npydyuan ersupupita donserutl dancy omsatigo ability to tell a story source of story compulsion for story releasing what stops you having a purpose the unexpected what to do when everything seems like fucking allegory how to break through stuff how to make love even when you don’t remember how or don’t think you can or deserve to anymore how to transcend the limits of typing how to overcome pointlessness how to return to the ability to unselfconsciously sense rhythm for its own sake while simultaneously not making your own ego into some kind of hall-of-mirrors bugaboo how to not be paralyzed how to not be paralyzed by fear that someone--anyone--everyone--is about to make another common fool out of you going back to where magic doesn’t need to be explained teh-dsa works best on loaner, free, gifted, old, or cheap stuff you already have. A new purchase tends to make it shrink back. if you’re too attached to the ship you don’t tend to jump in and make out with the mermaids, yknow what i’m sayn? you go through periods of telling your self stories and then going back and reading them. eventually, you have to have somebody else come into your story and fuck it up a little bit, or else you die. the trick is not letting them fuck it up TOO much, ya? fishing isnt about the fish, and it isnt about the water. it's about the way the fish glow in the water, and how vastly, almost infinitely more water there is than fish