Do you still believe in all the things that you stood by before?

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

You know. The medication. That medication my joints and tendons would ERODE AWAY without.

And it turns out, I spent that decade in a constant state of crisis for no fucking reason other than fearmongering about how I would lose my entire sense of self, stop being able to make art or even read books, would be functionally lobotomized and unable to even understand how broken I'd become, etc etc.

Medication can be misused, especially in high control settings like psychiatric institutions. But if you're living under your own care, medication may be what lets you go from struggling to survive, to actually living a life.

It's worth trying.

I think it's the galactic orbit thing that really did me in

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.