G. Tarsiscis Janetka

Writer of prose and verse. Lover of green tea, punk rock, cats, and the Lost Generation. (Very) reluctant YouTuber. Words will keep us together.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

We all just want to be loved so let's stop all the bullshit and take care of each other. Goddamnit.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

Goodbye to the site formerly known as Twitter. I can now be found on Bluesky.
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[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

Slick marketing campaigns will be the death of us all.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

If I wanted to destroy a society I would create a device that fits in a pocket, decimates attention spans, convinces people things are always better somewhere else, and is believed to be indispensable.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

Sometimes I try to think of individual sentences I could say to people that would end our relationship. Not because I want to, but because I want to remember just how frail relationships are, how years of friendship can be destroyed by one thoughtless sentence.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

"...it was one thing to indulge in daydreaming and intoxicating hours and another to wrestle strenuously and resolutely with the secrets of form as if with fiends...true creativity isolates one and demands something has to be subtracted from the enjoyment of life. - Hermann Hesse

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

Today's thoughts.
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[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

"I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it."
- Ernest Hemingway, 1948 intro to A Farewell to Arms

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

Do something without posting about it, do it for the process, and let the ends take care of themselves. Remember why you started doing something in the first place. (2/2)

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Thanks to the internet, there no longer appears to be any worth in anything unless you can monetize it - either for actual money or social capital, or mini hits of dopamine, but monetizing something changes it, and often the more $ you gain the less substantial gain. (1/2)

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"Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse." - Aldous Huxley, Island, 1962

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"In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office." - Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle, 1854

2024 update - Sub social media for post office.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

No matter what you love, there will come a time when you'll no longer be able to do it. Do it now.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

If it's not autotuned is it even real music? I tremble at the thought of hearing unaltered vocals.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

There's only observers and the observed, and the observed hate it when you hold a mirror up to them.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

"There is only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is fascism. For fascism is a lie told by bullies. A writer who will not lie cannot live and work under fascism." - Ernest Hemingway

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

Putting down your smartphone is the modern equivalent of walking out of Plato's cave.

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

The struggle for a writer to write is nothing new, as seen over 100 years ago in Forster's The Longest Journey. https://t.co/mUvFvOQyOG

[G. Tarsiscis Janetka @greg_janetka]

Had my first story published in over a year. Been the roughest creative period of my life, here's hoping the tide is turning.

#justkeepwriting

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𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 — 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟓, 𝐢.𝟏 (𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠/𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒) 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐱 issue available now. We welcome spring with budding pages ready to burst open with emotion, understanding, and meaning. Enjoy!

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An April writing update https://t.co/YjK1OkvxI2