“Miss Davis, if we separate our leaders - if we segregate them from people like you and me - you get “congressmen.” So I’m sorry. I wish I can take your offer, but Mary stays. Unless you kick her out.” - Frank Adler
Never before has the Adventurer Standard length of 50ft hempen rope been as threatening as it is in the hands ofthis otherworldly fiend. Able to hear his name across any distance whenever it’s spoken, Candlejack can phase into and out of the Ethereal Plane at will to c
is there anything better as a writer than an AO3 message that someone went through all your fics in a fandom? “[person] left kudos on [story1]. [person] left kudos on [story2]. [person] left kudos on [story3].” GLORIOUS. like you actually read words I wrote and thought “hmm, yes good, I will continue” and then did so. magical. i saw some Youths out there afraid this is “stalking” but as an Old let me tell you au contraire, it is a rare sweet nectar that warms our ancient dead hearts
[Alt text: The figure presents a text conversation in which an uncaptioned photograph is given a two word response. In the photo, a man holds 10 young, squirming, multicolored tegu lizards - each about the size of a plantain - close to his chest; he is struggling to keep them all contained for the photo. The two word response is “OMG KITTENS.”]
I finished watching Fruits Basket! I love the CATTTTTTTTTTTTT!!! But man was he stubborn!
And why was Akito forgiven so fucking fast by most? Or if not forgiven, than just basically given a pass for all the abuse they doled out! I mean, yeah, I get that they were also abused but that doesn’t give them the right to do it to others!
Anyway, I’m mostly happy with the ending, though I would have loved to see more with Momiji! To have had him have his own happy ending with family. Oh well, guess you can’t have everything!
You know what? Because It’s not as if I have like a thousand projects going on, between my REAL job like, say, my webcomics, my videos and my SDCC preparation, and my Fics, and thePrimer? I am going to start a bookmark/collection list on A03 of the fics that are plotty, good, and treat the Moon System as a System.
I will start with Intrasys fics, and then go from there.
Because people who keep the boys’ together? Deserve more love and feedback.
2. you know, we have fun here, with the word “meme,” but according to meme theory, which is an actual thing pioneered by reptilian human impersonator Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, most of what we call memes are very unsuccessful memes. A meme, in the scientific sense - if one is generously disposed to consider memetics a science on any particular day - is an idea that acts like a gene. That is, it seeks to replicate itself, as many times as possible, and as faithfully as possible.
That second part is important. A gene which is not faithful in its replication mutates, sometimes rapidly, sometimes wildly. The result might be cancer or a virus or (very very very rarely) a viable evolutionary step forward, but whatever the case, it is no longer the original gene. That gene no longer exists. It could not successfully reproduce itself.
The memes we pass around on the internet are, in general, very short lived and rapidly mutating. It’s rare for any meme to survive for more than a year: in almost all cases, they appear, spread rapidly, spawn a thousand short-lived variations, and then are swiftly forgotten. They’re not funny anymore, or interesting anymore. They no longer serve any function, and so they’re left behind, a mental evolutionary dead end.
This rendition of Freddie Mercury’s immortal opera Bohemian Rhapsody is about the most goddamned amazing demonstration of a successful meme I’ve ever seen. This song is 42 years old, as of 2017. FORTY TWO YEARS OLD. And it has spread SO far, and replicated itself across the minds of millions of people SO faithfully, that a gathering of 65,000 more or less random people, with nothing in common except that they all really like it when Billie Joe Armstrong does the thing with the guitar, can reproduce it perfectly. IN PERFECT TIME. THEY KNOW THE EXACT LENGTH OF EVERY BRIDGE. THEY EVEN GET THE NONSENSE WORDS RIGHT. THEY DIVIDE THEMSELVES UP IN ORDER TO SING THE COUNTER-CHORUS.
“Yeah, Pyrrhic, lots of people know this song.”
Listen, you glassy-eyed ninny: our species’ ability to coherently pass along not just genetic information, but memetic information as well, is the reason we’re the dominant species on this planet. Language is a meme. Civilization is a collection of memes. Lots of animals can learn, but we may be the only animal that latches onto ephemera - information that doesn’t reflect any concrete reality, information with little to no immediate practical application - and then joyfully, willfully, unrelentingly repeats it and teaches it to others. Look at how wild this crowd is, because they’re singing the same song! It doesn’t DO anything. It’s not even why they showed up here today! If you sent out a letter to those same 65,000 people that said, “Please show up in this field on this day in order to sing Bohemian Rhapsody,” very few of them would have showed up. But I would be surprised to meet a single person in that crowd who joined in the singing who doesn’t remember this moment as the most amazing part of a concert they paid hundreds of dollars to see.
And they’re just sharing an idea. It’s stunning and ridiculous. Something about how our brains work make us go, “Hey!! Hey everybody!! I found this idea! It’s good! I like it! I’m going to repeat it! Do you know it too?? Repeat it with me! Let’s get EVERYBODY to know it and repeat it and then we can all have it together at the same time! It’s a good idea! I’m so excited to repeat it exactly the way I heard it, as loudly as I can, as often as possible!!”
This is how culture happens! This is how countries happen! Sometimes a persistent, infectious idea - a meme - can be dangerous or dark. But our human delight at clutching up good memes like magpies and flapping back to our flock to yell about them to everyone we know is why we as a species bothered to start doing things like “telling stories” and “writing stuff down.”
“That’s a lot of spilled ink for a Queen song, Pyrrhic.”
Hello yes I’m alive and aware that ZK fanwork appreciation week happened but I literally have to not sleep to make time for art these days. And I’ve been trying to squeeze stuff in but…
It keeps turning into something like this:
Either I have a one-track mind or my creativity has imploded (or I’m just really tired haha~) but thanks for being patient with me either way. I’m going to try my absolute darndest to participate in ZK Bollywood Week because how could I not??
Just wanted to let you know that I’m still here. The piece I promised for June got delayed a bit, but it will be released eventually, don’t worry! I could publish it already now, but I thought it’d be cool to make something special for the big farewell - like… A set? A mini-set? Even if it’s just 2 pieces, it’s still something extra… I don’t want to make any huge promises, as it all depends on so many factors - my work, motivation, weather, health - but I’ll still publish something, that you can be sure of. More than one thing. I just need a bit more time!
Oh, and of course, as always, everything will be free to everyone from day one, no changes here :)
