#spectershaped

[ponett]

Was "There is a dog. The dog cannot talk." a deliberate shriekcast shout out. cuz it made me lose my mind. Your writing rules

i'm glad that didn't go unappreciated :-)

[sleepdepravity]

Oh, i feel the same (from what i’ve seen so far) and i guess in this hypothetical, while you could sort of touch on these qualities in the one chapter that he’d be alive, you wouldnt really get the deep character development that (i assume) will come (at most its something like a realization he can have thanks to kaede that will be a bittersweet conclusion to his life). But sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the sake of playing a spunky lesbian piano girl

[mistytpednaem]

Any David Cage game of your choice

jesus christ jumping straight to nightmare mode huh. okay

GOD THIS IS HARD i just keep thinking of like. aspects of his games that work in spite of him, or things that have nothing to do with his involvement. uhhhhh

I guess... for all of Omikron's many, many, many, many flaws, no one can argue that the concept and the worldbuilding weren't fascinating. I do have the vague notion that ambitious PC games with esoteric settings were more common back when the game came out, but even so, that's still one of the things that stand out to me about Omikron. I definitely don't think it's weird that David Bowie's interest was piqued.

[k25ff]

I've touched on something similar before, but I was rereading some of the old geneverse power request flash-fics and I think the whole concept of powers not being sentient per se but "urging" their usage and also affecting the very way coldlit people perceive the world is kind of fascinating as a fantastical, cosmic horror-flavored reflection of the ways power, access, influence, etc and also technology shape and contour the way people behave (cont.)

(cont.) in ways that are insidiously subtle and all the more dangerous for it, the way these various things kind of *itch* to be employed like a restless new limb, for better or worse. You can see that idea in all sorts of discussions, about capital and politics and war and fame and prestige and empire and hierarchies and so forth... I don't know whether the intent was there but I think that's a really neat detail in the Geneverse setup!

What a good piece of analysis! [Nods sagely] Sometimes, tools make things better, but sometimes they make things worse.

Less glibly, I rarely go into a piece of writing saying "this is a metaphor for [X]" (I find doing so uninteresting, at least for my own writing process), but metaphors and analogies do often emerge, don't they?

I spoke back here about Tool Use and Powers and Tools With Personalities. Do powers in the Geneverse want to be used? Can they 'want', in a way that means anything to the way human minds work? Do they think?

These are the sorts of in-universe questions that keep researchers on superhumans up at night.

[evegwood]

I see, thanks again! Honestly I'm just hankering to see some Pauli Tunes at some point if only because Something about her as a character eludes me in a way that leaves me very intrigued and fascinated, hohoh. I think the abstract nature of many song lyrics is a great way to Imply something through their use but accidentally spoiling something is always a risk, so I getcha! Have a good one, chief! o7

As a special treat here are a bunch of Paulina songs!!

Landscape (Demo) by Florence + the Machine [link]

Cause she's just like the weather Can't hold her together Borne from dark water Daughter of the rain and snow

Control by Halsey [link]

I'm bigger than my body I'm colder than this home I'm meaner than my demons I'm bigger than these bones

Monument by Röyksopp & Robyn [link]

This will be my monument This will be a beacon when I'm gone Soon when that moment comes, I can say I did it all with love

Baptism by Crystal Castles [link]

This is your baptism And you can't forgive 'em

Play With Fire by The Birthday Massacre [link]

And every night The red light Will burn like your eyes Our time is never Cause we'll live forever

Destroy Everything You Touch by Ladytron [link]

What you touch you don't feel Do not know what you steal Destroy everything you touch today Please destroy me this way

Lyndia by General Ghost [link]

They gathered sticks from the woods and started a fire Not a question of whether they should condemn the outsider Your superstition has made up its mind Tied to the stake is a clean sacrifice

You'll Find a Way (Switch & Sinden Remix) by Santigold [link]

Don't reach too far You will fall over Don't be surprised what you discover Don't fear your call Can't pull us under You better watch out, run for cover

Signal 30 by Public Service Broadcasting [link]

You're driving a little too fast and have a false sense of confidence Watch it

Guillotine by YADi [link]

I don't need blue blood running through my veins Because like a queen, like a queen I can make you say you love me

I Go Hard, I Go Home by The Presets [link]

Forget about the things you want Forget about your hopes and dreams Focus on the here and now Just think who we could have been

Choke by I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME [link]

Now shut your dirty mouth If I could burn this town I wouldn't hesitate To smile while you suffocate and die And that would be just fine

this is about half the playlist but i think the vibe comes across haha. enjoy!!

[spectershaped]

They say, around the stables, that tumblr user spectershaped has started watching The Venture Bros... And that he says he'll get around to finally reading Rice Boy any day now, but who knows, him being him...

[asktehkoopz]

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[joviantwelve]

@spectershaped replied to your post “oh yeah, what was that uh- i think stella was in...”:

Do you still have the songlists you made for that one? I remember they had some real bangers there

when Playmoss stopped being useful I took screens of everything as backup.  I don’t have these back up in a listenable sense, but the lists are at least still there.  here’s an Imgur album of them, with covers to help distinguish them.

...for story reference, ch. 6 was when The Twist was planned to be revealed.

[pastcastles-blog]

          @spectershape !!

                         KNOCKING on locked castle door, rosie finds sleepy lilt of clinking glasses disturbed ‘pon the sound, apron is already discarded over the counter, ginger locks half-fallen from pins that dig into her skull, the click of the lock is quiet, door opens an inch, rosie’s voice begins on a harsh note, “we’re CLOSED--” but pause comes quickly, features are recognised and door opens further, “john? are you alright?” she steps aside, a silent invitation for him to come in, “...why are you calling so late?”

[thehappinessmachine]

Joe Verger

[sleepdepravity]

I feel obligated to tell you that I've been reading Astro City and one character makes a reference to a fictional Inherit the Wind musical and it immediately reminded me of your forays into musical history

Ehehe, glad to be The Musical Person for you. But huh, is there a particular reason they chose “inherit the wind” I wonder? It seems like an odd thing to make up, in terms of. Well, okay, I don’t know how deep a cut inherit the wind is, but it seems weirdly specific. If they wanted to reference like a musical that has to do with courtrooms, then I guess there’s not a lot to choose from…Legally Blonde does, of course, and so does Wind in the Willow, Something Rotten…I think Pippin has one, maybe? And the toy trial in Mary Poppins probably counts. But I guess all of those are all very much not serious. Do you think it’s like a throwaway gag, as in the idea of a musical adaptation of such a source material is the joke? Or is it something that somehow relates the themes of the comic, or both?

[k25ff]

I was browsing some old stuff and. how did I never realize that Forest *Viewer*'s initials are "I.C.". God dammit.

Want to know a secret?

I didn't realise that either.

[sleepdepravity]

Did you know there is a Perry Mason episode called The Case of the Drowning Duck. Don't worry, the duck lives, it's just that mean party trick of de-oiling its feathers. Also the duck has basically no bearing on the actual case. But it did make me think of you

I didn’t know, I’ve never watched perry mason, but I’m so glad the duck lived. I hope the duck sues whoever did that to its feathers. I hope perry was the attorney.

I did read this ask when I woke up in the middle of the night and I think when i fell asleep again soon after I had a dream about ducks. There were ducklings. There was a significant segment with a lot of tension where I feared one of the ducklings drowned and the mother duck was so sad and worried and I was sad too but it turned out fine the duckling survived

[mistytpednaem]

86!

... oh goddammit

look. look sometimes i'm not paying attention to what i'm listening to

[sleepdepravity]

Actually it's funny we're having this back and forth because a friend of mine saud yesterday that the whole of umineko is basically a vriska containment thread and I lost it

yeah. it really is honestly literally that.

[sleepdepravity]

:V