#sudo speaks!

[pseudinymous]

Me: Wow I have such an awesome idea, there’s so much to it, I just have to write it! I’m gonna get it down right now, I’m gonna open my word processor, I’m--

My brain:

Me: ... Nothing?

My brain: soz brah not feelin’ it

Me: ...

Me: Please?

My brain, staring at a blank white sheet of paper: What’s writing?

[pseudinymous]

Double time and a half tomorrow

I’m worth like $55 an hour, lol. I’ve never been so happy to be going to work.

[pseudinymous]

That’d be right. I almost never use AO3, but when I sparingly do, the website immediately has a 503 right as I finish HTML-ifying my writing.

*drums fingers*

[pseudinymous]

Me: Looks like those are the final chapters all planned out!

Character: Not if I can help it! *while being written, immediately takes an action that completely changes the plot*

Me: Fuck.

[pseudinymous]

I wish I could stop talking so much. I know it annoys people. I keep trying to stop, but if I stop talking I basically completely shut up to the point where I don’t ever open my mouth. I think it’s the autism - it’s like this horrible on/off switch with nothing comfortable in the middle.

I don’t know what to do or how to fix it or if I can ever stop being annoying. I wish it would stop.

[pseudinymous]

Me: Hey, if you see anyone stealing these fruit cups from the fridge, I want you to bash ‘em.

Coworker: Are you going around personally warning everyone not to eat your fruit cups?

Me: No, you just seem like the best person to ask if I need someone bashed.

Coworker: Fair.

[pseudinymous]

While trying out some new brushes I accidentally made Modern Art.

[pseudinymous]

It freaks me out a little bit how many people here fall under the “tumblr personality mesh”, as I like to call it. Some background: I have a pretty uncanny ability to figure out who’s typing by reading anonymised words. When I’m at work, I can pinpoint which staff member has written an article (they’re often sent to me for editing) based on their word and grammar choices. Much of that too is influenced by the personality of the writer -- even in serious articles you can spot it. But there’s a lot of tumblr that sounds exactly the same. It’s almost like this site merges people’s personalities together. Honestly, the efficiency at which it’s managed to do this is kind of scary. I think it’s why those bots can make such tumblr-authentic posts: there’s some sort of weird unspoken programming to the words and ideas so many people on tumblr convey.

I do think that this site has an enormous problem with echo chambers and groupthink, and from what I can tell, the style of speaking, writing, and language might be a symptom of that. I’m not saying you should change your ideals or anything of course, but...

Seriously. Be aware of it. Watch and listen. And think carefully. The ways we choose to speak can have interesting implications.