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

[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. :)

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

It's decently written (and in characterly written, which is a lot to ask of a fanfic) and it completely changes the course of the movie. It is, however, very... Firefly.

[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.

[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!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I am intrigued by Let's Play, too! I prefer to play the games myself, but I always like me some crazy commentary ... ("Now with 100% more falling in lava!") Mahalo and asante.

[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.

[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.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOU! I'm trying to be distracted, not never heard from again!

Thanks. I had totally forgotten I could use that if the week till my meds get switched stretched too long.

[erkunden.livejournal.com]

Oh! And here, have an Easter Egg: on some of the old-model HP scanners, you could press some buttons and the scanner would shift the head to play you "Ode to Joy." I'm fairly sure we may have this model at home; I'm going to bug my dad about it tonight. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KImkZvLOCfA

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

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

[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!

[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).

[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.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I'll second Gunerkrigg Court.

[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.

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

Damn. If he remembers the fic, it just might speak volumes about how completely insane he is that it doesn't drive him to being unable of doing more than rocking back and forth in a corner, cackling.

[bean-bunny.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

As I understand it, that's what he does in Arkham when he doesn't feel like going out. SEE? MY THEORY. IT EXPLAINS SO DAMN MUCH.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

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

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

WHAT'S THIS THING I HEAR OF NOW?

[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.

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot. Here's a comic about bootlegging cats in the 20s

http://www.lackadaisycats.com/