atseajournal
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I write beach reads for people who vacation in the shadow realm. If you make art I want to see it.
We've lost recipes, I remember a time when penguins were athletic equipment.
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We've lost recipes, I remember a time when penguins were athletic equipment.
"Clanker" as an AI slur: 6/10. A little soft, but it's fun to pretend you're in a sci-fi movie set in 2030 but written in 1994.
But calling an AI-enjoyer a "vessel" is 10/10 hating, that's already informing my worldview.
But calling an AI-enjoyer a "vessel" is 10/10 hating, that's already informing my worldview.
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Clanker" as an AI slur: 6/10. A little soft, but it's fun to pretend you're in a sci-fi movie set in 2030 but written in 1994.
But calling an AI-enjoyer a "vessel" is 10/10 hating, that's already informing my worldview.
But calling an AI-enjoyer a "vessel" is 10/10 hating, that's already informing my worldview.
The fact I once would have thought he was dead wrong about this entirely explains why I didn't like his movies from 2010-2020. Couldn't agree more now, and am fully back on the bandwagon.
July 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The fact I once would have thought he was dead wrong about this entirely explains why I didn't like his movies from 2010-2020. Couldn't agree more now, and am fully back on the bandwagon.
Now announcing:
PS the live readings are a delight, thanks for orchestrating those. I am neutral on Star Wars, but pro-actor/performance/jokes, and there's so much to enjoy in them.
PS the live readings are a delight, thanks for orchestrating those. I am neutral on Star Wars, but pro-actor/performance/jokes, and there's so much to enjoy in them.
April 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Now announcing:
PS the live readings are a delight, thanks for orchestrating those. I am neutral on Star Wars, but pro-actor/performance/jokes, and there's so much to enjoy in them.
PS the live readings are a delight, thanks for orchestrating those. I am neutral on Star Wars, but pro-actor/performance/jokes, and there's so much to enjoy in them.
So many scenes with clerks & cashiers, across all their films, and many different kinds of haggling. Ulysses fails to fast talk his way thru a logistical problem. Rooster Cogburn gets grilled by a lawyer: both enforce the law, but they think + talk about so differently.
April 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So many scenes with clerks & cashiers, across all their films, and many different kinds of haggling. Ulysses fails to fast talk his way thru a logistical problem. Rooster Cogburn gets grilled by a lawyer: both enforce the law, but they think + talk about so differently.
The Coen Bros. favorite kind of scene: two people who speak different languages need to make an exchange, and the fun/surprising ways those negotiations can play out. The language usually isn't literal, more like: one guy is performing a routine business transaction, the other is
April 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The Coen Bros. favorite kind of scene: two people who speak different languages need to make an exchange, and the fun/surprising ways those negotiations can play out. The language usually isn't literal, more like: one guy is performing a routine business transaction, the other is
Does that chain say "Man-Child"? Let me zoom in. God, that's funny. Let me find a higher-res image. Hold on, what is this?
April 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Does that chain say "Man-Child"? Let me zoom in. God, that's funny. Let me find a higher-res image. Hold on, what is this?
To jump off of that, not only is it not creation, it's *really* not procreation. Take the artist out of the exchange and replace it with your own whims & you quickly enter an aesthetic/emotional death spiral, with no new psychic energy entering the mix.
April 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
To jump off of that, not only is it not creation, it's *really* not procreation. Take the artist out of the exchange and replace it with your own whims & you quickly enter an aesthetic/emotional death spiral, with no new psychic energy entering the mix.
I'm cool with living on a volcano, but I'm not above getting nervous when the comfy people get nervous. They invented this thing called the NASDAQ that can chart their panic by the millisecond, so they will get a very timely notification to stampede.
MJH is still a blue chipper for me, thankfully.
MJH is still a blue chipper for me, thankfully.
April 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I'm cool with living on a volcano, but I'm not above getting nervous when the comfy people get nervous. They invented this thing called the NASDAQ that can chart their panic by the millisecond, so they will get a very timely notification to stampede.
MJH is still a blue chipper for me, thankfully.
MJH is still a blue chipper for me, thankfully.
The hardest captcha for me is security questions that assume there's a chunk of my hippocampus devoted to tracking my preferences over time. I was already saying "green" through gritted teeth when I was a kindergartener and the adults told us to have a favorite color.
April 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The hardest captcha for me is security questions that assume there's a chunk of my hippocampus devoted to tracking my preferences over time. I was already saying "green" through gritted teeth when I was a kindergartener and the adults told us to have a favorite color.
Pic of me after grinding out 1500 words
March 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Pic of me after grinding out 1500 words
Best live tracker for the Oscars 2025
March 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Best live tracker for the Oscars 2025
What a fun lil treat that will be for the first Gen Z astronaut
February 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What a fun lil treat that will be for the first Gen Z astronaut
Harry Lawtey is not coming back for Industry S4...
February 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Harry Lawtey is not coming back for Industry S4...
The casual evil of this comment made me break out into a cold sweat, and I wasn't even the target of it. (I did agree 80% with it though.)
February 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The casual evil of this comment made me break out into a cold sweat, and I wasn't even the target of it. (I did agree 80% with it though.)
For comparison, here's the fourth most popular post on that subreddit today, along with its typo-riddled first paragraph. (It goes on for another 763 words.)
January 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
For comparison, here's the fourth most popular post on that subreddit today, along with its typo-riddled first paragraph. (It goes on for another 763 words.)
LIVE INTERNET THEORY
I was inspired to paint this frankenstein robot because I was thinking about how impersonal & bot-driven the internet of 2025 feels, and how the act of self-repair could make even a synthetic being seem human.
I posted to r/worldbuilding & a robot moderator removed it.
😐
I was inspired to paint this frankenstein robot because I was thinking about how impersonal & bot-driven the internet of 2025 feels, and how the act of self-repair could make even a synthetic being seem human.
I posted to r/worldbuilding & a robot moderator removed it.
😐
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
LIVE INTERNET THEORY
I was inspired to paint this frankenstein robot because I was thinking about how impersonal & bot-driven the internet of 2025 feels, and how the act of self-repair could make even a synthetic being seem human.
I posted to r/worldbuilding & a robot moderator removed it.
😐
I was inspired to paint this frankenstein robot because I was thinking about how impersonal & bot-driven the internet of 2025 feels, and how the act of self-repair could make even a synthetic being seem human.
I posted to r/worldbuilding & a robot moderator removed it.
😐
Would love to do this with the yellow sun of Earth
January 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Would love to do this with the yellow sun of Earth
If you're willing to be authentic, either in your expression or in your willingness to meet audiences where they are, you're allowed to be janky, esoteric, slightly boring. If you teleported a major network TV exec from '96, they'd have an aneurysm at the stuff doing numbers on Youtube.
December 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM
If you're willing to be authentic, either in your expression or in your willingness to meet audiences where they are, you're allowed to be janky, esoteric, slightly boring. If you teleported a major network TV exec from '96, they'd have an aneurysm at the stuff doing numbers on Youtube.
Spent the past 3 hrs drafting an essay called "Art-making in the Slop Era", immediately got lost in the weeds of hyper-intellectualization. But on emotional level, I think it's pretty simple for me: the era of content is stressful because it's really about Content. Can't hide behind technique.
December 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Spent the past 3 hrs drafting an essay called "Art-making in the Slop Era", immediately got lost in the weeds of hyper-intellectualization. But on emotional level, I think it's pretty simple for me: the era of content is stressful because it's really about Content. Can't hide behind technique.