• they/them

a cloud between the sky

and the earth

avatar by @SweetSidhe


neocities, my main home
oriananonexistent.neocities.org/
the cohost forum test project, and wherever it goes after
eggbugstestplace.jcink.net/index.php?showuser=2
the website league once it's ready. i'll be exactly who you think i am
websiteleague.org/

i have never understood the power a true name claims to have.

every name is false, map not territory. when i put a name to a thing, i tell a lie for my own sake, an act of utility. any good biologist will tell you that taxonomy is bullshit - the lines aren't simply blurred, we draw them in an undulating river rushing atop another ten rivers. we do it for ourselves, not the line, not the river, not the world. that bullshit isn't a bad thing, as long as we know it's bullshit.

a true name is an act of hubris, an act of projection, an act of pretense to control. compartmentalization. the denial of the river, masked in the ever-humble pageantry of revealing secrets that aren't there.

if you wanted to control me, a thousand false names could pry me apart easily. i've already done it myself, for i have no choice. i'm not sure i'd mind, if only you treated my many unselves with love. i can only hope you take the piece of me you covet the most and plant it in some soil beneath some conifer, and turn my sap into syrup.


 
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