But there’s no place like London!
prettyprophet: Sorry, loves, funny’s not around for this one. Can you wager why?
Lavie Rhap: He’s doing something terrible.
prettyprophet: Something for the penny dreadfuls, I daresay! I wish this was audio because then you’d hear my wackass Brit accent. Lavie can pull off a good one, right?
Lavie Rhap: No, that’s Ed, of all people. His is more…thuggish than anything of class.
prettyprophet: Eh, fuck ‘em. Anyways, since we’ve got no funny_bones, this here’s prettyprophet accompanied by my dear chum, Lavie Rhap. She’s part of the Ministry, which means she doesn’t really have any practical use.
Lavie Rhap: C’mon, give me some credit. I’ve scanned and edited.
prettyprophet: Which is better than half the Reich. YOU’RE USELESS. Don’t worry, me saying this won’t cause strife ’cause they don’t read posts.
Lavie Rhap: Things haven’t changed much from the Republic.
prettyprophet: Duh. Right, let’s get onto the first major point. I mentioned funny_bunny, yeah? He’s not yammering away with us for a reason. And yeah, it’s a terrible reason. Well, not to me, I don’t really care.
Lavie Rhap: I don’t think he should be doing it. But I say this because I buy artbooks too.
prettyprophet: Hey, I’ve got a couple. So if you haven’t figured it out yet…it has to do with artbooks. Artbooks we scan. Artbooks like Happoubi Jin’s Sweet Body. Sweet Body that we used to scan at 300dpi but now we’ve changed that to 600dpi. Sweet Body that we used to bend. Now we don’t. We fucking debind.
Lavie Rhap: Truly a revelation.
prettyprophet: Uh huh. funny’s debinding that shit HARDCORE right now…and because we’re lazy, by himself. Each individual page, wiggled out of its bindings with care. Anything you’d like to say to our readers, funbuns, my pet?
funny_bunny: THIS IS PAINFUL! SOMEONE HELP ME!
prettyprophet: We’d sooner lick up an Italian’s vomit…which almost happened recently. But in all seriousness, no one’s going to help you. Suffer like G did!
Lavie Rhap: Oh, prophet, only you’d squeeze in House of the Dead quotes into every possible conversation.
prettyprophet: Heheheh, it’s fun. Right-right, as you can see, funny_bunny, glorious fuehrer, is DEBINDING Sweet Body. Not only does this equate into better scans (no more gutter, lucky you) but it also equates into no more worries about those two page spreads. Yay!
Lavie Rhap: It also means that poor funbuns has to take apart his book. You people have caused him harm and ought to be ashamed.
prettyprophet: Hey, you voted for debinding.
Lavie Rhap: No, I was probably one of the few who consistently argued against it.
prettyprophet: Eh, I don’t even care. It’s not that good of a book anyways.
Lavie Rhap: I’d say that’s the only reason why he’s debinding. I mean, certainly funny loves the book; he loves all his books. I’m just saying that he likely acknowledges the lack of…artistic merit.
prettyprophet: Oh look at you, Little-Miss-Art-Pro. Spending too much time around Inky? Hm? *nudge* *nudge*
Lavie Rhap: Anyway, what I’m trying to say is this act of debinding is something that I doubt will ever happen again.
prettyprophet: Unless another book decides to pull a Robot. Talk about crap binding.
Lavie Rhap: Just the first volume, keep in mind. We wouldn’t want people to think they’re all bad.
prettyprophet: Yeah! Because these mofos are all queuing up to buy them! GET THEM QUICK! THEY’RE SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES!
Lavie Rhap: I still don’t understand why you guys hate the very people that we’re catering to.
prettyprophet: Heh, stay in the scene a little longer. We’ll see who hates who then. “Hate” is too strong of a word anyways; more like annoyance.
Lavie Rhap: Yet funny is the one suffering.
prettyprophet: Worse than G.
Lavie Rhap: Quite right. What’s the next thing we’re to talk about? I have class tomorrow morning.
prettyprophet: Uh, aside from the whole “funny debinds, cries tears of blood” thing? I dunno.
Lavie Rhap: Did you mention the blogroll earlier?
prettyprophet: Oh yeah, check those links out. We’re not affiliated with any of them; we just think they’ve got snazzy sites. Today’s image brought to you by the superbad Kei of Be Your True Mind. If you didn’t know, the better portion of the Reich LOVES Shin Megami Tensei aka MEGATEN to fucking death. We especially have tons of love for Kazuma Kaneko, mainstay artist for the series.
Lavie Rhap: Killer Ink in particular.
prettyprophet: Yeah, as far as I can tell…like, at least five or six of us bought Kazuma Kaneko Works III…most from HLJ. So there’s a chance one person might not get the book at all, since it’s backordered already. Damn.
Lavie Rhap: I hope I get one; I didn’t care much for his earlier art.
prettyprophet: Course, funny had that shit on DA LOCK.
funny_bunny: Fo shizzle! $50 book? No problem!
prettyprophet: That is funny’s love.
Lavie Rhap: Frightening. Also, I’d like to address another reason behind the lack of new releases, aside from the usual business of life.
prettyprophet: Oh no, shhhh. This is a secret.
funny_bunny: “Hush, love, hush/Think it through/Once it bubbles, then/What’s to do?/Watch it close/Let it brew/Wait!”
Lavie Rhap: But look at funbuns. He’s just itching to talk.
funny_bunny: Ok, ok! All I’m going to say is this: WE’RE DOING THIS FOR OUR GREAT ENEMY…STREET FIGHTER.
prettyprophet: Street Fighter, we may be ferocious foes…but we respect you. And for that, we shall sing your song!
Lavie Rhap: The “Fun Times Funbus Project” does relate to Street Fighter and involves a good number of the Rabbits. I think of it as a rather interesting venture…but since it’s spearheaded by funny, it’s going to take a while.
prettyprophet: AKA NE’ER.
funny_bunny: Soooo…help me?
prettyprophet: Ha!
Lavie Rhap: I think that’s pretty much it. We are getting distracted a lot…we have exams, work, travel, and personal projects to attend to. I’m doing interviews with local artists.
prettyprophet: Wasn’t Inky doing that?
Lavie Rhap: No, he’d rather make his own art.
prettyprophet: Inky, since I know you read posts because you’re a proper Rabbit, this is for you. FUCK YOU FOR NOT HELPING OUT ON THE PROJECT AND WE DON’T NEED YOUR HELP WHATSOEVER SO GO CHOKE ON ED’S RANCID ASSHAIR.
Lavie Rhap: Was that necessary?
prettyprophet: Nah, I just want it to seem like the Reich’s falling apart. Strife! Mischief! City on fire!
Lavie Rhap: You really ought to pay more attention to your readings rather than watching funny’s movies.
prettyprophet: But Pride and Prejudice has Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley meeting on fields of fog.
Lavie Rhap: I suppose that’s fine because you’re doing it in class.
prettyprophet: I think we’re doing that book. I don’t know, we haven’t been to the class for a while.
Lavie Rhap: Slackers.
funny_bunny: No slacking on scanning though! WINK WINK!
prettyprophet: Alright, let’s wrap it, Rhap.
Lavie Rhap: From now on, Happoubi Jin’s Sweet Body will be debound, saving time. The Rabbits are also working on a side-project for fun, in order to offset any time saved from said debinding. We’ve been busy but hopefully we can get a release out by the end of the month.
prettyprophet: If it coincides with the Fun Times Funbus Project, that’d be super.
funny_bunny: Fufufu, given my rate of progress…unlikely!
prettyprophet: Ha, last words are mine!
Lavie Rhap: May I have the last words?
prettyprophet: NO. ADMIN POWER!
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It would be cool if you guys could get out a release for or by my birthday. I say this since I have no friends and will be spending my birthday alone, so it will be a kind of treat. That’s sad enough for you guys to do it, r-right?
Anyway, so this was all just to say Sweet Body is in the process of being debound? Okay..now I know! *thumbs up*
In any case thank you for what do and the information.
Sov, my pet, you remind me of nde. Which doesn’t mean a thing to a non-Rabbit, you remind me of Lars, the titular character of Lars and the Real Girl. Surely you must have those that you enjoy the presence of? And if you don’t, then those people must be FOUGHT for. Drip confidence and sexy. Or not, be an uncaring dick and pierce your way into refusing orifice of society.
Frankly, love, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because you CHOOSE who you wish to be. Fuck that nature/nurture bullshit. Lavie Rhap wants to be the responsible older sister, taking care of us? So she is. Pattycakes wants to be an anime-devouring whitegirl with love only for Easterners? So she is. funny wants to be someone that none of us can predict…or figure out…or anything…well, I don’t know in his case.
Adds funny_bunny: “So Sov, dear reader, fight! Fight for a place in the world! What good is a belief, a morality, a reason, if it is not tried and tested in the battlefield; this battlefield we call LOVE?” And I fully agree. Cloistered virtue is the stuff of the weak. Engage, en garde, and etcetera!
Oh, funbuns says he can’t make any promises on how fast Sweet Body will be done. The guy’s a flighty fruit, that’s right. But since he’ll be thinking of you when he tries to find willing editors amongst us…he’ll probably try harder. Which will annoy the piss out of certain Rabbits. Sov, holmes, friendship can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. But chin up, for the future awaits!