natalie wrote:

if cole slaw is cold then there should be a ware slaw that's warm. bonus points if it's extra polish somehow

circulating this post in all the relevant discords

it's interesting^{[citation needed]} to imagine whether FFXIV's cutscene scripting in-memory representation could be marshalled into something a visual novel engine could use, then sold back to me for some upsetting amount of money

I remembered last night that Feedbin (my RSS reader of choice) has an API and now I’m having Dangerous Ideas for December

they should make an Apple TV screensaver that gives you anxiety

not looking forward to it! looking forward to seeing the friends on the other end of the flight though 😌

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