may 27 olf
Monday was tough and Tuesday was a different kind of tough. You can read about why if you haven't already.
Today I'm not feeling as frustrated (or whatever) but I'm still thinking about how one of the most annoying parts of being predisposed to depression, anxiety, task paralysis, and the burnout attendant to battling context switching and context collapse is that so, so often you have to sit in those places and suffer while people who are not broken in this way look at you like you're insane.
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🏀🏀 Big Tempo win tonight. Character win but also a "oh shit, we can do that" win. They played hard, they found and exploited weaknesses, and for the first time in a bit, they got the lead and then held it.
Highlights included Nyara Sabally setting a new (personal) record for points scored in a game (which was dope to watch), Kiki Rice scoring her 100th point, and Chicago Sky rookie Sydney Taylor being borderline unstoppable for a good ten minute stretch.
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Please enjoy some of the greatest line deliveries of all time, all of which are in the opening scene of Ken Russell's 1991 magnum opus, Whore.
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📕📕 It recently came to my attention that a certain subsection of BookTok people don't read the non-dialogue parts of books. Then I learned that some of them actively complain about how many words there are in books.
This, apparently, is something that other people knew. I eXtReMeLy OnLiNe (and a writer, and a reader) and this was wholly new to me. I still don't know that I understand what these folks think reading is, or what books are, but maybe I'm dumb. Still, I told my partner and she didn't understand for a second because to her the concept was absurd.
I really, really want to riff on this more, but I don't want to get upset again. All I'll say is that now that I've thought about it, I'm not surprised. This is the natural consequence of everything becoming content, and then every piece of content needing to be bite-sized and digestible. Think about the rise of short video (which is linked to cognitive decline, see here and the death of the attention span.
Social media algos trained social media- and/or internet-addicted people (especially young people) to really only care about the good part or the climax, so videos became solely devoted to speeding to the good part(s), and now readers en masse (I know it's not all of Booktok, but one is too many) don't have any interest in the non-good parts (I'm speaking colloquially of course), which really just means that somehow these motherfuckers have fast-fashioned literature.
Can a meteor just hit us already? I'm ready to become stardust again.
🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch get
🌳 grass some
🌷 now shuteye
Be good to yourself.
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