ParanoidAndr0id
Ricki Yasha TarrThis hit me like a ton of bricks:
Vivian, Venus Pirate 🏳️⚧️@RickiTarr <Looks at her own history of writing> Fuck.
Pistolenkind@RickiTarr Yup. I am a Writer and i am at my best in melancholy. But ii am shit if i am happy.
MacCruiskeen@RickiTarr coffee, chocolate.
Oblomov@maccruiskeen @RickiTarr now try saying or even writing that while eating chocolate and drinking coffee
@oblomov @RickiTarr <grunt, moan, choke>
@maccruiskeen @RickiTarr now THAT's the language of love
S T E L L A R 
G a b r i e l l e@Stellar
My translation: man horny, only happy when having sex; 'grunts and moans'. Pointing to thing man 'has' like a partner he has current sexual access to, makes man happy ('you don't need a name for what you can point at') When man has breakup or loses access to sex, ('loss') man cannot point at sexual object, (maybe they left because of such caveman behaviour, who's to say) and has to use his brain for a change.
(This did not hit me like a ton of bricks lol)
@Shes_Gabrielle s-stop i can hear the bricks 
LisPi@Stellar @Shes_Gabrielle It does reduce things to a purely sexual experience of happiness which is odd.
To me that suggests chronic depression (or other anomalies in emotional experience).
Also all those comments about bricks are reminding me of that Pink Floyd album.
To me that suggests chronic depression (or other anomalies in emotional experience).
Also all those comments about bricks are reminding me of that Pink Floyd album.
Allan Chow@RickiTarr hot dang
Marty Fouts@RickiTarr Ogden Nash, Ted Geisel, (Dr Seuss) Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and a long list of others who wrote eloquently from places of joy and even invented words to express wonder and happiness would probably disagree with that assessment.
If we only invent words for things that are no longer there, why are there so many words for earth, and sky?
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@MartyFouts @RickiTarr because we're scared of losing them.
Corvid CroneNah, this is bullshit. The tortured artist troupe is just an excuse to underpay artists.
Joy has many words.
@RickiTarr oh dear gods. truest thing I've seen for a long, long while.
edit: presumably this is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Siken
PalmAndNeedle@RickiTarr << looks at my thousands and thousands of words in filthy text based roleplaying >>
I need quite a lot of these words to fill in around the grunts and moans 
Omega 
@RickiTarr holy shit
Tattered@RickiTarr There are studies of how narrative is related to healing. Dealing with accident and injury, physical or mental, involves putting the experiences into language, repeatedly.
Jay@RickiTarr “The vocabulary of joy is grunts and moans”.
When I gush and overshare about an interest, is that me expressing sexual pleasure? Do aces not experience joy? Has this man never once read a haiku about the beauty of nature, listened to someone croon a lullaby to their child, or stood in front of and just fucking looked at a painting that took months or years to make that is bursting with the artist’s wonder and awe?
He’s right that there is a failure of vocabulary here.
@WhiteCatTamer Exactly this, a perfect description. How terribly empty his life must be if that's his only joy.
John Timaeus
Sassinake!'Grunts and moans', lol.
Don't they have kids that jumps and shout and sing and run in circles and dance and giggle or laugh out loud like birds chirping and leaves chattering in the wind and snowflakes twinkling and
hades@RickiTarr "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." — Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"
aeva@RickiTarr what about when it's just in the other room and you can't be bothered to get up
Low Tide@RickiTarr Words are not the real thing.
Ada (Villain arc) 🏳️⚧️@RickiTarr it's accurate though. From my experience writing requires turning your thoughts into mush, and then turning that mush into the thought equivalent of banana bread in some capacity. You can't write without putting at least a little bit of your mind into your work. You're more aware of your thoughts when you're sad because that's when you think about how things should've gone, and what you feel bad about, and all that junk. You're existing less in reality and more in your mind.
@RickiTarr When you're happy you're letting yourself enjoy the moment. You don't need to think about why you're happy. You just enjoy the moment. You enjoy the moment while it's still there. You're existing more in reality and less in your mind. So it makes sense. How deep you are in your mindscapes determines how much thought bread you can make. Plus I know writing is basically just making shit up and hoping said shit is actually good. That post is literally this summed up very efficiently.