Bismuth

ublock origin is not enough i need advertisers to feel physical pain

when I was a kid one of my fantasies was that everyone had a red button. Anytime ads interupted you or pissed you off you pushed the button, and the creators would be shocked via legally mandated shock collars for everyone responsible for ads. The severity and length of the shock depended on how bad the ad was to you and how long it took out of your day. Young chlorogoth thought that would fix the advertising plague in no time

Me when a character I like dies in the characters are gonna die show: how could this happen.... darn it.... I didnt see this coming

um ew I'm not attracted to people based on their "genders" 🙄 I'm attracted to them based on their government sex assignments

nothing gets me hot and bothered like a state enforced classification

you know how every hollywood movie now seems like a movie that should be playing in the background of a movie. that’s what threads is for social media. it’s full simulacrum. parody stripped of the parodied. it’s the cave shadow cast by a clear pane of glass. you get in there and you’re like this is some kind of psyop i don’t know what but i can feel agencies at work here. something is being fomented.

I intend to pour resin over everything so nothing ever changes again

Sometimes when you’re writing you scrape a character out of the depths of your soul and plop them on the page and you’re like huh didn’t know he was even in there

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

“you get frightened far too easily” i’m actually part horse on my mother’s side

*street shot of zohran mamdani clad in nasty lil suit and hard hat* five months ago i was elected mayor of new york city. in that time, we have managed to COMPLETELY defeat the Staten Island Minotaur at no additional cost to the new york taxpayer

There also needs to be a button for “this is the 5000th time I’ve read your fic because I’m having a horrible day and this is the only thing in the world that always brings me happiness.”

Support the folks posting work on comment-ebabled sites!

Honestly though, comments like that are gold to me. I love to write and a comment telling me that something I’ve done has improved someone’s life even in a small way? That’s impact. We live in societies that tell us over and over we have no value and nothing we do is ever good enough. So for someone to post a comment telling us that we improved their lives with our stories? That tells us our effort had value. We writers set out to improve the world in tiny ways, offering random acts of kindness in the form of a few minutes’ entertainment, and comments tell us we’ve achieved that little goal.

You can totally come back and leave a comment under that comment a year later! I’m glad to know you are still enjoying it and want to know if you’re doing okay.

There is no higher compliment than a re-read.  The longer the time that has passed, the higher it is.  It means a story resonated and stayed with someone.