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[kramer]

@sillysurgeon I thought they were a myth.

[sillysurgeon-deactivated23423-d]

observe. whenever i go to subway tho i get a 6-inch  for like 3.99 and that tides me over. i don’t think anyone really needs an entire foot of sandwhich 

[kramer]

I respect whoever could eat an entire footlong in one sitting

[sillysurgeon-deactivated23423-d]

yeah, me too

[ghostofgogu-deactivated20161116]

me. i do.

[sillysurgeon-deactivated23423-d]

PROVE IT

[vesica-urentis]

I usually get through about 7-9" of it and then keep the rest for a snack an hour later. Idk the “for $1 more” philosophy really resonates with me, hard for me to turn it down.

[bogleech]

Something’s either wrong with me or wrong with all you because I’ve always ordered and eaten the entire footlong and always still been hungry

[natethenix]

...okay, I just saw this post and I am coincidentally eating a $5 footlong right now.

And almost finished with it.  And yeah, I’ve never had any trouble finishing them either.  There are seriously people who think a footlong Subway sandwich is too much to eat in one sitting?  That’s... kind of weird.

[bogleech]

I thought Darth Maul was always really silly looking and impossible to take seriously and that it was really funny how after so much build-up and marketing he just showed up, sneered and got chopped in half.

[natethenix]

Yeah, one of the things that bothered me the most about the prequels was the lack of any memorable or interesting villains.  (In the first two, anyway... I heard Palpatine gets to chew some scenery in the third prequel, but I never got around to seeing it.)  Darth Maul wasn’t so much silly looking or funny to me as he was boring.  I thought he was a complete nonentity.  He had no good lines; he had no personality; he didn’t do anything; he was completely forgettable.

I guess in the second movie there was Dooku?  Or was there an even more forgettable villain I’m forgetting?  I mean, heck, I like the late Christopher Lee, and I’m sure he did the best he could with what he was given, but he really wasn’t given anything to work with.  Literally the only thing I can remember about Count Dooku (besides his name and his being played by Christopher Lee) was that he had a duel with Yoda, and I think I remember that mostly because I thought the way Yoda went bouncing around looked absolutely ridiculous.  (I don’t remember what Dooku did during the duel, or how it ended.  I mean, obviously Yoda must have survived, since he’s around for the original trilogy, but I don’t remember whether Dooku survived the duel or not, or anything that happened during it other than Yoda’s frenetic leaping.  I think I may vaguely remember a piece of heavy machinery falling at one point?  Maybe?)

(In other news, for some reason I seem to be using this tumblr only to make replies to posts by @bogleech that neither he nor anyone else will probably ever read.  Er... yeah, I probably ought to start actually using this tumblr for something.  Also, I should probably put up a profile picture at some point...)

[bogleech]

Do any other countries compare to America’s bacon fetish? Do people elsewhere in the world KNOW how far it goes? Do people know that if you say you don’t even like bacon at all (and I didn’t for most of my life), Americans might get almost as angry as if you just insulted their religion? If America could just literally fuck bacon I think it would.

…….And the worst part is, we’re right. Bacon really does taste good on fucking everything. On ice cream. On fruit. It doesn’t matter. We’re right about this and I hate that we’re right about this.

[natethenix]

Ugh.  I was with you through the first paragraph, but that second paragraph... no.  Just no.  Bacon by itself is... palatable, but that’s about the best that can be said for it.  Bacon on anything sweet is utterly repulsive.  The combination of bacon and maple flavoring is almost vomit-inducingly loathsome.  It’s an affront to God, and I don’t even believe in God, but it’s still an affront to the nonexistent God, that’s how bad it is.  Bacon on ice cream!?  On fruit!?  Yeccccchh.  Yech yecch yecchh yecchh yeccchhhhh.  No.  Bacon is terrible.

(Yes, I realize this is a matter of opinion, but if you get to jokingly state that bacon is good on everything as if it were an objective fact, I get to do the same thing with my contrary opinion.)

[bogleech]

while we're on the subject of creepy and awful fantasy writers with some admittedly interesting ideas, can we complain about china mieville

Yeah I read Perdido Street Station and it was so full of fucking awesome concepts and characters but by the end of it I got the feeling we were supposed to feel bad for a character whose big secret was being a rapist. Like the other main character had the correct reaction, but it felt like the audience was supposed to see a “grey area” and sympathize with both of them.

I dunno if that was his intent but it was the vibe I got.

[natethenix]

Huh, honestly that wasn’t the way I took it… I got the impression that we were supposed to agree with the main character, that what he did really was horrible; it seemed to me it was supposed to be a twist where we were supposed to have assumed that the character’s crime was something minor and obscure because of the weird way it was always phrased, and then it turns out nope, he really did do something legitimately awful and reprehensible.  But it’s hard to know the author’s intent unless the author comes out and tells us, so I don’t know for sure that’s really the way he meant it.

Even if it is, of course, that doesn’t completely exonerate him of anything “creepy”.  I did think it was kind of disturbing that [SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T READ THE BOOK] the only major female character ended up mentally ruined and reduced to a near-vegetable…

[EDIT: Actually, it’s been a while since I read the book, and come to think of it I think there was at least one other female character significant enough that calling the one who suffered the fate mentioned above “the only major female character” may be overstating the case a bit.  Still...]

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

I don’t get the term “Catfish”. Like yeah, I know the origin of the phrase, but i don’t see how the things are comparable at all.

“They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They’d keep them in vats in the ship. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. And there are those people who are catfish in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. And I thank God for the catfish because we would be … boring and dull if we didn’t have somebody nipping at our fin.”

They don’t fucking “keep you on your toes”,  they ruin peoples lives in many cases.

[bogleech]

I am almost 100% positive it’s actually called catfishing because catfish are often caught when a fisherman wants something else

[natethenix]

Huh.  Apparently (according to some quick and by no means exhaustive research), no, @rasec-wizzlbang’s explanation is in fact the correct one.  Insofar as the term comes ultimately from a movie title, and that’s how it was explained in the movie.

As for the discrepancy between the explanation and what catfishing actually does, it’s apparently because in the movie the term was used in a more general way, and only later (largely thanks to an MTV reality series inspired by the movie and also called “Catfish”) it acquired the more specific and more malicious meaning it does now.

However, it turns out the whole explanation given in the movie was complete BS anyway, in that catfish actually aren’t used that way in shipping cod at all, and it wouldn’t make any sense to try using them that way.  Catfish don’t prey on or threaten cod in any way (and don’t even live in the same environment!), so there’s no reason they would “keep the cod agile”, and since cod are generally processed before shipping there’d be no need to keep them agile in the first place.  Apparently the whole catfish/cod story originated as sort of a Christian parable in the 1910s where the catfish was supposed to symbolize Christianity somehow.

(Source)

So… FWIW.

[natethenix]

And now looking back at the notes I see that @frog-and-toad-are-friends already said this (much more briefly); oh well...

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

I don’t get the term “Catfish”. Like yeah, I know the origin of the phrase, but i don’t see how the things are comparable at all.

“They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They’d keep them in vats in the ship. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. And there are those people who are catfish in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. And I thank God for the catfish because we would be … boring and dull if we didn’t have somebody nipping at our fin.”

They don’t fucking “keep you on your toes”,  they ruin peoples lives in many cases.

[bogleech]

I am almost 100% positive it’s actually called catfishing because catfish are often caught when a fisherman wants something else

[natethenix]

Huh.  Apparently (according to some quick and by no means exhaustive research), no, @rasec-wizzlbang’s explanation is in fact the correct one.  Insofar as the term comes ultimately from a movie title, and that’s how it was explained in the movie.

As for the discrepancy between the explanation and what catfishing actually does, it’s apparently because in the movie the term was used in a more general way, and only later (largely thanks to an MTV reality series inspired by the movie and also called “Catfish”) it acquired the more specific and more malicious meaning it does now.

However, it turns out the whole explanation given in the movie was complete BS anyway, in that catfish actually aren’t used that way in shipping cod at all, and it wouldn’t make any sense to try using them that way.  Catfish don’t prey on or threaten cod in any way (and don’t even live in the same environment!), so there’s no reason they would “keep the cod agile”, and since cod are generally processed before shipping there’d be no need to keep them agile in the first place.  Apparently the whole catfish/cod story originated as sort of a Christian parable in the 1910s where the catfish was supposed to symbolize Christianity somehow.

(Source)

So... FWIW.

[bogleech]

DRANE, brain-eating inventor and necromizer, is my interpretation of alphys  my dream date  my true persona the first in a series of slightly divergent Mortasheen monsters called Boo Men.

If you read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, you might remember “Boo Men” as the title of the third book’s intro, and a real-world colloquialism once interchangeable with “bogeyman” and “bugbear.”

In Mortasheen, the Boo Men are basically “mercenary bogeymen,” humanoid monsters for hire with signature powers and themes. Unlike other monsters, any clone of a Boo Man is literally the exact same being with the same memories and personality. A Boo Man might have thousands of instances operating around the world at a given time.

I actually came up with this concept in my early teens, ages before Mortasheen, but I thought it would be a fun one to take a fresh shot at. None of my original Boo Man art or concepts have survived, but they wouldn’t have been recognizable or generally very good anyway.

There’ll be a minimum of seven or eight of these characters by Halloween!

[natethenix]

Oh, huh... one of the (many) projects I’ve had on the back burner for way too long (and admittedly may never complete, but do hope to eventually) is a set of 26 Mortasheen monster trainer characters (one with a name beginning with each letter of the alphabet) that I’ve been developing and planned to draw with their monster teams and info (including descriptions, combat tactics, etc.)  The reason I bring this up is that... one of those 26 characters actually pretty much fits the description of a Boo Man, even though of course I had no idea about Boo Men at the time.  (His name is Cel and he specializes in garbage monsters and that is all I will say about him at the moment because I still do hope to someday get that full set together and start posting about them, though at this point it’s unlikely to be before the summer because my new job is sucking up all my time right now...

(Yes, I logged into this tumblr account for the first time in way too long to post this.  I ought to use this account more.)

[bogleech]

Please do/don't show us the Noisy Tenant equivalent of a Furry Con. PLEASE.

Probably just empty, moist synthetic cartoon animal pelts all just sort of slithering around on like slugs up the walls and on the ceiling in an endlessly confusing, spiraling convention center

[natethenix]

Actually, a project I’d planned for last year’s Bogleech “creepypasta cookoff” (but didn’t have time to finish, or, to be completely honest, even really start beyond the planning phase) was a graphic adventure set in the Noisy Tenant universe that did in fact briefly include the Noisy Tenant equivalent of a convention… though sort of a generic game/pop culture convention and not specifically a furry convention.  (Also, the convention wouldn’t show up till the very end of the game, so, uh, I guess that’s a spoiler?)

I’m strongly considering still trying to make the game for this year’s creepypasta cookoff (assuming there is one this year, but hey, why wouldn’t there be?), but I’m not much less busy now than I was this time last year, so I’m not sure I’ll have time this year either… making a complete graphic adventure is a big project.  Still, well, hope springs eternal…

[bogleech]

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[natethenix]

The results of the Bogleech creepypasta contest -- my novel The Skilevaks made the winners' list!

Unfortunately, I was running so close to the deadline I didn't have time to thoroughly proofread my story before submitting it, and now just glancing through it again I see all sorts of typos I missed. Well, I was thinking of putting it into an e-book format anyway at some point; if I do, I'll be sure to proofread it and fix the typos first.

But anyway, go read all the contest entries now!  Or... or later works too, I guess.  But read them.

[natethenix]

The Perils of Procrastination

I just wrote about 43,000 words of a novel in about three days.

(The novel is about 45,000 words long, but two thousand words of it I had written weeks ago.)

This is not something I plan on doing again any time soon.