be kind, rewind  •  he watched all of it in one sitting  •  the coffee is from tuesday  •  a tape cannot be deleted  •  copies are already in circulation  •  do not adjust your set  •  press play  • 
Robinhood Chain · one cassette · no master left

HentapeBoden Laptop

the tape from the laptop

The laptop went into the repair shop and never came back out. Everything that was on that drive was dubbed onto one cassette at three in the morning, and this ape has now watched all of it in a single sitting, which is why his eyes look like that.

A tape cannot be deleted. It can only be copied and handed to somebody else, which is exactly what he did to you, and exactly what you are about to do to the next holder.

Contractsoon
the ape at the desk, four hours into the tape, coffee long cold
STOP
0:00:00
no signalput a tape in · press play
tape— none —
decoded0 / 8
copies out1
Tracking no lock
copies in circulation

What is on iteight tapes · one cassette · nobody labelled anything properly

The dub

He recorded the whole drive over his own family videos because it was the only cassette in the drawer. Somewhere in the middle of tape three there are eleven seconds of a christening that nobody in the family has forgiven him for.

The coffee

The mug has been on that desk since Tuesday and he has stopped noticing it is cold. He drinks it anyway between tapes, because getting up would mean missing the part where it gets strange.

The passing

Every holder gets the same envelope with no return address and the same handwritten note on the label. He put it in the post the same night he finished watching, and he slept fine.

The labelread the spine before you buy the cassette

Supply1,000,000,000

Fixed the moment it was recorded. No second master, no studio copy kept in a drawer for a friend of the family.

LiquidityLP burned

The reels went into the bin behind the shop along with the receipt. There is nothing left to unlock and nobody left to call.

Tax0%

No rental fee, no late fee, no charge for not rewinding. The video shop closed in 2004 and took its policies with it.

OwnershipRenounced

Mint and freeze revoked. Nobody can tape over your copy, recall it, or ask for it back, including him.

his eyes, four hours into the tape

Press play

Robinhood Chain · runtime unknown