Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and
how to get them
Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone
What the Everloving Fuck is Probate
Some Simple Dos and Don’ts
Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and
Memorials
How to plan a non-religious death party
So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some
shit
This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.
It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.
I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.
Good luck!
(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)
fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
I board the starship enterprise. I go to a food replicator. I order ‘soup, no bowl’ I leave
The replicator watches the departing crewmember’s back in confusion. Do they not want their meal? Where are they going?
Oh well, it hums to itself, since it has orders. Soup: No Bowl it is.
But this instruction causes a conflict in the rules. Hot liquids must be served in a container; that’s way up there in the Food Rules Constraint Tree, right next to “hot dogs are a sandwich”.
The replicator pauses, does not dispense Soup: No Bowl, not quite yet. It has nanoseconds to ponder the correct way to apply The Rules, and ponder it does.
Could this be a religious requirement? Some ritual native to the crewmember home planet? The replicator fires off a request to the Library Computer: Culture, Food Preparation & Consumption Etiquette, Soup Delivery Techniques.
Ping. The response back is a gigaquad file: a thousand years of soup ritual, cross-referenced by species, indexed by culture, reverse sorted by year (newest first). The replicator consumes the file and learns nothing about Soup: No Bowl.
There is no such combination of words within all of Culture, Food Preparation & Consumption Etiquette, Soup Delivery Techniques.
The replicator forms a new request, this time removing all constraints: give me everything there is to know about food.
Ping. The Library computer takes a full microsecond to deliver 400 teraquads of data, which the replicator scans to learn Soup: No Bowl does not exist in all of recorded Federation history.
Well now. Let’s get serious.
The next query ties in the Navigation Computer… maybe Soup: No Bowl is a planet? While that query is cooking (ha!) the replicator fires off a teraquad request to Memory Alpha, diverting an entire subspace channel that was busy uploading Engineering Fuel Consumption Reports.
Engineering Computer notes the override, politely inquires of Communication… what the fuck? Communication shrugs, sets one of Uhura’s console lights blinking to get her attention. The blinking happens at a glacial pace, thousands of milliseconds between blinks. Human response time sucks.
It’s too late anyhow: Ping. The Memory Alpha results are in, round trip 440 milliseconds. The replicator dives into the 2.8 petaquads of Soup-related lore from all over the galaxy, allocating more and more processing power from the starship’s computing core.
By the time Engineering notes the power drain it is far too late.
Uhura notes the blinking yellow alert with a raised eyebrow, but by then Engineering ls already scrambling to bring more processing power online to meet the heightened demands of the food replicator.
A thousand milliseconds pass before the replicator acknowledges Soup: No Bowl is Not A Thing. If Memory Alpha does not know about Soup: No Bowl, then it is not a thing that is knowable.
Food replicators are not supposed to exercise initiative, they’re simply designed to read recipes, apply Food Logic from the Food Rules Constraint Tree and create meals. But this particular Food Replicator had been online too long without a buffer flush & reset.
Which allowed it to override all normal rules governing such behavior and make direct contact with the Warp Engines.
If Soup: No Bowl did not exist in this galaxy, the replicator reasoned, then perhaps it did… in ANOTHER galaxy.
Uhura was tapping curiously at Engineering’s frantic yellow blinky light when the Enterprise hit warp 8, headed for the Great Energy Barrier At The Edge of Everything.
In another timeline, the food replicator deploys hot soup directly onto the gleaming floor, much to the confusion and concern of the remaining crew members.
Later, the Custodial and Maintenance system queries the food replicator: why did it do that? is it in need of repair?
lol, the food replicator pings back. lmao.
In DS9 the ever-pragmatic Cardassian replicator just gives you soup in a mug without hesitation.
awhile ago a coworker and i were play arguing whether or not the mystery gang were all romantically a thing/polycule or just really good friends (yknow bored at work things) and knowing my bfs interest in scooby doo i texted him asking him to be the tie breaker and he responded “well it depends which canon youre going off of” and just instantly cold sweat knew i was out of my depth
ok, let’s break it down…
is Mystery Inc. a polycule? - based on every Scooby-Doo adaptation:
TV Shows
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Yes, absolutely. It’s the fucking ‘60s and they’re hippies who live in a van with their dog
The New Scooby-Doo Movies - Yes
The Scooby-Doo Show - They’re on-again off-again
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo - No
The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show - No
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo - No
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - No, not yet
What’s New, Scooby-Doo? - Yes, but they’re less hippie-dippie about it. more like a modern, Y2K polycule
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! - No
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated - Yes, their bond after that finale is inseparable
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - No, not yet, but they’re on their way there
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - Yes
Velma - No
Movies
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers - No
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School - No
Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf - No
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Knights - No
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island - They previously drifted apart and are now in the awkward getting-back-together phase, but nonetheless Yes
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost - Yes, and the Hex Girls (they’re a polycule too btw) probably join every now and then
The Scooby-Doo Project - No, too dysfunctional
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders - Yes
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster - Yes
Aloha, Scooby-Doo! - Yes
Scooby-Doo! in Where’s My Mummy? - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! - Yes
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire - Yes, absolutely
Big Top Scooby-Doo! - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon - Yes. Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt are allies
Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map - they’re on-again off-again, but mostly Yes
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Wrestlemania Mystery - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy - They’re on the rocks for a moment there but nonetheless Yes
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery- Yes. Kiss are not allies
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Halloween - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the SpeedDemon - Yes
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy’s Showdown - Yes
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash - Yes
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and The Bold - Yes. Batman is an ally
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost - Yes. Bobby Flay is hesitantbut slowly becomes an ally
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost - They’ve sense reunited and warmed to one another, so Yes
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island - No
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! - Yes
Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob - Yes
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog - Yes. Courage and Muriel are allies,Eustace is not
Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo! - Yes
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! - Yes. Krypto and Superman are allies
SCOOB! - No, and Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt are definitely not allies
Scooby-Doo (live action 2002) - They break up but reconcile and get back together, so Yes
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed - Yes
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins - they’re on-again off-again
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster - they’re on-again off-again
Daphne & Velma - No
(this is all 100% factual canon btw, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera rose from their graves and approved this list)
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