Possibly your most relatable post yet

And some extra juice for those who started to build the play kitchen at 9pm thinking it might take an hour, and are slowly realizing you’re not getting to bed before 1am

It will be worth it

To be clear for the people who didn’t know this happened, it happened because the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final. It was not for, like, racial justice or anything righteous like that

After the riot in Vancouver (the one in 2011), people from all over the world grabbed their sharpies and wrote healing messages on the boarded-up shop windows downtown. Including this person who I hope is living a blessed life.

This is a concept I got from
@theferocity.bsky.social; keep the machine running, but don’t break it trying to power through a block, or just an off day. Just write something else. That is what causes those writing practices to collapse for me, and once they collapse they are so hard to rebuild!

The variation on this that works for me is to write every day, while not being at all strict about which thing I end up writing. I start with the Main Project, but if those words aren’t coming, I keep downshifting to easier things (prompts, character sketches, …) until words do come.

I did the same. Self-preservation instinct kicked in immediately. Everything was so self-evidently awful, and I knew The Discourse was just going to be a lot of angry people tearing everyone and everything down into a pit of despair and doom, and I did not want to get pulled down there

Wait is this a thing, I had no idea

Brb going to put hams on as many doorsteps as I can find, if you don’t have a doorstep that’s too bad, no ham for you, should have made better home choices

I am both super excited about exploring these titles, and dumbfounded that there is time enough to thoughtfully read so many books, in one year, that you can cull a list of twenty great ones. I struggle to read 3 or 4 in a year! I need to reevaluate my life choices!

These are amazing. I had no idea of ACD’s father, either his alcoholism and/or madness (if those are even separate), or his artwork. They’re really lovely.

Ok wait I have to ask an embarrassing question. I see washi tapes and think they look cool (these are wonderful) but I don’t actually know…how you use them. How do you use washi tape? Just like regular tape except whimsical or fun? Or is there like…a Washi Tape Protocol

Jfc what was life like in the Paul family growing up. No wait don’t answer that, I don’t want to know

This is the real community service, right here. I knew I had this instinctive dislike for Jake Paul, like I was immediately not sorry he broke his jaw here. But I didn’t remember why!

Isn’t he the guy who went into a semi-sacred Japanese forest, where people go to commit suicide, for lols/content?

Your work is extraordinary, just wonderful. I’ve never seen anything like it.

I’ve used an old phone to do this before, just as an Audible player (I also kept podcasts and Kobo/Kindle on it). Wifi only, no messaging, socials, or browsers. You do have to be able to resist downloading social apps though, because you’re still logged into your normal store account.

Ohhhh noo I was JUST thinking “I have a really good set of pens now, I actually don’t feel tempted to buy another one for the first time in…ever” and now THIS

…but. Unless it comes apart and reassembles really easily, it would be a one-ink pen for sure.