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Meditation: Poetry and Shameless Obscurity

There’s something about this, my chosen art form, that reeks of desperation: Not just the reasonable and excusable desire to be beautiful and observant, but also the vanity of wanting to be profound, of wanting to be mysterious, perhaps of obscurity and indecision.

miksimum.com/2025/07/16/medita

Jesse Miksic // Hybrid GesturePoetry and Shameless Obscurity - Jesse Miksic // Hybrid GesturePoetry is shameless. Poetry is obscure. Poetry is fine with this. Perhaps poetry is *pretentious,* but please don't call it that. That framing feels un...

Das Bedürfnis nach Rückzug

Du ziehst dich zurück, nicht aus Feigheit, nicht weil du nichts mehr willst, sondern weil die Welt zu laut geworden ist und du nicht mehr unterscheiden kannst, ob das Pochen in deinem Kopf noch dein Herz ist oder nur der Druck von außen.
Und du merkst, wie gut es tut, allein zu sein, nicht einsam, nur still – wie ein Wald, in dem niemand läuft, aber alles lebt.
Vielleicht ist Rückzug kein Rückschritt. Vielleicht ist es der einzige Weg, wieder bei dir anzukommen, in einem Inneren, das sich oft genug verloren hat in Blicken, Meinungen, Rollen.
Du brauchst kein Publikum für deine Existenz.
Keinen Applaus für dein Überleben.
Du willst nicht ständig erklären, warum du bist, wie du bist – du willst einfach nur sein dürfen, ohne diese ständige Rechtfertigungsschleife, ohne dieses Gefühl, dass Sichtbarkeit ein Preis ist, den du mit Erschöpfung zahlst.
Und in deinem Rückzug liegt Kraft.
Nicht als Pose, sondern als Entscheidung.
Du kehrst nicht der Welt den Rücken – du kehrst zu dir zurück.
Und das ist mehr als genug.

Obscurae salutationes, Avabelle Noir
🖤

#Gedanken #Gedankensplitter #Fragmentarium
#NoirsGedanken #NoirsFragmente #Schreiben #KreativesSchreiben #Gothaesthetic #RomanticGoth #Goth #GothicVibes #Poesie #Philosophie #Prosa #Essay #Emotional #Dunkel #Düster #Melancholie #Gothic #Gotik #Subkultur #Kultur #KunterbunteSubkultur #Sehnsucht #Schmerz #Gefühle #QueerGoth

I missed last month's #solarpunk essay from @AndrewDanaHudson , but I think the 10-year-check-in is a worthy read:

solarshades.club/p/the-politic

The world has changed. Solarpunk influenced it, even without a single Masterpiece. We are continuing to build from multiple sides.

People are doing a lot on the ground - whether in the North or the South - and we're finally getting a language which can share their stories.

solarshades.club · Political Dimensions of Solarpunk...Ten Years LaterBy ADH

A few months ago I talked about a BIG THING I was writing.

Well, I finished a second draft, and it feels ready enough for people to read. It's called:

'Why Free-Culture: Art, Knowledge and Culture as Commons'.

It's the longest thing I have written and I am happy with it, but it is not the final version. Here's a link to read it:

codeberg.org/jectoons/Why-Free

There's also the .odt file in that repository, so do what you will with it! It is licensed CCBYSA 4.0. You can also see v0.1 in case you're curious about changes.

I would love any feedback anyone would care to give me, so please share far and wide. :)
Thanks for your time, and solidarity!
:boost_ok:

Codeberg.orgWhy-Free-Culture/versions/english/WhyFreeCulturev0.5.pdf at mainWhy-Free-Culture

Jun 6

8 min

Gaming out a society of psychopaths. The funny part about.. that I game out, is that no society of psychopaths who all understand that everyone is out to rule the world like they are would ever tolerate any level of wealth inequality. Such as society would tend to converge on constant warfare and destruction or tyranny and destruction…

If we were exactly like what conservatives say you would never tolerate billionaires

youtube.com/watch?v=te2YdrRvrp