Poogona

I love the west wing I want to live in the west wing I want to bust in (on?) the west wing god I love level-headed discourse it makes my nipples want to stand up and put some dumb fucking COLLEGE STUDENT with BLONDE HAIR in her place with a self-assured monologue FUCK

If the goal is to get it out of my system like you describe, I don't do anything I'd describe as prep, rather I set it up like a special occasion. "Writing time" then becomes mixed up with some kind of lil treat, to separate my satisfaction with the writing done from the time spent. This way, even if the writing itself fell flat and I'm disappointed, maybe I still had a a nice time.

Since writing is often a matter of habit once the initial enthusiasm wears off (for longer stuff at least, not like poetry), my best success came from writing being the gravitic center of my day. It needed to be easy to start, and hard to quit early.

Got hit by a blast of what I can only assume is touch starvation yesterday

It's only going to get worse isn't it

yeah, and ants will tear open eggs that are struggling to hatch

Xiaohongshu is making me emotional, according to some of the Chinese users I've had conversations with, there was plenty of toxicity and petty arguing there until all the Americans arrived. Now it's like there are guests and everyone is enjoying the novelty of it, meeting people outside of your bubble really do be something we humans are built to enjoy isn't it

Your answer is received

(Now remains the last and most important question: of what does the elephantine dream? )

Yeah it's wild, both Chinese and Indian history have a unique quality to me simply by the nature of having reached such incredible relative population size. It's like when my eye is drawn to the biggest instrument in the orchestra.

Do they still live in herds like elephants? Do they migrate or make permanent housing? Do they have elaborate technology, and if so, how does it interface with trunks rather than with fingers? What sort of social norms and faux pas do they consider with respect to those giant hypersensitive ears?

Give me answers to these questions NOW

Philip Pullman referenced it a bit in His Dark Materials

I'm gonna be the one good Crusades guy you've seen on the internet who is morbidly fascinated by the record of a violent mass hysteria that was led eastward rather than seeing them as aspirational or noble.

How great is xiaohongshu? I tossed out a few replies to posts for the novelty of it and within a day I was having delightful conversations about the Chinese perspective on The Grapes of Wrath (apparently it's read a lot in schools there) and making fun of Elon Musk with people across the damn world

Someone even asked to see a little of my book and said he couldn't wait to get home and read it with his cat , the posting atmosphere is so disarmingly wholesome.

Wait why do libs hate Ralph Nader? Honestly what can they even claim he did wrong? Or is this about him being a spoiler?