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Lily Einhorn
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Creative and cultural producer specialising in community arts. Plus coaching. Plus writing. And ceramics. Raging about neo-liberalism most of the time. she/her

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Wish I could internalize this
brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
madewithstring.bsky.social
I had a similar experience earlier last year except the only other person in the whole cinema was a man who sat *directly behind me* Which I did not appreciate.
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
madewithstring.bsky.social
😜
December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
madewithstring.bsky.social
Ha ha. They’re 9 and 12 so it’s more about what would happen in real life and then being outraged by injustice… Though the 9 year old asks me a lot of questions about prisons when we watch it ‘Do people have friends in prisons?’ ‘Are the guards sometimes mean in prisons?’ Oh, babe…
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
madewithstring.bsky.social
Ha ha. This is, disappointingly, what I suspected. I did try to explain that in all likelihood a sentence would be time served so you may not return to prison but the young people were, rightly, unimpressed.
December 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
madewithstring.bsky.social
No one can. NO ONE SHOULD, DAMMIT.
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
madewithstring.bsky.social
Oh don’t talk nonsense, Hannah. That’s far too… equitable.
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM