Welcome to Radio UltraMerica, Saint Christmas VIth on the mic, broadcasting perpendicularly across all three-and-a-half dimensional realities. Now in from the long-range receiver a bit of space folk, from the standpoint of the brave men and women that keep the spacelines going.
The creditors of Verkand-Alamary Corp deny any wrongdoing.
Lyrics and process under the fold
Like most of my music, this was done with Suno. I started with a section of lyrics from Suno's AI. This is often a first step for me, because I suck at meter. So I'll tend to generate something with a structure I find appealing, and use a syllable counter to carry the meter over to new, human created lyrics.
This time, however, what I got first out gave me an idea.
In the vast expanse of the starry night
We sail through space
With hearts so light
Seeking fortunes on celestial shores
Asteroid mining
Forevermore
Beneath the moon's gaze we toil and sweat
Our hands in the soil
Our dreams all set
With pickaxe and shovel
We dig so deep
Searching for treasure
A promise to keep
Yo ho! Yo ho!
The cosmic gold we seek
Through the Milky Way
Our song does speak
Yo ho! Yo ho!
With hearts true and bold
We'll strike it rich!
I had assumed when I asked for lyrics for a space miner's shanty I'd get something a bit less sunny.
But the idea of using that as the start of a story was appealing. So my own verses to follow build on the concept:
Beneath the moon's gaze we toil and sweat
Our hands in the soil,
Our dreams all set
bound in mecha iron
We dig so deep
to plunder dark matter
for the boss to keep
Yo ho! Yo ho!
With hearts true and bold
We'll strike it rich on the-
And from there, things just... take a turn.
Bound in mecha iron, We dig so deep
To plunder dark matter, For the boss to keep
The cosmic rays are creeping in
Our lead shielding is really tin
Ten years for nothin', Not even greed.
The pink slips were sent budget light speed!
The company went belly up, Butchered for penny stocks.
Asked when do we fly back? The boss said: Go eat rocks.
Go eat rocks? Go eat rocks!
The cosmic gold -
We'll starve to death in the black and cold!
And the song becomes a broadcast home.
Freed from mecha iron,
we claw and take
to gobble dark matter,
for our thirst to slake,
Va Zor! Va Zor!
Our digging limbs unfold,
To free the cosmic gold,
Va Zor! Va Zor!
Our digging limbs unfold
To free the cosmic gold
Va Zor! Va Zor!
Noitarepsed ruo ni,
Sero eht eta ew.
Si doof ni rettam krad,
Cinegatum dnoyeb.
Va Zor! Va Zor!
H'taed ot devrats ereh nem eht,
Tae ton seod sniamer tahw.
Rehtom ruoy sti nehw tpecxe!
Va Zor! Va Zor!
Ku vuk vyotch! Ku vuk vycoyh!
Wat osha gold ib veol!
husk wat milkzin Kesh!
ib puskor shriek!
Ku vuk vycoh!
ib luv vycoh!
Mank speen zol vix rolv,
vu-ib feast ur zilch mar wat vusku net rolv!
Weep not for our fate.
The boss said eat rocks
and we are what we ate.
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Please Help Two Queer, Disabled Siblings Stay Housed!!
Hey, y'all! We could really use help ... Our local synagogue was supposed to help us pay our January rent last week, but we found out five days later (Sunday night) that the board staged a coup against the treasurer instead, and they weren't going to help us after all. This was after our landlord had already waited past the date they normally start eviction proceedings, and we've been trying to raise what we need all week since then. We've raised some, but not enough.
Our landlord still hasn't filed, but our luck could run out at any time here. We still need $450 to get caught up and avoid eviction this month. If they file with the court, we'll have court costs and a much shorter time limit to get it done. Edit: My sibling had to go to the ER Friday because they were passing a kidney stone, and we had to spend money on cab fare, meds, and supplies. We now need to raise $530 to pay our rent.
My sibling and I are both disabled and chronically ill, we have no car, and our community doesn't have live-in shelters of any kind, so we'd literally be out on the streets if we get evicted. My sibling also had to go to the ED on Friday (1/19) with a kidney stone. We are too sick to be homeless.
If we could get 45 53 people to give $10, we'd be set. If you can only give $1, that still helps us get closer to our goal, and we'd really appreciate it. If you can give more, of course, that is also great. If you can't give anything, a repost on Tumblr or any of your other social media would also be so helpful.
Our pay apps are:
Paypal: nivcharayahel
Venmo: heathmarie31
CashApp: $heathmarie31
Thank you so much for your attention and help!
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Happy 9th Anniversary to Miraculous!
Today is the 9th anniversary of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir!
As an open RP to anyone, I will be roleplaying as my Miraculous muses on my list in both verses: Canon and Rise of the Dark Moth verse
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
Alya Césaire/Rena Rouge
Nino Lahiffe/Carapace
Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth/Betterfly (willing to do canon Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch) (Remorseful Hawk Moth is in the Rise of the Dark Moth verse)
Nathalie Sancouer/Mayura
Felix Fathom/Argos
Kagami Tsurugi/Ryuko
Zoe Lee/Vesperia
Paint le Panda (Miraculous Hero of Imagination)
Tagged by: @hoshi-neko-hikari, @spirits-of-nature16, @bluemajingirl, @x-whiskeylullaby-x, @themultiverseheroines, @forsakenwasp, @keysofthekingdom, @keywcilder, @the-world-hopper, @thepersonaking56
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Are you prepared for St. Crispin's Day at Issac's?
You are not!
So come on down and be overwhelmed like the rest of us, and enjoy a chasm of savings in Issac's Basement!
Issac's basement is a mix of midjourney generated elements and good old fashioned graphic design, photo manipulation, and composition.
The product descriptions were cribbed from a radio ad from that parallel universe were Issac's Basement overtook Radio Shack in 1978, via the ham radio tower in Uncanon Valley.
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Urgent! Please Don't Scroll Past! Mutual Aid Needed to Help Disabled Siblings Relocate to Safe, Stable Housing
[Alt-text: Help Needed to Move to Safety. Our landlord has started eviction, and a friend in another state has offered us a place to live while we get our lives back in order. We need about $1500 to relocate, store our belongings, and get some needed post move items. We're moving to a place where we can better address our medical needs/disabilities, and you can help us! ◼️Give (even small donations help!): Paypal: nivcharayahel Venmo/CA$: heathmarie31 ◼️Post this to your social media to help us spread the word. Thank you for helping us get to a better place!
(Background is an original drawing by Hem (@rivalconga on Twitter): an abstract image in the style of Japanese woodblock printing of swirling ocean waves and fire in green, blue, orange, and red ink on white paper.)]
Our landlord has filed for eviction because we haven't been able to pay rent since July, but a friend from out-of-state has agreed to let us move in with her rent-free for long enough to find work/get on disability/get housing and medical assistance, and otherwise get our lives back in order so we can stop having to survival fundraise. $1500 will pay for a moving truck, travel expenses, a few months storage for our belongings, and for some set-up expenses when we get there (such as OOP medical expenses, a second cell phone, bedding).
We are trying to raise $1495 in 10 days (by the end of September) so we can move out as close as possible to the start of October, before our eviction is finalized. Even small donations can help us toward this goal. Click on the link below to find our payment apps:
You can also help by reblogging this and posting the card above on your other social media platforms. It really does make a difference.
Thank you for your support! It means so much to us!
I will be posting updates more regularly on my Twitter account:
[Image above is a screenshot from my Twitter account. You can go there for the original post/alt-text. I will be posting updates there.]
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