Janna

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+ bonus nostalgia finds like the EP with the original version of Youth by Daughter from when I was a whole different person https://ohdaughter.bandcamp.com/album/the-wild-youth-ep

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One of my fave ways to discover new music is through people's Bandcamp purchases and wishlists. Feels like crate digging through personal collections that sometimes come with notes, love letters, specific song recommendations Latest finds: — Pink/Blue by Medium Build with Ed Washington https://mediumbuild.bandcamp.com/track/pink-blue — Night of the Worm Moon (album) by Shana Cleveland https://shanacleveland.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-the-worm-moon

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a privilege to reminisce about, thanks for the prompt!

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No internet space has come close to rivalling the influence of early-mid 2010s Tumblr on me. It was partly the age I was at, partly the people there and how they thought about the world, which I didn't have in real life. It shaped my literary, musical, and artistic tastes by showing me what was out there and why it was good. It helped me document and articulate who I was and what I believed, allowing me to grow through those phases and evolve. And it was an early knowledge management system via creating personal hashtags on vibe, making it easier to "find the others". I was so lucky to stumble on and receive that w/out needing to know what I was looking for. Feels like that kind of online magic is increasingly rare. If I had to recreate it today, I'd: (1) seek out community on apps conducive to it (Warpcast, X, even Substack) (2) collect and curate in places like Pinterest and are.na (3) create and exist a hell of a lot more offline (4) talk about it online far more than I ever did

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Makes me wish more people would release reading / inspiration lists for the things they create

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In love with the recommended reading list from The Sims 1 and the implication that, rather than using them to escape real life and all of its problems, games and simulations can be a way to learn, practise, and get closer to a reality we want to live in. (The fact that the list includes Christopher Alexander is also perfection.) h/t David Rattigan from the other site

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Hope it hits 🫡

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Appreciate it 🙏🏼 I (very occasionally) post on substack https://janna.substack.com

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Who would’ve guessed 😂 Oh my god, I’m deep in the Stone in Focus comments section and in my emotions… Seeing exactly how music makes people feel, especially with such a “simple” song like Stone in Focus, is so staggering. People are entire worlds

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The bedroom pop guitar, the harshness of the beat, the repetition of the riffs, Antwon's voice rough and echoey over it — all sounds like leaning out of a car driving through a town you knew when you were a different person and thought life would be different; it's summer and you're wondering when everything fell apart There's an inevitability to the grief in Antwon's forceful delivery and the constancy of the guitar and the beat: "you seemed so sad, I felt the same / I knew you felt a way that I couldn't change", all delivered as facts. No illusory hopes, no wishing it away, no positive spin. Only an acknowledgement of the sadness and its gravity — a recognition poignant in itself because sometimes all we want is just to be heard, to be seen Feels dumb to say (because surely it's the point of music) but I love a track in which the instrumentation and production add a vital layer to the story being told that couldn't be expressed any other way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6P1do1__c

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❤️‍🔥 Thinking hard about this one today Twin Peaks, s2

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For non-fiction where each word matters, look for: 1. Texts that take storytelling seriously — • The Power Broker by Robert Caro • Annals of the Former World by John McPhee • 1453 by Roger Crowley 2. Texts that take arguments seriously — • Philosophical texts • The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander 3. Texts that take language seriously — • Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton • See #5 below 4. Texts that understand there is no hard distinction between the factual and the mythical — • Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung • Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje 5. Different styles: memoir, letters, essays — • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke • A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger • Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty

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maybe each day is a new year

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I made an Underrated Casters list (sub 5k followers) it’s WIP Honestly, I’m a big fan of a lot of people in this list, and I’ve met a few of them IRL (or URL) as well https://warpcast.com/july/pack/Underrated-Casters-drmpj0 https://warpcast.com/july/pack/Underrated-Casters-drmpj0

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great point, totally agree — even the realisation that, if the outcome of an interaction is somehow bad, it's not the end of the world and it's just a chance to improve for next time can be enough to make the dynamic and feedback spin into a positive loop instead of a negative spiral

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I love that; I had a similar shift in wanting to know more about people and feeling the excitement rather than anxiety! Felt like a shift from looking inwards and being concerned about myself to looking outwards and being interested in others / the world. I wonder if that's something that people who seem more socially inclined might do naturally, and maybe that's part of the key to unlocking people skills — it's possible for everyone to do it and get there

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Oh no way, so cool Korea has the same thing! 😄 We’ve got a chocolate bar called the Crunchie, which is a block of honeycomb in chocolate, and Hokey Pokey is also a classic ice cream flavour in NZ. Is there a similar product/treat in Korea, or is it more something that people make at home?

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