[intactics-deactivated20211231]

and i don't necessarily believe any of this i'm just saying words recreationally

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"family room bookcase" (2008), rick mcgrath

[kelcipher]

[tearstaineddangel]

i love when someone confirms we're friends

[wiionme]

Lowly Worm X Tracey Chapman

[corvids-corner]

I have a degree in environmental biology you can trust me 👍

[sunburnt-brian]

[perfectday1972]

i do wonder how mamdani would have solved a problem like the green goblin

[prokopetz]

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

[prokopetz]

#the best route is clearly to get really into a specific kink scenario and invent a world to justify it (via @salix03)

That's not even a joke. Developing a kink scenario so elaborate and so excruciatingly particular that it can only properly be contemplated in the frame of a world created specifically to contain it is genuinely closer to Tolkien's actual creative process than 99% of the stuff that plays at being heir to his legacy.

[clubcope]

bro said he was beleaguered i was like well look what has beset you

[robogrind]

love the word fruitless. arguing with you is like if there was no apples involved whatsoever

[sproingusblogging]

I can even be a png cutout

[i-give-animals-cigarettes]

you can even smoke cigarette

[stabbymcstabsy]

Another zine this one is Steal smoked fish by the Mountain Goats

[skimble-shanks-the-railway-cat]

Receiving a Werther’s Derivative from my poser grandma

[insomniac-arrest]

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of plastics is collapsing

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of information is collapsing! *remembers generative AI, nods to self* our age of information is collapsing.

[sarcophyte]

[heavensghost]

Words by Chen Chen