December 11, 2007 at 2:43 am Post Author: Giania Tags: abandonment, adventure, cephalopod, Dream Log, dreams, fax, fiction, forms, plane, scifi, space, story ·
The man was busily filling out forms. he had to complete two of them and fax them back to headquarters or he wouldn’t get a lick of benefits. The first one done he slammed the number into the keypad and fed the forms, all at once (beige, pink and blue, as each had to be in triplicate, naturally) through the vertical fax slot next to the pad.
Frowning his way through the second set of forms he looked up through the clear door to his left to see someone behind a desk saying something about preparing for landing. Indeed, gravity felt a little bit off and there was that sickening feeling of his internal organs shifting, like going downhill on a bike really fast.
Not much time then. Some other vague announcement, and as he was feeding the second set of forms, it was announced that landing was nearly completed, and only a select few were going to be let off. The rest were to be left behind on the ship.
NO! was the first and only frantic thought that ran through his mind as the door to his empty holding area whooshed open. Apparently there was to be free run of the ship, even if they weren’t going to be let off. Surely there was a solution here, a way out. Either way, there would be limited resources and securing a position without… hurting someone would be challenging unless it was done soon. No time to consider the inevitable, really.
Scurrying about proved useless. The place was as vague his forms and featureless as his containment area.
A panel opened up to the right. What is this?! A face appeared and disappeared from this opening quickly enough to cause some serious consternation regarding an early departure of sanity. Not a good sign, the only thing to be done was investigate, obviously.
The underbelly had ostensibly more to offer, although that really wasn’t saying much. Pipes and grey corridors, some blinking lights. Not much of a shift from the clean powder blue, spotless glass, and white ceilings. It was a start, nevertheless.
…….
and that’s the last I remember.
There were other dreams about plane rides, some things involving cephalopods that it’s apparently better not to share, uhm, and some other stuff I don’t really remember.
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September 4, 2007 at 12:45 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: cephalopod, dark_tower_series, description, Dream Log, dreams, Ectomo, elder_gods, ethereal, gentle_readers, Help the Author, irridescent, Literature, monsters, oddities, sea_creatures, sexual_conduct, symbolic gestures, time_paradox ·
The dream log to follow really isn’t all that suprising to me. I’ve been re-reading The Dark Tower series (Stephen King, I’m on The Waste Lands) and quite frankly I’m probably crazy. The majority is unfortunately already disappearing into the fog of the waking world. A lot of what I do remember is NSFW in nature. That said, a handy cut tag will be employed for those more sensative of my gentle readers.
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January 30, 2007 at 6:59 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: 2007, Art, blog, cephalopod, cthuhlu, internet, love, money, php, pi, print, RSS, search, ToM, wired, work ·
Oops! Wish I had found this link a little sooner. $20 could have gotten you this super-rad octopus print, but they’re already sold out of their run of 100 5″x5″ prints. The proceeds would have gone
On the upside, though, they seem to update every couple of days with a new and enticing art print.
Tiny Showcase seems to focus on, well, tiny art prints. The site started as just a couple of art enthusiasts’ own showcase, but as of August ‘05 they raised prices a little so they could start donating to charitable organizations.
The heads-up on Tiny Showcase comes from Gregory Euclide, who is apparently going to be featured on TS here pretty soon.
Speaking of prints and Mr. Euclide, if I haven’t shared it yet, you should definitely zoom by We <3 Prints. It’s where I located a set of six prints by Gregory earlier this year. And hey, if you’re disappointed that you missed out on the first octo-print, you’re in luck because We <3 Prints found another one for just a little more money!
Cephalophiles rejoice! Internet art supports and understands you. <3
Also, I must tip my hat to my beloved ToM for helping me spread rad (cephalopod-related) art links today. Do I earn my (purely honorary) ToMcat ears now, John? The idea is as exciting as joining the Mickey Mouse Club must have been, except this is superior: it’s got WAY more Cthuhlu. Incidentally, since I subscribed to the ToM RSS feed back on 08/03/06, my search pulls up at least 38 direct references to Cthuhlu. Freaking awesome.
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