I don't usually see this colour of bun in the wild. but that last two days Ive seen this guy on the front lawn/driveway of a neighbors house. I hope someone didn't abandon them.
Your helping bring up the spooky season spirit. It is appreciated.
I'm 100% cool with that
When he mentioned Kitchener's new transit hub and showed that empty lot, what was funny to me is that I owned a condo in a building visible in this video, kitty corner to that lot.
The old Tannery, which Google shared with a few other tech companies, was where my office was. That was a bigger deal at the time. CBC was calling it the Silicon Valley of the North.
Back then I had two pieces of information. One, a highrise of condos was being built across the street from my office. Two, the downtown transit hub was going to be decommissioned, along with that ancient train station. Supposedly they'd even add a second set of tracks between KW and Toronto to finally allow more than 2 trains a day (they left at 6am and 6:30am).
Google was going to build a huge campus, and between the condo building and the campus, where the Ion stop was being built, they'd have a new train and bus station to serve the downtown core. So I spent what little I had, borrowed what I could, and bought a tiny condo in that building, knowing that when it all came together it would skyrocket in value. And if I ever lost my job I could always commute to Toronto. Right?
Fast forward 4 or 5 years. The condo is done. The Google campus is well under way. But the Kitchener transit hub is just gone (it was a homeless shelter for a while there), and they haven't even broken ground on the new transit hub that was supposed to make the value of everything skyrocket. Something about an issue with the contractors.
A few years later, as happens a lot in the tech space, I became a layoff statistic. Now I was stuck with a condo I couldn't afford to keep. I had to sell it early (goodbye first time home buyer benefits). After paying off all the debts I made a tiny profit, but nowhere near as much as I would have made if I'd hung in there a few more years, according to the real estate guy. The transit hub would be done real quick, he said.
That was a decade ago. It's been over 10 years since the transit hub was supposed to be finished. It was supposed to be done before they closed down the existing one. So hearing Jason talk about it like it's something that's happening soon was hilarious.
Heck yhea. Looks love to see the community coming together to make stuff.
I'm cool with it as long as the artists are credited and it's not AI slop. Though honestly clueless on how I'd even enforce an anti AI policy. I should probably think that through and formalize it.
Honestly this community is so tiny I'm just hoping we can all be cool.
I'm a little old school. It's an mu3 file made for VLC and VLC mobile. I bought most of the albums off of bandcamp years ago as mp3 files. So all of that's in my phone. I can't really share that. Given no one in my social circles want me to even mention Homestuck (that is quite fair honestly) Ive never needed to share it.
I have the kind of autism that makes me listen to them all in a giant playlist. No skipping but I had removed a few of the more shitposty ones. (One's like 5 minutes of silence followed by a nice cage "Boner" also the entire Fuck it lets be Santa album). But I listen to this way too often and I can tell absolutely no one.
Picking a favorite is difficult. I won't say they are my favorite but id highlight these two
Heir of grief - almost a cop-out answer but good god that one filled with emotion. It's kind of the end of Homestuck itself it's done, carry on with your memories of it and move on as the project is over. I mean not really but it was for me at the time that one came out.
It could also represent the death of a specific character (not to spoil anything) but it could also be the grief of those in the little community of musicians working around the project. I don't know much about that one and don't want to speculate on it. In either case that one hits me in the feels hard.
Green Ghost - The vibes on it are just perfect for my little daily walks. Chill as heck variant of Doctor. It has a strong sense of release and renewal.
Honestly a big concession I'd make to my own argument is the music. The characters themes helped a lot for me to get the tone of the characters. Though if I remember correctly the tracks often came (at least to bandcamp) sometime after the characters introduction arks. One of those things I could enjoy more in my re read is listening to the various themes of each character
Maybe formulaic is a better description. I saw it at the time as here's a character, here are their stats, they are evil in some way. At least with some characters. Perhaps I was hoping to learn about them more slowly and organically. Though when you need to introduce a bunch of new characters things are too quick.
Mind this was just over a decade or two ago, and my more recent (sadly partial) re-read did let me appreciate things a bit more.
I forgot the exact reason I gave in my attempt at a full re-read. But the writing in then felt a bit too systematic. I saw them as a bit of a reoccurring tangent from the main story that some elements stuck in longer than others.
I remember during my original reading, as the comic was being written a few pages a week. Much of the trollian arcs wishing that things could just go back to the core cast and that the character pool was getting oversaturated too fast.
But I was young and busy in those days so to be fair I was probably "speed reading" a lot of it as things become more and more text heavy.
I'd have to go with Terezi. Still not a fan of the trolls but this one at least had time to develop as a character. Some of the others I saw were elements of myself I didn't really like like Kakrats rambling or Travos being a people pleaser. Whereas Terezi was more in line with a developing sense of justice (even if her version of justice is at best problematic)
Can I play with it?
My roommate found a bunch of these at a thrift store near Toronto Canada. No tags so potentially home made the arms are noodly and you can chain them together. No idea what this guy is but we love it and wish we got more.
These strange banana plushies showed up at our local salvation army store. They have no tags or any clues as to what they are. But the store sold out.
My roommate bought a few but he wants more. We think they are cute and you can tie them together in fun ways.
Does any have any idea of these are or where to get more?
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