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Pretty Colors Update _ Jan 27 2025

First, a story told in three parts…

Time passes. It's hard to be sure how much. Feels like a lot. Stuff happens: Everything and nothing. Some beings are born and other beings die. An uncaring universe hangs out with itself while lots of fuckin' bullshit goes on. Personally, I'm just kind of sitting there, minding my own business.

I get an email saying that Somebody Nice has "Blazed" a Pretty Colors post. I think this means that it'll be shown to more people, which is good. People need to think about the simple things in life more often, and there's not many activities simpler than contemplating a particularly nice color.

I'm warm with gratitude as I sit with this surprising development.

An hour later, still filled with a nonzero amount of Good Vibes over the previous section of my story, I get another email:

A particularly nice shade of lavender, brought into existence via the vibration of wavelengths the human mind can barely fathom while our eye cones and brains and God knows what else turn those vibrations into something pretty, is "poor image quality and user experience."

<3 right back atcha, hellsite.

Finally, a technical update…

In an unprecedented move, I had to entirely disable new Pretty Color submissions because somebody has been putting in the same color approximately 847 times in a row and it's making some people insane. Personally, I can kind of see this as more "uncaring universe bullshit" that might be good for us all to deal with, but my goal with Pretty Colors has generally been to make people feel the opposite of insane. Generally.

For now, though, I'm going to think about to handle this sort of thing and then hit you back when things are back up and running again.

As always, thanks for your engagement.