honestly i think the reason the trendiness of ~being chinese annoys me so much is because people get very confident in their cursory understanding of [thing] whenever [thing] is popular and now i have white people telling me i don't know anything about chinese food despite declaring myself chinese

happy new year to my fellow east asians i have a... lot of very complicated feelings toward the popularity (?) of CNY and the trendiness of ~being chinese in online spaces right now. i'll spare everyone here of the stereotypical diaspora whinging about it

i have still not made anything spooky! nor have i made more art! so enjoy this for tomorrow is CNY maybe one day i'll hunt down a place that'll print custom laisee and i'll use this

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps. now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

my poor trackbear account i'm so bad at actually putting in any words that i write

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woke up again to an annoying tightness in my scapula area stretched in ridiculous ways (did not work) picked up my 5lb weights again (very weak, can't even do shoulder presses) stretched again but differently (kind of worked, pain has moved further down my back) bad times

"passive consumers of unthought thoughts" is such an elegant way to put slop-eaters

When asked why we were in the MA in English lit program, I said (to the department head) that my BSc in biochemistry is useless on its own He asked if he could quote me on the pitches to prospective students lmao

wanted to do something Spooky but ended up just making straightforward CNY art did it as a collage which is fun but it did remind me that attribution for asian artists is severely lacking

For work reasons I don't post much about politics on here, but this is a big one. Budget 2025 quietly cut hundreds of millions from needs-based student aid. This petition is part of the campaign to make that not happen. *If you're Canadian or live in Canada, please sign; it matters.*

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These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.

wrote a short story (1.1k) yesterday from start to finish so that's an improvement was it entirely inspired by my back pain? yes. but it came out like a story which i haven't been able to do in a while now, to edit

It's once again that time of year where I wish the broader population did not know about LNY

I would love to see us lend considerably less oxygen to rage bait in 2026. Like just say no.

“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die

oh no this project is like 90% paramore melancholy

At this point it's bordering on dishonest to keep bringing up protein systhesis or cancer detection when all those data centers and chips and greenhouse gases and trillions of dollars are *really* for lying, theiving chatbots, surveillance capitalism, and unethical porn.

hm winter solstice is tomorrow i think i will attempt to recreate my grandmother's tangyuan recipe and actually write it down this time i did it a few years ago, the christmas after she passed away, and got the approval from my family but i Do Not remember what i did and recipes online don't match

double vaxxed and still got the flu 😔✌️ and somehow not from work (pharmacy)! it's a bad flu season y'all

having OCD and being on social media is Fun because almost all content but especially cool recipe ones is full of comments with OCD traits and you Can't Escape the triggers

engaging with TikTok content as if most of it is posted in good faith is a fundamental failure of media literacy in 2025. people openly brag about how much money they make ragebaiting the algorithm. if TikTok content outrages you, assume it was made for that purpose and that’s how they make money

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i think with all the improving ai image generators we should all just go back to film

waking up with the tension headache you went to sleep with is second only to waking up with the same upper back/shoulder pain you've had for several days that, at this point, you want about 50 needles jammed into it

all the AI slop out there makes me want the most aggressively analog stories out there. like I want a one-of-a-kind homemade zine someone tucked into a baggie in the hollow of a tree, and I want that zine to include a shitty hand drawn map to a treasure it may or may not take 30 years to find

apply! i am Longing to be back at gladstone's library and i couldn't have gone if it weren't for this bursary

good news! i've started outlining a new story. it took me several days of listening to these songs and crafting a playlist to get somewhere open.spotify.com/playlist/32k... bad news! my therapist may Have Questions because what does this say about what my brain has needed to process lately

#Jamaica needs our support more than ever right now and, never ones to shy away from self-reliance, they’ve set up an officially sanctioned website for recovery donations. The footage of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction in St. Elizabeth coming in from my family is HARROWING. supportjamaica.gov.jm

Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise? Yeah.

i love you horny horror i love you exploring sexuality and desire through unsettling means i love you sexual repression manifesting as self destruction i love you intimacy transforming into something grostesque yet beautiful i love you finding comfort and love in the monstrous i love y

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Yonge St, probably

y'know. i can't remember how i looked for agents before i never got querytracker or anything was it literally just through twitter because if so uh-oh

loose-ass joints (hEDS)

i spent... maybe too long on this (had to extend the painting at the top and bottom) but i'm very happy with how it turned out also getting in more practice for cover layouts is always nice too (this one is a mock-up for my vampire wip)

still relevant tbh

my biggest gripe about not being able to import my tweets to here is i'm losing my aesthetics thread :(