@landonhere

We aren’t very far from 2025, which is halfway through the decade. While we have made admirable progress in many technological fields, many of the expectations we had over 14 years ago have yet to be met. Everybody else is making demands for jetpacks and flying cars, but I must ask . . . WHERE IS MY WORD PROCESSOR WITH BUILT-IN WEBSITE HOSTING FUNCTIONALITY?!

FACT: According to information read from the SSD amputated from the Mac mini, older versions of macOS had an application known as iWeb, which may have served this functionality. I don’t know when it happened, but it was probably removed because website hosting isn’t a feature valued by the average user.

The duality of the Icelandic Waters when assembling a timeline:

Icelandic Waters #1: “Wait, if we're going to include mainland timestamps in the chronology, we're going to have to factor in some Misewa Math. Take note of how Jane goes to Neverland for at least a day, yet it's only the middle of the night when she returns. The Earth : Misewa time shift ratio is precisely 1 : 168, so- wait, I think the Wikipedia article on the book had something to say about it…”

Icelandic Waters #2: “1000 years after the events of Legend of the Neverbeast, Gruff wakes from hibernation to discover that the fairies are long dead, the pixie dust tree has stopped flowing, and the entirety of Neverland has been consumed with eternal winter. A small but tenacious creature, emerging from a different kind of hibernation, joins forces with Gruff to achieve their mission of global ascension . . .”

tears became blood, tongues became fangs
someone is to blame for what he became
with all that mocking and merciless games
it isn't a challenge to center the frame

in his thankless family that
harbored a hostile habitat
relentless ridicule dwarfed the bats
wearing him down, and that was that

restless sleep, only and one
crescendoing with a sudden plunge
finally ready to flee and run
but the damage had long been done

a fully innocent, special soul
falling down that dreadful hole
having become far from whole
a lucent granule rendered null

I enjoy writing poetry about things that bring me deep emotion. I also have a lengthy poem from 21.8.31.E written partially in free verse and partially in 8ABAB, as well as a two-versed poem written in 4AABAAB.

And the award of the cutest sleeping slugcat goes to . . . The Guide!

Icelandic Waters: “Have fun indulging in the third and fourth tiers of karmic staging . . . I'd steal a ladder and hide on the roof if it meant staying away from y’all.”

. . . and I've successfully filled out my first Expedition page. These are mostly slugcats that have proper campaigns. The next page will have more gimmick-oriented slugcats. I do wonder why they were sorted in the order they were; ideally, Noir would be with the other Solace slugcats…

Icelandic Waters: “No thoughts. Brain empty.”

Icelandic Waters #1: “Thyme? Is that the gland around the throat that activates the immune system? Or is that chyme?”

Icelandic Waters #2: “No, that's the crop that you considered cultivating in FS3 for a reason that I don't remember. You're thinking of vines.”

Icelandic Waters #3: “No, that's the American coin between the one named after an element and the one named after a fraction. You're thinking of fives.”

Icelandic Waters #4: “No, that's the acronym for that fictional dream visualization technology seen in that Rhythm Doctor charting of Hayloft. You're thinking of lives.”

Icelandic Waters #5: “No, that's the island or whatever that all those cats in sacks were being sent to in that 7×7×7×7×7 puzzle variant. You're thinking of wives.”

Icelandic Waters #6: “No, that's the last thing that Max considered adding to his soup to improve the taste before realizing that it needed herbs from the garden. You're thinking of rides.”

Icelandic Waters #7: “No, that's the name of the YouTuber who dissects electronics. You're thinking of climb.”

Icelandic Waters #8: “No, that's the thing that people in Night Vale are apparently afraid of to the point that someone put an ‘if you are afraid of knives, press _’ option in the the water department auto-response list." Not sure why that is, though…”

Icelandic Waters: “literally Pariki”

It's getting colder both outside and inside. The prospect of becoming a slugcat with a flaming tail is enticing, but would almost certainly end badly. I wonder which slugcats have the best winter adaptations…

Icelandic Waters: “WOOOOOO “

I love depth-first research.

. . . and now I just need to select 6 more modded slugcats to populate the second Expedition page, and then 7 more after that. I guess that Expedition mode is a home for all the story-less slugcat campaigns on the workshop!

Wawa??