Genuinely never seen a better example of what they were talking about in that 'works of media that are afraid of their audience' Tumblr post

Not exactly--I had to record answers to interview questions ... that would then be assessed by AI 😩

Update: I have now done Assessments and Recorded Video Responses and Mock Job Performance Simulations; there have been games with sound effects

This is NOT the job search experience of twelve years ago; this is an eldritch funhouse and I'm its shambling, distorted clown

My need to provide for my family vs. my crushing lack of self esteem: FIGHT

I'm so glad she had you. <33333

(And I have to believe that confidence is a skill, because if so, it can be learned)

The most critical skill for writing is confidence, and unfortunately, that is the skill I am currently lacking

This one time, watching rain on the windowpanes and the autumn trees blurred behind them--and realizing that this ordinary, beautiful thing would be happening whether I was witnessing it or not. That the world was full of beautiful things, quietly happening on their own, all the time.

Ohhh, I've spent many a happy hour with Magic and Medicine of Plants; this is such a good haul

There's nothing that a box of 340 tiny plastic skulls can't fix, honestly