I have opened a second live web cam window and taken matters into my own hands.
This is praxis
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#Gävlebocken #juxtaposition #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
“He gave me my mail and said ‘Are you expecting anything from Germany?’ and I said ‘I might be – we’ve got friends over there’,” said Mr Biggs.
“He said ‘Have a look at this letter’ – so I had a look and turned it over and our friends’ address was on the back of it and on the front it just said England.”
Mr Biggs said the card had been sent from a sorting office in Germany close to Gloucester’s twin town of Trier and had not been opened.
“I said ‘How on earth did you know it was for me?’ and he said ‘I didn’t, I’ve been wandering around with this’, said Mr Biggs.
“My wife and I are absolutely shocked but this puts posties at five or six stars and top of the tree for me this Christmas.”
The card, it is believed, may have originally been addressed correctly and so was sent to the right area of England – but with an address label that fell off at some point.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “Royal Mail’s team of ‘address detectives’ are renowned for their ability to ensure poorly addressed items of mail reach their intended recipients however, even by their standards, this is pretty impressive.”
the royal mail detectives are a weird bunch, and like if it was addressed right it would get right but i love the idea they went “well it’s from Trier so send it to the twinned town first”
Tag the OC that’s from a different dimension than the one they’re currently in
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#look #in this life‚ two things are certain #and those are taxes and isekais #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #writing #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
the other day a doctor told me that “the best way to make [something i should do but never want to do] routine is to put it on your calendar!” and i found myself completely buh– hhuh?-– about how to respond. i was stupefied by the gulf between our worlds. i looked into her kind eyes and i thought “put it on my what?” shoot it into space? i did not know how to explain to this extremely functional woman that an obligation to myself, with no stronger enforcer than my own words on a calendar, is to me a tattered codex from a lost religion. like this text is maybe historically interesting but not useful as a structure around which to build a life. what am i now going to write that will (or indeed should!) have any authority over me later? WALK? i don’t know her life! and in what world would i respect directives left to me by a complete stranger(me from two days ago) whomst i have every reason to distrust (ate all the entemann’s and put our keys in the laundry)? put it on my calendar. ok, dr goodbrain. but in the moment i nodded like a grinning toy monkey and dutifully thumbed WALK! into my phone at 4 p.m. Repeat: Every Day like that would have any effect on my actual behavior. sometimes it takes an enormous amount of optimism to be a person and frankly i admire us all for trying to do it
I tried to do this once but I was stoned and put it on my band calendar instead of my personal one so for several months every tuesday my bandmate would, without any context, get a calendar notification that just said “RUN”
thank you
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#this is not something that I experience #but accordionsrule’s anecdote there is a hell of a thing #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #embarrassment squick #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Anomalous Item #4742: A set of 173 VHS tapes with blank labels.
When a tape label is filled out (there are provided fields for title, director, and year) and then placed into any functioning VCR, the film listed will play, regardless of if it existed before the tape was played.
This was first believed to be an effect limited to the tapes, ie, the tapes were somehow generating the movie themselves through some method similar to AI art generation, but after initial tests were performed the paratime division discovered the effect is actually antichronological: when played, the tapes don’t simply create the movie named, they alter the past so that the movie mentioned was created.
Thus, after a tape is labeled and played, it can be found on streaming services and in DVD rental stores. The directors, if still alive, will recall making the film, and actors who were active at the time the film was “made” will have anecdotes about events that happened in the film.
This can have ripple effects as well; during the 9th test, the film Big Trouble in Little China, 1986, directed by John Carpenter, was created. Besides the immediate effects of creating a new film that hadn’t existed, an indirect effect was that the film Alien 2, 1985, John Carpenter, ceased to exist. Instead, the sequel to the 1979 film Alien (directed by Ridley Scott)was titled Aliens and directed by James Cameron. It’s believed that by adding a new movie to the timeline of John Carpenter’s direction, he no longer had time to direct one of the works he had directed in the original timeline, as he would have been busy directing the newly-added film, and directing roles therefore passed to another director.
Use of the tapes can also implicitly affect the lifespan of directors. In test #17, Researcher J. Calhoun attempted to generate a film that couldn’t possibly exist: a prequel to a film made by a director who had died decades beforehand.
According to paratime research, the writing of “Star Wars: Episode 1, 1999, George Lucas” on the tape and the subsequent viewing undid the 1981 death of Mr. Lucas, causing Star Wars: Episode 6: Revenge of the Jedi to come out in 1983 instead of 1985, be titled “Return of the Jedi” instead, and it would be directed by George Lucas instead of Steven Spielberg.
This obviously had additional effects as it didn’t merely extend the lifespan of George Lucas by an additional 18 years: at time of writing in 2022, he is still alive at the age of 78. It’s therefore believed that the object doesn’t unnaturally extend the lifespan of the director, it instead reshapes the flow of time so that any events that would stop them from filming the listed movie do not happen.
After discovery of their history altering nature, the remaining anomalous objects have been locked in secure storage at site #22. No further testing is authorized, and emergency use requires level #6 authorization, which will only be granted in the face of imminent disaster requiring paratime remedies.
Article update[2022-11-20]: an incident occurred where it was discovered that former researcher K. Synnol had acquired one of the tapes (see investigation document 2483 for details) and was attempting to use it for history modification, without approval. The paratime division detected the impending history alteration and an assault team was dispatched. Synnol was apprehended before they could complete the use of the tape, however the label WAS filled out but the tape remained unwatched. What effects, if any, the partial use of the anomalous artifact would have on the timeline is unknown, but in previous testing the film only came into being when the labeled tape was placed into a VCR and watched.
See photo attachment #2, below, for artifact 1B, recovered after the Synnol event.
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#Goncharov #storytime #unreality cw #amnesia cw? #death tw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I am the very model of a shrewd Ferengi businessman
I’ve been on Deep Space Nine since it was run by the Cardassians
My bar provides each alien that passes through its double doors
With gambling and alcohol, and holographic paramours
But that is not to say that I’m impervious to harder times
I’ve often been accused of larceny and graft and other crimes
My righteous indignation is becoming quite demonstrable
Especially with my old friend, the law-enforcing Constable.
I’m singing this while sitting in a holding cell familiar
So Odo comes and lets me out before he goes peculiar
That good-cop, bad-cop subroutine he just took to employing
Could use some work (or one more cop) – it’s really quite annoying.
Of course he can, his brother’s friend’s a famous weapons wholesaler!
He simply chose the path of peaceful station spirits retailer
But a little extra traffic under counters still is not a sin –
He is the very model of a shrewd Ferengi businessman.
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#Star Trek #DS9 #poetry #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
i dont think that is what consumption usually means
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#Gävlebocken #puns #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #illness tw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
My nayme is bird
And wen it’s Yule
And Swedish snow
Lies cold and cruel
I look for seeds
With many friends
But food is scarce
Where flock descends
But then we hear
Of ancient rite
We leave the trees
We all take flight
If fire not
Its end promote?
We do the deed.
We eat the goat.
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#Gävlebocken #poetry #i lik the bred meme #Christmas #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
With full respect to the Professor, if I were to ever work a “subject cannot be killed by any living man” prophecy into one of my stories, I think I’d want to actually play with the ‘living’ part of the condition instead of ‘male’ or even ‘human.’ Imagine the drama if Bob Redshirt, beloved secondary character, looses an arrow at the villain, kicks the bucket himself while it’s in flight, and posthumously lands a perfect shot.
i love both equally
The other option of course is to place an entire army of dead men on the same battlefield, and then have them not intersect with prophecy dude at all.
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#Middle Earth #fun with loopholes #story ideas I will never write #death tw #murder cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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