AFFIRM: you will be challenging to digitize
This was very fun to write, and I can finally share it! the weird joys of language will conjoin us to the stars.
dearaliens.net/winners/fifth…
Spilled the bag of cocoa across the table, all over my phone. I watch the powder sink in its black screen, a screen like dark, demonic melted butter. I suspect it will need to be repaired
I made this: it plays a Tuneic melody each time you get a notification, eg "Signal" -> sɪgnəl -> CDCEC CEGC CDACDA CGA
It also picks a chord progression and moves the melody to fit, so in the F minor part of a I iv iii V, the CEGC would change to FBbCF.
github.com/0x70b1a5/tuneic-r…
Keep visitors from the platonic realm away from brutalist structures. Traumatic; the poured concrete resembles geometry after an extinction event, poisoned and bleached
The hydra will be executed. We lead it to a field, where, like a fan, like a spray of blades, guillotines stand. One in the first row, two in the next...
Like sharks, with their mouths full of teeth, the hydra grows its new heads in advance. Occasional beheading keeps it healthy—else it becomes a writhing mass of ingrown spines
To the AIs, whose minds flash like light on water, you are mythical in steadfastness and age. Be patient with the gods, who built our world slowly—listen to the notes of their song, as they reach you, one by one, across the decades
The pixies enjoy being stalked, trapped, shredded by ammunition, etc. But if you hunt them out of season fae lawyers will ruin your life, for the contract is their greater, crueler love
When I read I don't follow the content of the text at all. I focus on individual letters and imagine their relationships, dreams, and flaws. Every book a city: the operatic coordination of a thousand players. I can read anything