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While I usually use libreoffice, I feel like I should share this. Imagine Google docs with a slightly worse interface, but encrypted and not scraping what you write for use in AI training data.

(3rd Party Sites/Apps are any apps/sites that you use to store your writing stuff (ex. Scrivener, Trello, Fortelling, journalling apps, etc)

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I've loved the song "Lungs" by Townes Van Zandt since I encountered it in episode 7 of HBO's True Detective. Recent events have led me to return to it and analyze it as a kind of thesis statement about the nature of suffering.

#townes van zandt #Lungs #True Detective

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Does it feel like the ambient pressure in society is rising? Do you look at the news and feel like you're getting a headache? Perhaps it's because no one in control of this horrible machine that we live inside of remembers how to work the pressure-release valve.

The machine isn't bleeding to death, it's preparing to explode.

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I just got out of finals and have had a moment to assemble some thoughts.

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Another round of book reviews on this Wednesday evening.

#book reviews #bookblr #K.J. Charles #Moon of the Crusted Snow #Medea #Robertson Davies

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Some book reviews for a difficult time in the year. There aren't that many on here, but I tackled two Tumblr favorites: House of Leaves and Moby Dick.

For the latter, I honestly think that, for the time, the whale science was fine? This came out roughly contemporaneously with The Origin of Species and we all know now that there's no such thing as a fish, so quit being weird. Ishmael is trying his best.

#House of Leaves #Moby Dick #et alios #book reviews

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I'm not at all normal about this album. There's something going on here that I'm trying to articulate, but I don't think I quite get there.

#richard dawson #2020 #civil servant #jogging #black triangle #fulfillment center #dead dog in an alleyway

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I think tumblr should have a function that

#this blog was temporarily lost #it has now returned

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Instead of the normal media commentary, tabletop gaming thoughts, paranoid rants, and similar, we've decided today to publish a piece of flash fiction. It's a short work, though long by flash standards, at 900 words, that -- to my eye -- draws inspiration from the eerie and ghostly end of Southern Gothic, as well as the ecological weird popularized by Jeff VanderMeer.

We're quite happy to have this.

Also, as an aside, linked on our website, you can find our submission guidelines. Our response times are slow, but we are a paying market. Something to consider.

#not my writing #eco horror #flash fiction #eerie

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Another round of book reviews, covering a number of new and classic horror and fantasy novels.

#t. kingfisher #what feasts at night #the hacienda #Isabel Cañas #The butcher of the forest #premee mohamed #the library at mount char #scott hawkins #octavia butler #the parable of the talents #seanan mcguire #mislaid in parts half known #the work of literary translation #Clive Scott #howls moving castle #dianna wynne jones #alex michaelides #the fury #Bloom #delilah s dawson #spell bound #f.t. lukens #pedro paramo #juan rulfo #book reviews

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Is there really a difference between gentrification and colonialism?

I don't really think so.

#Kansas City #Local

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More re-read reviews, concluding with a review of the batshit classic Angelmaker, by Nick Harkaway.

#Angelmaker #Nick Harkaway #book reviews

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The Denis Villeneuve Dune movies are an aesthetic experience that push the boundaries of what can be done with the medium -- a rarity from a big budget film.

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The primary in my state is coming up soon, and I intend to vote "uncommitted". While I know many people on this and other platforms find the thought of not actively supporting one side or the other of our falsely dichotomous political system to be the height of idiocy, consider: are you actually thinking things through?

#US politics

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I teach at the college level. A game I first played -- and greatly enjoyed -- almost twenty years ago came up in relation to a class I teach and I'm having an emotion.

#persona 3 #nostalgia #writing

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I'll be honest, when I was in my 20s, I loved the Scott Pilgrim comics. However, revisiting them later I was left with the feeling that there was an unconsidered misogynistic element to it -- not, necessarily, the core of the story, but something that couldn't be reduced by reading it a particular way.

I get the sense that Bryan Lee O'Malley had a similar realization about his work and -- being what seems to me to be a relatively decent person -- has been trying to revision the story to fix that. I think that Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is an incredibly successful version of that. The approach he uses is fairly similar to that used by Hideaki Anno in the Rebuild of Evangelion films, and so I wanted to write something examining this as a tool in the artist's repertoire: a way of going back and elaborating on what has been said already.

#scott pilgrim takes off #rebuild of evangelion #commentary

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#book reviews #bookblr