Is. Well. I Like To Think I've Learned A LITTLE About Setting Myself Up For Failure‚ lmao - Blog Posts

maybe so there's of course also the question of like. do i owe it to myself and/or to my ~audience~ to Explain My Long Absence or like. 'owe' is the wrong word. but there IS stuff i'm interested in unpacking however as a guy who took an extra decade to get a BA bc [] couldn't write a paper to save [] life and as a result kept failing classes []'d been doing extremely well in prior to the arrival of Final Paper Guillotine (side note oh boy am i developing new pronoun problems. is this an exciting new development i will promptly be proceeding to ignore.) the idea of like. writing a whole big personal essay abt the issues i developed from the environment i turned tumblr into for myself (yes that's awkward phrasing but i get frustrated when people get on tumblr to complain about tumblr without acknowledging that like whatever tumblr is for you is what you've said yes‚ either actively or passively‚ to letting accrete around you so like. not gonna let myself off the hook abt that any more than i would anyone else. i said yes a thousand times to my own ruination.) is. well. i like to think i've learned a LITTLE about setting myself up for failure‚ lmao i expect i WILL get into it eventually bc like. what are we all here for if not some degree of omphaloskepsis but like. just say no to the big opening programmatic mission statement concept instead you get the deliberately-mediocre scribble to break in the sketchbook and maybe down the line some other stuff in dribs and drabs