green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

like the CN says, sometimes I'd swear my dreams are drop-casting me into some poor schmuck's nightmares. probably not the same person every time. this one was... I was half-lucid, aware that I could control the dream but not quite aware that it was a dream, and I was... cruel to a family whose home I invaded. :| I don't know which one of them was the protagonist in the dream, though I can guess.

I wish I was better at art... grrargh.

alternately: Darth Deinonychus. yesssssssssss

dear whoever got me as a secret sneepsnop giver: I'm sorry about all this. :/

but hey, now you know--find/draw me a good picture of an anodized titanium-feathered deinonychus kill-bot with glowing green eyes, and you'll have my eternal gratitude.

*goes in search of such a picture or possibly somebody to commission it from*

(or more accurately ripping people apart with cybernetically-enhanced deinonychuses; same effect, different delivery mechanism)

sorry folks I've gone over to the Dark Side today. it's all rage, hate, and killing people with lightsabers in here now.

so now Spouse (who has listened to a chapter and a half of the audiobook of RPO) is being dismissive of me listening to this podcast instead of "reading it first-hand." ALL FUCKING RIGHT THEN. >:| saddle up, folks...

ANYWAY. uuuuugh okay now I understand why people hate Ready Player One. unfortunately Spielberg will almost certainly produce a perfectly palatable Extruded Media Product out of this material and everybody involved will make a lot of money. UUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHH

and evidently that's it. this is a fantasy world created so that rote memorization of geek-popular properties will win you ACTUAL SOCIAL STATUS AND MONEY. and I just. I'm starting to *really hate* this whole concept.

for a while I had a housemate (this is part of why these memories are so fucking cringingly terrible) who continued to believe this well into his forties, but unfortunately he kept GETTING THE LINES WRONG. like "look how awesome I am, I can quote demi-relevant chunks from MPatHG!" and I'm gritting my teeth "NO YOU HAVE GOTTEN THAT DIALOGUE WRONG IN FACT, SHUT UP SHUT UP I HATE YOU"

I am *frankly shocked* that Monty Python has not come up at all, or at least they haven't mentioned it, because I KNEW PEOPLE (multiple people) who thought the fucking ~height of social discourse and wit~ was *equivalent* to being able to quote large chunks of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (for some reason "Life of Brian" and "Meaning of Life" were never as popular).

they got to the part where the MC has to... quote the entirety of War Games, and the value that's attributed to this, and they make the aside that "hey remember in grade school, how you could be the *funniest kid* by being able to quote from "The Mask" or whatever the funny movie/comedian du jour was?" and I'm like YEP. YEP, THERE'S YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE.

okay, I have stayed up quite a bit past my bedtime listening to http://372pages.com/, giggling a lot, and being given some excellent reasons why "Ready Player One" is... prrrroooobably not going to be "my thing," TO PUT IT VERY, VERY MILDLY.

it is now time for me to sleep dammit! so awrrroooo my dears, dream well and wake to a better day. <3

... no really I'm going away now for a while bye

basically I want to see MORE MEDIA PRODUCERS TAKING GODDAMN RISKS WITH MEDIA because again, it doesn't always work, but when it does it's FANTASTIC. otherwise, you just get... more procedurally generated Media Product (TM) (R) (C)Disney