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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-01 06:35 [#02634327]
Points: 24441 Status: Regular



that i should really paint it like it is: i have a
thought and i dash it off. the thought leads to a following
thot and i'm back. at this point i'm dodging work and a part
of me likes this very much so i keep writing. at that point
some sort of momentum takes hold and i turn into a
juggernaut.


that i know i've written this somewhere before as i do it, i
simply can't remember, for sure, if darius asked me about
adderall before and that was my reply. because yep, pretty
sure. and that's the same answer i would have then. but i
can't say for sure that's where i last dropped that old
grandpa story

to deepen my reply, in 2016 it went something like: "i've
hit upon this exciting vein of ideas. maybe i could goof off
on a bunch of adderall instead of working? this sounds
fantastic"

and i miss having that few bills, i have to say. and that
much room to fuck around. but i got so deeply high-level
fucking around in that zone i can wander back anytime


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-01 06:44 [#02634328]
Points: 24441 Status: Regular



now here are even more tedious details: when, somewhere in
bullshit thread, i'm saying "i was entirely sober when
someone changed lanes into me" i'm actively then writing
about taking a mental inventory and making sure this is
true, and what i come back with is a can of yellow red bull
and that sends me on another writing tangent -- but, no, i
was literally too broke to afford a can of red bull when
someone totaled my car, so unless there was something
strange in the tap water i was, truly, sober, i had not even
had adderall in perhaps a year and a half at that point

and there is, probably, that i had that leading edge and
recalling blah blah but then we're into conversations where
i say -- no, that actually wasn't a factor here. i'm just a
fucking odd duck


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-01 07:14 [#02634329]
Points: 24441 Status: Regular



are you bored yet? around 14-16 i started to have enough
algebra to write real computer code and i began to get very
focused as i then started to get into web servers and php
and

mom would knock at the door asking about dinner, or
whatever. and then mom would have to ask again, because i
have this tyrannosaurus rex of... hang on... just have to
finish... typing thi-

and mom got very tired of having to ask again to the point
where it started to sink in and i then found myself in a
strange nebulous zone in between. that i feel a buffer of
sorts, like, i can finish typing the rest of the line before
the buffer disappears and i lose whatever mom just said. but
i can hold off processing that enough to finish... this...
much. and then i play back what mom just said and at that
point mom's job got slightly easier

my medication at that point was a bunch of horrible, boring
risperdal serzone antidepressants, assholes tinkering
around, after one switch i gain 20lbs and i'm fat for 20
years

so when i pulled that off at 15 or something, i was
actually, arguably, on anti-drugs. like, lead weights on my
legs and that's not enough to stop me from getting to that
mental state

or noticing how, actually, even earlier than that, 13 maybe,
how songs triggered goosebumps and i see where those starts
and since then i can give myself goosebumps voluntarily [if
i sit there and focus; it's not like a lightswitch]

what were we talking about again? right. i'm just a fucking
odd duck. who was like: drugs? this is just what i need to
become even stranger. then that's been taken care of and i'm
very excited to keep dodging work writing bullshit thank you
for reading my post(s)

[what was this thread about again?]


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-04-01 15:11 [#02634344]
Points: 12170 Status: Lurker



lol sorry for pestering you and forgetting about it. i
suppose at least my concerns are persistent!


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 00:10 [#02634345]
Points: 24441 Status: Regular



i've heard that if you're consistent, that means you're
incomplete

i was just playing back "wonderboy" by tenacious D in my
head, for no reason [or rather i could find reasons but i
really suspect they'll be boring toss] and i get to the part
VOCIFEROUSLYLONGrunnonsentenceBECAUSEheHAS.A.HUGE.FUCKINGPO
where jack black is doing one of his
INtpowersthatareequaltoorperhapsgreaterthan--- gguuuUUUGGHH

that he'll pause in one of his red-faced, every bit of air
he's got bits like that, and literally just guzzle air
because he's run himself right to the end of his lungs and
FUCK YOU I'M NOT DONE YET and since he's worked himself into
the corner let's just play up guzzling the air too

i'm actually very much like this


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 02:53 [#02634353]
Points: 24441 Status: Regular | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02634230



on NPR's "wait wait don't tell me" they're on about some
chinese hotel having a schtick where you sign a waiver and
then you can spend the night with a live tiger in your hotel
room. one of them quips, "...but tigers will kill you if you
turn your back on them, so it's important to be the big
spoon" and then another one of the talking heads gets all
wistful, like "awww, now i want to snuggle with a
tiger"


after you get past "it's an intellectual trap to just
anthropomorphize the behavior of animals and then simply
stop thinking" you get to the arguably much-easier-to-get-ya
"it's emotional trap to anthropomorphize animal
behavior" which leads to the ultimate corker, "ultimately i
want this to be nice and beautiful and i'm always going to
give it the benefit of the doubt but i have to point out to
myself how many times i've been tricked into attempting to
spoon with a tiger" -- that is, thinking an ugly thing is
beautiful simply because that means not considering that it
may be ugly.

it actually pains me greatly... you see me struggle, really,
with something like "the socially constructive way to treat
the matrix" i suppose and i am torn in a very real nub in
between "if you make the movie about trans people you really
do rob people of spiritual development they could get out of
simply thinking about it on their own terms" and "trans
people are not nuts for talking this up at all, esp. given
the wachowskis, but you're effectively..." ...arguing that
gender is a social construct, when it's a construct that
goes above mammals.

so it's hard to ask, like: what is transgender for? the
answer may not make people happy, even though i really do my
best to smooth things over. so far, though, all i have is:
we're trying some new branch of evolution out. i can't tell
you how it'll work or if it makes any sense yet


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 02:58 [#02634354]
Points: 24441 Status: Regular



"sometimes things just gotta play hard"
      --Kima Greggs, TV Lesbian, The Wire


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 03:09 [#02634355]
Points: 24441 Status: Regular



but if i then be blunt to the point of insensitive and say
"you're an evolutionary experiment with an undetermined
result" that's not very nice is it. i've managed to smooth
things always this time, i suppose, i'm just saying i can't
always promise it. but i will try


 


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