#Service Manuals

[archivlibrarianist]

It sure isn't here, at Project Gutenberg, in multiple formats.

[hollow-keys]

Re-upping this for no particular reason.

[It's not really readable on the reupload but tiktok username is @/dollarfor btw!]

[bitchfitch]

I had a shrink appointment today and while I could not see it I knew my doc was going through the five stages of grief while I explained my fool proof strategy for doing my t shots despite a crippling fear of needles: By abusing my vastly more crippling fear of being an inconvenience.

My mother and I play phasmophobia together every week. she usually has a pretty limited time to do this bc she's like. a doctor and a college professor whos always busy. So I asked her to just. hold me to doing them. We don't start playing until the shot is done. so my needle fear doesn't matter because now it's Wasting™ her time and I have to do it quick. Using one neurosis to defeat another.

It's a horrible coping mechanism because it's feeding the inconvenience fear, but it is definitionally a coping mechanism.

[teasetsotw]

--- Designer/Manufacturer: Sèvres Manufactory [X] Region: Sèvres, France Time period: 1763

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

SiirrrrRE

MILES AXELROD GET THE FFFUCK

OUT OF MY WORKPLACE GARAGAGE MOTHERFUCKGIJTBT GOD DAMMITTT!!!!!! AWEERRHAAAAAAAAAAHAHGYG

All it cost me was my glasses and the massive grime and grease stain across my forehead now. I swear I'm not beyond-fucked insane when I say that the damn oil smelt like brown sugar what was that. Think that was the messiest I ever got fixing a car cause magically I did not care about anything anymore.

I uh. Hit the tag limit but I'm sure this will still pop up if I search his name in my blog search feature.

[underwhelmingalchemist]

I'm convinced that anyone who refers to food service, retail, agriculture, or any other profession that doesn't require high levels of education as "unskilled labor" has never worked a single one of those jobs. I think anyone who says something like flipping burgers or making coffee is "unskilled" should be forced to work a full shift there with no training whatsoever and see how that goes for them

[bigmeandragonlady]

💐I've put up another permanent service: Floral headshots! 💐 This is something I wanted to do back in October but waffled on until now! TOS and further specifics are shown on the linked service.

These are simple: your chosen character, framed by flora that represent them, they like, or simply ones that compliment them. While the title says 'Floral' these can be any plants- ferns to roses, witch hazel to basil, and anything in between.

You can give me a specific plant, we can work together to find one, or I can rifle through your character and pick one!

These are 45 USD and I offer a discount if you would like to use flora that I have previously painted or an offered csp asset. They follow:

Rhododendrons

Magnolias

Cherry Blossoms (single petal)

Peonies (pre-rendered)

Spider Lilies (pre-rendered)

Baby's Breath (pre-rendered)

Sunflowers (pre-rendered)

My vgen + Floral Headshots

[fizziefactory]

Future of the Fizzies

As much as I'm making fun of how brief that ad was and all

This is actually going to do a ton for my rps. Because, to start with, will Loo Loo Fizzy be up and running still? Will he be sold off?

If the latter, @rollinpinwheel Pinwheel is going to be A Problem to whoever thinks it's a wise financial decision to buy this piece of scrap metal.

As for the fizzies on @fizziefactory ...

Mortis would continue working for Satan I'm sure, no reason to cut that contract tbh.

Thizzy and Doc I've had involved with several Belphegors, so I consider them safe and connected too. If the Fizzy Clinic for some reason gets shut down because it loses profit however, they will be sold off as well, or scrapped. Godspeed to whoever put money into purchasing Doc-

Mizzy and Ginger are sold property, however, this also means that their novelty has ran out. Mizzy's owner might keep Mizzy around because she's a wish-fulfilment in general for his loser ass, but Ginger? She works really hard, yeah... but if the kids' parents think the kids will grow bored of him (even if some of them will protest really hard), he might end up tossed in the garbage.

And there Is the possibility that if the Glam Sisters become the new bots, Mizzy's owner Will throw her out too. She Just got there, he literally bought her After Fizzarolli quit, but it also means that he might very quickly grow bored of her if the twins become a better option.

As for the factory, FF-8842 would be scrapped and remade if the Glam Sisters will become a thing, but there's also the possibility that they'll be sold for the very first time. At a Really cheap price, considering they lack certain parts to fulfil their role as a sex robot... but sold nevertheless.

And the Manager... I'm torn. I see several possibilities.

He's remade into a Glam Sister, because Mammon can't stand looking at him (and he's nothing Like Fizz in the first place) but he's too good at what he does to throw away.

He is sold off like everyone else, which would leave you with the most bitter and condescending companion bot you've ever met, who's got 1 million better things to do than to please You

He'll be scrapped and remade, just like FF-8842.

He simply leaves on his own. He's got other businesses than the Fizzy Factory going on, and he is Good with the paperwork, writing himself out of this situation is not something I can't see him do.

[syrips]

hi im not involved/affiliated at all with the FREE memento mori curse of strahd fan zine by our lovely community and organized by curseofsergei but anyways please enjoy this list of all of the beautiful artists/writers/contributors individual self-published posts because they all deserve individual love and attention cuz o my lordy lord oh my AAAAAAAh

obvious spoiler/cw warnings on the zine, please read/dl the zine first if you can, this is just a directory list to appreciate and update whenever the contributors upload their own work

Page 01. Page 08. Page 10. Page 16. Page 19. Page 22. Page 23. Page 24. Page 27. Page 32. Page 41. Page 42. Page 45. Page 47. Page 54. Page 61. Page 62. Page 67. Page 69. Page 71. Page 72. Page 79. Formatting

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The wording of English marriage services from the tenth century speaks of a 'wife' and a 'bride' and blesses future children of the marriage but does not define the marriage as heterosexual. The wedding service used in the twelfth century, the Bury St Edmunds Missal, refers to a bride and bridegroom, but not specifically to a man and woman. It was not until the sixteenth century that the Sarum Manual wedding service specifically referred to a man and a woman in the marriage vows.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[youdontlookautistic]

Creating my own Self Service manual should have been a goddamn indicator for therapists, to my autism.

What is a Self Service Manual, precious?

Well. It's basically a ops manual for... Me. An actual manual. With diagrams and shit. Spreadsheets. Tick lists. Photos.

How many people do that? I have no idea if anyone else has done the same thing, I took my own initiative on it. I found myself needing to make one about 7 years ago because I was so lost in myself, and was still in Law of Attraction. I needed direction and clarity, something I could look at every day that had my reminders, affirmations, goals.

My last self service manual is full of shopping lists for life. The life before I was diagnosed autistic.

Now all I see is a legless person writing "I can walk" a million times in the hopes it might come true. Wondering why they struggle so much when others walk so easily. Surely writing it 20 more times will help?

Imma burn my last self service manual. It's going to be a fucking event. I'll dance naked like the devil witch I am.

But seriously. Past therapists of mine... When a person spreadsheets their life to such mechanical detail, I suggest maybe considering neurodivergency.

[smidge-j]

Bad news: my car has decided to have every problem all at once and show me all the warning lights all at once, as well as judder and shake violently whenever I accelerate. Or decelerate. Or just driving at a constant speed.

Good news: This happened the day after my road trip, so at least my car is not going to break in the middle of bumfuck nowhere hundreds of miles away from anywhere important

[alongtidesoflight]

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[2022dirt]

This valet service has a problem with manual cars.

[syvanna]

god I’m so close to having a full blown meltdown

[jacqcrisis]

I have kept thinking about the desert grungy sci-fi jayvik au. I don't have a real... plot for it other than a lot of disconnected ideas but I figure I'll write out about it a bit more with the world and Jayce and Viktor's specific backstories.

The world they live in is cutthroat. Most of the populace lives in walled off megalopolises separated by hundreds of miles of dry inhospitable land, controlled by an incomprehensible network of corrupt politicians and wealthy tech tycoons. Entry into these cities is based off citizenship or merit or wealth, and it is nearly impossible to get into one if you aren't already born there.

Outside of these walls, pockets of communities have cropped up to make some kind of a living. It's difficult, the land is lawless, crime rampant, and resources scarce but what do humans do if not carve out a way to live?

And connecting all of this is a highway, running between the cities and cutting through the desert. A long unbroken road, unprotected from the elements or the gangs that roam the place, looking for easy, unprotected vehicles to pick off for valuables and scrap. It's the only paved highway of its kind, and is necessary to cross the desert between the cities with any kind of certainty.

There, at the halfway point between Piltover and a smaller sister city, is Zaun, a tiny town of a few hundred citizens. Subsidized in part from Piltover originally as a rest stop, and kept alive by a small weapons factory, the excess energy sold off from the solar panels that run the place, and the travelers than pass through here, Zaun is a veritable dusty oasis for the lost and the downtrodden in the middle of nowhere. And it's most notable feature is the gas station that fuels and repairs the vehicles that brave the highway, manned by only a few employees, including two young inventors.

Jayce wasn't born here, coming from a smaller clan that got wiped out when Jayce was around 8, leaving him and his mom seeking out safety and work in Zaun. Jayce grows up an introverted loner, not wanting to cause trouble for his mom and more focused on the dream of inventing something that would get them into the fabled heaven that is Piltover and he spends most of his time with machines and car parts and dry manuals and engineering books. He didn't cross paths much with Viktor in this time as they ran in different circles but a few chance encounters has Jayce quietly enamored with the guy by the time he starts working at the gas station.

Viktor did grow up here, one of a non-insignificant number of abandoned infants that make it to the relative safety of Zaun every few years. Early in his childhood, tragedy strikes and his leg is crushed in an accident. Given there's one guy (Singed) in town who's barely qualified as doctor and medical supplies are thin on the ground, the decision to amputate is an easier one than risking death by infection, and what's left after the surgery is most of his thigh. Being an inventive little guy, Viktor's general interest in building things and mechanics gets tested and he makes several different prosthetics for himself over the years.

He grows up, makes a pretty good name for himself as a fix it guy, runs probably with the 'wrong crowd' a bit as he does auto repair and fine tuning for fucked up drag race cars in the middle of the desert for extra cash. Dreams of a better life for the people of his town and for himself as he gets hired at the gas station where in just a couple of years time, he'll be working with the very person who will either make that dream come true or ruin everything.

And they're going to be so stupid about each other while they do it. Jayce falls head over ass on conversation one with Viktor and Viktor doesn't even notice how far gone he himself has traversed down the 'falling in love with your best friend/coworker/roommate/science partner' road until he's too in deep. And you know they won't talk about, you know they're gunna let that shit simmer, you know they are going to be So.

Weird.

About.

It.

Between fixing all sorts of fucked up cars, dealing with customers, inventing their life changing macguffin, and interacting with the various denizens of their town including all the usual Zaun characters. I have so many scenes for this but nothing that's connected coherently.