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i am leaving the same words here too bc why not - i ended up on "Last Words" on your site a while ago and completely forgot to comment on it - i love the flow of it and how all the little details just slot into so much vivid domestic tragedy. these lines like "pulling your abstinence by the whiskers with my glass of scotch" go down so cleanly <3

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pikemalarkey updated The Howling House

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pikemalarkey brennholz

3 years ago

Thank you for the follow and hello! Love Exposure is an interesting choice for a favourite movie. Those were some weird four hours.

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brennholz 3 years ago

Hi! :) And yeah, it's a weird and ridiculous film, but I feel that it never reaches a point where it's alienating or lessers the impact of the more emotional scenes. That's really why I love it: there's so much going on, it's all over the place tonally and pacing wise, but somehow, it works. Perfectly. it's monumental. It feels so full of life. idk

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brennholz 3 years ago

Though I haven't watched many movies, so I don't have much of a frame of reference lol.

pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Oh I wasn't knocking the movie. Whatever its faults, I DID watch the whole thing in one sitting which I can say about no other movie of that length. It's fun and involving, and a true original. I've filed it under 'torture porn' but I'm a bit of a gentle flower that way.

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pikemalarkey updated The Howling House

3 years ago

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pikemalarkey updated The Howling House

3 years ago

The Howling House

life-skills.html

games.html

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nohappynonsense pikemalarkey

3 years ago

Oh btw pike, I think I've been sending emails to an old account of yours that you don't check/have access to any longer? How can I contact

pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Er, that's weird. I've just tested both e-mail handles (agne@ and pike.malarkey@) and they seem to be working ok. That said, I sent you a story yonks ago but I never received a reply so maybe it's connected? I'll drop you a line on your two e-mails (ratmag and personal), tell me if you get them.

pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Ok, the ratmag e-mail bounced. The other one should go through?

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nohappynonsense 3 years ago

Personal went through

pikemalarkey unimaginable-heights

3 years ago

I have just finished the Bomb story and I really enjoyed it. My favourite bits were: 1) descriptions of the pre-Unification museums which made me think of Pamuk's Musem of Innocence in Istanbul; 2) "Telling, sometimes, is to watch someone, and to not pretend you weren’t looking when they notice."

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nohappynonsense pikemalarkey

3 years ago

oh hey, pike is back

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pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Okay, I have just put 2 and 2 together! But...I was always here. It was you who went missing, Rat mag link went down and everything disappeared. What happened?

nohappynonsense 3 years ago

little hiccup here and there, but we're up and running

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pikemalarkey automatic-llama

3 years ago

Thanks for bringing me to your website with your follow. Love the art, very cool how you can switch between different styles so seamlessly.

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automatic-llama 3 years ago

Thank you so much for the kind words! Speaking of words, you're good at writing them, and I like how you've arranged your site. Glad I found it!

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pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Thank you! That felt nice. I hope we'll exchange some more compliments in the future.

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pikemalarkey irony-machine

3 years ago

Re internet memory #2: interesting that you mention creating lots of accounts. The author of the article you linked to mentions not bothering to feed her Neopets as a kid since they couldn't die. Maybe I'm the sensitive kid here. I could never! The Pound was a constant heartache for me, just its bare existence :)

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irony-machine 3 years ago

The pound was so sad!! Sounds contradictory but I didn't care that much for the pet aspect of the game... I liked to explore, play games and attempt to make lots of neopoints. However, I HATED seeing the sad/sick pictures so I kept my current pets fed/healthy, but out of sight, out of mind I guess lol

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pikemalarkey updated The Howling House

3 years ago

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readingproject 3 years ago

In Balloon: "You don't lie a life if you never play ball" - I assume that's "live a life"?

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pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Nope, it's 'lie' : )

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readingproject 3 years ago

Then that is an interesting line. English teachers love lines like that :-)

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pikemalarkey noa-s

3 years ago

Hello! I love your take on a minimalist wardrobe, I've never thought about it that way. So do you cap the number of items you have?

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noa-s 3 years ago

hi! i did, i don't officially any more, but it works out that way.

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noa-s 3 years ago

(thought i could add newlines to comments, apparently not). i have a few sort of formulas for outfits that i wear (all black for concerts, jeans and shirts for day-to-day, etc), and because i have these formulas the pieces i own and buy tend to be more versatile; so i even with less of them i can end up with a decent number of combinations. but say i have a fuchsia jacket (i do), i probably wouldn't [...]

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noa-s 3 years ago

[...] get another jacket in that colour, and any clothes i consider part of the same formula also couldn't be that colour, or couldn't be say forest green because that wouldn't be a great combination (in my opinion; no judgement if that's your favourite outfit). so there isn't an actual numeric cap, but the things i need or can justify get limited based on what else i own. does that make sense?

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pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Yup, that makes total sense and is very practical. Unless you find yourself falling in love with colour co-ords :)

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noa-s 3 years ago

yep! guess fingers crossed that doesn't happen for a little while, or i'd have to rewrite the whole page!

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pikemalarkey updated The Howling House

3 years ago

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ratshack pikemalarkey

3 years ago

Hello! I have excitingly managed to fat-finger not only my own response to your comment on my site, but also your original comment. Sorry about that, it wasn’t personal haha! Thank you for reaching out, it was really nice to hear that you enjoyed reading my stuff. And it’s a good thing you ended up on Neocities rather than Neopets - you don’t know want to know what’s happened to Neopets…

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pikemalarkey 3 years ago

I'm probably too old to be playing Meerca (sp?) Chase anyway (but then...). Anyway, I do enjoy digging through your site so I will surely sprinkle some random comments in the future :)

pikemalarkey irony-machine

3 years ago

Hi and thanks for the follow. Btw: there's nothing simple about cacio e pepe, don't believe what people say! I've tried making it and ended up with A TERRIBLE MESS

irony-machine 3 years ago

My secret for cacio e pepe is to have someone else do the "stir rapidly to emulsify" step, 10/10 would recommend

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pikemalarkey 3 years ago

A-ha! Shame I only find this out now that I'm done with dairy. It makes total sense.

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pikemalarkey satyrwoud

3 years ago

Thanks for the follow and hello! Funnily, I also live in the north of England and just last night had a conversation along the lines of "should we move somewhere else like the Netherlands" : )

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