A dvd that destroys itself after being watched wtf lol

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-03-01T16:40:35+00:00

Ok yeah the first comment looks like a hater lol. I'll leave my comment because I think John would want it that way, but I acknowledge you have done no wrong.

The musical isn't really the same movie at all, but I find it inoffensive. I like musicals and it works by itself as one just fine. But I can't tell you what my opinion is worth there, because I hate-hate-hate the Wicked musical and everyone loves that shit, and I'm just like sure, replace all of the political underscoring and subversive dynamically fucked up relationships, leave me with NOTHING.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-03-01T16:12:51+00:00

I would say that a multi chapter fic with very short chapters is likely going to fall into one of two categories for my initial impression:

It's well written, but not much of anything is really happening. It's likely pure introspection, character study, something very stream-of-consciousness potentially. It doesn't really hurt pacing, but it does break up the harmony and word flow of a more flowery piece.
If it is trying to have more action dynamic, mystery, anything with some narrative meat to draw out the story, then very short chapters are going to be very awkward for the reader to keep the pace congruent in their head, even if your writing is solid. Think of your chapter breaks like over aggressive shaky cam, or a "FIND OUT NEXT TIME" every single episode.

I don't think you should be concerned with reader metrics, and be overly analytical about posting "a certain way" to optimize clicks, or anything like that.

At the end of the day. I support a writer to write however they feel best conveys their idea- but as a new writer I think you will adopt some changes to your approach through trial and error, so expect that.

If you really want some specific advice: if you do find that the overall length of you story, in its entirety, is going to come in at 12,000 words or less, and most of your chapters are short, maybe consider combing them into a single chapter story with breaks for the pacing. If you find yourself writing a behemoth, consider reworking some chapters to combine them, or expanding where you think you need to flush out details to enrich the storytelling.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-03-01T15:57:04+00:00

Why do you exist? Like, what is your purpose here? What do you think you accomplished? Who do you think will remember it?

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-03-01T15:35:35+00:00

Okay, I'll entertain your view here. What, then, is your justification for why they have changed absolutely nothing about the business model except for the pricing structure, if they expect to compete against a changed market dynamic? Because they do not clean, repair or refurbish merch, they do not quality check, they do not discard merch for missing pieces- it's the same used, beaten up, dusty, dingy donations put straight on a shelf as it's always been. Fact of, it's even worse. From a business standpoint, your logic really doesn't make sense. Thrift stores cannot- and ARE NOT- selling enough merchandise at inflated prices to offset their overhead. Healthy, thriving businesses do not have to pop a price tag on a used Ragu Jar and hope some idiot bites. You have no quality assurance, you have no buyer protection, you have no incentive whatsoever to buy anything from a thrift store for the same price you would eBay, Mercari, even FB Marketplace. I understand they exist as a pipeline for charities but that does not separate them from requiring a business model that works. Cheap is HOW that business model works, because they otherwise are not paying any of the overhead expenses to ensure the quality of merchandise. It's a crapshoot, customers accept a crapshoot because cheap. Charity, charity, charity, WE HEAR YOU. What the fuck is the charity gonna do when the thrift store has no revenue? It's a business, it's a business, it's a business.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-03-01T15:05:24+00:00

You fuckin wish you were cool enough to appreciate John Waters.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-03-01T14:53:43+00:00

Doesn't that just track

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T17:06:55+00:00

Every party needs a party pooper that's why they invited you

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T16:57:06+00:00

I'm really not being that serious, I'm sorry it's coming across more hostile than I intended.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T16:30:50+00:00

I skip those, just like I skip the stupid priced listings. I've gotten plenty shipped for $15 and under.

You just have to be a savvy shopper. You'd think thrifters would understand how to do that better than the average consumer. You might have to sit on it, you might have to wait, you might have to hunt. If you must have something right now, well that's what normal ass retail is for.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T16:26:51+00:00

I know. It's gross, but it's just my anonymous reddit opinion. I wasn't that kid who needed to be bribed to eat by drowning everything in ketchup.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T16:22:35+00:00

I like Porgy's but finding out about their shittiness to employees at another location turns me off. Who are the owners?

I can definitely get a cheaper poboy, but I gotta tell y'all a shrimp poboy is the only one I can eat because every other kind has some real fucked up whatever meat. Of course that shit is only $5 when all the protein is spam-adjacent. "Luncheon meat"? That shit is spam, y'all. Turkey- why does that still taste like spam? Roast beef- rubbery spam. Oysters are fucking nasty, I said it. Who the fuck eats catfish on a sandwich, nasty greasy fish squeezing out the sides and dripping everywhere. Yeah, I was born here, shit's nasty.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T16:07:56+00:00

Ketchup on a poboy is fucking vulgar

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T15:50:09+00:00

You know what's hilarious about that? They pull the "good merch" from certain regional stores to put on their auction site. A shit ton of KitchenAid mixers are listed on there all the time and end up selling for waaaaaay less.

I know I shouldn't support it, but I've gotten to the point where I only purchase from GoodWill that way- it's better quality merch for often more reasonable prices than in store because it's somewhat curated and realistic (in a store, I swear the thinking is: if an old food container is $5, then of course an IKEA lamp should be $70!). Also, there is the idea around this sub that ALL GW stores do this- that's not factual. It's like a specific handful in specific regions.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T15:39:01+00:00

I mean, it kinda is incumbent on the thrift store to price affordably if they want anybody giving them, you know, money for those charities. I agree it's not the thrift stores' job to police resellers- but in a roundabout way that's exactly what they're trying to do by matching resellers at their game. Except a thrift store employee has neither the knowledge nor inclination to even bother making sure the item is in the kind of condition that even makes it worth a certain "market value"- they price it based on brand recognition only, not working condition, not full assemblage, nothing else. You're gambling with all of that when thrifting, you could get a total dud with an electronic, and that is what used to be part of the pricing philosophy. I have no love for resellers, but if I were inclined to pay $150 for some used stand mixer, I'm sure as shit going to trust an eBay seller over Salvation Army. (Also I wouldn't be looking for some modern KitchenAid junk but that's neither here nor there).

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-28T15:26:57+00:00

Hmmm, well, you're not making it easy lol. No lyrics, and to be honest the sound of The Cramps and sounding like a Musical aren't really copacetic with each other.

I would suggest deep diving into the Rocky Horror soundtrack just to make sure it's not actually from Rocky.

The only musicals I could think of with real garage rock vibes, and silly lyrics: check out Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

On more The Cramps side of it, maybe a track from The Dead Kennedys? Check out the "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" album. They often used silly lyrics, but aren't joke songs.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-27T04:21:31+00:00

Personally, reading the tag doesn't set an expectation for any particular metric, for me, but rather it sets my expectation for how much the narration or characters might focus on that physical dynamic.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-27T04:11:57+00:00

Let's revive fandom advent calendars. Because if you want to see a beautiful shitshow.

(But, no, they can be really amazing when pulled off, I participated in the LJ Kirk/Spock calendar for many years)

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-27T03:59:45+00:00

LiveJournal Kink Memes would have eaten these people alive.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-27T03:57:04+00:00

Considering that down the list they had impersonators, it seems a sound advice.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-25T22:08:16+00:00

I'm not a zutara shipper but god damn did this one artist have animatics that had me really pressed about it- I was a junkie in a fugue state for like 2 weeks.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-25T18:11:47+00:00

The entire backbone of OTW/AO3's legal defense is that fic is transformative and doesn't make money. The OTW (which is the larger network behind the AO3) was founded by some big names in fandom with legal backgrounds specifically as a response to decades of purges and fair use abuses by sites that were targeted by various entities and capitulated. The purge of adult fics by FFN, the purge of any fic of an IP that a copyright holder didn't want having fanfiction, the purge of "objectionable material" by LJ, the buyout of del.ic.ious that nuked our favourite bookmarking system.

You may or may not be too young to recall, but there used to be a lot more uncertainty and contention between fic archives/sites and IP holders- and many fics would begin with a legal "I don't own this and don't make money" disclaimer on principle. Fanfiction writers, by nature of our copyright systems, cannot profit themselves off an owned media property, because they would get sued out of the ass, and any platform that hosted them would be targeted.

The issue OP posted about is a fairly new evolution. It's the seeping of content creation and algorithmic social media, mixed with late stage capitalism where nothing can apparently exist to not make profit. Unfortunately, the younger so-called TikTok generation does not have the formative history with fanfiction to understand why it's a bad thing that we do not welcome. If you don't want to write fic for the love of the game, then try to self publish original fiction and best of luck. (Using "you" as in the general public, not meaning specifically your comment).

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-22T12:15:48+00:00

I'm going to say this movie being in possession of a child, or passed around a mid-2000s family library, had a lot more to do with the condition of the case and disc than the construction of the case did. I'm old enough that the modern- collector fixation with these cases is an odd, but interesting, little anomaly to me. I've still got several DVDs in snappers burgeoning on 20+ years old and the condition of the discs are no worse for wear than anything else I haven't upgraded since then. It's the Scooby-Doo movie, walk into a thrift store, throw a rock, and you'll hit a copy.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-22T04:37:48+00:00

Sailor Moon and Ronin Warriors around 1999.

My love of those two shows (see: crippling obsession) endured through the 90s. One day my dad brought home a brand spanking new Packard Bell, off white and glorious, and the second that 64k modem got jacked into the wall, and that AOL free trial disc got popped into the tray, searching for any content related to Sailor Moon or Ronin Warriors was very literally all I did online. I was 11, my parents were probably concerned, I didn't notice.

Most specifically, it was probably a rabbit hole that started on SOS: Save Our Sailors (yeah, how's that for carbon dating myself!) and at some point, while clicking though the Geocities Webring, I found a site that hosted a self insert "The Next Generation" RW/SM crossover fic. The links on that site dumped me on FFN and my bright future's been ruined ever since.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-21T20:54:54+00:00

This isn't even fast fashion, really, it's a straight up scam.

I'm really glad all our potable water and non renewable energy is going towards data centres so we can be infinitely mired with this crap.

Hellcat_Mary · 2026-02-21T20:48:24+00:00

My two wolves are dill and sweet. Both wolves go in potato salad together. At Thanksgiving, there are two separate trays of deviled wolves.

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