#((thank you for your service))

[mckitterick]

McSweeney's: doing the lord's work

full listing here on the McSweeney's website: X

free .pdf version (it's really that long): X

[wanderingwriter87]

[sailorsplatoon]

cinnamon defending my honor when I see a pretty woman:

chlorine picrew!

oooooh she looks so cool! I love her tentacle/hair style!

I can see why Arsenic fell for her now

[starqueensthings]

In Loving Memory of The Havoc Marauder.

[littlethunderstormm]

what a beautifully written character

[yeomangamer]

🫡

[pinktie]

I don't know how true this is, but if it is, then Kaito has about 0,1% responsibility for popularizing the magical girl genre.

Salute to him, everyone, for he is a legend.

[xxnghtclls]

“What?”

[heartsings77]

[meep-meep-richie]

content i live for

[ladymostdeject]

Vox - Pre-flatscreen

Are you writing about Vox, pre-flatscreen, but you’ve never seen a CRT screen before in your life because you are A BABY CHILD (affectionate)?

Come gather round, sit upon my knee, and listen to this elder-millennial tell you all about it. (if you want to I guess, I'm not the boss of you).

CRT’s don’t glitch the way we see Vox do in the show, but they had all sorts of ways to go wrong. If you flipped to a channel where there was nothing broadcast, you’d get solid static or those multicolor bars we see Vox with.

But also, if a channel had bad reception, you’d get a little static over the top and sometimes the image would distort. We called this “snow/ a snowy channel.” 

Sometimes you could get better reception if you fiddled with the antenna a little. Sometimes grabbing the antenna made the channel better, and then letting go made it worse! Because your body became the new antenna! 

I’d like to introduce you to something even before my time: Test patterns!

TV didn’t used to run 24/7! At the end of the day, the network would “sign off”, say good night, play the star-spangled banner, and end with a test pattern. Later, test patterns looked like colored bars, but early ones in the 50’s and 60’s looked like this!

One of my FAVORITE things about CRT’s is when they had been on for a while, if you ran your hand across the glass, a very gentle static would crackle wherever you were touching, and could make your hair on your arm stand up. Tell me that doesn’t have fic applications, my friends!

You can HEAR a CRT when it is on, even if nothing is playing. It’s a very high pitched whine.

I cannot explain to you how nice it felt to change channels with a dial. They were heavy metal, and there was resistance, and a very satisfying click!

If you held a magnet up to the screen you’d get crazy rainbow color distortions, but if you left it too long you’d get those color distortions permanently burned into the screen.

CRT’s are VERY heavy in the front, where the glass is, and MUCH lighter in the back where there's empty space.

CRT’s don’t have fans (only vents), or processors (they only receive, there’s nothing to process!) What they do have is something called an electron gun and vacuum tubes! This is what their insides look like:

But, Lady, you say, how do they work? I don’t know! Ask this guy!

Other things to consider: 

The word Podcast didn’t exist until 2004, and I'd never heard it until 2013 or so (who even taught Alastor this word????) I remember the first time I heard it, and I needed someone to explain to me what it was.

Emails weren’t widespread until the 90s. If Vox is communicating with his employees via text, and it’s pre-1990, the word you’re probably looking for is “Memo” which were literal sheets of paper people could send each other via an in-house courier. 

If I’ve forgotten anything, please feel free to add on! 

[ghouliesmash]

I can explain.

[sunf10wer8]

Lady and the Tramp walked so Tan could get dicked down by his boyfriend on a random Tuesday night

[sugenberry]

This is a callout post for all Logan Sargeant authors on AO3 esp loscar shippers. Why are you all using your talents to make me cry??? Every time I open the site I'm reading these amazing fics that leave me in tears, I'm actually worried I'll be dehydrated soon.

Me fr:

Is being a LS2 fan not hard enough? Should I hold a contest to see who can write the funniest or happiest fic? Is that what I need to do to stop all this angst???

[beccawise7]

Today & every day... We thank you for your service. Happy Veterans Day!

🇺🇲❤️🤍💙🇺🇲

[yonglixx]

lino unbuttoning felix’s vest 😩