going back to a three-a-week schedule for now! all regulars all the time now, thursdays dedicated to fire emblem, saturdays alternating between code:realize and dark souls, and sundays raising the daughter!
wait, if my schedule is the same every week, is there any use in posting a schedule anymore...?
anyhow! art credit this week goes to yuyuzu!
Watch out, folks, as this catfish has barbells! In a story far, far older than time, Michael Thornbower (28), was looking for the entity of his fever dreams on match.com, and so put up an advert asking for ‘creatures and beings beyond description’ that ‘blasted sanity with their ineffable geometries and incomprehensible forms’.
Soon, he matched with Ystrix’chan’n’n (26,901,000,000~), and fell in love from the first photograph - n’n had posted a flattering picture of fleshy undulations and soul-rasping fractal textures, and promised that n’n was, indeed, as vastly mysterious as the heart of the galaxy.
But when it came time to meet, Michael was quickly disappointed to find his eyes did not melt out of their skull upon a shy glance.
“I mean, it’s clear there’s funky shit going down,” said Micheal to our reporter. “Ystrixchan’n’n’s limbs fold from angles I can’t perceive and n’n’s majestic horns seem to be made entirely of static light, but all n’n’s esoteric violations of the laws universal just don’t drive me scribble warnings of dire portent for my grandchildren to discover.
Ystrix’chan’n’n told our reporter n’n didn’t mean to mislead Micheal, in syllables that could not be heard with the ears but resounded so familiarly in the front part of the skull they were nevertheless understood. N’n had touched the photograph up just a little in photoshop, n’n admitted, but it was still the corporeal part of n’n’s current form! Further, while n’n had promised n’n were the perfect argument against a logically coherent universe, n’n’s only statement about their ability to dement others was the subjective statement that n’n “drove n’n’s ex crazy”.
While Micheal was devastated enough to reach out to our reporters, he and Ystrix’chan’n’n have decided overall to give it a go. “I mean, alright, maybe I haven’t started shrieking feverish prophecies in the night,” explained Micheal. “But, at the risk of sounding shallow… the way bony carapace that houses n’n’s seven spiral tongues seems to blur with the surfaces behind it is just SO hot. Plus, it seems like Ystrix’chan’n’n’s status as part of the surface upon which the universe grew means it’s technically impossible for n’n to lie, so that’s the honesty issue cleared up.”
Ystrix’chan’n’n has also confirmed that Micheal seems like a perfect parent for the memetic seed that will sprout into their joint progeny, and that his rugged jawline also makes n’n weak at no fewer than ten of n’n’s knees.
Let’s wish them luck!
Currently crying about Yoso-Tama-No-Kakehashi, a Japanese guidebook from the 1700s about raising rats. It's the first known rat guidebook in the world :)
They were raised as pets and for show animals, and it's mentioned in the guidebook that "one can call out and rats will come to hand". They were referred to as "nezumi" and it was considered important that they have large cages to live in. There was also a variety of rat that had a fox-like coat!
Rats were domesticated in Japan from the 1600s to the 1800s - it's unknown if any of those domesticated strains are ancestral to the current domestic rats today. They were domesticated again in Europe in the 1800s (initially for much crueler reasons than just for being pets) and I think it's just so sweet that we as humans fell in love with rats so much that we had to domesticate them at least TWICE...
You can download an article about the guidebook here. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/expanim/60/1/60_1_1/_pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioidaLs5z6AhUojIkEHRI1BvEQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw3aarTW0iy1HybCcrxtp4ww
sceada asked:
markrosewater answered:
Okay, how’s this? We have been making female demons for years. Female demons just don’t have human female secondary characteristics. There done. : )
No-one’s asking why most bears are male or most wolves are female in Magic art, because (most) humans can’t tell the difference at a glance, and most human artists wouldn’t care to paint the distinction.
Is it so weird for demons to be any different?
This also means I can waifu Doom Whisperer without threatening my fragile heterosexuality. #winning
Three years later I return to mock old sofacoin for ever thinking he was straight.
As if Capra Demon didn’t make him bite his lip the first play through of Dark Souls…
Because everyone is in lockdown, the wild mountain goats have taken over a town in North Wales.
Llandudno. 30 minutes away by train. Been there maaany times over the years.
Would love to visit now, but…
sceada asked:
markrosewater answered:
Okay, how’s this? We have been making female demons for years. Female demons just don’t have human female secondary characteristics. There done. : )
No-one’s asking why most bears are male or most wolves are female in Magic art, because (most) humans can’t tell the difference at a glance, and most human artists wouldn’t care to paint the distinction.
Is it so weird for demons to be any different?
This also means I can waifu Doom Whisperer without threatening my fragile heterosexuality. #winning
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hhhhh gotta go on stream hiatus again for like 3 weeks starting next week even though i planned on a spooky halloween hhhhh familial obligations hhhhhhhhhhhhhh
in kind of a bad mood about it, wanna play fate/samurai remnant for five hours about it, but don’t know if that’d actually grant me contentment through the act of gradually gitting gud at timing/reflexes, or if it’d just be a distraction that’ll make me feel worse afterwards for missing a stream? hhhh
