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personal drabbles, what would be my journal ?

2021 Readings

Reading Time: < 1 minute

Last updated: May 29, 2021

Currently Reading

Poetry

  • Mga Kagila-Gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran: Mga Tulang Nahalungkat sa Bukbuking Baul, Jose F. Lacaba

Design/Tech

  • Making Design Theory, Johan Redstrom

Fiction

  • Homestuck (I actually never finished this and stopped when Eridan Ampora was introduced </3)
  • The Collected Stories of Jose Garcia Villa, Jonathan Chua
  • A pig was once killed in our garage, Martin Villanueva

Non-fiction

  • Organization Development Practice in the Philippines, Edna P. Franco, Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Ma. Regina M. Hechanova

Finished Reading

Design/Tech

  • What is a designer, Norman Potter
  • The Politics of Design, Ruben Pater
  • Design Dedication: Adaptive Mentalities in Design Education
  • Design as an Attitude, Alice Rawsthorn
  • Design is a Job, Mike Monteiro
  • Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design, Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
  • The Shape of Design, Frank Chimero
  • Radical Technologies, Adam Greenfield (picked up from class)
  • Designs for the Pluriverse, Arturo Escobar
  • Speculative Everything, Fiona Raby & Anthony Dunne
  • Against Creativity, Oli Mould

Poetry

Fiction

If I end up writing about the things I’ve read I’ll make it a habit to update this and link it to the related post. 🙂 Also, please please send me recommendations!

I used to never track the stuff I read. Trying to change that this year!
I still mostly read articles or whatever digital longform I can get (not enough space for books at the moment, and are hard to get a hold of).
I try to track these types of reads on Are.na:

January 25, 2021

Test Stream

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Trying something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Streamed Genshin Impact dailies today, not even my core group of friends follows yet (RIP). https://www.twitch.tv/hotemogf

  • Maybe I can just stream whenever I play videogames… mostly compelled by how I consistently play Genshin Impact. To put an angle to it, Genshin Impact (especially when doing abyss runs) with a lore-focused approach to discussion – I am making my first fansite in over a decade dedicated to its lore, after all. Communities that revolve around something new, like a podcast and constant story in a stream of consciousness form.
  • Indie games! I play a lot of them and would like to record my runs and share them with people. I always recommend games that many people have never heard of, and have humble bundles and libraries to sift through and enjoy. Finishing stuff in a sitting is great for me.
    I want to rerun Papers, Please and Stephen’s Sausage Roll (among many others), go through the Sokpop collection.
  • My Dwarf Fortress world… (this one I’m afraid of actually being too stupid to stream for)
  • The PvE Minecraft server I run with friends and the banter that ensues. 🙂
  • Design streams with my personal side project and experimental work, and some productivity/educational work streams with Developh (Science & Technology, hello) –– we’re planning on creating some sort of streamer network to encourage creativity, connection, etc.; potentially discuss trends as we write and prepare projects and resources.

Is there anything you want me to stream?

January 10, 2021

1:23am 4/30/17

Reading Time: 2 minutes

college fear tumblr posts around 2017 and 2018 while digging around for stuff to dump in my are.na

six days later i got into my university

six months later collapsing in america

the amount of unnecessary stress we put on 17 and 18 year olds when they truly don’t know anything is disgusting. the world does not get kinder either

trying to think of what i could’ve and should’ve told myself then. the world is unjust and you must try. the trying is more important than any result, and will determine how you endure the harshest parts of it. the systems are broken and you do not deserve it, but in your dreams you become a part of their destruction

the hardest part about doing this thing was doing it alone. it’s hard to think of what to tell myself because i just needed to feel a bit more loved. it felt like all the love came in after the college decision.

what does that make of us

January 3, 2021