November's Mini-Mixtape: grit can look awfully like bone shards
grit can look awfully like bone shards When I sit down to write about the mixtape I have been crafting through the first half of the month, I don’t always...
A Rare Off Schedule Post - "A Boring Life" Recap
Sometime in August, I got an email from the St. Louis County Library system about a “Your Story on Stage” program, where some number of stories would be...
A Mapping of The Mind on 11/9/2025
A Mapping of the Mind on 11/9/2025 I’ve been here before. 4 - BEEN handwriting things more frequently this month. Been trying to make sure I can still write...
I usually have a clearer idea of what I'm doing with these posts.
For the last year, I have had a steady stream of inspirations. Things that I felt passionate about. Things that I compelled me. Things that flowed onto the...
paraluman #52
things matter because they end
Matching Mixed Media - On The Topic of "Do A Thing Every Day for Month"
The day after SLICE ended, I was sitting in my house laying on my couch attempting to do nothing. I’m not particularly good at doing nothing. Back when I was...
paraluman #51
penulimate
October's Mini-Mixtape: A Mixed Kid's Mixtape
Happy Filipino American History Month. I started this month with a crossword with the same greeting in the constructor’s notes. Identity is one of those...
paraluman #50
it’d be obnoxious to title this nakama wouldn’t it I think there’s a fascinating line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. And...
I Am Dressing As The Page of Cups For Halloween This Year
For the last three years, I have known what I was going to be for Halloween sometime around March. 2023 was the year of the Lo-Fi Beats to Study To Girl....
paraluman #49
turnstile
How to Badly Produce a Physical Collection of Your Digital Comic in 10 Steps
Hello. If you are unaware, I am one of the organizers working on the 2025 St. Louis Independent Comics Expo, colloquially known as SLICE. SLICE This has up...
paraluman #48
chronic chronicling
Matching Mixed Media: How Form Informs Function in TTRPGs
Around the same time I started working on paraluman, I also felt in me a great urge to do good. Or specifically, *put out good energy into the world. And...
paraluman #47
ambition
September's Mini-Mixtape: scintilate
Another month, another mixtape. The last couple times, there were very clear songs that had a banner theme and everything was known before I started...
paraluamn #46
libation
All Resolutions Are Arbitrary to Begin With, But When I Continue It Tends To Be With A Cadence
Often times when you get the latest Mixed Media with Mikkel, you are getting the first and a half draft. Which is to say, I had an idea and I ran with it the...
paraluman #45
appendages
In Which A Different Sports Manga Speaks To Me About Effort
From the writer that bought such seminal pieces as How Haikyu!! is Helping Me Cope and The View from the Top: ‘Haikyu’ and Reaching My Peak, comes yet...
paraluman #44
stay vigilant, your time will come
On the Continual Need of Being Perceived
On August 16, 2025 I went to a bar for a speed dating event. Over the course of about an hour, I had six dates and then went home to my cats because the lot...
paraluman #43
koan
Matching Mixed Media: What "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Bicentennial Man" Teach Us About Choice and Permanence
(Specifically in the Age of GenAI)
paraluman #42
which one is more invasive really?
August's Mini-Mixtape: Asymmetric ASYMPTOTE
One of the things that happens when you do something repeatedly, or perhaps something that happens when I do something repeatedly is that eventually, you/I...
paraluman #41
you have permission to curse
Am I Explaining [It/Myself] Correctly?
Yet Another Meditation on Mastery
paraluman #40
shorter story
Scripting - A Superpower, a Coping Mechanism
I have been writing pretty consistently since the sixth grade. Maybe the seventh grade. It was definitely middle school. It was definitely because a teacher...
paraluman #39
non-facade
Matching Mixed Media: I Continue to Be Obsessed With Bringing Back Renaissance Style Patronage
I think if you’re reading this, you probably accept that “creatives should get properly compensated for their work” is not just a reasonable thing to aspire,...
paraluman #38
grasping hands
The biggest lie I could write here is "This isn't about you."
(Although in fairness, it isn't just about [you].)
An annotated playlist.
paraluman #37
haven
Reckon - A Destiny 2 Fanfic & Probably Mikkel's Last Writing on the Topic
i reckon - v. to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount Reckoner Strictly speaking, as an Exo, Chimeric-12 does not need to eat or drink....
paraluman #36
gambit
Mikkel's Penultimate Final Writing on Destiny
I logged in to the original Destiny on September 22, 2014, unaware about how much it would influence my life. On June 28, 2025, I logged in Destiny 2 to...
paraluman #35
disorientation
MIKKELISMS (1995)
Welcome back to the Mixed Media with Mikkel YouTube channel. It’s the first of the month which means we’re back with whatever video idea I have concocted and...
paraluman #34
hudyat The only rules of paraluman in my head was “make a comic with pictures you took and text you wrote” which among other things means there is no rule in...
Matching Mixed Media - How Banshee and Windbreaker Approach Ultraviolence and the Construct of Gender
Happy Pride Month! We’re gonna go to a really weird place with this entry of Matching Mixed Media. “I am not a violent person.” But this does not mean I do...
paraluman #33
I am trying to find optimism everywhere.
Every Few Years, I End Up Rediscovering Livestreaming
2010 It is the spring semester of freshman year. I am not officially a member of WU-SLam’s Performance Crew, but I have attended all of their events in the...
paraluman #32
recursive
Hey Clay, What If You Didn't (Use ChatGPT As a Life Coach)?
Prelude I was at a tech conference from June 2 to June 4. I have been working as a technical writer for eleven some years as of Memorial Day, and this was...
paraluman #31
acausal damages
Ambient Train Noises as a Writer Writes
Written May 23, 2025, from 8:45-9:00AM CT (give or take 18 seconds) I am currently on a train to Kansas City right now. I am currently doing a weird...
paraluman #30
survival at what cost
Matching Mixed Media - Compassion, Competency, and Community as Highlighted by Noah Wyle's Recent Corpus
At the start of the month, my therapist suggested that I do a Values Sort. The activity happens in four stages. The first stage is a simple binary quiz, a...