iris

@exoskeletaljunction.itch.io

post punk? don't mind if i do

the magnum opus (polished for 500 yrs - dreamed about - may never get done) versus the mangum opus (gets done whether or not you want it to - makes you talk about weirdo shit - its ok cause for someone it will hit very hard - please watch out because sometimes that someone is anthony fantano)

approaching the part of a thing where it gets increasingly more mentally ill and my pace picks up like when the horses in umamusume take a dramatic step and then start sprinting

Robert Nozick: I’m saying people would reject this theoretical Experience Machine, because they want to know they are in the real world Me (not looking up from my phone): One moment. The horse girls need my guidance

music is so different from writing yet i feel like so much of what people write can be informed by their relationship to rhythm and voice, and personally i always have the most fun composing music with a narrative anchor. feels like using two different languages to express the same things

i think the best writers are always confident on the page. "but what if my confidence isn't earned?" it's ok you don't have to think about that. you just have to know when your confidence is funny

adhd medication is amazing. before stimulants, i could hardly get through a single book. now, i'm 60 pages through at least five books - and guess what - i've even just started a sixth

a lot of interesting fiction can be made by taking two things that made you think and mashing them together in conversation. which is why i am now dreaming of a 21st-century version of dfw's debut novel where lenore beadsman ignores every male character to do postmodern yuri dialectics instead

jean baudrillard once declared america the nexus of the hyperreal, consuming the dreams of europe. but look at mid sized metropolitan areas in europe and you will notice hyperreal breezewood pennsylvanias everywhere