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The view out my window ... I'm just above the fog bank, which hides everything beneath it. No buildings, no freeways, no people ... just the mountains in the distance and white fluffiness between them and me. Beautiful.

Waiting to find out something.

You will be happier forgetting your past, and starting over.

Another day has come, another heavy load

Closing on the cottage across the lane tomorrow.

Wishing it were easier to get things going as an author. I so don't want to go back to wage slavery at factories again. I've felt writing novels is what I'm supposed to do for quite a few years, but between my stepdad making it so I had no resources when he threw me out of the home (stupid boomer, it's not the 60's anymore) and he'd even had me pay my survivor's benefits checks to him when I was stuck in his home, despite not helping with anything parents should like driver's training and buying a lemon as a starter car (which he easily could, with his own job of programming satellites), but just kicking me out daily since I was 13 telling me to find work and bring in more money for him to steal from me. Argh. Nothing pays enough to save versus the cost of living, especially when continually having to pay coworkers to drive one to and from work. It's always been so freaking impossible, and now it's still kinda frustrating with how Yog's Law supposedly doesn't apply to self published authors, just ever more extortion by the rich.

https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/alternatives-to-oppressive-language/

^Seems to me how nowadays people want to tend to use profane words more often, forsaking "antiquated" vocabulary we once used (e.g. "Don't lose your s--t", "That's f--king bad@$$", etc. By the way, no, I didn't actually say those words, I'm just making a point.)

I often interpret swear words literally, and as a result frequently wondered in high school why so many students seemed obsessed with sex and excrement.

Ginsberg crossed with Irvine Welsh crossed with CATB...

Basically I'm too blunt.

I've watched a lot of Golden Age cartoons over the years that had characters doing things like getting drunk, chasing women, smoking, gambling, and even attempting suicide... but last night I saw a video about some early 1930's cartoons that were REALLY dark, even when they were intended to be humorous.

Seriously, there's this one cartoon about a kid named Scrappy. I soon found out that he's the *second* most evil Scrappy in the cartoon world. In the cartoon he's going fishing with his dog, but his baby brother, I think his name was Oogy, wants to go with him and is following him and being a little pest. At first Scrappy just growls at him but when his brother won't stop following him he smacks Oogy so hard he sends the toddler flying several feet. But all this really does is slow Oogy down (the little guy's probably got brain damage, though), and he soon catches up and starts fishing at the pond near Scrappy. Their fishing lines get tangled up, which makes Scrappy so furious he throws Oogy the water. Oogy starts drowning and crying for help. Scrappy's dog looks upset by this, but Scrappy pretend not to hear Oogy. But then he decides to help him - not because he has a conscience, but because he has a vision of an electric chair which frightens him. If you're gonna kill someone, make sure there's no evidence!
So he pulls Oogy back out and there's a tense moment because Oogy doesn't appear to be breathing. But then he wakes up, and Scrappy is both relieved and even a bit tearful. But then Oogy says, "I wanna drink of water!" Scrappy then just tosses him back in the water and the cartoon ends.

Wow. Scrappy seems to have been a short-lived character, although many viewers probably thought he was cute and funny and just being a typical boy back then.

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^Oh, so bad cartoons (e.g. Teen Titans Go!, SpongeBob, Uncle Grandpa, etc.) didn't really start as recently as I thought.

In my case, my main focus during high school was studying, nature, and, of course, Pokémon.

There's another cartoon called "Swing, You Sinners!" that inspired an in-game achievement award in Cuphead. You get it when you defeat the devil. At least Cuphead *can* defeat the devil. The main character in "Swing, You Sinners!" is nowhere near as lucky. And he's being brutally punished for stealing chickens, gambling and chasing women. Imagine what would have happened if he committed a *really* serious crime.

My main focus was surviving.

Sometimes I think I still act that way, but I'm trying to heal.

thoughtful article.