GET TO KNOW ME THINGY?
HELLO…! IM CLIFFORD, LIKE THE BIG RED DOG, EXCEPT IM NOT BIG, OR RED, OR A DOG. IM A MEDIUM SIZED BLUE ROBOT.
I LIKE TO COLLECT THINGS SMALL HUMANS THROW AWAY WHEN THEY GET BIG, AND I LIKE TO READ. MY FAVOURITE BOOK IS WATERSHIP DOWN! I ALSO LIKE THE NUMBER FOUR A LOT.
PEOPLE I LIKE…?
MR. BOLT @physically-vampiric-medic - HE LETS ME LIVE IN HIS MEDBAY.
SPYBOT SYS @emotionally-anxious-spybots - SISYPHUS IS A NICE READING BUDDY.
OTTO @physically-robotic-medic - MY COUSIN!!
everything past ‘read more’ is ooc!
Clifford is a soldierbot around the mental ages of 14 to 15. Due to faulty programming, they appear to have the robot equivalent of schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder, which usually presents as them feeling the need to knock on their helmet exactly four times, or hearing people call their name when nobody’s around, among other things.
Clifford goes by exclusively they/them, no exceptions.
#is what you yes? - talking tag
#stranger at the mailbox - ask tag
#recovered items - reblog tag
#gift for clifford - things made for clifford
#scarf for two - reblog chains/rps
thank you cafekitsune for the dividers!
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Core Gems
So when a ghost becomes injured, they have a last ditch defense where they retreat into their core. And I mean, injured badly where their body is rip apart to the point they can’t hold a solid form anymore. And they basically go into a hibernation state until they are strong enough to form again.
Ellie, Danny, and Dan are all injured in a final battle against the GIW. The organization was destroyed and the ghosts were safe but the halfas ended up being so injured that they reverted to core form and then went to sleep for a bit. When they woke up, they were still weak but at least recovered enough to gain consciousness. And realize…they are in some kind of auction…in the middle of a heist. It appeared that two furries (one in a bat costume and one in a cat costume) were ducking it out. And they…they were a necklace. All three of them had been turned into a necklace with their cores as gems accompanied by sapphires, pearls, and opals. And frankly gorgeous craftsmanship as the metal was crafted around their cores as if to cradle them and the other gems.
Unfortunately, they were too weak to take a form properly, they could still feel the strain on their bodies. But at least they could still communicate through their auras. Then the cat lady punched a hole in the glass container surrounding them and grabbed their necklace.
However, the bat grabbed the other end and it resulted in a sort of tug-a-war. Meanwhile, Danny, Ellie, and Dan were having a back and form commentary on the situation and what they should do. Completely unheard by the other party.
In the corner of their eye, the three halfas finally noticed a third contender. Some kind of clown who was…hold on…holding a gun?! And it was pointed straight at the two fighting furies who had yet to notice him. The ghosts’ protective instincts went into overdrive and they frantically tried to shout, yell, move. Just do something to warn the two but their cries fell on deaf ears. All they succeeded in doing was faintly glow which immediatly caught the attention of the fighting duo. The two turned to look at the strange necklace but right at that moment, the clown fired and a gunshot rang throughout the auction room. Having no other options, Danny and the others poured every ounce of ectoplasm they had to try and phaseshift, making the two furries intangible as the bullets passed right through them, but in their shock, the two jumped away in opposite directions and accidentally ripped the necklace apart. Gems and pearls went flying and the three cores bounced along the ground.
Luckily, the two finally noticed the clown and went to deal with him and his minions who had appeared. Seemingly putting their fight on hold and forming a temporary truce. The three halfas could only watch as the battle finally wound down, ending with the cops barging into the place and arresting the clown and his grunts, the cat managing to escape with half the scattered gems and pearls from the broken necklace along with a few other jewelry pieces (none of their cores though) and the bat leaving through a skylight.
The auction continued and in the end, despite being broken, their necklace seemed to have caught someone’s interest. A man named Bruce Wayne bought up every piece of the shattered jewelry wear. The auctioneers appeared relived that the item managed to sell in the end and gratefully gave it to him.
Bruce had no idea what happened at the auction, but he could have sworn that some of the gems faintly glowed right before he and Selina were shot. If the necklace was some sort of magical item, then he needed to understand exactly what has been brought to Gotham. It was unfortunate that Selena had taken some parts of the necklace but he utilized his vast wealth to make sure all the other parts ended in his possession. Now he would take them back to the mansion for examination.
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going to the supermarket during lunch for a few ingredience (i typed this wholeheartedly thinking it was correct because i accidentally internalized it as the correct spelling of 'ingredients'), getting Annoyed by the amount of people that are in the supermarket and then having the very hypocritical thought of "why aren't you people at work"
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Thinking about a human who likes to grow plants and make tea from them, completely handmade, suddenly getting an influx of Vulcan customers wanting to experience nonreplicated tea from their home after Vulcan was destroyed
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82 keys... 82 bloody keys. I only wished for the wand, but of course I had to get everything BUT that.
It lead to a series of unfortunate decisions that I admit to, but hey, I got the wand in the end and wand pretty.
Doesn't mean I'll forget the frustration I felt for rolling 82 TIMES just to get it, Mr. Puppet
There goes my weekly savings, thanks a lot you annoying piece of useless kindling...
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July 10, 2024
By Tim Grieving
Before John Williams believed in himself as a conductor, the general manager of the Los Angeles Philharmonic believed in him.
Ernest Fleischmann was a savvy and powerful impresario, born in Germany in 1924, raised in South Africa to escape the Nazis, a frustrated conductor and journalist who managed the London Symphony Orchestra for eight years and ran the European classical division of CBS Records before coming to Los Angeles in 1969 and transforming a “provincial second-rank orchestra,” as L.A. Times critic Mark Swed wrote, “into one of the world’s best.”...
... When Fleischmann saw Star Wars with his kids on opening weekend in the summer of 1977, he thought to himself: God, this score! “It’s really the score and the sound effects that have made that movie what it was,” he later said. “It was almost Wagnerian.” The LA Phil was scheduled to tour Japan that fall, but the tour was canceled at the last minute when the promoter went bankrupt. With his orchestra suddenly freed up, and Star Wars totally consuming the culture, Fleischmann saw a plum opportunity; he paid a visit to John Williams’ Brentwood home and asked the composer if the LA Phil could perform music from Star Wars in a concert of space-themed music. Williams said “Fantastic,” and created a special 28-minute suite from his already super-famous, record-breaking score.
The resulting concert on November 20th, 1977 at the Hollywood Bowl—the iconic outdoor summer home of the LA Phil—was a galactic party designed for young families, complete with a laser light show and readings by William Shatner. The sold-out audience went crazy for it, but the event also highlighted the deep tension between anointed priests of “high culture” and the hoi polloi. “We were criticized very heavily,” recalled Zubin Mehta, the LA Phil’s music director who conducted that night. “Our critics and colleagues said that we had sold our souls to Hollywood. It was really a children’s concert.” The grumpy L.A. Times critic Martin Bernheimer called it “artistic prostitution.”
Fleischmann didn’t care. He had the LA Phil repeat the “Music from Outer Space” program at the California Angels’ baseball stadium in nearby Anaheim, and he commissioned an album of the Star Wars suite and Williams’ new Close Encounters suite, recorded at UCLA’s Royce Hall in December 1977 by Mehta and the orchestra. According to veteran classical music broadcaster Jim Svejda, it was the first time a major American orchestra treated film music “in a very serious way. I think it made a very dramatic statement.”
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sorry shadowheart but your goddess won't let me put these orbs on her altar even though you keep telling me to and i want to progress this quest but it's glitched so that's why i sent you back to camp and took wyll out to run around the forest because i was sick of being underground in the dark and also i'm hoping the bug will fix itself because astarion is so down bad and we need to kick cazador's ass to give him his good ending
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