may4 in idea barrages

1.) last few years my heart has been/in a state of permanent flinch/half has been what happened/half has been how I reacted to it/seized up in perpetual defenses/screwed on into a wince/but I have to let go now/know when not to worry, when I can trust just reacting to it/life

2.) Seeing people snarking that women’s hockey is striking for a living wage, as it isn’t a high-profit game, but end of the day, following your dream shouldn’t mean you have to accept being exploited. In sport, in art, anything.

3.) If you have to have your identity put into boxes, at least have it be as many boxes as possible. Diversify yourself against easy definition. If they try to beat your self-worth down, tire them out with wack-a-mole by being fifty different kinds of person.

4.) Not everything is a grand ideo ethical battle. Sometimes it’s just people trying to get through this knockabout life with a little comfort and grace.

5.) The most important lesson I learned after already being an adult was “it’s not about you, it’s a little about you but it’s not all about you” and was gently coaxed into learning it by my friends Garrett and Robin at the Tram. And it has made me a better man.

6.) I don’t know what “steamcrunk” would look like but I’m sure someone has tried to make it work.

7.) If there were tie-in toys to Renegade, would that mean you could get a dolly Lamas?

8.) “The Gig Economy” is such a sterile phrase for “Trying To Undo 100 Years Of Workers’ Rights Movement Via Terrifying Loophole Exploitation”.

9.) …I kinda want the horrifying Sonic movie to come out unmodified, just to see how the weird internet universe of strange humans that make Sonic The Hedgehog into a fetish thing would handle that.

10.) You will refer the dryad as “Becky with the wood hair”.

11.) 83% of the time someone says “I can’t believe someone said this stupid thing on the internet!” I just want to tell them “that’s the joke”. The other 17% a politician said it, not as a joke but because he thinks you’re stupid. That’s 100% of stupid things on the internet.