The lion is concerned. The lion is honestly really fucking worried.
oh fuck yes it's almost thanksgiving which means fire departments across the usa are going to be posting beautiful content like this to try and stop people setting their houses on fire (x)
Mirror
by Sylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever you see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful — The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Oh good I'm not the only one who noticed I thought I was going insane. 90% of the stuff that people seem to want to automate with LLMs to 'revolutionise [X] industry' was already being automated much better with bots, which is depressing because before this wave of LLMs we were all complaining about how shitty all the bots make everything when they're used to do things that shouldn't be automated, but now even a misimplemented non-AI bot is a comparative relief.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy
I'm kind of just now learning that some readers have a REALLY STRONG preference for POV to the point that they want to know beforehand what POV the book is written in. This is so bizarre to me. It would never have crossed my mind to ask what the POV is before starting a book. It feels like a weird outgrowth of readers - and people in general - sequestering their tastes into increasingly narrow boxes and self-limiting to what feels like a ridiculous degree.
I'm gonna hold your hand and gently tell you that you need to read and observe media that isn't 100% immediately and effortlessly accessible to you. Your brain is going to atrophy from disuse. Experiencing only carefully curated and custom-tailored, perfectly comfortable storytelling that never challenges you is not good for you. I'm not saying never read something that's your exact preferences. But branch out sometimes. Try something different. There's a reason people are constantly told to expand their horizons. Because YOUR BRAIN NEEDS IT.
this will be not funny by the time i post this
I Phrew Up