[2percentsugar]

eng + fra

im zeke im in my twenties and i am offline on shabbat. good week everybody

writing @deadhorsepress

[rybieradio]

Mama balloon dogs and the balloonlings

[regexkind]

People occasionally come and tell me that my baroque mobile software dreams are realizable on jailbroken android. To which I say that if Prometheus had brought us a 120-step process for kindling flames we would not love him nearly so much

[ethanmaldridge]

Titus Groan, Heir of Gormenghast

[courtesyname]

"You will be queen, for a time. Then comes another—younger, more beautiful—to cast you down and take all you hold dear."

[angel-derangement]

[enba-and-luka]

Source

[irondive]

[virtualgirladvance]

[deadgenerations]

I love him he's so fat and happy plopped down w his little booksy

[unearthedviews]

IRAN. Darband. Traditional teahouse. 1997.–Abbas

[chicknwire]

I love tumblr more than IG bc IG feels like I’m posting looking for a job but on here it’s like I already lost the job and my wife and the house and I’m just sitting on the curb talking to myself

[desk-drawerr]

He eat a nemon

[2percentsugar]

#1 bedsharing hack = both have own blankets

[bitterdatura]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

now THIS is a baroque painting. mannerist even.

[2percentsugar]

finished a fire upon the deep the other day. in the words of a storygraph reviewer, "good but not a page turner." you'll hear it described often as a foundational text to Yudkowsky, but going into it from the vantage point of modern AI discourse, it seems at an extreme remove, only subtly related to "principles of rationality" let alone chatGPT. obv that's b/c "fire" is the older text, and it can't exactly reflect later ideas. but this leads to a funny reading experience where one excepts intelligent computers and slowly realizes that 50+% of the page count is about telepathic dogs

[2percentsugar]

i have to go to work -> depression

i'm going to go read on the bus -> no depression

[handweavers]

did i miss something about the iowa writers workshop? i googled it before sending you this ask bc i didnt want to bother you w a dumb question but it looks like a legitimate org to me?

here are some articles about the ties between the CIA and the creative writing MFA system and american literature esp in how it relates to the iowa writers workshop

The CIA Helped Build the Content Farm That Churns Out American Literature

Thanks to the CIA, Raymond Carver wrote some spectacular SEO.

How Creative Writing Programs De-Politicized Fiction

In the shadow of the Cold War, the rise of creative writing programs and ‘show don’t tell’ philosophy drained fiction of its political bite.

How the CIA Funded & Supported Literary Magazines Worldwide While Waging Cultural War Against Communism

Over the course of this tumultuous year, new CIA director Mike Pompeo has repeatedly indicated that he would move the Agency in a “more aggr

[slimegirlandroid]

tending to my pet anarchists. going into their solarpunk themed enclosure and spreading packaged medicine around in bushes for them to naturally gather. refilling their stock of grain discreetly so they think it all comes from their garden sized wheat field. I spot one and she hisses at me and calls me an authoritarian tankie but i make cooing noises and offer zines as treats and she lets me pet her