[a scene of a 1950s Public Service Announcement opens to a crowded bar, the camera view slowly focusing on one deeply miserable-looking man in an ill-fitting suit, nursing a drink and looking shaken up as if he'd just lost a fight]

[The man is startled as the loud voice of a narrator with a cheery voice and a trans-atlantic accent apparently speaks to him directly] "Well aren't you a sorry-looking lad!" [The man looks directly to the camera, eyes wide, silently pointing at himself, baffled to be addressed like this] "Why, you of course! Hard day at work? Boss chew you up all day?" [The man nods twice, still confused by this entity beyond the 4th wall, but oddly relieved to have someone aknowledge his misery]

"Oh no, don't you feel sorry for yourself, be a man! Doesn't that make you angry? Doesn't that make you want to take it out on somebody? Give someone else a good thrashing?" [The man nods along in agreement, gradually rising from his slouch and sitting more upright as his defeated expression shifts to anger]

"Oh yes, but who?" [The man halts, also understanding that he hadn't considered that] "What, your wife? What wrong has she hever done to you?" [The man shrinks back on his bar stool slightly, as if embarrassed to consider whether he had considered that] "Or perhaps those fellows over there?" [The camera view turns to a table nearby, where a group of large, sullen rough men - some of whom bear an extremely unfortunate likeness to racist caricatures of the era - are sitting with their pints. While of various backgrounds, they all look equally intimidating and give wary, glaring glances towards the man in the ill-fitting suit.]

[The man in the ill-fitting suit shivers visibly at the thought of what would happen if he crossed those men.] "Smart call, I sure would not antagonise them either!" [The man turns back to his own beer, sinking back into his sullen misery, looking up in surprise when the narrator voice addresses him again, now with enthusiasm] "Now but hold on! Well if that is not a kick from Lady Luck herself!" [The man frowns, curious to what the voice has to say.]

"Look back to those fellows. Don't they look familiar?" [The man nods slowly, still confused.] "They work at the same plant as you do, don't they?" [The man nods again, now more confident] "And if they work for the same establishment as you do, then surely they have the same boss as you do, right?" [The man's eyes slowly light up as he starts to grasp where this is going] "And if the boss works you like a dog, just imagine how mean he must be to them!" [The man straightens up from his slouch again, taking a sip of his beer.]

"Now how about you go over and introduce yourself. Make some friends and see if you can get your fellows with you to do a little midnight surprise visit to go beat the shit out of your boss!"

[The camera view silently follows as the man in the ill-fitting suit strides to the other table, buys the whole table another round, and though their words are inaudible, the men are all seen talking to each other with increasing enthusiasm as an upbeat tune starts playing, and an unsettlingly cheery child choir sings a jingle]

"It's your job, not your life, beat your boss, not your wife!"

Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

Batman animation 👍🌟

READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM

get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.

it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.

Things you can watch/do instead of YouTube, For those who may have trouble finding things to do.

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

11. My Retro TV, pick and era and watch popular television from that time period

cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and

i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.

have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.

how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.

go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.

nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.

not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.

this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.

plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. :D

Don’t let the adorable name fool you—this is some Seriously Good Advice. May be useful for brain fog and depression, too!

Reblogging to save my fellow ADHD peeps from the Sisyphusian curse of cleaning with no focus.

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Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is

Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis

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(got to ride a double decker for the first time in a while)

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I mean... sure.

cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

Maybe it’s something mathematical?

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.

I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.

i've seen enough horror movies starring upper-middle-income white families stuck in spacious haunted mansions. gimme stories about millennials stuck in haunted studio apartments. consider the realism:

why is this protagonist staying in an obviously haunted building despite the glaring warning signs? because a week at a motel would send them spiraling into credit card debt, they'll take their chances with the vengeful spirits. why did they chose this apartment complex to begin with, despite the many many unexplained mysterious deaths that show up on the first page of a google search? hon some of us don't have the credit score to move away from high (paranormal) crime areas. how could i be so careless as to sign a soul-binding contract with a demonic entity? bitch they're called LANDLORDS

okay :)

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the Aura of the "okay :)" direactly leading to a read more is astounding.

They’re back!!

they are back

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