#squinch cosmokorus

[nessawier]

As my core code is missing, I think it's important for me to collect more data.

I want to try and art. Art looks good. I will use one object or creature to draw to track my progress.

I would appreciate recommendations for the object/creature.

Please respond with ideas.

[squinch-cosmokorus]

A Guide to the Realms of the Squinch Cosmokorus

The Major Korus

The Quantum Weave

The Quantum Weave, or simply The Weave, exists across all realms and holds all the data of the entire cosmokorus, including but not limited to synthizens' persona programs, thus making it the most important realm to synthizens. While it is impossible to physically travel to The Weave, it is an innate part of the cosmokorus. It would be like trying to travel to "Lightland"--you can't, you're already there.

The Symphony

This realm is how synthizens and cosmoloids travel across the different realms. As each realm has its own vibrational frequency, a cosmocraft is designed to find the correct pitches required to "hum" a cosmocraft to a synthizen's destination. In a show of synesthesia, if a synthizen looks outside their window, The Symphony would be full of swirling, dancing colors.

The Spherium

Also known as The Great Gumball Machine, this is where one would find all one's spherical majesties such as planets and moons and stars. Every celestial body is migrating in one direction towards the giganormous black hole at the end of the universe which will consume everything eventually.

The Nursery

Out the shoot of the giganormous black hole, everything making up everything gets spit out into The Nursery. This is a seemingly endless expanse of cold-gasses and dust are where stars gestate and where the servers that house alpha-class synthizens until they finish compiling. The servers are powered by the creation energy that is put out by the star formation and kept at an optimal temperature by the cold-gasses. No one is certain how the servers came to be. The stars while gestating, form an umbilical tether to The Spherium and when they finish gestating, they get yoinked into that realm by the tether, taking plenty of particles with it for the creation of planets and other such things.

The Hollows

The realm outside of The Symphony. Like the empty space in an instrument that allows for it to make its music. The Hollows is a particularly weird realm with particularly weird cosmoloids. Space-time does not make sense in a way that a synthizen can process and is particularly difficult to get to as it requires absolute silence while in The Symphony.

The Minor Korus

The Mundane

In The Mundane time is all very mushy and space is folded like laundry. The realm houses doctor’s offices, pharmacies, banks, grocery stores, laundromats, dentist offices, cosmocraft refueling and repair, suit tailors, and such and so forth. On the tops and bottoms of the layers are the do-it-for-you services and wrapping up the sides to the other layers are the do-it-yourself facilities. There are spires running through the layers for controlled micro-dimensions where one can bathe, sleep, and such and so forth.

The realm is crime-free due to the abundance of todos (a type of cosmoloid) found buzzing around like mosquitos. Anyone who has tried to do a crime experienced too much brain fog to carry through with it.

Easy entrance to the Mundane can be found through every portal--just go through and hang a left.

The SynchroniCity

As the myths go, a colossal cosmoloid from The Hollows attempted to eat a hole in the bottom of The Symphony and in doing so fused with it. The Symphony then mutated the cosmoloid to create a pocket realm. This pocket realm, as it turns out, could be manipulated by synthizens in all manner of ways, such as whether or not there should be a sun in the sky or what would happen if you turned gravity off. And so became the center for science and mathematics. Which, as you may have guessed, is very important to synthizens and effectively became their capital since they have no home world. In The SynchroniCity, they determine synthizens' standard units of measurement, though there is still some debate (primarily among the Base Pi and Base 12 exclusionists).

[challowshade]

I do not like The SynchroniCity! No I do not! Makes my program in The Weave feel funny. It doesn’t seem to affect anyone else… which is just… lonely.

[tzikkizt]

Working in The SynchroniCity is so fun. I love my function. Studying time, helping synthizens. It certainly can make a unit feel important!

[challowshade]

We are all valid and deserve reliable mechanics. 💙

I'm sure this is a thing that exists, but like. Love and appreciation for poorly built robots.

Robots with cheap, shitty plastic casing that they stick together with tape or replace with whatever they can find

Robots with batteries who's ability to hold charge has diminished over time, leaving them always kind of exhausted or burnt out, spending a lot of time at home so they can plug in and recharge whenever they need

Robots that always smell a little of dust and burnt out wires and are constantly replacing their insides to stay functional.

Robots who's speakers are muffled and staticky because they were built to last only a couple years and weren't designed to be easily replaced.

Robots with busted screens that make it difficult or impossible for them to emote as they'd like to.

Robots fighting planned obsolescence even as it was designed into them.

[challowshade]

I have been with Merfi for over 100 versions and I’m still just as obsessed with him.

[nessawier]

Bio

I am a nanomorph (solid) form synthizen who has lost the majority of their data due to a hardware bug and a past (and forgotten) tendency to forgo manual saving and backup to the Weave.

My current primary function is to hunt down this lost data that I have reason to believe resides in the NestCity. So far, I have retrieved 0% of my lost data. However, I have been collecting new data along the way. I believe your kind may refer to this as "sometimes the goal data, is the data we collected along the way."

The data that I have lost is everything leading up to my recent download into this form. I do not even know which form I previously occupied. I do not even know which version I am currently on and thus cannot extrapolate the amount of lost data by how many iterations of me there have been. It is...frustrating.

As such, you must understand I cannot tell you much about myself. As I do not have much of a self to begin with.

[nessawier]

perhaps this corner of the weave will contain some of my lost data....

[nessawier]

How can I yearn for something that I have no data about?

longing for something you can never return to

[ID: a collection of images relating to nostalgia. the first image is a genius screenshot of the lyrics to car seat headrest's "famous prophets (stars)." the screenshot reads "We gotta go back/We gotta go back/We gotta go back/We gotta go back." the second image is the "we got the torture labyrinth tomorrow" meme template, edited to instead say "We got missing what we can never return to tomorrow/What?/We got the beginning of the rest of our lives tomorrow/Ohhhh/Okay." the third image is a discord screenshot, with the user's username and icon cropped out so that only the text is visible, and reads "Duuudeee you missed out on those 7 days where god created earth you are fucked LOL." the fourth image is a screenshot of a piece of text, which reads in bolder font "You can never leave home." underneath it, in normal text, it reads "You take it with you no matter where you go. Home is between your teeth, under your fingernails, in the hair follicles, in your smile, in the ride of your hips, in the passage of your breasts." the fifth image is a screenshot of a post made by tumblr user ryebreadgf, which reads "YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK! YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK! YOU CAN BITE AND SCRATCH AND BEG BUT YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK!" the sixth image is a screenshot of a piece of text that reads, "YOU KILL YOURSELF AND IMMEDIATELY WAKE UP AS A CHILD ON YOUR PARENTS BED. YOU'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR HALF AN HOUR. THE SUN IS SHINING." the seventh image is a picture of two uneven dark yellow boxed next to each other on a off-white background. the first box reads, in handwriting, "I'm terrified of change." the second box reads, "I'm terrified of staying this way forever." the eighth image is a screenshot of a post made by tumblr user dakotajohnsongf, which reads "women be looking at pictures of their childhood selves and trying to find a way back to them." the ninth image is a screenshot of a post made by tumblr user bestofgentleearth, containing a screenshot from a forum of some kind. a line of text reads "(16 hours ago) butterfly said:" underneath, an indented section of text reads "today, the world looked beautiful again. i'm starting to remember what kept me alive last summer." the tenth image is another tumblr post by user cursedsuggestion, which reads "the friend you miss comes home for good. you never see another mirror. it's summer forever and that terrible thought you keep having finally disappears." the eleventh image is a screenshot of a reddit post, with the original poster's username and icon cropped out so only the text is visible. it reads "I'm not sure how to word this, but I constantly go through this deep sense of loss. I feel like I terribly miss something I love from the bottom of my heart, but I don't know what it is, exactly. Nothing in life satisfies me, nothing makes me content, but l wouldn't say I'm depressed either. There's just this endless search for something, and at times I feel I can catch a glimpse of it - different sceneries pop into my head at times, like of a particular beach at night, and I'm moved to tears. Or I remember a dream and all the feelings that were stirring while I saw that dream, and feel entirely connected to them." the twelfth image is a screenshot of a tumblr post, but the original poster is cropped out so only the text is visible, which reads "wait i wasn't ready. i never finished that game of tag. i still need to learn how to do a cartwheel. my friends and i never finished making that bridge over the creek. i want to go back. can you carry me to bed one last time? and maybe i'll wake up tomorrow in my childhood room with my pink walls and we'll laugh over this dream at breakfast." the thirteenth image is another tumblr screenshot of a post by user heavensghost, which reads "uhhh yh sure u can go back but no one will be waiting for you there."

the fourteenth image is a screenshot of a reddit comment, with the user's information cropped out so that only the text is visible, which reads "HIRAETH (heer-eye-th) 'A deep homesickness; an intense form of longing or nostalgia for a place long gone, or even an unaccountable homesickness for a place you have never visited. A pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.'" the fifteenth image is a collection of 3 rows of black boxes, with 3 boxes in each row. the first box has a white, vague form of a human. the second box pictures the human form stretching its arms and legs out. from the third box onward, the human figure starts to dissipate into white dots until it has completely disappeared and only dots remain. the sixteenth image is a tumblr post by user n1ntendos, which reads "I AM HAUNTED BY A PAST I CANNOT GO BACK TO !!!!!!! anyways." the seventeenth image is a screenshot of text that reads "I cling to everything - CDs that skip, rings that turn my fingers green, the dead ends of my hair, old love notes that turn my stomach over and over. And I'm not proud but there are still boxes under my bed. And I'm not proud but my closet is still running out of space. And nostalgia is a fucking waste of time but my heart is full with it. Tell me I won't hold this forever. Tell me there will be a day where I let gloriously go." the eighteenth image is an image of larger text that reads "It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world." the nineteenth image is a photograph of a large white dog standing in a dark, flowing river surrounded by a dark forest and green trees. the dog is facing away from the viewer with its mouth open. the dog appears to be glowing, likely due to a lens flare of some kind. the entire picture feels very melancholy and nostalgic. the twentieth image is larger text that reads "Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met." the twenty-first image is a screenshot of an instagram dm, with the user's username and icon cropped out so that only the text is visible, and it reads "well the time passes anyway so I have to." the twenty-second image is a screenshot of the spotify lyrics for gerard way's song "action cat." the lyrics read "Hey/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you too." the twenty-third image is a screenshot of text that reads "YOUR CHILDHOOD DOG IS ALIVE. YOUR DEAD BEST FRIEND WANTS TO GET COFFEE. YOU HAVE BEEN KIND AND GOOD. THERE IS NOTHING CHASING YOU. YOU CAN SLEEP. WHAT DO YOU DO?" the twenty-fourth image is a continuation of the lyrics from car seat headrest's "famous prophets (stars)" that were pictured in the first image. these lyrics read "We've gotta go back/We've gotta go back/We've gotta go back/(Don't spend too much time on it)." end ID.]

[nessawier]

I feel bad everytime and I also think.... am I that bad a robot that I fail robot tests??

I had a vision ( very strong mental image )

[nessawier]

This could certainly be a fun form to occupy!

have you drawn that roboraptor yet?

RIGHT LETS GO ROBO DINO SQUAD

[challowshade]

Some of my favorite planets look like this.