the universe doesn't care

Maybe I’ll make a to do list for the week or something🫩.

everyone tits out with a parasol is such a beautiful world to imagine that the fact it doesnt currently exist fills me with equal parts fire and misery

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

Class ended early this morning, I had a delicious baguette for brunch, lovely start to the week!

Oh the joy I feel when I pick up a package with new books ☀️ (The Magick of Matter, Felix Flicker / Why Beauty Is Truth, Ian Stewart / The Joy of Science, Jim Al-Khalili)

in other news, the semester may have ended but i'm inundated with marking assessments. at least i don't have to rush to classes, i guess? i have been working from home because my office is undergoing renovations and it is a headache to keep shifting from one hotdesk to the other. also, starting to draft a new chapter on storytelling as an archival method. what am i doing? i've no idea.

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summer rain

I shall never stray

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Had an awful morning at work that gave me a headache for the whole day so we're keeping the learning fun today :D I found Code Lyoko episodes on youtube in Finnish and that might have been the best discovery I've ever done, this was my favorite show as a kid! Did some reading too, finished the book "Romeo ja Hirviöt"