Venn364 - Strange person with serious emotions about Star Wars

“If voting did anything they would outlaw it.” Is such an insane take to me, because literally all of human politics for recorded history has centered around Outlawing the Vote.

Also there’s something so deeply condescending about suggesting that the millennia of work needing to get us to this point of history was all somehow “permitted” by the elites, and not a long, arduous struggle rife with setbacks that forced the world, inch by inch, to become fairer, more equal, and more just. You stand on the shoulders of giants and yet rather than continue their work, you spit on their feet for not lifting you higher.

Discworld Heritage Post

Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback