it’s easter and the Big Man is – somehow, impossibly – back

Finished Meat, starting Candy

I know I’m not actually dreaming – I’ve done the reality checks, but more importantly I’ve been through a full subjectively experienced afternoon/evening/night/morning since this started, and REM cycles never last more than ~1hr (and elapse subjectively in approximate real time).  But, in a really enjoyable way, the Homestuck Epilogues feel just like the kind of thing that happens in a dream.

You know?  The dreams that are at first superficially realistic, except that they don’t seem fully aware of what’s present and what’s past, and present you with an experience that would have been ordinary some time ago but very implausible right now?  But then the experience quickly diverges from anything resembling your IRL experience of that thing, because it’s become the vessel for the distinctively oneiric package of intense and inscrutable emotions and images the dream wants to throw at you?

The ones where it’s like, “oh, huh, there’s a new update for a webcomic I used to like, which ended over two years ago?  might as well read it, I guess?  hmm, this is … different.  it’s about … well, it’s about a lot of things, really, jeez, wow, this time the webcomic is about … (I feel tense) it’s (I feel alive) it’s abOut How MY soUL is COnsuMing itselF (it’s so beautiful – – ) (my god)”

That kind of thing happens a lot in dreams, or at least in my dreams.  I guess sometimes it happens in reality too.

nostalgebraist:

I’m only near the start of the Homestuck epilogues (“Meat” flavor specifically) but they are … good??

Or at least, they’re playing up some of the specific strains within Homestuck that I liked the best, and they’re well-written and funny, not exactly the same way the original was, but in the way you get when someone is a talented fiction writer and just so happens to be writing Homestuck fanfic

this is really good

I’m only near the start of the Homestuck epilogues (“Meat” flavor specifically) but they are … good??

Or at least, they’re playing up some of the specific strains within Homestuck that I liked the best, and they’re well-written and funny, not exactly the same way the original was, but in the way you get when someone is a talented fiction writer and just so happens to be writing Homestuck fanfic

nostalgebraist:

Sudden mental image when walking to the fridge: Donald Trump saying, in the tone he uses to talk about his business career, the phrase “I post great, viral, memetic content”

In this paper, we show how the predicted effects of actions in the context of a paragraph can be improved in two ways: (1) by incorporating global, commonsense constraints (e.g., a non-existent entity cannot be destroyed), and (2) by biasing reading with preferences from large-scale corpora (e.g., trees rarely move).

Hello, just some facts for you all today:
I look ESPECIALLY cute with fresh haircut
Sometimes I do this little head-bobbing half-dance to music and it is VERY cute
I really love the music of Bonnie Tyler and I sing along and my face lights up in the most ADORABLE way
I am a great husband and I make the world so beautiful by existing

If I say out loud, “The only reason I want to go to the gym is physical health,” I feel a curtain of discontent that reminds me physical attractiveness is also important.