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archonix


Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

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  • 18 weeks
    It's the obligatory new year blog post.

    And yes, I am posting this at around midnight on new year. I have a nasty cold, so I decided to disobey nurgle's one command and stay home.

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    6 comments · 146 views
  • 34 weeks
    Just for kicks

    I'm mucking around with Lulu for a work-related project (very boring stuff) and thought I would do a quality test with something fun.

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    8 comments · 211 views
  • 37 weeks
    Oh shit, words

    Or maybe that comma is in the wrong place. I haven't decided yet.

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    4 comments · 172 views
  • 40 weeks
    The odd things

    I've just been reading through old comments on my scraps story, after publishing yet another chunk from the ancient cutting room floor. It's remarkable how many of the commenters are still around - but also how many logged off for the last time, soon after making their last comment there.

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    10 comments · 220 views
  • 49 weeks
    But in brighter news

    While I'm not making any promises about any particular project here, I am actually writing again. I figure if I write enough of something, some pony words might drop out somewhere along the line as well. You never know. What I'm working on at the moment is essentially a re-write of a story I read a long time ago; an old pulp sci-fi tale, about a spaceship that manages to get lost in the

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Jul
20th
2015

Quote of the Moment · 8:02pm Jul 20th, 2015

"You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike a painting or a piece of music a garden is never fixed in time."

― Rosalie Parker - In The Garden

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Comments ( 3 )

This is why I just uprooted everything, threw a bunch of gravel and some rocks on my front yard and called it a decade.

It's also probably why I can't write.

A lot of us take the gardening approach to writing, as well. It helps pass the time, but is bad for producing finished work... :twilightsheepish:

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