Extra Credit

Reiki. It’s a method of alternative healing where you hold out your hands and think about wellness or whatever and then it makes idiots feel better.

But what about animals? That’s right! Animal Reiki, a book Frank and Shell bought from their local bookstore, provides a uh… Crash course in how to move one’s hands and offer Reiki to animals, complete with many anecdotes that show how animals get better after the “treatment”.

This week, Extra Credit decides all animals are male and all Reiki healers are female.

Reiki-Induced Deer Multiplication by Sauce

Did you know that if your Reddit karma is abysmal enough it limits the subreddits you’re allowed to post on? Also what happens when the only subreddit you can post to doesn’t have any moderators?

Well, Regular-Storm-9625 knows both those things and r/theories indirectly does too.

Join us as one man feeds thoughts into chatgbt strictly for confirmation and then tells a captive audience of conspiracy theorists what it really means to be a pyramid.

This week, Extra Credit is imagining a pyramid-like dinosaur who doesn’t eat meat.

Ever want to make up something that never happened to try to stick it to hypothetical people you made up in your head? Head on over to Not Always Right. Want those people and situations to be signs of your personal moral integrity regarding LGBT rights and issues? Head on over to Not Always Right and realize they have an LGBT tag!

That’s right, Not Always Right makes up all kinds of gay and/or trans customers and/or workers to all clap simultaneously at anything the poster submits.

It’s really fuckin’ funny.

This week, Extra Credit has a token cishet guy again because we care about diversity.

Cozy sure is a word that people use a lot nowadays. A “fair” assessment would be to say media is cozy if it evokes a feeling of comfort and lacks the kind of obstacles that more challenging fare provides. An “Extra Credit” assessment would be a lot less charitable, but we’ll spare you what you already know.

Consider instead the website Goodreads, which is about as cozy as a viper’s nest, and the subgenre that is cozy literature. Sound fun? No? Well, too bad, that’s what this episode is about.

This week, Extra Credit refuses to consider coffee cozy.

So remember how one time we talked about the Villains Wiki and they quibbled over degrees of evilness or redemption in fictional characters or something?

Well that’s because over at the Heroes Wiki they have to remind people that they aren’t cataloging every single character who is nice or the star of some show. That they’re, you know, supposed to be categorizing heroes. So maybe the Villains Wiki isn’t doing so bad (ba-BOOM!)

Come with us on a journey where we touch birds, discover God, and learn a little something about OCs along the way.

This week, Extra Credit is still waiting for Bonnie Tyler to come out of her dressing room trailer park planet. (edit: RIP real world Miss Tyler. Podcast you stayed in her trailer in solidarity.)

We’ve dabbled in fanon. We’ve dabbled in canon. And now, we dabble in doo.

Scooby-Doo, the franchise centered around a dog that talks funny and his owner-friend (sounds like a complicated relationship (not for him!)) who is a stoner who loves to eat help their boring friends solve crimes while driving around in a van.

The fact is, a great deal of Scooby-Doo canon is made on the cheap, filled with bad writing, and creates a convoluted web of what can roughly be described as lore until you reach modern day and we have so much lore there’s a universe reset so they can make MORE lore.

Anyway, Shell is subjecting the readers to a gameshow-style dealie where they have to guess whether or not something is Scooby-Doo Canon or Scooby-Doo Fanon.

Who will win?!

This week, Extra Credit discovers Doo-genics.

We know.

Any episode on any subreddit could be called solipsism.txt.

This one is about people who have decided their sexuality is “attracted to fictional character” and they talk about how much more valid their love is than the character’s story, creator, or personality. It’s a healthy thing for young people who don’t have problems and it definitely isn’t about indulging in one’s urges to the detriment and disregard of the other!

This week, Extra Credit is supplemented by the Jack Chick LLM and somehow The Night Before Christmas doesn’t get generated.

Back in the day people used to have to write into magazines and call radio show hosts to talk about their encounters with the most explainable unexplainable things and it created a weird subculture where it became more and more difficult to determine whether or not the people involved were incredibly stupid or incredibly unwell.

And then the internet came along and made it even harder to tell.

r/Experiencers is a place on Reddit for people to go and share their “experiences” with the “transrational.” If your eyebrows are raised by that word, don’t you worry! It doesn’t make sense in context either. Mostly the transrational is still just about aliens and psychic bullshit. Experiences seem to largely be incidents of “sleep paralysis” or “a thing my kid told me.” So that’s all fun.

This week, Extra Credit needs to bite of 50 heads by Friday or else we’re not getting a cost-of-living increase at our APR.

So back when we read about Goodreads reading the classics, we were introduced to the 7th most popular book reviewer on the site, a one Miranda Reads.

She likes to pull her hair and make wacky faces to indicate she didn’t like something, and then she applies that same approach to the words she writes down and calls a review.

Sounds interesting and cool, right?

This week, Extra Credit hopes to get sorted into Piggledor.

TRANSFORMATION FETISHES

Yeah we did that again. This time on Reddit. You’re welcome?

Let’s have fun reading between the lines as we discover what life is like for the fine folks at r/TransformationRP. Here’s a hint, they ain’t so fine…

This week, Extra Credit is solving for f([(m4b),(F4m-F)]-futa4ne1).