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Writing a thesis to finish my masters degree is technically optional in my program, but I am tempted if only to force *someone* to read my very unhinged notes that somehow connect Parmenides, Descartes, Cusicanqui, and Anzaldúa to each other. After I polish the notes up, ofc.

So much of my inspiration to create stories and worlds in general came from some of these games. I am so very, very sad to hear Bioware is gone. I really hope the team members can find good new homes for their craft.

Giving no context for this one from a group chat: "Now introducing Me+, the hot new term for referring to yourself and your extended mind as an entrenched system!" 🤪

Aaand there's the Parmenides connection for the semester. Everyone take a shot.

Good gravy, I started turning my scene notes into a to-do list. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Why am I committing-but-not-really to this?

I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT

Even the potato can use alt text, guys. No excuses anymore. 😂

Walked into a room and promptly forgot why I had entered. Spent several minutes trying to figure it out then gave up. Folks, it was my ADHD meds. 😑

Me, doing assigned reading: This is great. I could write a 2000 word response here and now. Me, 24 hours later, in class: ... This author had a point, yeah?

I've now got an American Pie parody song forming in my head.

ADHD is such a weird experience, once you know what you're looking at. What do you mean that the same thing I was making rapid progress on yesterday is now hot lava to even attempt?

Someone should invent a phone app that shuffles your app icons overnight so that when you reflexively go to open social media, you instead get your flashcards app. Half the time I'm opening Bluesky just to fidget anyway. Might as well be productive.

Today I found some paper drafts of the earliest echoes of my novel series. I stored them thinking one day I would turn them into a proper story. I am pleased to report my feeling rereading them is now more cringe than “hope I can write it someday”. The series is apparently coming along well! 😂

Finally was able to sit down and try this out. I had a few records floating around in my repo from testing sites that I wanted to remove. The UI of Aturi made it VERY easy to do so. Definitely something to keep bookmarked.

Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.

*logs into Semble for the first time* Fair guess, @semble.so. Fair guess.

"I need a place in the Mediterranean Sea area for various magic things to be located." and now I know far too much about tegnùe. funny when nature and my brain just work together.

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

Playing #FFXIV outside the MSQ is a wild ride. There are online calculators for everything. Gardening, fishing, crafting… I tripped into the wild world of FC submarines for the first time tonight and there are whole sites out there for it.

I'm building a website for a story about things that resist categorization using a framework that wants to put everything into content collections and I haven't decided if that's ironic or perfect #WebDev #WritingCommunity

I wrapped up the core structure of the conlang that will appear in my novel series. Most of it will never show on page but a) it gives more cultural information on the speakers and b) if anyone ever tries to show the language in video, at least it has consistency now! #WeeknightWriters

I keep having to remind myself that authors throughout history have written masterpieces during tumultuous times. Artists have always had to struggle with the balance of acting for the greater good and creating their works. If they can do, so can we. #WeeknightWriters

I'm doing ok on the writing front. Been stressful on a few other fronts, but that makes me write a lot more, so I'll take it.

Hello #WeeknightWriters! I've made the daring decision this week to go back and *gasp* actually finish the START of my novel (I do not write linearly) and make it an actual thing that builds the world and shows the plot and all that.

Rewatched End of Evangelion in theaters tonight. Much more visceral experience in a crowd. It doesn't flinch, sometimes in the best ways, sometimes in the worst. But it refuses to hand you clean answers or comfort and there's something really good about that.

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Sorry, but there's only one live action adaptation of The Odyssey that could ever be considered the best.

I have a real talent for booking trips on the exact weekends of cities' pride events. wrote about the strange feeling of walking against that flow last month, and what survives when you hand a feeling like that to fiction.

Absolutely inaccessible. And any attempt to make it so will destroy the intent. 😅