Thoughts In Transit

House of Fluid Reflections

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Two people, one pup, a car, and everything the road shakes loose.

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The Reckoning & the Rice: The Mother Mission | Thoughts in Transit EP 3

We recorded this the day before Mother's Day. We start with a story about our chaotic trip to the creek. Phone went bloop, mic charging case chased the drink, and Zen who just wasn’t with ANY of it. The Force forced us to JUST rest. Shinanagins aside, Shaah recapped a breakthrough moment with his mother last week. Yani discussed moving through her own arc unpacking several of her own circumstances that have led to pressurized expansion and personal accountability. What came out of the conversation is something we both needed to say out loud: you can hold the beauty and the pain of a relationship at the same time. You don't have to pick one. And when the anger finally cools enough for sadness to speak, something different sets in. This is a Mother's Day episode. It's also an episode about accountability, evolution, and what it looks like when two people who have done the work actually get to see it in themselves. Topics: Chaos in the woods, lost tech, Zen the Velcro puppy, mother relationships, no-contact periods, accountability vs. victimhood, anger vs. sadness, self-love, holding two truths simultaneously, the pressure cooker metaphor, Act III, and a Happy Mother's Day to every mother out there. Where to find us: houseoffluidreflections.com | patreon.com/houseoffluidreflections | gryskll.com | dragonspitchfork.com Chapter Markers0:00 - Intro / The System Works (mic chaos edition) 0:49 - RIP to the social media phone 1:40 - The testament: where we are now 2:30 - That phone went bloop 3:28 - Chaos in the woods: Zen could not get comfortable 4:14 - The mic case goes into the creek 6:38 - We found a flat rock. The outing continued. 7:04 - Zen is at auntie's today 7:38 - Days off are days off (a lesson received) 9:27 - Why I turned the mics on 10:21 - Shaah: my mother and I, and the period of no contact 11:06 - Learning to be yourself in your parent's presence 11:46 - Shaah invites Yani into the conversation 12:10 - Yani: finding myself in a similar space 13:08 - Adjusting myself around her 14:07 - The traditional path I didn't take 15:35 - My father's death and the self-love reckoning 16:26 - Moving in together / you can't heal where you've hurt 17:15 - Taking space from my mother: the decision I thought would break me 17:57 - We will recover. Getting to know each other as adults. 18:11 - Arriving at accountability instead of victimhood 18:30 - Holding two truths simultaneously, with love 19:22 - Why it matters that neither of us lost our sh*t 19:37 - White rage, out of body, and the practices that anchor us 20:35 - The constellation connecting: both threads arriving at once 21:24 - The breakthrough just kind of unfolded 21:34 - The pressure cooker: it feels like the basmati is ready 22:17 - Head above water / fairy sparkle / trusting creative force 22:47 - Giving everything when it was all we had 23:37 - Accountability for the explosion, and the grace that preceded it 25:21 - My mother and my daughter: the relationships that came through the fire 26:19 - The bus called it / wrapping up 26:33 - Happy Mother's Day to every mother

27 min
4 MAY

Flubbed the Substack | Thoughts in Transit EP 2

In this episode we get in the car knowing exactly what we need to talk about. I had already sent Yani the links days before. There's a little sadness in her voice when I bring it up, and honestly, it makes sense. Three months of the most consistent writing she'd put in since 2023, and the platform she chose to build on turns out to be structured in a way that profits from content that is fundamentally misaligned with who we are and what we're building. We get into what Substack's discovery tools surfaced and profited from with Andrew Tate in April 2026, why Yani pulled up Claude and read the response out loud in the car, and what the difference between hosting speech and actively platforming it means for where your subscription fee goes. We also talk about Shaah having already stepped away from TikTok and CapCut after the ownership change made the intentions of those platforms impossible to ignore, and how we're actively plotting our exit from Meta. We've been doing the work of cultivating healthier mindsets and curating better consumption habits for a while now. This episode is part of that same process. Choosing where to build, and what to put your energy and your dollars behind, is part of it too. Social media has done a lot. It's how GRYSKLL came together. It's how a lot of the connections that matter to us got made. It's also contributed to some of the most damaging things happening in the world right now. We've been sitting with that tension for a long time. Shaah even coordinated a song about it, SMS (Social Media Sickness), a work in progress on GRYSKLL's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/social-media-sms-142965114 And then there's Sere. Right in the middle of working through all of this, Patreon drops a wave of new features and the network lights up. New energy, new activity, and Jack Conte himself dropped into a post we tagged him in. Jack built Patreon because the infrastructure that existed wasn't built for artists like him. That's exactly why GRYSKLL exists. That's exactly why HFR keeps showing up and building. Feeling that confirmation arrive right when we needed it, that's Sere doing what Sere does. A detailed write-up with links and research is coming later this week on Patreon. Thoughts in Transit is an unscripted in-the-car conversation series from House of Fluid Reflections. Two people, one pup, a car, and everything the road shakes loose. New episodes weekly. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/houseoffluidreflections Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thoughts-in-transit/id1895013301 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2TSLB0M1bkITSbBQc7JeYU?si=y2k1OvElTRGNx0Hl0I05bg YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW5x4SwGtMZbjCF3axu1E2NyIQ9rVOs8K

21 min
27 APR · BONUS

AI, Art Sales & Ethics | Thoughts In Transit EP 0

This was originally episode 1 before we decided to leave Substack. It's even up on YouTube. More on that in next week's episode. That one requires more than the conversation we had on the car. I've been doing some research to provide some extra value with it. While I finish preparing that here's the original Substack article text for this epsiode We have conversations like this all the time. We just happened to capture this one while dropping Yani at work, as she was preparing for an afternoon discussing our work at an open house where the art been on display since January. So much has been going on that we honestly haven’t promoted it the way we should have. On top of that, we’ve had to sit with the fact that neither of us is comfortable selling art. Yani has always taken the lead in that area, and I appreciate her immensely for it. This time she used Claude to help prepare for the event, and the way she used it sparked a whole other conversation. Because here’s the thing. It works. It answered questions that humans in our circle couldn’t or wouldn’t. The DreamWorks cover art alone opened doors we didn’t know how to knock on. And that’s exactly the problem. We’re artists. We know what’s at stake with AI, for creators, for communities, for the planet. We’ve even switched platforms over it. But where would some of this work be without it? This conversation barely scratches the surface, but it landed somewhere honest. If people have a genuine beef with AI, maybe the question isn’t just about the tool. Maybe it’s the mirror.

14 min
21 APR

We Switched Timelines: Intuition, Art & The Force | Thoughts in Transit EP 1

🎥 Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube, Spotify or by joining the HFR Family on Patreon. Links at the bottom Thoughts in Transit - Two people, one pup, a car, and everything the road shakes loose. Episode 1 Thoughts in Transit is a raw, uncut conversation series from House of Fluid Reflections. No agenda. No script. Just us in the car with Zen, following whatever thread the ride decides to pull. In Episode 01, the conversation starts with a press release and goes somewhere neither of us planned. The @gryskll Meets @thabeggasofficial press release dropped the day before we recorded this. Something shifted. A documentary edit that wasn't ready. A night of footage that opened into a series. A morning that yielded more than the one before it. And a conversation about what happens when you stop externalizing and start trusting the force. We talk about intuition and what it costs to follow it. “Sere”, the affirming nudge we've both learned to recognize. Overconsideration and externalization as the same trap wearing different names. Quantum theory, nonlinear time, and why the art tells you when it's done. Yani's aerial journey and how following a calling without knowing where it leads is still following a calling. And what it means to rewrite your reality while you're still living in the old draft. The episode ends the way the best conversations do. Unexpectedly. This is Act III. In progress. In public. Chapter Markers 0:00 — Good Morning (Zen Makes His Entrance) 0:46 — The Press Release Dropped 1:26 — What the Press Release Stirred 2:39 — The Footage That Was Missing 3:15 — Naming FlashbaXe 3:47 — Sere: The Affirming Nudge 5:40 — Thank You for Being the Perfect Distraction 7:38 — The Art Tells You When It's Done 8:53 — The Wu Reference & the Paywall Idea 10:56 — Overconsideration vs Externalization 13:05 — Stop Explaining Yourself 14:47 — The Mirror Won't Blink First 18:42 — We Switched Timelines 23:13 — Introspection (The Word That Kept Evading Her) 25:27 — Where Is the Art Taking the Documentary? 28:07 — Go Back Through Your Journals 31:52 — Quantum Theory & Nonlinear Time 36:16 — Dancing With the Force 42:28 — We Keep Having the Same Evolutionary Arc 44:00 — The 48-Hour Manifestation Challenge 47:36 — I Can See You're Back Alive 50:20 — The Year of Automatic 53:22 — Aerial, Abundance & Following the Call 1:01:11 — Yes. We Are Moving. 1:01:43 — Rewriting Reality While You Live It 1:03:09 — [Yani closes the episode] Connect With HFRHouse of Fluid Reflections — houseoffluidreflections.com Watch Episodes Patreon — https://patreon.com/houseoffluidreflections YouTube — https://youtube.com/@houseoffluidreflections Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/2TSLB0M1bkITSbBQc7JeYU?si=y2k1OvElTRGNx0Hl0I05bg Connect on Socials Instagram — http://instagram.com/houseoffluidrefections TikTok — https://tiktok.com/@houseoffluidreflections Connect with Yani (Yolanda Marie) Yani — https://www.houseoffluidreflections.com/yolandamarie Connect with Shaah (Dragon's Pitchfork) Dragon's Pitchfork — dragonspitchfork.com Killa Bee Movie — killabeemovie.com gryMatter on Patreon — patreon.com/grymatter Killa Bee Movie on Patreon — patreon.com/killabeemovie #Documentary #RickRubin #manifestation

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