Things That Are Awesome: Twelfthteen.

June 24th, 2020

A hundred and twenty percent.

-Wruggling worms. 

-Exactly twelve Mississippis. 

-The tickling of trepanation. 

-Many many many many many many many many many many many many MANY marine reptiles. 

-Oh and throw in plenty of placoderms, please. 

-Rigorous rigmarole. 

-Hopping mad.  Not leaping or jumping or bouncing, hopping.  There’s a distinct springiness to the heels. 

-The helpful, polite, and maximally-decomposed undead. 

-Tiptoeing through any non-tulip plants.  Why should they get special treatment?

-Bopping. 

-Knee jerks. 

-Ruthless, tough, pragmatic, hard-choice-making decision-making that completely and utterly yields worse results than asking nicely. 

-Unruly deep-sea organisms. 

-Incalculably dubious decision-making by nonsapient organisms. 

-Manglegement. 

-Dorks without borders. 

-Bumptious bumblefucks. 

-Cretinous architecture. 

-Skeleliters. 

-Hoots without hollers. 

-Roburstness. 

-Cloning dinosaurs argy-bargy.

-The chitinous crunch of a good crisp French fry. 

-Turdbulence. 

-Survival of the flabbiest, as fitness is contextual rather than generic. 

-Discourteous, apathetic, or outright hostile service.  It shows fighting spirit. 

-The bitter-shed tears of defeat in the face of the universe’s bland refusal to grant ice cream. 

-Crawling without skin. 

-Giblets.  The more gruesome, the more glorious. 

-Food.  In sufficient quantities to prevent starvation, it’s even better. 

-Freshly shelled and steamed crabapples, with plenty of melted butter. 

Australopithecus africanus.  Say the name, go on.  It’s just so crisp. 

-Rumbling clouds, floors, animals, vehicles, guts, etc. 

-Excessive gravity.  Lacking or present. 

-Tiny little adorable sidekick species in bio-essentialist fantasy settings that seize control of the means of production and utterly shellack the hell out of the protagonists before forming a fair and representative government for mutual protection with whatever species the protagonists were going to butcher the hell out of for ten thousand pages over six volumes. 

-Curds. 

-Oiled butter. 

-Vigorous and unusual venoms, especially if they were intended to just be saliva before things got spicy. 

-Corbies.  Not crows, just corbies. 

-Corbiebars. 

-Scandalous tell-all biographies of very, very, very boring assholes. 

-Micro megas. 

-Cowpokes getting fatally poked by cows.  Leave the damned cows alone, they go through enough already and the only joy they get is passively poisoning us with methane. 

-Nourishing and delicious morsels, tidbits, and bites. 

-Or a big bag of crunchy potato chips. 

-An early lunch.  Be right back. 

-That’s better.  Where were we?

-Atypically vast things. 

-Typically vast things.

-Vast things. 

-Anything that manages to be precisely neither larger nor smaller than a breadbox. 

-Because then you can put it in your breadbox. 

-People that are wider than they are tall.  Not necessarily overweight, just tremendously wide. 

-Also, people that are extremely thin back-to-front.  Think like gingerbread people. 

-Actual crows in the crow’s nest, persisting despite all attempts at removing them. 

-Inactual crows in the crow’s nest, persisting in the face of all reality. 

-Pooridge.  Particularly if it’s rich. 

-Assorted jams. 

-Unsorted jellies. 

-A giant and totally crammed cupboard with god knows how many kinds of pickles in it, all heaped up willy-nilly. 

-New newts in old boots. 

-Rumpling the perfect.

-The wind in the whackamoles. 

-Unwarranted rambunctiousness in the face of the old. 

-Overly permanent structures carved into icebergs. 

-Hobbit holes.  But not hobbits, classist little British bastards that they are. 

-Wonderful days with no neighborhood.  It’s a little too bustle-y for my tastes. 

-Snips and snails saving puppy-dog tails. 

-Sugar and spice, which are, in and of themselves, everything nice. 

-A nice crisp cup of crepuscular. 

-Violent, sudden rotations. 

-Planets that know better than to let themselves be explored. 

-The inevitable march of time and its ability to erase all things for good or ill. 

-Kittens.

-Robust and reliable community support systems with no stigma against their use. 

-Small and incompetent birds. 

-Mellow predators that only disembowel if teased. 

-Relaxed megafauna that only tramples when photographed. 

-Eager and obnoxious tourists with a penchant for selfies. 

-Instantaneous evaporation. 

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