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love this !!! every time i hear a "during covid" as if it's past-tense i cringe. you've inspired me to make games about the on-going pandemic. thank you for making this !!!

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love this !! it is one of the biggest joys of my life to make something specifically for friends and the people around me, and the anticipation of a loved one's reaction really can be such a motivation to finish a project and often makes the process especially fun! :) thank you for sharing this!

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love this! it was a pleasure to be in the vortex formed between two people whose processes have collided at irregular angles with you!

this is beautiful. thank you for writing and sharing it.

this was really fascinating, thank you for sharing it!

oh, the book sounds fascinating, i'll have to look it up! the issue does seem to apply to so many scenes; that reminds me as well of fashion and the ways that even explicitly anticapitalist/anti fashion industry/underground fashion movements can get absorbed by institutions and eventually reproduced/mass produced in softened and less "challenging" forms. serves double purpose to earn the industry more money, and also as a bonus rob a form of potentially political creative expression of its meaning.

i believe it's Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's book Future Is Disabled that talks the most about time/speed/rest like this, from what i remember. it's really lovely! and 100% agree regarding the exhausting expectation of immediacy. i'm working prioritizing my energy, too! easier said than done. :) this also makes me think of a video i saw on instagram a while back where the poster said they were trying to focus less on how productive/efficient they could be while completing a task, and focus instead on how physically and mentally relaxed they could feel while working.

wow that's so kind of you, i really appreciate that!

this rules !!

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love this!

love this! the part about how talking about something online makes it live especially stood out to me - i get frustrated when i see people with a platform say "oh well i pirated it so it's fine" and then in the next breath talk uncritically about how cool and fun the thing is. even if you're pirating something because you know the creator/company is funding terrible things, if you're then giving it free advertisement online and talking about how great it is, you are ultimately still supporting the creator/company's work in a different way.

love this hell yeah, more ugly & weird women forever and ever

love this ! there's very much a pressure or expectation in some spaces that people must make themselves and their experiences into marketable and palatable life lessons or "entertaining" trauma stories, but human experience isn't meant to be endlessly simplified and made intelligible and entertaining for consumption. loved the last line especially. thank you for writing and sharing this!

love this, thank you for sharing it

this rules !!! especially loved the part about success stories. once institutions find some "break-through success" that they deem marketable, palatable enough to sell, and less "scary and weird" in a previously un-marketable scene, it's over; they latch on to it, try to make it The Image Of A Scene in popular consciousness, and dangle the possibility of their future patronage over everyone else try to keep them Producing Marketable Content

this rules !!!

this rules !!! maps & other tools are not objective & neutral things that exist in a vacuum !!

love this! thank you for sharing it!

this rules ! loved the last line

i loved this, this was so wonderful. i didn't know any of that about emily brontë and i loved reading your thoughts about her! thank you for sharing this!

love this! it reminds me in places of some of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's writing about disability and new/different measurements of time/speed/rest, and also some of Tricia Hersey's writing in Rest Is Resistance. it can be a meaningful and radical thing to take your time and rest and resist the idea of needing to meet standards of speed and efficiency. thank you for sharing this!

love this ! popular prettiness and visual hyperrealism are not the be-all end-all and are so frequently just boring and empty marketing ploys.

this rules, i love this. tiny tools forever !!!!

destroy all oppressors 2026 ! love this

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this rules! 4 and 6 especially struck me. art is less important than people.

really interesting thoughts, thank you for sharing this!

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really good, thank you for sharing this. i literally tried to zoom in to read the tiny text at first !!

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this rules !!! love this !!!

love this!

love this !! also love how it looks, love the design of the itch page. it never even occurred to me you could make things on the itch page wonky like this. :) this rules.

god this rules. i was giggling and clapping my hands reading this.

very compelling! really cool visuals!

mulch to think about !! really fun!