Sargoth @sargoth@mastodon.social

Blatant self-promotion, to give myself a nice story to pin

Discursive anomalies for all ages
https://discursiveanomalies.com/
Short stories of all kinds
https://relationshipstatues.com/
Weird stories of some kind
https://longersky.com/
A flimsy excuse to throw money at me (at least, that's the story)
https://www.patreon.com/sargoth

And, to top it all off: a webring
https://icosahedron.website/@Sargoth/3915157

Also
one more thing
cats :3

Hmm. #introductions
yeah, I could do one of those

A vital component of being on social media is to be company. This includes an element of interacting with others. But it also includes an element of being seen, of consistently being there, saying things that are at once new and unsurprising. There is an art to it, to be consistently novel and familiar. I cannot teach it to you, since it stems from you being yourself in the company of others; in exchange, we are company

Oh, and I like cats

Ireland
yes
good work, everyone

This update is 100% guaranteed GDPR-free

It does contain a post horn, though, and I toot it

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19028985

hey
did you just finish your finals, complete a big project, or in some other way undergo a great effort?

it's okay to not be super-productive in the aftermath. it's okay to find yourself not wanting to do things, and generally be unenthusiastic about getting going with new things

it's an adjustment process, and you need time to recover from having done the thing. rest, recover, adjust, process. acknowledge the tiredness, and work through it

take an inordinate number of naps

*ambient emotional support*

one week since you looked at me and said
[an extensive Japanese monologue which could either be extremely positive or crushingly negative, but whose overall affective register can not be determined by tone alone]

birds are dinosaurs

By the time you are 35, you should have at least ten mastodon accounts, according to experts

today
is Norway Day

This may or may not be an elaborate reference to Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera, and also a very roundabout troling of the whole notion of filter bubbles

It just might

https://medium.com/@sargoth/how-to-break-out-of-your-filter-bubble-in-one-simple-step-72a3afffac34

There is much talk of the intellectual dark web, but not as much talk of the intellectual grey web, a sprawling blog empire entirely and solely authored by mastodon user sargoth

blip

Eurovision times are a great opportunity to learn new things about your friends, such as who among them care about Eurovision