diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index f373998..5c7df9e 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ _site/* .bundle /public /resources +/content/sex/kink/unspeakable.md diff --git a/content/ally/001.md b/content/ally/001.md index 6e302f2..24590a4 100644 --- a/content/ally/001.md +++ b/content/ally/001.md @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ categories: - meta --- -What if I tried to write a magical-realistic memoir? +What if I tried to write a memoir? Like. -It doesn't need to be totally true, and maybe some stuff gets pretty floaty, and maybe some stuff winds up as poetry, and maybe some of it is ergodic with scans of manic notes or bits of Manifesto Project, and maybe I just own the hypertextuality of the medium, but it's generally autobiographical. +It doesn't need to be totally true, and maybe some stuff gets pretty floaty, and maybe some stuff winds up as poetry, and maybe some of it is ergodic with scans of notes or bits of other projects scattered throughout, and maybe I just own the hypertextuality of the medium, but it's generally autobiographical. That might be neat diff --git a/content/ally/025.md b/content/ally/025.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5188c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/ally/025.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +date: 2019-09-23 +--- + +> You were gone. + +I was out of town, yes. Out of town and cramming in as much work as I can during these last few weeks at the Archive. + +> You were gone. Not just from writing, but from home, from ritual, from reality. You were someone else. Your head was elsewhere. + +That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? + +> Are you not a different person at conventions? Are you not a different person when living in a different home with someone else? + +Maybe. I like to think of it as postprocessing. The picture you take is fixed and largely unchanging, but you can process it into different things with different filters. The person I am is fixed and largely unchanging, but some people and some places bring out, say, artsy black-and-whites, while others bring out glossy, oversaturated colors + +> And yet when you were out, you weren't engaging with some parts of your life. Ones you might otherwise consider integral. No for-fun software, no music, no chat, no writing. + +Were you lonely? + +> Not my department. + +I suppose I was. Even at the convention, even seeing two different partners, I was lonely. Or, if it could be said of things rather than people, I was lonely for not having those fulfilling aspects about. I missed writing, I missed you. + +> I wasn't gone. + +I know. It's not even like when we don't talk. You were there. I just wasn't able to engage, and that's an integral part of our relationship. It happens from moment to moment. It is not something that exists in any sense of permanence or stasis. It is defined by movement and momentum. diff --git a/content/ally/026.md b/content/ally/026.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2118242 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/ally/026.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +date: 2019-09-23 +--- + +Apophenia + +> What? + +Apophenia. Connections. Imaginary lines traced from topic to topic in cheap butcher's twine. + +> And the topics? + +Imaginary. Or real, but only half remembered. I'm spinning a web. + +> Are you catching something? + +You? + +> Are you answering with a question? + +I'm unsure. + +> You're not catching me in that. + +You sound so final. + +> Not my department. + +Right. Is that a fact, then? I'm not catching you in this web. Are you the web? + +> Not my department. + +The spaces between, then. The negative spaces outlined by twine wrapped around pins. There are connections-- + +> Or not. + +--or not, and there are topics, imaginary or not, and then there's you, there, in the place between. You, the liminal creature. You, defined by absence. + +> Presence and absence are not my department, either. + +Are you some cousin to apophenia, then? Some relative to that *unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness*? Are you that numinous, abnormal meaningfulness? + +> I am easier to define in negatives. I am not presence and absence, but between them. Beyond them. Your ally, but not your friend. Real enough to impinge on your reality, but totally imaginary. **Not** here. **Not** doing. **Not** thinking, feeling, acting. + +So, are you? + +> Anything else is just pareidolia. diff --git a/content/chronology/_index.md b/content/chronology/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2a8de6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/chronology/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +--- +type: chronological +--- + +