oh, catullus, you sly bastard.
be nice. I've got the Marmot Knights Who Say Cheese on my side.
Knitting tag: Knittery | art tag: sketsj | writing tag: skrivens!
"Why were you almost late for work today, M? Was it your oven being stupid?"
Yes, but no.
"Was it the freeway being closed?"
Yes, but it was open through the exit i needed, so no.
"So what was it?"
Well, you see, i pulled into a parking space and put the car in park and turned off my lights at less than four minutes before my shift but before i could turn the car off, Stanley Clarke's Silly Putty came on.
"..."
Look you can't expect me to just stop the song and not crank up the volume and groove while i switch into hospital shoes etc.
"It's just the radio, M..."
youtube
Listen. This whole weekend the realjazz channel is the Stanley Clarke channel. Y'all are lucky i even came in today.
note from blogrunner: yes, we've definitely had a poll like this before, but enough time has passed and there's a lot more people following this blog now
haven’t posted art in uhhhhh A WHILE…. but i’ve been binging the mighty nein campaign now that im done uni. so here’s a cunty little essek sketch bc i love him.
Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and “merge the Gray and police social networks.” Then, in a show of force, they’ll march through the city together.
“A huge win would be a Gray Pride parade with 50,000 Grays,” said Srinivasan. “That would start to say: ‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ You have the A.I. Flying Spaghetti Monster. You have the Bitcoin parade. You have the drones flying overhead in formation.... You have bubbling genetic experiments on beakers.… You have the police at the Gray Pride parade. They’re flying the Anduril drones …”
Everyone would be welcome at the Gray Pride march—everyone, that is, except the Blues. Srinivasan defines the Blue political tribe as the liberal voters he implies are responsible for the city’s problems. Blues will be banned from the Gray-controlled zones, said Balaji, unlike Republicans (“Reds”).
“Reds should be welcomed there, and people should wear their tribal colors,” said Srinivasan, who compared his color-coded apartheid system to the Bloods vs. Crips gang rivalry. “No Blues should be welcomed there.”
While the Blues would be excluded, they would not be forgotten. Srinivasan imagines public screenings of anti-Blue propaganda films: “In addition to celebrating Gray and celebrating Red, you should have movies shown about Blue abuses.… There should be lots of stories about what Blues are doing that is bad.”
Balaji goes on—and on. The Grays will rename city streets after tech figures and erect public monuments to memorialize the alleged horrors of progressive Democratic governance. Corporate logos and signs will fill the skyline to signify Gray dominance of the city. “Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first).
Do other writers ever get this like, hyper-specific dialogue exchange drop into their brains and you know exactly where these character are standing and what they’re doing and how they’re saying these words but that’s all you get. You don’t have much other context and this specific moment that exists only at this time in your headspace??