tired, wired, and filled with existential dread

We're A Hockey Blog Half The Year. Writer. Fandom Trash. Tony Stark Stan. Present Mic Simp. Will talk at length about ghosts and filing systems. Always willing to travel for a good story. Plays Games And Writes About It (same pronouns you use for yourself)

[cinema-whore]

"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[fwizard]

all i need is a sweet treat. and six thousand dollars

[stealingpotatoes]

reason 1 million why i love zukka: how extra insane it makes hakoda's family tree

(links // tip jar!)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

NASA lapel pin.

[mushroominawaterbottle]

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

[theredscreech]

Cryptogeology is also like "Yeah, that mountain likes to move around. Nobody's seen it do it. But I've been tracking it since Saskatoon."

"There are no mountains in Saskatoon."

"Not anymore, there aren't."

[astercrash]

Cryptogeography: didn't used to be a France there

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

not to simp for a corporation but I love my Framework laptop so much. last week I accidentally sat on it and cracked the screen. I went to the manufacturer's website, ordered a new screen for a reasonable price, and when it arrived it took 10 minutes to install. no glue, no "warranty void" tamper seals, just a handful of screws that I only needed one screwdriver to turn. the new screen even came with some fun stickers that say things like "you should be able to fix your stuff". please please buy repair-friendly stuff when you can

[maryoliveoil]

sorry that I liked your post immediately. it's just that I'm always refreshing.

[littlecorvidart]

hornet: oh man I sure do like my weapon I sure hope I never lose it

the nefarious haystack:

[vehicularmanslaater]

hi op i really liked ur post so i decided to draw it

[okjohnrich]

Dear Readers,

The good news is that I've completed the full manuscript for John Rich & The Big Picture, formatted it and killed some darlings, and have sent it to my agent. What started out as a practice novel has become, truly, A Regular Novel. That practice worked—I learned so much! You guys taught me so much. With your gasps, groans, and laughter, you showed me what hit and what didn't. Thank you.

The inconvenient news—I will be closing this Tumblr in the next few days. This is, yes, for #publishing reasons. You will only be able to read John Rich & The Big Picture at the dedicated website for the foreseeable future.

Tumblr is where I got my start sharing stories. I love how I can, like, post 400 words of smut and have that up for 48 hours. I can type up a random thought on the current chapter I'm working on. I can rant. Or drop a poll about whether or not you think John is inspired by John Mulaney. (For legal reasons, he's not. Why would you even think that?) Tumblr is a great place to build community, but not the ideal place potential publishers wants certain stories to exist. (That gay hockey comic is an anomaly.)

Chapter 19 and all subsequent chapters will be up on okjohnrich.site. You'll read the ending there. That site, too, will have to be taken down at some point, but I'll let the finale breathe before putting it under lock and key. This means your friends should start reading now before they have to buy the eBook for the price of two Manhattan lattes.

Thank you for reading, Ngozi

[skyrimhusbandmaterial]

when you find someone who's equally unwell about The Character

[catboycompulsion]

oil and water actually do mix when i try it because im the one true Alpha

[sapphireh3arts]

today is the ten year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. a full decade ago, i lost a friend and a coworker. i was lucky. i had friends that lost several people. today, please remember and fight for all those that have died to live the live they should have been free to. i'll always remember you, Cory.

[theconcealedweapon]

The assholes openly admit it. The whole point of college is to enforce the hierarchy. When those who were supposed to be low on the hierarchy started going to college, the assholes get angry and want to make them suffer for challenging the hierarchy.

[rostekhorn]

Yet another reason this is insanely revisionist is that it pretends the whole reason millennials felt so much pressure to go to college wasn't that conservative politicians had spent the eighties and nineties wrecking the shit out of labor unions to the point that by the time millennials turned eighteen, it was suddenly a lot harder to count on being able to work at a working-class job all your life and still have a good living.

College, all of a sudden, went from "something I'd like to do if I can get in" to "a lifeline in an economy where blue collar jobs are going to shit."

The wheel's turned long enough that now college students are being treated the way union workers and union-adjacent workers were treated in the eighties and nineties, so now college grads are the ones that it's fashionable to shit on, and the new fix-all solution is supposed to be "go into the trades!" Which means that by the 2050s at the latest, we'll be coming up with some new lie to blame people in the trades for the fact that now they're in trouble. And we'll have some new job that everyone should have been doing instead.

[pangur-and-grim]

BY THE WAY, if you're an aspiring writer, there's a great opportunity right now to get your work critiqued!

the Literary Auction for Change is a charity event raising money to help underrepresented groups enter the world of publishing. specifically, they're offering fellowships and mentorship programs to marginalized people seeking to become literary agents (because how you can expect diversity in books if there's no diversity among agents?)

you can browse through the various packages on auction, and probably find something that would give you a boost. query letter critiques, manuscript critiques, videos calls with various agents, and also signed books, if you're more of a reader. take a look!

[alpaca-clouds]

Okay, because it turns out this still needs to be said: yes, from the perspective of a researcher and scientist, it is absolutely totally cool if you pirate scientific papers and books via scihub and similar resources. Most of us do not get paid for those papers being sold for like 30 bucks per 20 pages on the websites of the scientific journals. The money goes largely just to the journals who are for the most part running a sort of pyramid scheme. We have to publish in them to get funding, and we have to edit papers for them to get published in them, and then we do not get paid for either. It literally matters not at all for the researcher if you pirate the paper or not. We do not see that money. Go off, download papers on scihub. Download science books on zlib. It is fine. We don't care. We make science so you can learn, not for the shareholders from some journal press to make millions. It is fine.