[SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS]

Ego Draconis.

2011-05-29T08:20:54Z

Maybe I'm spoiling too much of it for myself, though I'm kind of trying to keep up the momentum so Good Buddy will let me have it someday, but...

I just looked up my first video of the D2 dragon gameplay.

Wow.
Wow.
The dimensionality of it, the distance, the light, the fog, the weightlessness--scale, color, -distance-...

Like you could fly forever. Probably you can't; I'm sure something would stop you. Probably I'd try anyway.

The freakish biomechanical cancer sprouting all over the world here, with the bugs and all--so much contrast between all that squirming complexity and those deep voids of cloud and light that it hits you in the gut, that visceral aberration, so much wrongness--

...I'd hope that there's room in the game for flying in places like this without having to play bullet hell with fifty enemy dogfighters and whatever.

Isamu's Heaven is out there--speed, speed, lift, lift, then Light without compare, Light that moves like the limbs of God, opening for you, and if there is darkness after then all is still well, because all beyond that Gate is perfection.

The second word was "wind"
Showing me the way to go
I spread my wings and fly
Into the waiting arms of God.
And, as if counting out all the sorrows in my life
As they all fell away,
The golden apples fall
One
by
one...

Oh gods, I cannot believe that I saw it, that they did it.
Sometimes, humans get things right.

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Hey, Overclock like everyone else, dude.

2011-05-25T04:06:34Z

Um...what the Christ...?

How is it that this guy can go around remixing this thing for profit when--I thought, at least--Overclocked exists because people had to remix for free to avoid getting killed by VG lawyers? Is Zelda just old enough that it's up for grabs now or something?

Not that it's unsexy, just that I've heard lots of epic mixes from OC and wonder where this guy's special specialness came from. :P

This one's kind of sexy too, but there's a shortage of 8-bit VG OSTs in it. NEED MOAR NES PLZ.

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Night Lords and their GRABBY SHENANIGANS

2011-05-18T06:38:31Z

We got a copy of -Blood Reaver-, the next book in Aaron Alphasoup's Night Lords series, following -Soul Hunter-. Somehow, I guess since we ordered this back when it was just a preorder page with no info on it, we never read a summary before we had the book in hand. I just read the back cover. So THAT'S what they're after!! OH EXPLOITABLE, cue the following:

*The Loyalist Marines Errant captain opens communications with the Night Lords ship, causing the Exalted, in all his drippy, demon-possessed glory, to appear on the big bridge screen. At least one crewmember throws up in horror. Since there are no lights on Night Lord ships, the Exalted is probably holding a flashlight underneath his chin while attempting to smile charmingly.*

EXALTED: Why, hello, brethren!
MARINES ERRANT CAPTAIN JOHANN: ...Forgive me, Captain, but...my, what big claws you have.
E: The better to clasp my beloved kinsmen to my breast in joy, dear Captain!
J: And also, I must say...what big teeth you have, Captain.
E: The better to eat you wi-- *cough* Er, the better to sip the tea of friendship and nibble the warm scones of brotherhood by your side, dear Captain!
J: I appreciate your sincerity, but perhaps you could also tell me why, when we run a pattern-recognition scan on your ship, the database is telling us that you are an Ultramarines battle barge named Friendly Ship Full of Friendly Loyalist Nice People when in fact you appear to be a strike cruiser with heraldry suggesting--
E: Ah, well, we've just been in a war. Some wars, actually. Battle damage, you know, makes a bitch of a craft's outlines.

*Johann looks out a viewport, regarding the midnight blue-and-brass color scheme and the huge bat-winged skull on the prow of the cruiser, not to mention all those eight-pointed Chaos stars.*

J: Must have been quite a crusade. That's one hell of a lot of battle damage. *looks back* Perhaps you'd like to dispense with the charade.
E: You know, I and my fellow sons of Ultramar are honored to deal with a man who knows how to shoot straight. My dear Johann--do you mind if I call you Johann, since we are about to be wonderful true friends? you can call me HIS SPLENDIFEROUS AWESOMEHOOD, THE EXALTED, if you like--dear Johann, would it be wrong of me to assume that we are probably both men who are quite certain of our interests and desires in life?
J: ...You would not be incorrect. I think.
E: And in that case, dear Johann, you would not be uncomfortable if I and my brothers were absolutely direct with you, even to the point of being a little, shall we say, shocking?
J: By this point, I'd practically insist on it.
E: Well, then, this is the situation. We want your hot Primarch gravy.
J: ...
E: WE WANT ALL OF IT.
J: ......
E: GALLONS, EVEN.
J: *blushing violently* I...well...but our Chapters, they hardly know each other, we can't just-- Perhaps if you were to come over for a few banquets and meet the Chapter Master--
E: DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT I WANT IT BAD ENOUGH TO CRACK YOUR FUCKING SHIP OPEN AND SUCK IT FROM YOUR LIFELESS CORPSES WITH VERY EMBARRASSING MACHINES?
J: Listen, this is a bit much for me right now--
E: You realize that I wouldn't come begging like this if I hadn't had any for a very, very, very long time. Can you help a cousin out or no?
J: No. This is getting way too personal way too fast.
E: *grinning evilly* Then the charade is dispensed with indeed! We are the Night Lords...and we are coming for you.
J: I find that comment to be in extremely poor taste, given the topic just under discussion.
E: *off balance* Er...um...

*Somebody off-screen who sounds suspiciously like Sergent Talos starts giggling hysterically. The Exalted throws an inkwell at him.*

J: I demand an apology before we commence killing each other.
E: You know, I'm a very important man. I'm not in the habit of apologizing to no-name Loyalists who refuse give up their seed when I need it the most.
J: People who don't apologize are usually respected by no one, have no friends, and die miserable deaths all alone. But suit yourself.
E: ...............I'm...sorry.
OFFSCREEN GUY: *cough*pussy*ahem*PUSSY*coughcough*
E: Shut UP! I AM a special snowflake!! I AM I AM I AM!! *throws a bunch more office supplies, including a red stapler*

I should stop there. Oh, you wacky Space Marines, always getting all worked up about who gets to siphon your dad's divine tubesteak sauce. ^________^ ...WAIT, I mean, there's absolutely no subtext to the geneseed thing! NONE!! Nothing to see here!! ^.^

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Ar Tonelico Fanfaggotry.

2011-02-17T04:10:23Z

(Yeah, I know, I know, I never post, I never call, you probably think I don't like you anymore... Don't beat yourself up too much, okay?)

I really think that the world needs a Dragonforce cover of "Ec Tisia." On the big choral parts, they could use a passel of little British schoolchildrins, like Pink Floyd did for "Another Brick in the Wall." It would be an epically epic thing, for certain, and given the speed at which they hammer those throbbing axes, it would also be, like, thirty seconds long. BUT A LIZARD CAN DREAM, DAMN YOU.

Riss was saying afterward that hell, why not ask for Dragonforce covers of ALL the Reyvateil songs, especially the fuzzy, happy ones like "Phantasmagoria." Well, yeah, of course, but really...there could be too much of a good thing. This is sort of like that rumor of Hirasawa Susumu covering "I Will Survive." He doesn't have to put out an album of awesome disco hits played on solar-powered nerd instruments--he just has to make ONE AWESOME SONG. And that is what the world needs now. One flawless, shining moment in which Dragonforce joined hands with cute, world-ending bio-computers shaped like girls and loaded with sound-manipulation software.

Something brilliant would happen, I guarantee it. World peace, maybe. Or maybe just a storm of fancreatures coming so hard from the shining beauty of it all that they would pop like ticks right in the middle of the YouTube video, which would become legendary for its ability to kill people, kind of like -The Ring- except that it would end life with the power of TRANSCENDENT HAPPINESS and not with any bullshit involving a dead kid in a well.

Also, I have not yet heard the Blind Tiggy weighing in, but I'm being preemptive. Yes, no shit, Dragonforce + "EXEC_EP=NOVA" would probably cause the Second Coming, only nobody would notice from the glory of--

--And BT just popped in as I am writing. He says no, the very best combo would be Sisters of Mercy/Andrew Eldritch doing EXEC_EP=NOVA. ...That thought kicks so much ass that I can't even THINK IT. OMFG, trust the musical planetburner to come up with the best damn ideas--I wish we could ask Andrew to cover that as a favor. I'd make Riss buy a new phone just so we could use his "zumzumNYAANYAMO" section as a ringtone. We could scare small children with it and give them nightmares for weeks! :D <3 <3

Okay, Riss says I have to stop fucking around because his ROTC boss noticed that he doesn't sleep and actually ORDERED him to go to bed. That's a nice boss. ^_^

THAT IS ALL, CITIZENS. RETURN TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED, SUB-FAGGOTY INTERNET. <3

...I'm telling you guys, if we could make these ideas happen, we could CHANGE THE WORLD. *_*

[EDIT (without honor or humanity):]
Right after I posted this, Riss looked at my custom mood for this entry and said, "I guess I'd never thought of the song servers as being phallic before. But I guess that they are sort of large and tower-like."

"Damn straight," said I, "and in the first game, the adorable heroines have an Ultimate Spell where they trigger a massive energy output in the tower, which spews an enormous stream of white energy-spoo down upon the hapless mortals."

We thought about that.

"Too bad it comes out of the wrong place," said I. "It's sort of in the middle of the tower instead of the top."

Riss has learned about interesting genital permutations in his ~~Sex With Humans~~ Human Sexual Psychology class. Fiercely and with much justice, he declares, "We must be compassionate for the Tower of Sol Ciel's perforated urethra!!"

"That is the most quotable shit I have heard in a long time," said I. "I'm blogging this."

"No, you aren't."

"Yes, I am. See this edit button?"

And thusly, my children, did this edit come to be. ^_______^ Good night, now!

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OMFG!!

2010-08-26T05:33:10Z

Um...! Gee! Um! *^^*

Elljay has a little dragon in their virtual gifts now!! 8D Awww, it's so cute.

I asked Riss to buy me one, but I don't know if he will. Srsly, I know Elljay is a sinister left-hand organization that rapes babies and eats kittens on rye and the free people of this world need to stand up and vote with their dollars, but FYIAD and shouldn't we dragons have some kind of advertising/badge of honor-type thing to stick on our journals and polish with pride? ;B

I kind of want to buy one for Baxil! And I would buy one for one of Kaijima's inactive accounts, because hey, at least they're not deleted. :D Probably he would be all freaked out with the O HAY KAI I GAVE MONEYS TO EBIL OVERLORD AND BOT DRAGGIN 4 U SEEEEEEE that would blindside his email from nowhere, but I still think it's a good plan.

I noticed that there's no "Epic Furry Porn" gift in the "Gag" section. Probably it could be like a little black box with CENSORED across it. Can you imagine all the people in the local blogosphere who would have a good reason to buy furry porn for each other? It's not just for furries, after all. XD

Anyway, we're getting hungry and Riss needs to make food and get us a shower and do other shit with himself while carefully NOT punching walls, so I'll let the keyboard go. I'm typing this on the netbook, BTW. This little fucker is CUTE, I tellya. <3

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Yes, let's say it all together now--

2010-08-10T02:23:35Z

"The Dragon is a silly bitch. ^_^"

I may keep poking at this list, because I am silly like that. BT and I were SERIOUSLY keen on taking over Riss' page and doing the same thing for him, but he gets whiny and catfighty about it and so we are holding off until we can sneak in a ninjapost beneath the radar.

Riss. A small cardboard box. THE CONNECTION IS CLEAR. O_O

But what might not be clear is this: am I really being silly, or am I really being serious? ;3

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Adeptus Mechanicus, meet the Internet.

2010-08-05T01:19:50Z

I...uh...yeah! EXACTLY like that!

Can't...tear eyes away from...fiddly mechanical details...TTT_TTT

Wonder what that long-dead Ultramarine champion is thinking. At least she's got a combo lock where it counts--ain't nothing better to ward off corruption by the Ruinous Powers. Greater Demons of Slaanesh take one look at that pious girl and can't do anything but flounce off in tears, you know it.

....'K, back to searching for images. Like, the regular kind of images. ^_______^;;

EDIT:
Fuck yeah, Internet, remind me how dead sexy that Forge World Trygon looks when it's all painted up. I keep telling Riss that we need one of these bastards as an enormous paperweight someday, because the model's seven inches tall or so and wouldn't it look intimidating on an authority figure's desk? Or not? ;B He shoots me down by pointing out that the things cost $200 or something...or actually, looking at the FW Tyranid page, I guess they're extinct? ..........I should go cry now. <|3

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Action figures with extra added ACTION!

2010-06-18T03:57:56Z

So some of the people who are on our Furaffinity watch list will periodically get all hyped up about their action figure designs for PatchTogether, which I think has some kind of deal where they'll make custom action figures (or maybe just plastic models? I dunno) if you can get enough people to sign up and say that they're willing to buy whatever you designed. AlectorFencer used 'em to make a glow-in-the-dark dirt wolf sculpture with mushrooms growing out of its back, which is all kinds of 733+.

Now Sixthleafclover is at it again. WHAT THE FFFFFFFFF

A White Wolf Nagah in war-form, looking awfully disgruntled about something. "Surely, this alone would be awesome enough," we might say. But Sixthleafclover is not limited by the bullshit standards of ordinary consumers. No, she considered the visual impact of a 30-ft-long armored mass of pissed-off weresnake muscle and found something...lacking. Something incomplete.

"I will rescue you from the pain of your own mediocrity, giant face-eating girl viper from Hell!" she declared with brave tears of compassion in her eyes. "You cry out to me in your need, and yes, I have heard your prayer! I know that I cannot release you into the hands of the buying public without the one thing that makes you whole...A HUGE-ASS FANTASY-STYLED SNIPER RIFLE WITH ENORMOUS UNDERSLUNG BLADES AND GOLD DETAILING THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY SHOOT ONE-HANDED FOR NO DAMN REASON AT ALL."

...You realize that when I talk like this, I AM expressing genuine admiration, because shit that is awesome and looks cool while not making sense is pretty well up my alley. I dig how the pose is all, "My right hand may be squeezing off this hot, leaden load of DEATH, but my left hand is very lonely and is still looking for something to kill. :_("

There are color variations too, but I was a little disappointed with the naming scheme. After seeing the "Marmalade Sunset" flavor of doom-wielding death snake, I was totally psyched for the others to also have delicious edible flavors! ...But they do not. T_T Thus, I rename them: Chocolate Raspberry in the upper right, Sugar-Coated in the lower right, and Double Chocolate in the lower left. FIXED IT FOR YA, SIS~

In other news, we've finished watching Den-O, including the movie. ...I kind of have a wish list of awesome stuff that I was actually expecting to happen, but which never did materialize. This is not to say that I'm necessarily disappointed to the extent that I regret watching it, because the earlier parts of the series are still uncontested solid badass of the highest quality. (Hands-down best part of the movie: Ryuutaros summoning backup dancers for the Hip Hop Climax Jump and getting a troupe of female tapdancers in tuxedos FROM FUCKING NOWHERE. They should have saved that for the end, because nothing else in the show was at quite that level of godliness. T_T) It just kind of felt like the writers started getting sort of lazy, then REALLY lazy, then finally there was a point where somebody important said, "You know, I'm fucking done here. Viewers, y'all come watch Kamen Rider Kiva now!!" It was sort of sad. :_( But I think we also DLd the superdeformed Imagin anime series, so maybe we will still get to bask in the nonsensical wonder that is Ryuutaros-tachi. I hope.

...Man, I don't want Riss to go do productive crap. We have shit to do, dammit. And by that, I mean important stuff like watching Legend of Galactic Heroes and typing up a review of DRAGONAUT: THE ~~FETISH FUEL~~ RESONANCE~~

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RYUUTAROU RABU-RABU~~~~ TT______TT

2010-05-28T05:16:10Z

So yeah! Riss had to take a break to eat and let his eyeballs unmelt after making huge Excel documents about grad school! And...we've been watching -Kamen Rider Den-O- because we already finished watching all of -Dragonauts- (SUMMARY: YAYYYYYY but conditionally so O_O), and I'm typing as fast as I can because we have to get back to work and.......

Um. Um um um. EPISODES 13-14. Introducing Ryuutarou.

GAWWWWWWWD YOU GUYS what's there not to adore?? So he's like a walk-in superhero demon from the future, who uses all this dragon imagery, is PURPLE, is adorably huggy and sweet to small animals, and whose humanoid form involves a vinyl trenchcoat with dragony bling all over it and earphones. Worn ON his snarly dragon facemask. WHAT. And as if they couldn't figure out enough weird shit to do with him, his appearances are heralded by a burst of hiphop theme music and he is accompanied by a posse of street-dancing, brainwashed highschoolers who apparently exist only to make him look awesome by GETTIN' DOWN N' SYNCHRONIZED. FFFFFFFFFFF

And then? And then? ALL that shit was not good enough. So there had to be the braingasm-inducing sequence where all four Tarou-Trains piled up into one giant train beast that spiraled up into the heavens and whirled in a glorious CG duel with the Evil CG Dragon, filling half the screen with enormous Lasers Of Hotness and explosions and other things.

I'm so glad that I'm asexual or else I might have had to PAUSE MY VIDEO in order to attend to URGENT AND SURELY UNRELATED BUSINESS. C_C

True statement: in the midst of all of this flash, there was really no substantial personality development for the guy. He's barely a character ~~HE'S A FUCKING FORCE OF NATURE ARGHARGHARGH~~. But man, I so don't care. Snow me, Den-O Writing Staff. Snow me until I don't care about coherent plot anymore. SNOW ME HARDER~~~ TTT______TTT

I wish I could write more, but I have no time!! QUICKLY, things I love about -Kamen Rider Den-O-:
1) Motorcycles--they come from NOWHERE.
2) Awesome monster designs featuring awesome monster costumes that I wish I could wear to school, to work, to the gym, to the pool...! Hell, they're fucking indestructible, given what the actors do to them!!
3) RYUUTAROU~~~ Actually, I love all the Tarous. I love the whole plural living aspect. YES.
4) COFFEE. Everyone in this show should be so fucking buzzed that they should be incapable of sleep. Tired from spirit possession? COFFEE. Angry at life? COFFEE. Sitting in one place for more than two minutes? COFFEE. And Naomi, the bizarre Japanese fashion plate coffee-dispensing maximum-squee Girl Of Future WHO'S GOTTA BE AN ANDROID OR SOMETHING---
4) Ummmmm...I can't think of anything more that's short! Ryuutarou loves small animals and is a nice person!! He's an awesome purple dragon who hugs puppies WATCH THIS SHOW DAMN YOU RAWRRRRR

Okay, I have to let Riss have the keyboard. ;_; *cry*

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Dragonaut??

2010-05-11T04:27:48Z

So Riss has shit that it wants to post about, but he isn't posting about any of it because his brain is still screwed up, so, like...I dunno, my squee goes solo into the void or something.

Totally by accident, because we got this email from an HK anime distributor that we've gotten dirt-cheap series from before, we have suddenly learned about Dragonaut: The Resonance. We read the blurb on the website, and I felt sort of intrigued, but in a trainwreck-rubbernecker kinda of way.

For, as I quote: With a deadly asteroid hurtling towards Earth, sexy human Dragonauts in tight uniforms and their curvaceous dragon companions come together to create a formidable fighting force with all the right moves.

...O_O... Buh?

The cover has this cute girl on the front who is supposedly this badass space dragon soldier, and in the background there's this cheesy CG monster dragon. So I'm all thinking, "Wait, so there are adorable girls who turn into giant nova-eyeballed kaiju who fight to the death? IN SPACE? Does anyone get symbolically eaten, like in Evangelion? Can we get that too??" And Riss is all thinking, "Wait, the BOYS are in tight uniforms? I can has??" Because Riss is, in NO way whatsoever, obsessed with cock. p9.9q

Anyway, Wikipedia is the necessary next stop. Things are actually interesting in a non-trainwreck sense now, which is pretty fucking thrilling, at least if you're me.

Toa is a mysterious girl who saves Jin from a dragon in the first episode. She is shown to have remarkable athletic abilities, extraordinary strength, and accelerated healing capabilities, possibly due in part to the fact that she is a dragon.

Oh hell yeah. OBVIOUSLY. Get your shit together, Wikiauthors.

In her dragon form, she is immensely powerful; she is able to take on more than two other dragons at a time.

...Toa, if you ever need a boyfriend/girlfriend/genderless monster friend, I...I'm unattached right now...<3_____<3 We could, like, punch buildings together and blow up planets and I would buy you sodas and be really nice to you because I love you...a little bit...um...**U______U**.......

So the giant meteor that's about to destroy Earth is called Thanatos, AND--

Thanatos reveals itself to be a huge dragon, which is capable of releasing billions of dragon spawns

It's Unicron! With dragons!! :D

It also possesses a soul, which is made up of countless beings' "spirits" or consciousness. ...After seeing humanity's nature, it deemed them foolish, and wanted to destroy it, but after showing interest in Jin and Toa's love for each other, it instead wants to fuse with all of humanity at the expense of human life.

It's FF7 (sorta)! With MOAR DRAGINZ!! XD

To successfully become a Dragonaut, one has to successfully resonate with a dragon egg.

It's Anne fucking McCaffrey...IN SPAAAAAAACE!!! XD XD (And with all the boring shit taken out, because really, no one cares about anything but the dragons.)

A Communicator is a dragon's humanoid form. It is later implied in the series that in order for a dragon to take Communicator form, it has to complete a Resonance with a human.

It's Dragonlance: The Legend of Huma...IN SPAAAAAAAACE!!! *hilariously superfluous number of XD faces*

Vritra Unit (ヴリトラ･ユニット, Vuritora Yunitto?) - Another ISDA unit tasked with destroying Thanatos.

HAY HEAT UR PIKTURS IN TEH PAPURZ LOOK

In conclusion: I believe that this is a must-get, even though I don't have the sense that it's going to unseat any of the established classics in our collection. But dude, look at what's IN there. I don't think it can suck.

Speaking of things that can't possibly suck, I think we need to sit down sometime and actually watch Crazy Guy with Super Kung Fu, which we bought for $2 used at a recent FYE sale. Look at the title, people--INSANE FACE-ROCKING IS ASSURED. Although I wonder if anything will ever be quite as nifty as Deadly China Hero, when Jet Lee dressed up like a chicken in order to do battle with thirty rival kung-fu fighters who were all inside a fire-breathing centipede costume. The earth shifted on its axis when that movie was released, I have no doubt. *_____*

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Dunsparce Eugenics: Fun for the whole uber family~

2010-04-11T04:27:42Z

Okay, so in reference to all this stuff...

Breaking news: WE HAS A DITTO. We named it Gummi. I love it to pieces, because I love things really easily for no good reason, but Riss loves it too. That must mean that it is one seriously loved wad of smiley goo. ^______^

Riss and I have been going back and forth over whether or not it's ethical to breed some more of my SparDun Legion using Quetzal and Gummi. He seems to think that it's kind of like cloning, in which case we might end up with a horrible biological disaster like they had in RED FURYYYYY (question on the link: why's that book over $10 now? it's a regular fucking softcover o_O). This would leave us not only with a bunch of bloodthirsty evil clones, but also with 400 pages of hugely muscular dudes wringing their hands and screaming, "OH WHAT HORRORS WE FOOLS HAVE WROUGHT" and shit like that, with Gary Stus knifing Dreadnoughts to death in the background during Chief Librarian Mephiston's coffee break. It would be a tragedy of cosmic proportions. Plus, every other Pokemon player probably uses their Ditto as a sad little genetic-engineering toy, bouncing it from one partner to the next with no thought given to its emotional or psychological wellbeing. That's fucked up.

...But dude. Quetzal clones. The universe would roll over and KILL ITSELF just to stay out of her collective way. Someday, we will confirm that Dunsparces really do evolve...INTO CHUCK FUCKING NORRIS. A female Chuck, in this case. DUUUUUUUUDE.

Anyway, Riss has been busy and I haven't been able to have enough time with the eyeballs to do the really hard thinking work with figuring out the moves and stuff that I want for my different types of Dunsparce. But I did want to start recording lineages and things, because those are important when writing epic memorial poetry recounting the deeds of great heroes.

It's also because I was thinking that I should divide my combat and support Dunsparces into those categories purely by lineage, since I had two males to start with. Before I decide that for sure, I need to confirm exactly what a Pokemon's "nature" affects and what the little personality notes mean--I think the info is in that insanely huge Pokemon Platinum strat guide that Riss has, although maybe we can find the same or better stuff on the Bulbapedia. Right now, we have three little adorable Babysparces from each of Quetzal's babydaddies, and each group has a mix of critters that seem better for support and better for combat. So I don't want to determine their fates unless it seems like natures and personalities really don't affect combat that much.

Like, I know that a Pokemon's nature determines what flavor of Poffin pastry it likes. That's cute and all, but I don't think it matters a whole lot...unless I read up on it and it does. (Guys, this game made for gradeschoolers is totally working out my little reptilian brain. There's smoke coming out my ears. MY DENDRITES ARE GETTING SO PUMPED UP~~)

Okay, so, right now nobody's in a special group, and here we have:

Quetzal (F): L26, Serious Nature, Serene Grace Ability, proud of its power.
Doomtater (M): L12, Lonely Nature, Run Away Ability, likes to thrash about.
--- Tarik (M): L8, Impish Nature, Serene Grace Ability, very finicky.
--- "Kali" (F): L1, Lax Nature, Serene Grace Ability, likes to thrash about.
--- "Natalia" (F): L4, Brave Nature, Run Away Ability, likes to thrash about.
Loken (M): L14, Gentle Nature, Serene Grace Ability, highly curious.
--- "Ezekyle" (M): L1, Bashful Nature, Serene Grace Ability, very finicky.
--- "Venator" (M): L1, Impish Nature, Run Away Ability, very finicky.
--- Beatrix (F): L1, Adamant Nature, Run Away Ability, proud of its power.

Loken's spawnlings just hatched out today, so nobody's levelled up yet. ^^ And as for the naming schemes, we're still going with Important Space Marines for the guys and have decided to go with warrior goddesses for the girls. (Yeah, Quetzalcoatl was a god, I think, but it's Quetzal's name and I'm sure as hell not going to try to take it away from her. :B) Anybody with quotes around their name is not really named yet...if nothing seems right for their combination of traits, I'm sort of just using a placeholder until they see more action and develop enough of a personality for me to settle on something. You don't get to see their full profile before you're asked to give them a name, so I think it's kind of hilarious that Ezekyle (that's Abaddon the Despoiler's first name, according to Horus Rising) turned out to be bashful and finicky. Oh Abaddon, NOTHING ever goes right for you. ^_^ <3

Doomtater is the sole exception to the boy-name scheme, because his name is just that damn good. XD But he is also tapped to be our Chief Librarian, unless I get a really good reason to make him otherwise later on, and so he naturally gets to be different and strange and alone among the throngs of his fellows, etc. etc. He will totally be brooding on the tops of ruined buildings with a psychic hood and half-armor on in NO TIME. (Probably if I were to change his name to anything, I'd change it to Mephiston, because Riss and I love Mephiston so damn much. Maybe too damn much. Enough so that the idea of Mephiston the Dunsparce creating the miracle of new life VERY AGGRESSIVELY with Quetzal the Warrior Matriarch is.........is...yeah, let's not do that. He's Doomtater. C_C;;;;)

The power of the sons and daughters of brave SparDa grows!! TREMBLE, MORTALS!!! Now Riss has to go back to reading about gender-focused psychological disorders. PARTY'S OVER EVERYONE GO HOME :(

(PS: Was just now wondering about exactly what "likes to thrash about" means. BT thinks that it means the Pokemon is really good at raving. DANCE LIKE YOU WANT TO WIN DAMN YOU~)

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FIGHT THE HATE~!

2010-01-18T01:48:07Z

Screaming monkey Jesus, Pandorans, that was right fucking speedy. Still, if the ton of bricks that the Nonhuman Orthodoxy shit onto these guys is as malodorous as we've heard, then I guess you can't blame them for building a siege mentality into their first efforts at organization.

.............An evil part of my heart wonders if I'd get swarmed by ~~blue elven princesses~~ alien messiahs eager to thrust their braids into my yearning brainstem, should I suddenly "awaken" as a Last Shadow. Mmmmmm, life-bond with me, heroic leader of the oppressed!! This dragon is for RIDIN'!! UNF UNF UNF

Anyway, on a more serious note (not like I give a damn about fictionkin factions and what they do with themselves), I AM kind of surprised at how quickly these people appeared. I'm wondering if they were already associated with the nonhuman community somehow and only discovered a stronger identity after seeing the movies, or if this actually was a case of lots of people suddenly experiencing a new identity, tracking down the concept of Otherkin, claiming a part of Otherkinism, and organizing within that context...all in, what, about a month? Fuck, that's unbelievable.

The thing is...we've never been that clear on exactly how visible nonhumans are, because shit gets distorted on the Internet. In the places where we usually haunt, for instance, extremely normal mainstream Christians are a definite minority. I actually don't think that we even know any, online. That can sometimes make us think that being pagan, Buddhist, Discordian, or whatever is far more normal than it actually is, but when we go outside we are totally outnumbered by the Christians once again, and it feels pretty damn weird. Similarly, nonhumans have been a regular target for mockery by organized troll groups for aaaaaaaaages of Internet Time. As with the furry fandom, most organized trolls have probably at least heard of the communities before...but trolls and other strains of Net.Bastards don't represent the vast majority of Netizens, even if they are a hefty, dedicated chunk. So far as I know, only a tiny handful of news articles, TV programs, and books have bothered to admit that nonhumans exist.

Furries are a lot more visible, though, and there's still a good bit of overlap between them and us (nonhumans in general--I'm not representing the fucking Orthodoxy here). So maybe the Na'vi found the Otherkin through a long and winding chain of RP sites, art sites, personal homepages if those things even exist anymore...

We're old. Info didn't travel so fast even online, I think, back before we found the weres and 'kin. :B So hey, maybe pulling this crap together in a month is par for the course for new groups nowadays. I guess I'm just surprised that we're so, uh, FINDABLE, and that the new guys knew what they were after when they were combing the Internet for nonhumans. Or maybe my system's just slow and stupid when it comes to searching the Net for something that might not even be there. XB

Hey, in other news, I hear the new Codex for Blood Angels is going to include rules for Death Company Dreadnoughts. ...DEATH COMPANY DREADNOUGHTS, WHAT. I wanna hear the fluff behind this, because last I heard, Death Companies are little barely-organized herds of completely batshit Marines who all think that they're Sanguinius dying in defense of Terra, and the other Angels just gather 'em up and point 'em at the other side so they can at least die honorably in the fulness of their crazy. They're never going to snap out of it, so they're basically expendable, only in an honorable kind of way. And Dreadnoughts, so I thought, were for preserving Chapter heroes--Living Chapter Treasure type of people, not just, "Hey, Brother Bob got 80% of his body mass vaporized, but his brain and spine are still okay! Let's toss him in a Dreadnought and see what happens!" kind of stuff. Dude, why the fuck would you even WANT to preserve some random Death Co. nutcase and give him armor and weapons that would keep him alive for ages?? He doesn't even know who anybody is anymore! He doesn't even know who HE is anymore! Isn't it enough trouble to keep ordinary Death Co. troopers playing some useful part in a battle plan when they think they're in a completely different time and place?? Well, whatever, GW. Make it make sense, or not. :P

...Shit, it's weird how we feel okay when we're not taking any vitamins, and then when Riss is like, "Hey, we should be smart and take all our vitamins!" and we do, suddenly we get all achy and short of breath. Fuck vitamins, man. Take a knee, drink water, do fucking pushups. XD ...Kidding. Only at the end, though.

(PS: I keep using my 5-Cock Derby icon way too much. Maybe because I hardly ever post unless something is either cocked up on the Internet already or seems to require a hearty dose of cock for cosmic balance purposes? I dunno. I should post more. XD)

[EDIT]:
Was talking to Riss about this last night, and now I feel like I should clarify just so it doesn't seem like I'm brushing the Na'vikin off as bullshitters. ...Although I WILL be quite amused if we do get another messianic movement out of them, a la the First Church of ~~Zion~~ The Matrix that had soulbonders and fictionkin facepalming in large numbers. Let's hope that doesn't happen.

I understand that all of this is Serious Business for the Na'vikin, if they really are certain that they're Na'vi. I am not one of those people who thinks that EVERYTHING has to be lulzy and disposable and that people who allow themselves to be deeply affected by things are omg taking it way too serious. My draconity is Serious Business for me, and I am not a special snowflake who deserves to have that while dismissing the meaning that other people find in their lives. Just to clear that up.

At the same time, I really think that people need to pick their battles intelligently, regardless of how serious an issue is for them. If you go around trying to whip people into action at the first whiff of some random guy saying something defamatory about you on the Internet, then these are some likely results, as I see them:
- The people defaming you will probably not be obediently chastised. Instead, they'll take notice of how easy you are to rile up and what you look like as you flail around in PUR RAEG.
- You'll be so busy chasing nobodies online that you won't have any time to do anything constructive with the identity that you're defending.
- It will make you, and probably other people like you (other fictionkin, say) look bad for various reasons. Honestly, you guys ALREADY have a bad rep, whether you wanted it or not, so try not to make it worse.

Right now, it looks like the push to organize against mean people online is a minority thing...one would hope that it would stay that way. Fight when it means something, guys.
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Please stop the fangasm, I'M BLEEDING.

2009-12-19T02:38:23Z

HNNNNNNNNGGGHH~!!!1!

Not like lots of people haven't already seen these before. I mean, they come from 4chan or some shit.

Angry Marines:
BEAT THE LIVING HELL OUT OF SHIT WITH YOUR POWER BAT, OR, BARRING THAT, JUST BEAT THE LIVING HELL OUT OF SHIT WITH WHATEVER'S AVAILABLE. AND IF YOU'RE TOO PANTS ON HEAD RETARDED TO FIND SOMETHING TO HIT THEN YOU BETTER FUCKING START BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF THE GROUND BECAUSE LAST TIME I CHECKED THIS PLANET HASN'T CONFESSED ITS SINS AGAINST THE EMPEROR.

I got tipped off by this. We found it on a random FurAffinity search, and the idea of a power folding chair was so fucking brilliant that I was screaming and climbing the walls. GODDAMMIT YES YES YES.

Pretty Marines:
They are often depicted going into battle carrying microphones, as a parody of boy bands manufactured for teenage girls.

Shit, BT has competition from the Loyalists!! Luckily, his bruthas know how to back his ass up in a squeeze. I mean, they have a DRAGONFORCE COMPANY, so I'm sure they can kill just about fucking ANYTHING.

And while I'm posting ill-advised FA links, here's another of those blingtastic Furry Marines plus the predictable appearance of Furry Marines on the tabletop--I would pay good money to see Slaanesh's Glitter Wolves yiff a company of Loyalists into bloody oblivion. (Those models could use more gigantic herm genitalia or something, though. I mean, really you guys.)

Dude, now Riss' Thorn Company Chaos Marines are making me think of what would happen if you crossed Angry Marines with Pretty Marines, turned them to Chaos, and trained them all to be powerarmored ninja. If there were more than eighty of them in the whole damn universe, I would LOVE to see them fight any of the above, but I think they'd be outnumbered. ~~BREED~~ RECRUIT FASTER, BITCHES.

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FEARSOME NERD-ON.

2009-11-12T02:27:17Z

Oh fuck yeah. OH FUCK YEAH.
Translation from dorkspeak: lindsay40k asks who would win if a force of Hollywood Marines and a bunch of Zoids characters clashed in a planetwide showdown. ARRRGH I know just enough about Zoids to know this can only be a Good Thing, but not enough to give birth to any textbabies born from L40K's merciless crossover awesome. I HAVE NO INFO, YET I MUST FIC. T_T Also, bladenkrath wins the thread by claiming that, out of the given choices, the Dai-Gurren Brigade would obviously win. XD

EDIT: Disregard that, I suck cocks. This should be Guyver. I have failed the anime of my age bracket!! :P

Saw this book at B&N today--I totally want a copy. I also think that we should donate a dozen or so to the ROTC library. No better way to teach the larval troopers how to do shit right, right?

Currently, we're working our way through Graham McNeill's Fulgrim, the closest thing GW will ever get to a canon recounting of how the Emperor's Children Legion fell to Slaanesh. I dunno...we're not very far into it, but... Look, Graham, you've got Space Marines who are a bit too hot on both genocide and fine art, and a bunch of artists hanging around those Marines who are already sacrificing their morals and sanity for the sake of their artistic visions. Dude, how many forehead veins did you pop to keep this boring?? FUCK YOU, GRAHAM! EAT MORE WHEATIES!!!

Also, less than a hundred pages in and Fulgrim has already given the green light to what will obviously be (at least part of) his total downfall. It took all of five minutes to convince him. Aren't primarchs supposed to be super-geniuses on top of being combat monsters? Fulgrim, you really ARE a blonde. I bet you accept drinks from strange men at parties too.

Now that we've read Battle Angel Alita volume 12, I have this itch to see Desty Nova and Fabius Bile fight to the bitter end. I mean, Nova would win hands-down (at least, I'm pretty sure), but I still think it needs to happen. The match could take a couple centuries, since I think both of them are immune to death at this point, but yeah...bring lots of popcorn. :B

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HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS

2009-07-16T02:55:44Z

Remember that giant mechadragon robo-tank that the US military was designing for the war on terror? Motherfucking Obama cut the funding for it. GODDAMMIT.

So what are we supposed to use to bring peace to the Middle East? Diplomacy??

At least we've still got the All-Seeing Eye. America couldn't call itself a first-world country without one of those. Sheesh.

--D.

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Dragon: The Maiding.

2009-06-23T02:23:24Z

A little while ago, bossgoji did some silly sample chargens for Maid RPG, an anime-themed tabletop RPG that really is what it says. I'm not usually one for shoujo stuff, but after we read the rulebook I realized that this game's potential for random insanity, anime parodies, drama, and action was strangely alluring.

So I'm jumping on the bandwagon and will be rolling a chara too. Only I don't like the idea of transforming some random hapless female into a maid, so I'll be turning myself into one. To give everybody some perspective, this is what I look like normally. (I'm the big guy, not the little guy. And usually I'm a lot less superdeformed and a bit more spikey, but you get the idea.) BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, I WILL BECOME KAWAII AND SUBSERVIENT!

For the record, our system is all in this Maid hype together, so we agreed on some chargen house rules ahead of time to give some of us more options to choose from. I'm just in this for the lulz, so I'm not too picky, but I'll point out anywhere where I'm invoking the extra flexibility.

( Watch, I'll end up like a totally normal human being or something. )

That was too fun. I totally dig my character. Who's next? XD

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Hmmm.

2009-06-18T23:24:12Z

I dunno how much movable income we have at the moment, but we're supposed to go to Atomic Comics with the parents this weekend for their Father's Day sale. Hopefully we can pick up some phat lewtz. What I wish for:

- A Giant Microbes sperm plushie. And hey, Giant Microbes people, why is there no gargantuan, pillow-sized sperm yet?? Am I really the only idiot in America who wants to cuddle a huge sex cell with eyeballs and a cute little ribbon? Why is there a child-sized herpes doll and no five-foot tadpole? Ain't no justice, people.

- Bastard!!. I think we've got up through Vol.16, and the US release is up to at least 18. I mean, the series has finally devolved into worthlessly pretty flash shot through with megadoses of raw testosterone and flavored with tasteless (and censored, godfuckingdammit) nudity--it'd be criminal to stop reading now!! XD

- Blade of the Immortal...? Hm. I'm a few volumes behind, but only because the story seemed to go completely to hell right after Autumn Frost. Samura's not even doing insane splash pages anymore. :/ Yuu and Snipe still seem to think that it's worth our well-earned consumer dollars, but...

I think that's probably it. Oh, right, and I'll check if there's any more Alita (probably not) and any more Vampire Hunter D novels (also probably not, but maybe)...and Riss will need to check for his Saiyuki and Loveless. But yeah, it's not like we have a ton of cash at the moment anyway. :P

...And all I really want for Christmas is for my partner to go out journeying with me again, the fucker.

Also, we'll be 28 in less than two weeks. I expect organs to start failing and hips to need replacing any day now.

--D.

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Truth.

2009-06-06T02:36:43Z

I knew it before. I said it before, even, just in a more limited way. But I think that it's true for everything now.

The truth of yourself is what is effortless. It's what you are when you aren't trying to be anything else. You can see through all the lies piled up around yourself when you stop trying to keep them in place.

It doesn't hurt. It's not hard at all. Maybe it's hard for some people because they don't know how to stop doing things during the "search for self." STOP DOING. It's not anything in particular that needs stopped...just stop doing.

I think maybe people are afraid that bad things will happen if they allow themselves to become real. But I think--and this is just what I think--that if it hurts you to be a certain way, then it can't be real.

Things that are true can't hurt because they give you strength. Being your truth gives you power; it makes you clean and strong like nothing else can. If you always find yourself weak, if you're always looking for ways to become stronger, then you can't be real. Not yet. Personal truth is an inner battery, and it makes a person powerful enough to brush off all the opposition and drive on through anything that would try to force you back into the lies that people liked better, or that maybe even you liked better. You can be crushed over and over, and your truth will always be there to lift you up again at the end.

Truth is elemental. Its power is like an atomic bond--basic, simple, invisible. It's the power to stand. You know exactly where you belong, and there you remain. Nothing can move you from that spot, and you have no need to move. When you're there, you are everything that that piece of reality needs, and it is everything that you need.

It's not a place like a location that you can go to. It's a vague thing, like a pattern or an identity. A person's place is like a stream--it's the same thing all along the way, but it moves, and the effortlessness of truth moves each person along with their place towards all the changes that they need to make.

It feels like saying that fate exists, but I don't think that there's any hand moving things behind the scenes, or any prewritten record of destiny. It's just that, when you have your truth and you're in that place, there is nothing else logical to do except to go where the stream is leading you. Doing anything else would require stepping away and becoming less real.

I wonder if my draconity is more real than a lot of humans' humanity. But that's not the only truth that I have now.

I am entering the water.

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