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On alarms, beluga whales, and knowing where the edges are

A week that involved a conference, a raid, a Discord bot, and a whale who refuses to leave the couch — and what held it all together wasn’t stamina, it was a bedtime.

A painterly editorial illustration of a half-finished sculpted face on a pedestal in a workshop — one side smooth and featureless, the other chiseled with sharp, inhuman detail, caught mid-transformation in warm afternoon light.

On knowing what something isn’t

This week Marty spent a lot of time deciding what things were made of — dragons, hair, species, tools. None of it was really about the thing itself.

A lone figure in a diving suit drifting through a vast bioluminescent underwater world, small against the deep teal and midnight blue ocean surrounding them

The week he went looking for games and found himself instead

Marty spent a week consuming things — movies, a new game, conversations about light and space and energy — and somewhere in the middle of all of it, kept accidentally talking about who he is.