Maybe, Jack, I'm doing this because I'm English?

Garden Post-Dusk, Birds Above, In Another Life

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:31:03

It Will Get Lighter

something for the future. something to look at when this is more. I've been thinking about... whatever

After thinking and forgetting and thinking and forgetting

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

no longer writing in the third person

I know that if I try to make this entry any more than it is I will ruin it.


Above and behind a window opens and a cigarette hangs out.

She closes the window. I wasn't paying attention anyway, I'm getting cold, and the birds are nowhere to be seen. I go inside.

it is hopeful

"Anyway, you're you. I mean, look at you!" she says. "You could get with anyone, anyone in the street. Really."

She says something that isn't really right but isn't really wrong. I'm not taking in their words any more, just their voices, trying to get a feel for whatever is going on between them. I'm imagining what it's like for them in this delicate situation, what I would say if it were me. She has that perfect upper-class accent, and she's using whatever upper-class tact that comes with it to navigate this. Style. They can't be together, but their voices are betraying them.



It Will Get Lighter

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:22:59

there's probably something in that, but I don't feel like thinking about it too much yet.

One of the birds shoots out of the tree.

Style

Can I see

They're fucking around with the box. I ask her what people do with fireworks for so long before they're ready to light. She doesn't know.

Picture

We look out over the river to a block of luxury flats built on the site of some old docks. It would be nice to live right there. Yes.