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The Happy Pineapple
I am the Happy Pineapple. And this is the place where I talk about little things that went well, how things are good, actually, and things I think are nice. It is a rather self-centered platform, but the world is a beautiful place, regardless of him grim and tiring and exhausting it is. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-happy-pineapple/support
Ahh, Past Pineapple. You were so full of post-holiday excitement and euphoria.You had dreams of one episode a month, and to your credit, past pineapple, you got two whole episodes. I am proud of past pineapple, they’re enthusiastic folk.
So, back to the Present Pineapple. I too am full of excitement and a dose of vim and vigor. Why?
Welcome to the Season 3 Intro - Part 2! This is where I will give a brief overview of what I plan on doing, why I took a break, and generally be my Happy Self!
I’ve moved to a more affordable place, I’ve been setting up healthier eating habits. Heck I’ve been flossing regularly. Due to all of these, I am going to commit to several creative endeavors, the most creative endeavors I’ve actually committed to in quite a while. So first up. I am going to restart the Choose your own Adventure starting Sunday, June 11th. And by restart, I am going to actually update it. See, an updating audio choose your own adventure is super nifty if I can pull it. Part 2, over on The Happy Pi neapple Presents! I am going to continue to interview cool folk, listen to them passionately talk about what they love, what they’ve learned, and whatever they want to grouse about. Incidentally. If you want to be interviewed to talk about something you’ve created or something you love, email me @ thehappypineapple13@gmail.com. Part 3, I am going to post a little project of mine on Presents!, an audiostory called Press The Button!, a multipart tale all about forks, robots, and more forks! This bonkers little story has vexed me for over a year, and I am about to forking get it off my plate! Part D, I was asked to help write for an upcoming full cast audio drama and maybe voice some for it. This is, overall, really nifty and I am really excited for this tangible forward to a rather intangible idealized goal.
Oh. Part V. I am going to check my email more.And play more minecraft when I feel I am losing control over things.But first I will record this message to the soothing tones of a dishwasher as background noise!
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In which I talk about Doom patrol after I talk about my first real experience dealing with a transphobe.
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Sometimes you get a panic attack variant that makes you feel a bit twisty. Not just mentally, but physically. Your body pretzels itself for reasons I cannot fathom.
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Welcome to season 3 of the podcast dedicated to things that I specifically like!
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In which I talk about the utterly wholesome shows: Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Bee and Puppycat, and Hilda.
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Purpose, Community, and Faith - three big concepts that we humans need in our weird and wonderful lives.
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Interviews with folk as to why Roe v Wade being overturned is scary.
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Roe v Wade gets overturned and we're just expected to be ok with it.
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I go to a convention and meet internet people
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I don't want to talk about Roe Versus Wade. But I will. And I won't shut up until it's settled law again. Because it needs talking about.
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It's 2 in the morning and I really want to talk about my favorite Adventure Time Song
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In which I rant for 10 minutes of how awesome the composer Cristobal Tapia Deveer's work is
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I am dealing with Apocalypse Ennui. And if you’re listening to this, there’s a good chance you’re dealing with it too.
What is Apocalypse Ennui? Is it two words mashed together because the sound almost alliterative? Very much so! Are they two dramatic sounding words that, when mashed together, sound instinctually authoritative? Also yes! But what does it mean, truly? I’ll start with a brief definition of the word ‘ennui’. Ennui: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction.
So then what is Apocalypse Ennui? It’s the utter wearisome exhaustion that comes with living through a seeming cascade of Apocalypses.
It’s the chains of memes bitterly admitting that folk would still be expected to go to work when the world ends around them. It’s the pointlessness in your heart as you want to start projects but quit before you begin because you live within an hour of a major metropolitan city when nuclear war is being dusted off and talked about. It’s that tiredness in youe back, in your step, as you do anything, waiting for an inevitable crumbling of an unsustainable system. That is Apocalypse Ennui.
So why am I bringing this up now? Because like millions of folk worldwide, I woke up one morning to hear the words nuclear missiles from a world power and I live in an area that could get hit.
There was, of course, the initial reaction. Paralyzing fear. Shaking. Panic. Massive anxiety attacks. Questioning why I was living where I was, doing what I do and not being where I want with who I want living my dream. I quite honestly nearly abdicated the area I lived, too. But as time moved forward, I didn’t.
See, I tried to write this script a month ago, after the initial panic, after I was calmed. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t see the point. Why write, why create, why feed into a system that could be ended any day with a convoluted series of red button pushes half a world away? Why try and keep struggling towards starting a publishing business on the side of your day job when the economic basis has teetered precipice in the past two years? Why plan anything when global climate change may reshape the world and how we live as we know it in five, ten fifteen years?
What’s the point? What’s the purpose? Why try? Why?
Don’t get me wrong. I think these are big issues. But I don’t think they are insurmountable as a collective species. But try telling your brain this and making it stick. It didn’t. And every day for weeks it was the same. Go to work. But why go to work? Do a healthy food. What’s the point? Begin the meandering jogging routine you like to do? So what?
It is exhausting. All the time exhausting. It isn’t burnout. It’s the dull throb of purposelessness all the time. Twenty-four seven. It causes you to feel alone. Isolated. Devoid of anyone else.
And that is Apocalypse Ennui. The utter proliferation of events and disasters on a scale and a timeframe that just…hurts. It drains you of your will to do. Your will to build. Your will to help. It doesn’t sap you of your purpose, but it makes it damn hard to find the effort to do it.
I don’t have an easy answer for it. Knowing you're not alone in this may help. Knowing it gets better if you actively try to do things or have a support of friends who forces you to be social helps. Decompressing from the news helps in the short term. But the only way for me I’ve found to deal with it is to, well, just keep trying. And that’s the best any of us can do.
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Changing the format between season 1 and season 2. Because mental health is a thing!
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Sometimes you just get...stuck. And that's ok :) We all do
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I watched Evangelion for the first time during COVID. And now I finished the series.
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Sometimes we can't focus. And that is fine.
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You are not alone. We are not alone. I guess that's all I wanted to say.
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Just a short intro to describe what I will be recording.
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