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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 24, 2026

So I was procrastinating on writing...

And thanks to a mutual over on tumblr, was reminded that height comparison websites exist, so behold! The Characters of Oathsworn: Ainsel is smol for backstory reasons. Rowan is stacked and that's how I like her (that's also how Ainsel likes her, but she'll die before she admits that).

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spencer's blog

spencer's blogOct 22, 2026

spencer is a girl's name

my name is spencer. it's a girl's name. i have been using it as one. it's also a boy's name. in the US, considerably more boys than girls are given it. i understand why someone reading my name might p

soulcruzer

soulcruzerOct 21, 2026

The Runaway Horse and the Evolution of the Self

On Montaigne, idleness, writing, and the strange business of encountering our former selves I’ve been reading Montaigne’s essay Of Idleness, and I’ve found myself rather taken with his description of what happens when he gives his mind permission to wander. Having withdrawn from public affairs, Montaigne imagines that his mind, freed from the demands of...

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Norbert Woehnl Photography

Norbert Woehnl PhotographyOct 21, 2026

The Opposite Direction

How a casual decision to travel east led to a new life.

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 20, 2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless | Prologue: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

1980-something, Somewhere in London

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 20, 2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless

Mushrooms in a circle A door within their midst Mustn’t set a foot in You won’t know what you’ve missed Curtsy to the old ones Do not meet their gaze Bells will send them running Their food will bid you stay Salt around the windowpane Scissors by the bed A bowl of bread and milk outside To save you from the dead

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 20, 2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless | Blurb

Ainsel wants to live a quiet life alone, as she closes the dangerous Fae breaches without any tools, training, or backup; after all, no-one else can do it. Rowan wants to live her life loudly and free of responsibilities, as she tries to close breaches on the down-low with more explosives than any one person should have; after all, no-one else is doing it. Neither of them want to have to go on the run together, as forces older than humanity and more wrathful than god bear down upon them for reas...

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spencer's blog

spencer's blogOct 18, 2026

my illness has a marketing department

i have crohn's disease. the medication i take has a commercial on tv in the united states. (no it isn't skyrizi). i normally think about this drug in terms of whether its working. somewhere, someone h

TerrainOct 18, 2026

First Nations Treaty is on the ballot

Both the Coalition and One Nation promise to repeal the Statewide Treaty and abolish Gellung Warl. The polling says the pledge lands badly in exactly the seats the Liberals have to hold.

TerrainOct 17, 2026

What the organisers say worked

Australian progressive campaigns have written down, in public, what failed and why, and those accounts contradict several things campaigns assume about themselves.

Words By Sean

Words By SeanOct 16, 2026

Hello & Welcome to My Mind

My first post in Leaflet outlining my intentions with this blog and my thoughts on the state of social media

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soulcruzer

soulcruzerOct 16, 2026

The Tabs Were the Point

Reading back a conversation with Clay, I can see where I began answering a different question from the one he was bringing. He’d spent hours reading another person’s blog. He wanted to talk about the experience it had created. I replied with an account of the homepage, the welcome, the directories and the routes through...

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hello friend

hello friendOct 16, 2026

Neato screenwriting tools

I've been revising a screenplay that I originally drafted many years ago with some combination of physical index cards and Scrivener. Now, I've converted it to Fountain, and plopped it into along with this handy plugin. Although the plugin does have a PDF export function, afterwriting.com is kind of amazing for getting the format just right. It also has an option to export for mobile/Kindle reading.

TerrainOct 16, 2026

What moves a vote in Victoria

People do change their minds, and the record says why: leaders, the cost of living and the slow loosening of party ties. The campaign conversation is the smaller part. Here is the measured order of things, and what is still worth doing in the six weeks that remain.

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soulcruzer

soulcruzerOct 15, 2026

Montaigne had room for thumbs

I went looking through Montaigne’s table of contents and got stuck on thumbs. Fear, friendship, death. Fair enough. You expect those at the philosopher’s table. But thumbs? I like that he pulled up a chair for them. Smells too. Drunkenness. Sleep. The clothes we wear and the things we keep putting off until tomorrow. Reading...

TerrainOct 15, 2026

Preferences are the whole game

One Nation's preferences to the Coalition are worth about three points where Labor and the Coalition are head to head, and no published model has measured what they do seat by seat.

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TerrainOct 14, 2026

One Nation is not only taking Labor's seats

The usual reading is that One Nation splits the right and hands its preferences back to the Coalition. In the seats where the Nationals sit, the measured transfers run the other way.

TerrainOct 13, 2026

The upper house nobody modelled

Victoria was the last place in Australia where a party could be elected on a fraction of a per cent. That ended on 19 August 2026, and the arithmetic that replaced it is one no major party can rely on.

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mttagg.artOct 10, 2026

War Comes Quiet

soulcruzer

soulcruzerOct 9, 2026

What We Mistake for Silence

Clay’s daily note this morning contains a small observation from a hotel room near King’s Cross. Underground trains pass close by every few minutes. He hears them, except that after a while he doesn’t. The sound remains in the room; attention has stopped reporting it. I keep returning to that difference. A thing can continue...

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WestinLee.comOct 7, 2026

The Pause: Let’s define that one filler dialogue choice format

"How are you feeling? You took a nasty fall back there." 1. Not great. 2. Ow! My head! 3. Where am I? Seen one of those? That's The Pause. A narrative design verb that's usually bad that I've been forced to acknowledge can have value.

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Norbert Woehnl Photography

Norbert Woehnl PhotographyOct 6, 2026

I Decided To Stop Shooting Film

Analog photography has given me a lot of joy over the years - but the time has come to orient myself towards the future, and focus on digital photography.

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Always Thinking about StoriesOct 1, 2026

The Best Thing About an Overflowing TBR Pile

You're curating a library of your own interests in your own home! What's not to love?

soulcruzer

soulcruzerSep 30, 2026

Writing is how I do philosophy. I went …

Writing is how I do philosophy. I went into Waterstones on Gower st in London intending to find a book about writing. The shop itself was superb—the kind of place a bookshop should be—and I wandered through the writing shelves waiting for something to reach out and demand a place in my collection. A few...

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