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An abomination created by combining two perfect ingredients into a homogeneous sludge.
Made to be mass produced and consumed rather than enjoyed.
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Mac and cheese is the perfect example of American cuisine.
An abomination created by combining two perfect ingredients into a homogeneous sludge.
Made to be mass produced and consumed rather than enjoyed.
"But I just use AI for brainstorming"
Just? Just brainstorming? You delegate your problem-solving and creativity itself to a hallucinating machine and in your mind, that's a minor use of it?
sometimes when Iâm being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself âyouâre being goob. you are being goob right nowâ
this shit only works when you actually have people who care about you. self-deprecation is rarely this imaginary. i suppose if you're social enough and still feel lonely, this MIGHT be the case, but that's unlikely. Even at my most depressed and pessimistic, I've never really "been Goob" because there was no one out there to have a positive social interaction with me.
(i don't fucking know the specifics of how tumblr works so I don't know who gets a notification or whatever when I do this type of reblog. I mostly use this account to ramble to the void, so if someone sees this because of a notification from my reblog, sorry that you had to witness one of my breakdowns.)
what the fuck are fountain pens for? (An angry rant, perhaps at my own incompetence)
apparently they're supposed to give you a more "relaxed" writing experience, but I only ever feel stressed using them.
first, I can't fucking seem to write at my normal pace without the ink "drying out" AKA not coming out of the pen. seems like this is called an "ink flow" issue or whatever. apparently the solution to this is to write with "zero pressure" whatever the FUCK that means, which I'm convinced is fucking impossible. Whenever I try that, I have to write at a quarter of my regular pace, my hand shakes randomly and my writing looks like absolute dogshit.
not to mention, I can't seem to be able to use a stub nib "correctly". apparently, vertical lines are supposed to be thick and horizontal lines thin, but in order to actually write like that, I have to turn the page at a fucking 45 degree angle, which fucks up my posture and my grip on the pen.
I swear, every positive aspect I've heard about these fucking pens seems like a major fucking psy-op to push fountain pen sales and some-fucking-how I fell for it.
I can write normally with ballpoints and gel pens and even rollerballs, but none of my regular writing experience seems to translate to fucking fountain pens.
i guess it's better to know now than later
It's so funny to see so-called depression awareness campaigns be like "reach out. Someone out there can help you. You are not alone" and meanwhile as a depressed person, you're constantly fending for yourself with no help in sight.
And if you dare to reach out to someone who's not a mental health professional, they'll immediately blame you for your depression and try to make you feel worse.
I'm convinced no severely depressed person has ever been successfully treated. They just ended up killing themselves and no one cared enough to even report it.
They should add a "supposedly" to those campaigns to make their slogans more honest.
Someone out there can help you, supposedly.
You are not alone, supposedly.
Therapists and "mental health professionals" just take your money and try to delude you into tolerating your existence, friends and family only care about you as long as it's convenient and strangers only ever want to use you for whatever agenda they have.
Compassion is dead.
It's so funny to see so-called depression awareness campaigns be like "reach out. Someone out there can help you. You are not alone" and meanwhile as a depressed person, you're constantly fending for yourself with no help in sight.
And if you dare to reach out to someone who's not a mental health professional, they'll immediately blame you for your depression and try to make you feel worse.
I'm convinced no severely depressed person has ever been successfully treated. They just ended up killing themselves and no one cared enough to even report it.
They should add a "supposedly" to those campaigns to make their slogans more honest.
Someone out there can help you, supposedly.
You are not alone, supposedly.
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I might just be fucking stupid after all.
I can't for the life of me read any source material.
I listened to this podcast about the book "Simulacra and Simulation" and I thought I understood the main points of it so I thought I'd read the actual book to understand it better.
And IN THE FIRST FUCKING PARAGRAPH, I'm dumbfounded. He goes on about some weird Emperor and map story and I have no fucking clue what he's talking about.
Idk if it's the translation, or Baudrillard's writing or if I'm just fucking stupid but this keeps happening.
I remember reading some part of Anti-Oedipus for a uni assignment a while back and it was the same fucking shit. They talked about this weird "Judge Schraber" character without ever explaining who the fuck he was. They just assumed you'd understand what they were talking about.
sometimes when Iâm being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself âyouâre being goob. you are being goob right nowâ
It's insanely annoying how much content creators phone in their reviews of new products.
Even when it's just an ad, you'd assume that it makes the ad better to let people know of all the features and the price but instead they just say some general bullshit, use the product twice in their video and say "it's worth checking out" which is too generic to mean anything.
Just put some fucking effort in
(Not super related, but laziness seems to be the defining feature of our generation. Everyone's using gen AI despite its consequences)
The capitalist says
(An original prosaic poem)
"You have to study" the capitalist says
And you study for 12 years
You learn the basics of the world
And the evils of it
You learn to not be tempted by evil
And denounce it whenever you see it
"You have to work" the capitalist says
And you work as much as you can
You become a team player
You ignore your needs
You ignore your friends
"You have to invest" the capitalist says
And you buy stock in his company
You watch the price go up
And you are proud of the value you're creating
"You have to procreate" the capitalist says
And you find someone to marry
You create or adopt a child
You start looking at good schools to send them
"You have to climb the career ladder" the capitalist says
And you forget your child
You hire a nanny
You work more than before
You get on the Board of Directors
"You have to educate" your friends say
And you start paying more attention to your kid
They're older now, ready for school
They ask you for advice
You tell them
"You have to study"
I've been watching a streamer that has started talking about the US economy a lot. And he understands it better than I do but he treats the capitalist economy as a fact of nature almost rather than just the system we happen to have now.
So I thought "hey, I don't know shit about the economy, or at least not as much as I'd like to know" so I thought I'd check out some talks about Marx's thoughts on it, because I had some vague idea about what he had had said, but never looked too deep into it.
This led me to some 14-ish year old lectures by Richard Wolff. And the more I learn about, the more nonsensical and disgusting capitalism seems.
Anyway, I think this should be required viewing for everyone so below are the links to the first two lectures if you're interested:
Lecture 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL80E7B20E05FD7651&si=AVDVcbocq-ajdO_1
Lecture 2:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFA6F20D0D7B043C4&si=_De7naXKXeNz6GnQ
You can find the other ones on his channel as playlists
Things to say to yourself in the middle of a derealization episode at 3 AM after binge-watching the 18th season of Love Is Blind
So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really notâbut honestly this is it man.
I'm going to try it.
I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see âJohn knew that...â in prose writing I immediately think âhow? How does he know it?â Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.
All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and itâs forced me to stretch my skills.
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"Writing Advice": by Charles Palahniuk- In six seconds, youâll hate me.
But in six months, youâll be a better writer.
From this point forward â at least for the next half year â you may not use âthoughtâ verbs. These include: Thinks, Knows, Understands, Realizes, Believes, Wants, Remembers, Imagines, Desires, and a hundred others you love to use.
The list should also include: Loves and Hates.
And it should include: Is and Has, but weâll get to those, later.
Until some time around Christmas, you canât write: Kenny wondered if Monica didnât like him going out at nightâŠâ
Thinking is abstract. Knowing and believing are intangible. Your story will always be stronger if you just show the physical actions and details of your characters and allow your reader to do the thinking and knowing. And loving and hating.
Instead, youâll have to Un-pack that to something like: âThe mornings after Kenny had stayed out, beyond the last bus, until heâd had to bum a ride or pay for a cab and got home to find Monica faking sleep, faking because she never slept that quiet, those mornings, sheâd only put her own cup of coffee in the microwave. Never his.â
Instead of characters knowing anything, you must now present the details that allow the reader to know them. Instead of a character wanting something, you must now describe the thing so that the reader wants it.
Instead of saying: âAdam knew Gwen liked him.â
Youâll have to say: âBetween classes, Gwen was always leaned on his locker when heâd go to open it. Sheâd roll her eyes and shove off with one foot, leaving a black-heel mark on the painted metal, but she also left the smell of her perfume. The combination lock would still be warm from her ass. And the next break, Gwen would be leaned there, again.â
In short, no more short-cuts. Only specific sensory detail: action, smell, taste, sound, and feeling.
Typically, writers use these âthoughtâ verbs at the beginning of a paragraph (In this form, you can call them âThesis Statementsâ and Iâll rail against those, later) In a way, they state the intention of the paragraph. And what follows, illustrates them.
For example:
âBrenda knew sheâd never make the deadline. Traffic was backed up from the bridge, past the first eight or nine exits. Her cell phone battery was dead. At home, the dogs would need to go out, or there would be a mess to clean up. Plus, sheâd promised to water the plants for her neighborâŠâ
Do you see how the opening âthesis statementâ steals the thunder of what follows? Donât do it.
If nothing else, cut the opening sentence and place it after all the others. Better yet, transplant it and change it to: Brenda would never make the deadline.
Thinking is abstract. Knowing and believing are intangible. Your story will always be stronger if you just show the physical actions and details of your characters and allow your reader to do the thinking and knowing. And loving and hating.
Donât tell your reader: âLisa hated Tom.â
Instead, make your case like a lawyer in court, detail by detail. Present each piece of evidence. For example:
âDuring role call, in the breath after the teacher said Tomâs name, in that moment before he could answer, right then, Lisa would whisper-shout: âButt Wipe,â just as Tom was saying, âHereâ.â
One of the most-common mistakes that beginning writers make is leaving their characters alone. Writing, you may be alone. Reading, your audience may be alone. But your character should spend very, very little time alone. Because a solitary character starts thinking or worrying or wondering.
For example: Waiting for the bus, Mark started to worry about how long the trip would take..â
A better break-down might be: âThe schedule said the bus would come by at noon, but Markâs watch said it was already 11:57. You could see all the way down the road, as far as the Mall, and not see a bus. No doubt, the driver was parked at the turn-around, the far end of the line, taking a nap. The driver was kicked back, asleep, and Mark was going to be late. Or worse, the driver was drinking, and heâd pull up drunk and charge Mark seventy-five cents for death in a fiery traffic accidentâŠâ
A character alone must lapse into fantasy or memory, but even then you canât use âthoughtâ verbs or any of their abstract relatives.
Oh, and you can just forget about using the verbs forget and remember.
No more transitions such as: âWanda remember how Nelson used to brush her hair.â
Instead: âBack in their sophomore year, Nelson used to brush her hair with smooth, long strokes of his hand.â
Again, Un-pack. Donât take short-cuts.
Better yet, get your character with another character, fast. Get them together and get the action started. Let their actions and words show their thoughts. You -- stay out of their heads.
And while youâre avoiding âthoughtâ verbs, be very wary about using the bland verbs âisâ and âhave.â
One of the most-common mistakes that beginning writers make is leaving their characters alone.
For example:
âAnnâs eyes are blue.â
âAnn has blue eyes.â
Versus:
âAnn coughed and waved one hand past her face, clearing the cigarette smoke from her eyes, blue eyes, before she smiledâŠâ
Instead of bland âisâ and âhasâ statements, try burying your details of what a character has or is, in actions or gestures. At its most basic, this is showing your story instead of telling it.
And forever after, once youâve learned to Un-pack your characters, youâll hate the lazy writer who settles for: âJim sat beside the telephone, wondering why Amanda didnât call.â
Please. For now, hate me all you want, but donât use âthoughtâ verbs. After Christmas, go crazy, but Iâd bet money you wonât. End ID]