selling my soul for $2 of beeswax

Kendal mentioned??? had to click that as soon as i saw it

does this make comicaurora Official A-spec Rep

#comicaroura #kendal

antlered-vixen

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

#its what makes the difference between a police report and a world I can fall into #its the difference between an academic journal and puzzle that enthralls me #dont get me wrong ive read some fascinating papers but theres a reason I turn to Carl Sagan or Isaac Asimov over Nature #the weight of a story comes from your connection to it #not from any formula or particular trope

Fat is where you get the flavor

Fat is where you get the tenderness

If you see fat as undesirable you may maintain the structure, but you lose the flavor, you lose the art.

Writing log 5/30/26

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2044/5000 words done for chapter 12!!!

I got a new type of tea, which I will be trying out while writing tomorrow!!

ooooooh what tea?

butterfly pea flower <3 🫖 🦋

#how the fuck am i stimming in text

oooh fwancy that sounds goood

Writing log 5/30/26

(Not my image)

2044/5000 words done for chapter 12!!!

I got a new type of tea, which I will be trying out while writing tomorrow!!

ooooooh what tea?

”this book is a detailed reconstruction of xyz lost play/novel/manual of antiquity”

YOU WROTE FANFICTION. ADMIT IT.

#how am I like 4 people's therapist #I might have to consider this as a career choice now #says me with no career choices

DAMNIT YOU CAUGHT ME I JUST NEEDED MORE OF GILGAMESH

new hobby - tricking people into therapy because god do they need it

i forgot about the apple in my pocket

beanscreams

Why did you have an apple in your pocket? 😭

#wdym its t h and e #that hurts #words dont exist #agggggggh

uuh convenient storage?

i forgot about the apple in my pocket

fuck I looked at the word "the" too hard again and its devolved back to weird letters

cosmicexpertenigma

how do you tell someone that they're absolutely gorgeous in any way, shape, or form, but no, I don't want you, you're beautiful, I wouldn't complain if you kissed me, (can you believe, I've never kissed anyone before), you're perfection at it's finest, just maybe- (it's insignificant, really)- perhaps- (I'm madly in love with your smile)- if there's a small chance-(you don't have to feel obligated)- would you let me be yours?

#but that also may just be my blunt autistic ass speaking

far as I can tell you've summed that up pretty damn well

void-milf

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

void-milf

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.

37womenwieldingknives

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

afraidofamericans

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

queeranarchism

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

anarchopuppy

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

mayflower-gal

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

I love standing up and waiting for my eyes to stop buffering, just hoping my body doesn’t entirely stop responding and force quitting

#phish blabers #only passed out once #but I did fall onto a saw #no injuries tho

I really hate light pollution

I just went outside, dead of night, and not a constellation to be seen

barely a fucking bakers dozen

what the hell

#phish blabers #stars

A WASP FLEW INTO MY MOUTH! And I was so brave about it! I couldn't panic because I am allergic and would have died literally. So I just exhaled really strongly and blew it right back out again! To anyone nearby it probably looked like I simply exhale live wasps. Like that's a thing I can just do. There's that.

Afterward I glanced to my partner who was like, "what the fuck?" And then I nonchalantly reminded them of all of the places I keep epi pens.

I can still feel all of its flailing legs in my mouth. Cannot recommend. You'd think the wings of a live wasp, in your mouth, would be the worst part but you'd be wrong. It's the legs.

What if this is my villain origin story? What if I wake up with wasp powers like Michelle Pfeiffer in the Batman movie? 🐈‍⬛