#Addicted to Spuds

[queenrepent]

ough.......

[versus-weird-al]

Winner #40!

The results are in and the winner of our fortieth poll - "Addicted to Love" (Robert Palmer) vs. "Addicted to Spuds" (Weird Al) - is...

"Addicted to Spuds"!

"Addicted to Spuds" got 75% of 24 votes, while its opponent "Addicted to Love" got 16.7%. 8.3% of voters elected to see results.

So far the score is...

Originals: 7, Weird Al: 14

Bonus Medley Score:

Originals: 8, Weird Al: 11

[thefrogdalorian]

Going to be very off-topic for just a sec, but given how that campaign is all over my dash, I feel like I can't go on ignoring the emotions it provokes in me. Plus, since this is such a common struggle, I hope that maybe some of you can relate and I want you to know that you aren't alone at all.

If you're also struggling with your emotions over this and you need someone to talk to in confidence, I'm here for you. I understand.

Anyway, warning for mentions of alcohol abuse below the cut:

It's always fascinating to me how alcohol is marketed as this positive thing which brings you happiness and a great social life. When in reality, it often destroys relationships and lives and is, by definition, a depressant. It is a substance which often leaves you unhappier, fatter, lonelier, weaker, sicker, poorer...

And also, do you ever notice how it's never marketed around the taste (because it's literally poisonous and due to social pressure, we have to trick our brains by drinking it enough times that we eventually convince ourselves we actually like the taste of poison)?

It's always about sharing a beer with friends at the beach or enjoying a glass of wine with a meal. Never about how delicious it tastes...

While you may crave the feeling of being drunk, do most people really enjoy the taste and that's the primary reason why they drink? Is that the main reason given at AA meetings/rehab clinics? Do you ever hear alcoholics say: "I couldn't stop drinking that beer because it was just so crisp and refreshing!"

No, of course not. Alcohol is primarily used as a social crutch, or as an escape from one's problems. Dutch courage, social drinking where you feel giggly, giddy and tipsy... until one day you realise you can't socialise without it and it transforms from enjoyment to dependency, hopefully before you permanently damaged your organs...

Anyway, this isn't me being puritanical. I'm not mad at these campaigns or those who star in them, because at the end of the day, celebrities will always take cash from questionable sources. Money talks. Always has, always will.

It's merely an observation on the life this campaign 'sells,' as someone who has decided to break the generational cycle of alcoholism in my family and has been sober for 18 months now.

And a way for me to sort through my feelings and vent my own emotions around these kinds of campaigns. I don't miss alcohol and I don't feel tempted to drink whatsoever, but it's everywhere and there will remain a danger for the rest of my life that I could forget everything I've learned about alcohol. I don't want to lose sight of why I walked away from this destructive drug which is so widely accepted. When the truth is it is far more harmful to you than many illegal drugs.

If you enjoy alcohol, I truly hope you have fun with it in moderation. But I hope you can also stop and recognise the risks involved each time you reach for the bottle. The slippery slope you may be on which there is a danger you don't realise you've been sliding down until you're at the bottom, looking back up. And I hope you realise that what these advertising campaigns show are never rooted in the reality of what this substance can do to you.

If you start drinking that beer, it's far more likely you'll end up with kidney damage than you will ever get to share a cold bottle of it on the beach with that actor you love so much...

[kenandeliza]

Some Billy and FreddyHeadcanons

For freddy: based on this panel from captain marvel jr 28

and a previous headcanon in this post

(Tl dr of that post: I headcanon Freddy used to swear a lot because of his family being sailors, he tries to minimize it ever since becoming captain marvel jr [a role model for children including Billy]

An additional headcanon i like to add is that Freddy starts to pick up on Billy’s style of swearing

*scenario where the criminal gets away*

CMJ:”Holey moley! He got away again!?”

CMJ slowly realizing what he said:”….’holey moley’!? I’m becoming more like Marvel now!”

citizen he just saved:” ah yes, the common teenage angst of not wnting to be similar to their father, because it’s too embarassing for them 🥰”

CMJ:*internal screaming*

Meanwhile Billy who’s in another place: *obliviously drinking his capri-sun*

speaking of capri sun,

a headcanon for Billy (if this is similar to golden age Billy Batson who got trapped in suspendium since the 50s to the modern world)

i like my friend’s headcanon for this:

Billy definitely goes fucking wild for caprisuns even as Marvel. He finds a pack of them in the cafeteria with the note that anyone can have one, and he raves about it for a week straight to the rest of the league

League member: "Your capri-sun addiction is just as worse as martian manhunter's addiction to oreos"

Captain marvel: "I can't help it! They don't have capri-suns back in my time!" (This line will only work If this version of captain marvel is stuck in suspendium since the 40s or 50s)

(and the rest of the JL is wondering "back in your time!?" Pondering how old marvel is exactly)

Wonder woman: "the feeling is mutual, ice creams are delicious and i didn't have them back in my time"

headcanon is inspired by my friend @the-brash-spud

[variousqueerthings]

I'm intrigued...who is Sick Boy?

SICK BOY!!!!

@le-red-queen I'M BEING ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT SICK BOY WHAT A GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!

sick boy is a useless silly little criminal baby boy punk who's addicted to heroin

he's one of the ensemble of the movie trainspotting which i would recommend with a whooole bunch of content warnings if you have triggers or squicks

it's an iconic movie based on an iconic book, about a group of scottish addicts who rail at the nature of the world around them and the hypocrisy of 90s capitalism (ohhh sweet summer children), but also double-cross each other, have anger issues, drag each other down, and fuck up their own lives in various ways -- the score is also a work of art!

sick boy's character in this story is someone who pretends to be generally unaffected by the life they're in, obsessed with james bond, and on the whole the somewhat shallow it-girl of the team, if you will, but there are a lot of strong clues in the first film that suggest that he feels far more than he lets on, and he goes through his own personal tragedy in the movie as well

but yeah he's kind of head-empty bimbo too

in the sequel, x amount of years later, the writing decided to focus more on him and his dynamic with the lead character, renton (played by ewan mcgregor), and where their lives have ended up now they're no longer youths who can push away the accountability for their own lives and the world around them. it leans more heavily on them having a lot of homoerotic tension, and having had A Past in which they were best friends and how becoming addicts gradually pulled them from one another, but maybe they'll find their way back again who knows, which is a little different from the first movie in which the outlook is generally quite bleak (they're both quite bleak, but the first one is by far the more tragedy-based narrative)

all grown up sick boy, still a bimbo

the other two leads of this dynamic are begbie and spud, and they do have large parts to play in both of the stories as well. fun links, begbie is played by robert carlyle who's in plunkett & macleane with JLM and he's been very open about playing the former of these roles as a closeted gay man... the latter is my own imagination, but i see you mr robert carlyle (yeah I originally wrote richard idk why either, sorry i did that to u mr carlyle)

but yeah. trainspotting. amazing movie. unfortunately all your brother's edgy friends are into it too, it's kind of one of those "if your boyfriend's favourite films are american psycho, fight club, the matrix, and trainspotting, run" movies, but you know. don't hold that against it 😂

the sequel: a bit self-indulgent, but I'm the person being indulged and it's genuinely fun seeing these actors who've remained close throughout all these years return to some of their career-making roles, and explore a little more of the book lore + look, i read too much into it maybe, but both ewan mcgregor and JLM are recovering alcoholics, and seeing them as middle-aged men playing the parts of recovering addicts, it's... good. i think this movie is good, in a very different way to the first one. renton and sick boy do not make out, but there's a character who says they're definitely in love and ought to fuck, and she's so right for that

in conclusion:

highly recommend it

[hardcoregamer]

10 Best Farming Sim Games, Ranked

It seems laughable that growing spuds, milking cows and maintaining the farmstead could offer such a fun, relaxing and rewarding experience, but somehow against the odds, this collection of games sinks their hooks in and keeps us playing for hundreds of hours.

Have a look!

[april-17-rose]

This man 😩😩😩😩

Delicious Dylan 💙🤤

[i-ate-pog]

Evil regretevator headcanons pt. 2

TW: Abuse mention, slur usage mentioned, misanthropy

WallMark is literally drug addict x anger issues

Mannequin_Mark would hit his kids and people around him in order to get them to stop doing something he considers bad (PS: it doesn't work)

Infected would use slurs when raging and in jokes (he knows it's slurs(he'll apologize only if several people tell him to))

Prototype would press his head to Scag's screen, where her forehead is supposed to be, and make kiss noises, making it look like he gives her forehead kisses :3

Scag went through "cringe" "k" "SWEETCORE" pipeline on his kisses

Split and Scag would've been friends if Scag wasn't literally a talking screen

Prototype was supposed to be an assistant in a shopping center/ entertainment complex/etc. (which is the reason they look cute and know several languages)

Lampert hates illnesses and ill people because of what happened to Infected

Lampert possessed a dead body at some point

Spud! has misophonia

That's it

Bye

[toriliashine]

[roblox, regretevator] [i know i know..]

ok but playing this silly elevator mini game collection and finding out the silly and cute wood guy and stone guy are divorced and the stone/cement guy is the problem but has managed to spin the maddest smear campaign on his ex-husband after he became addicted to wet cement and caused the divorce is so-

PLUS! i have been in the grey cement fuckers house! bro is not put together, he's just tall and talks mannerly, bro is BROKE!!! and poob's house is a great comparison to know that the npcs there have actual lived in apartments. Wallters house that he hopped off has NOTHING in it but tons of empty cans of grey stuff/wet cement and a single unopened loaf of wonderbread while his exhusband who was 'totally the problem' is an honest working guy with people that look up to him and a broken heart and who has been banned from n establishment for crying over his ex-husband who got addicted to wet cement and is pretending HE is the problem im-

on the exhusband/woodguy. he is so sweet and just wants people to appreciate his work and his hat and him he gets so down when he realises fleshcousin doesnt actually care about his specially made hat and etc like. he needs eternal love and freedom from this smear campaign!

anyways that wall guy is broke addicted and, according to talks with spud, spends his nights drinking even more greystuff/wet cement??? brooo

----- stuff i need to find myself ---

apparently folly noted that his brain is crumbling into cement?? and he claims he is fine?? bro he must've been able to tell will he drown in his delusions to the end

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when will this endd and i also hope it doesnt bc this might be tragic. so is it better to watch wallter being in a state of addiction forever?

also they look like this

[chaifootsteps]

"If you can't handle a bit of fetishized rape you shouldn't even be watching this ADULT SHOW for ADULTS, you immature child. It's too complex for you! To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the merits of on screen twink assault-" "Addict and the clips from Poison are exactly the same" Yeah these mongs in the tags can tongue my fartbox, the show is rated 16+ (or 14+ ? Idk i'm super drunk thanks for the idiotic rating system amazon :/)so part of the intended audience is in fact, minors. The fact it's handled about as carefully as a pack of greased up hogs with IBS that were fed laxatives and released on a submarine is whats pissing people off, you tone deaf spuds. You buffoons. You fucking intellectual stalactites. The show is about as "mature" as a poop joke, in rating AND tone. Those songs are so different they might as well not even be about the same character. Even the lyrics for Addict were infinitely more creative and told a better story. Poison is just generic sounding popshit for fujoshis who have never read a fucking book aside from "Where's Waldo" (spoilers: they never finished it). Go listen to Poison by Alice Cooper instead. It has nothing to do with hazbin but it's a better song with the same name so whatever. I feel like I'm beating a dead horse since this has been discussed a whole lot the last day or so, but the lack of basic comprehension skills is killing me. I just needed to complain and I'm sorry for stinking up your ask box. These people make me feel moronic for enjoying some aspects of this rancid swamp-ass smelling show. Context is repelled from their brains like water off a ducks back, never to be absorbed. Only to spill and be lost amongst the flowing tides of drool cascading from their slacked, open jaws. Twin Niles of media illiteracy and bacteria. PS Adam was pretty based for just wanting to crush puss and eat ribs all day. Relatable, ect.

Oh no, your stink was welcome in my askbox. I love an Anon who can turn a phrase and hoo boy, did this.

Agreed on Adam. Also helps that he wants to kill off every last character in Viv's stupid Hell, which same. Increasingly so.

[1super-nova5]

I have been thinking about a reverse/swap au of Regretevator. Both MR and Folly are demigods (And their friends). Gnarpy Is an alien that travels from planet to planet out of curiosity, Before landing on earth and finding Frank (Spud). Bive and split are still lesbian (except they're actually together), but their names are Vibe and Coco (a coconut instead of a banana).

I have multiple other ideas for this such as Melanie being alive, Pilby being the fallen God (instead of MR) and has two forms both butterfly related, Poob is very close to Pilby but he is still a noob (basically taking the place of Enfonso), lampard being addicted to the germ pop, and MR looking like an axolotl.

[versus-weird-al]

Please listen to both songs before you vote!

"Addicted to Love"

"Addicted to Spuds"

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary - Addicted To Spuds

[renaultphile]

So is Ralph just trying to be deliberately annoying in that scene?

So on the back of all these kisses, I wanted to revisit that chapter two 'ellipse'. Not that it matters, but I'm in the 'no kiss' camp, probably my main reason being that Ralph says this afterwards:

"Now you see what I mean, Spud. It would never have done, would it? Well, goodbye"

Which bears a striking resemblance to this thing he says in the 1953 edition after giving Laurie the mystery painkiller and being asked what it is:

"It's probably addictive and you're having chronic pain, so I shan't tell you." It occurred to Laurie that, from most people, he would have resented this.

Why would Ralph say 'it would never have done' like that? The man's an absolute comedian. Maybe that's why Laurie says 'Sorry dearie' to him on the boat. It's revenge. Maybe it wasn't a nice innocent kiss at all, because Ralph was trying to prove a point. Maybe Ralph was doing that really annoying thing of saying or doing something hurtful so that Laurie would stop hero-worshipping him and fall out of love with him and forget him.......which never usually works in fiction 😉

[greyfection-au-asks]

for folly (maybe even the creator)

why did you posses wallter and why do you act wonky now (did you get possesed by the thing that possesed wallter too or what)

// I'll give you both answers ^_^

"It's truly simple, really... The power to grow by feasting upon the dread of all those who have fallen to me makes me feel quite ravished... And the fear that falls upon those who are still aware and surviving... Their secretive single sob sessions amuse me greatly and only power me further... I chose to do this myself, of course, so no, I am not possessed by myself..."

"Also I am unsure of what you mean by wonky, but that doesn't matter... My strength is only increasing with each passing day... And once I have gotten Spud in my grasp, nothing is going to stop me from taking over entirely..."

--Folly

// And the reason I did it was because one, I was bored. Two, I had this idea that Wallter's addiction would become a big problem. Three, I have problems /silly. And four, why not.

// making a side note I love how serious I wrote Folly's response to be then I just ramble for my part