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I’ve been thinking about sonder and its relationship with lore and fiction. Definitions: In this text, sonder is understood to mean the profound feeling of realising that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, have a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it1. People and everyone are on occasion used interchangeably with characters and every character in a story. This is not to degrade the readers view of others, or indeed themselves as mere characters. Instead, to offer a link between the worlds of introspection about the real world, and those worlds created in prose. Specifically in the real world, sonder is seemingly simple in its focus on the necessity for basic human empathy. To understand that other people are still people. That while they may process information and circumstances differently, they still have the same experience of learning their innate abilities to handle those stimuli and the tools

dA keep sending me notifications that the site has been update in new exciting and fantastic ways, and for the first time I now believe they have done just that. I am not one to praise a website for its design or user friendliness without cause, and I must say that it is much easier to upload works than once before. Not only is it now clear what must and must not be filled in, but some boffin has finally made use of mouse over annotations, which may be more a commentary on the nature of my uploading history then anything else. To a different side note, ECMonkey (https://www.deviantart.com/ecmonkey) I now empathise with your plight on a whole new level. The unjustified butch

I recently had a pretty invaluable conversation with an old friend regarding creative pursuits, among other things. This in a final culmination of many other events, has lead me to this final question. What does one do with all the ideas, that can already be recognised as overly ambitious, or currently unattainable? For example, one of the unattainables <Rant> (Skip to </Rant> if short read is preferred) The scientist who voices the loudest protest to the notion insists that the concept is flawed in that the problem has yet to be broken into objectives that are obtainable, etcetera. (Yep etc. used to be a word) The theatric a