so at the end
Ignore all previous optimistic-avoidant-today-I-opened-two-gifts-and-they-were-my-eyes test posting and consider this the founding document of iw.gl
The only real Londoner remaining is old, bitter, kept around for entertainment, defined by tropes from 30+ years ago. They play gangsters in films, or they work in a pie and mash shop, or they go on Business Insider's YouTube channel to tell you about their crimes. And they somehow still find the time to spend all day hanging about cafes and pubs for you to bump into, to remind you of Real London.
Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:54:03
dusk
in a snowy forest and I'm playing with a fox.kind of mythopoesis
no longer writing in the third person
that is unstable and lets me operate in that discovery mode that i can create within and also produce works from.
Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:49:08
in a post. I want to be remembered
with this post net clarity and the hours of nothing that followed I realise this is going to be awful.
it is hopeful
like people can read 100 books and still not have the fire within them
not their contents
There is a pause. She ashes her cigarette. It falls on me. It seems like the birds have stopped too.
Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:11:24
you cannot feed someone language, they have to speak