Woman behind me at the airport talking to her bf about the White House turkey pardon:

“What crimes could they have committed? ... Gobbling too loud?”

Knowing What You Want Is Not The Same as Wanting, Where Would You Even Get a Ridiculous Idea Like That on staying in-stream

Knowing What You Want Is Not The Same as Wanting, Where Would You Even Get a Ridiculous Idea Like That

[an essay]

andrewblevins.substack.com/p/knowing-what-you-want-...

The Stack I started 8 mos. ago helped me relax "the felt necessity of passing everything I wrote & thought through my internal model of a New York literary gatekeeper, a kind of person toward whom I actually had an enormous amount of unnoticed resentment."+other findings tinyurl.com/mpt8xa6p

If a feeling is unbearable, try riding it instead

had a dream that the sims started designing their own sims, the feeling was “fuck, it’s all over now”

Writing a series introducing/considering parts work/IFS from an experimentalist perspective. In this installment I riffed on some informative + generative thoughts from a therapist friend re: psychodynamics, relationality, & chatbots. https://andrewblevins.substack.com/p/parts-interlude-2

that's how you know you're a natural born bridge-builder, flowing freely between different groups and easily explaining their points of view to the next group that might not fully get it

if you could call one group fully your own you wouldn't be able to do that

I've started writing a series on parts work as practice, approaching it more as art than as therapy, encouraging experimentalism aka "fucking around." Here's the intro.

https://andrewblevins.substack.com/p/parts-an-art

bluesky_rpg_strategy_guide (collaborative doc)

reply with your best tips on how to get the most out of this massively multiplayer text-based game called bsky

tots it is

yes, “tots it is” will be my inaugural bluesky post, hello good people