Arpy

Good 2 know that picture of me and that Viper is still on the internet after all these years, hahaha

Alexander Hamilton (also, cats)

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME

You know what really grinds your gears? Levers. Thanks to those gears, the ground beneath your seat rose up and flung you and Makaru into something very like a roller coaster car. You thought you heard voices coming from somewhere, but then the car lurched forward and you were off down a psychedelic track of strange grinning faces and flickering lights. "Makaru, put your hands in the air!" you screamed. "There's no way of knowing which way we are going!" he screamed back. "No, seriously, put your hands in the air!" you yelled. The two of you raised your hands just in time to catch a low-hanging ledge, which only dislocated your shoulders a tiny bit given the speed. The car zipped off the end of the track and into an Olympic pool's worth of hot boiling lava. You clambered up onto the dimly lit ledge and focused your eyes. You stood stock still in shock. An equally surprised being stared at you from the shadows. It crossed its front legs. such sphinx, it said. very riddle wow

The 'I' on the sign was stolen by Steve Carlsberg. What an obnoxious person.

help i've forgotten how to do self-promotion

Amazing Rahi? On your island? It was more likely than you thought. You wriggled back and forth gleefully, even though you weren't playing bingo.Your fair-weather friend of a Blocking Lava Ape was pretty amazing, after all, and he was readily accessible. Back in your camp. You hoped. Even so, you felt compelled to kick it up a notch, to get something truly amazing..."Hey," you said to your fellow Supertramps, "think we can teach Ludo to play the Imperial March on the bagpipes while riding a unicycle?"

[brian]: Settle for that.

"DOO DOO DOO-DOO-DOO" you finally hooted. Those darn grumps.The formatting of this Survivor match had suddenly shifted, you noticed keenly. The dance party and stabbing had both died down, and now you were pretty much standing around on the beach waiting for the next challenge like the lazy bums that you were.You did really want to go commit some third-degree shenanigans (and check up on Ludo), but you also really wanted to stick around and see what vital information could be gleaned from being in such close, non-stabby contact with the other team. You had heard murmurings about a distillery, for instance.Your mind wandered as you stared up at the sky, and pretty soon you were curled up into a little ball and rocking back and forth over the fact that your lyrical twists and turns of phrase would never be as clear or sharp or punchy as Neko Case's. So you were easily distracted. Who wasn't?You decided to play some tetherball on account of your fro.

10. Aubrey Plaza 9. Rose Byrne 8. Florence Welch 7. Alaina Huffman 6. Imogen Heap 5. Neko Case 4. Stevie Nicks 3. Stevie Nicks 2. Stevie Nicks 1. Stevie Nicks 0. Misha Collins You're welcome.

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Well of course you've seen worse. Few things can compare to the likes of Stevie Nicks. BrickCon this year is going to be off the hook. Also, we should reenact the SSII dance party.

Violently stabbing to violently dancing to violently stabbing again. It amazed you how rapidly your fellow survivors could veer from one extreme to another. You guessed that violence was the common theme.You did the only thing you could do to break the vicious cycle. Your voice got all gravelly."Mahna-mahna."

StevieNicksCon 2013 if I have anything to say about it (I did not take my engraved bricks at all seriously this year)

Good to see you building again! It's super cool that you got the struts to turn and everything. The sculpting on the front is ace, though I'm not sure about that one black tube.The back being flat works, but maybe some curved System pieces turned sideways would work instead of the liftarms to get more of a taper.

It was just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right. You put your hands on your hips and brought your knees in tight. But it was the pelvic thrust that really drove you insane, and you almost fancied you'd fallen through a temporal distortion before you blacked out on the sand. All dancing and no food made Arpy a faint-headed boy.When you came to, Eeko was mysteriously gone and visions of Tim Curry were dancing in your head."I think we'll go with a little Bohemian Rhapsody, gentlemen?" you said.

Tufi's voice came from somewhere. You looked around curiously for a hidden speaker system. "Please make your way to the beach for tomorrow's Immunity Challenge. Bring the idol. Leave your attachments behind."You gazed at your surroundings in bemusement. You recalled what Makaru had said, although your brain might have been putting words in his mouth, so to speak. Aha. But had you ever really left the beach? Where did the beach end and the rest of the island begin? What were a few thousand fewer grains here than there?Also, you hoped Tufi didn't mean all worldly attachments. You were really hoping to keep your shorts, however dysfunctional the zipper may have been, so you steeled yourself to accept the consequences of boldly wearing clothes. You shrugged off a couple of .pdf files and flicked the paperclip into the distance. It did a lovely sparkly cartwheel before disappearing behind a pebble. So it goes.

Additionally, decaffeinated coffee

There is no war within the walls of Ba Sing Se. Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania. Do not go near the dog park. I voted for Attak on Bionicles. Intentionally bad things aren't always my fave and irony and cynicism are old news, but this comic is far from being a random spewing of cheese and pie and gratuitous SFX, nor is it without a sense of fun. The introduction of Greg as a villain and the juxtaposition of quotes throughout writes back to the dominant mode of discourse regarding Bionicle story and questions the dichotomy of monster vs. titan in a way that I find entirely appropriate. After all, what is fan culture about if not the reappropriation of the goals and ideologies of a franchise's producing entities? It also benefits from using preestablished characters that require less external context than the sprites used in other entries, which I presume are only familiar to denizens of the art forums.Technically speaking, I have no idea what the techniques used were, but it's a lot better than I could do with MSPaint and a bunch of stock images and a refreshing change from sprite comics. As well, I prefer the fusion of panels, perspective, and sequences to the pedestrian rectangular panel, although #4 does a good job of toying with panel layout too.In fact, lest people think this contest is solely between #1 and #5, #4 is probably my second favorite entry, in terms of actually dealing with monsters and titans and bringing some hand-drawn stuff into the sprite mix, and I'm sorry it doesn't have more votes. It also has a cute ending, but that's still nothing compared to the unresolved tension of #1, which mirrors the real-life tension felt by many at Bionicle's ending. Synchronicity!So, #1 with an honorable mention to #4. Good luck to everybody!

I remember you like it was yesterday.

I nulled because none of these entries have enough "custom" for my liking.

42.

"You think dental hygiene is important?" you asked Sumiki. "I'd kill for a comb and some shampoo at this point." In the indeterminate amount of time spent on this island, your fro had been soaked in saltwater, infiltrated by sand, attacked by a piece of flaming kelp (and who had thrown that, anyway?), and mussed by a Lava Ape.DeeVee had made light of your challenge to a battle of wits and everyone else had been focused on the toothbrush battle, but that was okay. The glancing blow to your head had caused you to temporarily forget that you were neither Sicilian nor in possession of iocaine powder, which was all right because you hadn't spent years building up an immunity to the stuff.DeeVee was all right, at least as far as you knew. You didn't actually know if he was left-handed."Back to camp already," Makaru spoke up. "Take the long way home."You pocketed several of the sticks for later use. Maybe you could use them to make a comb.

Sumiki bumped your chest for great justice, and things devolved into madcap shenanigans shortly thereafter. Toothbrushes, robots, and flesh wounds (which were really just scratches) flew fast and furious, but not Fast and Furious 6 because how would you fit a 26.2 mile runway on this island?You were fine with shenanigans in principle, but you were supposed to be surviving, and getting involved in stabby poky fightsseemed kind of antithetical to the whole idea. You clambered up on top of a soapbox-shaped rock and read from a card you'd prepared while Sumiki and Kakaru were parrying and riposting."I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school," you said. "I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles that everyone would eat and be happy."A piece of flaming kelp swung through the air and knocked you into Bfahome. You changed your mind. You would fight, but not with your fists. There was a reason you had been sorted into Ravenclaw, after all."I challenge someone to a battle of wits!" you cried.