ruth[gone to the shop --> ] @ruth@witches.town

@gzt @Maenad It's definitely an issue in our culture. Some of it is not teaching people at various ages in reading that a story is interesting because it's a story, not necessarily because we're supposed to emulate or even sympathize with the protag... to some degree, reading is a skill beyond knowing what the words mean, and that's not really taught.

I used my sun lamp this morning! A good choice.

What would be a positive way of saying “a life well lived is the best revenge?” ... I have a feeling more like “resentment is like drinking poison and hoping someone else will die, so live toward your principles and talents instead” ... but it’s not pithy.

I just don’t feel so much toward revenge as...I can’t do anything abt certain people so I’ll just do my best at being me when I think about that fact.

Bela Lugosi’s Dead

LB a beautiful example of decay. Or something.

@aslevjal that can be more fun than someone who stops the action every 5 min to check rules or tell you you're doing it wrong! Your name reminds me my first character was a druid with a badger familiar.

@aslevjal ooh, what are yoou playing?

@bea isn't it wonderful? 🦑 🐳 🐋 🐙 Oceans may contain LEVIATHAN! and we don't even know!

@okiekiki @Sparrow Feeling this very much today. I even put in a shared doc "these notes are only skeletal, I'm just not really away" 😕

I mean "Finds hope in rotting logs..." was already in my bio.

@ambyrb it's not unlike how I don't want to live forever either... I just don't. That sounds exhausting.

Change, decay, repair, the naturalness of it all...even when it may also involve catastrophic and unnatural harms to the environment... one of my colleagues who works on digital things has suggested the idea that we could conceive of the digital and digital objects much as we conceive of natural ones... that they will decay. That bit rot is just another kind of rot. That not everything will last. I find that appealing.