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electronichound

Gigabyte 025

Mar 14, 2009 22:55

Cultural traditions and holidays are often standalone complexes, copies without an actual original. Halloween is one that springs immediately to mind. Modern holidays seem less focused on spirituality and community than on consumerism, which a late twentieth-century writer dubbed "the bastard child of capitalism and fascism ( Read more... )

man in a machine's shape, major, machine in a man's shape, standalone complex, shousa, deja vu

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captainverg March 15 2009, 06:08:49 UTC

Halloween?

electronichound March 15 2009, 06:16:24 UTC

Yes, a holiday where people dress up as monsters, devils and other evil spirits, and small children extort candies and sweets from adults with threatening rhymes.

captainverg March 15 2009, 06:18:57 UTC

. . . .

((A VERY long pause))

Could the people dressed as monsters eat the children? I mean could I walk on land and.. the humans wouldn't KNOW who I really am.. I could eat the annoying braty children that want candy?

electronichound March 15 2009, 06:20:42 UTC

That being homicide, it would be illegal.

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electroniccrane March 15 2009, 06:15:32 UTC

[The sound of Batou's progress through the forest comes to her both through the communicator and her own hearing. Kusanagi flips through and discards several evasion scenarios. His woodcraft is better than hers, and they're tied in a flat-out sprint...and it's a sign of the turmoil she's been in the past few days that she's even considering something that undignified.

It's her own fault, really--spending so much time on Deck 03 lately. Patterns favor the pursuer. Leaning her head back against the bole of the enormous tree in whose roots she's sitting, she waits for Batou to find her. She hasn't a clue what she's going to say when he does.]

electronichound March 15 2009, 06:20:15 UTC

[It's really not difficult to find her. For starters, she weighs over a ton so her tracks are ridiculously easy to spot. The Major also leaves a clear trail of broken grasses, twigs and crushed leaves and lastly, his electromagnetic vision picks up one large figure made out of metals sitting against a tree.

Either they've erected an unorthodox version of The Thinker on Deck 03, or the Major is playing hide and seek.

Batou doesn't feel like playing. He walks up and stops about three meters from her, hands in his pockets.]

// You've been scarce. //

electroniccrane March 15 2009, 06:29:05 UTC

[Not wanting Batou around is an odd feeling for her. Her eyes flick up to his.]

// Yes. //

electronichound March 15 2009, 06:30:57 UTC

// Not so scarce that I couldn't find you, though. //

[Implying she wants to be caught.]

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anomnipresence March 15 2009, 07:09:07 UTC

Are you saying "they" aren't cynical now?

electronichound March 15 2009, 07:12:42 UTC

They've perhaps matured out of that studied phase of finding everything lacking.

anomnipresence March 15 2009, 07:31:01 UTC

Hmm. Maybe.

A person once told me that, having removed ourselves from the process of evolution and natural selection, we have nothing left to do but consume and enjoy bodily pleasures.

electronichound March 15 2009, 07:35:02 UTC

That's one philosophy, but not one that I subscribe to.

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Your thread with Verg disturbs me O_o fiery_kitty March 15 2009, 19:08:39 UTC

All the more reason to forget and discard those foolish notions. 'Holidays'. Tch. Only humans could think of such things.

it's pretty creepy, yeah electronichound March 15 2009, 20:01:44 UTC

I am not a human.

[He hasn't heard her voice before.]

Who are you?

fiery_kitty March 15 2009, 22:19:34 UTC

Lethe, of the beast tribe. I'm a new arrival to this hellish boat.