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Est 1927, Melinoë Laboratories brings scientific solutions to problems humanity never thought possible. This account is managed by the highest ranking active PR Representative (today's representative is Humbert).
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You know what? I'm miffed.

When Dr. Adelaide died in the tragically unfilmed cafeteria incident of 1989, we brought her back to life after three days in a saline cryobath and was that a miracle?

Noooooooo!

It was "an abomination of science", "ethically indistinguishable from necromancy", and "a misappropriation of valuable mandrill organs."

But you take that scenario out of the lab and apply it to an entity that is definitionally immortal and now it's a miracle?

"A god fails to die" isn't a miracle, it's a tautology.

Now rabbit monotremes? That's miraculous*

*Unless Project CelloGrass completes before you read this, in which case its available at Petsmart locations nationwide.

We would like to make it clear that we cancelled 'Project CelloGrass' after three months of development. We're working just as hard to find an antitoxin as any other research institute that wasn't involved in whatever situation it was that caused the current crisis.

Plus, we're sure that whoever did this had no idea what would happen once mating season hit. Water under the bridge, we say. Look to the future, that's our motto!

In the meantime, we're pretty sure the platylepus have a weak spot just behind the ears. Educated guess.

That's where we'd put one, not that we did, but a good solid whack should stun 'em good. If they hiss you're doing it wrong.

Don't try hiding on the table.

The little bastards can jump.

Dear Sirs.

SCP-682's powers are metatextual. He's unkillable because the story says he is nearly unkillable and no solution would be satisfying. His nickname is 'the very hard to destroy reptile' for rigour's sake. You don't have to be Grant Morrison to put this together.

The solution is to alter the narrative so that there is a means of killing him that is satisfying. Unfortunately, only full-on apocalypse scenarios or the use of SCP-682 as a jobber for an even worse threat would fill that criteria.

So unless you want to unleash something even more tiresome, like the Black Moon or the Scarlet King or the Yellow Submarine or whatever other color-coded doomsday monster you have on tap, you're just wasting jumpsuit filling doing anything at all.

The easy alternative is to simply stop trying to kill him.

Just focus on holding him in the most boring, routine ways possible, rendering him increasingly less interesting and thus reducing the time between stories focused on him and thus, the resulting breaches and disasters.

Or you can do what we did. If you aren't chicken.

Ours wasn't a rotted lizard. It was a sort of mummified horse the size of a 1996 Volkswagen Harlequin, and it was a she, but otherwise same deal. Regeneration. Vat of acid. Mass casualties. Violent opposition to the use of breath mints. Endemic to all life. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

We figured out the how it worked, and we speed-ran the whole concept, hurling that vile beast through a veritable plinko-fall of thousands of extermination tests and controlled rampages until there was literally nothing left to do with the 'More-Than-One-Way-to-Fail-to-Kill-a Horse'.

And we trust the populace enough to not lie to them for 'their own good'. Because its funny? Sure. Profitable? Absolutely (don't worry, shareholders!)! But never for 'their own good.'

So we turned those experiments into a 17 season reality television program hosted by Greg Kinnear and force-fed them to a sludge-hungry populace.

There were 'More-Than-One-Way-to-Fail-to-Kill-a Horse' calendars, coffee mugs, t-shirts, two different animated spin-offs running at the same time for some reason, four movies starring Chris Pratt as the voice of the horse, an ongoing sketch on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 'More-Than-One-Way-to-Fail-to-Kill-a Horse' "acid bath" sour candy flavored yogurt in a tube, a series of increasingly inadequately playtested gameboy cartridges, a 27-issue limited series from Image comics, and adorable plush mummified murder-horse plushes with little suction cups on their red-felt hooves so they can stare balefully out the back of your station wagon at that ASSHOLE Kevin in his souped up Trans AM who does not understand the concept of a safe following distance, and you JUST want to run him off the road with the magno-lifters and recreate the scene from Lost Highway with Robert Loggia, but "you can't use the magno-lifters for revenge" because it's "against OSHA regulations" and "technically assault!"

And once the first shipment of 'More-Than-One-Way-to-Fail-to-Kill-a Horse' Funko Pops hit store shelves, the creature's cultural cache cratered so hard that it became a parody of itself so predictable it's "containment" is now a Universal Studios attraction with two failed executions and a containment breach each night, with double shows on Saturdays.

Now, it was a rocky ride getting there, especially for Utah (projections say you'll get those House seats back in two, maybe three, generations at most, don't you worry!) but we've proven that even if it isn't killable, you can, in fact, beat a dead horse.

Hope this helps.

Humbert, Outreach Liaison Melinoë Laboratories "Hoc non veniet ad nos mordax"

Maybe there was a lady in every lake back then, have we considered that?

there's about 40k lakes in the uk which means 40k idiots running around with magic swords claiming to be the future king find some other way to get laid merlin you twat

look. “my ward needs an awesome sword from the Otherworld” is a great in with hot fairy babes

Look, if there's anything we've learned after decades of cleaning out the Puck-Off™ Brand drop-boxes at your local Hotdog-On-A-Stick location, it's that fairies are far less hygienic than folklore and the Disney corporation have implied.

Particularly around the mouth.

Which is the part they usually use for biting.

But if we've learned two things from it (and we've actually learned over thirty-six thousand, three hundred twenty six and 2/3rds things thank you very much) we've learned that those little name-stealing winged opossums do not leave things up to chance.

That's to say precognition and augury aren't possible, it's just that fake prophecies are vastly more effective than real ones.

Real foreknowledge has value only within its own negation, you avert, and thereafter the prophecy is fiction. But fake prophecies are like Swiss army knives or end user license agreements: the number of applications is limited only by your imagination and ethical flexibility.

The swords and kings gambit is a basic statistical scam. Like Eurovision, it may appear mystical but it's actually pure survivor bias.

If any one of the 40,000 dupes who gets a scimitar lobbed at his head by one of Merlin's many moistened bints manages to unite the isles then lo and behold! It's a prophecy come true!

But if none do, all Merlin has to do is gather up all the caliburns and excaliburs from the blood-soaked fields of failed ambition, toss them back in the water, and start over with another batch of impressionable kids until someone pulls it off and boom, once and future king and we've all seen what comes of that:

England.

I don't know about you, but that hardly seems like it's worth the risk. Way better to put down some affordable, easy to use traps and let the professionals deal with it.

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I hereby propose bringing back the term "Factotum" (a general servant who does everything) as a new, gender-neutral term for Henchmen.

It's an old term that's currently untainted by popular culture misuse, is gender-neutral, has no other known uses, and has the added benefit of sounding fancy and theatrical, giving every villain using the term to refer to their underlings a touch of class.

This is my recommendation to the Guild, and I leave judgement to its council. Thank you.

Factotum is the kind of term you apply to a right-hand, either with or without back-sass privileges. Dr. Girlfriend is a factotum, you can't just also call the dudes in butterfly costumes factotums too. It confuses the chain of command.

Those guys are not equally skilled in all things.

Now the easy way is to name your force specifically. This has the added advantage that new terms are trademarkable and we all know that merch sales are half the battle.

But not everyone can afford the USPTO searches, so here's some alternate options:

Flunky, Lackey, Toady and Stooge are all good ones. Stooge doesn't get nearly as much use as it ought to.

Servitor - I personally dislike three syllable terms, takes too long to shout during an incursion, but this one's exclusively for malevolent supernatural beings, and they can get away with a lack of brevity.

Underlings - Good for megalomaniacal types, does not leave any question about the pecking order. Not great for morale.

Drone - Appropriate if you're insect themed or using robots. Deeply insulting otherwise (may be a bonus, contextually).

Mook - Basically an alternative for goon without the baggage.

Revolving Euphemisms - Change it up each time to keep 'em guessing: My trusted employees, some enthusiastic gentlemen I am acquainted with, the quality control department, the rotary club, the home owners association, a number of concerned citizens, etc.

the Abusive Alliteration Assortment - Is it mean? Is it three words or longer? Do all the words start with the same sound? Then you're ready to tell your brutish bevvy of boneheaded buffoons to snap to and SEIZE THEM!

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STOP DRINKING SINISTER CONCOTIONS OUT OF MY EVIL LABORATORY.

NO, NONE OF THEM ARE FORCEFEM ONES OR EVEN TRANSFORMATION FETISH ONES, THEY WILL JUST MAKE YOU VERY SICK AND THEN DIE.

I AM RUNNING OUT OF ANTIDOTES.

so you're saying they're snuff fetish ones

You're not getting any of these antidotes labelled "hurt/comfort" with that kind of attitude.

We keep telling people but they don't want to listen.

If the goo's alight, it's not alright!

On Calling Upon Gods for Aid

Gods hear our pleas, their hearts open up, and they immediately take responsibility for the troubles to hand.

This can mean that they have now claimed the trouble as caused by them. This is because gods transcend time. Once they enter your life's picture, they enter every part of it, eventually touching up every inch of canvas with their own brush.

This is the explanation, in short, for the trite "the Devil was actually the shadow God cast," or "God gives us sorrows as gifts" generalities that now flood religion and spiritualism. All that's happening, in the end, is that the deity recognizes your pain and turns it into something you can value and use. Deities that do this typically function by empathizing with the pain of others, and then lending the "subject" their stamina, will, heart, anything it takes and often more as a bonus.

In the case of deities who represent ordeal, they recognize your suffering as kindred to their ordeal. In kinship, they share their gifts with you, and these become your gifts. This is the usual explanation of the ordeal that confers knowledge of the runes.

Everyone's pain is private and unique. deities who focus on ordeal often have a good deal of humility. This means they're well-suited to empathic work and connecting to others who are suffering. Mutual understanding is not their goal, but is possible and I encourage you to seek it. Their goal is to simply not be alone and, in seeking companions, alleviate the suffering of others.

Whereas most other deities are pretty straightforward and want cakes, ale, and/or sex. These are often close to hand or easily dispensed, and as long as provenance is assured (don't offer what's not yours, offer only what you know will not harm your guest), payment is simple and often fun.

Don't ever challenge a god to a contest in a craft or art skill unless you truly understand the win/lose scenario! Sometimes the Devil keeps the golden fiddle.

Or... and stay with me...

They're parasitic psuedolife with a plethora of deeply exotic minerals in their bones that are worth extracting for numerous industrial and recreational applications.

Plus, after centuries on feasting on human appellation the marbling of the meat is unparalleled in its fall-off-the-bone juiciness. You haven't lived until you've had south Carolina style pulled-vanir.

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Spectrum National Park

Home to a series of rare (and in many cases, distressingly toxic) mineral formations, Spectrum National Park is 75 miles of natural, if not dangerous, beauty.

Famously, search groups cannot be dispatched for persons lost in the green or orange zones. Visitors must attend a 90 minute safety demonstration prior to entry and should remain on the paths at all times.

Rumors persist of a park zone beyond the borders of the Violet Wetlands, but no one has yet been able to see it.

Bring the kids.

Oh it's the elves. No question.

We're pretty robust with our honeypot restriction field, but we've learned from hard experience that a class 4 just isn't enough to keep a Santaman* contained.

Fortunately, nobody here has been on either the naughty or nice list since the litigational unpleasantness back in 1989 so no Santamans (correct pluralization) or Krampüßen (same) will attempt to breach parameter for any site locations or the swamp gas mistaken for Abel, KS (which we remind you (and it), does not and has never existed.) because our naughtiness levels are currently hidden by court order.**

But five elves is one hell of a catch. Heck, the U.S. Wildlife & Nexus Dept daily limit is 6!

Four or five hauls like that and we'll have more than enough <redacted> for our entirely non-sinister purposes.

Now if this does happen to you and it isn't intentional, all varieties of elf, pixie, nixie, boggart, eylf, Frizzle, redcap, goblin (hob, rob, standard, or jersey), Ming Na Wen, fawn, satyr, kappa, nuckelavee, gray/zetan, kobolds of type 2 and 7, and the American red squirrel are all quickly dealt with via easy-to-use PuckOff™ Brand live traps! Now with 30% more holding capacity, for when the little jerks have really gotten into the dairy.

Every 10 traps returned full to a participating HotDog-on-a-Stick location earns you a $25 credit at any Melinoë Labs or Kansas-Exclusion-Zone-Around-Nothing-in-Particular gift shop.***

*Homestarrian prounciation. **No, the other one, no, not that one, the other-o- there ya go. *** Offer not valid on that one cool geode you really want.

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Bad Occult Advice neither confirms nor denies being the origin point of mildly cursed items that have been donated to Goodwills throughout the Contiguous 48 States of the USA that require the buyer to go on quests with a minimum duration of 48 hours.

@xsweiwuxian Nefarious plots? That's more of a brooding evil wizard's thing. We just offer bad advice (and the occasional mildly-to-moderately-concerning PSA).

And we're sure you don't have anything to do with the 14 cubits³ of material removed from the Kansas AB13 Exclusion Zone Gift Shop & Medical-Adjacent Dispensary™ under cover of Carol's 3 o'clock nitrus break last Friday.

Next time just tell us what you're planning and we'll donate the stuff directly, at least then we'd get the tax break, and I wouldn't have spent five hours of my Saturday explaining to a local sheriff named Buford (first or last name unclear) what 'harrowed artefacts of tragedie and woe' and 'Class-6 metaphysical waste' are.

Followed by another three hours explaining cubits³ to the insurance people.*

Inconsiderate. That's what it is.

*It's the distance from the tip of the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Yes, that varies from person to person. The ³ accounts for that. I'd tell you how but I'd be violating so many NDAs.

i made this exactly one year ago and i still think the idea for it is good

it can happen to you every moment PSA please dont rotate 2d creatures

Back in my day, before helicopter parenting, we kids wound up in a perpendicular reality for a unit-length-of-existence-for-which-time-is-not-a-useful-measure at least three to four times a summer, we turned out just fine.

Well, not fine exactly. Not all of us.

Danny definitely turned out fine, though.

That is the technical term for granules of less than half a milliliter, after all.

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1d100 Businesses That Totally Won’t Physically Transform You In Ways That May Or May Not Be Erotic In Nature

Nope, totally won’t, not at all, just roll on it you weenie:

  1. Transformations Dog Grooming Salon
  2. Circle-C Convenience Store
  3. Big Boy’s Meat And Sausage
  4. Acme Ink & Paint
  5. Sweet Sensations Candy
  6. rEvolution Fitness
  7. Fantasy Were Costume Supplies
  8. Pleasure Island Vacation Planning Services
  9. New Growth Florists
  10. Harry’s Wet N Wild Waterworld
  11. Nature’s Way Pest Control
  12. Barton Ulysses Male Sensitivity Training
  13. Johnson-Richard’s Feminine Novelties Catalog
  14. Butterfly Ball Dance Academy
  15. Foxy Lady Guitars & Instruments
  16. Wide Load Construction & Concrete
  17. Fortunado Winery
  18. Iron Man Millitary Surplus
  19. Plastic Love Masseusse
  20. The Licker Store
  21. Buer-Rite Shoes
  22. New You Asset Liquidators
  23. HyperScore Arcade
  24. Carol Lussig & Carol Lockhart’s Universal Trans-Inclusive All-Female Clown College & Wedding Chapel
  25. AquaCulture Bar/Aquarium
  26. Knotical Adventures Nocturnal Scuba-Diving
  27. New Growth CBD Oil
  28. Body Electric Home Wiring
  29. Even-Worse-Dragon Ethically-Sourced Adult Novelties
  30. Cheesecake Factory
  31. Pleasure Island Automotive Dealership
  32. Tyrannosaurus Hex Crystals & Occult Novelties
  33. Going Clammando Male Undergarments
  34. Neon Knights Knightclub
  35. Sonic You Audio Equipment
  36. Heavy Hog Motorsports
  37. Lunatic Binge Full-Moon Late Night Eatery
  38. Eye Of The Beholder Optometry
  39. Rainbow Load Paintball
  40. Aces High Aeronautical Body Shop
  41. Perry Psyche’s Dietary + Weight Loss Services
  42. Louis Cypher’s Locksmithing Services
  43. Orang-Minyak Full-Service DIY Lube
  44. Citric Assets Orange Juice Suppliments
  45. Heart-On Female Dating Service
  46. Doc Naples Plastic Surgery
  47. Transparent Touch Chiropractic
  48. New Leaf Bookstores
  49. Apotheosis Lighting Services
  50. Hard-y Har Highyena Women’s Comedy Club/Marajuana Dispensary
  51. Catgirl Factory
  52. Crawler Score Dollar Store
  53. Branch Nudie’s Gender-Inclusive Gentlemen’s Club
  54. New Growth Farmers Market
  55. Jack Chalker Memorial Park/Community Center
  56. Daisy Chain Computing & Cords
  57. Blow Me! Glassblowing-On-Commission
  58. Melange Spices and Outerwear
  59. Leg Day Health And Fitness
  60. Dan Orson’s Equestrian Rideshare
  61. Pleasure Island Hands-Free Miniature Golf
  62. Primordial Soup Clothing & Cambrian Endloith Accessories
  63. The Ridin’ Cowgirl Dairy
  64. Fantomass Spirits and Alcohol
  65. Golden Corral
  66. Maschinenmensch Science Museum
  67. Hardbody Rock Climbing & Mountaineering
  68. Avocado Spitroast Vegan Cuisine
  69. Peet’s Cruelty-Free Fur and Leather
  70. Ample Additions Handyman Service
  71. Cold Comfort Ice Cream & Novelties
  72. Toxic Love Makeup & Beauty Products
  73. Auto-Octopus Self-Service Car Wash
  74. Carl T. Franz’s Couples’ Urology
  75. New Growth Mycological Healthcare
  76. New Growth Political Solutions
  77. Oh You Beautiful Doll Figurines and Collectables
  78. Bull Moose Lodge (Gender Inclusive)
  79. Intelligent Design Plumbing and Cooling
  80. Byrd’s Aviation Solutions
  81. Sole Survivor Podiatry
  82. Big N Bubbly Champagne Bar
  83. Flat-Out Trading Cards
  84. Pleasure Island Humanoid Escort Service
  85. Dexter Rose’s DIY Candy And Confectionaries
  86. Stuffit Yourself Plushie Factory
  87. Flextime Stretching & Fitness
  88. Catgirl Cheesecake Factory
  89. Dogtooth Orthodontics
  90. Dragons Layer Fantasy Amusements
  91. Pizza Slut
  92. New-Fangled Jitterbug Ballroom & Dance Hall
  93. Female-Presenting Hooters
  94. Monster Mash Video Dating Service
  95. Hopkinsville Gobblin’s Far-Out Pizza Pie
  96. Flock’s Coming Ministries
  97. Dendrophiliacs Anonymous, Sponsored by New Growth
  98. Layton Textiles One-Size Fits All Rubberized Apparel
  99. Terra Amatorios Real Estate
  100. Pleasure Island Savings & Loan

I did this because it was bouncing around in my brain and I had to get it out, and also because I could and none of you would stop me.

Also @randomencounters​, reblog this if you’re not a coward. Even though any DM who used this chart would probably come down with a sudden case of defenestration immediately after…

…The hilarious part is, I made this before I found out there was a wholeass RPG dedicated to TF:

And it’s weird, like not even just by virtue of being a TF game, but on doing some pretty experimental/ambitious things with the mechanics!

I feel I would be remiss if I did not mention, there is also a spinoff of that game very specifically focused on transforming into a sexy slug person:

This is real and you can buy it.

Wait. Those hacks at FrankenHut Urgent Care, LCC don't break the top 100 anymore?

The regulatory state has been smashed to flinders.

SMH.

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this is real and its terrifyingfor them.

you stood by and took this picture instead of helping the gnomes? that's so fucked up

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unfortunately as a Gnature Photographer i am sworn by duty never to interfere and only to document.

tell that to the gnome's gnext of kin

How else are the gnome larvae supposed to enter the digestive tract to grow to the second stage of development, I ask you?

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The Mandela Effect is no Match for Science!

We all know that memory problems and trans-temporal negligence can cause all sorts of hallucinations to become real and highly resistant to updating.

We've all heard it before: "Is it Berenstain or Bearenstain?", "Kazam with Shaq or Shazam with Sinbad?", "Didn't blood used to taste like lemon?" and so forth.

Fortunately, thanks to advancements in temporal lensing (and digging through Humbert's mom's attic), we can cut through to what you, personally had when you were a kid.

The Good News: We know the Berenstain/Bearinstain answer.

The bad news: Ain't nobody gonna be happy.

Our condolences once again go out to those affected.

Then how do you explain this?

Looks to me like someone's using bootleg temporal lensing device and our patents have once again been infringed

Or else someone's been nosing around the quarantine zone around the entirely boring and empty field of swamp gas people keep mistaking for Abel, Kansas. Which we remind you, does not exist.

In either case, anyone who has handled that book probably should drop by the local Walgreens and pick up a pack of Melinoë Brand Children's Potassium Iodide Gummy Tablets™ now with colony-stimulating factor complex 8-Alpha™.

If you start smelling fruity ozone, just scarf the whole bag.

No one deserves to go to that on an empty stomach.

Can I take it with Kooba Cola or will that ruin the science?

As long as it's not a vintage bottle from the old cocaine and ether days, there shouldn't be any expected reactions.

And if it is, well, it's your bones.

Roll those dice if you're inclined.

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The Mandela Effect is no Match for Science!

We all know that memory problems and trans-temporal negligence can cause all sorts of hallucinations to become real and highly resistant to updating.

We've all heard it before: "Is it Berenstain or Bearenstain?", "Kazam with Shaq or Shazam with Sinbad?", "Didn't blood used to taste like lemon?" and so forth.

Fortunately, thanks to advancements in temporal lensing (and digging through Humbert's mom's attic), we can cut through to what you, personally had when you were a kid.

The Good News: We know the Berenstain/Bearinstain answer.

The bad news: Ain't nobody gonna be happy.

Our condolences once again go out to those affected.

Then how do you explain this?

Looks to me like someone's using bootleg temporal lensing device and our patents have once again been infringed

Or else someone's been nosing around the quarantine zone around the entirely boring and empty field of swamp gas people keep mistaking for Abel, Kansas. Which we remind you, does not exist.

In either case, anyone who has handled that book probably should drop by the local Walgreens and pick up a pack of Melinoë Brand Children's Potassium Iodide Gummy Tablets™ now with colony-stimulating factor complex 8-Alpha™.

If you start smelling fruity ozone, just scarf the whole bag.

No one deserves to go to that on an empty stomach.

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