I wonder if the brains were duplicated from actual people? As well as intelligence, Unity seems to have absorbed the speech patterns of an upper-middle-class English academic whose friends still call her “Bunty.”
I dunno. There’s a well established fictive correlation between temporarily increased intelligence and the affectation of mannerisms associated with posh English academia, a feature which is far less apparent in those with more permanently augmented faculties. There’s probably some kind of Phenomenon behind it.
I would criticize the zombies because their civility is predicated on a technological food dispensary system and they would start eating human brains if that system were to fail, but that would be the pot calling the kettle black.
Also, I don’t know if any of the characters in the strip read the comments, but I have a suggestion for where you can be yourself, free from persecution by the Man and the Man’s non-human counterparts. It’s a piece of prime real estate called Watership Down. It’s currently occupied by rabbits, but you can take them easy.
Oooookay. Thinking about the writing here. It’s showed up so far on the moon (fake or real), a book page, and a wall. It’s changed several times. So– ‘I’ will destroy them? This sounds weird (but hey, I’m talking about an underground city on the fast track) but could St. Charlie itself (himself/herself?) want them dead? Or gone? Maybe St. Charlie wants to stop traveling?
Wow, real stream-of-consciousness rambling here, but still.
I predict at some point the train will write, “SO HOW CUTE IS NICK?”
These messages aren’t bacronyms so that theory is out…
Hmm. With these people, I suspect derailing the city and leaving it in flames with massive casualties probably gets bonus points……
(TUNE: “On Top Of Old Smokey”, traditional)
On-topic graffiti
Right there on the wall!
It threatens destruction
To one and to all!
First, Unity’s lurching
With those of her kind …
And then she is lunching,
On brains she has dined!
Intelligence rising,
How smart can she get?
Then finds a surprising,
Self-editing threat!
On-topic graffiti,
Inspiring this song!
It threatens destruction
By writing what’s wrong!
Writing what’s wrong? ISWYDT.
(groooooaaaaan.)
This is not foreshadowing. This is not even [i]five[/i]shadowing.
We’ve gone all the way up to SIXTEENshadowing.
Thanks for starting my day off right, with four squared shadowing of disaster ^_^.
Huh. Never thought I’d see Morbo using grafitti.
I note that Unity is handling this much more sensibly (and calmly) than Sweetheart did.
It’s a nice font, I’ll give whatever it is that.
Eddurd, sometimes your filks really crack me up! This is one of them. Really well done.
I wonder if the brains were duplicated from actual people? As well as intelligence, Unity seems to have absorbed the speech patterns of an upper-middle-class English academic whose friends still call her “Bunty.”
Maybe all the brians are duplicated from the SAME person (Bunty).
Wouldn’t be surprised.
I dunno. There’s a well established fictive correlation between temporarily increased intelligence and the affectation of mannerisms associated with posh English academia, a feature which is far less apparent in those with more permanently augmented faculties. There’s probably some kind of Phenomenon behind it.
Whoever is behind the hallucinations: I like them.
Ah. You are assuming they are hallucinations. That possibility actually had not occured to me.
“I like this train, it’s exciting!”
I would criticize the zombies because their civility is predicated on a technological food dispensary system and they would start eating human brains if that system were to fail, but that would be the pot calling the kettle black.
Also, I don’t know if any of the characters in the strip read the comments, but I have a suggestion for where you can be yourself, free from persecution by the Man and the Man’s non-human counterparts. It’s a piece of prime real estate called Watership Down. It’s currently occupied by rabbits, but you can take them easy.
Nope, too late, “Real-life Watership Down fights housing development”
Oooookay. Thinking about the writing here. It’s showed up so far on the moon (fake or real), a book page, and a wall. It’s changed several times. So– ‘I’ will destroy them? This sounds weird (but hey, I’m talking about an underground city on the fast track) but could St. Charlie itself (himself/herself?) want them dead? Or gone? Maybe St. Charlie wants to stop traveling?
Wow, real stream-of-consciousness rambling here, but still.
leave this a out