hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
feelings, now more than ever!
wrote some stuff in some places
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Oooooh! Ordering this immediately
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I was going to put “humorless scold alert” in front of this but honestly no I’m an extremely funny scold
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in March of 2020, her partner at the time made a google voice number for The Writer so that we could scream at them over voicemail
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Gamergate ass country
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years ago, @saturnexalted.bsky.social & I started doing an extended riff about how our reality was being written by a shitty pretentious undergrad creative writing major. this bit has now evolved to the point where it’s basically the closest thing to a form of god in which I believe
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“An important inflection point arrived in 1995.”
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this is not a drugs bad thing, or a "everyone needs god" thing, the basic values of recovery are introspection and collective accountability as tools that allow us to both be and feel good
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if you’re neutral milk hotel in the face of oppression you are an oppressor milk hotel
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oh shit yes
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The Writer heard that we liked this sort of thing, apparently
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listen I did a full decade of “nyc is not inherently special in any way, no place is inherently special” I wrote lots of essays about it, some of them are pretty good, you can go read them if you want, I’m maybe gonna do Fuck Off I Love My Garbage City for a little while instead now
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oh my god
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this is great to know!
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what if I call James Cameron on the phone and explain the situation
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I mean I used to be pretty good at several card games, guess it’s time to dust off those skills
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hahahaha I actually looked up how much this would cost hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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invented the great american pastime (sex in car)
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kissing, mostly I think? that seems right
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this honestly has really helped a lot already!
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amazing, and seriously thank you x10000
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absolutely, and to be clear I generally agree with this
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thank you!! that’s great to know, I haven’t reached out to them yet and this is a great incentive to do that
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(fwiw I agree with this too) (and it’s heavily in the mix of why I’ve been trying (really) to get disentangled from there entirely)
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I mean, I don’t want to overstate or be disingenuous— I turned off subs+payments, and stopped posting content, on there once I was in an ok financial position to do so; but that means I now couldn’t absorb a big extra cost on top of that, if that makes sense. my bad planning is present here too!
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thank you, this is great!
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thank you!
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no no to be clear I would LOVE advice, it’s part of why I said this out loud in front of everyone!
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2/2 trigger automatic cancellation payouts & financial consequences that, due to no longer having said income, would be personally ruinous. I’ve been frozen about this for over a year which is bad but it’s hard to feel that choosing to give up five figures of income still doesn’t mean anything here
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hey I just wanna say right here in front of everyone that some of us who stopped posting on, and therefore making any money from, Substack, previously our primary means of income, over a year ago, haven’t yet left due to being afraid that pulling the whole Stripe-linked operation off there will 1/2
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RIP Robert Abortion, Bobortion to his pals