These boxes of books sure are heavy...

[frameacloud]

Theri There from 2005-11-21

Notes: A learning experience with mental shifting. (Readers have pointed out a flaw in this exercise in weird physics: the person should have fallen forward instead. But then we wouldn’t have seen xir sorry face at the end.)

Transcript:
A person struggles to carry cardboard boxes from a moving van, thinking, “These boxes of books sure are heavy. I’ll visualize my dragon form, and focus on its qualities of strength and balance!” The shining silhouette of a dragon astral form appears around xir.
The dragon picks up a box with xir forelimbs, extending xir wings and tail. Caption: “When a quadrupedal dragon rears up bipedally to carry a heavy object, xe instinctively counterbalances the burden by unfurling xir wings behind xir.” This is illustrated with a old-fashioned balancing scales, sitting level.
Caption: “Phantom wings (weighing nothing) are an ineffective counterweight to lean against.” The weight vanishes from one side of the scales, and they collapse to the other. The dragon otherkin falls over, spilling the box.
Under a pile of textbooks such as “Physics 101” and “Qi Gong,” the dragon kin says, “I shouldn’t try a mental shift like that if I’m ever on a tightrope,” and then mutters, “Balance indeed!”

[Edit 2017-04-03: Updated link.]

Comments

[micha-forrest.livejournal.com]

my tail has knocked stuff off shelfs and pressed buttons before too... it's really weird when you're in a room and suddenly the VCR turns on and you havn't touched it or a remote.

will read comic and may post again.

[frameacloud]

The phenomenon with the VCR could just be someone across the street with a universal remote. (I've seen that happen a few times, with our old TV.)

Or it could be a timer in the VCR that nobody remembers setting. (Our second-hand hi-fi did that. It would turn on at 7am, but only if there was a CD in it, so initially it seemed random, and we thought it was because of the guy with the remote again.)

[silvernyte.livejournal.com]

or it could just be weirdness... I had one TV that'd randomly go on and off on it's own ONLY when it was placed in a specific corner of a specific room. I ended up having my dad move the stand it was on so it was about two feet away from that spot and it stopped randomly turning off and on.

granted, if you REALLY want weird technology my old computer, May'ree, takes the cake.

I had her for 6 years and she was quite out of date and buggy at the end. I called her a piece of shit in a chatroom and Windows Explorer shut right down and refused to start up again no matter how many times I restarted and how long I let the computer sit.

after three hours of no luck I grew so desprate I patted the tower and apologized to the computer for calling her a piece of shit, hit the power button... and it started up perfectly... she even ran better than usual that day o.O;;;