Tay Tay's Clever

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Pixie Dust wrote:
This is certainly less stimulating than expected.

Sorry?

I'm currently in a state of heavy reminiscence over bands I used to like that never became famous, while for some reason Taylor Swift became the brightest star in the sky.

And I'm mourning their loss... but years and years later at least even the REALLY unfamous ones are still on youtube and maybe even have a small twitter following now.

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I'm not showing you this because I think you'll enjoy, because I'm pretty sure you won't.  In fact, I'm not even sure it's very good.  I mean what are they even doing?  What even is this?



The lead singer here is named Nikki.  I'm not giving any secrets away,  they have a website.  We used to be friends.  We've hung out.  I've been drunk and emotional with her in real time.  And she's just a bad quality youtube video now.  And that's just not the kind of thing you can get from Taylor Swift videos.

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She looks better in this one.  You can see they drew a crowd.  In 2010, at least.  But I think they still do.  Not a big one, but... see for yourself.  There's a crowd.

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I can actually remember the kind of art she used to make, before she was even doing THIS.  If for some reason they become famous in Japan, or something, and break the world stage, I would still remember her for that art.

With all respect, I simply do not have a Taylor Swift video that captures this sentiment.

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I mean really, what the hell?  Even just creepy torn up nurse uniform has got to be worth more than 1,015 views.

[Pixie Dust]

Still bored.

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I am truly sorry that I am boring you, but to be fair, it's not like you're paying me to do this.

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You could start throwing out requests for entertaining things I could do, and maybe by coincidence some of them will be things I was planning on doing anyway?

[Pixie Dust]

No, no, it's alright. It's not your fault that your conversational skills struggle to hold my interest. I get it. I guess I was being hopeful that maybe you would be fun and exciting, a man of knowledge and mystery. But in a good way, that benefited people. Instead though, with your vast influence and clout you encourage division, mistrust, and slavery. To scale that up would be a nightmare. You're like a Littlefinger. Play too many games and fate swings Her sword.

You were quite intuitive giving a slave name once upon a time. I'll give you that.

In the future, maybe consider a character different than Littlefinger (you can Google him since you don't watch Game of Thrones). That character's storyline is over.

[Pixie Dust]

Since you don't watch Game of Thrones, here's a scene where Littlefinger finally hung himself with his treachery and deceit in his quest for power. It never pays to be that guy.

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Pixie Dust wrote:No, no, it's alright.  It's not your fault that your conversational skills struggle to hold my interest.  I get it.  I guess I was being hopeful that maybe you would be fun and exciting, a man of knowledge and mystery.  But in a good way, that benefited people.  Instead though, with your vast influence and clout you encourage division, mistrust, and slavery.  To scale that up would be a nightmare.  You're like a Littlefinger.  Play too many games and fate swings Her sword.

You were quite intuitive giving a slave name once upon a time.  I'll give you that.  

In the future, maybe consider a character different than Littlefinger (you can Google him since you don't watch Game of Thrones).  That character's storyline is over.
I don't watch game of thrones for a reason.

I'm not sure you're getting this.  I do NOT encourage division, mistrust, and slavery.

I don't know who IS responsible for slavery, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't me.  I'm pretty sure I was just born into a world where these things already happened.  And we have a choice.  We can engage with society and its horrors or we can stay safe in our bubbles trancing out on television.

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It's 1000 times worse by the way when people drop out of society, trance out on television, give nothing back, and fool themselves into calling it spirituality.

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I also realize though, with a great deal of sadness, that most people are so shallow and so far gone that gossiping about Taylor Swift's reputation is all the engaging with society they can handle. And I just don't know what to do about these people, because it seems like a LOT of people.

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Pixie Dust wrote:
Lol.  Go get em kid!

What would you tell a 13 year old girl who wanted to grow up and be famous like Taylor Swift?

Do you have like, a 30-second elevator pitch for things like that?

Still waiting on an answer to this, by the way.

Maybe it would be less boring if you threw the ball back sometimes.

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Pixie Dust wrote:

You've always been someone I enjoy being around voluntarily.  I'm just super touchy having people close to me right now.   This is good for now and let's just see how this goes.  

To be honest, I'm barely keeping my head above water.  I've seen better days.  There's been a lot of pressure.  It's not been easy watching over everyone.  It took a lot out of me, emotionally and spiritually.  I can't risk losing more of myself because there's just not much left of me.  I'm not quite a person you want to be close to right now because I'm not ok.  I can't explain what I mean by that, but it's safe to assume there's quite a bit I haven't shared that's affecting me.  I want you close because you're familiar.  Just not too close because there's still a lot of turmoil.  

I'm trying to figure out how to be ok.  Business is great though.  To be perfectly honest, I think I have PTSD.  I can function, but I get triggered by certain things and can't function.  It's been a struggle and so I've been keeping away everyone but those who are actively helping me recover.  

It really is me, not you.  Know that I enjoy the simple exchanges we have here.  It gives me a break from more complex concerns.  It's also nice to laugh at someone else for a change.  So carry on with your speculations.  It's nice to have muggle company for a change.

So obviously the simplest thing would be to ignore you now and invest my energy in other projects, but out of respect for any part of this that might be true, I would like to at least give the story a happy ending.

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I do NOT listen to Taylor Swift, by the way.  That is WAY outside the core of my personal identity.

And I wasn't faking that, I listened to them for real.  It's going to be non-trivially upsetting to me if you, on purpose, insist on playing this as a crazy **** who was only wasting my time.

[Pixie Dust]

Eh. I guess someone missed me because my ears won't stop ringing.

I don't really have a lot I need to say. I don't even know where to say it, so I'll just put it here.

I saw someone mention the heaviness of the Sun and Jupiter are meaningless to the weight of the galaxy.

True.

There's a lot that can be improved upon. It's all a work in progress. No one is denying a flawed universe. Yet, we haven't learned about the entirety of our oceans and we're treading outside our planet?

Moving quickly is great, but we must move thoughtfully too. We've taken over spaces that weren't ours and destroyed them with our vision of what we believed to be correct. The issue is our ignorance and desire to devour all of what doesn't belong to us. We see this pattern in religion, industrialization, and countless other areas.

People believe they have enough information to thoroughly understand and enforce their beliefs onto others. Most have no idea their beliefs are what's keeping them from achieving freedom.



Yes, there are gaps in the universe. They are being addressed. The zipper is being closed, to fix the snag, so that it can fully open and become a functioning zipper. B*tching about a broken zipper that everyone knows is broken is like listening to a wailing child. All the adults leave the room.

Thoughtful discussions that take into account both sides of an issue, in comparison, are better received.

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Pixie Dust wrote:
Eh.  I guess someone missed me because my ears won't stop ringing.  

I don't really have a lot I need to say.  I don't even know where to say it, so I'll just put it here. 
Believe it or not, I was worried about you.  I think Taylor Swift might eat people.

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I could go on, but also I think "Thoughtful discussions that take into account both sides of an issue" is basically what a zipper is, so....

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My actual experience is that 99 times out of 100, the problem is not a broken zipper, the problem is people not agreeing on what the problem is.

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Yes, going to space is an option.  It's a continuum and every part of it is infinite.  Every speck is an infinite speck.

The zipper is also an elevator, and it never actually snags, it just makes extremely horrible noises.

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I think what you're probably missing is you need belief to function in society and get along with other people.  People like to know what you stand for, even if they disagree.  They're less afraid of their exact opposite than they are of the totally unknown.

What's scary is you can't just take on characters, you have to take on beliefs as well.

Listen, I manage a Communist twitter and I EVENTUALLY have great conversations with anybody, because they KNOW.  They think I'm something terrible, but I'm SOMETHING and we can talk about that.

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I was not pleased with the social media reality bubbles that were available so I made my own.  Out of materials that were available.  And I'm owning that.

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Not to brag or anything, but I am the entire political spectrum.

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I don't want to get too far into this but I did watch the racist rap video and the thing people are really missing about racism is that it's totally a sex thing.  I mean nobody wants babies that turn out the wrong color right?