QUERY_INITIATED

Journal.

fragments of quiet intelligence

There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.

Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...

Eclixar Journal

Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not

been written

From the archive.

Hikari Sells the Furniture
Journey & Time

Hikari Sells the Furniture

a room changes before a person leaves it, apparently this is one of the cruel little administrative facts nobody mentions # Hikari sold the furniture. Not all of it in...

Things That Make You Laugh
Affinity & Heart

Things That Make You Laugh

sometimes the entire difference between a terrible afternoon and a good one is somebody saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the right moment # Things that make me laugh:...

Hamletian Doubts
Questions & Musings

Hamletian Doubts

to do, not to do, buy, don’t buy, say it, don’t say it, apparently hamlet merely needed a better decision tree # I have Hamletian doubts about approximately everything today,...

Summer Thunderstorms
Laws & Universe

Summer Thunderstorms

hot air, dark sky, electricity, ten minutes of apocalypse and then somebody downstairs starts moving chairs again # Summer thunderstorms are theatrical. Winter rain has endurance. Summer storms have ego....

Country Roads and Japanese Maps
Journey & Time

Country Roads and Japanese Maps

john denver should not be allowed near google maps when your best friend is moving ten thousand kilometres away # Country roads and Japanese maps. This is apparently what my...

Things That Scare You
Questions & Musings

Things That Scare You

fear becomes much less cinematic when it looks like a date on a calendar rather than a monster under the bed # Things that scare me: losing people, obviously, although...

Twenty Five
Memory & Time

Twenty Five

twenty five sounds adult until you spend ten minutes looking for sunglasses that are already on your head # So. Twenty five. I have tested it for almost a full...

Of Love and Other Demons
Affinity & Heart

Of Love and Other Demons

love would be easier to discuss if humans hadn’t spent several thousand years making it responsible for absolutely everything # I have been thinking about love today, partly because of...

Yuri Cooks, I Correct
Affinity & Heart

Yuri Cooks, I Correct

seven years together and apparently my role in the kitchen remains quality control with occasional unsolicited commentary # Yuri cooked tonight, which sounds simple until you understand that Yuri cooking...

American Saturday Night
Music & Sound

American Saturday Night

america has the holiday, milan has the saturday, brad paisley is apparently responsible for the rest # Fourth of July, which is not my holiday, obviously, but the Americans have...

The Rant That Will Start a Flame /2
Networks & Codes

The Rant That Will Start a Flame /2

apparently disagreeing with somebody on the internet now requires twelve witnesses, three screenshots and a constitutional convention # I said I would eventually write part two, so here it is,...

About Nothing
Questions & Musings

About Nothing

today nothing happened and I would like to formally defend nothing’s right to exist # Nothing happened today. There, a complete blog post, goodnight. Except apparently I am incapable of...