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This journal will be disappearing soon.
You can find me on Dreamwidth as elisem.
I've ported everything over there, but most of it is still hidden. I'll unhide stuff as I go, or if people request it over there. -
ArtLog: where are all the shinies?
(edited Monday, January 2, 2017)
I HAVE MOVED THINGS TO ETSY. You should find almost everything over at https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise. Thank you, and big love to you all! See you over there -- and I hope to keep seeing you around Dreamwidth as well, because I plan to be posting more cool stuff about beads and rocks and jewelry techniques ( Read more... ) -
notes on power and control
"Power works through management and control. It draws you into its field and forces you to play by its rules, giving you forced choices within the confines of the only options made available to you. It sustains itself by opening up impossibly tiny spaces for inclusion, disciplining you until you are made to fit, while leaving the structures of ( Read more... ) -
"The Declaration" by John M. Ford, and "Response [...]" by Elise Matthesen
Some of you know that back in 1998, Mike was invited to be Guest of Honor at the Sixth Klingon Year Games, which at that point was a fun and smallish camping event to the southeast of where we live. When discussing possible festivities, one thing led to another, and, well, we had a ceremony. The way Mike put it was, "The Klingon Empire has decided ( Read more... ) -
My beloved Mike is gone.
Um.
More than that is hard to say just now. I think it will be a bit before I am coherent.
There is a post on Making LightPlease pass the word to the people who loved him, liked his work, and so on. There will certainly be some sort of memorial service, but it won't be for at least a couple of weeks. Late October is the best I can give right now ( Read more... )