i should really finish writing this stupid fucking thing so i can move onto the other stupid fucking thing i'm writing

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mina the hollower is ridiculously good

You don't need experience or fancy writing credentials. You could flash an empty Taco Bell gift card at the gatekeepers. Mick Carrigan has no publications or bylines to his name. I previously went by initials or a pseudonym! My first publication will also be my first book

a strip club, for ideas

knicks out for harambe

1. we have successfully replicated the part of the brain that bullshits 2. it turns out you can bullshit your way through many problems, even some fancy math problems 3. doing this habitually at scale incurs tremendous costs

fine

Post a logo, emblem, or title (with its original font) that remains as perfect today as when it was new. (This is a shitpost almost zero of you will get)

simply trying to accurately describe reality gets you in so much trouble with people on the internet

old enough to remember when warcraft had wars in it

I was thinking about how cucumbers are so delicious and “if only there was a way to preserve them so they last longer” and then I realized that’s pickles. That’s literally just pickles.

Friday night

My loves, please stay doing your business on Signal

i think my life would've been better if i wasn't raised to be terrified of every single thing

trying out a new lens and yeah i’m pretty happy with it

telling myself I will live long enough to read all the books I buy is probably my most optimistic belief

my favorite thing is when dogs get so excited they sneeze

"it's a bad time to be in the field I'm in" -everyone

Slay all day

this is actually true

not only do they have an amazing audio narrator, but you can get also get a thing made of actual paper mailed to your house every month, containing amazing stories screens are bad for the brain. paper is soft and good

idiot king

I like the shot clock in basketball, they should have that for work zoom meetings

warning: weekly token allowance exceeded [Insert wallet API key to think]

well, it was a fun week of pretending video games were fun, but it's time to get back to the important business of making sure no game ever gets made again

rarely is a skeet so perfectly aligned with my interests

Them: Why did you become a therapist? Me (thinking about the time my dad's mistress called me crying because she found out he was cheating on her): I just like helping people.

taking World of Warcraft super seriously seems very millennial

my career has become stupid and i want a new one before it's too late

i really don't want to fix this manuscript there's nearly 4 years of fuckups in here i have no idea when i found the time to fit so many daft mistakes in this piece of shit

Transgressive art is important to make for posterity because fascists love to try to tell you people didn't used to be weird

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Love to see someone booed lustily. Lustily: the only way to boo.

I think an adult version of a scholastic book fair would fix a lot of my problems.

Grimdark: Everything is fucked Dying Earth: the world is fucked New Weird: A city is fucked Folk horror: A village is fucked Gothic: A castle or mansion is fucked but so are families 'Elevated' A24 horror: families are fucked Body Horror: You are fucked Vampires: vampires

This is what novel plot revision feels like

in the market for a novel-writing Discord that is horror/SF/fantasy focused with tolerance for literary ambition

lina khan's sensible reforms are no longer enough, i want blood

ffs

i can't believe they made the win 11 start menu even worse like how the fuck is this real UX in 202X

for ten years straight i had enough work that I could just work 70+ hours a week and forget I was a person now that things are slowing down I am really having a bad time

we need to start building sorta like monasteries without computers where people can go for a few years to clear their head and remember how to do math

no worries, I say while inventing a never before heard of way to worry

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead to their conservative families but running a lovely antique shop in vermont

i would've been so powerful if i had remotely normal parents

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.