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). "I'm cold and I'm bold and I don't do what I'm told." -Information Society, "Mirrorshades" (1990). 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) "Want something?" -VHS Head, "Frozen" (2014) "We wanna invite you to go hunt with us." There's a lot going on, dress warm and keep watch. 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.) "Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window." -Ashleigh Brilliant Don't dream it's clover. Friends keep their friends dry, and open up to one another. What you're making in a year, I blow it in a week. Seriously, who forgets a whole island?! If you stack one atop the other, you can make yourself a staircase to anywhere. Quit stalling and get in the sleigh, gramps. 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. The next big things arises from what came before, even if it need not be of the same stuff. 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. Conviction is a terrible thing to concede. Once you get to know the Big Guys, they're easy enough to get along with. One need only point out where the artifact is hidden and command, "Fetch!" Come on, daddy needs another couple hundred tickets. Please turn to p. 104 and consult the Wheel Table. "It's even more exciting, not being able to see where they lead, don't you think?" None can contest that this hoard is mine and that it is safe in my keeping. 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). Our geodes runneth over. They say the only way that anyone ever comes to know her is in passing. Deception is a dish best served by an unwitting mail carrier. "The Dark Wizard further encouraged me to build visualizations and tools to reinforce my superstitions." -Thomas Walter Murphy VII Big smile, head empty, ready to be filled with candy. 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. We keep it tight, you know? Gotta be there for the wolf pack. Dealer vs. dealer, the edge is going to go to whoever has more arms. "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.🎵 Feed them, Seymour. 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. 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). 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? Knuckles the echidna said "Fuck TERFs" and it roared across the battlefield from his mech's broadcast system. I hear that there's no comparison, that this is peak duck! "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" 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! When the only tool you've got is a lever, every problem looks like a fulcrum. What will be the face you wear after The Change sets in? "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. 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 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. Those copper-bottoms are no match for our shell-tops. We're sorry/thrilled to take over/leave it to you! Pikmin! Five of them! 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?" 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 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? It's almost as though what the heart wants is not necessarily precisely what the body needs. It's kind of wild how much the flora of an ecosystem rely on flowers to round out their collective color wheel. 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! These felines bee-line to bumper gleams and laser beams. 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!" Beware the prisons we build for ourselves, invisible to others, that trap us in our own minds. "Who do I know this man?" -The hosts of Drawfee "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. Time to get out from these narrow confines and stretch our limbs! You'd never guess which of the two has the higher power level. Discard your ideas, replace them with orbs, for a spherical future! RIP to Laurent de Brunhoff (1925-2024), who carried the torch for a father taken from him far too early. "What do we make? Motherfucker, we make *money!*" All it takes is a bit of the old one-two, one-two! Betcha can't kiss the Spider Woman just once! You know what would really get us ready for out astral raids? *Costume jewelry!* If it wasn't for the certification, you'd never even know the place was haunted. Don't mind him, he's just pining for the fjords. I can fix him in post. No need for the stick, the carrot's all the incentive anyone needs. United, she sits. Divided, we fall. LOL, owned. 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. "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." "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 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 Integers! They're only natural! 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 "Spring has sprung! And all the lovers knowing that spring has come!" -Terry Taylor, "Spring Has Sprung" (1997). Maybe she's born with it. Maybe she knows some really talented craftspeople. Every turn you make, you're heading downward, and yet there's never any bottom. "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. "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! 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. Look, all I'm saying is that we're never going to run out of space up there. So, let's see, after four double-or-nothings, I believe you now owe me 16 times what we wagered. No? Look, do you want to get into the Field of Reeds or not? How was your commute home? Honey? It might take some doing - these bastards looks like they're going after those pearly whites. Don't cross these cats, lest they cross you. Lost in an bush with Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. 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? This is not a genre-defining collection of contributions that transformed multiple creative industries. This is just a tribute. 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). Some doors will only open to a stranger who you feel deeply that you knew in times past. These saxa aren't going to frangere themselves. Some voids swallow the light that shine on them, but others wholly deflect it. "In an orderly world, there's always a place for the disorderly." -Ashleigh Brilliant "If you think about it, Platinum, the whole rest of the world is Sheep, isn't it?" What if a tingus and a tangus... fell in love? No book in the world held the secret I sought, so I gave myself the book in dreams. 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 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. Are you telling me that cats dressed as finely as we should feel hunger? Preposterous! 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 From blunt force all sharp things are made. Be grateful! The seasonal staff have been working through the night to lay out the white carpet for you. "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" Together, these two owls break the law to get justice. 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. "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. 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. 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. 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! A woman, dressed warmly, gathers some flowery sprites in from a garden overtaken by frost. 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. 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. I'll lead, you follow, try not to get burned. The heart want what it wants, which is trouble if the heart wants the heart. Hold me closer, dabbing Lancer! Let me introduce the team: The Muscle. The Bankroll. The Fixer. The Infiltrator. Tell us experience that we can earn. 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 You have nothing to lose but access to a power supply! Can't hardly ponder 'em all, there's so many orbs out here! "The name of the story will be Time, but you must not pronounce its name." -Robert Penn Warren 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." 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! 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? American cereal manufacturers ask: What if the Bride of Frankenstine was instead his no-strings-attached DJ cousin? 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. 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?" 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. 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An array of threatening mirrors shine back to you the things you fear to see. "Normal times may possibly be over forever." -Ashleigh Brilliant "A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge." -China Miéville, 1998. (A rat's become a fat cat, flanked by kings gone rank.) Various lights shine coldly in the dark, but do not assume that anyone is home. Betray your tyrants and choose violence. "Did you know? Most climbing mishaps occur due to exhaustion. Remember to take regular breaks!" -Celeste (2018) A team of horses mill restlessly at the edge of the world. Wake up. An eye is upon you, staring straight down and keenly through, seeing all that you are and everything you can never be. On behalf of Battle Mountain's mayor, Isabelle is excited to welcome you to the neighborhood! Link is armed with lon lon milk as he makes his way through woods soft and silent. This is a tribute post in honor of Grace Hopper (1906-1992). Auber on fiddle, K. K. 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A wolf is alarmed to learn that this fluffle of rabbits is much spikier than they had anticipated. The tripartite faces of slumber, the boy, the bear, and the forebearer. A parade of blacks, from gray to black, are scrutinizing you with yellow eyes. "You can’t deny this song is actually a banger." People go in one end, chosts come out the other. All we do is turn the handle. It's the landing. “They are real, and that’s why I will never work out that hard again, because nobody wanted to believe they were real." -Nicholas Cage, 2022 Is this a dog I see before me? Or is it three? Seems, nay, 'tis a split in my vision. It's a cloudy day, but this kitty's not going to get caught unprepared. Swan atop the battlement, Goose down on the pavement. "You're having delusions, Jobe. Struggle for reason!" -Dr. Lawrence Angelo Light up the night! There is a city that this darkness can't hide. Nobody can resist your Stromboli dynamism. L’ENRÉGISTREMENT ÉLECTRIQUE LE PLUS PERFECTIONNÉ Foreverer? More like foreverest. Four cats, 36 lives, 72 tales sold! A soul singer is accompanied by attendant musicians. Orbs, orbs in all directions! "Today my mind is concentrating and my body's like an antenna." -Miles Davis, 1989 "The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again." -Lewis Carroll, 1865 All soft horses, no straight lines. "I accept that the planet is warm, and I rejoice that it is warm." -Mark Steyn (ghoul), 2015. "This is me beating the shit out of you until you manifest that idea you had in the shower." -CJ the X, 2022 The quest for knowledge is an infinite game played by finite creatures. "Is this the original board game of death?" -Colin Barras, 2020 "LOOK AT HER. y'all need to appreciate her more" like girl... she's lines "When a man tries to see into the distance, what does he do? He narrows his eyes." -Katsuhiro Otomo, 1987 Five enemies defeated and only one round left to defeat the resulting sadness. Smitten lovers paint the town red. Three eggs. Or is it four? The reader is commanded to keep thinking. "What we all dread most is a maze with no center." -G. K. Chesterton, 1913 Two masked and robed individuals recline in a gondola, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Three wacky ladies are really excited to share their opinions. A portrait of Bonaparte remains trapped halfway between the sketch and the render. The capybara is a singularly luminous animal, and space aliens have concerns. Kings and queens brandish their weapons, but in a sensual way. A man grasps at an arrow in his back, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." The animals are immune to rhetoric. An angel points at a skull, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Several unnerving horse-like entities. The hottest take of all time is also literally the most superficial. Seven knives pierce an apple, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." They call me Pitopotamus, my kisses are bottomless. A train journeys to space, with a speech bubble saying, "AAAAAAA" A harlequin reclines on bench below the stage. A man is nuzzled by a sphinx. Amish women rise a horse-drawn carriage into Intercourse, Pennsylvania, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A cowled girl with a battle axe races across a tennis court to seek revenge as Ayk Danroyd looks on. Cats demonstrate a variety of emotions through pose, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Movie poster for Manon Des Sources, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A tuxedoed gentleman appears with a winged alchemical symbol. A person stands with their head bisected, with a speech bubble saying, "holy crap." A green monkey clutches his bananas, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A giant squid with a chicken's head attack's attacks fictional submarine The Nautilus, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A man crouches in order to demonstrate to a dog how to defecate. A mysterious woman nibbles at a butter biscuit. A sixteenth century depiction of an autopsy, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Various dogs, with an imperative to "Vote Dog." 
