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dead.garden
About the website
This is
- a personal website
- a passion project focused on fun and self-expression
- comparable to a personal social media account
This isn't
- commercial in any way
- a personal marketing strategy meant to enhance visibility and professional success
- interested in looking or acting like a website the former two points would apply to
The site is set in Bricolage and Ubuntu and the "logo" uses linja-pona by David A Roberts. It occasionally uses Redaction font and OpenMojis. The header and footer image are details of the painting Kuoleman puutarha (aka The Garden of Death) by Hugo Simberg and are in the public domain. This may be untrue if there are seasonal/holiday header and footer images in place, which usually are made by me! so there should be no further copyrights issues to bring up here. Webmentions are supported :^). For more information about the site itself, check out the #meta tag.
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The common man's poetry
As I look out across the paths of light
In wonder at the littleness of earth
A meteor (?) and that fierce flight
Reflects my spirit in its sudden birth
Infinity about all Time and Space
Equation factors in a changeless plan!
What matter that a star should lose its place
And trace its image on the mind of man?
Some say that Space is finite, like a ball.
How many worlds and suns it calls its own
I wonder at it now. Yet, above all
Greater than Space with shining star dust strewn
Older by far than Time itself
Is this within which makes me wonder so
"Night" by Albert Sidney Johnathan, 1938
I love poetry. I love reading it, I love writing it. Hell — I even love interpreting it, despite it all. And there are some classics I love. Some big names that are big for a reason, believe it or not, have written poems that resonate with me deeply. And of course they are remembered for this skill.
But one of my favourite genres of poetry is, I feel, criminally underappreciated. That is the poetry of the common man. Just some guy. We are all capable of writing poems, some of us do it now and again just because we feel like it and we like doing it. And yet many of us don't consider ourselves "poets" per se. That is surely just a title for those who have been professionally published? Opinions could devide on this matter.
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10 stories that impacted me greatly
Reply to by Lou Plummer
I think you can figure out a lot about a person if you know what books have had the most impact on them.
I've seen a lot of people reply to this prompt in my RRS reader! My RSS reader that I don't check very often. My RSS reader that was at 500+ articles when I finally checked it. Anyway, it seems like a great prompt and I've loved finding out what books have influenced people!
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I Saw the TV Glow
I watched I Saw the TV Glow yesterday. I haven't really reviewed movies much on here but I thought "Why not?". I did want to wait a bit and think about it more, but since it's July 1st and the new Star Trek Prodigy season dropped, I know that as soon as I start it I won't be able to make the post anymore.
I knew nothing about the movie going in. Like, actually nothing. I knew a bunch of my friends had watched it and that it was very sad and I strongly suspected it was going to be a trans movie. I was right. The movie is beautiful, visually and thematically, and it still made me cry writing this post.
I've seen a few reviews online saying it's a bad movie and that it's just about nostalgia or something? A lot of someone's enjoyment and understanding of the movie is tied to whether or not they look at it from a trans or cis perspective, I think.
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Instagram archived!
I finally archived my Instagram account on my website. I've had the account for 7 years. Now I can finally delete the images from instagram.com. Fuck Facebook.
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Space News to look forward to
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+ Submission to Aromantics Create Pride: An AUREA Event in partnership with Dancing Queerly
I've long wanted to make a zine. This month's IndieWeb Carnival theme of DIY and the Aromantics Create Pride event was probably the only thing that could force me to finally do all that. In preparation I researched zines online. I didn't want to make one of those zines that are professionally illustrated and set in InDesign or something — I wanted it to be raw and real, and to look like a classic zine one or a few people made with what was at hand. A real "something from nothing" thing, as the prompt suggested.
In my research I stumbled upon an archive of sci-fi fanzines beginning in 1930! My zine was heavily inspired by this and I tried to emulate the feeling of it by typing it all on a typewriter (a '30s typewriter, too) and illustrating in black ink. It's not the best version it could be, full of typos and all that jazz, but that simply supports my "artistic intention", I guess.
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Dr Who
A section of this site is dedicated to my love of Doctor Who.
