden secrets that will reveal the identity of the murderer! (grumbles) "Goddamn group projects, how come I'm always the one picking up the slack at the last minute?" This is the luckiest thing to happen to Mazura since he got kicked out of Parapa Palace. 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, 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? 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). "Who do I know this man?" -The hosts of Drawfee I'll keep them close so I'm never alone! "Why be among the last to do what's right, when you can be one of the first?" -Ashleigh Brilliant 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! Discard your ideas, replace them with orbs, for a spherical future! 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. 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!*" As everyone knows, benevolent clowns favor bicycles, while malevolent clowns have all flocked to these new "motor vehicles." You know what would really get us ready for out astral raids? *Costume jewelry!* Watch as I inject this code straight to its root. 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. 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. 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. They say that by the time you make it to the deep end, visibility goes down to zero! 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! Just one problem! Someone put all the racing stripes on sideways! Oh my goodness! Do you mind? Can I get a picture? We need to claw back these resources before nature does it for us! The stripes make it hard for you to tell how many of them there are. At whose behest are the cities remade? At yours?! Ponder it, won't you? Ponder the eternal and beautiful orb, seen across so many orders of magnitude. This looks like a job for Claude Chappe, inventor of wireless long-distance semaphore! "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! 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! Raise the iron curtain on the first of many acts, but never lower your guard! "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?! Why work together to accomplish something, when you can shun the company of others and complain to strangers? "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! "Come closer. Closer." (Whispers in your ear) "Now fight me like a man." "Dinosaurs are not dead! Dinosaurs are life!" "Now, you say you spell 'slaadi' with two As? Fascinating." 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? 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! These ladies aren't going anywhere. It is the world around them that will change. Reach for the top with the flats of your feet! Look, all I'm saying is that we're never going to run out of space up there. No? Look, do you want to get into the Field of Reeds or not? "Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches." -Ashleigh Brilliant Don't cross these cats, lest they cross you. WARNING: Improper use may cause a hazardous condition. Do not top off. Teach a monkey to shoot, and they'll paint on a grimmer, grander canvas for the rest of their lives. The streets of the old city are teeming with schemers, miscreants, and those just trying to get through the day. Which of of the sky's faces will it turn towards us tomorrow? I touched the giant geodesic orb at the American Pavilion and all I got was this self-referential chost. It's a tough market out there, no horsin' around permitted. 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). 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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. A lizard prince sits in a library, reading, wide-eyed. If it were Ours, We'd make it much bigger. This crew's so gently pliable, they've not got one bone between them. 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. "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. 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. "When all other means of communication fail, try words." -Ashleigh Brilliant Sure would be a shame if we took these, the only remaining Talismans, into the Valley with us! 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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! 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?! Just *every* kind of animal, all hanging out together! Let me introduce the team: The Muscle. The Bankroll. The Fixer. The Infiltrator. 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. 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? "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! 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. The material world is behind you. Ahead is the world of spirits. All! About! Bees! A feast fit for one or more rodents! 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. 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 salamander fires an alcohol-based superhero out of a cannon at William Shakespeare. You know, like you do. A bunch of beaky busybodies band together. 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? "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! Have you considered... the cheese unknown to science? 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? Look out everyone, Drawfee is being horny on main again, and the community is *wound up*. 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! Nothing to do on a rainy day but take it in stride and dress appropriately. 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. "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 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. 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. 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. 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. These cats are cross, so leave 'em be. Warning: Coffee may be the brutal, searing temperature of the sun. 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. "According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless." -Ashleigh Brilliant. Three royals ladies, three noble creatures. Loose lips cost souls. A supergroup over 400 years in the making. A group of 19th century women paint a sitting model. Pigeons are very fine birds, but please appreciate them respectfully. An unfortunate king drowns as a snake and an angel look on in alarm. These junkyard felines just might have designs on some of your treasures. Three performers make music for you across the wires, and into your ear alone. 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When three clocks disagree by this much, best to call it a day after lunch. A royal crow announces, "Hooray! A brand spankin' new place to work!" A dog is astonished. The sages agree: Ancient Egypt is pretty cool. Now is the springtime of our mild affect made glorious summer by these daughters glam. Don't rate this sports car in terms of horsepower, but rather in terms of cow power. Orange you tempted by this dizzying cornucopia of vices? Even a flat Earth resides in a vast and voluminous universe that is full of wonders. Have you remembered the moon today? Link meets his match in the Sword Hoarder. "We've got to build our life on new foundations. We must get back to primeval integrity." -Eugène Ionesco, 1960. "That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful." The Little Prince (1943), on the subject of The Lamplighter. Just a whole bunch of little guys! "It's strange, but wherever I take my eyes, they always sen things from my point of view." -Ashleigh Brilliant Two onlookers witness slowpoke, painted liked one of their French girls. Two string-instrument artists struggle with and dwell on their art. Mazeppa regrets riding bareback in the company of much wilder ruffians. The feeble scribblings of humanity are no match for the combined efforts of the flora and fauna. Got a secret. Can you keep it? Swear, this one you'll save. This place is just chock full of dogs! The month of June is a time for beautiful flora. Few people today realize that King Charles the First had specialized in dual-wielding. Things are getting hot, and some foundations are starting to crack. Over a dozen entirely normal armchairs. Nothing to worry about. The desert is full of strange and wondrous visions. I'll cut more off than a nose before I'm done with you. Jack's lucky chucks attack Waluigi's semi-wahtomatic wahndgun. "It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need." -Alan Moore, 2007 The Great Telescope of Birr meets the telescopes of the future. "Don't do something we're both going to regret." The hills are alive with the sound of ravenous, toothsome, flowering plants. Blind albino eggbug, ravenous, cloaked in a darkness never once touched by sunlight, must attack each turn if possible. Ain't no rule say that dogs can't take baths. Behold some freaks who always thinks with their tentacle ganglia. The museum of the French mint provides a showcase of the cheddar them French been gettin' for two millennia. Where'd you get those creepers?! Think about it. Have you ever *seen* your skull? Or anyone else's, for that matter? "Yes, but you're taking the universe out of context." -Ashleigh Brilliant What girls want: Trash & Cats. "Did you know? It is impossible to outrun your own reflection." -Celeste (2018) These boys done been kicking your ass so hard, their shoes wore out! An array of threatening mirrors shine back to you the things you fear to see. A delicate boundary between worlds, but doom awaits those who believe their love will carry them across its threshold. "Normal times may possibly be over forever." -Ashleigh Brilliant 
