A Cry For Help

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Dudes, I need your help.

This week, I’m off of all the trial meds in an attempt to recalibrate my system before going back and trying number three.

I am a nervous wreck.

Every molehill I come across is turning into not just a mountain, but a volcano. It’s exhausting, and if left to its own devices it will only spiral completely out of control and I’ll wind up gibbering on the bed. So I need to break the spiral.

Which brings me to my request to you folks:

FOR THE LOVE OF OPTIMUS CHRIST, DISTRACT ME.

Anything works! Flash games. Comics. Lolwhatevers. Thingy-things you've written or made. Memes. Even cool shopping sites. To give you some idea what I’m going for, in the last few days I have tried to edit my Doctors! story for continuity, cruised Adagio, played all the way through Donkey Kong Country 2,* gotten caught in an infinite loop of fanart for When Curiosity Met Insanity,** nattered away on IM about My Thoughts On The Joker, applied for some jobs online, read every available online chapter of completely pointless cat manga, attempted to dance out my Tae Kwon Do forms, and done more logic puzzles than I care to count.

What else have you got for me, Internet? What life preserver can you toss my foundering brain? I would be forever grateful to you for the distraction. With luck, in the next few weeks I wil cease to need it, but for now … I need something to think about.


*Which did lead to me flinging my controller across the room in frustration a couple of times, but that’s perfectly normal.

**Suggesting that good taste is not a requirement in the distractions.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

Mars Rover stuff, via my friend, Ryan...

A music video to Marian Call's 'Good Old Girl' made of Rover images and a SF short story.

I also can dig up my collection of webcomic links.

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. *hunts for something suitable*

There are passive-aggressive notes to be enjoyed, as well as some Hot Library Smut", but for hilarious distractions, my favorite and most foolproof shall always be Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About.

And I second the webcomics offer! Must do a sweep through my bookmarks.

Also: ooh, Thoughts On The Joker. /dork

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

My Thoughts On The Joker are long and complicated, but my main theory is that he is not just insane, he's also metasane. I have decided that he gets confused about things like his origin because as far as I can tell, he remembers everything--and he remembers it not in his world's chronological order, but the order it's written in. So sixty-odd years of AUs, retcons, genre reboots--he seems to get them all mixed up. And he's obviously aware of the fourth wall.

God help us if he remembers the fanfiction.

Also, Mark Hamill is The One True Joker. That is all.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

You could read the entire Order of the Stick and Erfworld archives.

Giantipgames is the website, IIRC.

Or if you'd like, I have access to trial accounts for City of Heroes/Villains and Warhammer:Age of Reckoning if you're feeling MMOish.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

On this note, I've got trial accounts of World of Warcraft, which is my brain-turny-offy hack'n'slash game.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

I do not remember if you have seen sufficient Firefly to care, or to know why River/Jayne is a crack pairing of doom, but the following sequence of fanfiction kept me up all night reading compulsively.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3272960/1/Two_Gorram_Days
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3286892/1/Kinship
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3291324/1/Bank_Job
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3368240/1/Miranda
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3833211/1/Prodigal

It probably doesn't help that a friend and I have a Les Miserables fannishness which leads us to giggle about Javert, and the fic author sort of sticks a Javert in Miranda.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Darlin', I just finished an archive of the crackiest pairing KNOWN TO FANKIND. ("For the love of god DON'T! THE FELT WILL SHRINK!!") River/Jayne would almost make sense after that. And these look nicely written. I'm sorta indifferent to Firefly, but I like it enough to be intrigued ...

[erkunden.livejournal.com]

Metro station + Sound of Music + mass choreography = silly video + amazed bystanders.

I also recommend trawling through webcomic archives! For ongoing serials, I have been a fan of Freefall for many years; Girl Genius and Little White Mouse are quite good too. I think you already know Digger, yes?

For completed serials, Bite Me! is warm and wonderfully hilarious, and anything of Sarah Ellerton's is gorgeous, both plot-wise and art-wise. Inverloch is completed; Phoenix Requiem is still ongoing, and updated regularly.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Girl Genius! I've been meaning to read that for years!

The vid is awesome--my sister has wanted to do that for years. But why do those people look so confused? I would so start singing along the minute the music started. (I love it when a few bystanders actually get into it.)

Thankee!

[bluetara2020.livejournal.com]

1 - Thanks for that tea link, it makes me happy to window shop.

2 - Well, there are several gaming sites that I occasionally go to such as kongregate.com , thegamehomepage.com/ and dragongamez.com/ which provide a plethora of flash games. See also dragonfable.com and all those associated therein. I also check out gaiaonline for the games including their mmo which is delightfully free and no download. I also, to my sorta shame, go onto mydivadoll.com where I dress up a semi-pretty doll and decorate the condo she lives in. Heh, I'm even supposed to give referral links for that, I think.

I also go on hulu.com and watch tv shows that are currently off the air, like Alfred Hitchcock Presents or ALF. See also, movies.

And then I go and read really bad fanfiction that scares me over on fanfiction.net. It occasionally makes me feel better to know that people write and read stuff that is worse than my own work. I at least proofread mine.

I also find superhero makers online and make my own superheros and then write stories about them, which is slightly dorkish...

[mfb.livejournal.com]

http://www.freerice.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.letsplayarchive.com/
http://www.ikea.com/ I dunno I'm one of those people who likes reading ikea catalogs
http://www.notcot.org/
http://www.oobject.com/

D:

[mfb.livejournal.com]

http://www.omniglot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fish I dare you to memorize this list

[redheaded-itch.livejournal.com]

Dance Dance Revolution! :D

[gryphart.livejournal.com]

Try getting a nice-looking recipe book from the library or perusing http://sassandveracity.typepad.com/ - virtually all of her recipes turn out lovely. That way, you get a distraction plus some tasty food!

Alternately, http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php or http://xkcd.com/archive/ are both pretty delightful comics. There's an archive of my stuff at http://thegryph.deviantart.com/gallery/ , if you want to see how much I used to suck, or you can troll through my favs at http://thegryph.deviantart.com/favourites/ for a variety of photography and illustration I like.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Wow! Your art back when you used to suck is better than the best art I could ever hope to do with several art classes and 20 years of practice. Thanks for pointing me that way!

I love me some XKCD, too.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

http://www.tvtropes.org

There, that should hold you for the next 7 years.

ETA: Damn mislink.

[erkunden.livejournal.com]

Seconded! That site is incredible.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Auditorium is fun - you can play a few levels as a demo, but you have to pay up if you want the full game.

The Impossible Quiz is very silly - I haven't finished it, either.

Have you been following Fred 'slacktivist' Clark's demolition of the Left Behind series (a.k.a. The Worst Books Ever Written)? When you get through that, check out the amateur alternate takes and this extraordinary professional one (scroll down for the free download of "Therefore, Repent!").

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The Slacktivist reviews are AMAZING. I got totally into them a couple of months ago--it gave me a lot of good insight into evangelical Christianity, too. I have yet to delve into Right Behind. Thanks for the reminder!

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

One of my friends hooked me on Nodiatis... it's like World of Warcrack, except in Flash and sort-of-limited play.
Eyezmaze! Cute silly flash games.
Orisinal Cute cute flash games!

Um... Onemanga?

Speaking of comics... I had a few I cycled through regularly, excluding ones mentioned earlier: Ozy and Millie, Two Lumps (I'm not a furry I swear), Applegeeks, Bunny Comic, Errant Story, Dominic Deegan, Pear-Pear (omg squee), Darths and Droids (the spinoff/sequel to "DM of the Rings" which ended)... um. I have no life. XD;;;

Also Icanhascheezburger and its related spinoff sites. I went through the entire archive of ICHC when escaping from finals last year...
If you like lolspeak, have the LolBible. I'm very proud of my contribution to it: Ceiling Cat.

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, also interesting blogs:
Waiterrant.net
The Homeless Guy
Hamjamser (Kind of like gearworld)
boobiebar and barmaidblog
theferrett (though my friends tend to think he's a dick) and there's a fun random thing he coded up you can play: Space Colony Dungeon Thingerdinger

Cracked.com
Cake Wrecks
Photoshop Disasters

I really have no life @_@

[pennyfeather.livejournal.com]

This may not be your style, but if you're desperate, I'm at this very moment reading a rather delightful interview with George Clooney that revolves an Esquire writer showing Clooney what the Internet has to say about him.

Bonus entertaining Clooney interview: some reporter invites Clooney over for wine and dinner, and Clooney inevitably ends up in the reporter's crawl space, searching for the source of some beeping sound. Observe.

[beetzart.livejournal.com]

These are just sad sad youtube links:

Grand Theft Mario: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XktQIMHBvvY

Twilight fanatic bashes Stephen King (she's got a whole series of Twilight messes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDQ2h4hrors


Tonga and New Zealand face off in a soccer match, starting with each nations Haka: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkrqUAe8F2U

Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor run through with the notes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG1Olvh7vCU

Insane mosh pit (wall of death): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOAnyTZBykE

One of my favorite clips from one of my favorite shows, "Weeds.": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJnIzBU8Rg


Liza Minntelli's Questionaire from Inside the Actors Studio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlReBNAYA8


Queen Elizabeth II Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJKyyoDJlgk


Titanic in 5 Seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY


Motormania starring Goofy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZgiVicpZGk


Being a Bird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvETCQiUCv4


A Classic (to say the least): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aRMZ4ePmMM


Julie Andrews not so Mary Poppins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngISXoNc7XU


"Aliens" Family Guy version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqS-iaH0Vqc


Carol of the Bells Claymation special: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW34kHnpo1g


Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson making out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i1ECxHzQe4


"Be Prepared" from the Lion King in German: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9Pkz9dPMU


Muppet Treasure Island Roll Call (always good): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOa_YMOzEGQ


Learn English commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT86iWiH2mI


Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, and Barbara Streisand all together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21hBW3_hSXc


Homer Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY


Photo of himself every day for 6 years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo


Where the Hell is Matt? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY


Killer opening to "Psycho": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xji5kKR8pIw


Horror Movie version of Mary Poppins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic


10 minutes of Boot Camp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Nf1MK7lts


Golf Antics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWRuSYPXLE0


The Commie Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPM22AA8LMU


The Commie Music Video 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkhDKKHGj7s


Okay, done. :)

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Garfield: Eyes Without a Face

Pickle Surprise! (this gives Mr. B Natural a run for hir money)

Want to learn about science? Look Around You! (a British educational series)
Water - Brain - Maths - Germs - Iron - Sulphur - Ghosts

Or how about some classic cinema?
Garbage Day!
A scene from Troll 2
Undefeatable - best fight scene ever

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

Gunnerkrieg Court is an amazing webcomic.

lessee...http://notalwaysright.com/ is good for some lulz.

Check out the housematehorror comm on LJ too, if you like horror stories XD

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/10/woody.harrelson.zombie/index.html?iref=mpstoryview awesome.

Apologies if you actually linked anything I link in your journal originally, I never remember where I find things.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I'll second Gunerkrigg Court.

[10cents.livejournal.com]

http://comics.shipsinker.com/2007/03/11/doctor-who-comic-the-ten-doctors-page-1/

Here you go. This is a webcomic story about The Doctor that has been going on since 2007, and is now on page 227. I only discovered it yesterday, but OH MY GOD, so much geeky fun stuffed into one site, it should be illegal.

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

http://spinooti.livejournal.com/1492747.html perhaps you've seen this, but I hadn't until just now.

[nobleplatypus]

OH BOY, DISTRACTIONS!!

Play Auditorium. This is SO addicting. And it makes pretty music. ^_^

Daisy Owl, a relatively new and charming webcomic. Also, nedroidcomics is wonderful.

Even if you frequent the 30-second Bunny Theater, chances are something new has been added since last you checked it out.

Uhhh... that's all I've got at the moment. If you're on AIM, I could LIVEBLOG TWILIGHT FOR YOU (I'm Platy121 over there).

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I have added you! (I keep forgetting I have IM.) You will know me on there--the name is close to this one.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Passing Lurker reading Marag's friendslist.

http://noselfcontrol.deviantart.com/art/Water-Tribe-001-69837313

Original 447 page fancomic set in the Avatar The Last Airbender series. Can be read as an original fantasy story...it centers on a minor character.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Cracked.com has already been mentioned, but I want to second it. It made almost 9 hours just completely disappear for me a week or so ago.

Also, here's my del.icio.us (http://delicious.com/westrider) with almost 40 webcomics linked from it as well as some other interesting sites.

[katerinfg.livejournal.com]

Well, someone else already mentioned one of my thoughts, which was the ICHC family of sites. For a good game, try The Fool's Errand (http://www.fools-errand.com/01-the-fools-errand/index.htm); for a good comic, I recommend Evil, Inc. (http://www.evil-comic.com/index.html)

And do you mind if I link to this post? There are so many great suggestions from other people that I want to share with my F-list, too!

And good luck with the meds.... BTDT. Hopefully, the next one will be the right one.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Go for it! This is rather a nifty post, ne? Thanks for the contribution!

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/dmeconis/familyman/series.php?view=single&ID=72709

http://www.girlamatic.com/comics/biteme.php?view=archive&chapter=3120&mpe=1

Dylan Meconis? AWESOME. Best vampire and werewolf and history and hilarity based webcomics evar.

[bean-bunny.livejournal.com]

You're a snes fan. Do you do the whole zsnes online thing?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

WHAT'S THIS THING I HEAR OF NOW?

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Reading The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch. Lemony Snicket-y, page-turning, involves a nefarious plot to kidnap synesthetic children for use in a sinister granting of immortality. (I'd explain it, but I haven't gotten far enough in the book yet.) Very good.

Hamlet the Text Adventure: http://versificator.co.uk/hamlet/

I forget if you read ironychan's comics, but if not:

http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/
http://www.kip-comics.com/
http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php

Other webcomics:
http://www.ozyandmillie.org/
http://www.qwantz.com/

Game: http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/v2/?select=fb:play

And don't forget Project Gutenberg! Wait, someone has all of HP Lovecraft's stories up somewhere...Here!
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

Complete Graveyard Book read by the author and totally legal (you probably already know about this, but I must have listened 20 times and I can promise it doesn't get old)

http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx

Hang in there!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I had not heard of this amazing Neil Gaiman thing! And my friend is all over me to read some Lovecraft. (I would have difficulty being horrified by it ... everything I've heard of him so far just makes me giggle.)

You seem to have my taste in comics. I love me some Irony, and oh god Ozy and Millie is awesome.

[katerinfg.livejournal.com]

Another thought -- if you're looking for some wonderful books to make large chunks of time pass quickly, I recommend Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series if you haven't already read them. I'm sure you can get them from places other than Amazon.