#ap catalogs

[weeaboo-kei]

Angelic Pretty 2008 Spring Catalog

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[phregnancy]

i need to stop being a phannie for a day i haven’t done any work in a week and i think my boss is starting to notice

[foone]

You know, It doesn't matter if you belive in God or Science or Both, trans people are natural and awesome.

God? Well, we humans are made in God's image. We're all a little figurine of the Creator, and we Create. We create ourselves, our environments, our situations... God made the world and Man gave names to all the animals. We catalog and explore and determine and change. We make the wine and the bread, God made the grapes and the wheat. Of course we make our genders just as much as we make houses and clothes and stories and names. There's a bit of the divine in all of us and it's the part of us that Creates and Loves.

And Science? Oh boy! We are tool-users of the highest order. Changing things is just what we do. We built the pyramids and the dog and the horse and the computer. We've built cities out of swamps and lakes and put flags on the moon. Changing things so they work better for us is just our very nature. We heal our broken bones and build glasses and hearing aids and wheelchairs, because fuck our limitations. We invented corn and the Amazon rainforest. Transformation is in our nature just as much as being bipedal and featherless. We see a world and a body and a mind that doesn't work for us, and we change it. We build roads and skyscrapers and prosthetics and drugs, and the resulting humanity is better. We spent thousands of years building our world and our knowledge of how to change it and we're very good at it by now.

My point is, it doesn't matter if you think we're a unique creation by an omnipotent creator or a hairless ape that evolved to be particularly good at being social tool-users who can cook and throw things, our nature is Creation and Transformation. Of course some humans would be transgender and non-binary and generally genderqueer: those things are just reflections of what it means to be human.

God gave Adam the first tongs so he could smith, and the ape knapped a stone into a point so a spear could be deadlier than just a rock. Transformation is the core of humanity. Of ourselves, our environments, our tools, our stories. There's never been a humanity that was unchanging and rigid: we're not made of stone. We're made of clay and wood and reeds. Endlessly shapeable and cuttable and weavable. We decide what shapes and purposes we are meant for.

[ape-apocalypse]

Road To The Kingdom - My Planet Of The Apes Retrospective

With the hype for Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes on the rise, I decided to do a bit of a deep dive into the trilogy of reboot movies starring the incredible Andy Serkis and the various tie-in titles.

Why ramble on about a series that most people seem to overlook? Well, I think back to an interaction I had here on Tumblr in 2017, just one week before War For The Planet Of The Apes came out. While scrolling through the POTA tags, I found a post that wondered if anyone was actually excited for the new film or if the studio hadn't gotten the message and was making it for an audience that didn't exist. I responded that I was genuinely excited for the new film, that I loved the motion capture apes and the action scenes and the surprisingly engaging story, and would be seeing it opening weekend. The other person seemed surprised by my honest answer and apologized for their snarkiness (a truly shocking turn of events in the history of the Internet!).

I explained that I'd gone into these films thinking of them like Jurassic World series; I wasn't there for a great story and deep writing, I just wanted to see dinosaurs destroy things. So when I went into the POTA films, just expecting to see fun action movies with monkey chaos and apocalyptic results, I was surprised that I was swept up in the characters and their stories. I loved seeing the life of Caesar from tiny carefree baby to resilient revolutionary to fearsome leader, and the lives of all the humans and apes around him. The other poster said they hadn't actually seen the movies, just expected them to be shallow cash-grabs on reboot nostalgia, but they might have to reconsider giving them a shot after my enthusiastic response.

So if I can sway the minds of anyone who has written off these films, more movie tickets sold might mean more films and other media told in this ape apocalypse world!

And even if you already know and love the films, I also want to give some love to tie-in materials. Books, comics, YouTube shorts, video games; POTA has a surprisingly large catalog of bonus material for a series not considered mainstream like Marvel or Lord Of The Rings or Star Trek. I don't see them get many mentions in the fandom so hope a little spotlight on them can help them shine. They have delicious tidbits of world-building and character backstory, filling in gaps between the movies. I already have my fingers crossed there will be some tie-in material covering some of the huge time jump between War and Kingdom. With three hundred years passing between them, there is so much to learn about the ever growing and changing ape societies. I'm eager for any scrap of info they'll share!

But really, even if nothing I write changes anyone's mind about this franchise, it's still fun to gush about one of my favorite fictional universes.

My brief history with POTA was that I didn't know much about the original films before going into the new Andy Serkis trilogy. I'd heard enough about the original film to know the main beats of the first movie (quotes like 'damn dirty ape', the reveal of the planet being Earth with the Statue of Liberty). I saw the Tim Burton film which didn't leave any kind of impression other than the incredibly realistic costumes/make-up, so much so that I was apprehensive of the CG apes. Since getting into the new films, I've started watching the originals and may cover those just for fun.

So whether you're a long-time die hard fan or a fresh face to Caesar's legacy, I hope you'll enjoy my thoughts on the Planet of the Apes franchise!

Links to all my posts as they are released:

- Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Film

- Prelude and Contagion Comics

- Motherboard YouTube Shorts

- Firestorm Tie-In Novel

- Fall Of Man Comics

- Dawn Tie-In Comic

- Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Film

- Revelations Tie-In Novel

- Last Frontier Video Game

- Crisis Video Game

- When Worlds Collide Comics

- War For The Planet Of The Apes Film

- War Tie-In Comic

- Caesar's Story Novel

[mielmoto]

as someone who virtually exclusively writes ocs nowadays and has done so for the last ~10 years, i'm amused to go back through the catalog of canon muses i wrote for. some fairly big ones, some middle-of-the-road; but i was trying to think of what the most niche canon i recall writing for might be. maybe one of the dark chronicle protags, i thought. maybe yumi from ape escape 3.

then i remembered i still have the icons for when i wrote one of the backstory-heavy "class"es/origin characters from maplestory. yeah that's probably it.

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

Uh uh headcanons on what sex toys the Mercs would use?

Oooh good question!

Scout: Pillowcase

Soldier: Idk one of those rubber sleeves For Men that you stick your dick into, yes even if he's trans

Pyro: Plushie with hole cut into it. Also those fancy sparkly dildos

Demo: Bad Dragon-esque fantasy dildos. Also Eyelander

Heavy: Nothing. Rawdogs it constantly

Engie: Fuck machine of his own invention

Medic: Your guts. The nozzle of the Medigun. That pumpkin he put a brain inside of

Sniper: Whatever could be most easily made into an "outback boys make do" joke.

Spy: One of those really expensive fancy vibrators that's, like, rose gold or something. She never does it regularly either it's always like In The Bath or some bougie shit like that

BONUS ROUND:

Pauling: No sex toy headcanon but I think she jacks off to gun catalogs like issues of Playboy

Saxton Hale: Every time he thinks about punching an ape he immediately achieves orgasm

Admin: Never uses sex toys, but jacks off with her long nails because pain builds character

Zhanna: Pillowcase

[herrlindemann]

Orkus - 2000

Thank to ramjohn for the scans!

Rammstein have retreated to the truly flat country to work on their long-awaited third studio album: In Mol, Belgium, there are only meadows, cows — and one of the most modern studios in Europe.

"We didn't come here entirely voluntarily," Schneider admits to the handful of German and English journalists who came to the Belgian hinterland on the weekend of the EM final to find out about the progress of activities for the Rammstein album, working title ‘Mutter’, which is expected at the beginning of next year  — to be informed. “Our engineer Jacob Hellner, who was also responsible for the last two albums, is tied to the Galaxy Studios. The technical possibilities here are fantastic and the working atmosphere is great, but there is hardly any variety.��� But that's easy to imagine, because the complex, which is just under an hour and a half from Brussels Airport, is literally on a green field: Mol is a small village with maybe fifty low-rise family houses that look like a cross between the sample catalog of the local builders' merchant and the clinker brick building of the North German lowlands. English lawns, psychedelic splendor of roses, strictly trimmed boxwood and garden gnomes included. The large, blue clinker building rises almost like a foreign body between gardens and pastures with strangely pig-like, colorless cows. Illustrious guests like the Guano Apes, dEUS, Die Krupps or Such A Surge have worked here, as have Joan Osborne, Lauryn Hill and the Kelly Family. Olli's old mobile home seems a bit out of place in the parking lot of the high-tech sound company. “Tomorrow we're going back to Berlin,” he says happily. “Then on to Japan, where we will play the old program for the last time at the Fudji Rock Festival. Then we come back here to finish the mixes.” However, a large part of the album was created in the spring for a good six weeks in a studio in the south of France. "It was fantastic there," Richard recalls, "the studio was idyllically situated in the vineyards, and we were accommodated directly on the property. Till recorded part of the vocals in the living room of his apartment there and we had friends and relatives visiting.” Admittedly, the Berliners didn't do badly with the accommodation in Belgium either: They reside about 20 minutes by car from the studio in the country, house hotel and restaurant 'Hippocampus', which is one of the best in Belgium, which really has a lot of culinary highlights is applicable. "The food here is almost too good," admits Olli. (Which the journalists were able to easily convince themselves of later at dinner in the same restaurant!) “Sometimes we cycle from the hotel to the studio to stay fit.” Not a bad performance at around 14 kilometers one-way.

“Otherwise we replay the EM games and work concentrated on the album.” Despite the grueling production, the guys look fresh and fit, if just a little bit excited: “You're the first to hear some of the new tracks,” says Richard. “We are curious to see what you have to say about it.” In addition to the journalists, representatives from the label's Hamburg and London offices have also arrived — no wonder he's a little nervous. But before the eagerly awaited listening session in the light-wood paneled control room with the estimated five meter long mixing console, a typically Belgian pastime is the order of the day: the studio's own chef has set up a veritable monster buffet — meat, pasta, salads, fish and seafood, for dessert: Belgian chocolates. Fed up and satisfied, journalists and record company staff push their way through the complex's complex corridors to the place of revelation. And they certainly won't be disappointed: three finished pieces and three more in the raw version are blown around their ears in two rounds with studio loudspeakers costing x thousand marks. First impression: breathless. Barring another catastrophe of the magnitude of a total hard disk crash (Hard Disc Recording!), this will be the most fantastic Rammstein album ever. Powerful and aggressive, yet more differentiated than Herzeleid, the new material leans more in the direction of Sehnsucht. ‘Sonne’, the first track, is a super-catchy banger with siren-like female voices in the background and an abrupt end: «Aus». More please! ‘Links’ hits like a bomb: Oskar Lafontaine's famous book title as an obvious dig at all the hostilities of recent years and next to it a puristic song in the best Rammstein manner - except for the bluesy (!) solo. And this piece also ends far too quickly: 'Left, two three four...'. The next track also has a controversial subject: this is about a priest who feels attracted to his young protégés, in proper style with sacred choirs and bells. The three following rough mixes are announced as not yet finished, but they also promise something outstanding: ‘Mein Herz brennt’ is already very epic and reminds a bit of Puff Dandy's famous collaboration with Jimmy Page, here Till acts as a desperate children's fright. With a long, melancholic guitar solo and distinctive string riff, this might be the longest song presented. ‘Feuer frei’ seems the most electronic with its EBM rhythm, but impresses with ultra-fat riffs and crazy guitar effects. But this track also has a short, quiet middle part with noticeable synth sprinklings. "Bang Bang", the end - Rammstein seem to develop a preference for concise closing sentences on this album... Stylized children's babble marks the beginning of the most unusual and lyrically most personal of the songs presented: ‘Mutter’. Melancholic and balladesque, it comes across as a private reckoning with a traumatic, motherless childhood — less aggressive than deeply hurt. Although of course no savings were made on hearty lines of text.

After twice a good twenty minutes it's all over; Still a little dazed, but visibly enthusiastic, the crowd of critics staggers back to the surface. Predicate: particularly valuable — it would have to be hell if Rammstein weren't able to underpin their position as the most influential German band at the turn of the millennium with this album. Although there could still be a few surprises waiting for us between what we have just heard and the finished product: “We will be more varied,” promises Paul and grins, “the album should contain both punk influences and hits.” There still seems to be a lot to come!

[shittypeople34]

  MILWAUKEE (AP) _ One woman said she wanted to teach serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer about Jesus, so she sent him $350, along with some Bible literature.

  Another woman sent $50 so that Dahmer could buy ″cigarettes, stamps and envelopes.″ And a 74-year-old nun sent $10 to reimburse Dahmer for postage on two art books that he mailed to her.

  ″He did awful things but way deep down he isn’t a mean kid,″ she said.

  In all, Dahmer, who admitted killing and dismembering 17 men and boys, has received more than $12,000 from letter-writers around the world, according to prison records.

  The gifts have come from as far away as South Africa and France, and include a $5,920 donation last year from a woman in London.

  The money and letters are itemized in the files of Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, where the 33-year-old Dahmer is serving life sentences, The Milwaukee Journal reported in Sunday’s editions.

  People who send Dahmer money represent ″a very sick group of people around the world that contribute for whatever reason,″ said Thomas Jacobson, who represents relatives of victims.

  The relatives have obtained judgments against Dahmer worth more than $80 million, but Jacobson said his clients have so far received nothing.

  It is ″an absolute travesty″ that Dahmer isn’t sharing his donations, Jacobson said.

  Jeffrey P. Endicott, the Columbia warden, said no law forbids Dahmer from soliciting financial assistance, as long as he does not commit fraud. But prison officials have restricted Dahmer’s spending since November, when they learned of the unpaid judgments.

  According to prison records, which show how much money an inmate receives and how he spends it, Dahmer received $11,000 in 1993. His parents were among the donors.

  Besides the donations, Dahmer earned 24 cents an hour as a prison gymnasium janitor. He lost that job because he imitated a prison employee on the telephone. The incident kept him in solitary confinement for more than a month.

  In late January, according to the latest records available, Dahmer’s assets were $4,284. He has bought magazines, comic books and cassette recordings - including Gregorian chants and sounds of humpback whales - through catalogs.

  In addition to exchanging letters, prison records say Dahmer uses Bible study and dark humor to deal with penitentiary boredom, which he is quoted as calling ″a living death.″  

[lesboard]

biograft snippetttt i wrote this in ap comp sci A i think my teacher wanted to murder me it’s ok tho so excuse the messiness

for reference thsi relies on the hc that a bio gains sentience right before they die due to whatever code is blocking that going away first. yeah!

Slash.

Enemy low.

Move backwards.

Enemy Low. Advancing.

Blink.

Enemy Low. Advancing.

Critical damage to lower appendages.

Slash up.

Enemy dead. Glory to Blackrock.

Critical damage. Seek repairs.

Seek repair. Pinging.

Seek repair. Pinging.

Seek repair. Pinging.

Pinging.

Pp-ingin-g.

pINging.

pi-Error.

Error.

Error.

Error. Error. Error. Error. ErrorErrorErrorE-Error-Err-or-Errror-

Grass. Birds. Rain. Pain. I feel. Pain?

I..feel?

Error.

I feel the damp wood of the tree behind me. I feel the grain, the bumps, the knots. I hear the birds. The gentle rain slips down my skin. It’s beautiful, I think. I feel the searing agony too.

I look down, and see nothing but dirt stained black with oil. That’s my blood…I think. I think it acts like blood. This is all so strange.

Error.

My sensors aren’t working. All of these. This data. These senses. It’s not being cataloged anymore. Is this.

Am I alive? The birds are still singing. I think i’m alive.

They aren’t though. The severed head next to me is dead. I am alive, they are…not. I killed them.

I feel triumphant. I won, they lost. Perhaps …creator will appreciate it.

Error.

I don’t know if he’d like that I can feel now. I like it, I think it’s wonderful. I wish the sun was out. I wish I was around flowers. They don’t seem useless anymore.

Err-ror.

The beeping is agonizing. Do you hear it? You hear it too don’t you.

Oh, you don’t.

I think my sensors are yelling at me. I don’t know how to fix it. I forgot how.

I.

I feel tired.

Can’t you help me? You can’t, can you. You’re just..a spectator.

I don’t think i’m supposed to see you. Am I dying?

Be honest.

Am I dying?

…

e-Err-or.

Error.

Please. Please you. You’re lying. I can’t be dead. I. I’m just now alive. You can’t let them strip this away please please do something. Anything. Please.

I don’t want to loose the birds the grass the trees anything. I haven’t-, I haven’t seen the sun yet.

Please.

Please. I’m begging you. I won’t. I refuse to let go. My hands dig into the earth. I can’t even cry, I can’t even decompose. I’m alive but i’m dying and you can’t do anything but watch.

Can’t even p..ut me out of my misery-y.

…

Err..r..or

C..an-

I think..it’s..getting worse.

Error.

C.an..y..ou..te.l.l ..m.e..a..s.tor..y-?

p-lea..se.

Error.

t-ha-nk-..

Shutdown complete.

Glory to Blackrock!

[infinitycutter]

undercover + a bathing ape + goodenough catalog feature (1999)

[weeaboo-kei]

Angelic Pretty Spring 2009 catalog pages for Miracle Candy and Cherry Berry Bunny

[ogindex]

Vintage Ape x Supreme magazine catalog

[danini909]

hello! i usually go by danini online (dayna is ok too though!), and i'm a 23 y/o sweet lolita :) my absolute favourite things in the world are lolita fashion and bunnies (especially my own, Taiga & Geronimo! you can see them under the read more) ♡

this is my main blog, mostly for rb'ing cute or lolita-related stuff, though eventually i'd like to post my own lolita scans/translations/internet archive finds + bunny pics :)

my main interests are AP's sweet releases from around 2006 to 2016, bunny characters / mascots in lolita prints, and lolita history. i mostly wear sweet bunny prints (wardrobe here), and i collect mooks, catalogs, and novelties featuring my favourites :) 

some other things i enjoy: - sewing + embroidery - rhythm games (love live!, deemo, and DDR are my favourites) - hockey (mostly women's; hockey stuff is kept to a sideblog though!) - rambling in the tags (and parentheses) - cute stationery - anime figures

I have some tags I use pretty consistently: - art (for lolita art specifically) - bunny (bunny!!) - coord (for coord inspo) - wishlist (self-explanatory) - fv (for my favourite posts) - graphics (for scans, internet archive art, prints, etc)

I will tag common triggers if they come up, but if you have anything in particular you want me to tag please lmk :)

i'd love to make some friends / mutuals in the community, so feel free to reach out anytime!

[thelensofyashunews]

Memphis "Wild Child" Quezz Ruthless Shares New Mixtape, 'Y.N.S.'

A self-proclaimed "wild child" who has been making waves in the Memphis streets, Quezz Ruthless has no inhibitions when on the mic. Today, the young rapper looks to take the next step with his new mixtape, Y.N.S. Spanning 11 tracks, the tape is defined by Quezz's tumbling flow, which slices through Tennessee trap percussion with reckless abandon. The Grim Reaper Gang rapper's bars reflect his "Ruthless" artist name, showing no remorse for anyone who might cause an obstacle to his inevitable rise.

Short for Yung N**** Sh*t, the tape was created in honor of Quezz Ruthless's brother and biggest inspiration: the late Big Scarr. Y.N.S. hosts "Big Scarr Flow Part 2," in which Quezz channels the style of his older brother to get off some of his toughest bars to date: "How you a ape but you scared of Gorillas/I walk around with your stash in my denims/B*tch, I'm the big dog, I'm king of the kennel," he spits. The tape's final track, "Ain't Stoppin'," produced by GRAMMY-nominated production duo The Trillionaires, features a posthumous verse from Scarr himself, as Quezz resolves to never stop paying tribute to his brother's memory. In the video, shared today on Quezz's YouTube, the young rapper holds a candlelit vigil for his brother, before going out in Memphis in his foreign and making the city his own.

The tape is home to "Y.N.S.," a turbulent recent single, which Quezz dropped on his YT channel last week. Featuring an additional appearance from fellow Memphian BlocBoy JB on "Smiling," Y.N.S. is available everywhere via Wild Child, LLC, distributed by Connect Music.

Quezz Ruthless is one of the most exciting young rappers in the bustling Memphis rap scene. He first earned notoriety with his guest spot on Big Scarr's "MJ," which has over 85 million global streams. Quezz built a cult following in Memphis with his 2023 mixtape, Wild Child, which has over 10 million streams. The rapper's catalog generates over 200k on-demand streams per week across platform.

With Y.N.S. out now and much further to rise, Quezz Ruthless looks to honor his brother's memory by going as hard as he can. Stay tuned for much more.

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[alien-in-residence]

Survivors of Terra ch2. The Scientist

The lung tissue was failing. The gene therapy in the most current stock of subjects was incapable of creating the change that he wanted. Archaos administered a final round of water spray to the tissue and watched as the secondary bronchi failed to absorb any oxygen. The exposed lung spasmed slightly as it drowned. The test subject, incapable of properly coughing, simply struggled against their restraints. Archaos continued his dictation as he moved onto the next medical bed, "Subject 28-G expired."

Archaos leaned close to this next subject on the table. He examined a colony of cysts that had grown inside a now obstructed secondary bronchi. His massive fore-eyes took in a shocking amount of detail. If he telescoped his retinas he could nearly see the cell structure of the defunct subject. He dictated his notes in a nearly perfect native Icelandic accent. “Results of aberration set 14: cyst formation happens quickly upon exposure to Core water samples. Subject set 28 has no signs of success. Will have to move on to the next set of test changes. I’ll make these apes breathe water.”

Upon hearing the Icelandic, the subject on the table thrashed awake and nearly got its hands on Archaos’ neck. The restraints held the subject in place just barely. If Archaos had been maybe 10 centimeters closer, the subject might have gotten a grip on him. Archaos chuckled to himself and continued dictation. “Survival for two subjects persists past 10 hours. Still disappointing they refuse to change breathing patterns, but the resilience is of note.” Archaos pulled out a vial from his lab coat and injected the contents into the subject's IV.

“We’ll see how you take to this next round. Note: subject 28-H has been given two test serums in a row. I want to see how they interact. End dictation.” A machine in the room beeped to confirm it was cataloging his notes. He pressed an intercom button on the wall and spoke to the base commander in Imperium standard, “I have expired stock in room 3. Come remove them and tell the workers to prep another set of subjects.” The commander set to work and Archaos moved out of the room to examine genetic results from the most recent batch.

The genome of the human race was remarkably resistant. There were the markers of self-editing, the kind you see a species make when they first figure out gene editing. The humans had deleted triggers for hereditary disease and slowed down the decay process. The age delay edit was crude and wasn’t heritable. The current generation of humans had already lost the anti-aging characteristics their parents had enjoyed. They were eons away from figuring out biological immortality. The shocking thing was how little they had changed their genes.

The humans had largely avoided improvement edits entirely. Most of the changes they’d made to their own genome was in removing genetic disease and preventing degeneration. Did they not know how to improve? Or worse, were they afraid of genetic improvements? Archaos went from admiration to revilement rapidly with these ape creatures.

The schedule he’d constructed for his work on this planet said that he was nearing the halfway mark for the current alteration set. He had given the loss-of-function work to the laborers on the lower floors. That work was crude but necessary. Archaos couldn’t be expected to fully master the human genome without a full report on all of its fail-points. Annoyingly it required a mass amount of stock to complete. Each fail-case ate up an entire stock, meaning it could take potentially millions of subjects to be certain the work was complete.

Archaos preferred to give his full attention to the alteration and gain-of-function research. It was in that research that humanity would be transformed and made useful. Archaos’ work in that field was legendary. These simple apes should be thankful he was in charge of their ascension. In a century or two, when their transformation was complete, they would never know the great work Archaos had done for them. He told himself he didn’t care but he was lying. Combing through thousands of stocks, carefully examining each failure case, a countless number of autopsies, and all for their own benefit. Being an unrecognized genius was tiring.

Looking through his week schedule, he could feel he would need a break. He cut out 3 hours for himself tomorrow. Those three hours were for him. Who cares how many stocks those three hours would use up? Who cares how many laborers it might set him back? The planet was a massive well of genetic information and Archaos would drink it all.

For now, he had notes to take. The monotonous work often spawned revolutionary ideas as his old instructor used to say. There was a catalog of fail cases for him to examine. Each contained a full genetic scan, nature of loss-of-function change, and full autopsies. At least a thousand of these case files were generated a day. A lesser researcher might establish a learning machine to catalog the information for them, but Archaos was too prideful to leave discovery to a computer.

Hours later Archaos had completed his review of the day’s test subject expirations and work personnel were restocking his personal lab space. The two humans that had survived the latest regimen were conscious while their compatriots’ bodies were removed. Archaos supervised from his observation room while taking another look at the medical read-outs of his survivors. The one that had tried to grab him was an Icelandic local, selected for straying too close to the research facility. That explains his language recognition, Archaos thought to himself.

The staff were well practiced at their work. The new stock was unconscious and brought into the lab in sets of 2. Earlier break-out attempts had informed new safety procedures which Archaos found incredibly mundane. Impatience overtook him as it often did and Archaos strode into the lab to begin unloading the test subjects himself. The Yonk and Huliotess staff were surprised to see him and tried not to look directly at him. This genuflection only served to enrage Archaos further. He strode quickly, grabbing unconscious humans by the neck and haphazardly slamming them onto observation tables.

The facility staff scurried behind him, trying to restrain the subjects that Archaos had unloaded. The Yonk moved in the shadow of Archaos’ stride, clipping on restraints and hooking up scanners. The Huliotess tried to keep all the notation clean and was hurriedly marking down which subjects were placed on which table.

When he was finished putting test stock onto tables, Archaos stood over the staff with an expression of contempt. His fore and hind eyes were affixed to the two and the coloration along his phalangeal ridge was bright yellow. He towered a half meter above the Yonk, subconsciously elongating his legs and stance. The Huliotess looked like it desperately wanted to be dead or anywhere else. The silence of the room was physical and dense.

Archaos finally barked at them, “Out of the lab! I have important things to do!” The Yonk bowed its head low and the Huliotess panicked and copied the gesture. Archaos flew into a rage, grabbing the Yonk by its throat and lifting it up off the ground. He marched across the room towards the door, the Yonk dangling desperately as Archaos carried him. He opened the door and threw the Yonk out of it, his body flying down the hallway a good distance. The Huliotess sprinted out after the Yonk, making some awful avian noises that scratched at Archaos’ auditory nerves.

His nerves were peaked and he set about his work to calm himself. Credit where it's due, the Huliotess had correctly cataloged all the subjects. All the new subjects needed injections and their chest cavities opened. Methodically, Archaos delivered his new gene edits via syringe into the blood circulation of his test stock. The bio monitors started beeping showing that some of them had begun to wake. They would not receive any further anesthesia.

A human near the survivor, subject 28-H, had awoken and was screaming at seeing what had happened. Archaos crossed the room in a flash, rendering the screaming human incapable of doing so further. “I need to know if you apes can be made to breathe water, I already know you can scream.” Subject 28-H stirred on his bed and managed to spit at Archaos, hitting the alien’s face. 0

Archaos stopped his other observations, pinning 28-H’s head with one of his forward facing arms. He focussed his retinas on the exposed lung tissue and sprayed another dose of Core water. This time, Archaos watched as the oxygen uptake along the bronchial tissue worked correctly. The human was now effectively amphibious, if a bit weary in his present state. Archaos met the gaze of 28-H and an enormous predatory smile crossed his face. “Well well well, finally something interesting,” he told the human in Icelandic.

Archaos half announced half instructed the base computer, “Dictation: Success with 28-H when combining aberration set 14 and 15. I’ll move on to the full gene sequence and autopsy.” The humans that were capable of understanding him, thrashed against their restraints. “Will send rest of current stock to lower floor for loss-of-function testing. End dictation.”

Archaos returned to 28-H and wheeled the human into a smaller examination room.The tall metal door swung closed, leaving the rest of the subject stock in oppressive silence. Anesthetic was pumped into the room as the Yonk and Huliotess returned to retrieve the now unnecessary research stock.