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I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.
A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.
Honourable mention really needs to go to 'We like the moon' by rathergood
I recently encountered a real life adult human who had no idea what the Evil Overlord list was. Naturally I was delighted to do my part for this member of the lucky 10,000. But just in case there are more people living an Evil-Overlord-List-less life, here it is:
The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
1. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.
2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
3. My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
5. The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness.
6. I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.
7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."
8. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.
9. I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labelled "Danger: Do Not Push". The big red button marked "Do Not Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labelled as such.
10. ….
There’s (much) more:
This is something I'm seeing more and more on AO3 that I'd never seen when I first got into fandom stuff, so I wanted to find out how you all feel about it.
What are your thoughts about seeing posted fanfiction that isn't commissioned, where the creator says that they have never read/watched the source material? For example, someone putting out a fanfic for a show they've never watched that includes the tag Author Has Never Seen Suchandsuch.
Recently I saw someone saying they read [popular wangxian fic with poor JGY characterization] without having read MDZS or seen The Untamed, and they were looking for more wangxian recs and specified that they didn't want any JGY ships. Which I mean, plenty of people who have read canon also don't want JGY ships so it's not a problem in and of itself but when you're basing that off of a caricature in the first place? It didn't even occur to me that people whose only exposure to wangxian was from that kind of fic might be WRITING in the fandom too but it would explain a lot
I feel like I should make a post about this because it’s not something that’s very well-known, and that Americans in particular may need to know about given the uncertain state of our healthcare system at the moment. I’ve wanted to write this out for a while, It’s kind of a long post, so sorry about that!
If you have an emergency and have to go to the hospital, you’ll owe the hospital a lot of money. (I got into a car wreck and broke my ankle and my arm. My hospital bill was around $20,000)
You’ll also owe the ambulance provider, if you need one. (My ambulance bill was about $800)
You may get separate bills from the anesthesiologist or surgeon. (My anesthesiologist bill was $1,700)
You may need follow-up appointments. (My orthopedic surgeon billed me for the appointments and his surgery together and it was about $1,000)
You’ve also got to pay for medical equipment you need afterward, like crutches or a walking boot. (Mine cost about $75)
Altogether, I ended up with almost $24,000 in medical debt from one car accident. That’s a really scary number for someone like me who makes $10/hr at a 12 hour a week job.
I got my debt down to $1075 by making some phone calls and submitting some paperwork.
The first thing I did was contact the hospital. They don’t make it easy to find, but many hospitals (perhaps most hospitals?) have financial assistance programs for people who can’t afford medical bills. I don’t make a lot of money, and I have bills to pay, so they were able to help me. I called the billing department and asked if they had any assistance programs for low income people who can’t pay their bills. I had to call multiple times, and I got transferred in circles by people who didn’t know what I was talking about. Finally, I got an appointment with someone in “Eligibility Services” (I don’t know what other hospitals call it, if it’s something different). I had to bring my pay stubs and copies of all of my bills. When I got to the hospital for the appointment, nobody knew what I was talking about so I had to wander a little to find where I needed to go. I spoke with the guy in Eligibility Services, and I waited for a decision on how much of the bill they would forgive. A month later, I got a call telling me it was totally forgiven.
I did the same thing for my ambulance bill and my anesthesiologist, but the process was a LOT easier. I just had to mail some paperwork and it was totally forgiven.
I didn’t bother with the medical equipment suppliers, since the bills came from separate companies and I didn’t feel like going through the process twice for $75. I was assured at the hospital that they had similar programs for debt forgiveness, so I could have probably avoided paying that too.
The only thing I couldn’t get taken care of was the surgeon/follow-up appointment cost, but they were able to put me on a no-interest payment plan.
Medical debt is scary because it’s something that can come from stuff that’s already really scary. I didn’t need the burden of $24,000 in debt on top of trying to get around on a crutch with a broken arm (it’s not easy, believe me!).. but I can’t imagine what it would be like with a bigger debt or a more severe medical emergency. I see lots of people in even worse trouble than I was in, both financially and medically. Please know that there are options for you when that GoFundMe doesn’t do enough. Even if your income is higher than mine, it’s worth a shot even for partial debt forgiveness.
I am about 900% sure there are people who don`the know this.
PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU LIVE IN AMERICA AND HAVE MEDICAL BILLS
I had to do this once as well and I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that this is true.
Get in contact with the hospital. Don’t just…sit there and let the anxiety grow and panic and then ignore it in an effort to find peace.
Reblogging this because they don’t teach us this in school
Additional info - all hospitals run as nonprofits (which is... a lot of them) are required to have some version of this policy, which is known as 'charity care'. Many of them make it hard to fight, but there are organizations dedicated to tracking this info and helping people apply for it. https://dollarfor.org/ is the big one I am aware of, and from their docs "On average in 2024, households under 212% of the Federal Poverty Level will qualify for free care, and families under 311% will qualify for discounted care. These averages are derived from Dollar For’s national database of hospital financial assistance policies." (federal poverty guidelines being $15k a year for a one-person household or $20k for a two-person household) Also shout-out to the podcast An Arm and a Leg (https://armandalegshow.com/) for giving me this info and other solid info about US healthcare.
I'm wondering what the norm is about working on your birthday is. Plz reblog for more responses.
but yeah i really dont know what Normal Jobs have for paperwork because my gay ass only knows write code, open pull request, torture robot, design doc, and lie
literally EVERYTHING hr-related (payroll, reimbursements, health insurance selections, stock options, etc) happens through some website or other because what are you gonna do, hand programmers a piece of paper? they'll lose it. they'll lose it immediately. programmers are a breed of guy that has largely lost the ability to interact with a real physical form on paper because we mind meld with the Computer 23 hours a day and it Does Something to us. once a year my work mails me a W-2 and i leave it at my desk under the assumption that i'll probably find it again when it's time to do my taxes, and i never DO find it again, i have to print a new one out from the payroll website. also the adhd,
(i should say: some programmers instead select Paperwork as one of their autism subclasses. this is how we get people like patrick mckenzie. however i feel it is safe to say none of us are Normal about it)
this is so funny
"but uh when we advocated for indigenous sovereignty we thought you guys were just going to make a big park or something"
"fuck you. ultradense housing that bypasses your stupid zoning rules"
you guys the nimbys in Kits are so mad.
honestly a huge number of people are stoked. But the nimbys in Kits are so mad.
Textile folks! If you're ever in or near Germany (or if you live there but haven't visited it yet), make time for the Chemnitz Industrial Museum! You won't regret it.
Chemnitz in particular and Saxony more broadly has been (and still is) a major center for textile production from the industrial revolution onwards. This museum includes an entire section of spinning, knitting, weaving, and malimo equipment which all still work and if you show up for the guided tour you get to see them in action!
The tour was only in German, but if you have any grasp of the basic principles of spinning and weaving and the google translate app in transcribe mode, you can get through fine. (I also got to watch a steam engine work!)
Okay, assuming tumblr doesn't mess up my pic order again...
Top left: hand powered Crompton Mule
Top right: powered continuous-band weaving machine. No seam on the finished piece!
Middle: powered malimo machine, a type of fabric I never knew existed
Bottom left: a napping machine with original teasel heads! These were eventually replaced with metal heads, but this is how the machines were originally built.
Bottom right: a powered trim making machine. It looked somewhere in the middle of a venn diagram of knitting, sewing, and weaving. Wild.
Did you know that today BASALT (yes. the rock!!) Is spun and woven?!! I sure didn't!
Very brief summary: break rock into small pieces, melt rock, draw up threads of rock, coat with size, store on drums, weave.
I cannot cope. Mind blown. Milk? Sure. Glass? Sure. Carbon? Okay, cool. ROCK??
As much as I would like to write some real fucked up changgu fic based on the idea of filial cannibalism, I have already written more this week than I think I did like, all of last year, so instead I'm just gonna thought-dump about Gu Yun and Gu Shen. Not really meta, as I don't think this is anything the text doesn't already cover, but just. Thoughts. Mostly that it's interesting that through most of the novel we only see Gu Shen through the distortion of the public's perception of him, or Gu Yun's memories, which are distorted in other ways. And neither of these are particularly kind to Gu Shen. In public opinion, he's a skilled military leader, but also absolutely heartless. To Gu Yun, he is the memory of childhood trauma, of one of the hardest periods in his life.
And then we get to the 'Gu Shen' extra. This is the first time we actually see Gu Shen first-hand, rather than filtered through another person. While the narrative presents the possibility that what we're seeing is a dream Gu Yun is having, I'd argue that the long sections without Gu Yun present and the 'present day' evidence of the box of toys means that Gu Yun's dream is just a transition device - we as readers are getting the full view of a memory that Gu Yun remembers just the tail end of as part of his dream. The first-hand view we get of Gu Shen is far more nuanced - he's still imposing in command, but also seems to love his wife deeply, and flirts with her with the same sort of charm Gu Yun later uses on Changgeng. And with Gu Yun, we see a man who has had access to zero parenting books and who is perhaps out of his depth with his troublemaker son, but who still cares and wants him to prosper.
And that view makes me think that the Black Iron camp incident was a trauma that affected more than just Gu Yun, even though he's the focal character. To Gu Shen and the First Princess, their hopes of their son having an easier, brighter life them are shattered. And I think that's what we see in the secondhand story in the Qingming extra - Gu Shen seems to be angry with Gu Yun, but it's an anger born of fear, that if he can't make Gu Yun stronger, the world would destroy him. And this is something that even Gu Yun acknowledges to himself in the 'Gu Shen' extra - that looking back on it from an adult's perspective, less clouded by his own feelings, he can understand why his father acted the way he did. And understanding isn't forgiveness, but it definitely gives their relationship more depth.
i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls
Time to take this post entirely too seriously:
Just under two weeks out now, so here are the prompts! There'll be some extra bits of inspo and whatnot linked day of :)
Parents sleep in their natural poses 🤌💕💤
Thanks for the idea to the wonderful person from twitter! 💋
if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band
this actually made me cry with joy also one of them is eating noodles
It just keeps going and getting better. *^^*
Me two minutes ago: “cry with joy? an animation of cats playing instruments made someone cry with joy?”
Me now: (sobs into a tissue) “OH MY GOD THAT ONE IS PLAYING TWO RECORDERS AT THE SAME TIME” (blows nose)
the eternal ADHD struggle between "I need to clear this half-finished project off my desk before I can focus on anything" and "if I move this project even slightly out of my field of view, I will forget it exists and it will never be finished this decade"
