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

107 ideas, lowercased, arranged alphabetically.

• a book lover's hierarchy of needs based on maslow's pyramid
• a hurried percolation
• a porous relationship to time
• a roadway to healing
• a weird way to live our lives
• abandon your identity and start again
• aimless yet far too many aims
• anger as fuel not devastation
• be a life enjoyer
• be a problem to your problems
• behavior can be artful
• cast into oblivion
• clinicians and writers thrive when they hone the same skills: empathy and observations
• committing to 5%
• controlled burning for the mind
• conversations with oneself instead of with everything going on in the world
• despair provides certainty where hope is scarier
• discrimination is such a waste of time
• distant reiki as social reproductive labor
• don't buy food containers, purchase pickles
• don't mistake information for progress
• don't pass by yourself without wonder
• doubting the internal dictionary
• dressed in cliches
• everyone is an artist until the rent is due
• exercising my back-button rights
• fakely finite
• forever elsewhere
• from 'this book wasn't for me' to 'this book was terrible'
• functioning on fear
• have you tried having a different life?
• help me remember to forget
• how much longer are you going to leave it
• humility in the face of the size of this planet
• i dream of asking better questions
• i swear i'm better in writing
• i want the world
• ideas beyond my skill level
• if i were a short-term accommodation host
• if this is how the story ends, i don't want to know
• if you're going to be sentient, learn to say 'i don't know'
• if you're not loud on the internet you're not there
• in-between time
• inaction can have consequences too
• ingredients you can see and pronounce
• is it us or is it them
• knowing how is not the same as learning how
• magical underthinking
• maybe in another universe i make sense when i speak
• moments turned to postcards
• no apparent reason for existence
• no one is the boss of time
• normal is not harmful and weird is not counter-productive
• not intuitive, familiar. nothing is intuitive
• notes as assembly
• pay attention to detail: make even the smallest things beautiful
• performing a sense of self
• preparing for a digital life
• psychological wealth
• rediscovery is as magical as discovery
• release yourself from the role of fixer
• reverse obituary
• she lived and loved. isn't that enough?
• she spoke as though her every sentence had the character limit of a text message
• she'd never wanted to end up like this...but considering everything...it'd been inevitable. she just hadn't seen it.
• shoutout to random drivel
• so much spending is gasping
• sometimes i feel like this might be the last time i feel this good
• songs we've overplayed
• star chart marginalia
• starflung explorers
• stop asking for directions from people who've never been to the places you're going
• success is pressure
• sunlight before screenlight
• tell me something i don't know i don't know
• the _ for problem solvers
• the coming of stars
• the extraordinary internet
• the fantasy of the past
• the formula that is tropical house
• the great flattening
• the hours you lose aren't separate from your life
• the importance of nuance
• the more you deny yourself the more you lose yourself
• the only place he seemed suited to was under the stage lights. nothing else burned bright enough for him
• the twin suns burn away all pretense
• the youngest song
• there's never enough time to recover from the world
• think it. make it
• this could've gone any other way
• this is where i go when i seethe, and this is where i go when i read
• timely timelessness
• to be loved is worth the inconvenience
• trouble every day
• we've got to dream past it
• what about all the australian stories
• what are you doing? the world is falling apart
• what are you seeing? what am i missing?
• what's eating up all the oxygen in the room?
• what's your response to victory?
• where did all the ya books go
• why does a key change shift a song's mood?
• you are what you love
• you have a better day if the people around you do too
• you're getting older and i'm getting scared
• you're sentenced to freedom
• your life isn't an optimization problem

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 'zines' and 'publishing' glossary post
• A book lovers directory.
• A chapbook inspired by lyrics from my favorite songs.
• A directory of interesting sites
• A magical 8-ball for website ideas
• A screenshot garden.
• A zine-themed directory.
• 'Zinesters' directory
• Albums that mean much to me.
• 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.
• 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 music listening stats.
• My zines.
• Places I want to travel.
• Poetry written as fake html.
• Spoilers without context for my favorite films.
• Things I've noticed about countries I've visited.
• Tutorials for making envelopes from magazines, squiggly patterns, bouncy paper chains, and 'cheap wallpaper.'
• What to make zines with.
• Where to get zine supplies.
• Yearly reading statistics.
• Zine series inspired by my favorite books.

Story Seeds

• 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.
• 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.

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