too reversed for their own psychology

[somnulencelogencia]

anon:
i had a very odd dream that mushroom mycelium had colonized my brain
i started ripping at the fruiting bodies to no avail. it was too late. and my mind was irreparably altered
in the end, i accepted it, and began to gleefully brim at the possibilities of converting others
too many McKenna videos close to bedtime
somni:
176 KB CORDYCEPS_Too_clever_for.epub
somni:
if you had that dream DEFINITELY DONT READ THIS BOOK
^
that easily clicked on book
anon:
oops. clicked it
somni:
when people ask what is up you can say i warned you

Comments

[brin_bellway]

...well, that is a very fitting way for someone to start reading CORDYCEPS.

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Did you get the epub from the AO3 export function? I love the AO3 export function: it makes info-hoarding so much easier.

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It took me a while, but eventually I did start to get the hang of "when someone tells you you're better off not knowing something (especially the contents of a piece of media), they're usually right".

I think maybe the exact moment was when I saw a trailer on TV for something that was clearly about infohazards, and some pretty nasty-looking ones at that. (Because the exact nature of the infohazards was supposed to be a Big Reveal, their exact nature was fortunately not included in the trailer, just that they were there and they were terrible.) Mom had been wanting to watch that thing, and when I knew less about what it was about I'd been intending to watch with her.

There's a quote, I think it might be from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, that goes something like "You can change the past as long as you decide to do so far enough in advance". I looked at that trailer and I saw my future, and future-me was wishing she hadn't watched it. And I thought "you're in luck, future-me, there's still time for me to change the past".

I did not watch the thing. I put the name of the thing on my Tumblr blacklist, where it remains to this day.

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Dreamwidth tags longer than 40 characters are truncated, so all I can see of yours is "ever since i read cordyceps ive gotten s". (I've already had to form abbreviated versions of a couple of my category† tags, and I may have to abandon "people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me" entirely, in favour of using only "sexuality and lack thereof". (I might still be able to come up with some super-abbreviated explicitly-subcategory tag, though it won't have the same ring to it.))

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†Fun fact: the person who taught me how to use tag-safe commas is the same person who wrote CORDYCEPS.

[somnulencelogencia]

yep. i use lithium for reading on mobile and i love having everything in the same format and searchable. i also got an epub creator plug-in for firefox.