Lucas
@lucasdesouza.bsky.social
Writer currently surviving revisions.
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Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
If anything, the more challenging the piece, the more fun it is to unravel the puzzle.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If anything, the more challenging the piece, the more fun it is to unravel the puzzle.
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At events I always insist that I enjoy the daily act of writing, and I'm often met with skepticism. But an activity can be frustrating/challenging and still bring joy. In fact, that's part of it-- like playing a video game on a too-easy difficulty setting, a frictionless existence is not rewarding.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
At events I always insist that I enjoy the daily act of writing, and I'm often met with skepticism. But an activity can be frustrating/challenging and still bring joy. In fact, that's part of it-- like playing a video game on a too-easy difficulty setting, a frictionless existence is not rewarding.
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"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
You know that repost button on Instagram that's very easy to activate by mistake and doesn't even have a confirmation pop-up? I just think everyone responsible for it deserves a nice weekend in Silent Hill.
October 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You know that repost button on Instagram that's very easy to activate by mistake and doesn't even have a confirmation pop-up? I just think everyone responsible for it deserves a nice weekend in Silent Hill.
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Debate is a hobby.
It’s not a thing you do to understand another person.
Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.
It’s not a thing you do to understand another person.
Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.
September 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Debate is a hobby.
It’s not a thing you do to understand another person.
Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.
It’s not a thing you do to understand another person.
Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.
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Alternative history SF novel where Y2K is as bad as people feared, Silicon Valley tech corporations never recover, and we reach utopia.
September 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Alternative history SF novel where Y2K is as bad as people feared, Silicon Valley tech corporations never recover, and we reach utopia.
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New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
August 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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Thank you to all you well-meaning solution-oriented people, but I did not ask how I could fix the thing.
I asked why the thing sucked. It is 2025. the thing should not suck.
I asked why the thing sucked. It is 2025. the thing should not suck.
July 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thank you to all you well-meaning solution-oriented people, but I did not ask how I could fix the thing.
I asked why the thing sucked. It is 2025. the thing should not suck.
I asked why the thing sucked. It is 2025. the thing should not suck.
It turns out romance novels are indeed the best way to get out of a reading slump, after all.
a man in a suit and tie is smiling in front of a stained glass window
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling in front of a stained glass window
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July 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It turns out romance novels are indeed the best way to get out of a reading slump, after all.
Bought this and read it in two days. The only reason I didn't finish it in one sitting was because I had to wake up early the next day. Really, really can't wait for the second book!
📚 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Bought this and read it in two days. The only reason I didn't finish it in one sitting was because I had to wake up early the next day. Really, really can't wait for the second book!
I've neglected sorting new books into folders on the Kindle for a few months now and today I'm paying the price. It's a fine mess.
June 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I've neglected sorting new books into folders on the Kindle for a few months now and today I'm paying the price. It's a fine mess.
Bought this immediately based on the pitch and it might be the best fantasy book I've read all year. Started and finished it pretty much in one sitting. It does, in fact, deliver.
I wrote a very sad book about a gay boy killing so so many people and sacrificing them to the woods books2read.com/Dawes-Dream-...
Available now at your favorite digital store!
A Dream of Saints by Dorian Dawes
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June 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Bought this immediately based on the pitch and it might be the best fantasy book I've read all year. Started and finished it pretty much in one sitting. It does, in fact, deliver.
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You: Use well honed life skills & critical thinking to accomplish a task.
Me: Augment my room temperature IQ utilizing machine learning to output content into a space that is already oversaturated with such content, leaving me with diminishing returns and no marketable skills beyond prompt writing.
Me: Augment my room temperature IQ utilizing machine learning to output content into a space that is already oversaturated with such content, leaving me with diminishing returns and no marketable skills beyond prompt writing.
June 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
You: Use well honed life skills & critical thinking to accomplish a task.
Me: Augment my room temperature IQ utilizing machine learning to output content into a space that is already oversaturated with such content, leaving me with diminishing returns and no marketable skills beyond prompt writing.
Me: Augment my room temperature IQ utilizing machine learning to output content into a space that is already oversaturated with such content, leaving me with diminishing returns and no marketable skills beyond prompt writing.
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I’m sorry, this has such “now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge” energy.
Amazing.
Amazing.
June 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I’m sorry, this has such “now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge” energy.
Amazing.
Amazing.
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We gotta stop using the verb “consume” in relationship to art tbh
June 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
We gotta stop using the verb “consume” in relationship to art tbh
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this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
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don’t ever give up… you never know when you’ll see a white star twinkling and the beauty of it will smite your heart and hope will return to you and the thought will pierce you that in the end the Shadow is only a small and passing thing and there is light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach
April 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
don’t ever give up… you never know when you’ll see a white star twinkling and the beauty of it will smite your heart and hope will return to you and the thought will pierce you that in the end the Shadow is only a small and passing thing and there is light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach