Mar 19
What did it take to be perfectly unmoved by the outcome of one's attempts? To have the peace of mind to simply move to the next thing regardless of what had come of your prior efforts?
Brandon Taylor, from Minor Black Figures
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What did it take to be perfectly unmoved by the outcome of one's attempts? To have the peace of mind to simply move to the next thing regardless of what had come of your prior efforts?
Brandon Taylor, from Minor Black Figures
Update!
New chapter for zenith of stars is up!
Chapter 155 (update #165) has been posted.
FFN | AO3 | SB
I've been struggling a lot with this one fic so you know what I did? I sat on the floor and cried, thinking about begging someone else to write it for me.😭 (Really I've been complaining to my poor partner) But it never crossed my mind to ask some mindless AI prompter. I'd hardly be a writer anymore.
god there’s the whole ultra-devoted romance where if something happened to one of them, the other would rip the gods from their thrones and the stars from the sky to bring them back and wouldn’t be able to breathe or even go on living if they were gone
and then theres when other person wouldn’t do the same. they know their partner would rend the world asunder to bring them back, become a monster just to know their love was alive and whole, or join them in the going…and if the roles were reversed, they’d just…grieve. they’d move on. maybe they find someone else maybe they don’t, but they just keep carrying on with that absence. and that’s all.
lots of thoughts on the death of the promise of the internet lately. i've been reading cory doctorow's essay on enshittification (HIGHLY recommend) and naomi klein's piece on generative language models, and thinking about the internet as it is now, and how ellul (and wittgenstein) was right, as always.
i think the only site that "made it" from the promise of the early years of publicly accessible internet to today is wikipedia, which, big fucking surprise, is a nonprofit. (Ao3 is surviving too, shockingly.)
it is a tad reductive to summarize the death of tumblr
and livejournal and ffnet and geocities and xanga and orkut and msn and ICQ and aol and myspace and digg and stumbleupon and google wave and everything yahoo and now twitter and reddit and youtube and instagram and facebook
as a cost exclusively of capitalism but it sure strikes me as interesting that wiki—the only one that survived—isn't guided by cancerous growth.
Fuuuuck it sucks when you pour so much into these stupid job interviews just tap dancing through the damn zoom for the interviewer
And then just get rejected cause someone more experienced applied