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hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

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both trots are valid ALL BUCKAROOS WELCOME

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📢 📚 NEW ZINES ALERT!!! I will be debuting two new zines at this year's ComicInvasionBerlin - "Everything Is On Fire", a collection of my short comics from 2022 to 2024, and "enough", my 24-hour comic from 2023!

I've also done a few reprints of previous collections, as well as a brand-new postcard, and will otherwise have most of my back catalogue and merch handy.

Come find me at Artist Alley Table 77, May 11 & 12 from 10:00 to 18:00 in the Museum for Communication! I might even have an additional surprise 👀

#comic invasion berlin #comicinvasionberlin #comicinvasion #berlin #zines #clairikine #everything is on fire #postcard #bed #tv tower #fernsehturm #sky #clouds #mittens #comics #my art #support your local homesick cartoonist #artists in berlin #deutsch content #in that the tv tower is deutsch

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Put an egg in your ramen. Put scallions in your ramen. Put chili oil in your ramen. Put kewpie Mayo in your ramen. But nori in your ramen. Put tofu in your ramen. Put miso paste in your ramen. Put mushrooms in your ramen.

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Can you offer any (academic) writing advice for Autistics and ADHDers? You clearly write a lot and write very well and very clearly, so some insight into your process would be great. Personally, I tend to struggle with over explaining or over citing (cause I am always getting misunderstood) and that I get very fixated on not misrepresenting what my sources are saying to avoid feeling like I'm lying. All this is time consuming and makes it hard to say what I really want to say. Thanks!

Hi there! I've written an essay about a lot of this, here is the free link to read it on Medium:

Much of my writing process is inspired by the book How to Write a Lot by Paul Silvia, and it is specifically tailored to academics. The advice applies to people who write popular nonfiction or fiction just as easily, however. And he does have advice relevant to the self-editing and self-doubt you describe feeling.

The full piece gets into this more, but here are some of the stand-out tips:

Schedule a regular time to write every week and show up no matter whether you are feeling it or not.

Throw out all your magical thinking about what you "need" to be able to write. You don't need the perfect workspace, divine inspiration, the right pen, the right playlist. You just need to show up to write regularly, and do it

Editing, outlining, working with research notes, and drafting all count as "writing." Don't expect your initial drafts to be perfect or to equate writing only with getting new words on the page.

Try writing in public spaces to help get yourself in the mindset of explaining a concept to someone with a different frame of reference and type of expertise than you. Writing in a cafe or a public library can force you think and write in a more accessible way. (alternatively, you can pretend you are explaining the concept to a specific person in your life who you respect but who doesnt have all the same reference points as you -- sometimes this is called the "Grandma Test". Explain something like you are talking to your grandma.)

In addition to all this, I would add that you should read a lot of writing, both good and bad, especially work that isn't dry and academic. If all you read is journal articles, you'll write a journal article -- and most of those are hell to read, even for academics. read fiction. read bad wattsapp shipping. read substacks. read newspapers. read indulgent personal nonfiction in the cut or whatever. read reddit posts. notice what works and what doesn't. develop an ear.

and then write a lot! it took me 15 years to get good enough for anything i wrote to get noticed. you can expect to take many years to get comfortable developing your own voice, too. i dont know how far along you are, but even when you've made tremendous progress you'll only notice your flaws and feel the most turgid brain foggy moments. that doesn't mean you're failing.

also, to some extent you can embrace your citation-dense, precise manner of self-expression. we are living in a moment of maximalism and indulgent, long creative works. it's the decade of the 5 hour youtube essay and the 2 hour album. my 5,000 word essays do better than my 2,000 word ones. you should strip down unnecessary tangents and trust yourself and your reader a little more probably, but ive found that the more blatantly autistic and indulgent my writing gets the more the right people like it. a writer's flaws and their distinctive voice are kinda hard to separate. you're not for everyone!

good luck!

#writing

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my brain produced the phrase “can’t get a moment of homoerotic peace” the other day and now i can’t stop saying it

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it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

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Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. (I accidentally clicked the wrong button on a Tumblr poll and incorrectly skewed the results.)

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Still really funny that Marvel named a movie “Endgame” and sold it as the final culmination of the MCU where they killed off two main characters and retired a third and then were shocked when people started loosing interest in the MCU after that

#yeah I think this is the main issue #plus some truly terrible series finales #MCU #I’m back for Deadpool and Wolverine tho

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MISHA COLLINS SAID WHAT???

#evergreen

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Salut les frenchies, il vous reste 2 jours pour vous inscrire sur les listes électorales pour pouvoir voter aux élections européennes de juin.

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#content français #élections européennes #european elections #élections #spread the word

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god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy

#specifically this is a quote by Marco in Animorphs #ka applegate

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The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation

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And here I was thinking Rob Benedict’s “There’s Extranatural out there, maybe” on this week’s podcast would create a bit of a stir

#supernatural then & now #spn then and now #spn #supernatural