Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

schoolkid, looks like. there's other kids in the background, one carrying a book or laptop maybe.

Chara's saying "how am I gonna get through the day now" which is totally a mood, none of us have been the best at spending time without a gadget of some kind to keep us from getting bored

now to page three

https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-03

hm. the weird device with the Brazil hoses and tubes and wires coming out of it, seems to be saying "......". it looks nonplussed, maybe because it looks like it's been abandoned in a basement

now we got this kid in the red shirt. I'll just call them "Chara" for now haha. Chara was playing a handheld game and the battery died, probably because they never bothered charging it up when they could hehe

🔴 hey! >_<

all right, feeling better able to actually process shit, so back to this thing that I'm doing

(what am I doing? well, we're all absolutely terrible at actually going through webcomics, so I thought I'd pick one and work through it and post about it. not committed to once a day, kinda wanna go quicker in fact, but, uh...I think you can kinda tell from @chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe that we've been really tied up by other stuff)

@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe is mom on a farm now or something

phew, when the others are off having their fun and games it kinda starves me of oxygen, haha

gawd, all three of them are here now. what are we in for

(Asriel's hurting real bad though)

okay, second page link

https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-02

hard to tell what's up although now we see more of the device, whatever it is. the red HAL 9000 light clicked off and now it's clearer it's paired with a green one. lotsa that generic looking ugly cable bundles and hoses like out of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"

@wigglytuffitout I like "Rock Lobster"!

@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe 🦄 *takes it off and snacks on it*

@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe gaaaaawd mooooooooom >:=(

🦄 forgive me, my child... I am, unfortunately, a creature of my appetites, when it comes down to it. please be kind

@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe aaaa that will never not throw me for a loop

@chara_dreemurr@plural.cafe damn it's so much nicer to realize that, like, Kara is DOCUMENTING me, not "writing" me. I am here, out of time, I've been traumatized really badly and I forget most things. Kara's trying to tease it out of me, gently. and h
yeah, some of what I am resembles her previous writings because in a way, she was my "prophet"

that's totally compatible with being my creation in some ways, too. like...that's the wild thing about being unstuck in time

then the O-trimethylsilylether of vinyl methyl ketone is coupled via dichlorodiethoxytitanium. mm, tasty. probably fumes like heck, reacts with air... yeah they're doing this under nitrogen. dry ice temperature in THF (blech)

kinda dull. practical I suppose.

oh well can't win 'em all. maybe I just like the shiny stuff too much

wow uh my brain is a bit too fried still to process it. hope that passes. curious looking reaction, achieving substitution of an acrylylmethyl unit (so, H2C=CH-(C=O)-CH2- group) to the alpha carbon of an amino acid (protected as its N-tert-butoxycarbonyl amide and O-tert-butyl ester, whew. gotta love sticking those big t-butyls on things to keep other things away

the alpha-carbon is brominated with N-bromosuccinimide, _photochemically_, in chlorobenzene? free-radical mechanism? wild

hm _Organic Syntheses_ roulette will lighten the mood!

first, a "random English word". using https://www.randomlists.com/random-words set to one word

"apologise"

...👍

that's not gonna match anything. and it didn't (not even with a zed)

"suggestion"

http://orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=v93p0037