First time with one of these? They are pretty cool, yeah

Is this a Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reference? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_and_Mr._Norrell

I think most people see these illustrations online these days

I was thinking illustrator, like those who draw the often semi abstract drawing what go with magazine articles.

Have you heard of synarchy? An actually secret society controls the world via so-called secret societies (the ones you’ve probably heard of), even those with seemingly contradictory goals. Of course they’re so secretive that you’ve never heard of them.

Just kidding I’m paraphrasing a conspiracy nut from Foucault’s Pendulum (good read, but very Noun heavy).___

Yeah for this reason I worry about illustrators and concept artists. Those used to be dream jobs, now I’m not so sure they’re even jobs anymore.

Just going to shamelessly paste this one for the memories

< Cthon98 > hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars  
< Cthon98 > ********* see!  
< AzureDiamond > hunter2  
< AzureDiamond > doesnt look like stars to me  
< Cthon98 > < AzureDiamond > *******  
< Cthon98 > thats what I see  
< AzureDiamond > oh, really?  
< Cthon98 > Absolutely  
< AzureDiamond > you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2  
< AzureDiamond > haha, does that look funny to you?  
< Cthon98 > lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******  
< AzureDiamond > thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that  
< Cthon98 > yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******  
< AzureDiamond > awesome!  
< AzureDiamond > wait, how do you know my pw?  
< Cthon98 > er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw  
< AzureDiamond > oh, ok.  

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Ah yeah that makes sense. I’m an eternal hobbyist with different creative things (art, games, stories, etc), so I get the challenge of just finishing something.

PS feel free to send me what you’ve got if you want a totally impartial “beta reader” or whatever that’s called

That’s cool. And if it continues to be useful / enjoyable to you, then you don’t necessarily need to “end” it ever, unless you really want to.

Excellent advice. I’ve sat down to write about a boring day, only to be shocked at the shit that was festering just below the surface. Like negative attitudes and resentment to people in my life, that would have just kind of hung around in the back of my head totally unknown and unacknowledged, but still there and unchallenged until I took a few minutes to consciously follow my own thoughts and feelings.

Anyway 10/10 would recommend the examined life.

Don’t try, just write in it whenever you feel like it: congratulations! You have a diary! That could be several times a day, or once a month, depending what you need and want out of your diary. But realistically if you’re just starting out it will probably be diary meta, like about the writing you’re doing in the diary lol.

For me I find it useful for

• jotting media reviews.
• nurturing my stationary fetish.
• an excuse to practice my cursive.
• relaxing at the end of the day, or week.
• reading over to gain insights into my moods (like how I was always sad after drinking)
• purging “negative” feelings (anger, insecurity, etc) - just get them out of my head and on to a page.

Anyway, here’s an example of me just talking about Quake 2 and having trouble focusing at work:

At the end of the day, I just like making marks on the page.

alright scrap the sex split, let’s just break it down by household income and access to healthcare

does it… keep increasing?

Ditched centralized social media and started a personal diary

What’s wrong? I mean aside from everything

Capitalist Realism was great though, for real

fair

But what if you’re just glancing across the recommended thumbnails and learning things you don’t want to know

Amazon, if I could figure out a way to cost them mad money, like getting AWS Snowball to ship servers back and forth, forever.

Otherwise the Chrome one sounds the best.