My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

And on top of that, having operated CCTV at multiple locations now- my favourite and most comfortable one having excess of 60 cameras- it can be REALLY hard to suddenly jump to a different operating interface and display configuration, because all the muscle memory is wrong

On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.

Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet

The closest I imagine I can equate it to is like. Getting really really good at painting with a pair of prosthetic hands, and then suddenly having them swapped out with someone else’s

Not the best depiction, but. Feels like this

at long last i have invented a sword that is more powerful than the pen

i hold up one of these bad boys

[id: a pen with multiple color options with buttons to select each color. it's on a white background]

back to the drawing board

…my stupid fucking sword sliced through the drawing board. fml

Hey, it’s me, your English teacher from the beginning of the movie who read a passage that would become thematically relevant later while you stared longingly out the window. I noticed since you came back from your magical quest you’ve been even more listless that usual. Yeah I know about that. We usually have about one or two every semester, so I try to cater my curriculum to the current supernatural crisis so you can remember some appropriate words from classic literature at the right moment in the plot. It’s kind of a thankless job but the world’s still here so I’m not doing too bad haha. That was a joke you can laugh. Anyway I know I’ve kind of taken on a mentor role for you because of your lack of stable father figure but just wanted to let you know that I am a mandated reporter so please don’t tell me if you’re thinking about killing yourself

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

When I walk into the mall and see Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween, I feel the same way Hamlet did when his mom married his annoying uncle so shortly after his father’s death.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the Halloween Mars Bars/Did coldly furnish forth the Christmas stockings

Alas!

Jack Skellington!

I knew him, Horatio.

i actually fucking hate this website lmao

imma cry

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’m not sure why I actually did this but here you go. XD

*flies past*

fire

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered

I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”

Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft

In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.

The masculine urge to disappear into the fog

Giving him hate 😔 Guys…he can’t see the women

back on my soap box screaming about how these Fear Entities aren't even feeding off of fear.

There seems to be two ways the Fear Entities feed: actively and passively

Actively is when they manifest into the world. Instances of something blatantly supernatural happening. Every statement recorded is an example of the entities actively manifesting and feeding.

Passively, however, is when natural things happen, causing people to feel negative emotions associated with the entities. Elias feeding off of the Institute employees' discomfort and paranoia, for example.

These negative emotions that they feed off of are often not even fear. 'Fear Entities' is practically a misnomer. As for what each feeds off of, let's try for a messy quick run-down:

corruption -> disgust

end -> sense of finitude

extinction -> existential dread

vast -> nihilism

buried -> helplessness

desolation -> greif, loss

hunt-> fight or flight reflex. prey instincts.

slaughter-> anger. jump scares; flinch instinct. basically Fear Classic (TM).

flesh -> feeling of a lack of (bodily) autonomy, your (physical) body being used in a way you don't approve of (as opposed to the web, which uses you and your personhood in a way you don't approve of.)

web -> powerlessness; loss of control, lack of autonomy

spiral -> distrust (in yourself, in others, usually both at once)

stranger -> paranoia, generalized unsettled feeling

lonely -> numbness, apathy with a hint of self-loathing

eye -> shame, guilt, feeling of violation

dark-> anxiety. over possibilities that you can't even imagine. because you're.. you're in the dark about them--

Round 1:

Lesbian Vampyres from Outer Space

Artist: Scary Bitches

Release: 2002

Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs

Artist: Eddie Hazel

Release: 1977

new tone indicator drop

/lie /ht (half-truth) /uc (uncited) /manip (manipulation/manipulatively) /fmg (fearmongering) /pgd (propaganda) /gslt (gaslighting) /yc (you're crazy) /ys (you're stupid) /wh (with hate) /vi (violence/violently) /at (attack) /evil /harm /kill

@unfairlyfallen

I like all of these, and will be using them with reckless abandon. /evil /harm

Went to Doctor David to get my antidepressants refilled and he told me to kill myself

Jon in season 4 of The Magnus Archives:

MAG 159 The Last:

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

behold, the default object!