Mar Luna

WHO: The Weirdos
WHEN: May 15 (~9 P.M.)
WHERE: La Estrella Hotel, Taboga Town
SUMMARY: Joaco endeavours to explain it all, and the helmet comes off.
CW: Mentions of major character death.

( Opening Statements. )
( The Dark Knight. )
( Three Brothers. )
( Nero Revealed. )
( A Static Past. )
( Next Steps. )
( Lost Memories & Time. )
( The Seal. )
( End of Meeting. )

WHO: Mateo & Eli; Faihan & Juliet; Mateo, Santi, Nati, & Brisa
WHEN: May 14 (~1 A.M. / ~2 A.M.)
WHERE: UML; Akane's Residence; Central Park
SUMMARY: Eli and Mateo set off to see if Akane or the brothers (or the kill switch) can be found at UML, while Juliet and Faihan head to Akane's mansion. Upon their return, Santi gets an idea for how to keep the tree from growing further...
CW: N/A

( ''That's not suspicious at all.'' )

Favorite fictional scientist and why! Go!

And if you feel inclined -- favorite real scientist!

[Private to Santi]

I am in possession of something you may be interested in!

WHO: Natalia, Santi, Chelo, and...the Reaper.
WHEN: February 18
WHERE: The Park
SUMMARY: The mask breaks. The Reaper is revealed.
CW: Mild violence.

( ''Let him go. He helped us...'' )

Hello! In honor of Valentine's Day, I decided to introduce the deredere/tsuntsun that has become popular in anime circles to describe couples!

Deredere is overly affectionate. Tsuntsun is not that -- being cold. Tsundere is someone who's default is one but their love interest causes them to flip. This recent obsession with Tsundere has created all sorts of deredere!!!

Here's a primer

And another!

So for fun -- which type are you in love? What is your partner? Who is your ideal?

Hope all you couples are having fun today!

WHO: Natalia & Chelo
WHEN: January 22
WHERE: UML Library
SUMMARY: My old new friend.
CW: N/A

( ''I write smutty anime fan fiction so take that as you will.'' )

WHO: Natalia & Faihan
WHEN: Azúcar
WHERE: November 22
SUMMARY: Faihan teaches Natalia to make tamarind paste for macarons, and they talk about what the mystery men behind the scene might actually want from them all...
CW: Otherkin? LMAO.

( ''Like an unreliable narrator!'' )

I do not consider myself a Christian but I appreciate secular Christmas. You know, the universe where Hallmark Christmas Movies live. The place where I can get a leg for a lamp! The Santa that allows a reindeer with a mutant superpower guide the sleigh after years and years of bullying.

It is in this spirit, I am trying to arrange a secret santa!

If you are interested, please respond below by 1 December. I will pull names out of a hat and alert you to your secret santa. From 1 Dec to 23 Dec, buy little gifts or make little gifts or whatever and either leave them places where your person goes a lot or leave them with me at my job at Azucar (and while you're at it, buy a treat or two). If someone else wants to be a Secret Santa Dispensery, please let me know and I shall update accordingly!

On 23 December -- place to be determined -- we will exchange the big gifts at the reveal.

What I need you to do is respond below and put a few of your likes or dislikes. And also where you like to hang.

Have fun!

I'm hearing some people calling Dune shitty Star Wars when in fact to be accurate -- since Dune came out first -- Star Wars is improved Dune.

But I'm not sure if I buy the premise because really Star Wars and Dune have two things in common -- there is a desert planet and weird mind powers -- and that's it.

Other than that, to compare them is apples and oranges.

To be SUPER pretentious, they aren't even the same genre! Star Wars is actually Fantasy, not Sci-Fi. Dune is more Sci-Fi although some may argue that straddles the line. I don't. But some people may.

What do I even mean. Well.

Science Fiction is a weird genre because its purpose is to be talking about the ~future~ and the consequences of technology. For instance, Star Trek is Science Fiction because it envisions the future in which technology gets rid of our need for capitalism and chefs and war with each other. And racism is a thing of the past at least on Earth. Star Wars is fantasy because it is about space wizards.

And it is because of that Sci-Fi has a tendency to age poorly because what people in the 60s envision the future is so different than what people in the 80s or today see.

To give Dune credit, I think what they think the future will be is probably more accurate. Star Trek is so wrong to think our stupid Earth will get together to destroy capitalism and racism to explore the stars together. No, we're just gonna break into factions and fight over resources on desert planets just like the big powers do here. I think for that reason is why I would argue Dune is strictly science fiction.

I think if I would have to compare Dune to anything, it would be Lord of the Rings because I would rather watch it than read through a book that has the density of the shortbread cookies I tried to make once. And yes, I love how bad David Lynch's Dune is.

In other news, I've had the urge to rewatch Fullmetal Alchemist because I have been having a lot of dreams lately that I'm a white boy with a prosthetic. I don't do Alchemy though so my dreams are strictly in the Science Fiction category.