Random Rumble

I'm having this intense craving for ancient-tasting stories and it doesn't seem to stop, even though it should stop soon. I thought I ate enough stories last night, but it wasn't enough. Not "pure" enough, whatever this feel is. A better wording might be not "chaotic" enough, but that's not the exact word either.

Basically, the old thing about how it's often order vs. chaos and/or passive vs. active in ancients stories rather than good vs. bad. How the Ashura and the Devas are considered good or bad depending who you ask. How the Aesir and Vanir fought and united and how the Aesir-Vanir alliance fought with the Jotun. The Titans vs. the monsters. The primordial ice vs. the primordial fire. The chaos, then sky and earth. The primordial giant, killed or died of whatever and body was used to create the mortal world. The eating of humans by gods and demons, both the kind where the human keep existing after the eating and the ones where they don't. Stones slates or air or bones or whatever on which the fate of the universe is inscribed, like the Akashic records or that tablet Tiamat gave to her most loved son or... How there is a different between fate and destiny, how fate may be changed and how the inevitable cannot. How humans creates demons and gods to eat themselves and in turn eat the demons and gods to gain power from them. How we create god and defeat them, and they bless us.

These kind of things. And I suppose, how one thing becomes another, and another becomes another. Variation. Fluidity. Emotions and ambiance and sounds of prophecy and truths between the noises of metal feathers sharp enough to cut existence itself into shape.

I can almost see a song about it.

The modern stories are too often about gain and loss. I want to read something else. Stories about foundations, about existence, about how you must break the order if you cannot stand it, and just as likely stop the chaos if you cannot stand that. How we are all gods with too many flaws and run towards our doom, laughing.

I need these kind of stories, or I'm afraid I'm going to starve.

Happy lunar new year everyone.

P.S.: If you don't usually eat something, today might not be the day to eat it. I just learned it the hard way. Don't ruin your new year and spend it in the washroom.

I was wondering why no update at many webcomics sites.

Then I remember TCAF.

I want to be there too orz Kate Beaton and Andrew Hussie are there.

We might need a Musclebound AU for every single fandom out there. Every. Single. Fandom.

As in, everyone has muscles. Even the bees. Heck, even the grass blades must be muscular.

Men are muscular, women are muscular, children are muscular, old people are muscular, animals are muscular, birds are muscular, dinosaurs are muscular, reptiles are muscular, insects are muscular, plants are muscular, fungi are muscular and even microorganisms are... er... the equivalent of muscular.

Really, if we have AUs where everybody are cute tiny lolis, why not have AUs where everybody are big and muscular?

I know that there are already some of that, like Knock-On!, muscle parody of K-On, Muscle Monsters, muscle parody of Pokemon, and many more, but I won't mind seeing more. As long as they are tasteful, of course.

So... I dug it out from my old stuff. I bought it few years ago for $20. It should contain 13 sheets of 9 different varieties.

But when I opened it today, the content is all wrong. I just took it out from its plastic wrapping, so the content is 100% same of what I bought, I didn't change it without remembering.

The number of total sheets is wrong, the varieties are possibly not the same as indicated and the number of each seems to be wrong. How can they get that much wrong in one package is a mystery. Could this be a bootleg? Next time I'll make sure to buy art supplies from a less obscure art store.

That flash file is frozen. I can't load it. And why are the pages not connected by ==> ? Why are they -- instead?

Ok, they are "tabs" in-story. What does this mean?

/resist temptation to keysmash

The Flash loaded, but I don't know how to solve the puzzle D: I must be pretty dumb or clicked something wrong and made it unsolvable or something.

And uu... so the fans were right?

I'm wondering if I should read this series or not. It's by the author of Discstuck, so the quality must be more or less guaranteed. But it's Eridan <3 Equius, which is really not my thing.

I was supposed to help Kuruk with the full names I guess, but somehow I spent the whole day listening to Nico Nico pokemon songs and attempting to make Easter eggs.

http://archiveofourown.org/series/16960

coldhope's Discstuck drabbles. Go read them. That author blended Discworld and Homestuck seamlessly together and it's wonderful.

http://nextian.tumblr.com/tagged/Wu-Song-Kills-A-Tiger-on-Jingyang-Ridge/chrono

Go read it. It's the famed Chinese story's Sidney Shapiro translation in a textual Let's Read of sort. The full story is Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh. In French it's Au bord de l'eau, which doesn't sound very impressive.

Note: To clarify, the Chinese believed that one of the moves of a tiger is to hit with its tail like a whip. Yes, like the Pokemon move Iron Tail, but long before the game was made.

The full book was written/recorded in a way that it's best to read one chapter at time at an audience. If the wikisource version is to be believed, instead of inciting the reader to read the next chapter like the English version says, it actually said to listen to the next chapter. So reading/listening to a story was a social event in China before? That sounds pretty awesome.