don't cry because its over cry because it happened

the soft animal of my body wants a spliff and four pints of cider

soft animal of my body is up for a kebab

​was this post cowritten by liam gallagher

yeah it was a monumental collaborative project. I realised I could never get 24 words out on my own but the concept was so special to me that I chose to take a gamble on it. I reached out to his representation and after about eight months of negotiation over rights, fees etc we reached an agreement where he would develop nine words in-studio (first instance of 'of', 'four or five pints of cider' which was later edited down to what you see in the release, second instance of 'my', and 'kebab'). I drafted the rest of the post with support and oversight from his publicity agent, and the post was soft launched as a limited series of placards in Brixton late last year. due to the lukewarm reception, there was talk of pulling the tumblr release altogether, but fortunately we were able to settle on a route forward whereby I bought out full rights to the seven words authored by mr gallagher alongside limited rights of reproduction to allow me to publish the work under my own blog (with allowance for third party reblogs in perpetuity etc). I'll probably never pull off anything of this scope again, and it's a shame it never quite got off the ground the way we hoped, but it was an interesting experience and one I'll always value as part of my artistic development.

do people just not find those AI pop-ups everywhere not incredibly patronizing: "help me write" "help me visualize" help me put my balls in your mouth

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

reading Alchemised and Algospeak at the same time is crazy because I really thought I could have told you which one would piss me off more but alas. it's Algospeak. SenLinYu may be a fanfic writer who scrubbed off the serial numbers to go trabpub but Adam Aleksic insists on calling himself an influencer and it turns out I do respect that less.

I guess if nothing else this did drill pretty directly to the most grating thing about his book (as someone not familiar with any of his tiktok work), which is his tendency to point out linguistic trends he's noticed with absolutely no political analysis attached at all

so anyway that's a DNF for Algospeak l m a o

the thing is that it felt so half-baked from the jump because Aleksic would be saying things like "yeah influencers who have or can approximate American or British accents (as long as they're the most "correct" and palatable American or British accents) do way better than any other content, so a lot of people stop using their native accents and try to sound more Western" and you the reader think okay well that's horrifying but Aleksic as the author just goes "isn't that interesting? well anyway, moving on!" like yeah man it is interesting, in a really awful way. would you like to comment on it at all?

for the record Aleksic was already on thin ice with me from the first page of Algospeak because he decided to start as incendiary as possible by talking about the word "unalive" and making the case that it's just the inevitable result of The Youth making up new words and anyone upset about it is being needlessly reactionary. the broader implications of The Youth growing up accustomed to censoring conversations about "sensitive topics" so severely that it bleeds into their real life communication was not interesting to him

and for the record yes I did note that he added that he personally doesn't think anyone should be using the r slur but that's kind of a wiener caveat to add when you've already lent alleged academic credence to the notion that it's basically inevitable that it will become mainstream because nobody even remembers that it's supposed to be ableist anyway. Adam Aleksic is a few years younger than me, so maybe he missed the PSA series where people were reminded that using "gay" in a derogatory manner is bad even if you're not specifically insulting a gay person, but it really doesn't seem like that hard of a concept to grasp.

trying to be a writer is so scary. like what if I’m actually a Wronger

was about to make a post saying “putting the word berry up on a shelf” in response to seeing two -berry posts in a row but then i realized how meaningless and cruel that would be for me to say

someone dropped a bitcoin on my head from on top of the empire state building in an act of guerrilla trepanation but since there weren’t any evil spirits in my skull the hole just sprouted a flower and now everybody says i look like a damn pikmin smh

when i was a kid i loved audiobooks (still do) and i always wondered why i had to “check out” an audiobook online thru overdrive and latter libby for a limited time, since if they always had the digital copy of the audiobook there was nothing stopping them from just letting anyone have it, at any time, and for any length of time. i was a kid so assumed it was for some complicated reason that i didnt understand, instead of the uncomplicated and stupid as fuck reason that it’s like that so publishing companies can make money rofllll

@batmanisagatewaydrug

God forbid women do anything

I fucking forgot that Harry Potter ends with Harry going “I wonder if my slave will make me a sandwich”

everyone got taken out by the dogshit epilogue that this got buried but oh my god lol