The BLUGH: November 29, 2023
“I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas. Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us—albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual.”
YOU GUYS!!! Can you believe I forgot to send a BLUGH last week? Knowing me, I can believe it. I got all wrapped up in being back in SC and just dropped the ball! I know more is expected of a prestigious publication like the BLUGH but that is the truth.
IDEAS. I have a surplus. It is a gift, it is a curse, it is sometimes anxiety-inducing. Last week I played a game and I SWEAR I have been stewing over an idea almost identical to this game for some time. My embarrassingly performative journal entries prove that this has been on my mind for a while! But someone took an idea and made it manifest. Then I googled to see what other games might exist that are similar to my idea and there are a bunch!! Many variations of it!!! At first I was like, “Damn, I am not worthy of ideas, others follow through while I do not, no idea is original, blablablablablablabla.” I took a breath and talked myself out of the self-pity hole though and am back to ideating and scheming and manifesting and doing.
P.S. Don’t worry about being original EVER. Authenticity is more important. “Authentic” is literally the word of the year so there’s that.
Fall 2023
Am I OK?
Thinking about ideas made me go into my notes app and see what sort of musings I had jotted down. Whelp, found this. Not an idea, exactly, but definitely captivating.