li wrote:

i love how two people can describe something with the same words but one person's subtext is that they don't like it and the other person's subtext is that they do like it

exactly. for example, when Bruno Mars says something makes “a dragon want to retire” he’s saying that it is good, but when I say it, I’m trying to highlight how it’s accelerating the already troubling burn-out culture within the dragon career path

when Robyn sang “I know what’s on your mind / there will be time for that too” in “Hang With Me” she was talking about her dog asking for dinner at 4pm

it is difficult to describe the hell that I am currently in. sort of a gender swamp, one that confirms my biases instead of relieving them. If fictionalized it would be a sort of anti-Robert Yang work, simultaneously unremarkable and upsettingly heteronormative

capitalism is sick. it needs to rest

guy next to us on the airplane just opened his Mercedes Benz iOS app, stared at the image of his SUV for a minute, then swiped through the different angles of the model you own that it will apparently show you before closing the app again

thinking about coming up with a catchphrase
so that if I don't know how to write a complete post I can just end it with "but I don't know much about that" or "I guess that's what it takes to get ahead these days"

it feels like maybe a good moment to check in on whether I've cooked my brain on Final Fantasy XIV this year is when I'm like "I guess my mount is pretty great but I wonder what other mounts there are that I could be using right now"

DST end: a repayment or an advance?
Realized about myself today that when I “gain an hour” at the end of DST in the autumn, I consider that an advance against the hour I will lose in the spring, as opposed to getting back that which I lost earlier in the same Gregorian year

everyone has these beautiful 88x31 banners featuring complex designs
then I try to make one and it's like