Random Rumble

Sakura Matcha Kit Kat chocolate is so delicious.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r522y/episodes/guide

The last episode only has 4 days left! Go listen to it before it expires!

All episodes are available to catch up on demand until 29 March 2013 (UK time).

http://www.viruscomix.com/defocusandsee.html

Go check that page out.

tw: gender issues, tw: picturing the two genders as mostly identical only with a fringe of difference

(I love Virus Comix's Subnormality!)

...Not sure if ship <> or <3. Technically it should be bromance seeing that's the entire premise and theme, but I kind of see <> in them and recently they look like <3 I don't even know. They remind me of my ocs Felix and Joel. I miss them. How many abandoned projects do I even have?

Theodore can be such a vicious guy. Wow. Vincent is... I don't know, I can only say poor guy. Their relationship remind me of friendships I've had during highschool, except that no one was a cute innocent jock in our case, and hopefully no one as vicious as Theo can be.

But Theo is a Beware the Nice One type, thankfully.

Just downloaded the demo. I wanted to look at some spoilers first to take off the edges of getting feels over birds, but I just happened to read a segment that was like a stab to the heart.

It's actually Hurtful Holiday Star, right?

I never knew a bird yaoi visual novel could pack such heaviness to it. BIRD YAOI VISUAL NOVEL. With side interspecies het romance between a human girl and male birds, but it's pale rom and the heavier romance is still yaoi between birds. And there's this art shift painful whatisiteven parts with watercolor like a children's book illustrations and then turns into something that's almost like Puella Magi Madoka Magika witch fields. Who even wrote its plot. Hat off to you. Or crest feathers to you, whatever.

Japan, what the heck?

Edit: Also Famous Writer's logo is an albino axolotl? Hmm.

Edit 2: Got chased off computer before I could go far. I was tempted to name my main character Karkat Vantas, but decided to use a random name instead. I'll finish the game while sniffing my bird's feathers tomorrow, it'll be a fuller experience?

Edit 3: Playing it now... why is the only male pigeon in Pretty Coore team the one wearing pink hearts?! Coore Grey is a dude pigeon?! The Coore Light and Dark Grey are female or are they mutations?! Are we have story-in-story crossdressing magical pigeon?!

Edit 4: Now even the math teacher is a magical crossdresser?!

Edit 5: Whaaaaaaaaaaaat theeeeeeeeeeeeeee feaaaaaatheeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrs

Edit 6: That was glorious. I should buy the full copy.

Karkat(bromance)Dave is something I have not expected in canon. Wow.

BRB shipping them pale.

Still watching, not done yet.

Genius Party and Genius Party Beyond are two anthologies of animation by Studio 4°C. The styles of art is very far from the mainstream Japanese animation and may look like Belgium animation or other. And it does look like Belgium/French/Canadian art animation in term of psychedelism, too. Very, very surreal and saturated with dream logic. Very fluid, high quality animation too. And nigh incomprehensible.

The opening animation is Genius Party, which tells the story of an artificially bird-like creature running through a field filled with spherical stone creatures with face and a cross on top of the head where a heart may come out. A stone sphere is in love with a electric blue glowing neuron and showing a heart, which the bird plucks out and eat, gaining wings to fly before eating the now floating glowing neuron too, turning the bird into a shooting star. The stone creatures all show heart at the shooting star, except the stone who got its heart plucked, who tried to show another pink heart by can only give out stone hearts that turn into more stone creatures. One stone creature grows a heart so big it starts to cry stone tears from its eye holes and the heart flies away, which it chases and swallows back in, and gel-like blue plasma comes out from its eye holes and grows into a huge bird-like being, and all other stone creatures show hearts as if in applaud, and the bird-like being electrifies all the hearts and the camera zooms out to show a brain. And the brain turns out to be a film projector.

The last animation from Beyond is Dimension Bomb, but I failed to find the bomb anywhere. There was a concept art where the boy was holding something in a cylinder that was probably the bomb in question, but it did not show up in the animation. I have know idea what the plot is or what happened. Some say that it's about a boy who got rejected by the girl he loves and the entire movie is an allegory of his feelings and memories, which kind of makes sense, but I don't know, it also looks more complicated than that. If anything, the movie did bomb the audience's mind into oblivion.

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=28606702

Very random but I want to leave the link here because N has excellent child-bearing hips here and I don't want to lose this on tumblr.

Now that we are seeing her... I should be happy, but she sounds so different, I don't know what to feel. It's probably because she's matured emotionally since we last saw her, but still. She's so patient now. When did this happen? I feel like I've missed a big chunk of her story there.