nebulosNov 5

Have you ever seen an object that is such an "artifact"? That embeds in it such an obvious story of its process, the knowledge, and incentives that made it?

At work I found a piece of spaghetti code that was so spaghetti that it didn't even make me mad - it was so clearly a manifestation of every last minute request and tweak in an undocumented process - and also the fact that it was written by a person who was neither compensated nor otherwise incentivized to build for the future. Couldn't be mad, because that was what this cheapskate company paid for, and it's what they got.

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I guess that came off as kind of negative, but I actually feel quite a bit of affection for that thing. it's the same way I feel about (secret sneaky zine) - that sometimes the universe sees fit to make material our often "substanceless" social stories. And sometimes, I do it deliberately
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Definitely most zines I make don't have this property. I think because they're made to *communicate*, so their story is very obvious, which makes me feel less "artifact"-y. My novel(s) do have this property, but usually in retrospect. And usually for things that happen after I wrote them. Pre-artifacts. Pre-fects? (Perfect?)
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Anyone else find a mildly prophetic bent to their creative endeavors? I don't think it's very surprising - there are reasons certain topics or arcs call to us - they often echo situations in our real life, and putting such effort and intention into those echoes often makes things you bring with you into real life as well. Like #EmpathAndAugur is extremely trans, and #witchpunk is about organizing, neither of which I was thinking about while I wrote it, only to get *very* deeply into it while editing.

#AmWriting

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Show threadUlrich SubergNov 6
@nebulos I find that i am more than the momentous accumulation of my desires, needs and thoughts. The longer I work on a single piece, the more I sense a weird otherness that is built over time, be it only that I think differently now than when I began.
However, the amalgamation of the result is still done by my hands and the themes and thoughts are what moved me throughout that timeframe so they seem to be much more clear and refined.
With writing this is way more pronounced I imagine.