30s/white/tired/coyote/&
Words are my favorite stim toy
Tell me about a musical instrument you really wish you could own and play well, but do not
Drums. Specifically a drum set. I do not have good rhythm, the space or money for a a proper drum kit, nor the time to learn them. I started programming drums when I was working on stuff for the band I'm in, and I like it a lot, it changed the way I listen to music and made me appreciate it even more, but I think there's an even deeper understanding that would come from being able to play physically.
Anonymous User asked: What is some sort of technology, that has fallen out of use, thar you think is actually really useful and underrated?
Having a fondness for more dynamic geographical territory and having lived in plenty of neighborhoods with dogshit reception, I do think landlines becoming relegated to Extinction is greatly unfortunate.
I think wood and glass should be used more in just about everything, I'm not the biggest fan of plastic for both environmental and honestly reliability reasons.
It's difficult to answer this as a real sci-fi junkie, I really like the idea of progress forward, and that sometimes technologies have been mothballed or replaced entirely because we've developed something new, more efficient, better. If it's more energy efficient or more reliable or more effective, it should be used. I think a great deal of the problem with the computerization of everything is less about the computers themselves and more about ethical concerns and environmental ones. I think given good policy, better planning, and ceasing to focus on profit as a goal, technology could be a huge step forward in reducing our impact on the world, but I'm rambling at this point.
I think what I miss the most is not necessarily any particular technology but a line of thinking, that things should be sustainable and reliable, that's Parts should last a long time to have 40 50 60 70 year service lives. It's the waste that upsets me the most.
Also to spite the long brigades, bring back push mowers. If you're going to do the tiny little environmental disaster that is maintaining a lawn in the White People sense, you should have to do that mother fucker by hand and not have a shitty fume-spewibg engine or be sapping any power from the grid. [Insert 2 hours of complaining about lawns here]
Would you write an essay on your least favorite subject just to make it slightly more interesting for you? (Alternatively, to strengthen the fact that it's your least favorite)
Probably not, honestly. Every once in awhile I personally dig into some things that I don't like just to make sure that I still don't like them, and if I change my mind on them then I'll talk about it, but there are some subjects where either it does not engage me or there is a great deal of pain behind why I avoid them, and my writing be at fiction or nonfiction has to engage me for it to be productive. I've been around long enough and been through enough that I really want to focus on the positive aspects of my life where I can, especially given how much time I spend stressed about the things Beyond My Control in my life, which these days Feels Like Everything.
Have you ever experienced a piece of media that was either life changingly good or life changingly bad?
All the time, too many list, God so so so much. Most of the life-changingly bad ones I'm going to leave out because it largely is me witnessing things I really wish I hadn't, some of which genuinely profoundly traumatized me.
The most recent one that REALLY deeply changed me was @makyo's Post-Self Cycle, which if you've been around me for more than like 5 minutes recently you know I absolutely will not shut up about. It's fantastic, it's visionary, it's thought-provoking, and gave me entirely new language to talk about plurality and memory, and it gave me a few skunks in the head as well. There is a pre-post-self and a post-post-self Ceres.