violets
@springofviolet.bsky.social
“renaissance man” or “profoundly ADHD” depending on who you ask
in other words, too many hobbies, almost too many pets, one job I get paid for (genealogist). nyc based, never living west of the Appalachians again. here, queer, also queer when not here
in other words, too many hobbies, almost too many pets, one job I get paid for (genealogist). nyc based, never living west of the Appalachians again. here, queer, also queer when not here
They’ve got Michelin stars on Avenue C wtf has happened to Manhattan
January 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
They’ve got Michelin stars on Avenue C wtf has happened to Manhattan
-being like “man if only I could have had a crack at editing this novel before it was published, we could have saved 40 pages of the reader’s time”
-being completely unable to edit one’s own rambling mess of a novel
-being completely unable to edit one’s own rambling mess of a novel
December 28, 2024 at 1:00 AM
-being like “man if only I could have had a crack at editing this novel before it was published, we could have saved 40 pages of the reader’s time”
-being completely unable to edit one’s own rambling mess of a novel
-being completely unable to edit one’s own rambling mess of a novel
As an incorrigible contrarian, I have avoided Sally Rooney’s novels until this week, when I started Normal People. I pushed through a third of it and DNF’d. Bored & couldn’t make myself care about the characters. Do I try another book or am I going to feel the same about any of them?
December 12, 2024 at 3:39 PM
As an incorrigible contrarian, I have avoided Sally Rooney’s novels until this week, when I started Normal People. I pushed through a third of it and DNF’d. Bored & couldn’t make myself care about the characters. Do I try another book or am I going to feel the same about any of them?
Luigi Mangione’s got an interesting to read list! Lots of books about healing back pain, probably relevantly
www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
December 9, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Luigi Mangione’s got an interesting to read list! Lots of books about healing back pain, probably relevantly
www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
As I open what feels like the 74th food recall email this season, I anxiously await the return of my urban soil sample test. Gods help those without safe food or garden access in the next 4 years.
December 7, 2024 at 8:53 PM
As I open what feels like the 74th food recall email this season, I anxiously await the return of my urban soil sample test. Gods help those without safe food or garden access in the next 4 years.
As I’ve started bluntly saying to people, keep your eating disorder to yourself.
Some things not to comment on this Christmas:
- someone’s weight
- someone’s size
- how much they are eating
- how little they are eating
- the speed they are eating
- the type of foods they are eating
- the times they are eating
- your post Christmas diet
- how fat you feel
- someone’s weight
- someone’s size
- how much they are eating
- how little they are eating
- the speed they are eating
- the type of foods they are eating
- the times they are eating
- your post Christmas diet
- how fat you feel
December 7, 2024 at 7:45 PM
As I’ve started bluntly saying to people, keep your eating disorder to yourself.
Something went wrong with evolution with how many apex predators look cute to human beings. Bears? Wolves?? Lions??? Are you kidding me? We’re not supposed to want to pet something so fluffy??
November 27, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Something went wrong with evolution with how many apex predators look cute to human beings. Bears? Wolves?? Lions??? Are you kidding me? We’re not supposed to want to pet something so fluffy??
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Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.
November 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.
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This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
This needs to be said, loud, and often.
If you’re enough of a mess your disorganized attachment style can make you avoid even the fictional people you created in your own head. Too many pages written recently; we’ve gotten too close, need some space for awhile bye maybe you can finish your story on your own idk
November 22, 2024 at 4:16 AM
If you’re enough of a mess your disorganized attachment style can make you avoid even the fictional people you created in your own head. Too many pages written recently; we’ve gotten too close, need some space for awhile bye maybe you can finish your story on your own idk
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It really is wild that sometimes in the office I'll dissociate for a minute like the climate is changing in a scary way and we're being overtaken by a dangerous regime and we're on the brink of another pandemic then I just kind of have to shake myself out of it because I need to send this work email
November 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
It really is wild that sometimes in the office I'll dissociate for a minute like the climate is changing in a scary way and we're being overtaken by a dangerous regime and we're on the brink of another pandemic then I just kind of have to shake myself out of it because I need to send this work email
Seriously, why has no one been talking about this?! These days it’s extremely rare for me to go out to eat and be like “wow, that was good!”. Ordering Grubhub feels like a particularly aggressive act of masochism. The overpriced food was mid even before it got cold and soggy on the way here.
Is it just me or is a lot of restaurant/fast food mid now? Food doesn’t seem to be as good as it used to be.
November 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Seriously, why has no one been talking about this?! These days it’s extremely rare for me to go out to eat and be like “wow, that was good!”. Ordering Grubhub feels like a particularly aggressive act of masochism. The overpriced food was mid even before it got cold and soggy on the way here.
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The amount of AI fanworks/fanarts/fan videos I'm seeing on social media today is crazy
People started saying "Okay but THIS use of AI is actually good, we should use AI to only make this fan content"
I'M MORE THAN DISAPPOINTED
People started saying "Okay but THIS use of AI is actually good, we should use AI to only make this fan content"
I'M MORE THAN DISAPPOINTED
November 21, 2024 at 12:55 AM
The amount of AI fanworks/fanarts/fan videos I'm seeing on social media today is crazy
People started saying "Okay but THIS use of AI is actually good, we should use AI to only make this fan content"
I'M MORE THAN DISAPPOINTED
People started saying "Okay but THIS use of AI is actually good, we should use AI to only make this fan content"
I'M MORE THAN DISAPPOINTED
Quickly learning that I absolutely cannot tolerate listening to some genres on audiobook
November 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Quickly learning that I absolutely cannot tolerate listening to some genres on audiobook
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Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.
4 novels, all same universe, each based on one of my real ancestors, each MC given one or more of my absolute worst character flaws and sent down 300 pgs to fix it. (Sorry to any ancestors I misidentified as the source of something wrong w/ me). I may suck at writing but at least I got that down.
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 19, 2024 at 5:36 AM
4 novels, all same universe, each based on one of my real ancestors, each MC given one or more of my absolute worst character flaws and sent down 300 pgs to fix it. (Sorry to any ancestors I misidentified as the source of something wrong w/ me). I may suck at writing but at least I got that down.
“(City officials) urged residents to use less water by taking shorter showers, report leaky fire hydrants, flush the toilet only when necessary and sweep driveways rather than power-washing them.”
NEW: Mayor Eric Adams on Monday declared a drought warning and paused a years-long project to repair a leak in the Delaware Aqueduct.
As of Monday, the upstate reservoirs that provide NYC’s drinking water were at 60% capacity, about 19% less than normal.
As of Monday, the upstate reservoirs that provide NYC’s drinking water were at 60% capacity, about 19% less than normal.
NYC Escalates to Drought Warning as Upstate Reservoirs Fall to 60% Capacity
Mayor Adams ordered city agencies to conserve water and urged residents to take shorter showers, report leaky fire hydrants and take other water-saving steps.
www.thecity.nyc
November 19, 2024 at 1:13 AM
“(City officials) urged residents to use less water by taking shorter showers, report leaky fire hydrants, flush the toilet only when necessary and sweep driveways rather than power-washing them.”
This is the first I’ve seen evacuations for wildfires in this region. There was also a brushfire in my neighborhood in Queens last night. We desperately need rain in the NYC area. I can’t believe that we’re going to have climate change deniers in charge of environmental policy and everything else.
Edgemere Avenue, Wah Ta Wah Park residents evacuated due to Greenwood Lake wildfire - Mid Hudson News
GREENWOOD LAKE – Residents on Edgemere Avenue and Wah Ta Wah Park in Greenwood Lake were voluntarily evacuated from their homes on Saturday night after the Jennings Creek/Sterling State Park wildfire ...
midhudsonnews.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:55 PM
This is the first I’ve seen evacuations for wildfires in this region. There was also a brushfire in my neighborhood in Queens last night. We desperately need rain in the NYC area. I can’t believe that we’re going to have climate change deniers in charge of environmental policy and everything else.
November 14, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Just joined storygraph at the behest of everyone on this app and I’m already being judged.
(My preferences are so strong that sometimes I forget there are books that aren’t reflective, challenging, and dark)
(My preferences are so strong that sometimes I forget there are books that aren’t reflective, challenging, and dark)
November 14, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Just joined storygraph at the behest of everyone on this app and I’m already being judged.
(My preferences are so strong that sometimes I forget there are books that aren’t reflective, challenging, and dark)
(My preferences are so strong that sometimes I forget there are books that aren’t reflective, challenging, and dark)
How have I not seen more people talking about this today? This is a marvelous thing, long overdue.
Bill to End Forced Rental Broker Fees Goes to Council Vote With Near Veto-Proof Support
Paying brokers’ fees to rent an apartment might just become a thing of the past for many tenants in NYC.
www.westsiderag.com
November 14, 2024 at 5:14 AM
How have I not seen more people talking about this today? This is a marvelous thing, long overdue.
Let’s see if I can somehow tweak what gets shown to me here.
Still figuring things out.
Who here likes mixing things up in a jar and seeing if they’re edible in a few months? Also know as fermenting
Still figuring things out.
Who here likes mixing things up in a jar and seeing if they’re edible in a few months? Also know as fermenting
November 14, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Let’s see if I can somehow tweak what gets shown to me here.
Still figuring things out.
Who here likes mixing things up in a jar and seeing if they’re edible in a few months? Also know as fermenting
Still figuring things out.
Who here likes mixing things up in a jar and seeing if they’re edible in a few months? Also know as fermenting
If they can find my landlord to fine him for the lack of these bins and the compost ones — tell him that 1L said hi I guess
If every mayoralty is allotted one big accomplishment, getting trash into bins is a pretty good one.
GET HYPED: Today is the day that a huge portion of NYC buildings will have to start using trash bins instead of trash bags gothamist.com/news/ban-on-...
November 14, 2024 at 4:16 AM
If they can find my landlord to fine him for the lack of these bins and the compost ones — tell him that 1L said hi I guess
I had only heard about two so this blows my mind. 67 in the Bronx; where have the rest been?
NEW: A brush fire in Upper Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park began at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, hours after the FDNY reported it had responded to a record 229 brush fires citywide in the last two weeks.
Inwood Park Ablaze as Brush Fires Reach Historic Levels Across NYC
Firefighters have responded to more than 200 brush fires in the past two weeks, including nearly two dozen in Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx, as the city reckons with an historically dry and fiery season.
buff.ly
November 14, 2024 at 4:05 AM
I had only heard about two so this blows my mind. 67 in the Bronx; where have the rest been?
If moving to the woods to make candles were a live option I would promise to never put any more of this garbage onto a page again.
Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?
November 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
If moving to the woods to make candles were a live option I would promise to never put any more of this garbage onto a page again.