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Civilization and Duality
A morning talk, as given by Marelle.Civilization, fundamentally, separates the true from the false ( Read more... ) -
Death
Liloa goes to Marelle, late one evening. The fire's died down, the sun's long gone, and clouds cover the stars. She speaks quietly. "Are we dead ( Read more... ) -
Stability
You approach Meda one evening, after the circle's done but with the fire still glowing. Marelle had pointed her out to you, one of those early days, but you haven't spoken and she's never told her story, at least when you've been around.
"Don't say it," Meda says without looking, before you've even opened your mouth. "People only ever say two ( Read more... ) -
Tidepools
"It's like a tidepool," she says ( Read more... ) -
I’m not bold enough to write this as a “Speculative Queerness Manifesto”
(reposting because I want to be able to link to this somewhere other than Tumblr)
I don’t really write or talk about being genderqueer or queerness in general. It’s hard to talk about things I haven’t really figured out, I guess. I don’t really have self-consensus on much.
But in some ways, the story I’m the right person to tell should be based on ( Read more... ) -
Bones
Prompted by Skeletons by Alexander Wolfe.
There are 206 bones in the human body.
You were born with over 270 bones, though many of those later fused.
I was not.
I gathered my bones one by one.
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Your Job
Prompted by I Wrote Mr. Tambourine Man by John Craigie, and perhaps Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō.They say that a calling is a job you'd do even if you didn't need to work ( Read more... ) -
Certainties
Prompted by One True Thing by Tylan (and brainstorming for Dreampunk with Sarah).We don’t have much in the way of certainty, least ‘round these parts ( Read more... ) -
That Less Faster
Prompted by Bottomfeeder by Amanda Palmer."That's not how karma works," she said. "There's not some Universal Karma Authority that measures how much you tipped your last cab driver and adjusts your expected time to hail your next cab accordingly ( Read more... ) -
Dagger and Hand
Prompted by Pearls by Antje Duvekot, though I didn’t stick very close.We all sell ourselves, in the end. Don’t have any illusions about it. I just cut a little closer to the violence, is all. Or I did, at least. Who knows what I’ll do now ( Read more... )