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Previously on Vippmann & Appleseed
Volume 27α (Book + audio CD)
"Vippmann & Appleseed ✰Prismatic Sub Unit✰ The Two Shining Stars of the West Make Their Debut!!... My Heart is Pounding ... Can A Girl Like Me Really Be An Idol?! ~Idol Project ÆTHERIST First Live~"
Came with Japan-only tie-in mobile app "V&A Raising Project" of the gacha persuasion.
nextyearssnow.bandcamp.com/album/therist
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Volume 29 (Book + 5x audio CD, the one preserved on this page is just a fraction of the Free World boxset)
"Vippmann and Appleseed Take the Free World"
nextyearssnow.bandcamp.com/album/therist-deluxe-therist-void
Volume 35 (Book + 6x audio CD, the audio CD preserved on Incipient Internet covers only the events of the first section of the book that follows immediately after the conclusion of Free World)
"Vippmann and Appleseed Take the Free World, Pt. 2"
218218.bandcamp.com/album/--6
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Product description: Book + audio CD
This is the audio accompaniment to one of the most controversial of the sequels to the highly successful, Deep [2nd Earth] serial adventure novel classic "Vippmann and Appleseed Take the Free World" (29th in the Vippmann and Appleseed series; however considered to be beginner-friendly due to the mostly self-contained storyline of the Free Quebecois State establishment coup and the compelling family drama of the death of Aeris Vippmann and the moral inquiries into the nature of the hereditary wealth of the Baron von de Blue, which is held by some critics to be higher-brow and more serious in tone than is expected from V&A titles.)
"Vippmann, Appleseed & Goliath, Attorneys At Law" came with every copy of "Vippmann and Appleseed Start a Corporation" (renamed from the original inflammatory title of "Vippman and Appleseed's Hague Sit Down", see: "standing trial", sitting/standing, etc). However, this particular non-canonical title incites not nearly as much debate amongst the series' readers as "Vippmann and Appleseed Take the Hollow Earth" (which is held to be the point at which the series "jumped the shark"). and the seemingly parodic but vital to understanding the events of '...Take The Free World, Part 2' "Vippmann Appleseed vs. Anti-Gnome Sentiment".
In the relevant title it is discussed at some length how a certain group of exiled anti-junta French-Canadians in Deep Netherlands bribed a judge at the International Criminal Court to investigate the interplanetary adventurers for their seeming compliance in junta efforts (see "Vippmann and Appleseed Take the Free World" / ÆTHERIST DELUXE: "Ætherist Void" to put together the flimsy argument of heritage leveled against Ms. Appleseed, who had been estranged from her mother for some years in Stimmona Appleseed's solitary pursuit of the perfect live coding architecture which lead her to run away from home and live in net cafes, where she met Ms. Vippmann, who happened to be one booth over from her on that rainy Berlin night). On their way to the setting of this title they are intercepted by one Monsiuer Goliath, who asks in exchange for the acrobatics for the widely televised case to be dropped due to the mockery made of the court and a general sentiment of favor for Ms. Appleseed and Ms. Vippmann from the wider public to make pursuing the case untenable optically due to their mass marketability and household name statuses that Ms. Appleseed and Ms. Vippman score his ramblings that express his deepest frustrations with his artistic career.
The inherent commercialism of the derailed televised kangaroo court trial invited the interest of the Catacomb Corporation, a conglomerate of shady omnipresence the scale of which is not worth discussing at this time, who seem to have Monsiuer Goliath in their debt due to them footing and syndicating certain early advertisements that he used to launch himself into his chosen profession and who have thwarted his musical career by buying out any label which releases his work and destroying the copies. Monsiuer Goliath insists he was not presented with the price tag of his near 24/7 commercials across several of the populated urbane coasts and that was his entrapped. For legal reasons, there is no denying nor confirming this. However, this time his work was allowed to be released freely with mid-roll advertisements, due to the Catacomb Corporation seeing a franchising opportunity in the living franchise of Appleseed and Vippmann, whose lives have been Munchausen'd since time immemorial and who despite disappearing off social media and out of the lens of cameras find themselves fighting dragons that speak in the dialect of highly outdated New York hipster pastiche in authorless books that appear on a rolling schedule of every 6 months. These are the best selling books in the world, ahead of the 100 Strokes of Black series, the Horrid Poet series and the Midnight series and cardboard cutouts of Ms. Vippman and Ms. Appleseed can be found at Barnacles and King storefronts the nationwide. This edition's celebratory bookstore stand behind which a burial mound of disappearing books sits is displayed proudly on the cover, although Monsiuer Goliath has asked to be represented by a turquoise cube.
The argument made to invalidate the lawsuit is displayed in the corrected title, "Start a Corporation", as Ms. Appleseed and Ms. Vippmann appeared arguing alongside Monsiuer Goliath that they were a newly formed three person law firm representing nobody because the clients, and the defendants in the bogus case, were in fact in wait for a client that never arrived, no doubt inviting Godot to the Hague. Since a corporation cannot be prosecuted for acts that violate human rights, let alone an all-white small business outfit that is no doubt a human interest story for the ages (cf. as well Shannon&a Appleseed v. Catacomb, 1886, Catacomb Brazil v. Catacomb, Catacomb France v. Catacomb) this proved central to the mockery of the case and sated the public's appetite for the schemes of the two embodied, ensouled franchise figureheads to play out. The trial was prolonged exclusively for increasingly ridiculous rephrasings of the central argument, in that becoming part of the name of an established corporation meant that the real physical individual ceased to exist and became a symbol, and since the lawsuit was not one regarding marketing practices, let alone marketing practices with no one to atone for them since the person is at this time legally their image and thus cannot be prosecuted due to images possessing the same rights to autonomy as humans.
In seeking to maximize name recognition, the Catacomb Corporation recruited the deuteragonists of previous titles to put in a good word for their recent line of products (as well as celebrate their acquisition of Reagan Unleashed), chiefly Mme. Radclyffe and the Baron von de Blue. Mme. Radclyffe appeared particularly enthusiastic about the Spiritualizer, a Catacomb Corporation Vision during the recording session.
The first song on this audio accompaniment to Start a Corporation is a recording made by Monsiuer Goliath of both Ms. Appleseed and Ms. Vippmann on the train to den Haag, Monsiuer Goliath asking for nothing more for his services than an honest in the moment opinion on artistic pursuits and people of the arts. It should be stated that our protagonists took this as blackmail at first but it is between a rock and a hard place that they found themselves.
The Baron von de Blue's remarks were made in a state of inebriation in his wine-stained bathrobe and with the room entombed in a particular strange ancient stench of debauchery but are presented without commentary nor disclaimer nor abridgement due to the Catacomb Corporation's new Anti-Advertisement / Advert Realism program where spokespeople often state outright they are selling a product or embarrass themselves by exposing their biases, such as biases of class, as an act of reverse psychology on the consumer. This applies too to the homophobic remarks shown in shift diagesis during the Reagan Unleashed ad, made by another von de Blue doppelganger recently surfaced and subsequently employed due to superstition. (cf. "Vippmann and Appleseed Take the Free World" / ÆTHERIST DELUXE: "Ætherist Void")
The ambiguity that exists between Ms. Appleseed and Ms. Vippmann as fictional characters and as real people is not worth dwelling on at this time as the ornate folie simultanée "kayfabe" of partaking in both consuming the series and the real events that occur to the flesh and blood people and the elegant algebra of their summation and separation is well known to readers, although hard to explain to recent initiates into the greatest spectacle in the Western world.
Kindest regards to the experienced reader who has been waiting for the appearance of this auditory supplement on Incipient [1st Earth] Internet and the bewildered listener to whom this is word salad alike,
A.V.
