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Random reason to love Steam Powered Giraffe #2

Continuing on from yesterday's attempt to pull you unawares into the fanmily [that's the collective name for the SPG fandom] I bring you yet another reason to love this band.

Today's reason? Their comedic brilliance

They can, have, and will carry a joke around for years [See: The Spine's 'back story' ] including a few from their busking days.

Most of the stage comedy is banter-related. The Spine usually plays the straight man in these episodes, but he has his nerdy moments.

My internet's being a dick at the moment (boo) so I can't currently nest the videos I'd love to share. I've been trying for half an hour, but YouTube's being nasty.

Let's just say that they were not above rickrolling their audience or getting a familiar song confused with an advert. Strictly for comedic purposes of course.

Then there's this thing. Just... watch it. There are no words.

And now? Well... they're getting deeper into their universe. Their official video introductions all include partial dismemberment [thanks to digital trickery] to make it clear that the audience knows that these are robots.

You can 'meet' Hatchworth, The Spine, and Rabbit via each handy link. Please note that some video content may be disturbing to folks unfamiliar with the bots.

It's strange. I know. That's why I love them.

Challenge #00967-B236: STEVEN!

“I may have accidentally sort of adopted five cats.”

(Prompt from CallMeGallifreya on Tumblr)

Baby Rose was investigating the nutritional quality of her own fist again. Connie gently encouraged her to chew on the pediatrician-recommended teether that her mom insisted all babies loved.

Rose gnawed on it once, twice, and then looked up as if to say, Why would you betray me like this, mother? and promptly spat it out.

"Yeah," she sighed. "Try telling Gram'ma that. You try telling gram'ma. No,

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Random Reasons to love Steam Powered Giraffe

Anyone who knows me also knows that I love all colours of anything out of this band. They're weird. They're quirky. They have a story and a lore and an entire universe growing organically from something that started as four college kids busking in the street.

But today's reason to love them is this: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Check out the way Rabbit moves in both of these music clips. One from once upon a time

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Challenge #00966-B235: Consult the Tea

More about the mentioned-once Captain’s Cup

(Prompt from CallMeGallifreya on Tumblr)

Working with humans was always a rocky path...

Bal'thox watched in confusion as her human captain installed a small heat plate near the Captain's chair. Humans had been all over this ship. Adding insanity upon insanity.

Certainly, some of them worked. Like the gravity generator that was half technology, half cargo cult.

Others mystified. Like the twin, plush representation of six-sided die that now dangled above the main screen. And

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Challenge #00965-B234: A Nice, Hot, Cuppa

More about the mentioned-once Captain’s Cup

(Prompt from CallMeGallifreya on Tumblr)

Throughout the Galactic Alliance, one common factor became well known. There is no instrument more sensitive than a cup of hot beverage next to the Captain's chair.

Captain Eloise Fortescue put things together first, and had a habit of keeping a nice, hot, cup of tea by her captain's chair. And of course it helped that humans were the only ones who had gravity generators as standard technology.

Which allowed

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Tumblr can have good things

Despite the staff's incompetence in all things design and user-interface related, Tumblr is still a place where creative people can get together and make interesting things.

Ideas are circulated. Expanded upon. Shared and, in at least one case, developed to fruition. One such example is my book, The Amity Incident which started life as a Tumblr post expanding on the premise that humans are space orcs.

Well, it gets better. Once upon a time in 2012, Tumblr user GoddessOfCheese put up this

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Why Inkitt is so Firkin Great

Some of you who are still paying attention to my tumblr will be aware that I have a few stories up for offer at their contest, Reinvent Reality

Really sharp-eyed readers will know I'm currently at number 14 in the top 20.

Which is pretty firkin amazing for a story I put up only a few days ago.

Heck, it's damned amazing considering that I wrote this story, longhand, whilst I was waiting for the postie to turn up with my copy

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Challenge #00964-B233: Where Have All the Dinos Gone?

http://immaplatypus.tumblr.com/post/128003023050/bethosaurus-sunslammerdown

(Prompt from CallMeGallifreya on Tumblr)

[AN: For those of you who can't be bothered following the link, the text reads as follows:

OP: What if aliens visited Earth during the Jurassic Period, found it to be occupied with a bunch of mean, giant lizards and thought "Well, fuck this planet" and never came back?

1stReply: what if when humans went out into the galaxy all the aliens panicked because if the dinosaurs tiny fur snacks

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Challenge #00963-B232: Love and Hate and Love Again...

Dunno what this is from originally, but I saw it on Tumblr in a few places, and figured you’d make something awesome from it…

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“They say ‘You can’t love someone unless you love yourself first.' Bullshit. I have never loved myself. But you - oh god, I loved you so much… that I somehow forgot what hating myself felt like.”

(Prompt from ChaosWolf1982 on Tumblr)

There were days, aching days when the rain made his entire, misshapen body

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Challenge #00962-B231: Just Like Bricks Don't

On the training plane for the Space Shuttle, the gearshift had three setitings: “fly like a plane”, “fly like a brick”, and “fly like the shuttle”. Please note that “brick” was used as an intermediate step between “plane” and “shuttle”

(Prompt from RecklessPrudence on Tumblr)

"Now this," said the human in the tones of someone sharing something delightful, "is old school."

"It looks like a simple re-entry vehicle," Tarb'nathad tapped a wing. "Primitive, yet effective."

"You have 'primitive' right," Kanta, too, had

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Ch-ch-ch-changes...

Every morning, I have been waking up to something new happening on this site. And it's all because of Beloved. They're spending their precious free time on tweaking, primping, and otherwise fancifying my blog for you.

Today's feature is a Subscription button WAAAAAAYYY down on the bottom of the menu. Don't worry, it's free.

What you get out of subscribing is a simplified feed of everything that goes into my blog. I have to assume that it's mobile friendly because said feed

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Challenge #00961-B230: One Gloomy Evening in a Dimly-lit Tavern

Person #1: Everyone knows there are no female dwarves because dwarves reproduce through beards, stone, and beer. :p

Person #2: No, somewhere deep in the mine lies the Dorf Queen. Whale-sized, eyeless, telepathically controlling the entire dwarf species and continuously giving birth to new “drones.”

Person #3: This also explains why dwarves all act the same. They’re just appendages of the same collective mind. Which is an aggressive alcoholic miner for some reason.

(Prompt from RecklessPrudence on Tumblr)

Jolli Eskutrebe kept

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The Pact

Disclaimer: Steam Powered Giraffe belongs entirely to Isabella and David Bennett, as well as Sam Luke, Steve Negrete, and anyone else they draft into their dramatic musical shenanigans. I just write fic based entirely off my own loony ideas. Please don't nick what little I have.

AN: SPOILER ALERT! This fic contains massive spoilers for, and wild-arse head-cannons inspired by, Steam Powered Giraffe's magnificent album, The Vice Quadrant: A Space Opera. Read no further if you don't wish to be spoiled or

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Fanficcery!

Ever since the second time I listened through Vice Quadrant, I have had rampant plotbunnies for an epic fanfic.

Fret not! I concentrate on my Instants, my novel, and some other upcoming features first. But in my spare moments, I've been working on this fic until my wrists start to ache.

I expect to be away most of the day, so please enjoy the start of something good.

Addendum: Crossed lines again. I'm actually running around tomorrow. I get to write more

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