Tangerine of Electricity

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

The completed hug collection.

Koi. Japan, Home of the Sun. 1963. Kikuko Mori, illustrator.

The Andalites didn't invent the Escafil Device, they found it.

One of the first major ideas I had for a full-fledged Saiyuki piece was ‘Touched by Gold’ since gold is already thematically important for Sanzo and Goku, and I thought it would be fun to expand that to the whole team. In Hakkai’s case, it’s Hands of Gold as Kanan loved his hands, and these same hands are the ones caring for and potentially holding his friends’ lives in them as Team Healer. However, that the gold drips is a callback to a time where they were coated with blood instead, because I love the killer-healer juxtaposition he embodies.