#creating a Craigslist ad for this

[sailermoon]

need to enter into a relationship of convenience of sorts where I use him as an excuse for having a “boyfriend” in order to safely reject men

#creating a Craigslist ad for this

[fanboundbooks]

Let's post another lovely fic I had the honor of binding for its author!

Angel with a Shotgun

By sillu | @silluuuu

This is a modern AU Soul Eater fic where Maka puts an ad on Craigslist to get a fake boyfriend and I'm sure you know where this is going...

~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ I had so much fun incorporating all the phone and tech elements into the story.

As you might expect Craigslist played a central role so I made the cover page look like the CL main search page for the city the story the story is located in with the author's name appearing where the CL name typically would be. The scene break icon is modeled after the CL peace sign. I also used this for the image on the front of the cover and the light purple/white cloth for the cover is Duo cloth which I also chose to try to recall the soft purple of the semi transparent CL name in the ad.

I researched and worked to recreate what a mobile Craigslist ad looks like to put it in the body of the typeset and I am really happy with the way it turned out! Many little boxes all needing to work together.

I used an iPhone message creator to create all the text messages. (My favorite bit of that was leaving just a smidge of the last text above the ones that were currently showing to help make it feel like looking at a phone)

Except for the text from Blake right when Soul looks at the ad. I wanted to show it was intruding on him still looking at the ad so I hand modeled that one to look like a pop up notification appearing over the ad.

The Instagram post! Had to make an icon for the bar that was posting as well as design the post as well. I tried using a fake Instagram post maker but it wasn't working well so I just built that one in the typeset as well.

Chapter and book titles are Trader Joes inspired as there is a scene there that get called back to later one. There is a brief use of the iphone notes app so had to create that as well.

The end pages are some I marbled back in April at the Renegade Retreat as well as some shiny purple added to the inside so the painty fingerprints on the backs of the marbled don't show through.

Back cover image is a wing in monochrome and represents a tattoo in the story.

So many new fun things to try with this book!

#bookbinding #fanbinding #fanfiction #Soul Eater #sillu

[tightwadspoonies]

The Salvage Economy in Your Local Area (And Why You Should Use It)

A salvage economy is an economic system that incentivizes the use of existing ("used") materials over the use of virgin ("new") materials to create products and generate income. They are more circular economies, where profits are more equitably shared, waste is reduced, and items have continuing value beyond a single consumer.

Let’s give the example of a piece of clothing. In a mainstream economy, raw materials would be grown (in the case of cotton/linin) or mined (in the case of something like polyester). They would then be manufactured (a water- and energy-intensive process), shipped to a store (another energy-intensive process) and sold for a profit. Once the end consumer was finished with the item, they would throw it away, losing their investment entirely, as well as losing the material and energy investment in the production of the product. Depending on the disposal method, the item would either go to a landfill (which has a limited amount of space) or burned (which releases the remains into the atmosphere where it can be a danger to human health and the natural environment- even with the most stringent of filters/re-burners).

In a salvage economy, however, the piece of clothing is diverted at the point of the first consumer no longer wanting it. It may be donated or sold to a thrift/consignment shop (where the person may get a small return on their initial investment). It could then be re-purchased by someone else repeatedly until it was no longer in a decent enough shape to be re-sold, then it would be sold to a re-processing facility, where the material itself could be deconstructed, re-woven, and returned back into that cycle (energy intensive as well, but less so than creating a garment from new materials). Everyone gets a small cut of the money involved in the item.

If the material was too damaged to continue in this cycle in a meaningful/economical way, and it needed to be disposed of, it could be added to building materials like concrete (ideal for things like polyester, for which other disposal methods would be environmentally damaging), composted (cotton/linin) to create biogas (heat/energy/cooking fuel), or burned for heat/energy (same problems as burning just to get rid of it, but at least you get energy from it, and you’re displacing some of the fossil fuels that would otherwise have to be mined just to burn for energy)*.

Salvage economies exist in parallel with more mainstream economies throughout the world, with varying levels of accessibility and cultural acceptance based on a person’s location, generation, and background. You’ve probably shopped at a “thrift” or consignment store or bought something on Craigslist or Facebook/Amazon Marketplace- this is participating in a salvage economy. But it goes deeper than that.

Culturally in the US, salvage has traditionally been seen as a cheaper second-best option if you can’t afford something new. However, in younger generations and as new items become harder to find and of lower quality, older items are becoming more desirable, and purchasing pressure is shifting, if only a little bit. While I am no economist (my highest degree is in environmental health science) I also think that as the scales start to tip to raw materials becoming less viable economically, companies will look at alternatives, and those alternatives will be existing materials.

I’m not here positing that we should abandon mainstream economies entirely. People will always want new things and be willing to pay for them. But we have a problem of too much trash and too few (and too expensive) raw materials, which create both pollution and shortages** (a problem that has been increasingly in the spotlight in recent years). And I believe that over the next few decades, the pressure (both from market demand and difficulty/expense creating/mining raw materials) will begin to shift, and with it, if you believe traditional economic theory, so too will companies looking to maintain profits. CEO’s gotta eat, (and purchase his 14th yacht), you know.

But I am here saying that you can start putting this pressure on corporations early. Avoid the rush, as they say- before shortages mean everyone turns to the salvage economy all at once with not enough infrastructure to support them. Here are some ways you can participate and build up that infrastructure:

Borrow or rent things you don’t use regularly

Hardware stores rent tools/machines

Look into tool exchanges in your area

Libraries for books (eLibraries like Libby are great if you can’t go to an in-person one, especially if you like audiobooks)

Libraries for toys/games/kits/electronics

Industrial kitchen rentals if you preserve or sell food in moderate quantities

Buy as much as you can used:

Need clothing and home-goods? Thrift stores like goodwill and consignment shops are great at this.

Some thrift shops have a fabric or yarn section if you have/want the skills to knit/sew your own clothing. I’ve gotten some excellent quality wools from Goodwill for super cheap.

Need building materials or furniture? Salvage yards run by demolition companies and charities like Habitat for Humanity ReStore have your back.

Pull-A-Part for car/engine parts

Need books, textbooks, physical media, really specific tools/items, etc? Facebook/Amazon Marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, Thrift Books, etc…

If you can’t get it used, at least save it from a landfill:

Shop for clothing/ home goods/furniture/food at overstock and “damaged goods” stores like Marshalls, Ollie’s, Gabe’s, Rose’s, local wholesale stores and the like.

Look into salvage grocery stores. Some are run by charities and specifically serve low-income clientele, but many are open to the public (especially in areas with high Amish populations). These stores buy overstock, expired (doesn’t mean bad), and food with damaged packaging in bulk and sell it for an extreme discount (like 90% off). Some even have frozen, refrigerated, and fresh sections.

Craigslist sometimes have people advertising fruit trees in their yards that are a nuisance to them d/t falling fruit, and want someone to come collect it

If you already have something, but it broke, try to get it fixed instead of replacing it. Look into:

Appliance repair places are still a thing

Electronics repair and referb places

Repair cafes (events where people with repair skills, people with tools, and people with things that need to be repaired can meet)

Mending circles and learning to mend and alter clothing yourself

Tailor/clothing repair shops

Watch/jewelry repair shops

Shoe repair shops

Car repair places (it’s like I’ve always said- the best car for the environment is the one you’re currently driving, especially if you keep getting it maintained and fixed appropriately as needed, but even if you don’t, it’s better than creating demand for something new)

Gardening! (look at it as making something you have or have access to (land/a yard) into something you need (food))

Most of these are cheaper options, some of them aren’t, but it’s great to create a list of resources in your local area as you find them- that way you’ll be less tempted to go straight to Target for a new item.

Additionally, with the exceptions of a few chains and online resources, many of the “salvage” stores are small, local businesses. And you want these to thrive, both to stick it to Amazon and Wal Mart, and because they keep skills and resources circulating in your local community. Yay!

*You’ll notice I didn’t say the word “recycling” anywhere in there. While traditional recycling works for some materials, it is expensive and the infrastructure just isn’t there currently to handle the demand, largely because as it stands there wouldn’t be a lot of return on that investment. To the point where most recycling is either sent to US-based landfills or sent abroad (where we’re not really sure what happens to it- some of it is sold back to US corporations as post-consumer materials (primarily for “greenwashing” efforts, but that’s a whole other thing), but we think the majority of it just ends up in foreign landfills or above-ground dumps). While recycling definitely has a place in salvage economies, as we do it today it is divorced from the end consumer/waste generator and has little purpose or accountability beyond making people feel like they’re not just throwing stuff away.

**You wanna know how that happened? We abandoned buy-it-for-life models popular before WWII and adopted obsolescence models that provided extreme short-term profits for corporations at the near-immediate expense of human health and the planet.

We also developed the absolute scourge that is disposable packaging. Think about how much of your trash is just packaging from things you bought. Did you know before WWII you purchased most of your goods by purchasing your first metal can or glass bottle of consumables with a deposit, then came back and got the same can/bottle refilled a bunch of times? And if you no longer wanted it, you returned the container to get your deposit back? It’s true. Some companies (liquid manufacturers, like soda/milk, up until the 1970s) had a system where you returned your empties for a return deposit each time, and they’d wash and refill them, and sell you full bottles + deposit for the next go-round? Imagine how much less trash we’d have today if we still worked on that model. We literally had to teach people to throw things away with advertising (see below). But I digress…

#the salvage economy #salvage #food #clothing #gardening #tightwadery #economics #ideology #DIY #homesteading #low effort homesteading

[bracketsoffear]

Moby Dick (Moby Dick) "Okay, look--let's get this out of the way. I know that the whale is big. That is not an insignificant thing about whales in general and this whale in particular. It's not even an insignificant factor in nominating him today. Except, it's not the size that matters--it's what Herman Melville does with it*.

*(Sorry, the dick joke was obligatory. It should be the only one unless my love of bad puns runs away from me.)

There's a post floating out there on tumblr calling Moby Dick the OG eldritch terror. Unfortunately, we all know how the hellsite's search "function" is (exasperated but affectionate), so I'm not going to be able to link it. What I can do is pull out a few rusty tools of literary analysis to show that at his Vast heart, Moby Dick represents the terrifying insignificance of humanity in the face of the grandness and terror of the sea.

First, it's crucial to point out that the book opens with quotes about whales, including several Bible verses, some Pliny, something purported to be copied down by a ninth-century king, Shakespeare, and so on. Right out of the gate, the book connects the Whale with the idea of the mythological Leviathan. By quoting Genesis in particular, Melville creates the idea of the Whale as a beast that has existed alongside humanity since its inception. Just as the fears are ancient and have tormented humanity since prehistory, the Whale/Leviathan has represented a "dragon of the sea" that mankind cannot conquer.

Sailors who make their living killing the whales are aware that " all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up" and that "[t]he great Leviathan […] maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan." They can't escape, though, because as the extracts also make clear, the booming economy of the nineteenth century depends on whale oil for everything from healing bruises to heating rooms in the dead of winter. The sailors are therefore helpless in the face of the dangers that the Whale's sheer size escapes, but also the vast and impersonal economic machinery that reduces them to commodities to be sacrificed to the Whale's wrath, Ahab's vengeance, and the Industrial Revolution's greed. Simon Fairchild probably had a field day with this one.

I realize I'm nearly 400 words in, so in the interest of sparing people's eyes, I'll wrap up by pointing out: --There is a whole chapter devoted to the crew standing knee-deep in whale fat while they dissect a smaller whale. --There is another chapter where Ishmael rhapsodizes about the size of a whale's skeleton. --Then he goes on for another chapter about whale fossils. --And then chapter 3 in this trilogy (which began in chapter 103, btw), asks outright in the title. "Does the whale's magnitude diminish?" --Ishmael sees the sea, and by extension, the Whale, as an irresistible, almost compelling force that terrifies and awes him. This is similar to noted Vast victim Robert Kelly, who also feels a draw to the Vast. --The book closes with Ishmael as the only survivor of the Pequod, having barely escaped the whale's vortex that pulled the ship and all her crew into the depths of the ocean, floating alone on his subtextual lover's coffin for a day and night before finally being picked up by another ship."

Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki (Everything Everywhere All At Once) "Jobu is able to comprehend the entire scale of humanity in every corner of the multiverse, and it's all… Meaningless. You see when you put literally everything on a bagel when you're bored one day - every report card, every breed of dog, every ad on Craigslist, every grain of salt or seed - it collapses in on itself and you realize… We are all so small and insignificant that nothing we do matters. And when nothing matters, all of the pain and guilt you feel at your life going nowhere just goes away. It's sucked into a bagel.

A cult is formed around this bagel - all the other people that Jobu has shown the truth to - but what she really wants is her mother to understand how empty she really feels."

#vast poll #the magnus archives #the vast #poll #moby dick #everything everywhere all at once #eeaao

[lord-rosenth0rne]

Went into FNAF with low expectations and I'm glad I did. Any movie that looks THAT GOOD with legendary puppeteers creating characters that seem to have just been pulled directly from the games will have some huge drawback to it and that was the writing.

Also, when I hear "it's for the fans" coming from Hollywood of all places, I know something's up. Something got Disney-fied in order to have it appeal to a larger crowd that may water down the content.

The actors were great, LOVED Matthew Lillard and his Scream reference, the atmosphere is creepy when it needs to be and the animatronics were just perfect. The cameos and easter eggs made it so nice.

The storytelling sucks. BAD. Bad to the point that I'm going to have to sit down with my mother later after she watches it and SHOW her (because the movie has a problem with telling, not showing) what her granddaughter, my niece is actually in love with that the movie skips out on, that being the horror itself. This is a HORROR franchise and it's gotten soft over its continuation.

The script should have been given to someone who was a fan of the series, particularly the first three games (can't say the books as they seem to have their own premise), AND a horror movie buff. The movie forgets it's a horror movie and doesn't seem to know what it wants to be.

There are a lot of key pieces I would have changed to make it enjoyable for newcomers while simultaneously being for the fans:

-Make this a series and not a movie. Mike should be in jail by the end of the movie with all the stuff they glossed over. Cop gets gravely injured and he and his sister are the only witnesses? With Afton "dead" and locked away, who else could have done it? The woman he's in a custody battle with is lying dead on his floor AND he has a history of violence and drug use? Yeah. No. This needed more time to deal with its issues or be rewritten entirely which I am all for.

-Garrett's disappearance needed to have a DIRECT line to the pizzeria instead of happening in the middle of BFE Nebraska.

-Nix the dream crap. Mike should have been killed the first time he ever fell asleep in that place. Next security guard, please. Though, I will say, if he falls asleep or he loses consciousness, they could have Garrett communicate with him to give a couple of clues on what he needs to do next and warn him to stay away from the animatronics.

-Speaking of animatronics, they're vengeful spirits that should go after anything with a pulse. Or at least any adult with a blindness for faces. While I can excuse how they acted around Abby, I can't excuse it around Mike or Vanessa. They should get the same treatment the idiots who broke into the place did regardless of who they are.

-Utilize the cameras more to keep an air of mystery and horror going. Maybe have Mike chase some kid through the place like Max did only to go look back at the cameras to see that he wasn't chasing anything or if he sees a kid on the cameras, he goes to find them only to find the respective animatronic standing there instead. Lean harder into the paranormal aspect.

-Have Afton's motives actually explained. WHY was he doing this? What was his end goal of killing kids and putting them in suits? Yeah, it can be a simple answer, but not one given in the movie. Also, have him more involved in the plot. Have him physically haunting the place as Springtrap. Having Mike ask him "Why" and him answering "Why not?" would be fucked up as hell and mirror real-life child kidnappings/murders. Grieving families do ask the killers of their loved ones "Why?"

-Nix Vanessa. OG fans remember when we had to piece things together through visuals. Not exposition. Mike should find out about the other disappearances through articles and such, even Garrett's disappearance which he could be trying to solve, and stumbled upon a golden opportunity when he found a Craigslist ad for a Night Guard for the very place his brother went missing. Besides, Vanessa has her own lore that wouldn't be in play until later additions to the franchise. Nothing like finding out the body of a dead child is hiding in one of the animatronics by "injuring" the animatronic to keep up the horror aspect.

-I would have kept the family angle with Mike knowing Afton was his father, he just used "Mike Schmit" to get a job at the place his father is protective over to investigate instead of "Michael Afton", given how common "Schmit" is. Afton himself probably wouldn't recognize him unless face to face.

-Bring in Henry Emily. Give a red herring that maybe HE'S the one behind all of it. Have him investigate at the same time Mike is and neither trust each other with that information, causing them to suspect one another.

You see, this movie would have been ten times better if they used what was already there instead of using an entirely different story with the same characters. They could have used old cliches and made them work.

#FNAF movie #FNAF spoilers #Michael Afton #Mike Schmit #William Afton #Abby Schmit #henry emily #FNAF review

[audio-luddite]

Speakers Again!

There is a remarkable group of speakers on Craigslist today in our city. In the $1200 dollar range there are some big Technics, JBLs, a Maggie, and an Infinity RS 2.5.

One ad especially caught my attention. It was a pair of Allison Ones.

Not this pair, I was looking for a good Picture.

You never see these out there. From the 1970s era with a "Boston" sound. These guys are three way with six drivers each channel. They could be called quasi-omidirectional. In the wars over speaker theory Omni direction always comes up. The trick here is they must be placed hard against a wall so the wall becomes like an acoustic mirror creating a virtual omni pair for each channel.

Back in my youth these were respected. The designer Roy Allison was out of AR (Acoustic Research) and had a hand in the famous AR-3. Oh, and yes I wanted a pair. Much easier to live with compared to maggies and more conventional high end speakers.

I liked the concept as it was pretty simple. The angle of the two faces is 90 degrees as I recall. You get symmetry on two planes when against the wall. Wall placement has several advantages. It helps in the low Bass by bumping it by around 6 db (wall and floor) It limits multipath reflections a bit. The room fills with sound and there is a significant area of radiator surface with two of everything per side.

All the drivers are flat on the faces so from a central listening position you are 40 to 45 degrees off axis to them which should mess up the highs a bit but they were reputed to have excellent imaging so there is that.

These were one of my influences for design. My invisible speakers are also set hard against the wall. It pleases the wife to not have big ugly boxes in the middle of the room. If I was not a DIY type I would probably buy these.

Hmmm maybe I should build some......

#audiophile #high end audio #audioblr #cheap audiophile #Allison One Speakers

[doberbutts]

Highlighted mine, of course.

It's very telling that this is STILL the pinned post at the top of this group.

My problem, and that of many of the decent breeders who are in this very group, is exactly what's highlighted.

The point is for a well thought out project, backed by science, from fully health tested breeding stock, made to *compliment* and *further* the breed, rather than change it from its fundamentals to be more palatable to pet people or those who do not desire protective instinct.

Even the few projects I do like fall short of this.

And mainly it's because most of these projects go like this: "I want to do this" "okay, what's your reasoning?" "I want to 🤬" "okay, what does it accomplish besides genetic diversity" "genetic diversity is the only thing that matters 🤬" "okay, do you expect the typical protective doberman temperament" "no I want sporty active pets 🤬 and therapy dogs 🤬 I don't like bitework and dogs shouldn't be aggressive 🤬" "okay, are they health tested at all?" "health testing doesn't matter because we're adding diversity 🤬" "okay, then as a breeder of Nice Dogs, I'm not willing to support this project by giving dogs to it" "how dare you 🤬 this is what will kill the doberman breed 🤬 you're just a purebred snob who would rather see your breed die than create mixes 🤬 you're the reason we have to use craigslist and unregistered and Z-list dogs 🤬"

Every fucking time.

[daz4i]

This is the last thing on it swear and you won't hurt my feelings if you ignore it, but your post spawned this so here you go (this is only semi serious).

Your post gave me thoughts back to your "Nikolai the potential former office worker" thing and maybe him being like "I need a change I can't function under these parameters of life anymore I've seen behind the veil" *creates your now theorized Craigslist posting seeking new connections*

Fukuchi: don't these kids all use Craigslist now? Let's make a job ad on there.

Fyodor: *sighing* no one uses Craiglist for jobs anymore old man *minimizing 20 tabs super fast with Fukuchi suddenly over his shoulder* *accidentally doesn't minimize the Craigslist personals tab because this is 2011*

Fukuchi: WAIT. SEE! "Looking for a change. Maybe murder maybe something else?" That's our guy!

Fyodor is just thinking to himself thank god he doesnt realize this isnt the job board clearly but whatever and opens it.... his eyes widen in suprise. This IS their guy?! The rest is history.

ajsmfklglglglglgh thank you this is exactly how it went 🤝 deleted scene from the manga right there

#(^had to google craigslist personals bc he doesn't actually know how craigslist works)

[arwenkenobi48]

The Hypnotic Stasis Pod - A Doctor Hypnos/Pandæmonium Crossover

“Perfect,” Doctor Hypnos murmured. “Absolutely perfect. You’ve done very well, slaves.” “Thank you, Doctor Hypnos,” replied the seven former superheroes, their eyes spiralling as they smiled and saluted their leader. They had been working diligently day and night on Doctor Hypnos’ latest invention.

Before the eight of them stood a strange cylindrical device, just the right size for the average adult to fit inside. The interior was soft and padded and there were small filters on either side of it, as well as vials of a mysterious pink mist at either end. The lid was see-through and made of a material similar to plexiglass, only stronger. The top half of it also had a specially designed screen that would display a swirling spiral to whoever was inside the machine.

“The Hypno Pod is finally complete.” Doctor Hypnos smiled. He held out one hand. “Blueprints, if you please.” Decha handed them to him. Doctor Hypnos studied them intently, the beak of his mask prodding the paper slightly. He looked like a mechanically minded raven. “Shall we create another, Doctor Hypnos?” Decha enquired. “First of all, we must test this one out,” Doctor Hypnos replied. “And I think I know just who shall be my next target…” he added with a sinister laugh.

A few hours later…

“Well, I knew when answering that Craigslist ad that this was going to be sketchy at best, but this is just weird as hell,” muttered Rosier. The emo demon brushed his floppy black/dark pink hair away from his aquamarine eyes as he looked around the dark laboratory. He then read the note he’d found taped to the front door again.

“I apologise for being unable to greet you in person. I have some urgent business matters to attend to. The stasis pod requires cleaning, inside and out. You’ll find it in the lab at the end of the corridor, on the right hand side. I shall return as soon as I can. Sincerely, D.H.”

Rosier sighed and rubbed his temples. “Mortals are so fucking weird…” he mused. Approaching the stasis pod, he noticed some cleaning supplies places next to it against the wall. Donning a pair of rubber gloves, he got to work and polished the exterior of the pod until it practically glowed. It was all downhill from there.

With a click, Rosier opened the door of the pod. It was a little heavy, but he managed to prop it open and clambered inside, preparing to finish the second half of the job. Unfortunately, as soon as he climbed in, his tail triggered a mechanism that activated the machine. Disaster struck. The door to the stasis pod quickly closed and the machine hummed slightly as it began to do its work.

Rosier panicked and began yelling for help, pounding his fists on the door of the pod. “Help! Help! Someone let me out!” But it was no use. “Oh, shit! Where’s dad when you need him?” Groaned Rosier, wishing that Mephistopheles could come to his rescue. He kept trying in vain to force the door open, but it didn’t work. He barely had enough room to even move.

A strange sound reached his ears. A faint ‘hssssss’. That was when he noticed the filters on either side of the tank, standing out against its cushioned interior. A pink vapour that smelled of roses began to emerge from it, first faint and then growing thicker. The demon’s eyes widened in alarm. “Oh, fantastic…” he shuddered, before trying again to make the lid open. Then he began twisting his body from side to side in an attempt to make the pod roll over. But his efforts were all in vain.

The pink fumes were growing stronger and Rosier couldn’t hold his breath and fight to escape at the same time. It just made him dizzy. “Maybe it’s designed to only affect mortals,” he thought. “Perhaps it won’t have any effect on me.” But he was wrong, yet again. As he breathed in the hypnotic sleeping gas, Rosier began to feel lightheaded, dazed, sleepy. He moaned softly, feeling increasingly dizzy and drowsy. He felt so tired. He’d worn himself out with useless escape efforts. Maybe he should rest for a moment, close his eyes and have a little snooze. No, he couldn’t. He had to try and escape. Who knows what his captor might do to him? But it was getting so hard to stay awake. The fumes smelled so intoxicating. His eyelids fluttered as he yawned deeply, snuggling into the pod. “I’ll just have a quick nap,” he told himself. “I’ll escape later. All I want to do is sleep…mmmf…sleeeeep…”

Doctor Hypnos peered down at the stasis pod and its snoring occupant. Rosier was fast asleep, dreaming the night away. “Well, the sleeping gas system has worked perfectly,” the villain admitted to Jamal, who had accompanied him. “Now let’s see how the spiral screen works.”

Pressing a button on a mobile control panel, Doctor Hypnos turned off the sleeping gas. A few minutes later, Rosier awakened, yawning groggily. He saw two men staring down at him, one of which was wearing a plague doctor mask and the other one was dressed entirely in black leather, with black and white spirals rotating in his eyes and a dumb smile on his face. “Who are you?” He began to say, but then he realised who he was dealing with.

Ever since Rosier’s dad, Mephistopheles, had had an encounter with Doctor Hypnos, he’d adopted strange behaviours, including those exhibited by the brainwashed superheroes. The spirals in his eyes, that mindless smile, the robotic repetition of the mantra “must obey Doctor Hypnos”. Rosier would have been afraid if he wasn’t still rather groggy from being knocked out.

Doctor Hypnos pressed another button and the screen, which Rosier hadn’t even realised was there, began to display that signature black and white spiral. Rosier closed his eyes in an attempt to avoid it, but the screen was too bright. He opened his eyes, albeit reluctantly, staring into the spiral. He was starting to see why his dad had succumbed to its power. It was so pretty, swirling and swirling around and around. Its gentle circling motions made him feel so sleepy, so happy and mindless. He could feel his fuzzy little mind slowly going blank, but he wasn’t even worried about it. He was too happy and sleepy to care. Round and round went the spiral. He wanted to stare at it, he needed to stare at it and obey its owner. Must obey Doctor Hypnos.

The door to the pod finally opened and Rosier slowly climbed out. The spirals swirled in his eyes, a dumb smile spreading across his face. “Must obey Doctor Hypnos.” He giggled, standing to attention. “Good slave,” Smirked Doctor Hypnos. “I see that my new Hypno Pod worked like a charm, didn’t it?” The villain enquired. “Yes, Doctor Hypnos,” Rosier replied, nodding enthusiastically. “The Hypno Pod has put my mind to sleep. May I go back in, Doctor Hypnos?”

“Note to self,” Doctor Hypnos wrote. “Subject expresses desire to return to the pod. Seems ecstatic at the prospect.” He glanced up at Rosier. “Very well, slave. Return to the pod. Let the sleeping gas and the spiral wash your mind away.” “Yes, Doctor Hypnos,” Rosier giggled again, before climbing back inside to be further brainwashed. Doctor Hypnos turned to his other slaves triumphantly. “Success!” He joyfully declared.

#hypnosis fic #doctor hypnos #hypnotic villain #oc: rosier #demon #villain oc #demon oc #hypnotic oc #(I don’t own the superhero characters) #sleepy #poor little rosier #all knocked out #*stifles laugh* #hypnotised #Pandæmonium #crossover #rosier Morningstar

[splatbandcanons]

I really want to know like the foundation and first meeting stories of the bands, like who knew each other beforehand. I mean we know the backgrounds for some of them,like Wet Floor for instance, was essentially created through a craigslist ad. But like how did other bands meet their prospective members?

Like,did Beika,an absolute gremlin of a squid in a Hawaiian shirt, see two hot goths sitting on opposite sides of a bus station bench,squish in between them and say "we should start a band"?

I hope so because that would be hilarious and some of the best lore hands down.

(also the alternative theory I had was essentially the same but instead Beika said something like "so...wanna make out?" And the others were like "no,but I'll start a band with you")

#splatbands #splatbandcanons #not really headcanons #something to think about though #c-side #c-side Splatoon #splatoon bands #this is incredibly silly

[mahmudulhasan46]

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[dawnleaf37]

oh god I haven’t even thought abt the lore. well there’s mecrosoft paper, suitcase, test tube, feathry, and silver spoon but I didnt really have an idea for him so. im saying ss is non canon. and then later we added gray and moon who don’t have designs yet

paper is like clippy and really clingy. I think he’s also a bit of mischievous spyware, just a silly little guy Knowing about you and your computer. despite me drawing suitcase first, paper was the first guy created. paper pops up randomly with his tips n stuff and then disappears of the screen to who knows where lol. he’s differentiated from ii paper in that he almost always has a static smile on his face and also the pink line on him is now black.

suitcase is a wonderful file organizer and works good with storage. like paper, she randomly pops up with tips and tricks about computer tech and fun facts. she usually stays on screen if there’s at least one application open. suitcase ISNT spyware however 🎉. iirc shes abt to be discontinued for a newer os (you can still archive the download site tho). difference from regular suitcase she is a flat fuck and also can float. more expressive than the other guys too!

test tube I havent talked abt too much. most recent product and is also an organizer. as well as helps run applications. they say tt makes the computer run faster but they are 8000% lying. made to replace suitcase and paper on newer operating systems but uhhh glitchy as hell not working >:(. they brought back using these guys as spyware and even adware. horrible. tt always has a clipboard and again mostly a static smiling face. silly idle animations. comes on every os and there’s youtube videos on how to uninstall her /silly

mecrosoft is a shitty company so since tt creates adware, they advertised feathry as an ad remover. and she works!!! mostly!!! theyve still gotta make money n shit so she doesnt work all the way. just enough. shes also a paid subscription so mecrosoft you bitch as. feathry has a green marker but she doesnt even scribble out ads it’s just there for appeal. but if you buy now you get a silly creature on your computer!!!!!!!! please

mecrosoft gray wasn’t really ever supposed to exist tbh lol!! they were trying to make mini helper things for each application but none of the guys ever worked except gray’s and they couldn’t figure out why. the real reason is because well! gray is the reason. fucked up little computer creature demands ten thousand attention forever and started deleting code for the other guys while they were testing. and then they just kinda forgot to take gray off of the os because no one ever uses the calculator tool. gray even buggier than metube because he just always gives the wrong answer or just some non existent unit of measurement. little fucked up thing. sentient creature. invasive species. probably a bad idea. might even give your computer a virus? idk it seems to be quite good at modifying code /silly

lore lore lore: copy of mepaper started bugging out on an old computer and the guy using it was like “hmm this is some really creepypasta shit.” idm if you wanna make that guy OJ ig that’d be cool I never really decided (I think ill just say OJ here to make it easier) but mepaper eventually became sentient and became friends with him. but OJ can’t really do work on it now so he bought another one off of like craigslist or whatever. came installed with mesuitcase. mepaper saw that n was like “what the hell dude.” keep in mind this guy(mepaper) doesnt have a voice so hes just speaking thru text boxes lol. so what mepaper did was fuck up the mecase computer with like some really bad virus but somehow mecase survived that. barely. so OJ was like “fucks sake dude” and ig mepaper felt bad so he tried to apologize. but OJ wouldn’t let them near each other so they kinda just yelled from across the house when he wasn’t home. mecase has a voice btw uh it’s not the best quality but she has it. so they made up and theyre cool now.

I haven’t thought abt anything with metube or mefeathry yet so youll have to wait for that 🎉

#rdl #mecrosoft #sure awesome 🎉 #now where have I heard the concept of paper doing silly things on a computer before looks directly at my mutual #/SILLLY #ok maybe I DID think abt the lore /silly

[digitaltrend2]

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[bracketsoffear]

Spiral: The House on Ashtree Lane (House of Leaves) "The strange nature of the House on Ash Tree Lane was first recorded by acclaimed photojournalist Will Navidson when he moved in with his family. The film was subsequently criticized in a manuscript written by Zampanò, and upon his death the work was recovered, annotated, and organized by Johnny Truant. Possibly. No record of Navidson, the film he created, or many of the references utilized by Zampanò can be found, either because Zampanò made them up entirely or they were somehow erased.1 It is possible that this means that the house itself, whose notable properties include being 1/4" larger on the inside and an infinitely-expanding pitch-black system of corridors that drive explorers to madness, simply does not exist.2 Whether or not the house itself exists physically or merely as a memetic hazard spread through various iterations upon Navidson's original film, its effects seem to manifest as an anxiety pertaining to doors, hallways, and what lies beyond them, as well as a creature of uncertain nature5 that seemingly stalks those who annotate the account with their own thoughts and reactions.4

Possibly by a means similar to case #0120606, "Lost and Found".

Though by no means does simple nonexistence equate to harmlessness, as in case 376-U, "Upon the Stair".

It may be worth investigating the similarities between this Minotaur and the Distortion.

Whether or not readers who do not annotate the text suffer similar experiences is, naturally, unrecorded.

where the labyrinth spreads the Minotaur follows 3"

Vast: Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki (Everything Everywhere All At Once) "Jobu is able to comprehend the entire scale of humanity in every corner of the multiverse, and it's all… Meaningless. You see when you put literally everything on a bagel when you're bored one day - every report card, every breed of dog, every ad on Craigslist, every grain of salt or seed - it collapses in on itself and you realize… We are all so small and insignificant that nothing we do matters. And when nothing matters, all of the pain and guilt you feel at your life going nowhere just goes away. It's sucked into a bagel.

A cult is formed around this bagel - all the other people that Jobu has shown the truth to - but what she really wants is her mother to understand how empty she really feels."

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[vanesaobs]

Sold to Why Don’t We

Description- It’s Christmas Eve and your mom needed money. this is a joke

You were sitting in your bedroom with the fresh smell of pine and cookies emanating from under the closed door. The smell of cookies came from your mom cooking upstairs. Your mom had been somewhat distant this holiday season but you couldn’t seem to find the cause of it. Really you didn’t mind because you had all the more reason to listen to your favorite christmas song: Kiss You This Christmas, by not only the hottest but best boy band ever created, Why Don’t We.

Why Dont We wasn’t just any band to you, you were a limelight. Every interview, every music video, every social media post made by one of the guys you’d seen it. Nothing went unnoticed by you (but Jack becoming a dad but who could of predicted that). The boys were all just to hot you couldn’t pick a favorite but really if you had to Corbyn or Daniel were the best. You didn’t know why but-

The door bell rang. Who could possibly be ringing the doorbell on christmas eve? You didn’t know but before you could try to figure it out, the sound of your mom opening the door echoed down to your room. You went to pause the music so you could hear who was at the door.

“Hi! I’m Zach Herron and these are the other boys, you must be Y/Ns mom?”

“Yes of course I was waiting all day for you, Y/N is downstairs but she doesn’t know yet maybe one of you could go down there and bring her upstairs”

You started to feel your throat burn with nervousness at the thought of Zach Herron in your house. You couldn’t believe it, in a way you didn’t buy it but the charismatic voice was undeniably Zach.

Before you knew it foot steps of people were making their way down the stairs down to your room, then the footsteps knocked at your door.

“Hey it’s Jack could you open the door? Your mom and us want to tell you something.”

You quickly scrambled to turn off the tv you had on playing Why Don’t We interviews and put on your slippers to go open your door. When you open it you’re greeted with a subtle hot smirk from Jack and a somewhat disgusted look from Jonah.

Without a word they turn around and you instinctively follow them up the stairs to your kitchen. When you reach the top of the stairs Jack and Jonah go to sit with the rest of the boys and your mom at the table. The gravity of the situation finally hits you and you realize that Why Don’t We is sitting at your dinner table all staring at you. This thought alone makes you feel so overwhelmed and uncomfortable you start to get dizzy. Just when your vision starts to give out you feel the presence of large hand grab your arm and lift you back up.

“Woah there are you okay?”

It was Daniel who caught you from falling over and the warmth of his body brings you a immediate comfort

“Ha yeah i’m sorry I’m just a little dehydrated” you replied

He walked you over to a seat with his arms wrapped around you, he gives you a reaffirming smile as he goes to the other side of the table and sits across from you. Soon your mom begins to tell you how she needed money and how these “kind boys had placed an ad on craigslist and she couldn’t pass up the chance for over 1 million dollars”. The only price was giving up her daughter.

The information stunned you. Your mom was giving up her only daughter for a check, in some ways respectable but from your own mother it was outrageous. Tears began to well up in the corner of your eyes.

“Our private jet leaves in an hour so if you could hurry up and cry while packing that’d be really great” Jonah snapped at you

The comment only added to assault and caused you to get up and run from the table.

“Are you serious Jonah?! This isn’t the time for you to try and act all tough you’re really just a dick” Corbyn said while following close behind you

You finally got to your room where you began to sob uncontrollably. You were probably crying for 5 minutes before you realized you weren’t alone. Corbyn had actually followed you and was sitting next to you this whole time.

“I’m so sorry I didn’t notice you were there, I thought I was alone I just can’t believe my mom would do this-“ You were in hysterics before you were stopped mid sentence

Corbyn had taken you into his arms and his body enveloped yours into the tightest most secure hug you’ve ever had. His thumb rubs light circles on your arm while you relax your head into the nape of his neck. His musk lightly greets your nose with the smells of cocoa powder and oak. The feeling of his toned body giving you butterflies as you imagine him with his shirt off.

You find yourself completely letting go of all the tension you were holding from the situation and getting lost in the embrace. Not even realizing this whole time he’s been speaking to you.

“I’m so sorry that this happened but think of us as your new family and just ignore jonah he doesn’t know what he’s missing out on with someone as beautiful as you” He hums and you feel the light vibrato of his voice in your chest

You let out a light giggle and free yourself from the hug and decide to start packing. While your packing you start to talk with Corbyn and realize that he’s even more charming then in the interviews. You find yourself going to look up and admire his beauty to find that he’s already looking at you, watching as you dance around the room trying to collect all your most valuable items before you leave your childhood bedroom forever.

Finally youre finished packing and you give Corbyn a smile telling him your ready, he picks up your bags and you once again go up the stairs to meet everyone sitting chatting at the table. Your mom looks up at you and stands up to give you one last hug before you’re off.

When you walk outside you’re met with a long sleek black limo parked in front of your house.

“Wait that’s what you guys drove here in?” You question

“We bring only the best for you, princess” Zach says causing your face to warm up at the pet name.

You walk down to the car and hop in quickly getting sandwiched in with you thighs touching both Corbyn and Daniel on either side. While the car ride progresses with all the boys talking and laughing Corbyn let’s his hand find a place on your thigh. Not knowing where to look you stare at his perfect hand lightly squeezing your leg. Before you knew it the car had stopped and the door opened giving you a view of a shiny private jet waiting for your arrival.

The End

[fonkerdot]

One time Ernest Hemingway was asked to create the saddest, shortest story he could, that would touch even the most cold-hearted man, after but a minute of thought he uttered only 6 words: "Craigslist ad: small condom, never used".