Icky
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The act of naming is strange. As a nonbinary person, I’ve been named a number of times — by my parents, by my friends. This blog itself is written under a penname, but the name I use when I publish is no less real than the names I use with my friends or family. In…
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Look upon the polished face of the internet and ask yourself: are you having any fun? When you look something up, can you find any decent answer without tacking “+Reddit” onto the end of your query? When was the last time you watched a video uninterrupted by ad breaks? Blame Web 2.0. While Web 2.0…
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I am eclectic by nature. My habit of picking things up off the ground, of taking any plant clipping offered to me, leads to a house full of curios. However, not all of those collected objects stay very long. Twice a year, I get an itch that says its too much. This urge to delete…
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|∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| ∩＿＿＿∩ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| | ノ ヽ /⌒ ) |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| /⌒) ● ● | .| |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| / / ( ● )ミ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|.（ ヽ |∪| ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| ＼ ヽノ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|_ / / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴∵∴∴ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴∵∴∴ ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴ ∵∴∴ ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|￣￣￣ I’ve been on the internet for a long time, a member of that weird in-between generation that grew up just as the old internet started to die, when forums and niche internet communities were replaced by the inexorable creeping illness…
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Starting around the age of 5, I became obsessed with dragons (and dinosaurs, of course, but these were just two parts of the same puzzle as far as I was concerned at that age). My mother, ever the supportive parent, took this enthusiasm and ran with it. Along with books like Dragonology, she also began…
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Now that the holidays are finally over, I can spend some more time with you here. I took myself down to Pueblo, spent some time with old friends to ring in the new year, and completely forgot about an assignment my life coach gave me until about an hour to midnight: pick a word for…
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I find the pursuit of immortality overrated, given those who seek it often do so at the cost of quality of life, of their own humanity, of the community around them. To choose immortality (or functional immortality ie. you live a long long long time and only die if something kills you) is to choose…
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Today I’m going to visit a childhood friend for the New Year. She flew from Texas to spend the holidays with her family. When we were 10, we lived four blocks away from each other. I pretty much lived in her basement bedroom, spending our middle and high school years watching anime and developing interwoven…
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Working through the editing process brings some of the more esoteric practices of creation into focus. One of those is critique. The editing process is a self-critique of your own work, a preparation for showing it to the wider world in an attempt to share your own vision. Presenting your work to the world is…
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First thing in the morning, I sit down at my desk. It’s sturdy — used by my grandfather, then by my mother, then lugged around from apartment to apartment by me. The light streams in through the window, casting rainbows on the floor as it catches on the prisms hung on the windowframe. The forest…
from the pen of icarus blake 