Xyla | stellarnightmage

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Writer | Graphic Designer | Fangirl | FFXIV | FFXV/Versus XIII Truther | Reylo | EmetWol She/Her https://archiveofourown.org/users/stellarnightmage/works

If you're looking for a job and it feels impossible, just know that it's not you. It's not you at all. The entire employment market is broken, because the billionaires and PE goons and "major shareholders" broke it on purpose after workers made some modest gains in wages and freedom in 2020-2021.

A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.

For those who died and those who survived and all we list during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Hank Green did a video on how a lot of people have been doing this "I don't hate any race I just think they are inferior in some way, that's not racism" and, like, yes it is. And it unlocked something for me that feels really obvious about how people think about racism wrong

You have to block more people online. You have to block MANY more people online. You should make blocking people your default response to more interactions.

I can both like Star Wars and hate Star Wars because things have nuance. I love Star Wars at its heart, when it's about love and redemption. I hate it when it's characters and stories stagnating because the people in charge seemingly fear "fans" reactions.

disney struggling to get kids into star wars is funny I think we are getting to that point I predicted where thinking you can market on nostalgia for the 80s forever will never have diminishing returns

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.