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
