Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 8h

Just hit 50k words on this writing project and that has me quaking in my boots because 50k was the vaunted goal I never got even close to achieving when I attempted nanowrimo (many times) as a teenager. It felt like an impossibly big number. And I’m gonna smash it and just keep going!

1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 23h

Even in my child mind I comprehended that I might one day be overwhelmed with regret about how I had lived, and all the wrong choices I had made. Which feels like a very healthy and normal fear to be burdened with in your first decade of life (which I as an adult only remember in flashes anyway)

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 23h

I had a lot of Temporal anxiety as a kid abt the horrifying idea that every moment I had on earth was completely unique, it would never be This Moment on a Saturday in June when I Was 9 ever again, that I might look back and discover I’d wasted so much time

So the loss of the plastic badge cut deep

1 1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 23h

& then he walked away and I realized I was supposed to say yes if I wanted the badge and then I was MORE anxious because where else on earth would I ever get a plastic deputy badge from a real live cop (I MISSED MY CHANCE!!) and THEN I cried.

This says a lot about who I am as a person I think

1 1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 23h

Once as a child a well-meaning security guard walked up to me with a plastic badge and asked if I’d be his deputy for the day. And I was SEIZED with anxiety & said no & almost cried because I am 6 sir idk how to be a cop!! I am not prepared to be your deputy!!! I would let all the bad guys escape!

1 1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

[Player says they are confused & walks away from the puzzle.]

Me: “What numbers are on that note?”

[Player holds up the note to look closer. I discover the problem.]

Me: “Flip it over.”

[Player turns note upside down.]

Me: “LOOK AT THE NUMBERS THAT ARE WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF IT.”

2/2

1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Scene from the escape room tonight:

[Player holds a note with numbers on it.]

Me: “Use the numbers on the note to [solve puzzle].”

[Player begins using random numbers in lieu of those on the note.]

Me: “Yes, but you have to use the numbers on the note.”

1/2

1 1

Reposted by Jordan 📚

Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 3d

9 60 290

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

After much thought I’ve come to the conclusion that my mental health would be better if I could afford things like dentist visits and healthcare and a vehicle that doesn’t make me think it’s going to kill me every time I’m behind the wheel. It sounds hard to believe but I think it’s true

2

Reposted by Jordan 📚

Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 2d

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

300 4.6K 19K

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

I just, after 47k words, discovered the personality for this ex-best friend character, and thank Christ for that, not a moment too soon 🫠🫠🫠🫠

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Writing in paper is the only way I’ve gotten any words out lately. Writing on paper feels less permanent somehow?? Which is absurd! it’s fully 100% MORE permanent! But it just feels so much LOOSER and EASIER than a blank doc

1 2

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 4d

I started an extremely ridiculous, extremely obsessive passion project and I’m having the most fun I’ve had in months. Absolutely euphoric. The most fun a girl can have is any activity that has her feeling like this

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .

Alt: The “Pepe Silvia” meme from Always Sunny; a haggard-looking man gesticulating wildly in front of a crazy bulletin board covered in papers and red thread

media.tenor.com

1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 8d

I read medieval stories in undergrad about knights who discover magical fairy ladies in the forest and immediately abandon all their principals to get laid and I thought that was insane untillll my hot friend got boudoir pics in lingerie and a cape in a forest and now I’m like

a man is making a funny face and saying `` oh my god '' in front of a crowd .

Alt: Slow pan in on a tearful Danny Devito as he says “oh my god… I get it.”

media.tenor.com

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 8d

Set the scene: it’s 10 am. Crisp Sunday in October. You snoozed your alarm until the exact second you HAD to get out of bed and jump to get ready for work. On the highway. The words “slick folds” have just emerged from your car radio

1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 8d

To be clear: I have no hate whatsoever for smutty audiobooks

1 1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 8d

My usual playlist isn’t hitting and I gotta find some new stuff to listen to. I thought the audiobook would be a good side quest but something about graphic prose at 10 AM on a Sunday just wasn’t doing it for me

1 1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 8d

I accidentally started listening to a rather smutty audiobook (I didn’t know it had smut, it just came up in my Recommended feed) and today it got to a Spicy section but I was on my way to work and wasn’t in the mood for that so I just turned it off and drove the rest of the way in silence

1 1

Reposted by Jordan 📚

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

15 120 950

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 8d

We have a booking for a group of 2 at work. See the person who made the booking put in a 2007 birthday. I thought to myself “man, who let these two children book alone?” And then I realized these people born in 2007 are in fact 18 year old adults

2

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 9d

🎶I love to cry at weddings, anybody's wedding
Any time! Anywhere! Anyplace!🎶

1

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 11d

The battery on the Air has seen better days but as long as I keep the charger at the ready, it’s fine. I haven’t had it plugged in all day, and it could randomly decide it’s had enough and shut itself off any minute now, but if I plug it back in it’ll keep kickin

Otherwise, completely fine

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 11d

I have a nice, decently new MacBook Pro that has had to have the full keyboard replaced and the screen replaced twice, all in a calendar year

Meanwhile I just dropped my old 2015 MacBook Air off a desk at work and it’s literally fine

1

Reposted by Jordan 📚

Spooky Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 11d

Activism is rarely dearresting someone, getting pepper sprayed by police, etc. It's a lot of planning, emails, dull meetings.

Build community. Help each other. Do the work.

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 11d

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

1 9 39

Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 12d

Thinking about buying her a tin of grether’s pastilles as a gift

Mentally rehearsing a conversation about warm-down techniques