The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇
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satyrwoud
4 years ago
IO SATURNALIA! I only received four submission, but I'm quite happy with that — that's four more than I was expecting! They’ll be drip-fed through over the next couple of days
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satyrwoud
4 years ago
Oh also I added some American sports team loyalties to my about page or whatever
I’ve been meaning to give the site a “proper” name other than just “Marijn’s site” — catch is, of course, my site is bilingual, and a name which sounds perfectly mellifluous in one language might sound clunky and forced in the other
satyrwoud
4 years ago
I would have gone with just “The Forest”, by analogy with “The Garden”, but that was taken about a thousand times over already
satyrwoud
4 years ago
I’d post all this meta natter on The Garden but i don’t want to fall into the trap of “blogging without blogging”, as it were (http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/12/on-not-writing/)
saint-images
4 years ago
"Marijn's site" is perfect, for you are Marijn and this site is indeed nobodys but yours.
satyrwoud
4 years ago
I’m just future-proofing here — i’ve already changed my name once before; who says i won’t do it again in the future? :-)
brennholz
4 years ago
This bilingual issue could be solved by not thinking of your site as a location like a "forest" or whatever. Instead, think of it as a living being, since those have names that don't have to be translated, like Gregory. Like instead of "Marijn's site", it'd be "Gregory", the site of Marijn. (This is a terrible idea)
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satyrwoud
4 years ago
If Tim Berners-Lee didn't want us to think of websites as places in cyberspace, he shouldn't have called them *sites*!
raelhbishop
4 years ago
Well, sites in real life change too, not unlike living beings. Times Square in New York City looks nothing like it did a hundred years ago, or a thousand or a million for that matter. Byzantium became Constantinople became Istanbul. That being said, I feel 'marijn's site' works best as its name - it's short, it's simple, it's all-encompassing.
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bdkcorrigan
4 years ago
Most of the books I've read in translation have a different title on the translated edition! You could have a different mellifluous title for each language!
if you know what an nft is you need to go outside
satyrwoud
4 years ago
Further more, if you know what the fuck "Web3" means, please go take a month long sabbatical in the Lake District
satyrwoud
4 years ago
They've got a pencil museum, I'm sure it'll be more fun than arguing about bitcoin on the internet
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satyrwoud
4 years ago
Or, hey, you could move there, start a pub or something. Probably a more reliable source of income than pictures of monkeys
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saint-images
4 years ago
@arandomsite I don't like the "non fungi" part, I love mushrooms, why are they trying to take it away from us???
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Six days left until your Saturnalia submissions start going up! :-) Hope everyone enjoys them
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I almost posted a grovelling "I'm so sorry I haven't updated in three seconds" post here before I remembered... oh, right, it's my own website and there's no algorithm coming to eat me if i don't regularly provide Content
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Turns out I actually got one more entry in my inbox than I thought I did — my apologies to our forthcoming concerned conservationist for missing them out in the first count!
This has the side effect of bumping our final submission up to the winter solstice, which is nice
It occurs to me now that i’ve accidentally reinvented the Advent calendar.
Speaking of calendars, i’ve upgraded the table of correspondence for 2022