Since it's been stuck in my head the last few days, I'll offer up some a capella.
[Clicky] (also, [bloopers!])

..musical preferences aside, however, that video may make more sense if you watch [the original] first.

*does the wallflower shuffle*

*bucks authority and remains conscious*

A few notes for clarification: My rules comment was made as a general preference, not a specific item on the to-do list. I haven't looked at the UV rules in a long time, so any changes that have been made in the last three years or so may well have already taken care of this. My stance on overall ef...

Er. No pressure, I see. :p This is a public service announcement. This is a focused selection of musings. If you do not have a towel, please choose one at the gate. Hardhats and blankets are available upon request. Flamethrowers are frowned upon during this experience. Please remain calm, avoid pani...

I recognize a few someones in that photo set. Also, Sulphur Mountain is an exciting moniker, and I am mildly jealous that I am not among those who have scaled it. Re: the original post, I, uh, don't? :P I think I like my jobs too much -- I just don't think to take time off for other adventures unles...

[So sorry! Life became quite unexpectedly complicated.] Despite the small successes of the evening, ~.^ never did receive an answer to her query. Indeed, she could not be entirely sure her companions had even recognized it as a question. Rather than reply, the other singer turned away first to O an...

To the floating figure's slight surprise, her short introduction did not ilicit any smatterings of speechsound from her companions. Indeed, after only the slightest pause and a few flickers of expressions ~.^ could not identify, the newfound translator jumped right into the task of providing melIDs ...

You have entered chat.

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A wild dd appeared!
Prepare to converse!

A brief lull followed by intent, meaningless discussion amongst her companions seemed to be the standard response to anything ~.^ sang. Though there seemed to be some level of understanding between them all now, it was hardly a full conversation. Even the noisemaker who had managed to breach the com...

~.^'s clarification, primitive as it was, resulted in a continued spattering of speechsounds. She had no idea what information they were conveying to each other, just as she had no idea how their strange sounds could convey much of anything at all. Clearly they were managing, though; there was no la...

When ~.^ finished her soft introduction, she watched with hopeful eyes as -> and the drummer conferred. Surely, if the clickety earthwalker was able to give greetings in music, she could understand a simple song returned? True, she had not sung the greeting, but the singer had still been able to gle...

~.^ trailed along behind -> as he traveled, singing softly to herself as she usually did. Unlike most of her trips, however, she traveled in well-lit style. She did not usually put in enough effort for a traveling show, but she had decided to make an exception this time. Her companion's steps produc...

As ~.^ had expected, there was no apparent reaction to her simple introduction. Neither of the earthwalkers sang back at all, giving a melID or anything else of use. Indeed, even so short a song as she had sung appeared to have rendered the red twostepper motionless. The ghostly girl had observed ea...

The waiting singer had been unprepared when Scarlet leapt into the air not even five beats into the silence. There had been no diva waiting in the wings, no show prepped and ready. Curiously, the red-skinned woman's only further reaction was to resume eye contact with a cheerily grotesque grin. So i...

~.^ passed effortlessly through yet another swamp-borne tree as she continued her unnaturally straight journey. It was the fifty-seventh such tree since she had entered the bog, not that the ghostly girl would ever have thought to keep count. Trees didn't move or sing, after all, and navigation and ...

Amidst the frogs and bogs and bugs the achingly sweet duet continued, even incorporating bits and pieces of the swamps into the music. The whine of mosquitoes became the keynote, such that every other harmonized with it. The crickets accented the melody, a pleasant partial percussion. The rhythm and...

Ate, played cards, dragged large trees around, and threw hammers at stingy-thing nests.

Name: ~.^ Being the most concise visual form of the linear melody by which she identifies herself. Species: Siren half-breed The siren ancestry would be difficult to deny, all things considered. What exactly her mother decided to bed with, however, is much less certain. Popular theories include fae...

As Lux noted, it does rather depend on your definition of "alive".