velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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beyond the douchbaggery of dogs: attentional guideropes and negative worldbuilding in Flow
I will stop overthinking animated movies aimed at children when people stop making animated movies for children set in worlds with a crazy amount of implicit but unaddressed questions embedded in them.
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optimise has no exact antonym
Something something “beat on, boats against the current” something
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solstice
One more time around the sun. I’m not going to do an end-of-year reflection of substance here, though that’s not to say I’m not doing any end-of-year reflection. This is a personal blog, yes—but I think I want to draw some sort of line between the public-personal and the private-personal. Besides, I’m not sure anyone…
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”