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no-psi-nan · 2 years ago

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A while ago, a friend suggested writing Saikechi with ASMR as the theme, and I started on a lil one-shot but then stopped when I realized I'd have to write a truly big huge-long Akechi monologue to do it the way I'd planned. So instead I put that headcanon into Intimate Variety lol.

But I did write 1k of it, and it seems a shame to just delete it, so I'm gonna post it here for anyone who wants to read what there is of it, plus my notes on what was going to happen next. I'd say it's T-rated, basically just talking lol.

ASMR Sleepover Time

"Chiyopipi, Chiyopipi… Here's the bottom line: if ya wouldn't do it with your momma, it sure af ain't platonic."

"Well, I've heard people say that massages are a romantic thing, but isn't giving your mom a massage pretty normal??"

"I mean, yeah, platonic affection is a hella gray zone and it's different for like almost everybody. But purposely making somebody feel intense physical pleasure ain't it, chief– that's where I think most people gotta draw the line."

"I don't know, Miko-chan, I still think it can be platonic! There's nothing weird about whispering in someone's ear or petting their hair, right? Whether it happens to be an ASMR trigger has nothing to do with it!"

"Babygirl, would it be platonic to rub your buddy's feet if you knew they had a foot fetish?"

"That's different!! That's a– you know! Totally different from ASMR!"

[You guys sure like to discuss weird topics, good grief.]

"Oh hey Kusuo~! Wait, maybe you can settle this debate, babe–"

[I am not getting involved in this conversation.]

"Did I hear someone mention a debate? Oh, hello Kusuo-kun, Miko-chan, and Yumehara-san! My apologies, I couldn't help but overhear some sort of stirring discussion on this corner, though I haven't yet cottoned on to the particular topic under consideration. Would you be so amenable as to restate it for me?"

(Akechi admits to having experienced ASMR before but immediately changes the topic to some of the research on the subject. Saiki thinks to himself that ASMR sounds like a lot of weird bullshit and doesn't really have any interest in the matter, especially since it probably can't affect him.)

[Akechi Touma.]

[Why the hell are you calling my house this late at night?]

"Oh, hello Kusuo-kun! What a pleasure to hear your voice, I fully expected that you'd immediately hang up immediately upon being handed the phone before even discovering the purpose of my call!"

[I still might. What a pain… I was seriously climbing into bed right now.]

"Kusuo-kun, by any chance, are you using your telepathy right now? It's only that I'm hearing your voice in my head quite perfectly without any of the mild audio distortion typical of cellular networks!"

[ …Maybe.]

[Never mind that. Why are you whispering?]

"To be perfectly honest, it is actually my de facto bedtime right now as well! As my mother has settled in to sleep in the room next door, I thought it would be prudent to maintain a more discrete volume of speech so as to not disturb her slumber."

[Again: why the hell are you calling my house this late at night?]

"Oh Kusuo-kun, it is simply that I currently find myself well-situated under a set of lovely clean sheets and my favorite weighted blanket, accompanied of course by a choice selection of stuffed animals. With the enforced darkness of my blackout curtains and the pleasantly cool temperature of my bedroom, these are indeed optimal sleeping conditions. And yet despite all this, I find myself unable to succumb to Morpheus' grip."

[ … ]

[Good grief, what do you expect me to do about that?]

[I don't have any special powers that can put people to sleep. The best I can do is play a lullaby through telepathy.]

"While I will be the first to admit that a telepathic lullaby does sound quite relaxing, it isn't particularly what I had in mind as the aim of this phone call. Now, I'm sure you are quite impatient to discover the objective of this communication, and I am happy to inform you that my motivation is twofold. First, I have lately been concerned about the quality of rest you've been enjoying lately, ever since your powers were temporarily deleted and summarily restored. And I am very certain that you are currently rolling your eyes and are about to rebuke me for interrupting that very sleep, but please allow me to elaborate. It is my understanding that the range of your telepathy has increased somewhat, causing you to hear more peripheral mental voices than before. This, in turn, must be creating more difficulties in winding down to an appropriate relaxation state for restorative sleep. The seemingly obvious solution would be to wear your germanium ring to bed, forestalling the thoughts of your neighbors and family. However, both you and I are aware that completely cancelling your telepathy is the source of great anxiety for you, due to your learned hypervigilance. Despite logically knowing that no enemies are in pursuit, no amount of reasoning will allow you to relax when you are experiencing nothing but your thoughts in the lonely darkness of your room. This is why I propose this late-night conversation. I expect it will be more comforting and familiar for you to hear at least one other voice while wearing the germanium ring, hopefully easing your anxiety to the point where you can more easily drop into a restorative sleep. If this experiment is successful, it could prove to be a simple method for alleviating your fatigue."

[ … ]

[And the second reason?]

" … …Well. It is simply that I would like to talk with you, Kusuo-kun. You are my very best friend, and yet we rarely have opportunities to 'chit-chat' one-on-one, due to our schooling, your rather large social circle, and your tendency towards introversion. I hypothesize and hope that this hour and method may serve as an effective way to catch up and enjoy each other's company."

[ … ]

"I have seen evidence of happiness in you when we share space, however reluctant you may be to organize such occasions yourself. In fact, it is quite fortuitous that your friends are so familiar with your reclusive nature that they do not take offense at your distaste of initiating encounters. Less understanding companions might truly believe that you do not desire their presence."

[ … ]

[You have a point. What a pain… ]

[Maybe I should ask my friends to hang out sometimes. Instead of waiting to be strung along.]

"Indeed! You may even discover that being the organizer enables you to select the time, setting, and duration of each encounter to your preference, instead of remaining at the mercy of whoever roped you into the encounter."

[Alright, alright. I get it.]

[We can talk for a little while. See if your idea works.]

[I could seriously use more sleep… ]

"Marvelous! I am always delighted in your willingness to challenge yourself for the benefit of your loved ones. Such an admirable trait~"

[ … ]

"But I digress!

(Akechi calls Saiki on the phone because he knows clairvoyance can be tiring, especially if Saiki also has to use his telepathy long distance. Saiki is annoyed at first because he had just been about to go to bed and get some rest, but Akechi suggests that he use his germanium ring since he's going to be awake anyways, and rest a bit that way. Saiki agrees, possibly because Akechi's whispers pique his interest, and quickly realizes that having only Akechi's whispering voice in his head feels really really nice. The silence of the ring is usually too complete for his comfort, so having Akechi affectionately talk his ear off gives the perfect level of noise. Saiki finds himself experiencing ASMR and shivering with delight, actually humming out loud to let Akechi know he was listening or to respond to a prompt, and taking a while to respond to more complex questions because he's so relaxed and drifty.

Akechi catches on quickly and makes sure to minimize the audience participation part of his rant, monitoring Saiki's state of relaxation by the amount of time between breaths and the tone of his hums. When he notices Saiki drifting off to sleep, he smiles and his topic drifts to how much he loves and appreciates his best friend and that he hopes Saiki has sweet dreams, though he avoids using Saiki's name so as to not wake him up. When he hears Saiki's deeply asleep, he lets his voice trail off, then he places the phone on speaker next to his pillow and hugs a teddy bear and falls asleep, both of them comforted by each other's quiet breaths.

Akechi wakes when Saiki does, wishing him a good morning and yawning. He says he slept better than usual and hopes Saiki did too. Saiki grudgingly admits that he slept very well, and that maybe Akechi's phone call was a good thing after all. Akechi tries to fish for more info to see if his ASMR theory is correct, but Saiki dodges his attempts. However, Saiki does say that he wouldn't mind having another "sleepover" and Akechi immediately jumps on the opportunity, getting him to agree to a real sleepover quite soon. During the sleepover, Saiki gets to enjoy Akechi's whispers close up, along with the gentle touch of his hand combing through his hair. And then Akechi admits that hearing Saiki's voice in his head often gives him a similar ASMR experience, so Saiki later [reads] him a book while they snuggle, and Akechi shivers delightedly against Saiki's side. )

#nopsi fic #saikechi #akechi touma

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uglymanchronicles · 3 years ago

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Ugly Man Chronicles Reignition Book 2 Chapter 2: My Breakfast With Evan

Just a couple dudes getting to know each other.

“If you must know,” Evan sighed, spearing a glistening sausage on the end of a flimsy plastic fork, “my jackass older sister thought it would be hilarious to give me a cupcake she'd baked with about a dozen powdered viagra for my fifteenth birthday. I wound up passing out eventually. Burst a lot of blood vessels. Damaged the erectile tissue beyond usefulness.”

Titus froze mid-coffee-sip. “Seriously? What a bitch!”

“Buddy, you don't know the half of it.”

“So... no signs of life down there?”

“Nothing for twelve years.”

“I think I would literally kill myself.”

“It's not so bad, I guess. At least I don't have to drain the blood out of it any more.”

“Eugh! Fuck! Did not need to hear that!”

“Well, maybe you shouldn't ask questions you don't want the answer to.”

“Do you get, like, blue balls all the time, then?”

“That's basically my ground state of being.”

Titus whistled flatly, avoiding looking Evan in the eye. He settled for staring at the table. There wasn't a lot of Evan's face that he felt comfortable looking at; every part seemed to at least be adjacent to some unpleasantry or another. About the only safe area was his right eye, which, as luck would have it, was directly opposite Titus's 'good' eye. Titus rallied and met Evan's gaze again. “Alright, your turn.”

They'd agreed on a sort of mutual interview process, taking turns asking questions to suss out what the other was capable or if he was worth having around. Evan took a bite out of the sausage and chewed thoughtfully for a moment.

“Who's Moreno?”

Titus hissed through his teeth. “A real piece of shit.”

“I'm going to need more than that.”

“I'm getting to it. He's basically, like... a freelance henchman? Like, sort of a mercenary criminal. Sells his services to the highest bidder.”

“And why's he matter?”

“That's another question.”

“No, it is not,” Evan said, quiet and serious. “Do not argue with me in bad faith, Titus. I have very little patience for it in the best of times.”

Titus regarded him for a long moment. The man across from him was wider than the table they sat at. His muscles were so pronounced in some points that Titus could tell when he was about to move by the way they bulged and contracted. Yet he gave the impression that he was constantly trying to pull himself inward, to make himself smaller. He spoke quietly and with a simple formality, but only hours before Titus had watched him single-handedly beat down some of the nastiest people he'd met in the past month.

Hmm.

“Fine. Moreno matters because I'm after the guy he's working for. You see, Moreno isn't just a normal scumbag. He works for people who need nasty things done. Not like regular nasty, either. How much do you actually know about magic?”

“I've got some... notes. So far I'm not able to find a lot of coherent rules. It mostly seems like it relies on things that nobody would normally do.”

Titus snapped his fingers and pointed at Evan. “Hit it right on the head. Rituals, reagents, that kind of thing... the reason—well, one of the reasons—magic doesn't just happen all the time by accident is that it's all weird little things. A lot of the more heavy magic relies on some pretty elaborate and obtuse shit to get it going.”

Evan momentarily thought back to the Book of Fate and his ritual in the woods. “So Moreno does these things for people?”

“Yeah. Thing is, though...” Titus stopped raising a forkful of eggs halfway to his mouth and set it down again, as if he'd momentarily lost his appetite. “The people who use his services generally practice some pretty vile magic. Real depraved shit. And to empower depraved magic, you need depraved rituals. Moreno is the guy you go to when...”

“I think I get it,” Evan interjected, since Titus seemed to be struggling with deciding whether to continue. “Your turn.”

Titus tapped his fingers on the table for a moment, then looked Evan in the eye. “How smart are you?”

The scars on Evan's face squirmed around as he actually smirked. “What kind of question is that?”

“Hey, we agreed no 'whys'.”

“Alright, alright. Well, there's really no objective metric for it, but... I have Master's degrees in computer science and theoretical physics, Bachelor's in those in addition to mathematics and electrical engineering, and associate's degrees and certificates in everything from EMT training to ballet. I should have my doctorate in physics, but...” he said, with a bitterness that Titus made a note of, then changed gears. “Oh, and I also speak Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese, French, and Arabic pretty fluently. I also know ASL. I can get by in German and Russian, too. I don't know if any of that is what you meant but--”

“Jesus, I get it,” Titus muttered, rubbing the side of his head. “How the fuck do you make money?”

“Software consulting, mostly. I specialize in security and processing efficiency. People pay me to break into their systems and then patch the holes, or to make their code run quicker or make their programs smaller. I've got a few patents I've licensed that bring in most of my income nowadays, though.”

“Anything I would have heard of?”

“If you've used a computer made in the last four years it probably has something I wrote integrated somewhere into it. I also helped develop a protein-sequencing program that helped develop a vaccine for this nasty SARS variant that broke out in China last year. They say if they hadn’t nipped it in the bud it could’ve spread worldwide and we’d be looking at millions of deaths by now.”

Titus scrunched up his face. “Oh yeah, just say that like it’s no big deal.”

“I’m just glad it turned out not to be one. What I'd really like to do is get my compression algorithm out there, but if I do that, somebody's going to try to hoard it all for themselves.”

“Are you talking to yourself or me?”

“Look, I... a few years ago I figured out a way to compress memory down by a exponential factor of six with zero loss. All it takes is a couple software plugins that don't take up much room themselves. Essentially, I could make a gigabyte fit in a kilobyte with very little trouble, now that the math's figured out.”

“Holy fuck, that's insane! Why haven't I heard anything about this?”

“Mainly because I don't tell people. If I put it up on the market, some ISP would buy it and bury it. If you make information smaller, you make it faster. Can you imagine what it'd do to internet access if dial-up and barebones cellular networks suddenly had the bandwidth of fiber optics? It would... maybe not revolutionize our society, but it would level a lot of playing fields. Bring a lot of underdeveloped areas of the world—hell, this country—up to modern levels with no extra cost. The telecomms would crash and burn so hard. But I don't have the means to get it out there without going through someone else. Yet,” Evan added. “So I basically work watered-down versions of the compressor into the software I make. Nothing that can be duplicated, and nowhere near its full potential, but enough to get me hailed as some kind of genius and pay the bills.”

“So why aren't you on your own private island or something somewhere instead of puttering around God's Ashtray in a shitty old Bug?”

“Hey, the Beetle is not shitty,” Evan said, defensively. “And I'm just waiting for the AC in my RV to get fixed or I'd be driving that.”

“Oh hot damn! Now that's the way to live!”

“Not the one I'd choose voluntarily, but it could be worse.”

“How come you're doing it, then?”

“I think it's my turn to ask,” Evan said, mildly.

“Fine,” Titus said grumpily, crossing his arms.

“How do you make money?”

“That's easy. I'm basically a freelance bailbondsman. I just roam around, drop my advertising around bars and courthouses.”

“You get many clients that way?” Evan asked, cocking his remaining eyebrow.

“Oh, you'd be amazed how desperate people can get,” Titus said, shrugging. “Of course, they're usually not the most responsible people, so when they bounce, I track 'em down myself, drag ‘em back to jail, get the money back. My eye usually makes it super easy. Sometimes they don't even see me before I get the cuffs on 'em.”

“Why did you feel the need to rob a bunch of drug dealers, then? The thrill of it?”

“I had a pressing need for a large amount of cash that my normal work doesn't bring in. That got me enough to hold it off for a while. My turn.”

Evan waved down a waitress for a refill of his coffee, trying not to take it personally when she gasped upon seeing his face. “Go ahead…”

“No, no, hang on.” Titus waved a hand dismissively. “I want to try something. Take your hair out of the ponytail.”

“What? Why?”

“Humor me.”

Evan groaned and reached back, removing his hair tie. After shaking his head, his hair fell over his face, obscuring everything but his nose and mouth. Titus pursed his lips and regarded him seriously for a moment.

“Can you see?”

“Yeah, I guess. Well enough to not walk into things, I think, and I could probably read if I had to.”

Titus snapped his fingers. “Good. Go with that from now on.”

“Why?”

“Because now you don’t look like God’s mistake. Now you look like a big, dumb-but-lovable goon. Like Jack Black would voice you in a cartoon.”

“And that’s a good thing?”

“Do you like seeing people contemplating their own mortality and the general cruel absurdity of the tragic farce that is human existence when they get a glimpse of your face?”

Evan felt his cheeks burn and was actually grateful his hair was covering most of his face. “…not particularly, no.”

“Then there you go. You’re welcome. Okay, question time. Uh… how did you get your powers?”

“Which one?”

“Oh, now who’s arguing in bad faith? Fucking all of them, you thick-lipped gargoyle.”

Evan had the feeling he hit a sore spot. Titus's easy-going, jocular tone had bled away from him, leaving behind the hard-edged razor-blade of a man that had ambushed him the night before. He decided not to belabor the point.

“I don't know why I can rege—why I heal so quickly. No, I'm serious, as far as I know, it just started happening sometime in the past few months. I can't remember. Don't look at me like that, I'll get to that in a minute. When I was younger I recovered from a lot of injuries a lot quicker than the doctors thought I would, so maybe it's something I was born with and it just got stronger recently for some reason.”

Evan took a sip of coffee, mainly to buy a few seconds to think of how much to explain for the next part.

“The ability to shut off powers... that's part of, well, I guess you'd call it a magic ritual, because I don't know what else to call it. I found a weird old book that said it contained the key to making someone an instrument of universal justice, or something of the sort. Since then I can see... I guess they're souls? Maybe? I can sort of move mine and when I run it into someone else's it seems like I can shut off their powers. Or... take them entirely, if they're dying.”

“Horseshit!” Titus scoffed. “That's... that's like meta-magic. I don't even know if that's real.”

“No, seriously! I don't think it's just magic powers, I think it... 'normalizes' things.” He briefly recounted his encounter with the pain monster.

“Are you kidding me? That...” Titus took off his hat and ran his hand through his hair, exhaling slowly and loudly. “Look, I don't know much, but the fact that you even ran into something like that, let alone survived... those odds are astronomical. And you say you negated not just its powers, but its whole form?”

“Yeah. Once I... reached into it, like I did with you—oh don't make that face. Grow up—I kind of disrupted what made it... different, I guess? Like I cut it off from its special qualities. Like it was...”

“Disjuncted,” Titus cut in.

“Yeah, that's a good word for it. Like the old Mordenkainen spell?”

“Fucking nerd.”

“Eat my ass. Anyway, after I killed it, I was able to reach into its... soul? Animating force? Aura? I don't know what to call it. I was able to grab something and pull it out and it just got pulled into me.”

“Not aura.”

“What?”

“Aura's a different thing,” Titus said, dismissively. “So what did you get from doing that?”

“I.. I feel pain differently. I don't flinch or get adrenaline rushes from injuries that don't actually impede my ability to function. I think I have a better sense of what is actually dangerous to my body now. It still hurts, but I don't react to pain like people normally do. It's like...hmm.” Evan drummed his fingers on the table. “Do you know anything about video games? Fighting games, specifically?”

“I used to fuck around on an old Alpha 3rd Strike cabinet when I was a kid. Why?”

“Do you know what 'super armor' is?”

“Isn't that where a move can't get stopped by being hit when you're doing it?”

“Right. I'm kind of like that now. Pain doesn't interrupt me.”

“Fucking nerd.”

Evan's fist involuntarily clenched. “I'm trying to put this in terms you can understand, you stupid reprobate. My experience with your judgment thus far hasn't given me much faith in your intellect.”

Titus burst out laughing. “So he does know how to banter! I thought you might be one of those Rainman types.”

“Oh sure, call it 'banter' to try to excuse the fact that you've been insulting me for the past half hour. Do you say you're ‘just joking’ when people get mad at you for saying stupid shit, too?”

“C'mon, lighten up! We're partners now! Tell me more about this soul thing. I still think you're full of shit.”

Evan sighed through his nose, then held up his left hand, forming his fingers into a circle and peering through them.

“Yours is... a sort of cross between a sea green and an oil slick. The tendrils of it keep reaching out and snapping back, going all over the place. It seems to keep expanding and contracting. It's almost flickering, like... it's indecisive. Very chaotic. The tendrils that aren't snapping around seem to be kept pretty close to your body, wrapping around you like... I can't tell if it's protective or restrictive.”

Titus's expression slowly became serious. “What does that mean?”

“I don't know. I have a lot of theories, but nothing solid to go on. I'm not sure if it's allegorical or a literal representation of a person's... power, maybe? Yours definitely looks a lot different than most people's.”

“I don't believe this for a second. Let me see.”

“How would I do tha—hey!”

Titus grabbed Evan's wrist and held his hand up to his eye. “Ho-lee...”

He pulled back from Evan's hand, staring at him. Then he looked around the room, mouth slack as he took in the diner's other occupants.

“Huh. Did you know it keeps working until you blink?” He said after a moment, a faraway tone to his voice.

“I didn't even know other people could do it,” Evan said, awe in his voice. “Hey, wow, you're right!”

“Jesus, yours is, like, really blue. It looks like... a bunch of steel cables. It's weird, I felt like I both could and couldn't see the edges of it...”

“I can kind of move it, but I'm not sure if I can do anything with it beyond interfering with people's powers. It's like learning to use a muscle you didn't know you had.”

“Huh.” Titus was again silent for a long moment. “Your turn.”

“Can you do anything else supernatural? Besides your time-eye?”

“Don't call it that, it sounds stupid. And... sorta. I seem to have whatever innate talent you need to actually do magic, but it's not like it's easy to find instructions. Most of the people I know who can use it just dabble with half-broken magic items—wands, amulets, charms,” he pulled the silence charm out from under his coat and bounced it at the end of its chain. “I guess I'm sort of a dabbler. I know a few tricks, I can use a lot of magic tools, I can sense magic pretty well, I can dowse... Most of the time I really never have to use anything besides the eye, though.”

“Is the eye all-or-nothing?”

“Yeah. It's not nearly as useful as you'd think, but any edge is an edge.”

“When I turned off your power and it was coming back, though, you started speeding up—or, I guess, everything else was slowing down? You were moving faster, one way or the other. You were able to touch me, and those punches hurt.”

“Huh, yeah, you're right.”

“Do you think there's a way you could learn to only partially activate it?”

“That'd be great, wouldn't it? Thing is, just using it is a huge strain, and that time spend outside of time adds up. Going by normal calendar time I'm only 26.”

“Fuck, I'm 27!” Evan laughed.

“Yeah, well, I'd rather be prematurely gray than what you've got going on. My turn. Uh... huh, I can't really think of anything else. Uh... are you gay?”

“Are you fucking serious?”

“No, but the question still counts.”

“I'm bi,” Evan mumbled, crossing his arms across his prodigious chest. “Not that it matters. And before you ask, no, you are not my type. We're done talking about this.”

“Huh. You ever sucked--”

“We. Are. Done. Talking about this.”

“Fine, God. Go.”

Evan mentally circled back to an earlier question he felt hadn't been properly answered. “Why are you after Moreno?”

To Evan's surprise, Titus didn't hesitate. “I'm actually after his current boss. He's just the best lead I have to go on.” He took a deep breath, then started talking with a rushed, deadpan pace, as if he was eager to get the words out as quickly as possible so they wouldn't be in his mouth very long.

“Moreno is working for a guy only known as the Soultaker. He has an innate supernatural ability to pull a person's soul out of their body. When that happens, the person just... shuts down, usually. No motive force behind them. Eventually they just die of dehydration, usually. I've seen some people so set in routine that they keep going without a soul, but... it's not really life.

“It seems like the extraction process takes a while, so he can't just walk past you on the street and pickpocket your entire essence. So he needs people rounded up for him, held until he can do his nasty juju. So that's where a degenerate like Moreno comes in.

“So when he pulls out a soul, it, well, it looks like this.”

Titus pulled a battered, faded Crown Royale bag out of his jacket. It bulged strangely and made a quiet clacking when he set it on the table. He pulled out what looked like a large marble, or maybe a dull pearl, and handed it to Evan.

Evan brushed his hair out of his eyes and peered into the milky depths of the sphere. After a few moments of staring, the murky clouds inside the thing seemed to clear and a face floated to the surface. A black man, maybe in his late 40s, going thin on top. His eyes were closed and he appeared to be sleeping, but his expression had a look of discomfort to it, as if he was having a bad dream.

“Jesus Christ,” Evan whispered, “I've seen this guy... Martell Calloway? I saw some news article about how his family found him tied up in his apartment and completely comatose! But he didn't have any injuries beyond being a black eye... so he's dead?”

“Life support,” Titus said, taking Mr. Calloway's soul back from Evan's unresisting fingers, “technically, he's one of the lucky ones. They found his body before it wasted away to nothing, and I was able to intercept his soul before it got to a buyer.”

“Why would someone buy something like this? What use is it? Can you fix him?”

“A human soul is a damn near exhaustible arcane battery,” Titus said gravely. In the split second between sentences, Evan noticed something—after he'd put the bag back into his jacket, Titus surreptitiously touched a pocket on the other side of his jacket, as if he was making sure something was still there.

“If you know what you're doing, you can power a lot of magic using a soul. And you can reuse them as long as you don't overdo it. If you know what you're doing, you can wring all but the last drops of essence out of a soul and let it heal or recover or whatever, and it'll eventually be back to full strength. Very resilient things,” Titus continued. “I don't think they're conscious in there, but... anyway, it's supposed to be really hard to extract a soul. But this guy was born with or spontaneously developed or somehow figured out a shortcut to the whole process. So the market is getting flooded with torture-batteries and ECUs are getting flooded with vegetables. And families are winding up with loved ones who are as good as dead, without having any idea why this happened to them. Dozens of them have been taken off life support in the past few months. Half these souls have no body to return to. And no, I can't fix it. At least not yet,” he sighed again. “I was hoping once I found him, I could somehow get the secret out of him or force him to put them back, or... maybe I thought if I killed him it'd reverse the effect. He needs killing, either way.”

Titus's eye widened as a thought struck him and he looked Evan in the eye for the first time since he'd started the story. Evan realized what he was thinking and looked down at the tattoo on his left arm, flexing his fingers.

“If you can take people's powers after they die...”

“...then we can save these people.”

Titus put a hand over his mouth and for a moment Evan thought he saw his eye well up.

“I'm in,” Evan said, a sense of righteous purpose welling in his heart. “I don't really know what the universe wants, but I doubt... I know it's not this. We'll find him, we'll stop him, and we'll save as many of these people as we can.”

“...thanks,” Titus mumbled behind his hand. He swallowed hard, then seemed to come back to himself. “We're back to square one, though.”

“You said you could dowse? Like, for real?”

“Yes, for real. I can find things and people with the pendulum method. It's handy for tracking down bounties.”

“Why don't you dowse Moreno?”

“Why didn't I think of that?!” Titus said incredulously, smacking his forehead. “Because he's warded. He's not magic himself, but he's collected enough gear through his career that my normal methods don't work.”

Evan rubbed his chin. “What if we used an abnormal method?”

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An hour later, they were in the RV. Titus was poring over the collection of Evan's notes and the strange papers he'd bought from Delmann's shop. Evan was very carefully slicing a strip of skin from his own ankle up all the way up his leg. The Guiding Light—the Finder's Follysat on the table between them, filled with fresh blood.

“Even if this works, he's going to know we're coming,” Titus muttered, engrossed in the pages. “Remember what I said?”

“That's why we're not going to look for him,” Evan said, adjusting his grip on the potato peeler. “I don't know how we'd even write his name. Can you read that, by the way?”

“Kind of. This is... most of this is written in, like, arcane pidgin. Who compiled these notes?”

“I did, I think.”

“You think?”

“Oh yeah, I forgot to clarify on that. Apparently a couple months ago, before the ritual, I drilled a hole in my own brain to erase some kind of very dangerous memory.”

“You what.”

“That's not a metaphor or anything. Really did it. I could show you the video.”

“I'll pass. So you don't remember where this came from?” Titus shook the Book of Fate at him.

“Nope.”

“Jesus shit, do you have any idea--”

“How reckless that was? Yeah, yeah, I'm still here and I'm the answer to your fuckin' prayers, aren't I?” Evan gave a whoop as the peeling skin reached his thigh. “Got it this time!” he said cheerfully, snipping the flesh-ribbon off with scissors.

“God, that's so fucking gross. Anyway, you haven't explained how we're going to use that thing to find Moreno.”

“We don't set it to look for him. We look for somewhere he's been. Maybe the last place he slept. Do you think you can describe him well enough in that language for it to work?”

Titus looked like he might actually be impressed, but he hid it well. “Yeah, probably.”

“Good. I've got a dictionary I've put together on that tablet next to you, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. Maybe it'll help?”

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Two hours later, they had it.

Find where a man born between the 27th and 28th north parallels during a new moon under the sign of capricorn with black hair and green eyes who has killed at least 10 people slept in the past week.

They really had to squeeze the letters in, but when Evan put a flame to the wick, it sprung to life, wavered for a moment, and then pointed east. Both men cheered. Evan threw Titus the keys.

“Drive! Drive north until I tell you otherwise!”

While Titus started the engine, Evan spread a map of the United States on the table in front of the lamp, then produced a protractor and a notebook from a drawer. “Okay, you bastard... let's see where you've been hiding...”

It took three days—one spent driving north, one spent driving back to where they'd started, and one spent driving south. While Titus drove, Evan made meticulous notes of the flame's direction, marking angles on the map. Finally he threw the pencil down triumphantly.

“He's in Salt Lake City.”

“Well, that narrows it down a little, I guess. So what, do we just go there and hope this thing points us in the right direction?”

“Too slow,” Evan called, stepping back into what used to be his bedroom and sitting at his computer. “Now I work my magic.”

After parking, Titus walked back to look over Evan's shoulder. The half-dozen monitors on the wall were flickering between rapidly-changing pictures of faces and what appeared to be CCTV footage.

“What is this?”

“This,” Evan said with dramatic pride, “is Blaccat. Facial recognition algorithms that the CIA wishesit had. I actually started working on it years ago before I thought about the implications of it, but I shelved it. I figured since I may be needing to, uh...”

“Be Batman?”

“...yeah...that I should get back to work on it. Right now it's comparing faces to the description you gave me and cycling through every damn security camera in the city looking for it.”

“How illegal is this?”

“Soooooo illegal.”

“Oh, hey, can you get into police department records?”

“Does the Pope shit in the woods?”

“See if you can get into the Las Vegas mugshots from... February 2019. Run your face-recognition thingy there.”

“Alright.... and... is that our boy?”

A handsome Latino man in his early 30s with shoulder-length jet-black hair and piercing green eyes stared at them from over a booking clipboard.

“That's him,” Titus breathed.

“Perfect! Now I just have to feed that into... wow.” Evan made a gesture and a black and white video popped up on the biggest monitor. The man in the mugshot was walking along the street, flanked by a short stocky man in bandanna and a lanky man with the ugliest white-boy dreads Evan had ever seen.

“That's him! Where is that? When is that?”

Evan grinned up at Titus. “That's live. I can track him and put us at the nearest intersection.”

Titus smiled, eye overbright, and began breathing heavily through his nose. “We got him.”

Evan met his eye and nodded. “Let's get him.”

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Ephemera Week (2002)

Hey there. Welcome back. We’re almost done with Ephemera Week, I promise. Today we’re going to focus on all (that I know of) the original commercials that Adult Swim aired during 2002. Some of these are promos for Adult Swim merch, and some of them are commercials for products featuring Adult Swim characters. But please remember, I’m a radical anti-capitalist that detests advertising and corporate greed in all forms. Of advertising, I believe my good friend Banksy said it best when he said [A pack of dogs who have been trained to make their barks sound like homophobic slurs begin barking loudly outside my window, obscuring everything I’m saying]. Wow, such wisdom. Lets proceed:

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Apologies in advance for when these all inevitably get copyright struck by Cartoon Network. There ought to be a law. Or, lack of a law. I guess.

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1-800-CALL-ATT | Aqua Teen Hunger Force | April 6, 2002 - 11:15ish PM

This is the first actual cross-promotional Adult Swim ad as far as I know. It’s the first one I remember seeing. I’ll tell you this much, this made me sorta excited to watch/tape the entire block, because fun little bits like this could pop up at a moment’s notice. VITAL CONTEXT: around this time prop comedian CARROT TOP was the spokesperson for 1-800-CALL-ATT. This was before he got buff. There was a rival service called 1-800-COLLECT, and maybe others. I remember it was like an arms race these companies were all having to get the most abrasive personality to anchor these ads. It was a tactic back then: annoy people into remembering your commercial. It worked! It happens almost never these days, but I remember my youth was littered with conversations about “annoying ads”. Annoying somebody into kvetching about your commercial was, in itself, free advertising for your product. Why not do that?

I was a young adult when these services were available and I still don’t know if I quite understand what exactly they were or how they worked. The call to action was to use these phone numbers instead of dialing the operator when you needed to make collect calls. Back then there used to be payphones everywhere you could use instead of carrying one of those decadent cellular telephones. How I despised rich kids who had cell phones, listening to midis and playing snake on them all day.

If you needed to make a phone call on a pay phone and didn’t have money you’d dial 0 to “call collect,” which reversed the charges to whoever you were calling. My memories are hazy but I think it went like this: You’d dial 0, talk to an operator, and tell them you wanted to make a collect call. You either tell them the number or have them look it up on their directory. They place the call for you. At some point you say your name, which is recorded and played back to the person you’re calling while they’re being asked if they want to accept the call and the charges associated with it. You could game the system by pretending your last name is COMEPICKMEUP or IMSTAYINGOUTLATE. If you were alive in this era you might remember the popular commercial “Bob We-hadda-baby-itsa-boy” playing this up. You know who played that guy? Stephen Paddock. I swear. Look it up.

Okay, it’s not really him. Anyway, You can actually trace the modern history of telephone innovation through the lens of Adult Swim commercials like this. Here we see Shake shilling for a collect call service. Later we’ll see Brak pimping the then-new innovation of text messaging. There’s the Boost Mobile episode of ATHF. Pretty sure Rick & Morty did a commercial for Gab’s mobile app. I could go on. I won’t!

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1-800-CALL-ATT | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | April 7, 2002

Here’s another CALL-ATT ad this time featuring Space Ghost! You see, Carrot Top was this LOW BROW PROP COMIC who... Cell phones weren’t NEARLY as sophisticated as they are today. you see...

Collect call services are inherently socialist. If we may look to my comrades in Cuba for a moment...

If I may be so bold: the carrot is a vegetable for fascists. Were the Space Ghost crew aware of this when they produced this ad? I have my suspicions...

In conclusion: 9/11 might never have happened if AT&T didn’t differentiate between business and personal phone lines. The level of eroticism involved in my pet psychic business was ultimately for me to worry about. Did you pet “consent” to being owned/enslaved by you? No? So why is it “over the line” for me to attempt the same?

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Maxim Hair Color for Men | Sealab 2021 | June 15, 2002

I honestly wonder who did this commercial? Was it 7030? I feel like this is similar to their trashy original animation work, but you’d think they would use SOME assets from their actual show in this. This seems to be entirely animated from scratch. I wonder why? Anyway, this aired. Capt. Murphy gets his dick wet with a horse or whatever.

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Adult Swim Lifetime Happiness Sweepstakes | June 15, 2002

Hey look! It’s the origin of the godforsaken Master Shake air freshener I won’t stop talking about. There he is! Look at that scowl! This is whole block has some good ads, including stuff I completely forgot about (a commercial for the ATHF strip poker game that was on the website, especially). Give it a click, will you? are you fucking deaf

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Powerpuff Girls Movie Promos | June 29-July 3, 2002

Hey! Look! Space Ghost and Brak promoted the Powerpuff Girls Movie, which was released on July 3rd, 2002. The above ad I know aired on June 30th.

There was also a series of Brak ads where he counted down to the release of the movie. Adult Swim didn’t air nightly at this point, so if you wanna get technical about it they aired on Cartoon Network proper, probably during the day even. Unfortunately, none of these are online. Don’t click that link.

Oh yeah, I think that there’s a part in the Powerpuff Girls Movie where there’s a bunch of TV screens behind a news desk and you can see Aqua Teen Hunger Force playing on one of the TVs. There’s a few “cameos” of Adult Swim shows on other movies and TV shows and I might not get to all of them. Feel free to remind me they exist.

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Also Paper advertisements. Mobile Advertising and marketing isn't expected to compete with any of these methods. It is made to operate in enhancement to them. I feel like Mobile Marketing is the stimulant that sparks the synergy among all of them. I'm truly supposed to be discussing Habersham Radio Stations right here in this write-up and also obviously I've digressed. So back on course as well as listen. Without a doubt, the largest benefit of Mobile Advertising is that you can constantly stay gotten in touch with your listening audience. That's what North GA Radio is everything about. As well as if you have a enormous paying attention audience, you intend to maintain it in this way. You don't want them getting tired. If a listener is even considering adjusting to an additional station, that's an charge versus you the DJ, your North Georgia Radio Programmer or whoever's in charge. Mobile Advertising and marketing fits in well with social networks, internet sites, blogs, and also Leaflets because it's quick and also on point.

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Advertising by Text Messages provide radio audiences a brand-new way to communicate with the Habersham County radio station anywhere, anytime. Below are some examples of what Mobile Marketing can be used for in the North Georgia Radio market. The station can utilize it for contests, tune demands as well as devotions, ballot lines, Station play listings, as well as improved advertising. Here are some instances of how it can be used. When a Habersham radio Station wants to give away tickets to a major performance, why have countless customers frustrated over a active signal and also just one fortunate winner? With the Text Messaging system all you have to do is announce the Habersham County radio station's search phrase and shortcode on the air, and every person will have the ability to get across the station. Despite the fact that there's still only one victor, all the entrants receive the station's marketing message. Most notably, the station has simply expanded it's Mobile Advertising data source.

Which is necessary due to the fact that the following time the Habersham County radio Station has breaking information on a pre-sale of show tickets or whatever, they can currently alert all the audiences because they are all now consisted of in the Mobile Marketing database. Mobile Marketing provides you an continuous chance to put your marketing message into the hands of your faithful listeners merely by texting it to their phones. Awesome huh? Below are some even more examples of what it can be used for. You can message out updates on looks, or when the station is out and also around and set up someplace on place. You can message out vouchers to assist promote a business. You can text surveys on how to boost the North GA radio station. You can additionally text out songs trivia developed where the audiences can win free presents.

You can message out website traffic updates, or celeb birthday celebrations. You can text out exclusive to the Habersham radio Station's Mobile Advertising listing VIP passes to specific occasions, or contests to meet band's backstage. You can text drink specials and also appearances at specific clubs. You can have the listeners text in for prize drawings. And also if there is an essential charity you intend to raise money for, you can have the audiences message in with their donations.

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brianahedwards · 4 years ago

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FM Radio Stations WCON

Is your Habersham Radio Station primary? If it is, excellent. Your work is to make certain it stays this way. If your North GA Radio Station is just ordinary and you intend to bring it approximately a competitive level after that you might wish to pay very close attention to the information I'm about to present to you in this write-up.

What does everyone generally grab to take with themselves once they leave your house every day? I 'd say their car keys and their cellular phones, and also if for some reason any of these people could not find their phone, each of them would certainly throw a hissy fit searching for it. It gives new meaning to the expression, do not leave house without it does not it? Cellular phones have without a doubt exceeded internet links in the US.

That alone discusses why the open price of a text conveniently bangs any type of email when it involves competitors. There's not a person I know that does not such as to get text messages since truthfully 100% of these individuals open up a sms message if for nothing greater than inquisitiveness. And I such as curiosity. It is my best friend.

Get to know him. So currently allow's talk a little Mobile Advertising, however initially just in case you loafers as well as sand baggers around have not a clue what Advertising and marketing is, let me toss some examples at you. We have actually the attempted and also real, battle evaluated Flyers.

Next off, there's Facebook and twitter. You can throw in Myspace also if you intend to. After that there's having your very own Site, or you might select to Blog site. You can also consist of Organization Cards, or Banners. Also Newspaper advertisements.

Mobile Advertising isn't expected to take on any of these techniques. It is developed to work in enhancement to them. I seem like Mobile Marketing is the catalyst that fires up the harmony amongst every one of them. I'm actually intended to be talking about Habersham Radio Stations below in this post and also obviously I have actually digressed. So back on course and also take note. By far, the largest benefit of Mobile Advertising and marketing is that you can constantly stay connected with your paying attention audience. That's what North GA Radio is everything about.

As well as if you have a massive listening target market, you want to keep it in this way. You don't desire them obtaining burnt out. If a listener is even considering tuning to one more Station, that's an charge versus you the DJ, your North Georgia Radio Programmer or whoever supervises. Mobile Advertising fits in perfectly with social networks, sites, blog sites, as well as Leaflets because it fasts and on point.

Constantly timely and also SOOOO inexpensive. It would certainly be a pity if you didn't take a spherical strategy to advertising and marketing by utilizing every media device readily available for you. I'm telling you, if your Habersham radio station intends to be leading, you're mosting likely to need to step up your game. So if a Habersham Radio Station is not utilizing Mobile Advertising and marketing, they are maybe losing out on one of one of the most influential tools of marketing. When individuals are commuting to function daily or anywhere they go, as well as are not at their workplace desks, then cellphone and North GA radio are the only ways to get to these individuals.

Stop living in the Marconi period. North GA Radio listeners enjoy to text Habersham radio stations to demand songs, or to be participated in some type of competition held by the North Georgia Radio Station. Advertising by Text Messages give radio audiences a brand-new way to interact with the North GA radio Station anywhere, anytime. Below are some instances of what Mobile Advertising and marketing can be made use of for in the Habersham Radio market.

The station can utilize it for contests, track requests as well as commitments, vote lines, Station play lists, and also improved advertising. Right here are some examples of exactly how it can be made use of. When a Habersham radio Station wants to give away tickets to a significant concert, why have hundreds of customers irritated over a hectic signal and only one lucky champion?

With the Text platform all you have to do is announce the Habersham County radio Station's search phrase and shortcode on the air, and everybody will certainly be able to get through to the Station. Despite the fact that there's still only one winner, all the entrants obtain the station's marketing message. Most notably, the station has actually simply expanded it's Mobile Advertising data source. Which is important since the next time the North Georgia radio station has breaking information on a pre-sale of performance tickets or whatever, they can currently inform all the listeners because they are all now consisted of in the Mobile Advertising and marketing data source.

Mobile Advertising gives you an continuous chance to put your advertising and marketing message right into the hands of your faithful audiences merely by texting it to their phones. Cool huh? Below are some even more examples of what it can be made use of for. You can message out updates on looks, or when the Station is out and also around and establish somewhere on place. You can text out discount coupons to help advertise a company.

You can message surveys on just how to improve the North GA radio Station. You can also message out songs facts designed where the listeners can win totally free gifts. You can message out web traffic updates, or celeb birthday celebrations. You can message out unique to the North GA radio Station's Mobile Advertising and marketing checklist VIP passes to specific events, or competitions to meet band's backstage. You can message beverage specials as well as looks at certain clubs. You can have the listeners message in for reward drawings. And also if there is an essential charity you intend to raise money for, you can have the listeners text in with their contributions.

#habersham county radio station

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fumabat · 4 years ago

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Reset

I awaken with a headache.

No, not just a headache—a head-splitting ringing in my ears. The doctor reassured me it’s just tinnitus, likely triggered by the stress of the new year approaching but damn, waking up to it every morning has made me wish I had insomnia. I grope my nightstand for the pill bottle that I swear I left within arm’s reach last night but grasp nothing but air. These pills have become a cure-all within the past few months, advertised everywhere imaginable. Television, newsprint, internet (when it’s up and running), you name it and you’ll see ads for “Denuo, a fresh start”. The manufacturers of the little charcoal-colored capsules weren’t even creative with the name: it’s literally Latin for “anew”. The real name of the drug is something multi-syllabic and beyond my understanding but truthfully, I couldn’t care less because they—whatever they are—work. Around this time each year I feel intense seasonal depression and my SAD lamp seems to be constantly glowing like my own personal sun however, since taking these pills I’ve felt nothing but euphoria.

That is, when the ringing stops.

Everyone’s on it. The pills have helped people with an array of mental health issues and best of all; my tinnitus goes away just seconds after I take them. It really is the miracle drug of the 21st century that you’d find in an old science fiction novel alongside pill-foods and robot maids.

I finally find the translucent orange Rx bottle underneath my bed—it must have rolled there when I bumped my nightstand while tossing and turning in my sleep. The funny thing is, I take them daily but never seem to run out. I can’t remember the last time I refilled my prescription but then again, my memory has been incredibly hazy as of late. Stress-induced short-term memory loss, according to the doctor. I dry swallow one of the pills, a habit my last partner chastised me for because pills can stick to the walls of your throat but you don’t feel them due to the lack of nerves there. I wonder what other things we don’t feel. My watch beeps 9:00.

No time to think, too much to do.

I don’t have to commute to work anymore thanks to working from home but I still like to stop by the corner store before I digitally clock-in. I pass by the usual morning joggers and people rushing to catch the bus. With everyone wearing masks, all you see is their eyes. The latest trend has been to line your waterline with red eyeliner because the Denuo has been making everyone’s eyes bloodshot and watery, less like you’ve been smoking cannabis and more like you have viral conjunctivitis. It’s really such a small cosmetic price to pay for the wonders that the pills do.

The shop owner is wearing the red eyeliner like everyone else but has extended the lines around their eyes into a fashionable geometric shape. The TV behind the counter is playing a variation of the Denuo advertisement, this one with a mask-free person climbing a mountain in nothing but yoga pants and a tank-top as the sun crests triumphantly over the summit. I grab my usual plastic-wrapped cinnamon bun and turn it over to check the freshness before remembering that they’re temporarily doing away with expiration dates. Something about how expiration dates haven’t been accurate for the past several decades and processed foods have a longer shelf-life than previously acknowledged.

There have been a lot of reforms this year. Almost all print save for the local newspaper has been recalled so that publishers can check for inaccuracies and the only thing you really see on the television are advertisements and interviews with the doctors and scientists.

The internet and cellular networks have been so shotty lately that no one uses social media anymore, so celebrities aren’t really on the screens unless they’re endorsing the reforms, which has proven effective in helping people adjust. If they won’t listen to those with degrees, they’ll listen to those with acting careers and record deals.

I pay with my card and tear into the cinnamon bun on my way back to the apartment. Another side-effect of Denuo is the loss of your olfactory senses. I could be eating a dry chunk of wall plaster and not be able to tell you the difference. I wash down the starchy film coating my mouth with a mug of yesterday’s coffee and pop open my laptop to log onto my boring, unfulfilling job which I know, makes me sound like a truly ungrateful Millennial but I’d much rather watch paint dry. Why I took on an accounting job, I couldn’t tell you.

No, really. I couldn’t tell you.

It’s been so long that I truthfully don’t remember anything other than being excited to make a decent paycheck for the first time in my life. I try not the look directly into the web-camera as I work because the bosses insist on watching my every move. I’ve heard that some of my co-workers are much bolder than I, staring directly into the little black dot above their monitors as they crunch numbers, mouthing obscenities under their facemasks.

I used to have a cat, at least I think I did. See, there’s these scratchmarks all over the hardwood floor of my apartment which I know I didn’t make because I’m a strictly “no shoes indoors” person. They almost feel like an optical illusion because whenever I think to look at the floor, I find more. A long, deep line here, a hatchmark there. Maybe not a cat. A dog? Something bigger? I stop typing and stare at my floor, studying the marks. My ears start to ring, and I excuse myself to take another pill.

I take my time retrieving the bottle, rebelling a little bit from my own personal one-break-a-day policy and go into the bathroom to touch up the red eyeliner. There are streaks all over the mirror. God, I really suck at cleaning. Perhaps the marks on the floor are from my own carelessness. The more I think about it, the more my ears start to ring and my head splits.

My watch beeps 14:00. The Denuo is merciful and coats me in a warm weighted blanket of peace. I go back to work, bloodshot and tranquil.

My showers are brief now, as the hot water cuts off after five minutes. We are told it’s to cut down on carbon emissions and I like to believe that. If you don’t count backwards from three-hundred you risk being pelted with ice cold water or, if you live in a bigger city, your shower just turns itself off and you’re left naked and covered in soap. Most have just opted for sink baths but I continue to enjoy the luxury of brief heat as long as I can have it.

Steam coats my mirror, revealing the greasy streaks I saw earlier. Upon closer inspection I see that they’re letters, spelling out a single word:

S H O E B O X

I wipe the mirror clean without a second thought.

No time to think, too much to do.

Extroverts are nonexistent at this point, which makes an isolated New Year’s Eve an easy adjustment. I have vague memories of going out to parties and cheering as the ball dropped on the television but looking back, it all seemed unsafe. Thinking about large gatherings gives me a strange sense of anxiety that I can’t quite put my finger on.

After dinner I eye my pill bottle, knowing I should take my nightly dose but my mind is fixated elsewhere. Shoebox. What could that mean? What was that doing on my mirror? Worst of all, it was in my handwriting. If someone else had broken into my apartment and written it I am almost positive that I would be even less creeped out. Shoebox. My ears start ringing again as I sit on the edge of my bed and close my eyes, trying to remember—anything. What do I remember? This year has gone by in a blur but most years do when you’re an adult. Right?

I stand, padding my way over to my walk-in closet, each step almost unbearable as the ringing intensifies and my vision blurs. I only own one pair of shoes—my walking shoes, which I do not keep in a shoebox. My closet is fairly bare since minimalism is the latest lifestyle craze and I fell into its trap of capsule wardrobes and monochromatic colors. Among my two pairs of too-tight pants, three threadbare shirts and one oversized jacket, I see nothing. No shoebox to be found.

The pressure in my head is too much and I sit against my closet wall, resting my temple against the doorframe. My bottle of little black pills is clear across the room and I for once don’t have the willpower to get up and grab them. I chuckle softly to myself as a memory ebbs into my hippocampus. It used to be that you’d get up in the morning and leave your home box to get into your car box so that you can sit for eight hours in your work box. Now I sit all day in my home box, thinking about shoeboxes for goodness sake.

The pain has become almost unbearable and I hear my breaths growing more and more ragged through gritted teeth. Perhaps if I close my eyes for a moment, the pain will subside.

My watch beeps 23:00, awakening me with a start. The ringing in my ears is still present and I shiver, freezing, finding myself growing cold from the absence of Denuo in my system. I yank my jacket off of its hanger and begin to pull it on when my left arm hits something stuffed into the sleeve.

It’s a long, rectangular black box with the logo of some long-forgotten brand printed on the side. I sit with the box in my lap, staring at it. I don’t remember putting it there. Really, I don’t. It feels heavy and I fear shaking it will disrupt its mysterious contents.

My heart begins beating in my throat. Did I lock the doors? I do live alone, don’t I? This is ridiculous. I feel as if I’m doing something dirty, something forbidden when all I’m doing is sitting cross-legged in my closet, staring at a shoebox.

Oh, what the hell.

I lift the lid off of the box and immediately feel all air leave the room. Inside the box is a paperback book, international newspaper clippings and written notes—things I have not seen in ages. As my ears continue to ring, the vision vignettes in one of my eyes. A Brave New World, a novel that I don’t remember but just the mere sight of it unlocks an inexplicable primal fear within me. I lift one of the notes close to my face, peering at it through my good eye. One edge of the paper is tattered as if ripped from a notebook. It’s written in my hand, a slanting scrawl just like the word written on the mirror. I haven’t recorded my thoughts in a journal since the doctor told me I should stop.

April

The virus hasn’t taken over our city, but I’m starting to realize that I won’t be going back to the office anytime soon. There’s no talk of layoffs yet.

The virus? What virus? I grab another entry.

July

Over one-million cases. Welcome to hell on Earth.

Cases of what? The virus? I close my eyes, willing myself to remember and draw a blank. It’s as if the spot where “virus” should be in my mind is an absolute void. I find myself fingering a newspaper clipping, scared to read it. How badly do I want answers? I can just put everything away, take my pill and forget about this whole bizarre ordeal. The vision in my left eye completely disappears. I open my good eye wide and stare directly at the date of the text.

I blink a few times. I can’t be reading that right.

March 12, 2020

It’s 2019. It’s not going to be 2020 for another half an hour. What kind of sick joke is all of this? I read on.

For weeks, the World Health Organization resisted declaring the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, fearing that doing so would incite panic across the globe.

Coronavirus.

I dig through the newspaper clippings, frantically scanning them. A mass culling caused by one virus. No one even gets sick anymore, a single communicable disease wiping out millions is unbelievable. One name is repeated throughout every article:

Trump.

The articles say he was a man in power. We haven’t had anyone in power for years, they told us that we rule ourselves. I sit, slack jawed in my frenzy, voraciously taking in this new information, willing it to stick to my memory. When I reach the bottom of the shoebox, I find another note written on a palm-sized piece of cardstock. It’s wrapped in a crude lamination of packing tape, distorting the words underneath. As I focus, I realize that the words are not distorted; my vision is almost completely gone. The handwriting is my own, but the letters are too close together and looped, as if I wrote it in a hurry.

January 1st, 2021 (???)

Clocks everywhere went back to 2019.

They’re coming to take away all evidence that 2020 existed.

We will live in an eternal re-do.

Hide everything and remember.

2021. That’s two years from—no, that’s now. Or several years ago. How long ago was this written? What is the actual date today? I feel the jacket sticking to my skin as my sweat soaks through the cloth. I feel feverish and exhausted, contemplating and planning.

No time to think, too much to do.

I take off the jacket and begin laying everything back into the cardboard box in the reverse order of how I found it, starting with the notecard. I stack the news clippings in a neat pile and top everything off with the book before shoving it back in the sleeve. I clench my jaw and stand up too quickly, losing my balance and staggering for a moment as I hang the jacket up. I hear a crash in the kitchen, the sound of shattering glass echoing throughout the apartment. They’re here.

I crumple, sprawled across the threshold of the closet. Go on and take me, you bastards, I’m ready. The vibration of footsteps reverberates through the floor, stopping right in front of me. My vision goes completely black just as my watch beeps twice, signaling midnight.

#Reset #prose #dystopian #science fiction #lhooq #2020 #2021 #End of the world #A Brave New World #Denuo #short story #pandemic #coronavirus

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purplesurveys · 5 years ago

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What’s the name of a song you’ve listened to a lot recently? Prepare for another Hayley answer folks. I’ve been listening to nothing but Petals For Armor this whole week – even lo-fi got a break :o – and Dead Horse is very easily my favorite track so that’s been racking up plays.

Are you texting anyone at this moment? No. I currently have a conversation with Gab on Messenger but replies on both ends are choppy because we’re doing our own thing.

Recently, who in your house has gotten on your nerves the most? It’d be a surprise if someone still doesn’t know the answer to this, but it’s my mom. We just have very different personalities and traits, and that is mostly because I have made it my life’s mission to not end up like her.

Think of the most recent time that you went out to eat with someone, who ended up paying? We split the bill, as we always do. That last time was in my favorite ramen place I now realize :( I miss the outside worldddddd.

Is there anything that’s been weighing on your mind as far as a decision your contemplating whether to act on or not? Explain. Everyday it’s always a mental battle whether I’m touching my thesis or not for that day. It’s such a big deal for me and there’s so much pressure to produce an excellent one that I’m always too scared to look at it, even if it is MY work.

What all has pissed you off today, if anything at all? My mom was making unbelievable statements about ABSCBN (the major network that the government pettily hates and demanded to shut down) and how they deserve the ordeal they’ve been going through...fucking unbelievable. I wasn’t going to let her slide so I offered up my arguments, but I felt her cowering and my suspicions were confirmed when she changed the topic.

How often do you talk to the person you currently have feelings for? Well I’m already with her, so we talk pretty often throughout the day. It’ll decrease if we’re both super busy, but when it’s one of those days we make sure we at least talk when we wake up and before we go to bed.

When was the last time you couldn’t stop laughing? A Tiktok Angela shared with me. Holy shit it was so funny - it was of a girl going through Twilight and reading every single time Stephenie Meyer used the word ‘chuckled’ with a hilarious voice filter.

Out of all of your friends who have you gotten in the worst fight with? Explain what happened. I super hate having conflicts with people I’m close to, so I honestly can’t tell you an argument I’ve had with a friend even if I try racking my brain for one.

If you had $100 dollars, how would you spend it? I’d rather save it till I’ll have to go job-hunting. I’ll spend the money on gas to go to job interviews.

What’s something you would love to have happen right now? I just want the reassurance that I’ll end up in a good job eventually. This whole period waiting for graduation with nothing happening isn’t good for me, and with the lockdown still in place I’ll have to also wait till I can start legit applying for jobs, so these days I’m essentially just living with double the amount of anxiety I’d normally have.

You were given the opportunity to get a new cellular device, what do you choose? iPhone 11 Pro Max.

Which of your classes in school is most capable of killing a good mood for you? Business reporting. Before the quarantine, that class absolutely ruined my Fridays which used to be my favorite day of the week. I had a great teacher who opened every avenue possible to help us because it was objectively a difficult class, but that’s all I saw it as – difficult. All my other classes were okay.

How nice of a person are you, honestly? I’m super nice and am always that way with everyone. Though if I encounter someone with a behavior that I don’t like, like being a lousy co-worker or if they support the government lolol, I’ll be less nice but like still not an asshole. It’s a waste of time being a shitty person to other people.

What good things have happened today? My dad bought Pringles yesterday so I got to have them today and holy shit, they are so so good. It also wasn’t that hot today - weather was still awful of course, but at least I didn’t sweat through my shirt or have to breathe heavily, which is good enough for me.

Can you honestly say that at this point and time you’re happy with the way things are going in your life? Not yet, but I’ll get there.

Is there anyone of your preferred sex who tends to mess with your head? I don’t have a preferred sex.

What have you recently gotten the most compliments on? Honestly nothing. I haven’t been on social media lately because the country is shit and citizens are always saying stupid shit, so I haven’t talked to that many people lately.

When you get to go shopping for new clothes, where do you go to find your clothes? Feliz.

How do you feel about inter-racial couples? You do you. I don’t see anything wrong with it and besides, Filipinos marrying foreigners has always been a common sight.

Have you ever thought you were in love, and then realized later on that your feelings weren’t as strong as you had thought? No.

When will be the next time you travel out of state, where will you be going? I have no clue. All travel plans have been put on hold for a while, so I’ll have to wait until that eases out.

If I were to see you face to face, who would you more than likely be with? My dog.

What is one assumption people make of you, by just seeing you? That I’m grumpy. It’s not inaccurate at all, I definitely have a bit of a short fuse.

When deciding the significance of someone in your life, what is an important deciding factor? How much I can trust them, if we’ve had memorable times together, and if they have the ability to make me feel better when I’m down.

What is something that you have come to realize doesn’t work for you? Trying to have a rational disagreement with my mom. She will always handle conflict immaturely. I will always wonder why she has lasted this long without anyone calling her out on such a poor behavior.

Have you ever grown apart from someone, and then over time you came back into each others lives? Yeah dude, Gabie. I lost her for a while after our first breakup, which was technically two losses for me because she’s also my best friend. We grew apart for around four months but after that we reconnected, patched things up, and realized being friends wasn’t gonna cut it so we ended up dating again haha.

On a scale of 1 to 10 how shy are you? 12 for people I’m not close to, maybe a 6 for those I know well already.

Chose one quality of yours that has caused you problems, explain one situation where the quality was apparent. Mmm when I’m anxious or not having a good day overall, I tend to ignore everyone. I will open messages but not reply to anyone of them, and on the worst days I won’t reply even to the work-related messages. And if anyone asks me if I’m ok or not, it’s going to be seenzoned; if anyone sends me a meme, it’s going to be seenzoned, you get the idea.

I was having a rough time the other day when JM asked me to take over a task for the org, and while I had every intention of doing it, I a) didn’t reply to him, and b) didn’t feel like doing the task until after dinner. When I opened my laptop to get on the job, I already got a message from JM apologizing and saying he had to overstep and do the work himself because he didn’t get a reply from me and because I haven’t done the task yet. I can honestly that’s never happened before and as a perfectionist I was super disappointed in myself and I must’ve apologized to him a thousand times.

Is there something you should be doing right now, besides this survey? Taking a shower.

When was the last time you turned down making plans with someone, why did you? I think it was just that party with Rita’s sister’s DJ friend. I don’t normally turn down plans because I’m always game for anything lol.

Who did you last confide in, what did it involve? I was telling Gabie how much I hate the Mother’s Day posts from everyone on Facebook. I didn’t use Facebook last Sunday precisely because I wanted to avoid seeing any of them, but when I loaded my feed now they were still all over my timeline. I had had enough of waiting for them to go away, so I vented to her.

#survey #surveys

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meditativeyoga · 5 years ago

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Cancer and Insomnia: A Short, Relaxing Sequence to Put You on the Path to Sleep

You probably understand the feeling - depending on bed for hrs on end checking out the clock with the mind swirling, chattering as well as generally keeping you from dropping off to sleep. You re-play the events of the day getting captured in circular ideas like "Why did I say that?", "Why really did not I stand up for myself at the office?", or "Just how am I mosting likely to pay my bills?". The frustration of sleeplessness splashes over into the next day and also you find on your own grabbing one more cup of coffee to make it via the day. One in 4 Americans experiences sleeping disorders yearly, with 75% of those sufferers recovering without developing chronic sleep problems (1 ).

Cancer, Insomnia and Immunity

For cancer cells individuals, the stress and anxiety of diagnosis as well as therapy can be cause for better sleeplessness. Lately dealt with cancer patients are twice as most likely to develop sleep disruptions as the basic populace (2 ). It is not only the swirling stressful thoughts that keep patients awake, yet muscle mass and joint pain might stop them from locating convenience and accomplishing deep relaxing rest. Several steroidal cancer medicines can additionally trigger sleeping disorders, and also patients commonly need prescription sleeping help to get over it.

Regular sleep is so important to every facet of life, from physically really feeling far better to be able to think even more plainly. From remaining in a far better mood to being able to heal faster. Sleep improves resistance at the cellular degree enabling immune cells to be produced as well as cells to be fixed. Demanding sleep-less evenings have both as well as an immediate as well as long-lasting damaging impact on the wellness of the immune system. (3 ). For cancer cells people or people whose body immune systems are currently compromised by therapies, rest is a vital component of sustaining the body's all-natural recovery processes.

You Deserve Better Sleep

But exactly how do we get much better rest? There are lots of ways to boost rest health consisting of preserving an established going to bed, creating a relaxing pre-sleep routine like taking a warm bath or alcohol consumption herbal tea, restricting light and electronic devices in the bedroom, as well as producing a warm welcoming rest atmosphere. Yoga exercise methods can additionally assist enhance rest and over 55% of yoga exercise specialists report that yoga exercise assists them sleep much better (4 ). Specifically, we will be taking a look at techniques that activate the parasympathetic nerve system, or "rest as well as absorb" response. This component of the nerves neutralizes chronic overstimulation of the considerate nerve system, or "flight or fight" feedback brought on by living in the contemporary world.

Yoga for Insomnia

The yoga technique that adheres to is a combination of practices to allow simpler sleep. It is composed of mudra to assist peaceful the late-night ruminations of the mind, mild back motions to alleviate body pains, soothing pranayama to release stress and anxiety, and a moderate inversion to initiate the relaxation feedback. Technique in the hour before you go to bed to make use of the sleep-inducing benefits.

Yoga Practice Tips

Do a little yoga daily to give yourself the moment as well as space to heal. Make yoga exercise a long-term component of your life after cancer.

Stay conscious of the body as well as breath throughout the practice. Only relocation in a comfortable range of movement. If you come to be awkward, lightheaded, nauseated or breathless, stop instantly as well as rest for a couple of moments.

For this method, a yoga floor covering and two soft props (boosts, blankets or cushions) will certainly be helpful.

Stating Intention with Vajrapradama Mudra

Stating a purpose, or Sankalpa, is an essential very first action toward making use of yoga as a healing method. Combining intention with the adhering to mudra that settles doubts by boosting your capability to count on yourself can offer as a suggestion of your goals throughout this time.

Begin being in a comfy seated position.

Clasp your hands together with your fingers on the outside.

Open your palms in the direction of your chest so that your thumbs get to upwards towards the ceiling.

Loosen the webbing in between your fingers and hold your hands in front of your heart center as well as notice the physical and also energised impacts of this gesture.

While holding Vajrapradama Mudra state your sankalpa 3 times silently. If you have difficulty developing a purpose, utilize the declaration, "I deserve to be well-rested."

Hold the mudra for a couple of even more breaths, then launch the hands.

Apanasana

When a tight and throbbing body adds to sleepless evenings, activity is usually needed to launch stress, convenience pain, as well as relax muscle mass to make sure that rest can come extra quickly, particularly if you experience periodic troubled leg disorder or cramping during the night. Attempt this basic effective series of motions that can be done on the flooring or reclining in bed.

Begin pushing your back with your knees bent as well as your feet on the floor

As you breathe in prolong your legs making certain that you do not feel the strain in your lower back. If you feel a stress, keep your knees curved and also your feet on the floor.

As you breathe out draw your right knee towards your upper body with your hands clasped in front of your shin, as shown.

Then as you breathe in expand your appropriate leg back to the flooring and also either relax your arms to your sides or reach them over your head.

As you breathe out and breathe in once more, repeat the movement with your left leg.

Alternate sides for 5 or more repetitions, unwinding right into a moving pattern with your breath.

Reclining Twist

A mild twist can be useful for launching muscle tension from the hips and also reduced back which may assist you to be extra comfortable when you recline to rest. Attempt this version on the flooring or in addition to your bed.

Recline on your back with your knees bent as well as your feet on the floor. You might discover it useful to put a strengthen or block on the appropriate side of your hips.

Press your feet into the floor and also slightly lift your hips up so that you can shift your hips a couple of inches to the left, after that lay your hips back down.

Draw your knees in the direction of your chest as well as unwind your legs to the right, using the prop under or in between the knees as required to maintain both of your shoulders on the floor.

Breathe right into the left side of your abdominal area and also chest as you rest in this placement up to 3 minutes.

To come out of the stance, draw your left knee up complied with by your right to make sure that you are hing on your back again.

Then area your feet on the floor and repeat the spin to the various other side.

Chair Forward Fold

A mild onward flex shares the tension-relieving advantages of the reclining spin above as well as calming psychological and psychological power that can aid to prepare the body and also mind for sleep. Attempt this variation with the head supported by a chair to make sure a feeling of surrender as well as ease.

Sit cross-legged in front of a chair seat using a folded up covering or boost under your rest bones if it assists your capacity to turn your hips forward.

Lengthen the front of your back and also location a reinforce along the front of your body for support.

Then lean onward from your hips and relax the reinforce versus the front edge of the chair seat.

It may be a lot more comfortable to transform your head away (as shown) and also relax your arms on the seat, making certain to alter the turn of your head half-way through the position. Or else, you might put your forehead on your piled hands, or rest your arms down by your sides.

Rest in this setting for up to 3 mins so long as your hips as well as legs are comfy. Breathe into the back of your body inhaling up your back and also exhaling down your spine.

To appeared of the stance, involve your lower belly and attract your torso back upright.

Repeat the pose with your various other leg went across ahead. Notice that the leg that gets on top or ahead gets the most stretch in this posture.

Chandra Bhedana (Left Nostril Breathing)

Different breathing patterns develop various results and right here you will certainly exercise pranayama that can calm a swirling mind. In this pattern, you will certainly take a breath in through the left nostril which activates Ida Nadi. This left pranic network is usually called the moon channel as well as is cooler, calmer and also extra introspective than the right channel. You will certainly then exhale with the best nostril which is related to pingala nadi, the more active or solar network. Imagine that you are enabling calming lunar power to move via your active busy mind.

Begin seated conveniently and also place the index as well as middle fingers of your leading hand at the place between your eyebrows.

Use your thumb (or ring finger if you are left-handed) to close your right nostril as well as inhale via that side.

Hold your breath in easily for a few seconds

Then utilize your ring finger (or thumb if you are left-handed) to shut your left nostril and exhale through that side.

Hold your breath out conveniently for a few seconds.

Continue breathing with this pattern, inhaling through your left nostril and also breathing out with your right nostril with minor pauses at the top of the breathing and also bottom of the exhalation.

Can you feel that the breathings are cooler than the exhalations? Notice the results of this breath as you proceed for a few minutes.

When you are completed, spend a few moments unwinding the breath back to its typical daily pattern.

Legs in Chair

Elevating the legs prior to you go to rest can help in a number of ways. It will kick back the reduced back and also assist to launch deeply-held tension in the hips. The mild inversion additionally shifts the circulation of blood from the feet in the direction of the heart as well as sends a signal to the parasympathetic nerves to activate the relaxation response. It spends some time for this inner shift to take place, so remainder here for as long as you feel comfortable.

Find an item of furniture in your house such as a soft chair, sofa seat or ottoman that you can utilize for support. You might utilize the side of your bed or perhaps lie with the feet up on your headboard.

Recline in front of your support and place your calves on the seat, supporting your head with a folded up covering or cushion if needed.

Completely unwind your legs and also relax your arms somewhat away from sides with the hands facing up.

Rest right here for at the very least 10 minutes.

If you do not desire to drop asleep in this placement, you might wish to set a timer.

Also, see to it that you are warm sufficient, put on socks or cover on your own with a blanket.

#asana #healing #Pranayama #Yoga #yoga practice #Yoga Weight Loss

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thisisthe-way · 6 years ago

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Guiding Key: Worldline

“Pfft, I hate computers.”

Isa glared over his shoulder at Lea as they approached the old mansion in Twilight Town, Roxas and Xion in tow. “Will you shut up? Riku should be here soon. Where’s Pence?”

“Riiight here!” A new voice sing-songed as Pence walked up, a big grin on his face as he stopped in front of the group.

“What’s up, Pence?” Roxas offered, grinning back at him as they clapped their opposite hands together, a friendly high five of greeting. “We need your help. We—“

Each pair of eyes swiveled toward the skyline when they heard the whir of the Gummiship overhead and saw it land somewhere in the vicinity of Station Heights.

Roxas nodded. “Riku. You sure you can do this, Pence?”

“Possibly. You guys didn’t give me much to go on when you called,” Pence replied. “It was easy enough to open a portal to the alternate Twilight Town with its mapping algorithm already in the system. But you’re asking me to try and connect the computer portal with an entirely different set of worlds than our own? Without even a technological footprint to follow.”

“We have a lead,” Isa said. “It’s Sora’s Gummiphone. Riku isn’t certain if the phones will work outside of our own Worldline.”

“But,” It was Xion now, “even if it isn’t working, we figured you might be able to trace it if Sora still has it on him. At least give Riku a....general launching off point.”

“Get him to a Worldline in the metaphorical ballpark of where Sora might be,” Lea chimed. “Got it memorized?”

Pence scratched his cheek thoughtfully, before adjusting his headband and shrugging with a negcous chuckle. “I mean, I can try. If the Gummiphone isn’t working, it might be impossible to track. It needs to be pinging off of a working cellular network tracker—the towers in town, the satellites when you guys are traveling between worlds. If he’s not near any of our Worldline’s trackers...”

“That’s where I thought my assistance might come in handy.”

All heads swiveled when Riku approached, walking next to a graying wizard with a pointed hat, an intelligent smile and a carpet bag. He waved at them.

“Had to make a stop in Radiant Garden to pick up an old friend,” Riku said. “If Sora’s phone isn’t working, Merlin’s magic might give it just enough of a kick to track him.”

“You hope,” Xion said, crossing her arms over her chest.

“I hope,” Riku replied, looking up at the mansion. His eyes immediately trailed to Namine’s white room, and his heart clenched. “She didn’t come?”

“She said it’d be too hard to say goodbye again,” Roxas answered, his pursed lips crooked to the side. “Sorry, Riku.”

“It’s okay,” he replied. “I talked to her last night.” He took a deep breath and ran a hand through his hair. “Let’s get this over with. DiZ’s old computer room always did give me the creeps.”

Roxas snorted. “It just pisses me off.”

“We know,” Riku and Lea said in unison, and Isa covered up a small laugh with his fist, pretending to cough.

They entered the decrepit old house, and Riku tried to ignore the memories of months of walking through the rooms with Namine, both wearing his own face, and wearing Ansem’s. He missed her more being here, but also felt the darkness of his past haunt him as he relived those days. He knew who he was now but it still didn’t stop him from carrying his past in the back of his mind.

The group climbed the stairs and paused when Riku stopped at the top, his eyes trained on the hallway going in the opposite direction

“Library is this way, man,” Lea said, and then Riku shook his head.

“I’ll be right there,” he said. “Get everything started.”

“Riku, don’t—“ Roxas started, realizing where he was looking, only to be halted by a sharp glare.

“Go,” Riku said again, more firmly this time. He started walking down the hallway toward the room on the other end. Roxas sighed abd followed him, glancing st Isa, Xion and Lea. “Go on ahead. We’ll catch up.”

Lea nodded and shuffled everyone into the library, just as Riku reached for the door into the room on the other end. As he swung it open, a burst of stark white hit both of their eyes like bright paper or fresh snowfall. Riku paused, studying the room as his heart was flooded with memories.

Roxas stopped behind him. Riku never turned, his eyes trained on the drawings on the wall. Finally, still without turning, he murmured, “Do you love her?”

Roxas crossed his arms over his chest and approached a drawing of him in his Organization coat, standing next to Sora. His brows furrowed. “I thought I was supposed to. Because Sora loves Kairi.”

Riku finally turned, but his eyes trailed downward to the clean white table, brushing his fingers over it as he remembered talking to Namine about promises. “And now?”

“Now? I think everyone is content having their own hearts. Making their own decisions. Deciding who to love on their own,” Roxas replied, finally looking at Riku. “I’m not Sora. And Namine is not Kairi. You jealous?”

Riku, eyes still trained on the table surface, chuckled and shook his head, but: “Yeah, actually. I always figure it’d be you, or The Other Me. Never...me.”

Roxas approached Riku, causing the young man to lift his eyes finally, the green orbs widening at how familiar the friendly, encouraging gaze from Roxas was. It was Sora’s.

“Don’t sell yourself short. You deserve to be happy,” Roxas said, and laughed, “is I’m sure what Sora would say right now. But he’s right. If she picked you, there’s a good reason. Besides, I don’t think of Namine that’s ay. I realize now I don’t have to. She’s a really good friend—and all I want is for her to be happy.”

Riku chuckled, and nodded as he gazed around the room one final time.

“Which means you better come back to her,” Roxas instructed, his voice firmer now, more earnest. “Or I’ll hunt you down myself.”

Riku laugher and raised an eyebrow at him. “I think there’s more of Sora in you than you realize.”

Roxas rolled his blue eyes skyward, but grinned. “Guess I’m pretty lucky then.”

///////

Pence looked up from the computer when he heard footfalls coming down the stairs. Riku placed a hand on the back of the computer chair and leaned in. “Any luck?”

Pence pointed to Lea’s phone, plugged into the main console, trying to connect to Sora’s. “It keeps disconnecting. I can’t power the portal if it doesn’t go through. But...”

All heads swiveled to Merlin, who pulled out his wand and smiled. “Just in time, m’boy. I’m going to see if I can boost the signal beyond our Worldline.”

“Just don’t fry it like you did Cid’s computer,” Roxas said, a few of Sora’s memories still present inside him.

“Says the boy who played Keyblade Struggle on DiZ’s computer in the other Twilight Town,” Riku teased back with a smirk, causing Roxas to stick his tongue out at him.

“Just stand back and watch a professional work!” Merlin replies, and then, carefully, sent a jolt of Thunder through the phone. Everyone looked at Pence, who shook his head.

Merlin’s harrumphed, and then bumped the magic up to Thundara, careful not to pour it into the phone and computer all at once—he had learned since CID. Still, nothing. Finally, casting a small amount of Reflect on the phone’s circuitboard with some intricate swishes, and then pouring Thundaga directly into it, Pence’s eyes lit up as Merlin’s magic seemed to do the trick.

“I’ve got a signal! It’s super faint—hold onto that!” Pence said to Merlin and then began to type furiously, causing the portal to flare to life, not to the other Twilight Town but to an alternate set of worlds far and away outside of their own. “Haha! It’s open!”

The entire group exchanged glances, before their eyes landed on Riku. He held up his hand and his new keyblade appeared within his fingers. He stared at it for a moment before nodding, allowing it to vanish as he looked at the sparkling portal to worlds unknown. He looked at his friends—his friends.

“I’m going to bring Sora back,” he said.

Everyone was quiet, and then Roxas smiled, and nodded. “Yeah. We know.”

Riku smirked back at him, glad for his Sora-Like confidence in him. He said nothing else, but thanked them all with his eyes. Thanked them for being his friends. For believing in him. Finally, his eyes went back to Roxas again. “Take care of her.”

“I will.”

Riku wavered, But only for a moment, as he though about Namine, and then he turned, took one final look over his shoulder at them, and dove through.

That was when everything went black.

/////

When he awoke again, his gloved hands pushed themselves up on wet cement. Everything was dark, the only lights those of the street lamps and dimly lit skyscrapers.

He stood, rubbing his head and looked around. Yep. This definitely wasn’t King Mickey’s domain anymore.

Well, he though to himself, Sora’s here somewhere. Welcome to the new Worldline.

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mynameisdreartblog · 5 years ago

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Romantic Composers 2

Leo: Johann Strauss II. I’m gonna prank-call a Domino’s in San Juan, give me a minute. «Oro, we’re in the middle of the sea, I doubt there’ll be a good enough connection or a cell-tower near enough to let you-» <Sudden static is heard, and a gruffy voice comes on.> «Este es el Domino’s; ¿Qué te gusta probar nuestro nueva pizza stuffed-crust?» <Oro gives an impossible look at Viz, implying that he never doubted himself, but that Viz was a total moron for doubting him.> Yes, I’d like a, uh… <Oro’s eyes begin rapidly scanning the environment for clues.> Anchovies… Pineapples… A Hawaiian pizza, basically: That’s the mellow flavor I’m feeling today. «¿Algo más, señor?» Oh yes, I’d also like those marble brownies for a dessert, and an Orange Crush for the drink. <Viz wonders how Oro is able to receive a cellular connection in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.> That should be it… Oh no! «¿Señor?» Augh! I fell off this pier, and I think I’m d-drowning! Please, send someone to help; I can’t swim! «¡Mierda!» <Viz watches Oro kick his feet through the water, making very convincing splashing sounds. He then begins to produce fake choking sounds, leaving the Domino’s worker quite terrified.> «Why did I ever agree to come out here with you.» <Viz punches the makeshift sailboat the two are in, startling Oro and causing him to drop his phone.> Viz, what the hell? I still had 3 gigs of data left on that thing! «Data? It’s a flip-phone. Smart phones haven’t been invented yet because they’re a science-fiction concept, dipshit. Now you have some terrorized soul in an island hundreds of miles away from here.» Actually, he’s at the bottom of the ocean. «Don’t speak to me again, I swear to God.» […] <The scene of the discord fades away as we peer into the bottom of the ocean, where we find the phone there, still on call. The voice rings out and says:> «¿Crees que está jugando conmigo?» […] Man, wouldn’t it be hilarious if I did that? <We cut back to reality: Oro is sitting in the front seat of his banged-up truck, killing time while Viz lays half-conscious in the back.> «That’d kind suck. I mean, who’s gonna be on the ocean? Nobody’s that stupid: The ocean’s big and scary.» You and me both, but don’t deny that isn’t hilarious. «Heh, I did appreciate the joke about the phone at the bottom of the ocean: You were setting that up miles in advance.» [,] Shit, am I getting a phone call?

Taurus: Frédéric Chopin. "The automobile is perhaps the only invention that is at once phallic and womb-like. As columnist George Will once remarked, “the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.” While his comments are laughable for a number of reasons, collectivism as a goal (or even a word) smells of Cold War-era mildew. Will does hit on one truism: Humans love cars to an irrational degree." Hmm, that’s a very interesting think-piece you have here. But tell me, why should I care about Americans and their car-culture? I hike up here every day, and when I have to travel lower, I take a moped like everyone else. Though, mine’s bigger for obvious reasons. «Don’t blame me; I just put the papers on the table. Those crazy op-ed writers will publish just about anything to get people’s anger brewing.» You’re right… The morning’s been quite inactive though, and I just wanted something to talk about. Heaven knows I talked about every trinket in this place. «You can try talking about the cuisine, specifically how I can learn from you. That’s just something you’ve been stubborn about lately, and maybe this boredom is just the karma of that.» I knew you’d say that, but you need to realize that my cooking is something you can only experience, never narrate. I let things speak for themselves a lot, and I never found a purpose in taking down notes that do nothing but become clutter later on. <Bodhi whispers to themselves> «That’s the guy I know: Always asking you to live out things fully because understanding things holistically is better than growing personally.» [,] You whisper too long but also too sweetly. Please keep doing it until we have a customer coming so I can feel like there’s some activity here. «Bullheaded as always.» […] <Gresham takes a meaningful sip of tea, it fails to burn his old throat, but can punch through the atmosphere to reveal a friendly puff.> A lot of the time, I’m tired of being so cynical: Where’s the room for being clumsily sincere? I have to refuse making money by telling dirty jokes or other obscene things like, ugh, phone usage. <Like he never said, he’s not too old, it’s that technology doesn’t catch up to him for his liking.> [,] The window is just soothing enough to warrant not cleaning it yet, but I don’t wanna get another tourist complaining about how they don’t have the best mountain view. Whoever sits here will have to learn how to appreciate the fault… I’m complaining to pass the time again: Not a healthy habit, Gresham. […] Nothing strange, just a nice day: A little foggy though.

Aquarius: Giacomo Puccini. How would I describe the graphical style of the game Little Red Hood for the NES if I were to use persistent, geographical allusion? Well, I’d say that it’d be like what would happen if you tried to translate the geography of Afghanistan onto 8-bit graphics hardware, particularly how it appears near a strong river like the Helmand: It provided that Galilean backdrop that so many directors used in their films about Christ. Now, that’s what I did think back in my flawed memory of the game, but now that I look back at it again, the landscape is definitely more inspired by that of Florida, particularly around the parts where sawgrass is heavy and palm trees are native, but it’s not a tropical landscape per se, nor is it an entirely swampy one. It’s particularly the presence of palm trees that struck me as confusing, because my brain has always associated the odd, yellow colors of its groundwork to that of a renovated Pacific area, but the game proves that it doesn’t use the palm trees throughout the entire game. But the opening levels still confuse me because the story of Little Red Riding Hood that the game’s based on originates in various parts of Europe, and the foliage we see in the opening act doesn’t reflect that of any European landscape. It could just be an artist interpretation in the case of making the presentation of the game think you were in a Pacific island or near the heartlands of Okeechobee, but I think it might’ve just been a case of “not giving a shit” as they say. There’s more to talk about with how my brain subconsciously linked my flawed memories of the game’s graphical presentation with that of the riverbanks of the Helmand; I guess I just wanted to prove my initial biases and not examine how the game doesn’t even commit to even my ideas whenever I think of Afghani scenery, but maybe even those are failing to catch up with the fact that there’s so many different aesthetical implications within the vastness of the nation of Afghanistan that, uh, I don’t know: I just like Afghani landscape. Have this picture of a village in the Bamyan desert. [,] «Aukai, what the hell are you talking about? I’ve been eavesdropping back here since you started and I still don’t understand.» I’m t-trying to paint this scene in my head, but I don’t have my tools to do it, so I’m thinking loudly about it. «…Whatever.» […] There’s no doubt in my mind that he’d make a great tamer: Our protagonist of this beautiful world, now ravaged by corruptors that his world has gone to hell for trying to stop. He’s the only one who can control the beastly and brutish forces of the corruption that infests his world. <The one earlier who was questioning Aukai opens her door and holds out a hand full of paint-brushes.> «Here, take these, please. I liked you better when you were quiet.» <Aukai is insulted and satisfied.>

Pisces: Franz Liszt. I’m fucking devastated: My favorite rap-battle channel on YouTube just deleted their channel. Not only that, all of their social media accounts are gone. They had such great works as "Goku vs. Rick Sanchez", "George Washington vs. the Invisible Man", and "Luigi vs. Slenderman." I don’t know if I can keep going the same route of content consumption knowing that the only ironic rap battle channel deleted everything. «Hold on, your favorite video-channel on the Internet was ironic? I don’t think I’m getting this, Maggie.» Let me explain it: It was good because it didn’t take itself seriously. For a while, that was it’s niche, and certainly other creators arose to copy it, but they were always the first. «So, is this like, some independent person making all of these or is there an entire network of people collaborating to create this music?» You’re right the second time: They used to be part of this collaborative effort to make these videos, but the guy I like, in particular, broke off from the bigger picture. Now, their content is what I like; I haven’t seen the uploads by the other creators ’cause it’s not really the same experience, is it? «That’s crazy… and they just deleted all their content after how long they’ve done this for?» I’ve been following it for a year, but they were their most active near October. [,] «You actually have me interested in their music now. I mean, I know you can’t play it anymore, but do you at least have backups or remember how some of them went?» I think I have backups, but I know some of these by heart, man. What I’m trying to say is that it’d be far better if I could recite these to you than if I just played them. «So, what you’re saying is that you don’t have any backups?» Do you have any backups, or do you wanna see me recite some of the best lyrics you’ll ever hear? «Let it rip.» [,] "I got the Dragon Balls; I’m gonna win. I’m gonna eat your pickle, Rick. Oh wait, SHIT! Your mom licked my Dragon Ball(z); I’m just Super Saiyan. Kamehameha, I ain’t playin’. Rick Sanchez always wanna start drama; don’t make me do Dirty Sanchez on yo’ mama! I bet your only comeback is you making a burp. Rick Sanchez winning? Stupidest shit I’ve ever heard." At this point, Rick Sanchez would offer up his verse to Goku, and his verse goes something like "thirty-thousand witches in Goku’s house! God isn’t real; I touched Bulma’s blouse. I got like, seventy more episodes with Morty, and being with Morty just makes me real-" «Stop, this is way more awful than I expected.» Well, I’m the only one you can get these bars from, and now you’re saying you don’t want them? I don’t have to recite them. «You have backups; you lied to me earlier. I don’t care about them now, but look: You got potential outside of just reciting those bars. Maggie, you got your own talents.» I’m not a lyricist, but thanks. «You’re a poet, that’s one-or-two steps away from being a lyricist.» I rapped purely for the purposes of recitation; I don’t know what you’re getting at. «Nah, I’m convinced that only you can write something this absolutely… passionate. You made up this entire channel, this entire guild, this entire deletion scandal: You made it all up so you can kickstart your career.» I’m not- Okay, we’ll roll with it this time. [,] Yeah, I’m starting my own rap battle channel in the wake of the one that deleted itself. «Are you gonna cash in on the ironic rap-battle market or are you trying to be more sincere with this?» Of course it has to be ironic! I’m following in the master’s footsteps thanks to you, and now I can’t disrespect his legacy. «That’s cool, but it’s not enough: You gotta make it one of those ARGs.» ARG? «Like, some game of Clue you send your audience on to discover interlinked details that seem to form a bigger picture but end up getting nowhere, and it’s all for the purpose of promoting your brand.» Oh, I see. I can include like, hints in the middle of the jokes in the verses, and I’d make an entire fictional universe of followers that leave behind clues. «No, you don’t even have to do that: Just get a random mugshot, make up some believable names and accredit them to your project, get some weirdos on a message-board to write about it for you, and you’re set.» …If you’re gonna be this disheartening, I don’t wanna continue with it. «That’s not what I meant!»

#Zodiaccupuncture #Zodipunc #Leo #Taurus #Aquarius #Pisces

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fadljr-blog · 5 years ago

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First Day On Earth

As I approach that beautiful looking planet I feel more and more excited about it every passing moment, I mean the colors I can see now aren’t to be described in words .. I have to show my people this breathtaking view, but what the shit is happening and why am I going hotter as I get closer ? looks like this planet has a strong atmosphere .. aah , hot hot hot , wait, don’t lose you focus, handbrakes ,, I pull my handbrakes and I get slower cuz of the parachutes my brakes activate, then I activate spinning vertically so I can use Magnus effect and stop using too much fuel, aha, it’s working.. I start using this atmosphere instead of it using me.

who are these creatures and why are they walking like that ? where is all the blue and green colors I saw up there ? and why is everything polluting the atmosphere ? My calculations show that they use O2 to breathe to oxidize their food, in the process of cellular respiration, thus releasing energy, which is eventually stored in ATP in the electron transport chain in mitochondria, and in glycolysis in the cytoplasm. they’re dumb that’s what I see, stupid aliens !

I learnt their language in 2 catopas ,, after learning English I see that a catopa is equal to 1.5 seconds of these Earthlings units, I also learn about history from their world wide web or that’s what they call it. it is a network that connects people together from all over the world, rudimentary, but does it quite well. but why don’t these people learn how live together ? and why is their history full of wars and blood ? and why the hell do they honor killers ?

I shape shift using my necklace, of course they can’t expose me with their technology. my necklace has been with me since I was very little I used to shape shift with it while playing with my cousins, but they always knew it was me with their helmets , or that’s what people here would call them (helmets) . someone is approaching me, I need to stay as calm as possible and act like one of them, he puts something long and cold on my forehead and says “your money or your life !” “I am not sure I quite got what you are trying to do, can you, please, explain ?” I reply “don’t you play dumb with me, look around you, is there anyone here to help you ? the answer is no ! and If u don’t fucking give me what’s in your pockets right now I’ll fucking shoot you !!” he screams at me

I walk around the city after taking that guy hostage in my ship and shape shifting again to his look, so I can be more normal to them, that guy gave me three things, a gun, a more familiar look in this city, and an answer to a question, his question, and yes he was right we were too far away from people so no one would have noticed anything if he kills me.

I take a long walk around the place and find the best spot I can stay in, a resident-less house , I introduce myself as “Jacob Runner” the man that was trying to take my stuff by force .. looks like these people are really different from us – the Garguanions which means (creatures) in my language (Gorb) – so I’ll have to learn more about them before I tell them anything about me, but not today ; because walking people are getting fewer on the streets after the darkness has come .. I get back to the house I rented with Jacob’s money to prepare myself for the next day called (Tomorrow) or (Tuesday) .

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