There’s an occasional anon that calls me narcissistic when I think he really means I have delusions of grandeur, and I mean yes at least in mania I do tend to overinterpret things as massive webs of meaning passing somehow through my self, but also like, over and above the way the last decade played out eerily in line with my prediction in ways that touched on the fairly specific focuses and sideplots I’d picked up, these days I constantly see some random thing, look into it, and find I’m like two degrees of separation closer than I expected

Part of this is being an Ivy League graduate. That’s how it works! People you remember from undergrad will show up all sorts of places.

Part of it was being a kid who got the Internet in the 90s, cyberpunk tropes in mind, and being like “now I’m gonna put my nose to the ground and find the strange back alleys and elusive characters, the stuff people don’t see coming that really shakes things up”

And that kinda working?