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Just now found your Muppet tarot deck. I'm not usually a big fan of pop culture based tarots because they often display a pretty poor understanding of tarot archetypes, but the way you put this deck together is SO SMART. Bravo.

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thegardenofmadeline 5 months ago

Thank you SO MUCH! This is such a sweet message. I totally agree- I think a lot of pop culture tarot decks are very lazy, and I tried really hard to really match each archetype to the character.

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emilynhoward updated The Bone Folder

6 months ago

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prose/saveinternet.html

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emilynhoward

6 months ago

I finally posted an essay that I've been working on for about 3 months about revolutions in systems and platforms for posting content online and how de-corporatizing them will not lead to the kind of free, equitable internet people hope for. It was one of those things originally meant for the Spare Words section, but then morped into a 4,000 word essay against my will.

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lazybones 6 months ago

Bravo! I enjoyed reading! I love these quotes, "How internet discourse change if we allowed people to learn in public, which of necessity means making mistakes?" and "good internet just as importantly depends on our tolerance for incompleteness and imperfection." Finding human pockets of the internet is what keeps me surfing and doom scrolling. Those fleeting moments give me hope.

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emilynhoward 6 months ago

Thanks so much! =)

pixelglade 6 months ago

"everyone’s feeds became well-crafted soundbites", accidentally read as well-scrambled soundbites and it seems to fit my overall feeling of social media sites. I could relate a lot to your writings on academia as well (I also left, for various reasons). I made a short comic panel about social media recently with a similar conclusion that going at our own pace instead of feeling pressured to post seems better.

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pixelglade 6 months ago

Overall I could relate a lot to your writing and it was kind of refreshing, actually, to just read someone else feeling frustrated about the whole experience

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mikegrindle 6 months ago

This was a great piece of writing. Very relatable too. Made me think a lot about my own social media use and experiences (I'm currently on Mastodon, but I have my reservations) among other things.

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sorbier 6 months ago

i love your distinction between a private journal and a public blog -- i think the web has made externally-oriented the default rather than internally-oriented! if we write something but no one reads it, what was the point? similarly if we had a thought/reflection. i often wonder whether we'd be happier/healthier if we were internally-oriented primarily, if sitting and daydreaming were a natural activity on its own.

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emilynhoward 6 months ago

Thank you all for your kind words. I was kind of frustrated by how much time this essay sucked up, so I am glad that my curmudgeonly opinions resonate.

emilynhoward 6 months ago

Also, sorbier, you remind me of the Pascal quote: "All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room." A good reminder humans have been dealing with this long before the internet.

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emilynhoward updated The Bone Folder

6 months ago

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prose.html

prose/saveinternet.html

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emilynhoward bondiaries

6 months ago

I enjoyed your page about polar expeditions. I got mildly obsessed with the Franklin expedition earlier this year. The fact that so many people died, and that it took so long for them to die, sets it apart from a lot of other similar disasters.

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bondiaries 6 months ago

it really is such a phenomena! my favorite thing about it is that it touches so many lives still today in so many ways, even though people don't realize it. i am glad you enjoyed my unfinished page lol!!

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emilynhoward

7 months ago

Complete site redesign! I've been working on this on and off since April and I'm very excited to have it go live. I designed the site from scratch and every line of code was written by me. I haven't added much new content yet, but will be soon.

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myrrh 7 months ago

it looks really nice !

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pixelglade 7 months ago

Love it! Also kudos for making it responsive.

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emilynhoward 7 months ago

Thank you! Yes, I was very pleased with myself for figuring out how to make it responsive!

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sorbier 7 months ago

it looks great! congratulations (: looking forward to the new content too

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emilynhoward updated The Bone Folder

7 months ago

prose/onwriting.html

prose/onpickyeating.html

prose/hittingreturn.html

prose/butforcaesar.html

poetry/whocouldbehurtatthishour.html

poetry/whatthewomengrew.html

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emilynhoward

9 months ago

Hi all, big news (well, for me anyway.) I finally got this site hosted on its own domain. You can see it at emilynhoward.com. Thanks to my partner, without whom I would have a really hard navigating this web hosting stuff. I plan to still publish a mirror site on Neocities but haven't set that up yet. AND I'm working on a complete site redesign that's 100% coded by me, rather than from a template.

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emilynhoward updated The Bone Folder

9 months ago

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butchdandy emilynhoward

9 months ago

Your Website has a beautiful aesthetic. Its a delight to look through

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emilynhoward 9 months ago

Thank you. :)

emilynhoward

9 months ago

Gave the same flexbox treatment to the Writing and Links pages. I also added a lot of links! It now contains everyone I follow on Neocities. I am beginning to think seriously about redesigning this site although I don't know what it will look like yet. If all goes to plan, it will soon be hosted on my own server and I will use Github to push a mirror site to Neocities.

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emilynhoward updated The Bone Folder

9 months ago

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emilynhoward sneekrealm

9 months ago

It means a lot to me that you read Adjusts Itself to Midnight. I told myself that if I touch one person with it, that will be enough. Mission accomplished. :)

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sneekrealm 9 months ago

🌱💚🌉

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emilynhoward nohappynonsense

9 months ago

Thank you for your compliment! ^.^

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emilynhoward

9 months ago

Made my first ever 8-bit art, a little Field Notes notebook, and added it to the site.

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nohappynonsense 9 months ago

your site is mad good

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emilynhoward updated The Bone Folder

9 months ago

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emilynhoward

9 months ago

I added a new piece to my writing page, Adjusts Itself to Midnight. It is a long-format, mixed-genre piece about queer heartbreak, love, and growth in the aftermath of being ghosted. Maybe it's your jam, maybe not, but I am very proud of how the writing and the web design came together. It can be viewed on mobile but the full experience requires a larger screen.

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pixelglade 9 months ago

The Velveteen Rabbit is a great book, I listened to a version of it as an audiobook as a child. I still remember the rocking horse talking about what makes something real to the rabbit.

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sneekrealm 9 months ago

this shit (on top of generally being under the weather tonight) brushed strong against old wounds in my heart (/compliment) (tho my personal experiences moderately different but still felt on some of the struggles in this piece)

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emilynhoward updated The Bone Folder

9 months ago

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pixelglade emilynhoward

9 months ago

Hello fellow PhD owner, hope you're enjoying your time on Neocities so far. Thank you for following. 😊

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emilynhoward sorbier

9 months ago

Nice to meet you, neighbor. :)

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sorbier 9 months ago

hi, thanks for the follow! (: love your site and your writing, working my way through it. really appreciate what you said about sharing your writing online

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