#chilope

[nohoperadio]

to add some variety to your inbox, here is a pic of my dog disguised as a pic of my hand

fuck YES one of the very noblest uses of the hand... your beast looks like they only just got chance to relax after a long day at work and really need those scritches

[peachpulpeuse]

for the book asks: 3, 4, 12, 24 :)

thank you! ^_^

3. What were your top five books of the year?

we'll do fiction only to keep it easy.

skin by kathe koja (number one with a bullet)

the lucky star by william t. vollmann (very problematic & reviewed at length, look through the #books tag)

barkskins by annie proulx (postcards is better but loved this one to death anyway)

box hill by adam mars-jones (see prev remarks)

harlem shuffle by colson whitehead (a wonderfully balanced, sly, perceptive, funny, and brutal book)

4. answered!

12. answered!

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

DNF'd four, apparently!

i want to die but i still want to eat tteokbokki by baek se-hee (seemingly a transcript of the author's therapy sessions, no insights or funny parts or seemingly anything of value. not to be mean apparently a lot of people really like it but i found it completely dreary and was falling asleep in the car while listening to it on audiobook)

on guerrilla warfare by mao tse-tung (i stopped writing the story this was relevant for and had no desire to continue lol. i seem to recall a feeling of dragging as i read)

home to harlem by claude mckay (can't remember why, i think i just wasn't feeling it and had other stuff to read with a deadline attached. probably somewhat longwinded and i wasn't enjoying the prose)

seven pillars of wisdom by t.e. lawrence (also very longwinded and not as much gay/masochistic shit as i was expecting. i even love stories of british colonialism running rampant but ... so dry... ugh)

end-of-year book ask!

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

You should go skydiving! It's the thing to do when your doctor tells you you only have six months to live.

Thanks, this may be the push I need. I definitely want to see what the world looks like from five miles up before I croak.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

Im sure someone already told you but in case they didn't, Shane's backstory is that hes like. Suicidally depressed. One of his heart scenes is literally him failing to kill himself and asking you to take him to the hospital

i don’t know if the intent was just to be informative like ‘oh here’s his backstory!’ or if this is an upset response to me saying i don’t like him but if it’s the former, thank you for the interesting lore, and if it’s the latter, he’s not real. he’s a fake character that someone made up for a video game. he’ll be okay with me not liking him because he is a string of code

[triviallytrue]

age: 24????

pronouns and gender: he/him, masc

zodiac sign: fuckin. Scorpio idfk

romantic status: i think you're dating someone named ela

eye color: green

hobbies: math and communism

introverted / extroverted: false dichotomy but id guess you lean introverted

favorite season: season 1 of community

very accurate! i am still in college (though not for much longer) so a bit old on the age - also have never watched community

[witch-craft-ing]

chilope replied to your post “how does everyone motivate themselves to actually Do Rituals and Write...”

Honestly, for rituals, I schedule them. I literally put it on my calendar - this day at this time I'm going to do this ritual. If you can, even put a reminder on your phone, so you get a little ding telling you it's time. Know what you're going to do beforehand, even if that means writing down each and every tiny step so you can walk yourself through it.

this is a good idea! that way it’s harder to skip out on it.

[acornrising]

chilope

how often do you think about bananas........

every time I go to the grocery store

I look at the bananas and think “our negligence is going to destroy you all”

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ive been meaning to follow you for so long and i just keep forgetting....

awh ha :) you've been perhaps similarly on my radar as a probably-cool remi-adjacent person I kept meaning to investigate further