weronika mamuna

once i heard someone say that there are two types of people who know Marx was right: communists and capitalists

i'm not so sure about capitalists anymore

not to my knowledge, although i know Wojciech Gunia (the leading Weird writer rn) has been included among the authors promoted by the Polish Book Institute at international festivals, so hopefully some publisher will pick him up!

this has been happening in Polish lit as well; there's a small circle of Weird writers, but the term has recently been picking up steam in the mainstream to mean exactly this sort of quirky fiction

sure but if you then have to immediately start a lengthy flashback that contains the actual story, that's not it

shy, nerdy, insanely talented girls* who will go on to do cool things with their life after we break up

i think my tentative fantasy essay series is growing another essay.

possibly two.

literally suggested this to my girlfriend yesterday

Is Opheliac a perfect album? Maybe not but it is perfect to me.

what if i re-read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell this December?

just managed to snag a copy the other day!

kicked out of the party because i wouldn't stop describing things as "aickmanesque"

They say nothing good comes from hate, but when I see artists hating on AI, it makes me immediately like them and want to check out their work.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

YouTube video by Grand Commander Grand Commander - fuck you i'm going underground

oh noo, it's the guy from this song!

youtu.be/2fnAVB6GWpo?...

oh there won't be a vote

One of the things that I've been writing and researching over the past year is how people are neurologically, psychologically and systematically primed for political cruelty, and one of the only heartening things is this - that it would disappear if it wasn't maintained by massive effort.

gonna try to knock the price down a little bit

oooooh there's a copy of the out-of-print Polish edition of Male Fantasies available

That short stories exist in the cracks and interstices of the capitalist system is how you know they’re the superior form

it is finished 🙌

i'm gonna read and write so much weird stuff when i'm finally done with this review

Met a woman walking through Tokyo last night, must have been a seamstress or something because she was holding a big pair of scissors. I think she asked me something but it was hard to make out from under her mask. I just said, “Sorry, I don’t speak Japanese!” and walked on. Hope she got home safe

Text saying 'marbling texture pack' over images of four different colorful marbling papers.

My marbling texture pack is up for sale! 180 HQ scans, 600 dpi, three different methods of marbling🎨
purenonsens.gumroad.com/l/marbling

“If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning."
–GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd as the proto-fascist “war on terror” raged

i now know i'm going to meet (if not surpass) the character count, so that's good

Someone read one of my books and said to me, "Fucking hell, how did you manage to keep ALL THAT in your head?" I told them it's actually extremely simple and anyone can do it. You just need to forget everything else important in your life and totally stop functioning as a human for a year or so.

reading Polish alt-leftists makes me want to go back to my Brexit fantasy essay

think i'm gonna call it "Dark Enchantment"