cynic: a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons.
Source: lost-carcosa | Ambrose Bierce
Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Ambrose Bierce ~ The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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“Remember your words can plant gardens
or burn whole forests down.” Gemma Troy
This quote gets at the heart of so many things-I’ll let you pull your own interpretations from them. For me, it’s more important than something “out there” that is happening, it is a check on my own tongue. A tongue I’ve seen help restore and encourage as well as tear down and disparage. It’s a reminder & a warning, but also to encouragement. It’s all of those things. @four4soaring thank you!
The Denton Trinity River Elm Fork Disaster 2024
Like a moth to a flame, I keep coming back to this one topic. I keep coming back to the Denton Greenbelt because it was once such a great fly fishing experience, and now it is a disaster in just about every way you can possibly measure. Time, our greatest asset, is passing by quickly and we certainly measure it differently from government…
so the answer to the question "heyy why haven't you been writing?" is that i've been too busy doing art therapy, and uh i may've gone overboard with the art therapy? how much art therapy is too much art therapy? regardless 😅 i hope to be writing again soon
something that is like the baseline of amys entire character to me is that shes lonely. shes clingy and physically affectionate in a way none of her friends really are, shes always getting pushed aside and left behind. yeah, she helps out people she doesnt know because shes a nice person, but also, she sees part of herself in them. she wont leave someone else behind because she knows the feeling —and more importantly, hates the feeling. if she doesnt have somebody to stand by her and be there for her, then shes going to be that person for everybody else. something something her obsession with sonic is really just like a manifestation of that desire for closeness with someone, and she thinks that romance is the only way to get that. idk... this hedgehog can have so many abandonment issues.
carnificare is coded in twine and playable in browsers. it is a text-centric story with visual novel elements — mostly because it was originally made for a vn game jam. it's a very short story, somewhere between 7-8k words long, and features art done by yours truly. please heed the content warnings.
you can play it now on itch.io.
gonna be honest at the expense of looking like a bridge troll: i dislike that there will be friendgroups of 5 or more people that take up half the pillow room, sit there for hours, and either lock out all outsider's attempt to join the convo or get all sassy on them for trying. if you wanted a private convo, you could always go to your den instead of stinking up a public room with your designer arctic wolf posse.