The Nopefish Is Your Friend
This is a post from the Argh Draft Vault. It seemed appropriate for starting a new year.
I’ve been having a fraught time lately. I don’t think that’s correct usage, I think something needs to be “fraught with” something, but lately I’m fraught with everything, so I’m going with “I’m fraught.” I’ve been dealing with things by saying, “No, that is not my problem;” “No, I am not going to worry about anything that hasn’t happened yet;” “No, I am not going to feel guilty about an honest mistake;” “No, I am not going to make myself crazy about this.” Then I just shortened it all to “Nope.” As in:
“OMG my health insurance is screwed up, I’m going to get frantic, angry and depressed.”
Nope.
“The damn bank lied to me. I’m going to get frantic, angry and depressed.”
Nope.
“The fact that my house looks like a landfill means that I’m a horrible and disgusting person, which makes me frantic, angry and depressed.”
Nope.
“I’ll never get through all this work, I’ll never finish a book, I’ll be typing in my grave, oh dear god, I’m frantic, angry and depressed.”
Nope.
Well, you get the drift. To paraphrase Nancy Reagan: “Just say Nope.” (Although some drugs might be good.)
Then I saw this in the comments on io9:
So now my spirt animal is the Nopefish, and my mental vacation spot, aka “happy place,” is Screwthatistan.
After some reflection, I decided that I needed a Nopefish mascot, which could only be my favorite I-hope-to-hell-I-never-see-one-of-these-up-close denizens of our planet, the angler fish. That thing in the picture above is not an angler fish, it’s a goliath tiger fish. It attacks humans and crocodiles. This is an angler fish:
This educational video explains more about the angler fish (mild profanity and fish-on-shrimp violence):
And people think I don’t research.
Also, now I want this lamp:
Or maybe this one:
And definitely this necklace:
Turns out Anglerfish necklaces are pricey. Maybe the Lego Anglerfish:
Or the puppet:
And defnitely the stamp:
Where was I? Oh, right . . .
The Nopefish: It eats your problems for breakfast.
The post The Nopefish Is Your Friend appeared first on Argh Ink.
