Hi everyone, Thank you so much to the people who, since my last post explaining that my partner is very ill, increased their pledges or started supporting me on Patreon. We are still in need of figuring out expenses for the near future. The goal is to get to $1000 per month on Patreon, which […]
Author: cynthiajeub
Help?
Dear readers, sponsors, supporters, comrades: I’m going to be as honest as possible. My partner is very sick. We don’t know what he has. It is causing every waking moment of his life to be focused on monitoring his symptoms. My full attention has to be on him. For the past few months, we’ve been […]
Why it feels so personal
I think the roadblock I’ve been having is that I’ve been trying to select one topic at a time and try to isolate and write about each one, and I get stuck in decision paralysis because there are simply too many, and here’s the thing: the things I want to talk about are all interrelated. […]
What is Capitalism?
I have been working on essays about the economy for a while now, and this one will likely end abruptly whenever I run out of time to write. The idea of a gray area between work and leisure came from a book gifted to me by one of my sponsors that I found very helpful, […]
The Flawed
Absurdity in art creation is one of the few reasonable behaviors for us to engage in, finding ourselves as aware animals meaninglessly suffering in a world that exists by chance. The world has always been horrible, the only difference now is that we have the technology and resources to provide for the needs of everyone […]
The Perfect
(Images are described for readers who cannot see or load images.) The maxim goes – almost exactly something Voltaire said but a concept that dates in record to Aristotle and Confucius – that the perfect is the enemy of the good. I’ve been practicing blogging for the past week or so, and I have the […]
Okay, I’m Back
I intentionally took a break from blogging for five months, and that time has been filled with both wonderful and terrible things. The wonderful things have come from my sponsors and friends who helped me make rent and bills and have enough food to eat until I found a job, and to make ends meet […]
Asking and Helping
Update September 22, 2019: Rent is due in 3 days – we don’t have much time. Click here to go straight to the GoFundMe. Update 2: Rent is covered – now we’re aiming to raise another $300 by the 15th of October. It was in late 2015 that I read the book “The Art of […]
Product
The blog is a medium of communication. There are many platforms, modes, and media. For me, communicating with the world was something my dad did through his blog. He was semi-famous, and I never imagined myself choosing a different career path than he did. Throughout my childhood, each morning would start with the steady sound […]
Public Gaslighting
Abusers don’t like being held accountable for their actions. One of the best ways to keep an abuser from holding power is to expose their true nature.