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Boss Radio 66: Aircheck Of The Week

CD Drama Kiss x Kiss (Kamiya Hiroshi)

There are a couple of water levels in that game. They're a tangled mess of brightly-coloured coral corridors, teeming with dangerous enemies like spiked urchins, hungry piranhas and salvos of swift barracudas. You can't fight these enemies for much of these levels, so you have to tread (water) carefully around them.

And while you're doing this, the track Water World is playing. Now, everyone loves Aquatic Ambience, the track that plays in DKC1's water levels, and for good reason - it's a serene, mysterious and beautiful piece of music that captures the experience of swimming through pristine waters. But Water World takes a slightly different approach - while still calming and pretty to listen to, there's this undercurrent of... dread, I want to say, that accompanies it. This disconcerting sense that you are lost, you are alone, and you should not be here. As pretty as this world is, it is not yours to exist in. There are aspects to it that are fundamentally unknowable to surface dwellers. And if you were to perish, that world would swallow you up in an instant. No-one would mourn you down here.

And then, AND THEN, you get to the end of the level, and you emerge in this small cavern. Because of how DKC3's levels work, you have to be on dry land to grab the flagpole and clear the stage, so from that perspective it makes sense. But tiny babby me did not see it that way. Consider that for these levels, the general direction you go is right and down - as in, descending deeper beneath the surface of the ocean. So you dive right down, maybe even to the ocean floor, and here's this cave you can stand up and walk around in. This tiny little space, at the BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, with this absolutely haunting piece of music playing the entire time, and just for a moment you go, "Why did I come here? How do I get out?" and then it occurs to you that you don't know why or how, and that maybe, since the game has guided you down here, this is where you're supposed to be. In a small cave, at the bottom of the ocean. Forever.

And then you grab the goal flag and you move to the next level.

But let me tell you something - that entire sequence MESSED ME UP as a kid. As terrifying as the notion was, it was also strangely beautiful to me, in a way that I couldn't explain then, and still can't quite explain now. I genuinely believe that experience has likely shaped a good deal of what I enjoy in certain media - things like a sense of futilty, of small secret places you want to enter knowing you can never leave, of leaving this world entirely for something smaller, safer.

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Boss Radio 66: Aircheck Of The Week

tw / tags: ns.fw, audio link, mirror kink

Why did Sidon cross the road—anonymous

idk nonnie (im p sure this is kay lol) to get to his dickin

okay so, concept? scientist reader and their subject?—anonymous

i'll need more than just characters, nonnie dear. any suggestion on the plot for them? kinda monster? etc. but i did write this piece forever ago, if this would count?

Hi, I’d like to share this audio that i found. Though I hope you don’t mind I just really loved it and I wanted to share it with other as well —anonymous

link to audio

aNNNNNNNNNNN hello 👀 don't mind if i doooo thank you sweet nonnie!!! <3

Hnggg thoughts of ghost groom fucking you in front of a mirror so you can watch yourself clench onto air —anonymous

well that's an idea...😳bigger the mirror the better...

Hi! Are you okay with others writing stories with your OCs and/or the beastworld? With fully crediting and tagging you of course. I hope this is okay to ask, I just really love your work, and if you answered this before then sadly I couldn't find it —anonymous

ofc love!! have at it!

i'll be sure to clarify this in my faq <3 i would love, LOVE to see your interpretations and takes on my au! and honestly, feel free to make your own beastfolk ocs too. they're literally just....furries that happen to live with and lord over humans <3

this goes to literally anyone who wanted to dabble with my au too! just be sure to tag me because i'd lovveeee to see (and share!) your writings~if you got a question or concern, my chatbox is always open :)

i loved the hc you did with the holstaurs and i hope to see more of them — @yanderereader

if i think of more, i'll make another post!

fun fact: i didn't coin the term holstaurs, i got it from one popular ns.fw game, cloud meadow, which was actually taken from dnd lol beyond that, i didn't take anything else. they were basically just walking cow / bull monsters that may or may not be from another planet.

Story from 8 January 2018 radio interview no longer available/link disabled ⬆️

“She got engaged on the 28th, I think it was. Tony actually rang us the night before. I’d been wondering, you know, coming up to Christmas would be a possibility, but he waited until after Christmas, and they were in Australia for Christmas and he proposed to her there. So we’re thrilled for her. It could a little quiet one somewhere but I don’t know what the plans are. We haven’t talked about it yet. I’m dying to have a chat about it all when she does get back to Scotland.” — Ann Balfe, Caitríona’s mum

Remember when her mum told Northern Sound FM she and Caitríona’s dad were thrilled about Tait’s engagement?

Updated 4 May 2022 from original post 27 March 2021 https://brian-in-finance.tumblr.com/post/646839202056667136/local-hollywood-star-reveals-engagement-northern Thank you @castlemaine123​ for finding the audio file for me. 🙏🏻