a loving gremlin

I think stretch marks might be most attractive thing ever

The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color.

Coming back to this again. I love this comic more than my life

“Appeal to a wider audience” is corporate lingo for “strip more themes from a piece of media so it’s safer and more sanitized for investors”

I struck a nerve in the billionaire fandom with this one

Okay but this is actually one of the most useful things you learn in creative writing workshops! Namely: Not all of the feedback you get is going to be useful! In fact, most of it isn’t! What you’re looking for are the people who vibe with your work and understand what you’re going for. Those are the people who can help you make your work better! But if you try to please everyone? Then you’re stripping out what makes your story uniquely yours. You’re stripping out what’s going to challenge and resonate with your audience. So don’t ever try to appeal to a wider audience! If you want those diehard fans who are going to follow your catalogue, let your work be weird. Lean into what you love about it. That’s what’s going to stick with your audience at the end of the day.

This is what “write for yourself” actually means. Write for an audience that happens to want exactly what you want, and don’t change or remove or water down things for hypothetical readers who don’t like your writing.

One size fits nobody well.

I've always thought it's too bad that disco is the only kind of dance that comes with an artifact. It's compelling that disco has a Ball. I want to know what secrets will be revealed if I gaze into it. There should be a hip-hop Cube. A ballroom Amulet. A swing Diadem.

A Cha-Cha Slide

I don't think dust needs to exist personally

it's kind of like we live in medieval times cause everything is mid and evil

(thanksgiving turkey meme) idk who needs to hear this but (you all do, it's important) the 20th anniversary of the publication of my immortal is March 6th 2026