To Read: What This Is — Siege Fairy

Welcome, welcome, welcome! My name is Siege Fairy and this is Low Effort Thoughts, a place where I spew out whatever's in my mind with as little effort as I can justify.

_{What kind of name is Siege Fairy anyway? Ugh.}

This is intended to be a disclaimer, so I'm going to keep this as short and sweet as possible so that I can link it at the header of every future post. But I am longwinded, so forgive me if I don't actually reach that goal...

I took a class in school about public speaking - it was a requirement - and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The first few classes gave us actual lessons on how to give a speech to an audience, and I think a lot of the lessons that don't involve the physical act of speaking (such as avoiding filler words and noises) apply to any form of communication. And the rest of the class was just giving different kinds of speeches and getting critiqued, and critiqing the rest of the class when they gave their speeches.

There's always been one lesson that stuck with me, an unbreakable law. To fully give any kind of speech, you need to give some indication of your expertise or competence. Why should anyone listen to you on this topic instead of anyone else?

This can take a handful of forms, from personal experience to actual certifications or awards to a lot of time and effort researching the topic (and then the process repeats, where you're obligated to cite your sources and explain why they were actually good sources to justify your points).

I do not intend to regularly give any of that to anyone.

This is a space for me to feel out ideas that I want to think about. Sometimes these ideas are going to be things I absolutely abhor and have no justification at all. Sometimes these ideas are going to come from personal experience or as a way to poke at some things that are happening in my life. Sometimes these ideas are actually going to be well-researched or come from an area in which I'm actually an expert.

And no one will know which are which.

Read the top - this is a place for me to spew out whatever's in my mind with as little effort as I can justify.

Maybe this is a bad idea and people will use my thoughts to justify something horrible. I'm definitely leaving a lot of leeway for that. Maybe I'll reveal my own horrible, unacceptable traits to others. That is a very real, and possibly inevitable, possibility.

_{Possible possibility? Someone needs an editor real bad.}

But I'm going to trust that I am who I am and I have to be comfortable with that. And that people who were trying to justify horrible things didn't need my words to do so.

But to cover myself for things I write in the future: Anything under the banner of Low Effort Thoughts is designed to be a shitpost. Engage with it as such and everyone will be fine.