I love seeing other small essayists who decide to keep it up as a hobby, even without attracting a bigger audience because those are usually the same people whose growth you can actively see in their writing or filmmaking.

In an Internet landscape where vitality and mass consumption are The Thing, there is something compelling about making things for the Internet with a small audience.

More often than not I have to remind myself of that because view counts in the hundreds are also really discouraging.

Once again perfect for the culture! No one has any idea who invented spickles (all-sport pickles) but we all marvel in horror at the ubiquity of such food crimes

I need to share this with all the other hike guides I'm working with this summer

Link here
youtu.be/PuLzZ-oO4Us?...

This has exactly the same energy as my students who call me "Dr focht" even though the first thing I say every semester is "hi I'm cyril, don't call me Dr because I'm not"

Clearly paid zero attention to the very first thing I said, and I assume not a thing since

This is so weird to me because my takeaway from that announcement was that you weren't already on hrt

When it's not house of leaves, you'll find infinite jest in it's place

@squidtips.bsky.social made a whole video a while ago about his choice to do that

And you still wrote something! Just having it on the page means you've got something that will be easier to work with later when you come back to edit

When I'm hitting similar slumps, I try to remind myself that even if it doesn't make it into later drafts, it's still helping to think through my direction. When I don't like it there's a reason I don't like it and I can dig into that.

Ofc sometimes it also helps figure out what direction not to go