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When someone tells you, “Your words make my life better,” writing stops being a choice. It becomes obligation. A duty to carry the fire, even when it burns.
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I still want what I currently have. More importantly, I don't want to give it up.
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I’ll list every reason “no” makes sense,
then leave them on the floor with yours.
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Careful. Complimenting the Devil is how bargains begin.
clever as the devil & twice as pretty.
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High effort.
High risk.
Little reward.
That is the brutal math of the modern era.
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She is not in love with him.
She is obsessed with the version of herself she becomes when she imagines he is watching.
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Curating playlists brings me joy.
Vox Mechanica is a grimdark pilgrimage through rusted cathedrals, machine-prayers, sacred violence, and dying stars.
Rest in peace, John Blanche.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1f…
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† know your devil † retweeted
Schopenhauer wrote this paragraph more than 150 years ago, and it’s still true
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You don’t have a worldview.
You have approved opinions arranged into a personality.
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I’m not immune to assembling opinions into an identity either. None of us are.
The daily fight is noticing when I’m reaching for the comfortable, manufactured take instead of thinking it through myself.
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When several explanations exist,
choose the one that removes illusion.
Not the polite one.
Not the safe one.
Not the therapeutic one.
Not the one that preserves your ego.
Choose the one that cuts.
Occam wanted simplicity.
The Devil demands bloodless honesty.
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Sisyphus was forever doomed to push a boulder up a hill.
Modern man has the endless scroll.
Every profile, every option, every almost whispers the same lie:
Maybe the next one.
The punishment is not loneliness.
The punishment is believing abundance will save you from choosing.
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Mixed signals usually come with a noble sounding explanation after the fact.
Moral cowardice, justified.
The fade out becomes restraint.
The silence becomes kindness.
The confusion becomes your burden.
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Do not chase someone comfortable with your absence.
That is how you become grateful for crumbs from a table you were never invited to.
Do not audition for attention.
Do not negotiate with ambiguity.
Do not chase absence.
The Devil does not chase.
The Devil manifests.
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† know your devil † retweeted
Jun 13
My latest Twitter story on Patreon with a new-ish ending.
patreon.com/ghostcat2099/pos…
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Needed a terrain piece for my Temple of Elemental Evil campaign: the Hunting Cottage of the Crimson Reapers cult.
Built it last night in 40 minutes from a fruit snack box, paint, and popsicle sticks.
Peak nerd cred.
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too late
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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† know your devil † retweeted
Jun 11
Men, we weren’t made to make excuses. We were made with raw strength in constant need of refinement. We were made to be strong for others, not ourselves. And we were made to let our hearts bleed, and not hide the scars. To carry a sword but try to keep it in its sheath.
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I learned this while working a contract in a city I knew I’d eventually leave.
Solitude is addictive.
Once you feel how peaceful it is, returning to the hustle and the noise feels like a punishment.
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