Mary 🌙🌔

Because it's still not really true, but it is closer to true that, for many people, one cannot think without arranging words in an intentional order, in a way that one could colloquially refer to as 'writing'

Is "writing" here actually standing in for composition, maybe?

Hello everybody checking blue sky today because twitter was down for a while 👋

there is nothing that has happened that may not yet be turned to good

as always the best initial move is a consultation with your deities about what would be the most effective, given our goals. “Show me the route that will liberate people in my lifetime.”

Oh shit I didn't even catch that xD

makes me stupid happy every time i hear it.

Unit 01 continuing to eat Zeruel

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 19
A Man's Battle
Introjection

Beautiful red roses on a pink background with flowing script saying "Roses are red," Violets budding and blooming. "Violets are blue," Hydnora plants opening up looking like terrifying red mouths bursting from the hard sandy soil. "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyll," A splash of cute red and pink hearts. "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day."

Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!

I believe u mean

"this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.” -james baldwin's letter on american racism to his teen nephew.

i personally the literal translation as a methodology, because it forces me as a translator to see what i am doing at every point, ask why i am doing it this way, to confront where i am interpreting instead of moving mechanically, to make me subordinate myself to the text. i am not the author.

it's true that "literal translations" are difficult to read. this isn't a negative. it's an entirely neutral fact of how we engage with a text. it's simply a requirement for a different way of reading, and one that opens up new aesthetic and empathetic possibilities for the reader.

being a christian and a magician isn't that hard

it's easy to reconcile biblical text with a magical practice

you'd think reconciling biblical text with OTHER people's practices would be trickier (idolaters and whatnot)

but nah the answer is compassion

usually is

Is anybody else's touch-response on the mobile app just completely borked? Logged on today, I can't get it to scroll at all sometimes, or it goes left/right when I'm really clearly going up/down, it just feels Wrong

God to the bricklayers at Babel:

We really shouldn't let the distastefulness of AI business models negatively polarise us into forgetting that stealing from academic publishers via libgen is a moral good.

Idk I guess my tepid take is “if modernity renders your curriculum pointless and dull, change the curriculum” don’t handwring about how children won’t submit to boring tasks they could avoid.
We give kids easy versions of work because they lack the cognitive capacity to manage large amounts of info

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc

one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty

The upward spiral is a lot slower than I'd like, but it sure as shit seems to be working.

The only way to maintain any kind of sanity as a public figure is to actively avoid places where you and your work are being discussed. Human beings were not made for the volume of feedback the internet is capable of providing.

>has sexual attraction to boys before girls
>very effeminate, loves girl stuff
>manage to hide and ignore both growing up
>all-boys HS; come out as bi
>still dealing w feminity, privately crossdressing
>saw Mike Rugnetta vid on BMO
>slowly gave myself permission to transition (~3 yrs)
>out in 2017

I just wrote 80% of a blog post. Might write the remaining 20% at some point in the next few years.

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