MONDAY UPDATE: it's ok to be a hater
Feb. 3rd, 2025 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaguepostingwhew! as an outsider existing beyond the united states—you guys are having it tough!
i wish you all the best, unless you're one of those upper middle class morons who whine about not being the one who voted for this. how about you stand up and actually use your resources to make a real difference? pthooey! enough with your heroes versus villains mentality! get your asses off the ground and help the society you're mourning!
on a more personal note, i'm delighted to report to my readers that i am not immune to the candy aisle. do my non-filipino readers know about dali everyday? they have a SICK candy aisle. bring a dollar to this place and you can come home with enough treats to last a week (if you're an adult who eats a respectable amount of sugar.) in the middle of writing this i ate a Giant-brand marshmallow. in summary, it's a piece of cotton candy-ish marshmallow stuffed in a tiny ice cream cone. there's also a polish chocolate bar brand named maxi, which i've unfortunately gotten a bit sick of, but it tastes godlike. THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISMENT! i just like candy.
my progress on the odin project kind of froze, unfortunately. i managed to complete the etch-a-sketch project and it's entirely free to play on my website. reception seems to be favorable. thank you!
maybe tonight, i'll be a lot less lazy. and i can begin work on the calculator. stand back, i'm about to cook.
my bluesky experience has been going fabulously. if you haven't been following me yet, now's a more appropriate time than ever to hit the Follow button.
i sure wish that the platform implemented a feature analogous to old twitter's moments feature. that one was good, really good, not just for documenting news but also because it felt good to have a gallery or mini-portfolio that you could force followers and guests alike to stare at.
speaking more negatively, i've kind of struggled with following through with my daily word quotas the past week. i've been feeling quite sour, and it's honestly not conducive to the kind of mood present in the story. normally, i don't let myself get carried away with how i feel versus how the story feels, but sometimes it's very difficult.
i don't think this blog deserves to have the full story of why and how i feel this way. but ultimately, i wish that everyone who writes, especially those who write for the things that bring them joy, will find their readers. they don't have to be perfect readers who say every bit of feedback you need. but they have to be people who understand the wavelength you live on, and will be impacted by your words.
sometimes i feel as if my work is difficult to relate to, or my motivations as an author aren't translating well to the page, but that's a sign for me to sit down and interrogate myself. (isn't "interrogate" kind of a harsh word?) without a doubt, not everything is going to appeal to everyone, and not every medium is conducive to my narrative style, but i'm going to forever treasure the people who do. like, i can't thank them enough. i'm exceedingly grateful of my friends who read my work, and my friends who let me yap about said work even when they themselves are busy.
i've earned my fair share of detractors or people who have been deterred by my demeanor or the content of my work. and that's OK. i think it's a shame to find that they walked out rather than to form a proper understanding of other thing, but not every human in the world is patient.
...i sure am not! which means i should attack today's quota. i'm about 3000 words ahead but i'd like to keep my momentum. i'm blasting off!
i wish you all the best, unless you're one of those upper middle class morons who whine about not being the one who voted for this. how about you stand up and actually use your resources to make a real difference? pthooey! enough with your heroes versus villains mentality! get your asses off the ground and help the society you're mourning!
on a more personal note, i'm delighted to report to my readers that i am not immune to the candy aisle. do my non-filipino readers know about dali everyday? they have a SICK candy aisle. bring a dollar to this place and you can come home with enough treats to last a week (if you're an adult who eats a respectable amount of sugar.) in the middle of writing this i ate a Giant-brand marshmallow. in summary, it's a piece of cotton candy-ish marshmallow stuffed in a tiny ice cream cone. there's also a polish chocolate bar brand named maxi, which i've unfortunately gotten a bit sick of, but it tastes godlike. THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISMENT! i just like candy.
on web development
my progress on the odin project kind of froze, unfortunately. i managed to complete the etch-a-sketch project and it's entirely free to play on my website. reception seems to be favorable. thank you!
maybe tonight, i'll be a lot less lazy. and i can begin work on the calculator. stand back, i'm about to cook.
on bluesky
my bluesky experience has been going fabulously. if you haven't been following me yet, now's a more appropriate time than ever to hit the Follow button.
i sure wish that the platform implemented a feature analogous to old twitter's moments feature. that one was good, really good, not just for documenting news but also because it felt good to have a gallery or mini-portfolio that you could force followers and guests alike to stare at.
on writing
speaking more negatively, i've kind of struggled with following through with my daily word quotas the past week. i've been feeling quite sour, and it's honestly not conducive to the kind of mood present in the story. normally, i don't let myself get carried away with how i feel versus how the story feels, but sometimes it's very difficult.
i don't think this blog deserves to have the full story of why and how i feel this way. but ultimately, i wish that everyone who writes, especially those who write for the things that bring them joy, will find their readers. they don't have to be perfect readers who say every bit of feedback you need. but they have to be people who understand the wavelength you live on, and will be impacted by your words.
sometimes i feel as if my work is difficult to relate to, or my motivations as an author aren't translating well to the page, but that's a sign for me to sit down and interrogate myself. (isn't "interrogate" kind of a harsh word?) without a doubt, not everything is going to appeal to everyone, and not every medium is conducive to my narrative style, but i'm going to forever treasure the people who do. like, i can't thank them enough. i'm exceedingly grateful of my friends who read my work, and my friends who let me yap about said work even when they themselves are busy.
i've earned my fair share of detractors or people who have been deterred by my demeanor or the content of my work. and that's OK. i think it's a shame to find that they walked out rather than to form a proper understanding of other thing, but not every human in the world is patient.
...i sure am not! which means i should attack today's quota. i'm about 3000 words ahead but i'd like to keep my momentum. i'm blasting off!
