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All Resolutions Are Arbitrary to Begin With, But When I Continue It Tends To Be With A Cadence

September 16, 2025

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...

September 12, 2025

In Which A Different Sports Manga Speaks To Me About Effort

September 9, 2025

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...

September 5, 2025

stay vigilant, your time will come

On the Continual Need of Being Perceived

September 2, 2025

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...

August 29, 2025

Matching Mixed Media: What "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Bicentennial Man" Teach Us About Choice and Permanence

August 26, 2025

(Specifically in the Age of GenAI)

August 22, 2025

which one is more invasive really?

August's Mini-Mixtape: Asymmetric ASYMPTOTE

August 19, 2025

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...

August 15, 2025

you have permission to curse

Am I Explaining [It/Myself] Correctly?

August 12, 2025

Yet Another Meditation on Mastery

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...

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,...

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.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Yet Another Exercise in Writing Taxonomies

The natural six month cadence of my software documentation cycle is currently on its down swing. This means that my creative free energy is currently...

Introspection 202: How Different Forms Informed Me

There are two ways I can frame this post. 1) Nothing exists sans context. 2) I am a successive summation of everything that has happened and will happen....

shimmering As I mentioned on Tuesday, been thinking a lot about how my relationship with slam poetry recently including the phrase “old text messages read...

May We Continue Trying Things

SCRIPT: Welcome back to the Mixed Media with Mikkel YouTube channel, which right now vaguely resembles a cooking blog given that I’m dedicating this week’s...

Matching Mixed Media - Infinity Train & The Good Place

What does it mean to become a better person? Unsurprisingly, this is a question that I frequently ask myself. And perhaps also unsurprisingly, approximately...

In Which We Attempt to Build a Foundation for a Musical

Today, we're going to do a thought experiment. We're going to break down a musical book. I have never broken a musical book before. I also do not know if...

Idle Hands & Other Metaphors For Doing "Nothing"

I started “going to therapy recently, which also meant I had to do an intake session to start therapy recently which involves summarizing your life in not so...

liminal, as in flux The predecessor of paraluman was just the #liminalspacesofthemidwest on Instagram, which is either a fundamentally terrible or...

Prologue This last weekend, I was in New York City for the second annual Crossword Con, run by one of my dear friends, Brooke. She needs no introduction...

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The Fool This April Is Me (Trying to Make Vegan Sugar Cookies)

The following text is the initial draft of my “script.” Welcome to this week's Mixed Media with Mikkel. Today we are making vegan brown sugar cookies. Why...