Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 184

i also feel like it'd probably be good for her to be a part of an environment with more positive reception to her ideas and thoughts rather than some platform like twitter where she's constantly being bombarded by bigots, ignorant and repetitive folks representing the status quo, and a whole bunch of respectability politics and posturing

i feel like chelsea manning would fit in perfectly on mastodon and contribute a hell of a lot of good to the platform if she were to make an account

@polymerwitch damn good take

art is a lot of mistakes and a lot of good ideas all coming together to mark a point in time, share perspective as well as give something to build off of.

it's a record of growth and progress, a necessary rung on a ladder that gets ever taller

but also just something to enjoy. something we create because we like to do it, and/or like to see others enjoying what we create. progress isn't really as important an objective as how art makes us feel in general.

like, if we write something down finally and share it? then a bunch of people (including ourselves) will realise the mistakes or at least find things that they want to do differently, and then things can get even better from there

if you never put your pen to paper, you don't make those mistakes to critique and improve upon, at least not anytime soon enough, and you certainly aren't doing a service to yourself by sitting on all the other cool ideas you could be sharing

literally every other writer out there who's somehow shaped the world or even just entertained an audience has been wrong in some way, has had their writing pulled apart and criticised and bested, or even just adamantly hated by someone.

art will never be perfect but we still gotta make it because it's good for ourselves and others, and helps us achieve better and better things each time we finally create something and expel it

in reality though i'm probably just coming up with more excuses not continue writing down ideas and starting to actually write.

i mean, yeah my perspective might change over time, but it'll never be perfect enough to the point where i can finally write something and not have to worry about my opinions changing shortly after and drastically changing everything

perfection is unachievable and there's no sense in waiting around forever for the Perfect Ideas to crop up

the difficulty is finding out how to create believable characters that actually seem like multifaceted individuals rather than slightly altered clones of myself/my personal perspective on what i think of these personalities

also i've been having a huge problem lately with trying to think about story plots and characters that i want to eventually write since...way too much of it seems like self-insertion and forcing my opinions and perspectives on the reader

while i would like to write things to spread radical ideas around someday, i also want to create something with realistic depth to it. something with a little bit of everyone in it, if possible.

i really want to play dnd again but i also have huge anxieties over creating and playing as a character that isn't just Me

pretending to be something/someone i'm not is extremely difficult for me. i wish it weren't because it seems cathartic and freeing otherwise

@Violet yeah, lumin's been watching it and i might catch up so i can watch it with them. or maybe just so we can talk about it at the very least.

@monorail ever since i stopped vaping nicotine, rocket league and splatoon 2 have seemed so slow and i've had to basically relearn them, but i think i'm actually getting better than i used to be.

my reaction times are horrible but i'm coming up with techniques/strats to fill the gaps

tired: you know what's good?
wired: who's a good dog?

i downloaded westworld s01 but i'm hesitant to get into it because i guess i just want to watch more of the stuff i've already enjoyed and don't want to be potentially disappointed/have to sit around waiting to get used to new characters and situations???

@witchfynder_finder hey!!!

@revenant oh yeah true, i never considered that

i guess the big problem is just how vague a lot of these arguments are getting to be and how much grey area there is for someone feeling especially entitled to twist arguments to get what they want

when i read your post i assumed it was about an issue i've seen pretty commonly on here and elsewhere, my apologies for the assumption

the future is here

@revenant tbh i think there's a problem on both sides of the issue where folks writing FOSS often don't get paid for it and have other priorities in their lives to contend with. it's good to give constructive criticism but i've seen developers and users alike both get particularly nasty about their software, when users don't often have the experience to tweak stuff + developers aren't on the hook to cater to everyone's whim unless they're profiting off it/it's super important

thanks to the internet, whenever i think of the canadian prime minister, the first name to come to my head is "joe trudeau" so i guess i'm just calling him that now

completely forgot telegram exists until someone @-ed me in a group convo