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I have been thinking a great deal about my priorities. The world as we knew it is over and I have to decide how I want to spend my remaining time on and offline especially as my health gets worse. I will be putting more focus on finishing the novel I have always wanted to write because I want to have fulfilled that one dream of mine before it is too late to do so. If I have time to do (or feel like doing) a Jem video here and there or write reviews of audiobooks or other media, I will absolutely post them here as usual, but right now I have higher personal priorities.
I will also be getting off of most social media except for CounterSocial.
Take care of yourselves and those you love. Stay safe and stay strong. ❤️
Latest Writing
TLDR; stop complaining …
Passions do not solve or evolve anything. Passions only maintain and imprison.
Finally Out Of Energy …
It has been difficult and absolutely nightmarish trying to navigate the world while 99% of the population exists in their own small, self contained and limited simulations.
Control Is Key
No matter how strong you are in your logic, your reason, your regulation, you are ALONE in it. No one around you has what you have. Not 99% of the world.
Audio Podcast
Elaine Is Reading: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde > Chapter 8 – Part 2
As far as I'm concerned, Chapter 8 is the absolute best chapter in the entire book. This is also where the story pretty much comes to a very abrupt end.
Elaine Is Reading: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde > Chapter 8 – Part 1
It is a shame that the two people who have the most interesting perspectives in the entire book are the only two people to never have their stories told.
Elaine Is Reading: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde > Chapters 6&7 – Part 2
This video goes into depth about how the story mirrors so much of the reality of addiction spirals and dealing with the breakdown of friendships.
Elaine Is Reading: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde > Chapters 6&7 – Part 1
I decided to do these two chapters together because they are two of my favorite chapters and because the are very similar in feeling and foundation.
Elaine Is Reading: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde > Chapter 5 – Part 2
Most people who make movies and adaptations focus solely on the final chapter of the book. The story of Jekyll and Hyde is not just the final chapter.
Elaine Is Reading: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde > Chapter 5 – Part 1
This is one of the chapters that I kind of wish Stevenson’s wife had permanently destroyed. It’s the most contrived, forced, lazy chapter of the whole book.
How (Not) To Survive
Just because you CAN'T handle something, doesn't mean there is something wrong with those who can. Stop being the problem and become part of the solution.
Previously on Jem and The Holograms
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Jekyll and Hyde – Chapter 4 (Part 2)
The most poignant part of this story so far has been this chapter. It felt so NOW. This chapter describes so much of what being on social media is like.
Anger Is Such A Waste
You can choose who you want to be despite what other people have tried to make you or tell you that you are.
Evolve In 2026
Stoics believed that anger and depression were caused by collisions of hope and reality and people being unable to recognize and reconcile their place in the universe and that is still 100% true today.
You Absolutely Are Enough
There was no point in my life where I was allowed to be just myself. I was not well liked, appreciated, or seen by the majority of people. That was fine.
Previously On JaTH – S01E01
Jem and the Starlight Staff is really what this band should be called. There are no actual holograms, it's just her staff in her father's epic fashion line. Prove me wrong.
A Study In Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
The book is BRILLIANT and it speaks to me on so many levels that no other book has.