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It's "deal with my instinct to run away and hide when confronted by important things in my inbox" time

*downs more coffee*

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Defeating "this is important so I'll avoid it forever", one task at a time *thumbs up*

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Achievement unlocked: all my digital notes are now on the same computer, and they've been consolidated down two file structures, with obvious duplicates deleted out.

Gone from being overwhelmed by how scattered the notes are to overwhelmed by them all being present in the same place. But I'm heartened, in a way, by how little there is - so much of it is repeated, and getting it fixed in a final form clears a lot of "mental" space, because I can see where the true gaps are. There's also quite a lot of older content that I'd forgotten, but is really quite good, including a whole piece of fictional myth-cycle writing. I'm not sure if that will ever make it back into the core texts, but it is very good.

Next steps:

• I have three boxes of paper notes, plus five notebooks, to work in.
• I have to identify which parts of the system have been most "solid" for the longest time, and therefore, ready to share
• I have to identify which parts of the system are most essential, like, if someone checks the site tomorrow, what is it most important that they understand? This is why some of the housekeeping content has gone up first, like about racists and image rights.
• I have to reconcile the two file structures into one
• I have to make a separate file location for "I don't think this is accurate any more, but I do want to keep it" content
• I have to make a final version of those five or six essays that I've got like...15 different variants of
• I have to keep encountering new content and attending to my spirituality, so it doesn't become "stuck" on trying to type and teach instead of being a continued development

QUESTION
What is the most useful way to make correspondence lists? By domain ("All the Solar correspondences") or by subtopic ("All the food correspondences")?

I'm thinking by domain is most practical for practical use ("I have a ritual tonight, what do I need?"), but subtopic teaches you more, because you can see how it interacts with the rest of the map.

What I really need is some kind of note-keeping program which will output the same data in different ways; I do technically have the skills to create this, but I keep hoping I'll find something I can just use already, so as not to get distracted by a programming project.

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Not a huge fan of the authors of the comic The Wicked + The Divine choosing to tell the story about a white girl who involuntarily reincarnates as a Japanese goddess, and *then* takes the character to task for having done so, because isn't that appropriative?

While I sort of get the value of being self-aware about the racial dynamics of one's work, they could just have chosen another goddess (or god: the pantheon reincarnate in ways regardless of gender). There's something quite uncomfortable, for me at least, about putting a character in this position where the character becomes a bad guy for a design choice the authors clearly made. You know?