Its kinda like a little protest convention. You go, you meet people, you take home some literatute. Baby's first activism.

Every one I went to the local socialists and friends groups would have a canopy set up giving out pamphlets. Thats the only time I organically run into those folks due to not being in their main area. Theyre great for finding the other weekday protestor groups.

Was hoping this was hay fever, but the length its sticking around I think I got the common cold. HOPEFULLY. Roomies are trying to find a covid test for me to take just to be sure. Looking to get more covid boosters for any new strains. 😮‍💨

EVERYONE SHUT UP. First Lizard of the season

I'd love to have even a fraction of her ability to create allusions to concepts like this. Like theres so much symbolism and intentionality in it. Its so good please read Kindred.

And shes having to protect this little white boy because theyre like temporally linked, and shes constantly having to be caregiver and teacher to him and it keeps putting her in DANGER and its like goddamn its how we force Black people to be saviors

Not even her spouse, who seems so sympathetic at first but I am really hating how nonchalant he is about being in the antebellum south and wants to basically go exploring history while his wife is a SLAVE. I wanna punch him

Its such a good scifi horror. I feel like she really wrote in a way to make Black horror approachable for white people. Like the danger and uncertainty are so present you cant ignore the fact Dana is in DANGER because shes an educated black woman, and she cannot trust any of the white ppl

And how one of the main antagonists is this neurotic slave owners wife, and how she uses her emotions to torment the MC and to get her way and how dangerous they make her. Chefs kiss. Like she spikes my cortisol every time she shows up.

She builds tension so well. Like in one part the protags white partner is shown to be adjusting to being back in slave owning times a little too well and it just fills me with so much dread.

Still making my way through Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, and I love how her books stay with me. I find myself thinking about them when I am away from them. I am intentionally reading it slower than normal so I can savor it.

Q: What is Sinners about? A: America’s inability to discuss its complex racial history without bringing the Irish into things.

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

Why are the Lights Out in Cuba? This video was intended to go out next week but things have escalated rather quickly in Cuba since the last time I talked about it in Stuff Keeps Happening. So here is a one-off video to answer the…

I wasn't planning on uploading a video this morning but I really wanted to put something out about this, so, here's why the lights are out in Cuba

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Ry...

Like I really just want you to meet them and think theyre neat like I do

I am so appreciative of the people on tiktok who ask about my OCs. I think OC creation is an underappreciated creative skill because you have to make these brand new people and make them make people feel things. I love working on my fake people and figuring out how to tell their stories.

I don't know your tolerance levels, but I will echo the others that its not torture porn. A little more intense and realistic than a Friday the 13th movie, but nowhere near Saw caliber. I wish we could get you a censored version cuz I think youd love the characters and the world building.

Got my blood drawn. Stage 2 of phobia conquered. Even got a tdap vaz before hand so I got poked TWICE in one go

Regular ppl following me: Enjoy the shit show

Someone whose content I consider high quality follows me: oh no there's shit everywhere uuuuhhh

Everytime a popular tiktoker follows me I get immediately self conscious cuz theyre over there doing their clearly defined thing

and i am over here effectively being the tiktok version of the town eccentric fighting off feral racoons

i dont know what i offer you respected member of tiktok

Sean and I are working on some long form content about VTM where I take ALL the questions Ive been getting on tiktok and asking him, and then deep diving into the topic.
I think its just going to be fun to work on a creative project with him tho.

Actually talked to my therapist about my Vampire fanfic I am writing. She was like "this sounds very interesting" which means I have once again received a good grade in therapy.

I've not seen too many people talking about alternatives, which I think makes things harder. I just learned about Ghost from this thread. As someone who doesn't do journalistic writing maybe I am just not plugged in, also not an excuse to just go look, but yanno. Path of least resistance and all

then i remember my therapist is like 'you know taking vitamin d will probably help with your low energy' and i know shes right cuz it has in the past

UGHH I HAVE NOT HAD MY USUAL PEP. And Ive been thinking about asking the psyche to up the welbutrin again but another part of me is like "maybe some days are just shit sometimes. maybe youre just the type of person who lays around not wanting to do anything ever"

Is this a high seas watch? And if so do you have a map

The thing about bullshitting is it still takes a little bit of work. Work that arguably would be better spent doing the assignment legitimately, but that's not the point.

If you came by it too easy, it aint gonna fly.

Sometimes I sit and think, "Would I have fallen for this when I was younger?"

And my lazy cheating ass would still not have used ai in school. I was proud of the lengths I'd go to to not do any actual work.

There is a lost art to being a bullshitter. It used to mean something to game the system.

Forgot to do a step in a process at work.
Boss hits me with one of these "-_-"
Man fuck you

Ugh. Urge to write is all but gone. Urge to have vampire story be a thing still strong. I think I need to spend some time reading again to get back in the swing of things but my attention feels sapped.

Dont get me wrong tho, they are trying to replace as many agents with AI as they can but AI cannot troubleshoot a password reset with someone who refuses to be at their computer to do so, so they need living negotiators with infinite patience