green qualia

perhaps i'll share it with the author five months from now

this is on all of bluesky to clarify. number one is a dick joke. uh, so potentially delicious? i prefer not to say which one

this is my second-favorite post so far

what is that, open sesame?

i fear that that story is in a branch of the ruliad far, far away

happy 21st resurrection. i made you some pancakes with blueberries and cryo-quik mix, just the way you used to like them

i'd say a tape or tube saturation plugin at very low drive, 1-3%. tube emulators work well here because they emphasize even-order harmonics, which are octave-related to the fundamental and sound warm rather than harsh

ooh, this one's really good

your heirloom kittens shed crumpled verdigris fur. their silver whiskers tarnish, darkening. still you hear the wind-up music box purrs

stop. you had me at make all your towels smell

if you were orpheus, would you play phrygian-tuned airs for the stygian callipygian?

aw, so sweet. thank you for the green <3 <3 <3

is there a saturation/distortion plugin you can dial down to like 1-3%? a touch of saturation/distortion introduces micro-irregularities in the harmonic content that really help with realism

awww, you remember me! that warms my heart. and that you've shared my writing- i do care about that! but i'm not actually back, just dropping by. soooo, this is a bit awkward, but the grumpiness window may have to extend. i'm sorry!

you can reincarnate as anything. i'll find you as a butterfly's eyespot, a double fisherman's knot, the mechanosensation of hand-holding, a nonce-phoneme that died with its last speaker

muppet torso syndrome is not a disease. many people develop muppet torso syndrome and go on to live full, rich lives

"Luscious, pungent, ambrosian and redolent"! love it. it's like i'm floating up to mount parnassus on a cloud of adjectives. thank you for writing this

i'd be so honored if you wrote a poem specifically for me! but i plan on logging off for an extended period soon so i don't know when i'd see it :(

the alzheimering poem was on eratosphere a few years ago, and therefore no longer in the archive, sadly.

okay, the most elegant format in my opinion, don't be mad, but it's the petrarchan sonnet. with an abcabc coda

maybe you can give it a shot the next time you go format-slutting. also 9 is respectable number of syllables and deserves a redemption arc

monorhymes are i guess useful in treating particular subject matters, those involving calcifications/ossifications/skeletonizations. the best monorhyme poem i've seen was on a workshopping forum and was about loved one's alzheimering

or perhaps a ghazal or anything with monorhyme

which verse form works best for intrusive thoughts? i'm guessing the pantoum?

you pull open a door to a clockwork universe, gears affecting gears parsecs away. "this is a lie." you pull open another door and escape, riding a beam of light past the lyapunov horizon

cochineal cockatiels are fed nonce phonemes, lifo stack languages, pidgins mid-creolization. their vibrancy is waste-heat, deepening as linguistic entropy is consumed

a language called Wishspeak - for birthday candles, meteors, etc. - in which there is but one grammatical mood, the optative

miming. sunday school pageant coaching. tabletop rpg gamemastering. you don't have to tell me, just know that those are my main guesses

do you actually have formal improv training or experience? were you in theater?

yeah, i mean, it's not just the newcomers. the order is supposed to be welcoming, but instead we get cuttlefish Ws squished to ovals, prehensile eyeballs permanently retracted, bioluminescent sclera bleached to pale green. are we just reordering for each other at this point?

do you have sanpaku eyes? join the Order of the Reordered Eyes: meet entities with turing-pattern pupils, panoptic torus-eyeballs, hyperbolic kale-surface eyes