Rules for the Tomb
I only post on a Sunday
I will always post from evening to night, no later than sunrise.
I don’t post in summer
This is when I get blasted by sixteen hours of raw daylight with no reprieve and spend the remaining eight literally being unconscious. The posting break will be from June 1st to October 1st, but I’ll be working on other projects in the meantime.
I don’t write essays
I’m not an essayist despite my attempts, so this is mainly for personal updates and random things I get up to online. However, I may go into essay-like discussion during my updates, much like my first post. I liked that bit so much I now want to represent it in other ways.
I don’t attempt to review things
See, here’s the issue. Every time I try to review something, no matter how gentle I am, I end up feeling like an insecure braggart. The company I’ve kept over the years has been adamant that this isn’t true, yet the feeling persists. It could be that I’m used to the deluge of armchair critics so frequent online that I’d rather not remind myself of them, no matter how I word my arguments.
I prefer leaning into my strengths, which to me, is comparison. Measuring the qualities of a piece is my style, discussing atmosphere is my style, playing critic is not. Every time I try, my brain conjures the image of a four-year old me deftly inhaling the fluids of a plastic bubble pipe.