Living in Massachusetts is like playing 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon except its any given person of any notoriety ever and the degree is "had an interaction with". An elderly woman I was in a water aerobics class had an older sister of her father's first marriage who with went to school with Lucille Ball. One of my best friends personally knows Viv Medrano. My mother has personally offended Johnny Depp by being more excited that John Waters rode by on a bicycle. My father accidentally took out his road rage on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. My brother got rear-ended and flipped off in line at Dunkies by Adam Sandler and couldnt even go to the cops about it because what fucking cop is going to believe Adam Sandler Just rear-ended you while buying Fucking Dunks. I once gave myself clinical whiplash by watching Andrew Hussie walk out of a Walmart.
One of my special interests is sales science, and one thing I always think about I think it is absolutely imperative for everyone to know:
All humans experience a Subconsious Bias that they do not want to purchase from someone they percieve as not "like them", whatever that may mean for context. 95% of the time, This means How you're dressed or how you present visually. (This is also part of why telemarketing is such an extremely difficult profession, but thats a different tangent for another day.)
A Vast Majority of the time- as long as you smell fine, are not visibly dirty, are not flirting with a public nudity charge with your outfit, and are dressed in a way that is both physically safe and sanitary to work in for your chosen profession? you can be dressed "professionally".
So, If an employer ever calls your colorfully dyed hair or culturally black hairstyle or pierced face or myriad of tattoos "unprofessional", Newsflash: what theyre really saying is "We dont want to attract or see *your kind* here."
Which is Fucking Stupid, at absolute best case scenario, ESPICIALLY if youre a goddamn grocery/department store worker, postal clerk, doctor, bank teller, or any other civil servant who provides the public with neccessities of dailiy living in a city or town.
I'm very tired and posting the exact same thing on multiple platforms will reduce its efficacy/search-ability on the modern web anyways, so as quickly as I can get into and out of the weeds of the purpose of this post:
I have been having severe flare ups of my dangerous autoimmune illness that have made my entire body a medical liability. I cannot currently do any show that's more than like 10 hours hard maximum. I'm reaching out to a few different local pride events for the month to see if I can get in to SOMETHING- because at the moment, this issue, along with an unrelated personal issue, have caused me to go into twice the degree of debt I was already in, between emergency medications and hospitals and whatnot. I cannot afford to eat or pay rent, let alone any other bills this month. I'm trying to figure out solutions to get my Literally Life-Saving Medication paid for by my insurance, but I genuinely have no idea where I'll be when or if that happens.
This is NOT a manifesto and I'm not trying to ebeg - I am simply asking for empathy, and in exchange offering 5$ off any tchotchke purchase of 30$ or more from my small art shop. Fuck generative AI, buy small, buy queer. Code is RIANIME25 if it's not already applied. I even posted some stuff I was going to debut at RIAC but won't be able to.
Right so I've been sick in bed all day; and as some of you may know, outside of my business, as in when you're not thinking of the person who runs this shop as a mippy itty bitty brand entity, I'm kind of a Massive Non-traditional Horror Fan? So I finally watched a playthrough oh and picked around the files of Indigo Park Chapter One. And this post will very much contain spoilers for that as I pick it apart in the same way I suck the marrow out of the bones of a roast chicken; but the tldr is that:
1- I feel like game theory is... *mostly* wrong, but they always are. Sensationalist and nuts, for views and in turn, money
2- UNIQUEGEESE IF YOU EVER NEED A MERCH ARTIST *PLEASE* HIT ME UP MY SCHEDULE IS SO WIDE OPEN AND THIS IS A PROJECT I WOULD KILL AND DIE TO WORK ON,,,
3- Rambley Raccoon scratches the same itch in my brain as Ralsei Deltarune, which if you Additionally know anything about me or my shop, you'd know that means that he is My Son Who Can Do Very Little Wrong and I Will Commit Attrocities for Him
So, we Know Isaac Indigo, if he's meant to be a direct parallel of Walt Disney Himself- Must be an absolute Stark-Raving Lunatic. Anyone who likes Disney beyond its brainwashing mouse-eared nonsense knows this. and You CAN in fact, like Disney's body of work and know the guy was just as insane as John Harvey Kellogg.
So i am. Thinking there may be some stuff that alludes to the "Disney wanted to live forever"/"Cryogenically Frozen Head" Theory? It's clear that he's picking animals that are easy to obtain and raise from a very early age, if you happen to be a deranged madman with a ton of extra cash and a clear kind of unethical science-experiment hell center under your theme park. In addition to blood, we do see sparks fly off of Mollie in that decapitation cutscene, so. It very well may be a combination of organic being and cybernetic nonsense, as well as the good ol "placing everyone you love into your mascots/ai so they can live forever" thing (Eat your heart out, GLaDOS!) the creator did say that they were a MASSIVE fan of Shipwrecked64 (aka, the game I affectionately call "Shit-rekt-my-pants, 64 times." I would have appreciated it more if the shock and surprise horror elements werent so heavy-handed. the giovanni goose death scene lives in my nightmares rent free, not inclusive of how much havoc that game's jumpscare-only layers wreaked on my heart condition.) so it would not surprise me that these mascots are human and animal experimentation gone so wildly wrong it warrants a horror title. I definitely CAN appreciate that these critters are actually slightly cutesy and not... gross 80s rubber mask mascot being piloted by a morbidly deformed and genetically altered human, but also I can Appreciate if that's the angle and its just more palpable to the viewer as a sort of fursuit thing... ah, but that's always the surprise/plot of mascot horror-- "what the fuck is wrong with them and why do they act Like That."
Rambley is Very Obviously Not The Villain, he comes across more like Ricky from My Friendly Neighborhood. And also he also comes across like a more verbally comprehensible Donald Duck who actually DID take the spotlight over Mickey Mouse, or in our case, Lloyd. He really DOES just want all his pals okay and to not be forgotten about. Also im going to put him in the pear wiggler.
Next chapter is DEFINITELY going to focus on the Submechanophobia elements, no doubt. Really love the lil eeyore guy. I think Salem will also get a chapter, but it's really really clear that they're a kind of "bug in the code" here. For whatever reason, Rambley can't form a functional statement about them, and all their traces either disappear or blow up. Its clear the other mascots do not want them there, re: why their shit's just annihilated.. I can imagine that the other mascots aren't okay with humans (their first instinct is to run and hide, not attack. to approach first with curiousity and THEN murderous intent.) Its really clear to me that lloyd is driven off NOT by some noise your cuff makes, but by Mollie mimicking some high-pitched noise she once heard to make Lloyd get away. The other theory im entertaining is that these mascots are Mostly Harmless and the park is Not Actually Abandoned, but something inside them (like an AI chip) is going nutso and telling them to kill and maim. either way Salem isn't the bad guy either, outside of the cartoons themselves, and mioght be something like a "we don't talk about Failures to the Process" kind of thing. I'm betting money that the True Bad Guy is Indigo's Lunatic Hubris and Corporate cash giving him access to tech levels of a Mad scientist.
it's said that Ed's full name is a reference to something extremely niche, and I'm going to be so real its probably a reference to some yet unknown by me Theme Park Urban Explorers thing or, my funniest and favorite theory I have ever come up with, its a Reference to Crashbox's Eddie Bull. God I hope its a Reference to Eddie Bull.
Yall do know that Aliexpress is not for direct-to-consumer goods, right. Like its for plastic packaging and shopping bags and tags that say "medium" and jump rings and 5 yard lengths of polyester elastane minky. and that its not for like. Pants or jewelry or enamel pins. Like. You know this, right???
If any links are broken atm on any of my sites, please have my MOST sincere apologies. The entire website is getting a facelift, inclusive of dns/webhosting, and things are bound to be a little bit construction-site-esque before everything is good again "OTL
