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I Live, I Die, I Live Again – Journal 4/28/18

Since you last heard from me, I’m a little more lore-heavy when it comes to Reality City and all about what happens there. If you’ve been following along the front page the last few days, you’ll see flavor text of what each different district is all about. Currently up is Memory, and next up is Verisum! A part of me would like to see these come out as posts that can be placed wherever I’d like; ideally as exactly what they are: flavor text.

But that’s later today stuff, in the future, let’s t...

RRC: ‘Cascade’ Stinger

Featuring every good photo I’ve taken since August 2013.

Ares 5

Sand world
Double-ringed
Shattered nebula
Surrounds it

Like an atom smashed
Explosion stretching
Across clouds and
Melted glass revolutions

Portal to Somewhere Else

In isolation
Self-insulated
I make a portal to
Somewhere else

In my locked bedroom

I wire the sounds
That heave with emotion
Like heavy seas spraying
Decks of passing ships
That makes slick the
Oiled wood keeping
A simple rigged vessel
Afloat

I string the lights
Like stars and supernovae
On the same wavelength
As the audio waves
Frequency tuned just
Right to coax that portal
To open
Stepping through

Stepping into
Shifting dunes
Glass and concrete
Forests
Cities
And mountains nestled
Into anci...

News – Spirals Reappear in Un

Day 1,085, Reality City – Citizens from the Mile-Long Block have observed those spirals from nearly a hundred days ago reappear late last evening.

You might remember reports of what seemed to be street art stylized spiral paintings manifest near the tops of various notable places in Un. The district saw its iconic Tower of Upliftance become adorned with these spirals, differing in size and their height on the walls.

The Monarch has observed these spirals up close and found nothing notable in...

People Over Property

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Shot with a Canon SL1; f/5.6; 1/800; ISO-400; 46mm. 4/19/2018 5:18 PM.

Yeah, Olympia was absolutely founded upon decentralized anarchy.

Bodyrain

Droplets of steam
Form on the windshield
And windows
After we’re done

And as I start to drive
They rain slowly down
Drying to the glass
These stains of our steam

Captured after we
Made a cold day warm

Lake Olympia in April 2018

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Shot with a Canon SL1; f/5.6; 1/800; ISO-320; 29mm. 4/19/2018 5:14 PM.

You don’t scare me, anymore.

Condom Snapper

Lewd, I know
But hey,
Ar least there are
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Legendary – 4/21/18

I’m feeling very in Indigo this week.

Since we left, I was talking about a lovely little SL1 I picked up on Craigslist, and I’ve already put it to work in the city of Olympia! That’s right! I went and did SLAM poetry stuff! In a place that wasn’t Pierce! So that’s unironically hella exciting.

You might notice a lot of stuff going on around here, because Radio Reality City has gone absolutely fucking mental with content. I think this week I was able to use the Monarch, do video, photograph, wr...