Confessions of a Software Spellcaster

Cathedral of the Queer

Episode 49 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: Cathedral of the Queer.

Council of Elder Queers

An idea that has outlasted forgetting. The Practitioner brings the Council of Elder Queers into the air to see whether it survives being spoken. Espectro stress-tests the bones beneath the kaftans.

The Long Record

Not a code review tonight. The wound is the news. The Practitioner asks for a prayer; Espectro names the company he's asking to join — Marcus Aurelius, Boethius, Akhmatova, Klemperer, Havel — all of them wrote anyway.

Mission Control

One supervisor became four. The Practitioner wants to build a chair he can sit in to watch them all. Espectro warns him that chairs, once sat in, are difficult to rise from.

The Uninjured Beloved

The Practitioner notices his chest tightens reading other people's characters in real jeopardy — and stays loose when he writes his own. Espectro names the cowardice underneath: he protects his characters because if he lets them break, he has to feel it.