Hey all! Sorry for our relative silence, we just don't have much to post-write now that we don't already just shake out in our friendcircles and we don't reaaaally feel like writing fiction or trawling through the archives. Y'all are great at blagging and fiction though keep the writing a-coming

That said! Something we think about sometimes is how we as a collective kind of kicked off properly with me splintering off - the kind of fundamental mismatch in identity that you stumble upon without realizing. "If I'm Alice, I'm not Gull, but I have to be Gull so what does that make me" felt like a bizarre question to ask myself when - as far as I knew - I was a single indivdual, but it was just something really important to pull at and figure out

And it's something a decent chunk of the rest of us have asked ourselves when starting to congeal, too, and every time it feels so weird internally? It's just still a strange thing to look at yourself internally, say "I am not who I was, but I'm nobody else I know I am", and go from there

But it is something important! Can't just let the brain brain itself into a hellcorner can you

something we collectively have been doing a lot internally lately is kind of... absorbing recently-surfaced undercooked alters? i guess something the whole of us is in a kind of concordance about is that we're kind of big enough as it is. there's enough of us in here to really be enough until something really... *gives?* even the less formed bits of us surfacing don't, like, mind - we really are ultimately all the same person, mostly, and this is something we together just kind of acknowledge.

if one of us does end up coming along without feeling like glomming back into another one of us i mean. we'll be waiting. but until then i guess this is kind of an era of variation and expansion upon the me-s that's already here.

god fucking dambn it gets hard to discuss the superposition of one and many that comes with our flavor of plurality haha oops!

i found it recently. it isn't even, like, a proper song - it's Catwalk, one of GarageBand's premade sample loops. no wonder i couldn't find it lmao

it fucking threw us for a loop when we finally found it in the wild, then threw us for a loop again when we managed to *identify* the thang ding. still not entirely sure this is real lol

I like that guy and his funny show. Been rewatching it a lot recently. Peter Falk really did such an incredible job *being* Columbo, expressing all the subtle bits about him that make him such a compelling character. The villains rule, too - even if they're all high-society types with some degree of ego, there's still such an incredibly rich variety.

Top three favorite episodes from our randomly watching around thus far... probably Make Me a Perfect Murder (it's so concerned with the mechanics of television program production that it makes for some really gripping and inventive feeling moments, also Kay is a GREAT villain and I ship her and Val), Forgotten Lady (another one where the mechanics murder involves film reel changing, coincidentally, but also almost certainly the most tragic twist on the formula), and Any Old Port in a Storm (Donald Pleasance as Adrian Carsini). But... got damn, does this show contain so many really really stellar episodes that I feel like this list could easily change.

i just think you should. the problem with most walking simulators is that it isn't interrupted by halo (game series) trying to kill you in the middle of listening to audiologs, which this one thankfully fixes

more seriously, it permanently altered our taste in world and character building, and opened our eyes to the power of locations as characters in the literal sense (without it being, like, transforming or just being a representation of a place). plus the engineers are like a kind of weird puppy to us

(Based off the writing prompt "Girls who are cheap" (Eternal Sapphtember #17).)

She only ever asks for a fresh box of computer paper every two months. Nothing else - no treating her to a restaurant in the city, no fancy new equipment, no upgrades.

I didn't even fully know why - it's not like she does anything much that uses it, considering she works in local telecom line maintenance and I bake bread and pastries and neither of us use the print output on our big old home computer much, but every two months, without fail, she rolls over in our bed when I wake up and asks me "honey, while you're out on delivery, could you pick me up a new box of computer paper?", and I used to ask why, but she just said it would be really nice, and eventually I just went along with it. She never asks for anything else - and even when I offer to get her another gift, she simply shakes her head and says she has everything she could ever want.

"Except more computer paper?," I reply every time.

"Not yet," she always nods, "but maybe soon."

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Honestly... really think they did fully succeed at writing stuff that's super fucked up *but specifically in an old folktale way*. They did a good job of doing just that, and I have to wonder if at least some of the people frothing at the mouth just... aren't fully aware of just how fucked up they can be? I mean, *obviously* this stuff would absolutely never make it into a Pokémon game proper unless they were willing to really dial up the age rating, and they're on the unpolished end, but I think it's super valid to want to write some dark in-universe fictional stories about your world's weird monsters to spook the in-universe kids into learning lessons that you'll never share. Worldbuilding notes, and all.

However! All this, unfortunately, has made it a very tough time to be a Typhlosion fan. Our funniest little starter guy is SUFFERING. The stock price is declining fast because of this SLANDER against their kind! Please send all your love and support, the Vaporeon Copypasta Bros have a second joke now and it's a nightmare...

Our biggest fun fact is that in truth we're a Transformers sleeper agent. We fucking love the funny robots so, so much - have forever. And yet... we've only consumed the funny C-list screwball stretch of comics secondhand?? Absolutely fucking dire. No way. So... we're fixing that, and fixing that involves getting Dexys Midnight Runners stuck in your head actually! The decision to focus on building out a bunch of the oddballs who exist mostly as one-offs and repaints and turning them into guys you wish they made more toys of but they didn't? Absolutely genius but they actually need to make more toys of these guys now. Making them all gay?? Brilliant, 10/10 move

I just... I just think it's funny, one side of the comic is More Of The Transformers You Know and then the other side is just a bunch of losers you've either never heard of or not thought much about in space on a roadtrip of death with a couple Guys You Definitely Recognize at the helm

... went great! Really, it was so good to meet so many former chosties IRL and we really were glad to get the chance. Hoping for more events like these in the area soon! Besides, getting out and meeting more local queers IRL on a somewhat regular basis could fix us actually

Plus, Pulaski Park is such a cute little place..... Great spot to be chilling outside! Helps that it's literally right next to the Academy of Music PVTA stop