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                <p id="top" class="p-summary">Here you'll find my ideas: things I want to create, concepts, quotes, and words for the scrap heap... Have a browse! Steal a few! Listed in reverse chronological order. My contribution to <a href="https://aboutideasnow.com/" rel="noopener">/ideas</a>, created by Artem Tyurin, compiled by Peter Hagen and Louis Barclay.</p>

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                    <li>Music is ingraved in my head.</li>
                    <li>A screenshot garden.</li>
                    <li>Zine series inspired by my favorite books.</li>
                    <li>Poetry written as fake html.</li>
                    <li>Spoilers without context for my favorite films.</li>
                    <li>You risk it all just to feel alive.</li>
                    <li>The automatic memory of digital love.</li>
                    <li>Starlight is dead light.</li>
                    <li>Storyspace.</li>
                    <li>Resistance literature.</li>
                    <li>Giving is receiving.</li>
                    <li>Life ruiners.</li>
                    <li>Happy ever after is a lie (I promise.)</li>
                    <li>Why I don't talk about the weather.</li>
                    <li>It has no focus and neither do I.</li>
                    <li>Training for brain rot.</li>
                    <li>Wrinkling the brain.</li>
                    <li>Felt presence.</li>
                    <li>Internet caretaking.</li>
                    <li>Something human, something different, something surprising.</li>
                    <li>Cursors frozen in time.</li>
                    <li>Born in the wrong time (living in the right.)</li>
                    <li>An injured man's better than a dead one.</li>
                    <li>He's sure as high heat keeping the promise.</li>
                    <li>Let the stars swallow you whole.</li>
                    <li>Stay a while, stranger.</li>
                    <li>Nothing's more important than an unread library.</li>
                    <li>Imagination is more important than knowledge.</li>
                    <li>Do the work you want to see done.</li>
                    <li>Create something that doesn't exist you'd like to enjoy.</li>
                    <li>Start as a faker and become real.</li>
                    <li>We're made by what we love.</li>
                    <li>Steal from anywhere that sparks your imagination.</li>
    <li>Who knows where ideas come from? But they usually don't come from computers.</li>
    <li>The digital age began millions of years ago. Because we make things with our digits.</li>
    <li>Don’t believe in artists. Believe in art.</li>
    <li>Originality is a false promise.</li>
    <li>We've been a band longer than we've been people.</li>
    <li>Say the nice thing, now. Before it's too late.</li>
    <li>Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.</li>
    <li>Don't let your armor become your skin.</li>
    <li>Doing and making are acts of hope.</li>
    <li>Write poetry instead of punching walls.</li>
    <li>Embarrassment won't kill you, even though it feels like it. Endure.</li>
    <li>A directory of interesting sites</li>
    <li>Experiences I want to have.</li>
    <li>A magical 8-ball for website ideas</li>
    <li>Cities I've visited, countries I've visited, museums I've visited, songs with literary themes.</li>
    <li>My experience doing unoffice hours meetings.</li>
    <li>My influences.</li>
    <li>My music listening stats.</li>
    <li>My zines.</li>
    <li>Places I want to travel.</li>
    <li>Tutorials for making envelopes from magazines, squiggly patterns, bouncy paper chains, and 'cheap wallpaper.'</li>
    <li>A book lovers directory.</li>
    <li>Hacks: useful things I've picked up for living.</li>
    <li>A 'zines' and 'publishing' glossary post</li>
    <li>A zine-themed directory.</li>
    <li>Best practices for making zines.</li>
    <li>Blurbs and miniature essays for books I love.</li>
    <li>Compile my books read and my notes.</li>
    <li>What to make zines with.</li>
    <li>Where to get zine supplies.</li>
    <li>Yearly reading statistics.</li>
    <li>'Zinesters' directory</li>
    <li>Albums that mean much to me.</li>
    <li>How I built my site.</li>
    <li>Life advice I hold onto.</li>
    <li>Things I've noticed about countries I've visited.</li>
    <li>A protagonist is chosen to travel to other universes to help people find themselves or learn important life lessons. He ages only when in his home universe but remains the same age during his missions. To preserve his memories and assert agency in a life he can't control, he collects permanent tattoos representing the people he's helped.</li>
                    <li>An infinite library, staffed by the gods of literature, the last living immortals.</li>
                    <li>Behind-the-scenes during an amateur theatre production.</li>
                    <li>Falling Behind The Rotating World: A drama about multi-generational blended artistic family headed by a single father set in the near future.</li>
                    <li>In a hopepunk future, there lives a former BMX and dirt bike champion, now an accomplished amputee software engineer and custom fabricator. His path intertwines with his former flame, who he doesn't immediately recognize, leading to rediscovered friendship and rekindled love.</li>
                    <li>Kieran: the exiled right-hand man of the great empress, the illegitimate son of two warring kingdoms, and a famed fighter.</li>
                    <li>Phoenix Iris: a guerilla fighter, expert sniper, and gifted mechanic. After going against the vows of the group who raised him, he's blinded in an accident and his ship and robots are destroyed.</li>
                    <li>The highs-and-lows of a young band growing up in the limelight.</li>
                    <li>A chapbook inspired by lyrics from my favorite songs.</li>
                    <li>Blackout poetry collection.</li>
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