gosh darn fiddlesticks

one of the many useful rosewaterisms i've applied to my own work is 'magic is a hungry monster'. of course, "there'll be a place for this idea eventually" is obviously more true of a 30-year old game that prints thousands of new cards every year than it is of any one random person's creative output. but unless you are in your like, 70s, or you're working in some huge-budget/time investment medium like directing feature films where your output is necessarily extremely limited, there will almost always be a home down the road for that really cool scene, or character, or mechanic, or melody, or whatever else that you just can't make work in your current project. put it away for a rainy day, if it's really that good you'll find yourself digging it back out down the line

there’s still idiots in my inbox asking if m this is real— yes it is.

I keep going back to these images and trying to figure out how this even makes sense as a tantalizing night out. Dropping up to $5,000+ for just 2 hours of karaoke where you have to both get everyone's songs in and guzzle all that booze lest you incur more fees. I keep tripping up on the one with up to 30 guests. All I keep imagining is a bunch of incredibly drunk stock brokers fist fighting in front of Macy's herald square because only five people got to sing in between their shots.

why don't you calm down and look up the little auk