Ideas

Here you'll find my ideas: things I want to create, concepts, quotes, and words for the scrap heap... Have a browse! Steal a few! My contribution to /ideas, created by Artem Tyurin, compiled by Peter Hagen and Louis Barclay.

Fragments

Half-thoughts, turns of phrase, and words for the scrap heap now live on their own page: have a browse through my fragments.

Aphorisms & Quotes

• An injured man's better than a dead one.
• Born in the wrong time (living in the right.)
• Create something that doesn't exist you'd like to enjoy.
• Cursors frozen in time.
• Do the work you want to see done.
• Doing and making are acts of hope.
• Don't believe in artists. Believe in art.
• Don't let your armor become your skin.
• Embarrassment won't kill you, even though it feels like it. Endure.
• "Envy is inversely correlated with self-examination. The less you know yourself, the more you look to others to get an idea of your worth. But the more you delve into who you are, the less you seek from others, and the dissolution of envy begins." — Lawrence Yeo
• Felt presence.
• Giving is receiving.
• Happy ever after is a lie (I promise.)
• He's sure as high heat keeping the promise.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
• Internet caretaking.
• It has no focus and neither do I.
• "It took years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as if I had a right to be here." — James Baldwin
• Let the stars swallow you whole.
• Life ruiners.
• Music is ingraved in my head.
• Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
• Nothing's more important than an unread library.
• Originality is a false promise.
• Resistance literature.
• Say the nice thing, now. Before it's too late.
• Something human, something different, something surprising.
• Start as a faker and become real.
• Starlight is dead light.
• Stay a while, stranger.
• Steal from anywhere that sparks your imagination.
• Storyspace.
• The automatic memory of digital love.
• The digital age began millions of years ago. Because we make things with our digits.
• Training for brain rot.
• "Unless you take measures to prevent it, this desire is going to be one of the chief motives of your life, from the first day on which you enter your profession until the day when you are too old to care." — C.S. Lewis
• We're made by what we love.
• We've been a band longer than we've been people.
• Who knows where ideas come from? But they usually don't come from computers.
• Why I don't talk about the weather.
• Write poetry instead of punching walls.
• Wrinkling the brain.
• You risk it all just to feel alive.

Projects & Ideas

• A 'zine idea generator' tool.
• A 'zines' and 'publishing' glossary post
• A banana appreciation webring.
• A book lovers directory.
• A chapbook inspired by lyrics from my favorite songs.
• A collaborative blog others can contribute to.
• A directory for people who publish weeknotes.
• A directory of interesting sites
• A directory of people who want to trade items.
• A directory of people's site anniversaries.
• A directory of zinesters interested in trading zines.
• A directory or webring for site owners looking for work.
• A library of free-to-download zines.
• A list of webrings.
• A magical 8-ball for website ideas
• A page left intentionally blank.
• A page listing all my posts in reverse-chronological order.
• A page of my favorite Wikipedia articles.
• A page that sends people to random links curated from my microblog.
• A pings page with others' mentions of my site.
• A podroll of podcasts I listen to.
• A screenshot garden.
• A 'TBR challenge prompts' printable.
• A weekly newsletter, 'The Curio Lucky Dip': five interesting pieces of esoterica and an 'extras' section.
• A wishlist.
• A zine-themed directory.
• 'Zinesters' directory
• Albums that mean much to me.
• An essay about the IndieWeb friendships I've made: 'For The First Time, I'm In Community.'
• An essay on inside versus outside perceptions of my output.
• An essay on making zines out of 'rubbish.'
• An essay on the 'Friendship Material' podcast.
• An interview series collating perspectives on web-specific topics (like URL structures) — an 'indie-spective.'
• Best practices for making zines.
• Blackout poetry collection.
• Blurbs and miniature essays for books I love.
• Cities I've visited, countries I've visited, museums I've visited, songs with literary themes.
• Compile my books read and my notes.
• Concerts I've been to.
• Experiences I want to have.
• Hacks: useful things I've picked up for living.
• How I built my site.
• Life advice I hold onto.
• My experience doing unoffice hours meetings.
• My influences.
• My interests — the things I'm a 'guy' for.
• My manifesto.
• My music listening stats.
• My personal style guide.
• My zines.
• Places I want to travel.
• Poetry written as fake html.
• Questions that interest me.
• Spoilers without context for my favorite films.
• The hills I'm willing to die on.
• The items I carry each day.
• The things that have shaped me.
• Things I don't want to do.
• Things I want to achieve someday.
• Things I'll happily do.
• Things I've noticed about countries I've visited.
• Tutorials for making envelopes from magazines, squiggly patterns, bouncy paper chains, and 'cheap wallpaper.'
• What happens to my site when I die.
• What to make zines with.
• Where to get zine supplies.
• Yearly reading statistics.
• Zine series inspired by my favorite books.

Story Seeds

• A character with 'headphone-like' auditory implants that regulate noise levels to ease overwhelm.
• A company Connor holds stock in is sold, and the resulting buyout funds a California vacation for family and friends — Jasmine included — to celebrate. A mystery ensues.
• A local arts show where Jesse exhibits his work — until one of his paintings is stolen.
• A protagonist is chosen to travel to other universes to help people find themselves or learn important life lessons. He ages only when in his home universe but remains the same age during his missions. To preserve his memories and assert agency in a life he can't control, he collects permanent tattoos representing the people he's helped.
• An infinite library, staffed by the gods of literature, the last living immortals.
• Behind-the-scenes during an amateur theatre production.
• Falling Behind The Rotating World: A drama about multi-generational blended artistic family headed by a single father set in the near future.
• In a hopepunk future, there lives a former BMX and dirt bike champion, now an accomplished amputee software engineer and custom fabricator. His path intertwines with his former flame, who he doesn't immediately recognize, leading to rediscovered friendship and rekindled love.
• Kieran: the exiled right-hand man of the great empress, the illegitimate son of two warring kingdoms, and a famed fighter.
• Malachi: a young man who fled the mistakes of his youth by caravan, keeping his grandmother's lamp on his walking staff and green eyes like malachite. Under a new identity he works as a shop assistant and caravan attendant while training as a scribe's apprentice, seeking urban anonymity — until his mother arrives and his past drags him into one ridiculous scheme after another. His wish for a quiet life never goes to plan, and he must decide who he is before the lies collapse.
• Phoenix Iris: a guerilla fighter, expert sniper, and gifted mechanic. After going against the vows of the group who raised him, he's blinded in an accident and his ship and robots are destroyed.
• The highs-and-lows of a young band growing up in the limelight.
• Two men fall in love in a treacherous situation, only to wake and realize it was a video game: they're best friends, and one is struggling with being a trans man.

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