clinging to dread
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yamamanama12 hours and 34 minutes until the vernal equinox
Christine was talking about an equinox party. I swear, the closer I get to the equinox, the less I look forward to it. I don't think anything is capable of breaking my spirits more than the first half of spring.
Okay, there's a preview of Aff's Diary: Blessed Hope now. The world is inhabited by three races: Tzaro, which are "graceful and pale and have pointed leaf-shaped ears and are highly philosophical and spiritual and revere life and never hunt or harvest more than they need," or, in other words, elves. In the story I read, which is gone because I don't think the guy who ran the forums realized that one could update the forums without baleeting everything and has characters from a tiny isolated ass end of nowhere village named Steven (Greek), Kevin (Irish), and Joma (fantasy name), the Tzaro come off as boring, petty, and generally unbearable. Szari have grey skins and have the grace and build of predators, whatever that means. I assume that the Szari is named Aff, which is short for Affirmative and also is not even a name. Humans have short lifespans and breed like humans. The Szari tried to kill them but then Tzaro fought against them. And they nearly wiped out the humans 20 years before the story is set. And that's the exposition.
Most of the trees are bare and most of leaves on the ground are oak, so I'm having a very hard time imagining this.
Seda's Story was translated into Dutch. Some dumb V MOTHERFUCKIN D story was translated into Indonesian and Michael suspects it is in fact a manual on what not to write to be given to Borneo orangutans.
Some characters from something Michael and a friend did once, which were mostly Amazon warriors, had mostly Greek names aside from a specifically foreign character and Cassidy and Shannon, which were names picked early on and they can't ever imagine changing them.
Michael wants to read a story in which an ancient evil shows up and is swiftly defeated by modern technology.
Nicolae Ceaușescu supposedly once named a dog colonel of the Romanian Army. I can't decide if he's a modern day Caligula or a modern day Commodus (Michael says that Gladiator would be a better movie if it were an hour shorter and if Commodus died the way he died in real life: strangled by a wrestler while taking a bath).
If Hungary switched sides but Romania didn't, I could imagine Hungary getting Transylvania back and Ceaușescu invading and getting deposed that way. Apparently what happened is some soldiers disobeyed their orders to shoot some protestors so the secret police had them killed.
I have no idea who Hitler thought would run Romania if Operation Margrethe II was a success. I thought of Codreanu but he was at odds with Carol II and Ion Antonescu and apparently shot while trying to escape prison and then dissolved in acid and buried under concrete.
Hungary bordered Nazi Germany, while Romania and Bulgaria were cut off, so this is a really big if.
We have a vet from Romania staying at the wildlife center. Her name is probably Corina. The constellation and possibly the Romanian word for the keel of a ship is Carena.
I'm not complaining about Freedom House's treatment of Asian and African countries, I'm complaining about how generous they are with countries like Poland (1,2), Hungary (3, 2), Czech Republic (1,1), Slovakia (1,1), France (1,2), Israel (1,3*), India (2,3), Philippines (3,3), et al, that have reverted or are currently reverting to authoritarianism. There are economic freedom indicies that rank Singapore as one of the most free country in the world. Denmark, the country that confiscates valuables from refugees and punish crimes committed within their ghettoes more harshly, has a 1,1. Japan has a 1,1. Singapore has 4,4. Sri Lanka has 3,4. A few years back, Zimbabwe was somehow considered partly free.
Michael understands Myanmar having a 5 for political and civil liberties if it's one out of five but since it's not, bring on the lucky sevens.
Maybe they could distinguish between liberalism, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism. I also think that refugees and exiles are going to answer differently from citizens.
For now, I think that we're doing a lot better on the civil liberties front than we are on the political liberties front. Freedom House of course says otherwise, but whatever. We're going to be reeling from Trump's supreme court picks for years to come.
The music player on Myspace stopped working some time between May 28, 2015 and a few weeks ago. I read somewhere that they updated to html5. It's really a shame, because I found a band affiliated with Opium Den and they have a song called Venus in Pisces and now it's hermetically sealed away until we can buy Myspace for ourselves.
Michael compared the current state of Myspace to the time Bart bought an abandoned factory at auction for a buck and played around with it.
We're 0 for 5 with murres.
There was yellow something crusted over things in the Super-Quiet room and we decided that it's easier to go in and out rather than moving the sora.
Christine says "you got to meet me, which is better than money."
Erica has green and blue hair and is of the sign of the Death Seraph.
Christine was eating chicken phở from Phở and I and she said that when she went, she didn't look at the menu. She says she only eats animals she doesn't like. Once a group of turkeys chased her. She says "I would eat squids because they're untrustworthy."
Bella was reading some children's book to Tilly and Cleo, while Christine watched.
I don't know what book it is. It was very orange and had giraffes on stage and an elephant in the audience. They also like music. Cockatoos are one of the few animals that understand beat and rhythm. Christine tried to guess what the other one is and was like "I'm going to say bears." The others include humans and Asian elephants, which also pass the mirror test. There's one cockatoo that will shape drumsticks and beat on trees. That's your fun fact for the day in Rob's absence.
Primrose says it's really hard to take pictures of squirming babies
Emily says "Tell them to sit still."
Burning Question: I think we should buy Myspace. Who's with me?
Christine was talking about an equinox party. I swear, the closer I get to the equinox, the less I look forward to it. I don't think anything is capable of breaking my spirits more than the first half of spring.
Okay, there's a preview of Aff's Diary: Blessed Hope now. The world is inhabited by three races: Tzaro, which are "graceful and pale and have pointed leaf-shaped ears and are highly philosophical and spiritual and revere life and never hunt or harvest more than they need," or, in other words, elves. In the story I read, which is gone because I don't think the guy who ran the forums realized that one could update the forums without baleeting everything and has characters from a tiny isolated ass end of nowhere village named Steven (Greek), Kevin (Irish), and Joma (fantasy name), the Tzaro come off as boring, petty, and generally unbearable. Szari have grey skins and have the grace and build of predators, whatever that means. I assume that the Szari is named Aff, which is short for Affirmative and also is not even a name. Humans have short lifespans and breed like humans. The Szari tried to kill them but then Tzaro fought against them. And they nearly wiped out the humans 20 years before the story is set. And that's the exposition.
Most of the trees are bare and most of leaves on the ground are oak, so I'm having a very hard time imagining this.
Seda's Story was translated into Dutch. Some dumb V MOTHERFUCKIN D story was translated into Indonesian and Michael suspects it is in fact a manual on what not to write to be given to Borneo orangutans.
Some characters from something Michael and a friend did once, which were mostly Amazon warriors, had mostly Greek names aside from a specifically foreign character and Cassidy and Shannon, which were names picked early on and they can't ever imagine changing them.
Michael wants to read a story in which an ancient evil shows up and is swiftly defeated by modern technology.
Nicolae Ceaușescu supposedly once named a dog colonel of the Romanian Army. I can't decide if he's a modern day Caligula or a modern day Commodus (Michael says that Gladiator would be a better movie if it were an hour shorter and if Commodus died the way he died in real life: strangled by a wrestler while taking a bath).
If Hungary switched sides but Romania didn't, I could imagine Hungary getting Transylvania back and Ceaușescu invading and getting deposed that way. Apparently what happened is some soldiers disobeyed their orders to shoot some protestors so the secret police had them killed.
I have no idea who Hitler thought would run Romania if Operation Margrethe II was a success. I thought of Codreanu but he was at odds with Carol II and Ion Antonescu and apparently shot while trying to escape prison and then dissolved in acid and buried under concrete.
Hungary bordered Nazi Germany, while Romania and Bulgaria were cut off, so this is a really big if.
We have a vet from Romania staying at the wildlife center. Her name is probably Corina. The constellation and possibly the Romanian word for the keel of a ship is Carena.
I'm not complaining about Freedom House's treatment of Asian and African countries, I'm complaining about how generous they are with countries like Poland (1,2), Hungary (3, 2), Czech Republic (1,1), Slovakia (1,1), France (1,2), Israel (1,3*), India (2,3), Philippines (3,3), et al, that have reverted or are currently reverting to authoritarianism. There are economic freedom indicies that rank Singapore as one of the most free country in the world. Denmark, the country that confiscates valuables from refugees and punish crimes committed within their ghettoes more harshly, has a 1,1. Japan has a 1,1. Singapore has 4,4. Sri Lanka has 3,4. A few years back, Zimbabwe was somehow considered partly free.
Michael understands Myanmar having a 5 for political and civil liberties if it's one out of five but since it's not, bring on the lucky sevens.
Maybe they could distinguish between liberalism, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism. I also think that refugees and exiles are going to answer differently from citizens.
For now, I think that we're doing a lot better on the civil liberties front than we are on the political liberties front. Freedom House of course says otherwise, but whatever. We're going to be reeling from Trump's supreme court picks for years to come.
The music player on Myspace stopped working some time between May 28, 2015 and a few weeks ago. I read somewhere that they updated to html5. It's really a shame, because I found a band affiliated with Opium Den and they have a song called Venus in Pisces and now it's hermetically sealed away until we can buy Myspace for ourselves.
Michael compared the current state of Myspace to the time Bart bought an abandoned factory at auction for a buck and played around with it.
We're 0 for 5 with murres.
There was yellow something crusted over things in the Super-Quiet room and we decided that it's easier to go in and out rather than moving the sora.
Christine says "you got to meet me, which is better than money."
Erica has green and blue hair and is of the sign of the Death Seraph.
Christine was eating chicken phở from Phở and I and she said that when she went, she didn't look at the menu. She says she only eats animals she doesn't like. Once a group of turkeys chased her. She says "I would eat squids because they're untrustworthy."
Bella was reading some children's book to Tilly and Cleo, while Christine watched.
I don't know what book it is. It was very orange and had giraffes on stage and an elephant in the audience. They also like music. Cockatoos are one of the few animals that understand beat and rhythm. Christine tried to guess what the other one is and was like "I'm going to say bears." The others include humans and Asian elephants, which also pass the mirror test. There's one cockatoo that will shape drumsticks and beat on trees. That's your fun fact for the day in Rob's absence.
Primrose says it's really hard to take pictures of squirming babies
Emily says "Tell them to sit still."
Burning Question: I think we should buy Myspace. Who's with me?
