Gastric symphonies

[smokingboot]

I have never heard my stomach make these noises before, like the songs of a jungle, lost in time and methane, where winged reptiles chitter and dark swamp things reply.

But it's the creaking I find most disturbing. Perhaps I am the good ship Demeter reborn in human shape, half-recollecting the lurch into Whitby with Drac's coffin in my hold and a dead man lashed to my wheel. Maybe I am a formica cyborg with a dodgy chip and nobody told me. Or we could just stick to the feasible and accept that a tree ent is going to burst out of my stomach any minute.

I need a new set of intestines, preferably quiet ones. These look nice*

http://www.strangebuttrewe.com/knitgi.htm

One wonders if the pattern comes with instructions on how to knit contents. That would be quite sweet; soft pink intestines out of which you squeeze little crocheted chocolate ovals; squeeze hard enough and you could hit someone across the room with them.

OK, that made me laugh and when I laugh, the dinosaurs/swamptrolls meep and gibber. Time to lie down.

Despite the cacophony, I feel a lot better today. Who'd have thought improvement would be so loud?

*with thanks to the magnificent itsjustaname

Comments

Sympathy

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

That sounds like part of what happens when I eat peppers. It can be awkward when trying to have a conversation, can't it?

When stomachs shout

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

What can you do except listen in awe?

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

Magnificent? Little old me? *blush*

Aren't the intestines lovely? I love the fact that the finger is labelled in one of the close-up pictures!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Well, you wouldn't want to mistake it for part of the pattern now would you?

Yes, the whole thing is magnificent, as are you:-)

[squintywitch.livejournal.com]

Wow... that is quite amazing. I am reminded of the "Cuddly Gut" soft toy that I once made for one of my old consultants. It was only one colour, and I didn't make a liver, pancreas OR a gallbladder.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Was it a plushy?

See, the only flaw I can see with the above is that you can't really hug it...

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

The knitted intestine is adorable. I love the little green gallbladder. I wonder if it contains gallstones? It would certainly be a good learning tool.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

The gall bladder is very charming, as is the little pokey out appendix, looking somewhat lost there on the end.

As a learning tool I would much have preferred this to those poor rats we had to dissect - but I guess if I hadn't been forced to stare at them, to this day I might believe we were all crocheted on the inside...

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I think we are all knitted or crocheted on the inside. It's the only way to explain why I feel as if I'm unravelling.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I feel the same...and speaking of unravelling, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't comment on your post with the exquisite icons you made. Thank you so much for sharing them, they are beautiful. The hyena, the bat, the deer herd, the phoenix and the satyr have all come home with me. The strawberries are looking attractive too.

This is ridiculous. I have too many icon choices. And I want to change my page layout again - I blame your rampant creativity:-)

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

That's odd. You should be able to comment as long as you're logged in. I'm not allowing anons at the moment (paranoid), but otherwise.... Have you tried commenting on any of the other posts?

Aww, I'm glad the satyr has found a home. The mediaeval icons do look smashing against a black or very dark layout, and while I love my Component layout with the Beowulf bg, I think I'll have to stick with Boxer for a little longer.

And I should stop making icons, but they're so soothing when I'm stressed and don't feel like talking. :D

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Don't stop making icons, you do it so beautifully. You take stuff no-one else even thinks about; They all have that sense of picture box about them, a story behind each one. If it soothes you and pleases everyone who sees it, how can it be bad?

No problems replying on other posts, don't know what it was before. Oh well.