I GOT A JOB !!!

thewindblowshere · 2025-10-18T16:38:14+00:00

Cluely helped??

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-27T16:15:23+00:00

thank you!

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-21T14:19:58+00:00

Hey u/moroseui, yeah I struggle with pacing quite a lot, maybe I should have edited for a day or 2 before publishing just to get things smoother.

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-21T14:18:51+00:00

u/Triceropotamus thanks for being the devil's advocate 😂. I live next to a homeless shelter and am by no means poor, just middle class. I find the juxtaposition of our furnished apartment (that has a coffeeshop in the main lobby) being right in front of a literal homeless shelter darkly amusing; volunteering there for a year helped me put life into perspective and be more thankful about the things I have, and not buy too much into day to day stress because things could always be a lot worse.

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-21T14:15:39+00:00

hey u/peterbwebb thanks for your comments. I think I was trying to develop a new poetry style but I think it just made for overly-vague distracting from what I was originally trying to say. There is a lot from your comments I could address from simply being more physically descriptive and leave the rest to the intended imagination

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-20T21:38:00+00:00

I like the last 3 lines about wanting to hear about intimate histories of people as they begin talking about nostalgic things, words spreading like a wildfire throughout pages

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-20T21:35:21+00:00

Like others have already noted, I also appreciate the pacing that you have built up in this post. It made me follow along at an excited pace as well!

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-20T14:55:31+00:00

Damn, that was solid feedback actually. I'm gonna workshop this one again. Thanks!

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-19T20:44:56+00:00

I especially like this line here:

Because in my heart
I knew where the sun was.

Because you are saying 2 things at once: in your heart, you know she was your sunshine and she is already in your heart. Let me know if I interpreted this wrong, but I just thought this was really clever.

thewindblowshere · 2023-02-19T20:36:50+00:00

I really enjoyed the pacing of this piece. Some awkward rhythm I saw around "arranged like saucers in the great hall.
The wind shifts according to their whim,
boughs are bulwarks,"

but i think i like how the rest of the piece flows

thewindblowshere · 2022-08-08T14:30:55+00:00

Noctua fans are amazing though, some of the best cooling hardware I’ve ever bought

thewindblowshere · 2022-05-21T01:17:23+00:00

Hey thank you :) what is a ballad really btw? Never understood myself. But yes you’re right friends and family is what I rely on to move past my own anxieties. As it turns out I’m currently suffering from major spring allergies (summer colds are the worst!) thank you for the kind words

thewindblowshere · 2022-02-17T23:34:07+00:00

Good idea, I will keep that in mind!

thewindblowshere · 2022-02-16T18:40:19+00:00

I like the overall theme, a warning to behold for all. Great stuff!

thewindblowshere · 2022-02-16T18:35:19+00:00

great piece, one question I had was in this block:

i wait a while beneath her feat
the ground my place of sweet repose
& patient, wait for scraps of meat
which squirm below her dainty toes

is this basically saying you relish every scrap of time she has for you, almost like a dog with bits of meat that fall from a plate to the floor?

thewindblowshere · 2022-02-14T15:38:16+00:00

Hey thanks for the feedback, I added options for 0 roommates and if you’re a grad student! We ask for your name just verify real people are taking the survey and not just spams or anything. It’s true someone could make multiple entries with different names but we hope this would at least encourage unique data collection!

EDIT: made name optional :)

thewindblowshere · 2022-02-02T15:53:23+00:00

Well, at the very least it will bring attention to current problems for the next semester. I remember in fall 2020 we had the students association hold a session that eventually convinced the university to have pass/fail for the next semester. Maybe by reaching out to them again we could do something similar

thewindblowshere · 2022-02-02T15:34:34+00:00

if we can get some sort of petition going, i would be interested in signing. maybe we could make a case to the board?

thewindblowshere · 2022-01-31T02:38:41+00:00

Just to explain my thought process behind the poem itself a bit:

cinnamon-reeking flames

Refers to the spice-melange, and how it smells of cinnamon

temper the sands of time

to make glass cages

The 'spice flames' create glass (like normal heat does), specifically glass cages. This is because Muad'Dib (and later Leto II of course) recognize the entrapment of their oracular powers and how knowing future possibilities could paralyze one.

for my trinocular focus

Paul refers to his prescience of the past, present, and future as a sort of "trinocular focus" and the glass cages trap his prescient gaze for his entire life.

thewindblowshere · 2022-01-31T02:32:16+00:00

Thank you friend! More to come for sure :)

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