digital immortality | virtual e-morality
1. blueskies-bluescreens on tumblr 2. death, virtual grief and your digital footprint 3. online status of a steam community user 4. my journal dot com 5. & 7. hacked-wtsdz on tumblr 6. STurner4077 on twitter 8. the new forms of mourning by julie alev dilmaç 9. all the ghosts in the machine: illusions of immortality in the digital age 10. unknown 11. fairycosmos on tumblr 12. researching death online
The most hideous thing about Magic- a thing I love, a thing I have dedicated a third of my waking life to- the most hideous thing about It is that I will see a person wind the thread of their fate, using pity and envy, hate and carelessness, arrogance and cruelty and greed; and no matter what pattern I wish to weave that thread into, I cannot save them from the materials they have wound it from.
O April Shorn, Thread-Mother, have mercy on us for the choices that we feed to your spinning wheel. Let us learn what threads itch and burn and tear at our skin; we spin thread for the cloth that we shall wear in death.
straight people are so fascinating even when they aren't actively trying to be homophobic. I had a class a few years ago where one assignment was to summarize some eighth century arabic poetry about going out for drinks with the lads before indulging in some gay sex and like half the class came in and said "I'm sorry idk what was happening in this one, they mention having sex with a servant but they also say the servant's a man? where'd the woman come from? I'm so confused." and a few days ago in a shakespeare class I made a comment about how cleopatra and octavius caesar are kind of parallel characters in possessively bartering for mark antony's attention and one of my classmates responded as though I'd been talking about octavia and not caesar, despite the fact that I said "caesar" and "him" multiple times while describing the actions he specifically took. fully incapable of comprehending of anything that's even a little bit gay.
February 10, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]
