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{stilloranged @ bluesky} {orange_crushed @ ao3} https://ko-fi.com/robotmango

like my ideal job is honestly i own an extremely shitty bookstore and cafe and you cant order anything from a menu except cold brew coffee (when we run out, we run out) or you can ask me (i am standing behind the counter) for a drink and i will make you a weird espresso concoction based on what i feel like making and it will always cost a flat 5 dollars (i know, coffee should cost less, but here we are. sometimes the drink will be a scoop of vanilla gelato with an espresso shot poured over. sometimes it will be a coffee seltzer. it will probably just be a regular latte most of the time with sprinkles on top), but sometimes i hand you a grilled cheese sandwich or maybe a novella i like instead. we're only open for three hours between 4-7 in the afternoon btw.

you can also trade me a book in like-new or Good condition for a coffee, but only if it's a book i want to read.

its the sort of place where none of the chairs match but we do have like, five million outlets and i wont say anything if you want to stay there for the three hours we're open and only buy one coffee. honestly if you're cool you can stay later than that but only if you listen to me talk about my wizard novel.

i think what we're really missing in society is third places with bizarre proprieters.

I’m increasingly worried by all the people on my dash calling themselves insane for loving stories in the way humans have loved stories our whole history. “The brain rot is spreading” — you mean you were changed by art? “I’m not normal about this” — you were moved by it? You felt human emotions about it? “I’m about to be so annoying” — you’re going to talk about art? You’re going to be passionate? You’re going to think deeply about it? You’re going to feel love for the work of someone’s soul? You are not a consumer and art is not a product to be casually used! You are a human and stories are the beating heart of our humanity! You must feel everything and you must know that it is normal!

i gotta say i agree that exposing children to algorithmic content feeds is going to make them grow up with one billion new kinds of mental illnesses and it's a serious societal problem that urgently needs addressing but it makes me v. v. v. uneasy when i see posts going around that identify this issue and come to the conclusion 'this is why it's important for parents to know what their kid is doing online' and uh girls there are a lot of kids out there who would be dead if their parents knew what they were doing online

"yeah this aspect of capitalism is extremely alienating and traumatizing" and im nodding and smiling and then they add "which is why we must retreat to the safety of the family" and i start abruptly high-pitched screaming like a fire alarm

I still can't get over how 4 years ago you snuck in the pro genociding the unborn propaganda into the Statue of Liberty tirade. You beautifully crafted every single point of your eulogy to the sanctity of humanity and it certainly was a scathing critique of *Western neoconservatism* in particular (now let's compare how relatively Puritan the Soviet Union was btw) - anyway, wow, you really are proof of "the devil is in the details". I hope since 2019 you've matured and reflected at all how up to millions of people around the world saw your reckless commentary promoting mass slaughter of, let's see, tens of millions of babies in USA alone. All I can say is this: Christ is patient and long-suffering and loves you infinitely more than you know how to love anyone.

Oh right, one last thing: Dostovesky once famously noted how those generally, who claim to love humanity more and more as a concept, often "struggle" to love the neighbor right next to them. There's undoubtedly going to be something problematic or burdensome about him/her while you miss the forest for the trees. Please think about this, and have a truly lovely day. <3

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lol. lmao even. hilarious that you would use christ's love to dunk on somebody! "christ loves you more than you know how to love anyone" uhhh yeah i sure hope he does!! because he's christ!!! i'm a dorito-cramming descendant of some lumpen mudfish that crawled out of a swamp! are you aware of how our religion works?

my take, generally? if christ's love fills you with smug condescension, you may have a dial turned to the wrong setting somewhere.

somebody better than me would probably take time to explain to you that "genocide of the unborn" is a truly offensive phrase to cultures that have experienced genocide, in living memory no less, but since i'm a lousy sinner and well aware of it, i'm just going to laugh for a while at this and then forget about it. when you see christ go ahead and tell him all about me, what a big bitch i was. he won't be surprised.

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