Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Soreth Soreth, honey...?

_I'm_ mostly kelp. 🙄​

bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored

Huh. For a William Street production, DreamCorp LLC is turning out to be... kind of moving in places? They at least seem to be taking the "psychedelic" part of the show dead-seriously now and then. And some of the bizarre things they consider "therapy"... don't sound half bad, honestly.

The last couple episodes were flat-out heartwarming. Not what I was expecting at all. The Waking Life influences aren't just in the animation-- in fact, this show is kinda like Waking Life with the stick pulled out of its ass. :p

Still not 100% sold on the humor, but I'm starting to think this is an underrated show.

@LeDiva *peeks inside Peggy's ear with an otoscope and counts out all 10*

Yup, ours are fine!

@Trouffee@mastodon.social @emanate @Oneironott

*mouths "is useful" and glowers at the moogle* :)

@anthracite and I discussed a major style goal for Parallax:

It's 198X. It's two in the afternoon. You're 15. You're home sick with a nasty flu, so you can see all the TV that airs when you're normally in school.

You see an episode of an anime. You're sure you've seen this series before-- specifically the _last_ time you were sick. It's science fiction, but nothing special as far as you remember. Giant robots or something?

But this time there's psychic powers and space elves and soul-eating butterflies and two girls kissing. It's nothing like what you saw last time, not that you're sure that wasn't a fever dream too.

And it's not until decades later that you have any context for any of this-- let alone understand that it was like six different series patched together by someone who didn't speak the original language.

In the meantime, it just sits there kind of... fermenting, and the things you could've sworn you saw completely overgrow the parts you didn't see. They take on strange, grotesque proportions and tickle parts of your brain that you didn't know were there.

We want Parallax to be nothing *but* those moments. Just five or six bite-sized adventures, set in a world that changes radically every time you look away.

@emanate @Oneironott See, I don't remember that one but Theeka remembers it vividly. **BLUSH**

@Oneironott I probably haven't heard these stories! Remember, I wasn't necessarily around for a lot of what happened to me in those days. =@_~=

@Oneironott Goodness, do I wish you'd been around in the old days, when my brain was less ossified! *_*

@001zlnv @anthracite You're half right. O:)

any day where anthracite is laughing madly at her own parallax designs is a good day =^__^=

@Balina @Oneironott This is one of my custom settings... *blushes at name*

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/custom.php?l=5948603635205260504400&m=ISOCHRONIC1~ISOCHRONIC2~AEOLIAN3~TRANSISTOR4~TRANSISTOR5~FACTORY6~CODEBREAKER8~AEOLIAN8~CODEBREAKER9~FACTORY9&d=0&title=balloonhead%20factory

The amount of effort the guy puts into his site is unbelievable. Just love all its little quirks, it's one of my favorite places on the web.

@Phorm Phorm, *this* is the closest thing you have to an irksome habit as far as I'm concerned, and it's really only every that tiny bit irksome because I won't stand for anyone, including Phorm, talking shit about Phorm. Fortunately for her, if anyone can get away with it, it's Phorm. ❤️​

I love you, darlin', but you've been doing this since the day I met you, when you COULD NOT BE PERSUADED I wasn't furious at you for that _exquisitely_ accurate satire of the D-Scream. I liked you then and I like you now.

As for the "obsession," this is a place for obsessions. Cripes, I was more worried that *you* felt obliged to perform for *us*! As a general rule, I can't speak for anyone else (though I suspect I do), but... I don't _want_ you to turn yourself down, luv. *cheerful hugs*

​*chews on your monitor bezel from the inside, presses her big stupid stripey snoot against the glass, and licks your screen from behind*

@Balina I love mynoise! I like the Saturn Rings station. n.n;

Huh. Had that neat thing where the people behind two bits of previously unrelated nostalgia turn out to be the same person.

In this case, it was a familiar song from the Dr. Demento radio show ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhjOpm-KL-A ), and one from the soundtrack of Robert Altman's Short Cuts, which I saw during a really life-changing film class ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t927IWcIBs8 ).

Both Annie Ross, apparently. Neat.

@Leucrotta Oh, be warned, Kafferep is just their general cookie brand, apparently-- I think what you're looking at are just separate oat biscuits, because I made the exact same mistake. :)

They're also apparently known as a 150-ohmer which is charming as fuck and just makes me think of @acetone_kitten and @Momentrabbit for some reason. :)

@Leucrotta As far as I can tell, they're also known as punsch-rolls, dammsugare, arraksrulle, mergpijpje, or Træstamme. They might be slightly different recipes, though? You might be able to find something similar from another manufacturer if Ikea doesn't do them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punsch-roll

@Leucrotta Something like these? https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/food-beverages/pastries-desserts-cookies/kafferep-pastry-with-almond-paste-art-90389671/

I say completely without irony that I'm so delighted to be bored in Seattle again. :)

Being bored in Ohio was actually rather nice in a lot of ways. And being entertained in Seattle, at Glowtide, was also very nice.

It's also nice to have things back to normal, though. Anthracite's napping, I've got an MST3K on in the background, and I'm just doing my dayjob. We're even on the "easy" cycle of my job, so it's going fast and everything's pretty chill.

Nearly perfect, 4/5. If I hadn't forgotten to buy chicken broth earlier, I'd have tortilla soup and a 5/5.