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

[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.

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, we might have friended each other through Get Medieval...

The only H P Lovecraft story that's scared me so far is The Rats in the Walls. Of course, Lovecraft being Lovecraft, it has also terrified me more than anything I have ever read or seen in my entire life. He's a very hit-or-miss guy.

[narnian-dreamer.livejournal.com]

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

http://www.lackadaisycats.com/

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Eep! More evidence of our related tastes in webcomics!

I will have to read The Rats in the Walls, then ...