field notes: the power of delayed gratification [archive]

A personal experiment to get closer and closer to my dreams and desires

May 17 • tiara ✽ alinia

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April 2026

I Know Why Ya'll Love AI So Much (pt. 1)

The desires of AI-users and why shame and scare-tactics don't work to make affective change (and never will)

Apr 19 • tiara ✽ alinia

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March 2026

field notes: que sera sera

on accepting what I cannot, and will never be able to change.

Mar 15 • tiara ✽ alinia

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February 2026

Relax Babe, We're All Going to Hell

My continued qualms with self-righteousness in the modern age.

Feb 15 • tiara ✽ alinia

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September 2025

field notes: the fig tree analogy or whatever

Maybe it's best to simply focus on consuming one thing, just one thing, from the dreaded fig tree

Sep 21, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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My Beef with the Modern Commodification of the Self

Why "getting paid to exist" isn't all it's cut out to be (and other thoughts on the rise of excessively performative content creation)

Sep 7, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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June 2025

field notes: to be creative in treacherous times

“If you've ever wondered what you'd do during slavery, the holocaust, or the Civil Rights movement, you're doing it right now.”

Jun 29, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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The Lost Art of the Rabbit Hole

We used to look things up for fun in the pursuit of ourselves

Jun 8, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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April 2025

field notes: the importance of the redemption arc

An ode to no longer allowing experiences to be ruined for me forever, and why you should do the same

Apr 27, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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Should We Adapt "White Stories" to Cultivate Black Entertainment?

A wide-angle lens look at The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah Kubi & how diversified adaptations become their own original works of art

Apr 13, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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March 2025

field notes: the truth about growth & change

This is definitely the worst news that I have learned on my growing journey

Mar 16, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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Utopia Lies in the Balance

And I fear we will never get there

Mar 2, 2025 • tiara ✽ alinia

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