Hello! I've revamped my blog and have made it purposely hideous. Please be aware that the last layout was accidentally hideous. I hope it still hurts to look at, but less than before.
This puzzle was made with my new Substack post about touch in the 2000s in mind. I've been finally feeling a bit creative again and figured it would be cool to release a puzzle in conjunction with my semi-academic work. I hope you enjoy both and that neither of them influence your opinion on how neurotic I may or may not be. Thank you to Mr. Joe Adultman for the test solve!
Substack, please let me embed my puzzle!!!!!!!!!!!
i'm tired,
xoxo meat
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Hi! It's been a very long time. I am largely unwell, as is everyone else, even though I deeply wish this wasn't the case for any of us. I'm starting off this way because it generally feels like an important thing to actively acknowledge in a world that wants to sweep everything under the rug in the name of maintaining "normalcy" and, in turn, "productivity". I believe we'll all get through it one way or another because I believe in persistence and resistance, but it felt silly to "return" in a way and not address the giant stinky elephant taking a massive shit in the room. This is my first solo blog puzzle since 2023, and the world is, in countless ways, a much different place.
I was laid off in December (need a linguist? want a puzzle? hit me up!) and have been slowly regaining some of the creative energy that tech sucked out of me. I've been trying to make more themed puzzles (and more puzzles in general), and this one popped into my head about a week ago and I wanted to give it a whirl. I also still want as much """""pop culture""""" in these as possible because art and media are reflections of the times we live in. If puzzles are meant to be cultural artifacts, then they should also contain information about art and media.
all my love,
meaty xoxo
ps - as all academics eventually do, I started a Substack. Planning on writing more once my life slows down a bit!
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hiiiiiii everyone! I've been feeling my creative juices coming back just a little bit, so don't get too excited, but I wanted to post this puzzle that I made back in July of this year for the second edition of Bridges, which is a zine put together by the Brooklyn Public Library's Justice Initiatives team, in conjunction with lovely friend of the show Kate Chin Park. These zines are distributed to incarcerated people throughout New York City and State, and it's been such an honor to contribute. The media that's accessible to incarcerated people is heavily monitored and there's even legislation about what kinds of media are/aren't available to incarcerated people. The Marshall Project provides a list of banned books in prisons by state, and I encourage you to take a look for whatever state you live in. Here is some legislation on of the kinds of media banned in New York State prisons and jails.
This is all to say - this puzzle zine is a necessary labor of love in a world that accepts imprisonment as an ethical thing to do to anyone, I'm glad it exists, and I'm hoping that there will be more editions of this zine in the future.
xoxo, meat
Hi all! It has been a very long time since I've posted on here, but puzzles have kind of fallen to the backburner of my life because things have just been so hectic, both personally and globally.
As such, Alex, aka Mr. Crossword Nexus, and I have been working on this puzzle for a very long time, but life continued to happen (and our first draft had a typo in it...which is par for the course when making acrostics at this point) and we finally got around to finishing this. I cannot tell you how long I had the tab with this quote in it just rotting in my Chrome window until I was like "Alex...do you want to enable this?" and he kindly agreed to once again enable me.
I asked Alex if he had anything he wanted me to put in this blog post, and he responded with this:
Hello!! I'm back with a collab with the puzzle wizard himself, Alex Boisvert. This cute lil' THEMED!! puzzle was originally submitted at [redacted] but honestly, I'm happier it's here because we did what we wanted to do with it.
Upon asking Alex if he had a little blurb he'd like to write up, he said, and I quote, "everyone is better off if i don't do one of these". Additionally, I asked Alex if he had any links he wanted me to post, and he sent me this. Thanks for the malware!
And, of course, a shoutout to Babka/Paprika/Dan for the test solve!
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Hi all! I feel bad for being MIA for a bit - work (and life, frankly) has been grinding my bones to dust, and doing research for a living means I don't always have the brainspace to do all the creative things I want to. I'm hoping to get back to doing more of the things I love very soon. I also unfortunately missed my second blogaversary, so consider this as my blogaversary puzzle. Love and miss you all, and go do something nice for yourself.
xoxo, schmeat
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Hi! It's my 29th birthday! Can you believe I'm older than ever before?
Okay, thanks!
xoxo, meat
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34D (please read this it's fucking insane)
