A strange city, filled with strange people and strange noodles
(Caveat, the subject line does not accurately describe Heidelberg in the slightest, but the phrase "strange noodles" will never fail to make me laugh dlkfha;lg thank you Kung Fu Panda 2) but ANYWAY, hi! I'm home! :D Has it really been almost two months since I last made one of these haphazard grab-bag entries?! Obviously that means it is time for me to inflict chaos upon your friendspage again... but because this post is just so incredibly all over the place, I am going to attempt to summarize the contents behind the cut as best as I can:
HEIDELBERG! THAT ONE STUPID INCEPTION DREAMSCAPE APP AGAIN! AE_MATCH! KOREAN TELEVISION! PONIES ARE STILL AWESOME! CARAMELLDANSEN LIKE IT'S 2008!
1. Fucking amazing, you guys. I had so much fun. ;____; My ancient point-and-shoot started acting up on the morning I left for Germany, but thankfully the mercy of the elements and the natural gorgeousness of Heidelberg made the resulting pictures pretty fun to look at anyway! There are better pictures everywhere online so I'll just include these two, but Jesus Chrissst. ♥ Apparently I also took like HUNDREDS of sky pictures, but can you blame me???
2. So one morning as I was flopping around on the hotel bed trying to decide what to do that day, I absently booted up That Fucking Inception App, You Know Which One I'm Talking About, and nearly had a heart attack when it sent me to the SHARED DREAM. I MEAN WHAT. I thought I would never unlock it because the app is so stupid, surely everyone else in existence must have given up on using it by now? I just froze there, staring at the blinking "2 shared dreamers" tab above the main screen AND WONDERING WHO THE HELL ELSE IN HEIDELBERG WAS WASTING THEIR TIME FIDDLING AROUND WITH A PATHETIC FUCKING APP WHEN THEY COULD BE OUTSIDE ENJOYING THE BOUNTIES OF NATURE... but omg now the shared dream is unlocked! Even though the app doesn't seem to recognize Incheon as a legitimate airport and thus I couldn't unlock the airport dream this app is racist!!
3. Probably there's been plenty of pimping of ae_match in the meanwhile, right? :D I am Team Romance, but-- well, the reason we can ~bash each other~ in good fun is precisely because angst and romance aren't mutually exclusive categories. Saying that romance is the only way to write love or that angst is the only way to write conflict is absurd! That's like saying that crack is the only way to write humor. Anyway, we all know that these are nebulous categories with huge overlapping areas, and I am looking forward to annoying the hell out of everyone by posting a fucktillion 200-word tidbits every day! ...That having been said, EAT SHIT, TEAM ANGST
4. Okay I know that exactly none of you will care about this because it is Korean entertainment television, but I just needed to write this out somewhere because it is sort of a momentous event for me. Lee So-Ra -- grand-dame, neurotic, the good witch -- left I Am a Singer last week. (I could talk forever about that show, about how it is the single most extravagantly public display of professional anxiety that I have ever seen anywhere in my life, about its potential, its missteps, its organic evolution, but... that would get too long.) Ughhh I love Lee So-Ra so much. I have had legit screaming fights with my mother on this subject, haha. I'm going to link to a video here if only so that I can come back to watch it when I want to; it's her cover of BoA's No. 1, and in my opinion one of the top five performances so far on a show that regularly provides those elusive moments of pure television magic. You tend to forget that No. 1 is essentially a song about a girl and her moon-- and she reminds us of that, I think. Turning the moon back into a symbol of occult femininity et cetera et cetera okay I am just going to move on now.
5. HERE IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA: MOTHERLESS PONYVILLE. Princess Celestia is the head of a "detective agency" made up of aimless young ponies from Ponyville! After she is mysteriously assassinated, Pinkie Pie and the rest of Celestia's Girls must work to find out who is behind the murder of their mentor-- only, it seems that Celestia's Girls are also being picked off, one by one! D: Can Pinkie Pie beat the clock and solve this crime before it's too late for her? Can the reader manage to navigate the mazes of Pinkie Pie's psyche and escape the narrative unscathed? WHAT A GOOD IDEA. 8DDDD
6. Hey you know what though, as long as I am linking to videos, WHY NOT EMBED THIS ONE. You've probably seen it already, but then that begs the question, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT IT SOONER.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT MY FAVORITE PART OF THAT IS. WAIT NO NEVER MIND, I KNOW WHAT MY FAVORITE PART IS, YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL WHEN YOU GET TO IT. AS MUCH AS I LOVE ARIADNE... LOOK AT ARTHUR'S FACE. I MEAN. HONESTLY. *_______*
HEIDELBERG! THAT ONE STUPID INCEPTION DREAMSCAPE APP AGAIN! AE_MATCH! KOREAN TELEVISION! PONIES ARE STILL AWESOME! CARAMELLDANSEN LIKE IT'S 2008!
1. Fucking amazing, you guys. I had so much fun. ;____; My ancient point-and-shoot started acting up on the morning I left for Germany, but thankfully the mercy of the elements and the natural gorgeousness of Heidelberg made the resulting pictures pretty fun to look at anyway! There are better pictures everywhere online so I'll just include these two, but Jesus Chrissst. ♥ Apparently I also took like HUNDREDS of sky pictures, but can you blame me???
2. So one morning as I was flopping around on the hotel bed trying to decide what to do that day, I absently booted up That Fucking Inception App, You Know Which One I'm Talking About, and nearly had a heart attack when it sent me to the SHARED DREAM. I MEAN WHAT. I thought I would never unlock it because the app is so stupid, surely everyone else in existence must have given up on using it by now? I just froze there, staring at the blinking "2 shared dreamers" tab above the main screen AND WONDERING WHO THE HELL ELSE IN HEIDELBERG WAS WASTING THEIR TIME FIDDLING AROUND WITH A PATHETIC FUCKING APP WHEN THEY COULD BE OUTSIDE ENJOYING THE BOUNTIES OF NATURE... but omg now the shared dream is unlocked! Even though the app doesn't seem to recognize Incheon as a legitimate airport and thus I couldn't unlock the airport dream this app is racist!!
3. Probably there's been plenty of pimping of ae_match in the meanwhile, right? :D I am Team Romance, but-- well, the reason we can ~bash each other~ in good fun is precisely because angst and romance aren't mutually exclusive categories. Saying that romance is the only way to write love or that angst is the only way to write conflict is absurd! That's like saying that crack is the only way to write humor. Anyway, we all know that these are nebulous categories with huge overlapping areas, and I am looking forward to annoying the hell out of everyone by posting a fucktillion 200-word tidbits every day! ...That having been said, EAT SHIT, TEAM ANGST
4. Okay I know that exactly none of you will care about this because it is Korean entertainment television, but I just needed to write this out somewhere because it is sort of a momentous event for me. Lee So-Ra -- grand-dame, neurotic, the good witch -- left I Am a Singer last week. (I could talk forever about that show, about how it is the single most extravagantly public display of professional anxiety that I have ever seen anywhere in my life, about its potential, its missteps, its organic evolution, but... that would get too long.) Ughhh I love Lee So-Ra so much. I have had legit screaming fights with my mother on this subject, haha. I'm going to link to a video here if only so that I can come back to watch it when I want to; it's her cover of BoA's No. 1, and in my opinion one of the top five performances so far on a show that regularly provides those elusive moments of pure television magic. You tend to forget that No. 1 is essentially a song about a girl and her moon-- and she reminds us of that, I think. Turning the moon back into a symbol of occult femininity et cetera et cetera okay I am just going to move on now.
5. HERE IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA: MOTHERLESS PONYVILLE. Princess Celestia is the head of a "detective agency" made up of aimless young ponies from Ponyville! After she is mysteriously assassinated, Pinkie Pie and the rest of Celestia's Girls must work to find out who is behind the murder of their mentor-- only, it seems that Celestia's Girls are also being picked off, one by one! D: Can Pinkie Pie beat the clock and solve this crime before it's too late for her? Can the reader manage to navigate the mazes of Pinkie Pie's psyche and escape the narrative unscathed? WHAT A GOOD IDEA. 8DDDD
6. Hey you know what though, as long as I am linking to videos, WHY NOT EMBED THIS ONE. You've probably seen it already, but then that begs the question, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT IT SOONER.
Click to viewI DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT MY FAVORITE PART OF THAT IS. WAIT NO NEVER MIND, I KNOW WHAT MY FAVORITE PART IS, YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL WHEN YOU GET TO IT. AS MUCH AS I LOVE ARIADNE... LOOK AT ARTHUR'S FACE. I MEAN. HONESTLY. *_______*