#rambleramble

[drawsry]

YES OF COURSE

[cotl-betrayal-sacrifice]

Increasing loyalty by giving their brain a good ol scramble

[exploitopia]

another plural person in the cluster b AND likes homestuck... hell.o..

hi 😛

funnest of facts (not really) host (me) is a dave fictive ha ha ha ha ha so funny (its not)

[quickdudesart]

I just remembered I was making a concept for a club penguin operation months ago. I only have one vaguely interesting part of it put together, which (predictably) has something to do with either Charlie or Bree. Should I try to flesh it out more? Bear in mind i am a horrible writer, but I think I can conceptualize well

[magnus-darkmode]

Where the heck does Percy work??? Also... are there any job openings? Asking for a friend... >_>

Pfft! I can understand that it is rather unbelievable for an seemingly ordinary office building to have such things. I don't really tend to put a lot of thought or logic into tickling scenarios, usually because most people just wanna see ✨the good stuff✨

also there could be an opening or two...

Okay so this is the "lore" I have so far:

Percy works for a company that researches and sells data on human sensitivity. Usually such vague labelling is used as a cover when in reality they use the research as an excuse peak their own curiosity and satisfaction. The main offices themselves cover what you'd expect, boring paperwork. This the section Percy mainly works in, but he's often asked to run errands such as hand delivering certain papers to different floors, mainly... the basement floors.

Down there is where the underground labs lay. This is actually where most of the traps are located. Most of the office workers prefer to avoid going down there if possible. Percy just usually ends up drawing the short straw. To make matters worse, the traps are changed daily, so good luck figuring out the layout on every trip. This area is where most of the actual research is conducted by a small team of scientists (if you could call them that). The main one you'll see (soon) is named Leopold. A very stone faced man who takes his work very seriously. While he will not admit it, he's quite fond of Percy and will use any excuse to "volunteer" the poor office worker for various experiments. He claims to be a ler, but there could be the rare chance of him having to switch. He will be grumpy about it.

The founder and on site CEO of this rather odd company is a woman who goes by the name of Rose. She's pretty much started all of this to satisfy her niche curiosities. She is also fond of Percy and will sometimes make up excuses to "reprimand" him. This woman has a no mercy approach with her methods, so needless to say that everyone in the workplace fears her. Rumour has it that she has been divorced three times because none of her ex-husbands could endure her appetite for the subject matter (skill issue on their part).

That is pretty much all I have so far. Some details or developments could happen in the future, but I don't plan to have a lot of plot for my shameless self-indulgent content, aha.

[hoontsart]

Bedtime rambling.

I've been putting a lot of research and time into building up to start an online shop to sell art stuff. My new job has left me super tired so I've only been able to put in, like, 2 hours of drawing a day if I can even manage to find the energy for it. Slowly, but surely, I've been building up some sticker designs and product ideas that I'm really excited about.

I'm stressed though because I've got a loose 3 month goal to get these things finished and a shop launched. My hope is that it'll do well enough that I can cut back my hours at work a little bit so I have more time for art. I also worry about one of my items. I think it's a really unique thing and I fear that someone more established than me or some dropship asshole will snatch it and make money on my idea and work.

Ugh... I dunno. It's a lot juggling day job and creative work and all the worries that come with the modern internet being very unkind to artists. Hell, I had one of my personal art pieces slop copied today so... like, that doesn't help my worries at all.

[castlesonthesand]

I forget just how desperate and needy chastity makes me until I put myself through it... and then I spend my days just constantly turned on and a mess 😵‍💫

[pineforestfox]

HAVE SOME OPINIONS ON ZABA:

Long-

Flip:

GREAT SONG, 10/10, I feel like it's actually a rlly good intro to the album. It's intense, probably to make the listener listen to the rest of the album which is smart. "I was in full bloom until I met you, I'm gonna shake my feathers. I'm breaking loose" seems like it's implying abuse/manipulation in some form tbh. "I wanna go back to a face, no more mask" they're tired of having to hide how they feel/of walking on eggshells. They're spreading they're feathers and leaving, breaking loose. Powerful and the music just makes it sm better.

Zaba and Cosmo sheldrake's music have a similar vibe tbh- except Cosmo Sheldrake is Yonkagor abt fish (basically like rlly interested in/has a fish or ocean refrence in most songs/albums)

ALSO LIKE EVERY SINGLE SONG HAS A REFRENCE TO FEATHERED WINGS/BIRDS?

Black mambo:

"Slow down it's a science, he's been waiting to bring you down. Snake eyed, with a sly smile. We can hold you, and shake you child" GIVES ME CHILLS. another great song!! You kinda have to listen to it on full volume at night by yourself for it to hit better than it usually would but OH MY GOD ITS SO GOOD. It's probably referring to drugs, 'its a science [...] Waiting to bring you down [...] Snake eyed with a sly smile' It's a science (makes you feel a certain way), waiting to bring you down (that eventually leads to a downfall) snake eyed, with a sly smile (it's got you. It's got you in it's grasp and is smug about it.) We can hold you, and shake you child (it's got you, it's holding you. You can't leave. It shakes you, shaking someone usually makes them feel dizzy and/or powerless) this song is just wow ngl, rlly good but I can see it getting dismissed by someone if not listening to it in the right conditions

Something about most Zaba songs is that they aren't exactly a 'casual listen' most of the time, the meanings are so deep and complex that it feels like a crime to take lightly (for me)

OH ALSO, if you listen to the full album in succession, until you've listened to the songs separately/listened multiple times you might not know where one song ends and another begins. It's very good at blending the songs together

Pools:

Not as much to say about this song, it was one of the first Zaba songs I listened to though. I like the song, alot. I have however seen people's theories on the meaning and kinda agree kinda disagree. It definitely seems to be about a good/loving relationship gone wrong, perhaps due to the singer only smiling because he wants to. I feel the line "open to a world of noise" IN. MY. SOUL. A world of noise is very accurate, but I feel it probably has some deep meaning and I'm taking it too literal. "I smile because I want to, I smile because you want to" probably means that he's smiling because he knows his partner expects it, maybe he's decieving his partner with his voluntary smile somehow

Gooey:

I gotta say, I liked it alot more the first time I listened to it. I relate to the "I can't take this place, no I can't take this place, I just wanna go where I can get some space" alot, it's how I feel VERY often. The song sounds like overstimulation. Perhaps they're drunk? Idk, but for me it's more like this being is sensory overload and is struggling to cope with having to do this. "Truth be told, I've been here I've done this all before" they're fresh out of the womb, and already overwhelm feels familiar. They're probably in constant stress or going to develop some form of anxiety if it continues. "I say 'I told you so' but you just gonna cry" (foreshadowing) They said "I told you so" they predicted whatever happened to the one who's crying (anxiety, overthinking about the future). Anyways singer is upset and overwhelmed as soon as they set foot into the world. There's probably more/alot deeper meanings than this but I feel one of the messages is: the world sucks.

Walla Walla:

THIS SONG. ITS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITES. Ok first off, it starts with "I'm a little naked man" WHICH IS A REFRENCE TO GOOEY BECAUSE THAT ONE STARTS WITH "-my naked fool, fresh out of the icky gooey womb" SO THIS SONG IS A FOLLOW-UP TO GOOEY. Which is so yes because it's the next song in the album after it. Also "I'm a little naked man, I saw you there looking sad" it's the '-but you just gonna cry' person!! (I picture them as a young girl for some reason so I'll probably refer to them as a she) So naked man then goes "honey, honey, it's alright" and THEN proceeds to say "-these creatures are alive".. creatures. Which is another interesting thing because THIS WHOLE SONG sounds like a threat. A warning. There's danger. There's danger, we're in the jungle and there's threats everywhere. These creatures are alive. Alive and will get you if you cry too loud. Then he says "I clap my hands, and they're gone into the night" probably a lie, just trying to reassure/try to make the young girl feel better. The whole song's vibe is anxiety/stress inducing. Personally I've gotten STOMACHACHES and HEADACHES listening /info. It's a good song and definitely one of the best in the album imo. It's such a jungle vibe. THEN. THE BIT TOWARDS THE END. MY FAVOURITE BIT OF THE SONG. So the final chorus is playing, the music is more textured, alot more sounds and layers. All while saying "Take my hand" 16 times one after the other. Then there's an AWESOME instrumental, which just sounds like naked man had grabbed young girl's hand and is now running. Running from danger. Because there is danger everywhere. Take my hand, you will not survive. And in the instrumental you've got noises of wild theriform animals, in a threatening way. You are prey, run. And then he says take my hand 16 more times, in an almost pleading voice. A desperate voice. And the song is just a masterpiece. You have to have listened to it to understand what I'm saying but it's genuinely incredible. Again, not really a casual listen.

Intruxx:

Not much about this, again. It's just music. But the MUSIC is actually incredible. Throughout the song you can hear 'wa-walla, Walla walla' repeated over and over. It's another jungle vibe and I think it's after the events of Walla Walla (clearly). It very much sounds like an escape. I'm not sure, you'd had to listen to it to understand. It's definitely a transition song, but imo it's a very good one.

Anyways I'm ending it here I wanna scroll more