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NEW TAGS

restless deathless divine. brand new ancients. daimonion. if gods are hungry they can starve to death. gods are dead unrest. death will reap god one day too.

hate cake. sacrifice. squalloscope

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QUARKS AND STUFF

bio.  mycology. neuroscience. quantag. weather. inf. fractals. chaos theory.

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AESTHETICS

THIS IS THE END

i know the end. dta.  the end is here. decay. deterioration. long abandoned places. road music.  > prev. on the road. non places.

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MISC

unscrew the locks from the doors; unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs. doors the windowpane. windows maybe we sing to keep ourselves. 

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HUNGRY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

HUNGER

appetites. wrong or eaten. [link to august wrong or eaten theory] the hunter’s heart; the hunter’s mouth. for a moment; i thought you were somebody else. for a moment; i almost was. > prev. possession.  wound theory.

MEAT

in the flesh. general body tag. red meat. forbidden meat. cannibalism cyclin dependent kinase complexes. liver theory. biting into the plum. pith and pit. abundance. that synesthesia scene in the beginning of ratatouille.

DESIRE

i want to tell you yes. desire melts the limbs. triangulation of desire. contact is crisis. there is a word i know.

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LOVE LOVE LOVE

this is a love story.  this is not a love story. like a fist like a knife.  > prev. love and violence. love makes us mortal. to love another person is to see the face of god. the lovers. queer as in ily. the earth was made for lovers. on love.  you missed my heart. exactly what it means in the song

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SILICON & EPOXY

444mhz. somewhere on erytheia but the two headed calf is a cyborg etc capacitor inductor tuning coil earpiece. mechanical headpieces. radio static.  tubes.  silicon. i need it for my dreams. ghosts in the machine. > prev. haunted meat. a leotard a commissioner a single hoard.

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THIS SUMMER I MIGHT HAVE DROWNED

REELING THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT STREETS

pink in the night.  twelve little bobby pins in two straight lines.  pinches and kisses. this summer i went swimming.

GOT MILK IN ALL MY FEVER DREAMS

the inherent tenderness of cold spaghetti. intermediate between theatre of the absurd/the soup of it tags and the milk is sour tag the milk is sour.  sweaty and hopeful on a summer night.  how archival the blankness seemed. 

THIS HEAVY HUMANNESS

we are on our knees we are saying that the tulips have had it hard this week. humanism washing machine heart. the sacred and the mundane. i love you i want us both to eat well. tomatoes and dancing. the precious intimacy of little things. please could you be tender?

MY BODY IS A RELIC OF AN UNTRAINED BALLERINA

sur le cou de pied. gender. girl work. and the girl and the city were one and the same.

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GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

THE WORLD TURNS ON

water water everywhere and not a drop to drink. evil earth garden of earthly delights. somewhere on erytheia. geryon went flickering. somewhere definitely on erytheia  lesbian fig wasps. the world and i. the carnal and the sublime. everything’s coming up green. stubborn odes. the blue holds. the dionysian and apollonian. 

FIELD GUIDE

insects. plume. eyes. lambda. animals. critters. fish. insects. lamb. wolves. cows. cats. soft. fire. i am a forest fire. cold. snow. rocks. in the fields. bones. 2d. 3d. cross. blades. guns. weaponry. 

STRATA 

nothing but my own soft shell.

so let’s take off the body. body as shell jacket. reticulum. shells. cocci. forms.

NOW AGAIN

mirror neurons. mirror mirror. fractals. patterns. reiteration.

FLUID DYNAMICS

water. waterlogged.  what the water gave me.  stomatag.  drowning girl.

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IM NOT A RELIGIOUS PERSON BUT

THE GOD FIT

when teeth meet in divinity. theophagy. margaret atwood daimonion. gods and monsters god. [ ] authorfathergod.  prayer. the carnal and the sublime. apotheosis. angels. angel activities.

THINGS THAT CREEP IN THE NIGHT

monster monster. creatures. ghosts. my voice is far too high.

MY BONES HAVE BEEN YOUR BEDFRAME 

a haunted house with a picket fence. i’ve been trying to go home my whole life. homecomings > prev. nostos. when they say you can’t go home; what they mean is you were never there.  look at the skill and spirit with which i rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t. you should be dead. this should have been the end. the oresteia. violence and the sacred. mimetic violence. sacrifice. the carnivorous lamb.  such waltzing was not easy.  something dead that doesn’t know it’s dead. tag from @ olreid.  > prev. ghosts. hauntings.

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META DIRECTORY

[link each folder here]

colors.

aesthetics.

a game of chess with lady destiny.

a fire just waiting for fuel.

my body is a relic of an untrained ballerina.

this summer i might have drowned.

garden of earthly delights.

silicon & epoxy

love love love.

hungry hungry caterpillar.

i’m not a religious person but.

secrets of the universe.

large hadron fruit collider.

misc.

meta tags.

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A GAME OF CHESS WITH LADY DESTINY

THE FOUR FATES

fate that glockenspiel. general fate tag. mending the tree branch. how quickly every dreaded certain end is tossed joyfully into the sky. time stretches out behind you as you draw its glittering path with a violet crayon. [link to earlier anon ask abt this w explanation]  now i'm stuck inside a vision that repeats repeats repeats. prophecy, paranoia, and obsessive compulsions [link to ej’s post on this] verse chorus verse. characters aware of their position within the narrative; aware of the narrative and how it ends [link to ej’s post on this]

VERSE BRIDGE AND CHORUS

cyklops. cyclical stories. especially about intergenerational cycles of patriarchal violence. the name is from the etymology of this word as a cycling eye and cyklops as a monster. but the poem continues. emily wilson. formerly: tell me again what time is it said the fruit bowl.

> prev. time is a flat circle. we're standing in the nick of time. outside of time. anne carson.

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE

rehearsal notes. touching the veil. when it snows or the dusk settles cool on the porch and it feels like the edge of the world is everywhere, all around you  a crack in the chassis. portals. narratives. nothing but my own soft shell. > prev. shells. 🧄. cyclin dependent kinase complexes. the shape of a story. the density of sound. the wind fills out the drying laundry into the impression of a body.

IT HAD THE QUALITY OF A MEMORY

speak; Memory. general memory tag. stone memory. storytelling as necromancy. storytelling.

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SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE

DREAMSCAPES

dreaming as hard as i could dream. dreams, unreality conversation with magic stones. dreaming of the machineries of empire. that one recurring dream-like thing i always had falling asleep when i was like 5 with all the cogs and rolls of fabric moving in the dark room. magical realism. bytes. metaphysical textposts untitled. untitled the unnaming. from “the unnaming” by ursula k. leguin. i have already eaten the sand.

ABSURDITIES

theatre of the absurd. the soup of it.

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META TAGS

folder. actual documentation here. folders contain (unique?) groups of related tags 

workflow. for introducing new tags, action items to do like replace old tags, etc 

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INBOX

mail.

1. toggle the following parameters

SENDER

anon. url. name.

TYPE

radio static. chatter replies. longer answers; “serious” questions & thoughts; helpful information etc ask games. 

2. add relevant flags

FLAGS

letters. <3  > prev. 💌*. 💌. ρ. what are the hashtag reviews  tags. for mail asking/commenting on my tagging system 

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A FIRE JUST WAITING FOR FUEL

G/LITTER

the font of teriyaki. american malls. the destruction to the land and lifestyles of subsistence farmers caused by the shrimp industry in bangladesh due to the core interfering with the periphery. children’s lunchboxes sold on depop as Y2K handbags. ani difranco. the font of 20 percent more. years and years (hbo) voice if we keep going at this rate where will be in a year? 20? 200?  1 billion melons. [link textpost] plastic. we don’t know how long it takes polystyrene to decompose.

FROM THE ΠΟΛΙΣ TO THE POLICE 

machineries of empire. another cog on the gear on the clock. the rise and fall of empires built on bones. whats your favorite kind of transmission tower? do the street sewer plates get painted rainbows for pride? is that an electric butterfly? σκηνή. screens. surveillance. cameras. big data. panopticons. censorship. parasitic states. dithering. information capital clutter dithering information standardized tests class the economy of facts and and and and and another billion dollar donation to count the number of homeless people instead of giving them homes what can we do to get you on the news. sylvan esso.  how is a greek chorus like a lawyer. anne carson.

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COLORS

COLORS

ff0000. coil of the hot red plate starting to glow eec999. dull warm bronze beige motel cali carpet stains eeea00. bright orange yellow sun 00ee00. bright yellow green spring (00s are the jar ee is the sound) 1d420b. green 90FFFF. sky blue aqua  0c3a99. blue 0C1190. indigo violet e111ee. pink purple FFFFF. light grey white 808080. black grey white 00000. dark grey black

PALETTES

in rainbow order

FFFFF + color. adds white. 00000 + color. adds black. ff0000 1d420b. red green eec999 e111ee. gold pink/purple eec99 0c3a999. gold blue ff0000 0c3a99. red blue eec999 1d420b. gold green

bleached. glitter. jewels. candy. saturated.

OLD RECIPES

808080 + any color. adds white desaturation pales pastels. 0c3a99 eec99. gold blue