So much eye contact

Same. I mourned mine decades before they actually passed, and long before I actually cut off either of them.

Both were cruel, self involved people, with no ability to self reflect or take responsibility for their behaviours and no desire to be better people/parents. I felt nothing when they actually died.

Are you ok?

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Yours is cute too with that avatar, and it always gets me to glace at it twice as I somehow keep auto-parsing it as ‘grrlgyle’, which my brain then flags as not what’s written and drags my eyes back to read it properly.

Riot grrl gargoyles in argyle is a fun mental image.

I get you. I have the adhd brain jazz too and much of what I write gets garbled for similar reasons. It’s mostly word orders, punctuation, and awry phrasings in my case.

Glad you’re not a bot!

Me going outside:

and never going back to the mental health system again.

Hear hear to that! This is a vow of mine too.

Ngl it worries me when I see comments cut off like this, I get this might be a bit, but it’s also bot behaviour.

I swear to Samsara, if I have to do this living shit all over again I’m going to fucking kms.

Is that like lunchables?

I’m pretty sure some of the servers have federated agreements between them to delete stuff and whatnot, but yeah, you’ve got it.

Which is why I apologised and spoilered it.

Plus it’s considered a bit of a dick move if you know terrible things are going to happen and you don’t try to educate and warn people who believe misinformation.

I’m a joy at parties, it’s hard not to be when you bring enough mdma to share.

The nature of the fediverse means that any comment you post here is also basically posted on multiple different websites.

This is my hopefull thing too. It comforts me knowing we can only fuck up so much as a species, and there’s a whole universe out there that we’re not part of.

I like imagining other the life out there doing its thing and maybe it fucks up too, maybe it doesn’t.

And the sheer scale of our universe means that it’s very unlikely that any of these other life forms, each in their respective metaphorical corners of our play pen, can impact each other.

So even though we’ve fucked our sphere of influence beyond any and all salvation bar deux ex machina, it doesn’t mean we’re taking the whole experiment with us when we go.

I hate to burst your bubble, especially in a thread like this.

I’ve not read the Tyrant Philosophers books yet, thanks for the heads up! At some point I’ll cycle back around to craving the company of depressing as fuck literature, so I’ll put them on that list.

Bet you anything they’re going to try to put it in phones, hell they probably already have.

I read a lot of scifi and it’s by far my favourite genre of anything.

I’m on a bit of a reading roll this year so far and have been averaging a book a week, I haven’t been consuming books at this rate since I was a teenager!

I finished Children Of Time last week and managed to get in The Scar (China Mieville) before my copies of Children of Ruin and Children Of Memory arrived, and now I’m about half way through Ruin.

The ‘Children Of’ books are fantastic, we all know this by now, but only read The Scar if you can deal with a vast 800 page anti-epic with an utterly unpleasant anti-hero at its helm. And the ending, while very fitting thematically, otherwise sucks. There is no catharsis and the anti-hero clearly doesn’t learn anything, despite (again) writing otherwise in their letter.

The world building in The Scar is stunning though (albeit rather puissant…), and the characters, despite being nearly entierly all awful people*, are very well written. Plus there’s a very clearly lifted from The Matrix fight scene at once point which got a giggle out of me when I recognised it.

*Tanner is a good man, and so is Doul, probably. Doul is also quite funny, but the humour of his actions mostly lands in hindsight once you’ve got a better idea of his character/motivations

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Favourites wise though (the rest of this comment is copied over from a previous one I made elsewhere but I feel might be appreciated here more), I reread Year Of The Flood by Margarete Attwood every summer lately. Toby and her little rituals are very comforting.

YotF was the first one I read of the Oryx And Crake trilogy too, but it doesn’t make for quite as good a username with all those christian connotations.

I’ve read all the books in the correct order several times since then, but I far prefer reading O&C after YotF, it makes Maddaddam feel so much more cathartic and deserved and it really improves the pacing. The slow build up in YotF, leading to all the action and exposition in O&C and then winding down in Maddaddam and the story coming back to Toby, flows so much better as a three book narrative. Also piecing everything together with this order is much more interesting too imo.