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

[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]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

There's also Facebook and it's applications, the only one I like is Mad Scientist: you start off by reanimating an assistant and work your way through things such as robots, zombies, power armor, dinosaurs, etc. the latest project is a time machine.

[redheaded-itch.livejournal.com]

Dance Dance Revolution! :D

[allamistako.livejournal.com]

To Order of the Stick I'll add Sinfest and Questionable Content

[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.

[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.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Can you believe they're trying to cut down on the in-article discussions? That's half of the fun!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Let's Play! That got me hooked on Dwarf Fortress (it's like Sim Moria!)

[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]

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.

[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]

giantitp.com is the site

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

SECOND! friend me on facebook, I phone-post random pics of my zoo of pets daily just about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCiVXigrjjQ PETE BURNS IS AWESOME HE IS MY HERO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ayyPzuHGNU ALSO MY HERO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHBVnMf2t7w You've probably seen this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmlE71n-gFs this too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvBiSW5QFKY I am just spamming youtubes now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6OHe4KaEc ahahahahahahahahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gx6bCREhz4 <3 Time Trumpet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N47YoK1Y6c SQUAREHEAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHK0uFb6Vzw this is how I make bread all the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTysF1E4Ft0 beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SoZzlgQzHM I want a tattoo based on this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PGK7a2IFo BOUNCY

sorry if this is fail. I'm bored on Easter because everyone is gone, so I'll probably be back.

[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 @_@

[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 ...

[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.