dying synth (175 words)
well, shit. i knew this day would come eventually, and here it is...
the display on my alesis fusion is on the blink. literally; just like my vaio screen did a few days ago, it's started flickering and fuzzing and generally behaving like something's just burned out.
this would be annoying but not fatal in most synths, because most synth have an extensive SysEx implementation that allows them to be more or less completely controlled remotely.
but the fusion does not. they never got that far when they were coding the OS - they got stuck on basic stuff, like keeping audio and MIDI in sync...
so this damn thing, which cost £799 new in 2006 (and had its power supply replaced in 2007, after it decided one day that it really didn't like the mains voltage standards in the UK), is basically going to have to go in the bin because as far as i know it can't be effectively serviced :-(
this is why we don't tend to bother having nice things. eventually they go away.
re: dying synth
the annoying thing is that i was just on the cusp of buying a new synth anyway - a Roland JD-Xi - but the money i would have spent on that instead went on an emergency sojourn in west yorkshire
oh well. i guess instead i'll just load up a PC with all the commercial softsynths i've bought over the years, and make that work
because if the hardware that, say, the Korg Wavestation VST is running on dies, you can just buy a new machine and reinstall. whereas if you have an actual Korg Wavestation and the hardware dies... that's all she wrote.
PROPOSED FROZEN REWRITE: elsa's parents suddenly remember "wait a sec, we're in fantasy 1800-somefuck, ice is a major industry for export! THE KINGDOM IS RICH! WE NOW HAVE AMAZING PROSPERITY!"
the movie is now about anna inventing the air conditioner because she wants to spend more time with her sister instead of elsa going on humanitarian missions to hospitals full of people with fevers.
at some point elsa makes a battleship out of pykrete, and it is fuckin' bitchin' as FUCK.
Why don't we take all the testosterone from the Techbros...
And give it to the Transguys?
I am now being informed that this is of Course glossing over the struggles of our transmasculine brothers but I'm trying to be Funny here.
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Kin stuff
I never really feel the need to get into the kin stuff because for me, it's not some Abstract.
My Housemate is a Titanium Dragon. My Other housemate had a spirit animal given to him during his rite of manhood growing up.
My wife is such a Shiba-inu that it's a running gag.
My girlfriend is a Unicorn, Alicorn, and a Faerie luna moth dragoness depending on the day or how stressed she is.
I had a Panda visit my house and play Mario Kart yesterday.
I have to take this stuff more than Seriously, people keep coming to Kerithe not sure -What- they are. Or they know what they are, but don't really comprehend what that means for them IRL.
So getting into the Spirits in here and where We all came from feels a little self-centered at this point. Keri's more of the mind that being a Faerie Changeling is less a Quirk and more of a Medical Condition. Like being Trans.
I know that probably offended some transfolks, but bear in mind, this is the woman in my head I've had to live with since I was 16. My Dysphoria has a name and Ego all her own to work with.
And yeah, she's some Fae Dragon. Hell, Yaori is a Goodra. Being otherkin is One thing, having a part of your soul announce at 33 years old that she's a Goodra makes everything else seem Normal.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
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