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@thepauldano I started having full on visual hallucinations in class in 10th grade and it was at that point I finally decided I needed to drop a few classes lmao. Please.....learn from 15 year old me's bad choices......

The visual hallucinations are so insane and take up so much of my field of vision and I just like.. go to work like that? How do ppl live like this

I never realized that sleep deprivation can make you just like fully develop psychosis, I feel like that Russian sleep experiment lil dude rn

@sqiouyilu I'm partial to 条, love that it applies to both rivers and pants

what’s your favorite measure word?

@thepauldano Ryan keeps saying "op, op, Oppenheimer style" so this is better than that at least

Is this anything

Oppenheimer? I hardly know her!

ICYMI, in which I write bluntly about climate fiction. I avoided this topic for a long time because it felt like a certain etiquette forbade it, but at the end of the day, it also felt like certain histories and points had been forgotten or elided, so... esquire.com/entertainment/…

@sqiouyilu @OJCade Ooooh adding that to my to-read list, ty!!

@planeterinebula oh!! and @OJCade’s THE IMPOSSIBLE RESURRECTION OF GRIEF, which focuses on climate grief ojcade.com/the-impossible…

in multiple minds about recent cli-fi trends...on the one hand its def more useful to be thinking about alternative futures where we develop new ways of relating to the earth, rather than than reiterating climate doom. but "climate optimism" always rings sort of hollow for me

@sqiouyilu @ReckoningMag I'm especially interested in potential future earths, but i'm flexible about what exactly that means. can't resist some magic in my sci fi... i hadn't heard of Reckoning though, i'll have to check them out!

@planeterinebula are you looking for stuff set in potentially future earth, alternate timelines, secondary worlds…? I would consider PRINCESS MONONOKE and NAUSICAÄ to be interesting climate fiction but they’re not climate futures per se, and @ReckoningMag does a lot of this kind of work

anyway if anyone has recommendations for stories about nuanced, weird, or unsettling but compelling climate futures, i would love to read them

Especially when that shakes out to mean "knows less than the story's intended audience"->"knows roughly as much as the story's intended audience." this isn't a condemnation of hopepunk/solarpunk/optimistic clifi in general. just an open-ended wondering about what else it could be

@hankgreen My mom once memorably asked what a "weebaloo" was, meaning weeaboo, it was awesome

I can’t keep it in anymore…my mom calls it “bobo tea.”

@SaigeSerei An old classmate of mine just published a queer vampire novel!! Darknesses by Lachelle Seville

Read my story for free!!

@marie_croke My family always wants happy endings which I just. Very rarely do, haha. The ones who are also writers are even worse, because they end up just line editing the piece too.

After I finished drafting my first novel, my mom read it and told me "i was worried you would make the female lead too strong and that just isn't realistic." So yeah, why do you not let family crit your stories anymore?

@iamfuturetense The group chat literally went "Jeremy no..." in unison

How am I supposed to be normal in front of a class of students today when my mind is still on 24/7 succession lockdown. Hello??? You kids seen this shit???

@Tabycrow @JennyENicholson Literally every word of that song lives in my head forever and just starts looping of its own accord every once in a while

@JennyENicholson I still think about the song chomp and munch about viruses going after a 70s era super computer (don't know how possible that is in hindsight but okay)

@ChristiNogle Ursula Le Gun's introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness is so good

Even an ordinary person like Paul will learn something after floating in space for over 150 years.

@kbwagers I loveeee Sarah Gailey's work, and I wish I saw them recommended more often! Trying to spread the word by teaching their stories in my writing classes