#schrodinger's schadenfreude

[cjjasp]

Schadenfreude, Schrodinger's Tea Cup, and Gallows Humor #amwriting

My teacup has a fundamental problem. I no sooner fill it up than it is empty. I feel this is a prime example of particle physics in action. I set the cup filled with hot tea on my desk, write a few words, and it is empty when I reach for it a short while later. It’s a mystery. The cup is full, and then it is empty, a Schrodinger’s cup of tea, there and not there. But I digress. A few years ago, I…

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#dark humor #gallows humor #Schrodinger&039;s Cat #writing

[theriu]

Much like many forms of wanting attention, going viral on tumblr seems to rely heavily on the person either not caring about or definitely NOT WANTING to go viral on tumblr. Which is why some of the funniest posts are people being like, “Haha those poor saps who went viral will never escape” and then being snowed under by tumblr’s love of schadenfreude

I, on the other hand, am likely safe, because I would LOVE a viral post and enjoy reading the tags and comments. I defy anyone who claims I would become so tired of getting a million notes every day. I am standing on the stage waving my arms going “HEY NOTICE ME” and knowing full well everyone senses my desire and loses all but passing interest. Plus this post is definitely too long for most people to read.

This is the answer, my attention-or-notification-hating friends: Appear as interested in fame as possible and everyone who enjoys making fellow members suffer for their hubris will be like “Well THATS no fun.” Even as I state this I am in a Schrodinger’s Delimma of knowing this won’t get famous yet hoping someone will spitefully go “challenge accepted” and try to make me regret my choices. Curse (or perhaps bless) my attention-seeking folly.

On the plus side, I’ll always have that time my pop went slightly viral for falling asleep in the van of alpacas. If this is my greatest legacy, I can be content.

#tumblr #river rambles #notes #hubris #come at me bro #but you wont because I asked for it #behold the quandary and rejoice

[falselyprofound]

Mum: So why's it called Virtue's Last Reward?

Me: The game is based off the prisoner's dilemma - so basically, being a good person means knowing that the other person is safe, but also possibly dying.

Mum: Well that's depressing. You should make a game based on Schrodinger's Cat.

Me: That's also a major plot point in VLR.

Mum: Well, fine! SCHADENFREUDE'S cat.

Me: Like... Putting a cat in a box and then laughing at it?

Mum: Exactly!

#pointless post #vlr blogging