***SEA MUCUS***
I'm pretty sure I heard about it in late February 2002, and wrote it into GehennaApocalypse Lost as the coming of Oblivion to the World of Darkness. It turns out it's just algae. The implication is that the ocean is changing/dying as an ecosystem due to global warming, but the immovable skeptic in me is holding out for the riotously less sensational explanation that we've simply never noticed shit like this before because our satellite imaging technology has never before been so sophisticated and prolific during a time of peace (except way back in Atlantis-geki, but the government isn't gonna release Atlantean archives to the public without a huge revolution or if Obama fixes all of the Republican mistakes ahead of schedule). ((Also makes me think of how, if your soul is taken when your photo is taken, that in this age post-Google-Earth, the only people who still have their souls are Molepeople and Chuds.))
Similarly, Bill Nye tells the world about Sea Mucus. It's interesting that the movie The Blob will come true but it won't be about an unstoppable (but freezeable) alien parasite--it'll be about sheets of mucus hundreds of miles long made up of zombified micro-sea-creature corpse-flakes. It never made sense to me, in Jikuu no Hasha, why, as the sea level rose, so too did the monster population, but after watching Bill Nye explain this, I guess that (poorly-written temporal paradoxes aside) Jikuu no Hasha will also come true. (Actually, wait. At the end of The Blob, after they figure out that the only way to stop the title character is to freeze it, they freeze it down to a size where they can put it in a refrigerator or something, and then they airlift it to one of the poles. The movie ends being all, "THE END..." "...?" This was at least forty years ago (I think), when the only people really thinking about climate change, um... weren't..very many. So not only is the movie eerily prophetic (I saw it in the late nineties and was like "whoa"), it's ALSO probably based directly on a true story and this weird Sea Mucus is just the Blob thawing out as our real-life ice caps real-life melt.)
And this isn't interesting, it's just infuriating and sad if you have any empathy at all, but this whole moms-getting-drunk-and-cramming-their-minivans-with-children-and-driving-dangerously-on-busy-thoroughfares-between-here-and-the-city thing CANNOT become a trend. It is NOT fashionable. Can't you just commit suicide instead of endangering the lives of a bunch of children who trust you, and the lives of everyone who actually has a right to use the roads you're defiling with your mistaken existence? Or better yet, can't you just SOBER THE FUCK UP AND NOT BE A WASTE OF EVERYONE'S CONCERN?
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No matter how much fan-fiction I outline, I can't figure out where Strangetown is supposed to be located in The Sims 2. It's blatantly based on places like Sedona and Roswell, and in trying to tie my The Sims 2 fanfiction outline with my Big Mutha Truckers fanfiction outline, I attempted to situate it in Loudon County, Tennessee. But now I'm playing the GBA version* and Jebediah S. Jerky fucking tells me, "That boat over there in the desert... that used to be mine. That's where the ocean came to before the earthquakes of '73." ...WHAT fucking "earthquakes of '73?! I was fine with the idea of there having been a lake five or however many years before the start of the game that dried up, but "THE OCEAN?" ...Maybe he's talking about the eponymous body of water on whose shores Big Mutha Truckers's Salt Sea City is situated.
*which I think I've figured out takes place from five to eleven years after the beginning of the PC version and the PSP version (which in turn takes place immediately after the beginning of the PC version), and from three to nine years after the main storyline of the DS version
Similarly, Bill Nye tells the world about Sea Mucus. It's interesting that the movie The Blob will come true but it won't be about an unstoppable (but freezeable) alien parasite--it'll be about sheets of mucus hundreds of miles long made up of zombified micro-sea-creature corpse-flakes. It never made sense to me, in Jikuu no Hasha, why, as the sea level rose, so too did the monster population, but after watching Bill Nye explain this, I guess that (poorly-written temporal paradoxes aside) Jikuu no Hasha will also come true. (Actually, wait. At the end of The Blob, after they figure out that the only way to stop the title character is to freeze it, they freeze it down to a size where they can put it in a refrigerator or something, and then they airlift it to one of the poles. The movie ends being all, "THE END..." "...?" This was at least forty years ago (I think), when the only people really thinking about climate change, um... weren't..very many. So not only is the movie eerily prophetic (I saw it in the late nineties and was like "whoa"), it's ALSO probably based directly on a true story and this weird Sea Mucus is just the Blob thawing out as our real-life ice caps real-life melt.)
And this isn't interesting, it's just infuriating and sad if you have any empathy at all, but this whole moms-getting-drunk-and-cramming-their-minivans-with-children-and-driving-dangerously-on-busy-thoroughfares-between-here-and-the-city thing CANNOT become a trend. It is NOT fashionable. Can't you just commit suicide instead of endangering the lives of a bunch of children who trust you, and the lives of everyone who actually has a right to use the roads you're defiling with your mistaken existence? Or better yet, can't you just SOBER THE FUCK UP AND NOT BE A WASTE OF EVERYONE'S CONCERN?
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No matter how much fan-fiction I outline, I can't figure out where Strangetown is supposed to be located in The Sims 2. It's blatantly based on places like Sedona and Roswell, and in trying to tie my The Sims 2 fanfiction outline with my Big Mutha Truckers fanfiction outline, I attempted to situate it in Loudon County, Tennessee. But now I'm playing the GBA version* and Jebediah S. Jerky fucking tells me, "That boat over there in the desert... that used to be mine. That's where the ocean came to before the earthquakes of '73." ...WHAT fucking "earthquakes of '73?! I was fine with the idea of there having been a lake five or however many years before the start of the game that dried up, but "THE OCEAN?" ...Maybe he's talking about the eponymous body of water on whose shores Big Mutha Truckers's Salt Sea City is situated.
*which I think I've figured out takes place from five to eleven years after the beginning of the PC version and the PSP version (which in turn takes place immediately after the beginning of the PC version), and from three to nine years after the main storyline of the DS version