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if you use the phrase "be normal" as if it's something to aspire to, kindly take a long walk off a short plank. or block me. whichever is easier for you.

 

 

child of the 80s

 

 

i escaped a cult.
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thewaether
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bluesky really feels like people who identify as "elder millennials" jacking each other off over how doomed they can feel about the future. not that you have you feel good all the time but I feel they've just prematurely given up

ireneista
@ireneista

we recently saw a quote from an Ursula LeGuin essay that we've been meaning to track down, because it sounds good

about how a lot of fiction amounts to telling what she calls "the killing story"

she recommends that we should tell "the life story" instead.

say what you will about Cohost, there is a lot of queer joy here. a lot of people just living our lives and celebrating it. it's pretty great.

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CandyCorvid
@CandyCorvid

googling those phrases led me to her essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction". I can't find those exact phrases in the text, but from reading the first few pages, I get the feeling that this essay covers those topics.

Oh hey here we go:

"It sometimes seems that that story is approaching its
end. Lest there be no more telling of stories at all, some
of us out here in the wild oats, amid the alien corn, think
we'd better start telling another one, which maybe people
can go on with when the old one's finished. Maybe. The
trouble is, we've all let ourselves become part of the killer story, and so we may get finished along with it. Hence it
is with a certain feeling of urgency that I seek the nature, subject, words of the other story, the untold one, the life story."

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calliope
@calliope

As I am a particular sort of sicko, I'll respond to say this essay is one among many in the LoA version of Always Coming Home that will probably be equally pleasing -- as well as, of course, the novel itself lol.

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