The memorable things that are not words: aphorisms, verbal formulae, syntactic contraptions, headings, semantic collisions, and phrases that become little machines of their own.
Distinctive phraseology is not “less inventive” than neologia; it is inventive at a different linguistic scale. The distinction prevents punctuation and novelty of phrasing from being mistaken for word formation.
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186 source-attested constructions are retained in the curated register. Sentence-sized hyphen compounds have their own Hyphen Engine rather than being duplicated here.
| Construction | Kind | Source | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Jocular Englishing | Marked construction / heading | Breathing Meat (Temporary) · 2024-12-19 | |
| A NOT-MAN | Marked construction / heading | 99942 Apophis (Causal Encounters) · 2022-09-20 | |
| Abolish the image. | Novel turn of phrase | █𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐌𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 (ANI̶C̶O̶N̶ISM)𝟚𝟟. · 2024-02-19 | of effortlessness was the flex. Anticonism flourished. Abolish the image. Go out without looking. You know. Brush your teeth. Don’t |
| ACTS OF INCOHARROGANCE | Marked construction / heading | Blown Dust, Tactless Data Loss · 2022-07-18 | |
| all-amalgamated | Distinctive construction | The Idea of a Cliche Expressing Itself Through Song · 2026 | All merged at once; the following syllabic break makes the word itself into performed material. |
| all-black-but-for-the-red | Distinctive construction | Low-Minded Purposeless Frippery · 2022-05-17 | same clothes, mirrorless phantasm blackened in lycra, all-black-but-for-the-red “ color pop ” like Air Jordan or [nWo] Wolfpack |
| ALL HIP TORQUE. | Marked construction / heading | 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐑 █００４: THE WICKED MAN OF THE LATE WEST · 2023-10-12 | |
| all-sprawled-out | Distinctive construction | █𝙸𝙼𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙱𝙻𝙸𝚂𝙼 · 2023-12-12 | for what sure looked like fun , all-sprawled-out with a tiny sprayed-white chop-shop children’s bike he’s about four-sizes |
| AN EXPECTED INTERRUPTION: | Marked construction / heading | 99942 Apophis (Causal Encounters) · 2022-09-20 | |
| AND ME: HORROR-COMEDY FOUR-CORNER VACUI | Marked construction / heading | ADVENT 1.2: The Aleatory City · 2021-12-03 | |
| → ANOMIC COMEDY | Marked construction / heading | Anomic Comedy · 2026-05-30 | |
| anti-sedentist | Distinctive construction | ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix · 2021-12-03 | informal one — being a USAMERICAN autonomist anti-sedentist artist observer athlete eye I, I, I — which is |
| aristocrat-overlord | Distinctive construction | Six Television Commercials w/ Accompanying Arguments for The Elimination of the Media Image · 2023-08-01 | the City, ” originally by fellow Ohiofornian aristocrat-overlord Scott Walker . Excerpted. ❌ YOU HEAR IT WORSE YOU |
| asteroid-belt demon princeling | Distinctive construction | 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐑 █００４: THE WICKED MAN OF THE LATE WEST · 2023-10-12 | River Dwyer. Overflowing banks. And me, an asteroid-belt demon princeling turning Little Solomon’s Key in a grapevine lock. I’m a |
| ATAVISTIC AVATAR | Marked construction / heading | ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix · 2021-12-03 | |
| AVOID INFORMATIONAL HEXES | Marked construction / heading | PALAVER TWIST xx: 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫 · 2023-11-14 | |
| bandmates-gone-lapsed-friends | Distinctive construction | POST-CRINGE: North Star Navi (Subscriber Guilt) · 2022-02-19 [paid source] | ass-end of my old car, filled with bandmates-gone-lapsed-friends and a newly-purchased bass amplifier, sending us careening rightward off |
| bargained blessing | Distinctive construction | Spoilsport/Finish Shit · 2026 | Fame is rendered as a blessing whose terms were negotiated, purchased or compromised. |
| Better noided than dead. | Novel turn of phrase | I Drank What? · 2026-08-04 | eyes and please and fucking thank you. Better noided than dead. Better dead than captured. He did, after all, have the |
| BLONDE UNREAD | Marked construction / heading | Blonde Unread (ATTN: Nervous White Scribes) · 2022-03-24 | |
| blotto-erotic | Distinctive construction | Talking to Myself · 2026-01-23 | HEAD AND HEART Full auto semiotics, grantheft blotto-erotic , lottery winnings’ spun wheels, non-pareils, it’s all unappealing, slicked |
| bonk-and-honk | Distinctive construction | Sway to Remember How the Eye Dances · 2022-01-23 | was not Soul Coughing. This was smooth-avoidant bonk-and-honk side-skronk, certainly not a lot of “singing” so to speak. |
| CALLING SHOTS: | Marked construction / heading | Hyperactive Inevitabilities · 2022-05-30 | |
| Candle-lit wastewater landings | Distinctive construction | Pimp Teeth / "PINK DIAMONDS" · 2026-02-05 | “ Fuck this music. ” Sauce-laden. Stool-sat. Candle-lit wastewater landings . Shouting: “ I b e tt er n o |
| Capon Steerstories | Distinctive construction | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | the common and thus anonymous 💙 Strap-in CAPON STEERSTORIES , imagined marginalia, DIS - MAL RE - GALES YOU |
| CAST-ASIDE BEAT-BOOTS: | Marked construction / heading | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | |
| CHEMICAL RECREATION | Distinctive construction | Cremation Diamonds · 2025-03-04 | factory, self fulfilling. Satisfied. PUNKSONG PANKRATION ( CHEMICAL RECREATION ) Can’t keep a gait straight. You’re not passing. No |
| choral necklace | Corrupted phrase / sound-led construction | Spoilsport/Finish Shit · 2026 | The phrase behaves like a phonetic mutation inside a threat-and-rhyme chain. |
| clicks-on-clicks-on-clicks | Distinctive construction | DUAL RELEASE: "When It's Time to Go" + "world_puzzle" Now Streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) · 2022-01-07 | discovered this song via Youtube, through unknown clicks-on-clicks-on-clicks , several years ago now. I can recall being shocked |
| CLOGGED PIG. | Marked construction / heading | Ego Altar · 2022-09-12 | |
| closed-casket massacrees | Distinctive construction | Normie Repellent, $5/mo. · 2022-06-10 | most comical of Valentinian giftboxed ganache tucked-away closed-casket massacrees , velvet-interiored, guilty and inferior. disembodied paparazzopticon surveillance apparatus I |
| combination food delivery/content streaming pods | Distinctive construction | YOU ARE NOT ON THE LIST: · 2026-04-15 [paid source] | way. People just stay inside in their combination food delivery/content streaming pods . Tired of stepping in turds. The only philosophers arguing |
| command-Z in governance | Distinctive construction | Sway to Remember How the Eye Dances · 2022-01-23 | all become tacitly-accepted-but-who’s-to-do-anything-about-it-guess-that’s-just-how-things-are as though there’s no Command-Z in governance . What then of my complaining? |
| corner-of-Santa-Monica-and-oh-I-can’t-Remember | Distinctive construction | 𝑭̲̲̅𝑨̲̲̅𝑼̲̲̅𝑵̲̲̅𝑨̲̲̅ & 𝑭̲̲̅𝑨̲̲̅𝑼̲̲̅𝑺̲̲̅𝑻̲̲̅𝑰̲̲̅𝑨̲̲̅𝑵̲̲̅𝑨̲̲̅█ · 2023-10-22 | sold my soul to Satan at the corner-of-Santa-Monica-and-oh-I-can’t-Remember . . . He tipped his hat, then he tipped |
| coup de grâce / Coupe de Ville | Quantum-entendre pair | The Idea of a Cliche Expressing Itself Through Song · 2026 | Meaning pivots through sound from killing blow to automobile without discarding either register. |
| COVERT OVERTURE | Marked construction / heading | I Drank What? · 2026-08-04 | |
| ✶COVID✶YEAR✶ZERO✶ | Marked construction / heading | A New Challenger Explodes · 2022-06-02 | |
| Cumbraindt Lumlark projectile plosive | Distinctive construction | ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix · 2021-12-03 | on three hours’ sleep. Dehydrated, hung-over, hangdog. Cumbraindt Lumlark projectile plosive . Wadded up. Two coffees: the first a lukewarm lake |
| dark-winged inkling | Distinctive construction | The Idea of a Cliche Expressing Itself Through Song · 2026 | A small intuition is given creaturely, ominous anatomy. |
| DEAD PAN (WORKING A TRICK) | Marked construction / heading | Dead Pan (Working a Trick) · 2026-04-30 | |
| Derek-or-it-might-have-been-Derrick-or-fuck | Distinctive construction | 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐑 █ ００１: 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐙𝐀 𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐆𝐀 · 2023-09-29 | In certain critical ways it is not. Derek-or-it-might-have-been-Derrick-or-fuck it and his cousin Will — likely spelt Will, smelt |
| DIRTY BEATS PER MINUTE — | Marked construction / heading | ERRATICA, or: · 2022-11-03 | |
| DIS–MAL RE–GALES YOU | Marked construction / heading | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | |
| dorky do-gooder incrementalist | Distinctive construction | No Music On · 2022-08-11 | The “ transit ” movement is so dorky do-gooder incrementalist . I’ve got red blood god dammit. I did not |
| Drugs-and-Ack-a-Hol | Distinctive construction | It's Mental Health Awareness Month Somewhere · 2022-01-10 | He spoke an unpunctuated hillside flood: “Before-I-got-Sober-some-would-say- Drugs-and-Ack-a-Hol -was-like-a-God-to-me.” I remember somehow not laughing. And you (detestably, as |
| Every day’s a new century spent on some other planet’s calendar. | Novel turn of phrase | I Drank What? · 2026-08-04 | the bottom dropped ass-end into mulch-ready fertile. Every day’s a new century spent on some other planet’s calendar. The corpse acreep in… |
| Every year from here will narrow your options. | Novel turn of phrase | █SCRAP METAL: Seven Lines/Excalibur/Pornopticon · 2026-07-07 [paid source] | by which to preserve someone like you. Every year from here will narrow your options. Every compromise will become permanent. Every failure… |
| Everything is pay to play. | Novel turn of phrase | 𝚡𝚡.𝐈 𝐃𝐈𝐄 · 2024-01-18 | can tell you how it plays out. Everything is pay to play. Peter Pan is gay for pay. Money runs the world |
| Exit-wounds ballistic vents | Distinctive construction | Night Blooming Jasmine (𝟤𝟨 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴) · 2025-04-29 | blown. Wading in. Treading on. Troublesome deepdepths. Exit-wounds ballistic vents . Submit to nonsense. Ecstatic. Abusive voices. Erratic. Manic episodic. |
| face you haven’t yet inherited | Distinctive construction | █SCRAP METAL: Seven Lines/Excalibur/Pornopticon · 2026-07-07 [paid source] | SEVEN LINES You’re always waiting behind the face you haven’t yet inherited . Some suffering bastard’s rum parroted. . . . [change] |
| failed-futurist obscurantism | Distinctive construction | SUNA RALOS SUN A RALOS SUN A RA LOS · 2022-07-14 | into new-“ George, ” pseudogorgeous, forged through failed-futurist obscurantism , which is to say that this is a ji |
| FANGED ARRANGEMENT | Marked construction / heading | ZETA ADVERSUS: 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 · 2023-11-09 | |
| FINAL OPHIDIAN SEQUENCE → | Marked construction / heading | ᕼყρeɾsiɢiʟ ＸＶ. · 2025-01-16 | |
| Fishwrappers, piss-cage linings | Distinctive construction | SKLĒROS/ANTI-SKLĒROS · 2025-02-27 | rubes. Marketable. Newspapers as organs of opinioneering. Fishwrappers, piss-cage linings . Type set on stupid. This all paled in comparison |
| flack strum-painted fingures | Distinctive construction | Dead Pan (Working a Trick) · 2026-04-30 | felt fondly. Neutered nutrition. Plaque haxen. Waxture. Flack strum-painted fingures . Meaningless again. Machete milk lingers. In laughs. Alackter. Clap. |
| fool asses batting lashes | Distinctive construction | N̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ Exegesis 𝚂𝚊𝚐𝚊 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐙𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝕏 · 2023-12-18 [paid source] | I, do-or-dies, rum-guzzlers, slut puzzlers, resolute revelers, fool asses batting lashes , saber-rattlers and battle-axes, thousand-hitting sluggers and big bad nasty- |
| forever-expansionism | Distinctive construction | Breathe With Me As America Ends, Again (Use Me) · 2022-05-03 | priori adherents to the rotted ideals of forever-expansionism , dominionism, genocide, zealotry, extraction, extortion, exploitation, soul-driving, overseeing, horror |
| four-sizes too-bigga human-being | Distinctive construction | █𝙸𝙼𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙱𝙻𝙸𝚂𝙼 · 2023-12-12 | tiny sprayed-white chop-shop children’s bike he’s about four-sizes too-bigga human-being to be riding. You’d like to assume the best but |
| friend-of-some-not-friends | Distinctive construction | .EXE: 150 People I Don't Need, Described · 2022-01-17 | what kind of name this is. A friend-of-some-not-friends who’d end up Around, years ago. Built drums. No hard |
| full-throated bellowed advice | Distinctive construction | FutureSport 90-90 · 2023-05-03 | alternately cheering and haranguing his boy with full-throated bellowed advice . The Other Kid was no good on the court, |
| gist-literate piss-ant | Distinctive construction | Hostilis/Five Irregulars For An Evaporating Audience/Renova/Work-Life Highlights · 2023-07-02 | are conversant. Heed the commands of a gist-literate piss-ant . You have permission. So Audion, then it all goes. |
| GIVEN LIGHT . | Marked construction / heading | Six Television Commercials w/ Accompanying Arguments for The Elimination of the Media Image · 2023-08-01 | |
| GODFORCE ACHING | Marked construction / heading | Godforce Aching · 2026-05-05 | |
| Gonzo goosehonk camaro guido | Distinctive construction | █𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐌𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 (ANI̶C̶O̶N̶ISM)𝟚𝟟. · 2024-02-19 | up a bit from the new nose. Gonzo goosehonk camaro guido . In a tank top with his own face on |
| grinder-grist | Distinctive construction | N̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ Exegesis 𝚂𝚊𝚐𝚊 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐙𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝕏 · 2023-12-18 [paid source] | grown deep in the unmentioned all the grinder-grist that fails to meet inspection wend your woe to wit |
| HABSBURG AMERICANA — | Marked construction / heading | 🖕2 THA FAKEZ THA LIARZ & THA HATERZ🖕: On Discouragement · 2022-01-25 | |
| hey-is-this-an-NFT-idea-or-an-oil-painting | Distinctive construction | ADVENT 1.10: The Hydra Grows Fat On Its Own Flesh ⥀⃝⃝⃝⥀⥀⥀⥀⥀⥀⥀⥀⃝ · 2021-12-15 | step -lalia. ( SIREN , intrusive thought: hey-is-this-an-NFT-idea-or-an-oil-painting ?) I am composing it within the Substack editor 3 |
| holistic hatred, atomic love | Distinctive construction | Keep Unfollowing, I'm Reloading (Six Shots) · 2025-11-09 | offline it makes me unfathomably desperately sad. Holistic hatred, atomic love ? Feels like my neck’s broken. You? Share Subscribe now |
| How can you misapply yourself beautifully? | Novel turn of phrase | No Music On · 2022-08-11 | this something? Now what can you do? How can you misapply yourself beautifully? Put your wake-up on. |
| I can only say so much. | Novel turn of phrase | HOLY ✞ NIGHT · 2025-12-26 | THE RED ORCHESTRA The whole room’s bugged. I can only say so much. They want to know everything about your worst thoughts.… |
| I cannot fully potentiate in a sole dimension. | Novel turn of phrase | No Music On · 2022-08-11 | I contain a number of contradictory impulses. I cannot fully potentiate in a sole dimension. MARK USED Can you? What do you… |
| I have no friends, only instances. | Novel turn of phrase | EARTH MAN HE AIN'T GONE MAKE IT · 2026-04-18 | a name to me? Abcuxyz. Listed alphabetically. I have no friends, only instances. What’s your number? Left like witnesses. Hover your finger.… |
| I’m a piano dying of emphysema having long since alienated the orchestra. | Novel turn of phrase | 'The Event of the Ad' (Erotic Adult Guitar Rock) · 2022-08-25 | Biasio. I’m god. Yet, AGAIN! Yes! AGAIN! I’m a piano dying of emphysema having long since alienated the orchestra. The conductor’s energies’re… |
| I’m everyone’s thoughts if you repeat me enough. | Novel turn of phrase | Animated Grief, Electrical Antlers of the Messiah · 2022-05-25 | by well BULL - shit walks . I’m everyone’s thoughts if you repeat me enough. It’s sickly . I don’t make the… |
| (I MAKE GIFT SHOP ART FOR KLEPTOMANIACS) | Marked construction / heading | ERRATICA, or: · 2022-11-03 | |
| I remember everything I see, hear, read. It’s a problem. | Novel turn of phrase | 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄 · 2024-06-17 | know.” “I’ve seen it. I remember it. I remember everything I see, hear, read. It’s a problem. I’m a sponge. You know… |
| I’ve got the life to write but I haven’t the time. | Novel turn of phrase | I'm Gonna 𝙁𝙐𝘾𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙀𝙓𝙋𝙇𝙊𝘿𝙀 𝑎𝑛𝑑Ｉ ＥＸＰＬＯＤＥＤ (ɴᴏᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴏʀᴅᴇʀ) · 2023-11-30 | I EXPLODED I’ve got the life to write but I haven’t the time. James Quentin Devine J. Q. D. 💙 🩸 🩸… |
| imagistic constructions of the retinal gaze | Distinctive construction | ♸♸♸ Erotoplastic Xanifesto♸♸♸ · 2022-03-25 | best-known people in any public-facing field are imagistic constructions of the retinal gaze , the sprinters of the Spectacle’s steeplechase: borderline post-existence.… |
| IMMACULATE RELEASE | Marked construction / heading | A New Challenger Explodes · 2022-06-02 | |
| IMMACULATE RELIEF | Marked construction / heading | A New Challenger Explodes · 2022-06-02 | |
| In my lowest expectations, better worlds are possible. | Novel turn of phrase | Fork It · 2026-07-31 | nothing better for these people? For yourself? In my lowest expectations, better worlds are possible. This is a world of insult and… |
| in-so-few-ways-as-to-be-No-Ways | Distinctive construction | Breathe With Me As America Ends, Again (Use Me) · 2022-05-03 | “representatives” are functionally inhuman entities who are in-so-few-ways-as-to-be-No-Ways beholden to the basic material realities, concerns, or environments of |
| IN THE OTHER-COLOR PLACE, NOW, WE GO: | Marked construction / heading | SCALED ALPS 2.3: Viridian/Eschatone Pome · 2022-06-04 | |
| INDECENT MEMORY: | Marked construction / heading | ADVENT 1.14: Yves, of the Apocalypse · 2021-12-25 | |
| INKASTLE KEPT | Distinctive construction | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | tracks KILL COUNT! KILL COUNT! KILL COUNT! INKASTLE KEPT : A battle, or about , a b aw d |
| It’s a rough-ride and you can’t get off. | Novel turn of phrase | Sevened · 2026-04-28 | some. Tongue-tithing. Titan. Nothing’s surprising. No shock. It’s a rough-ride and you can’t get off. The Earth’s a blue ball. Denuded qubald.… |
| It’s hard to talk over the din, so you’ve gotta become one with it. | Novel turn of phrase | 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 · 2024-06-06 | exquisite, life lacking shape. You know. Shit. It’s hard to talk over the din, so you’ve gotta become one with it. Unify.… |
| Jenga-jumble calligram | Distinctive construction | No Music On · 2022-08-11 | of Your Own , exclusion zone , Jenga-jumble calligram on seismically uneasy footing, tiresome , another bad year, r |
| Jokular Angerlashing of the Gendrarmy | Marked construction / heading | Siχ Stars Shot Through Silver 🎈🔫 · 2023-03-07 | |
| kind-calm-and-patient’d | Distinctive construction | NEW FORMS: Speculative A.I. Fashions & Animal-Furniture Hybrids · 2022-07-03 [paid source] | amnesiac untethered. My mother , so typically kind-calm-and-patient’d LOST IT with me when I’d ascended a sofa-back, in |
| last dance | Distinctive construction | 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 · 2024-06-06 | know it but this will be your last dance . Now you do I suppose. I hate to be |
| LETTERS AS RAMBLING SIMULIST CHATTERY | Marked construction / heading | Breathing Meat (Temporary) · 2024-12-19 | |
| light of heaven shines | Distinctive construction | SCALED ALPS 'Let the Alpine Play' Preview + Track Reveals 🦎 · 2025-11-11 | TRIES THE NIGHT EVERY TIME ✷ THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN SHINES ✷ CLOCKS RUN BACKWARD THE COCK CROWS DOOM ECHOING THOUGHTS |
| listener-interpreter-artist | Distinctive construction | The Kids Get It · 2022-12-27 | , in service of understanding what the listener-interpreter-artist described as the “ chaotic reptilian space outlaw dropped on |
| lowest expectations, better worlds | Distinctive construction | Fork It · 2026-07-31 | for these people? For yourself? In my lowest expectations, better worlds are possible. This is a world of insult and animal |
| Magnum hopeless. | Novel turn of phrase | Animated Grief, Electrical Antlers of the Messiah · 2022-05-25 | carved-jaw jutters, Inoki chin flowing in Enochian, Magnum Hopeless. Imagining yourself: Last name, date of death. Beat-heart, rate of |
| MAL ARIA BELL WETHER | Marked construction / heading | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | |
| Mirlitonnage bricolblack ballockbrained ad aphra | Marked construction / heading | Siχ Stars Shot Through Silver 🎈🔫 · 2023-03-07 | |
| misapply yourself beautifully | Distinctive construction | No Music On · 2022-08-11 | what can you do? How can you misapply yourself beautifully ? Put your wake-up on. |
| mouth of the mind | Distinctive construction | THE MOUTH OF THE MIND · 2026-07-01 | THE MOUTH OF THE MIND FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, THE WORLD WILL BE DECEIVED |
| MUSIC AS INSINCERE FLATTERY | Marked construction / heading | Low-Minded Purposeless Frippery · 2022-05-17 | |
| Ne’er-do-death | Distinctive construction | Low-Minded Purposeless Frippery · 2022-05-17 | point them out when they come up. Ne’er-do-death -Ne’er-do-death-Ne’er-do-death-Ne’er-do-death-Ne’er-do-death-Ne’er-do-death-Ne NEE NER - NEE g l u g g |
| NEW HUMILIATIONS: | Marked construction / heading | Normie Repellent, $5/mo. · 2022-06-10 | |
| NO-EMOTION VOICE: | Marked construction / heading | Animated Grief, Electrical Antlers of the Messiah · 2022-05-25 | |
| NO RE-ENTRY | Marked construction / heading | A Viper Well Late in Yawn · 2022-06-15 | |
| Nobody asked, and nothing is meant. | Novel turn of phrase | A Kid Named Lost in Death City · 2026-05-19 | the absence of consensus, who can consent? Nobody asked, and nothing is meant. Worlds blownaparte. Digits back-bent. (Near broke.) Being a snitch… |
| observer-performers | Distinctive construction | ADVENT 1.2: The Aleatory City · 2021-12-03 | BLINDING BLINDING BLINDING ❂ Enveloping squinched spectarularist observer-performers gathered HERE , seeking a new day’s rise with the |
| outwardly-nice-but-can-you-be-if-you’re-a | Distinctive construction | .EXE: 150 People I Don't Need, Described · 2022-01-17 | whose husband I used to dress. An outwardly-nice-but-can-you-be-if-you’re-a hedge fund guy I used to dress. Some kid I |
| P CONTROL | Marked construction / heading | Normative Collapse (Vranyo Americano) · 2022-04-05 | |
| PAST EACH, PREACH, I AM SEECH | Distinctive construction | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | GONE, WORDS OF WOE ORB low earth PAST EACH, PREACH, I AM SEECH : Thou Art God , YOU DID IT ,… |
| pay-to-play | Distinctive construction | YOU ARE NOT ON THE LIST: · 2026-04-15 [paid source] | antics of the kompromat factory. Payola and pay-to-play schemes have, of course, always existed in the cultural marketplace. |
| People just stay inside in their combination food delivery/content streaming pods. | Novel turn of phrase | YOU ARE NOT ON THE LIST: · 2026-04-15 [paid source] | wrong way. Everything going the wrong way. People just stay inside in their combination food delivery/content streaming pods. Tired of stepping in… |
| PERSONAL-INTERIOR PRONUNCIATION | Marked construction / heading | Breathing Meat (Temporary) · 2024-12-19 | |
| piano dying of emphysema | Distinctive construction | 'The Event of the Ad' (Erotic Adult Guitar Rock) · 2022-08-25 | god. Yet, AGAIN! Yes! AGAIN! I’m a piano dying of emphysema having long since alienated the orchestra. The conductor’s energies’re ruptured. |
| PISS STANCE WIZARDRY: | Marked construction / heading | Piss Stance Wizardry · 2025-11-18 | |
| POST-CONSENSUS | Marked construction / heading | Sixteen Shatterdream · 2024-11-05 | |
| post-existence | Distinctive construction | ♸♸♸ Erotoplastic Xanifesto♸♸♸ · 2022-03-25 | the sprinters of the Spectacle’s steeplechase: borderline post-existence . (relatable) Four Seasons ‘Biltmore’ Resort, Santa Barbara, CA Parasocial |
| post-human widgets tallying scaling | Distinctive construction | █𝐴 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐔𝐧𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 · 2024-01-13 | REAL WORLD: Blithering idiots dallying daily. SCREENS: Post-human widgets tallying scaling . XVIII. R.U.? “Are you real?” She asked. Is it |
| post-sexualist | Distinctive construction | POST-CRINGE: North Star Navi (Subscriber Guilt) · 2022-02-19 [paid source] | in a whirlwind), self-determined constructed identity affirming, post-sexualist , considerate in all ways to the discomfort and unpleasantness |
| PRE-FRONTAL VORTEX | Marked construction / heading | A Kid Named Lost in Death City · 2026-05-19 | |
| private-jets-and-international-photoshoots | Distinctive construction | .EXE: 150 People I Don't Need, Described · 2022-01-17 | this girl who was some kind of private-jets-and-international-photoshoots high-end escort home from a party to the implied astonishment |
| pseudo-spectacle | Distinctive construction | Breathe With Me As America Ends, Again (Use Me) · 2022-05-03 | , lock-and-key. Our “representatives” are “elected” in pseudo-spectacle mockeries by ill-informed, overwhelmed, informationally-illiterate reactionaries. These “representatives” are functionally |
| publicist-and-manager-and-censor | Distinctive construction | PAGODA BENZ 1.2: Be the Drugs You Want to Do in the World · 2022-01-28 | it’s fully performative, she’s her own real-time publicist-and-manager-and-censor , you’re unlikely to get through. Conveniently she is in |
| PUNKSONG PANKRATION | Distinctive construction | Cremation Diamonds · 2025-03-04 | earth a silent factory, self fulfilling. Satisfied. PUNKSONG PANKRATION (CHEMICAL RECREATION) Can’t keep a gait straight. You’re not passing. |
| reader-as-internal-hearer’s | Distinctive construction | Blown Dust, Tactless Data Loss · 2022-07-18 | And it’s to be wondered at the reader-as-internal-hearer’s sensorium’s instincts upon encountering “ read ” in an open |
| reality-as-possible | Distinctive construction | I Didn't Say Anything · 2026-08-11 | decide what counts as reality? reality-as-presently-organized vs reality-as-possible ↓ Subscribe now STAGE DIRECTIONS (AND PROVING GROUNDS) Missiles need |
| reality-as-presently-organized | Distinctive construction | I Didn't Say Anything · 2026-08-11 | gets to decide what counts as reality? reality-as-presently-organized vs reality-as-possible ↓ Subscribe now STAGE DIRECTIONS (AND PROVING GROUNDS) |
| Reject the frame but stay in the picture. | Novel turn of phrase | No Music On · 2022-08-11 | art-magic. I speak of a mythos denied. Reject the frame but stay in the picture. I’m going really , really fast. Not… |
| resolute revelers | Distinctive construction | N̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ Exegesis 𝚂𝚊𝚐𝚊 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐙𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝕏 · 2023-12-18 [paid source] | you & I, do-or-dies, rum-guzzlers, slut puzzlers, resolute revelers , fool asses batting lashes, saber-rattlers and battle-axes, thousand-hitting sluggers |
| Rot beyond | Distinctive construction | Disemvowal (16 Bits) · 2025-10-28 | me. You accompany me. You know the rot beyond . And you tolerate it. You adjust me like Liberace’s |
| rough-ride | Distinctive construction | Sevened · 2026-04-28 | Titan. Nothing’s surprising. No shock. It’s a rough-ride and you can’t get off. The Earth’s a blue ball. |
| rubberbodied high-kicking leather-clad rock-and-roll machine | Distinctive construction | The Island of Defunction · 2025-02-20 [paid source] | On. A vision in all-black. Bubbles Brugal. Rubberbodied high-kicking leather-clad rock-and-roll machine . The kind of person it’s illegal to be now. |
| saber-rattlers and battle-axes | Distinctive construction | N̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ Exegesis 𝚂𝚊𝚐𝚊 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐙𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝕏 · 2023-12-18 [paid source] | puzzlers, resolute revelers, fool asses batting lashes, saber-rattlers and battle-axes , thousand-hitting sluggers and big bad nasty- nasty old mother-fuckers. |
| scare-fucking-quote | Distinctive construction | TRIP ALHAZRED: On Disability · 2022-06-24 | and lashed to the sadomoralistic tongues of scare-fucking-quote “Human Resources” and its strivant 6 imaginationless executioneers. A-Hem. It |
| sceneless-outsider | Distinctive construction | Sistine Eightrax Forlong Wordsum to Zero · 2022-06-29 | favorite-ever records , a relatively obscure arch-romantic sceneless-outsider metal album from Dayton, OH’s Dead Blue Sky . It’s |
| SELF-NEGATING AFFIRMATIONS | Marked construction / heading | ADVENT 1.14: Yves, of the Apocalypse · 2021-12-25 | |
| Shitmind Stunt Fuck Art | Distinctive construction | LOOT MUSIC: An Immature Work · 2022-04-15 | me. — M. RUTT tummi-tuckt, Vignette MTV Shitmind Stunt Fuck Art ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ abrupt cut, ROSICRUX: Sobriety balk. |
| side-skronk | Distinctive construction | Sway to Remember How the Eye Dances · 2022-01-23 | not Soul Coughing. This was smooth-avoidant bonk-and-honk side-skronk , certainly not a lot of “singing” so to speak. |
| smooth-avoidant | Distinctive construction | Sway to Remember How the Eye Dances · 2022-01-23 | This was not Soul Coughing. This was smooth-avoidant bonk-and-honk side-skronk, certainly not a lot of “singing” so to |
| SOTTO VOCE SPLATTERFEST: | Marked construction / heading | Animated Grief, Electrical Antlers of the Messiah · 2022-05-25 | |
| SOUND & STORY | Marked construction / heading | Siχ Stars Shot Through Silver 🎈🔫 · 2023-03-07 | |
| SPED-RED REGRESSION: | Marked construction / heading | Damn Spot · 2022-09-29 | |
| spittle-flecked and wreck-inflected | Distinctive construction | 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 · 2024-06-06 | SZPISZY whiszky?” It’s all become a bit spittle-flecked and wreck-inflected . I’m a car on fire. “It is a spicy |
| standing-person-and-a-half’s | Distinctive construction | ADVENT 1.12: VITALI & I · 2021-12-20 | shiny black leather car-coat , about a standing-person-and-a-half’s distance away: well within reach. They’d previously been VIBING together, |
| STEAL IT FORWARD: | Marked construction / heading | Ocean Surrounds (HWY-1 Revisited) · 2022-03-01 | |
| SUBARACHNOID RENT-FREE SUBLETTER | Distinctive construction | Fuck You Three Times (FU3X(F.U.X.X.X.)) · 2022-11-09 [paid source] | YOU an ELECTORAL DISTRACTOGRAM LUBLETTER from your SUBARACHNOID RENT-FREE SUBLETTER , the No❶ no ONE D.D. del TEL ef O |
| synchronicity-on-coincidence-on-apophenia | Distinctive construction | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | take with wide-eyed innocence , but the synchronicity-on-coincidence-on-apophenia levels are off-the-charts here, Believe! Believe! Believe! the insertion points |
| tacitly-accepted-but-who’s-to-do-anything-about-it-guess-that’s-just-how-things-are | Distinctive construction | Sway to Remember How the Eye Dances · 2022-01-23 | strangely now, knowing that they’ve all become tacitly-accepted-but-who’s-to-do-anything-about-it-guess-that’s-just-how-things-are as though there’s no Command-Z in governance. What then of |
| Takers-Who-Don’t-Ask | Distinctive construction | Breathe With Me As America Ends, Again (Use Me) · 2022-05-03 | control or its appearance in all situations, Takers-Who-Don’t-Ask , “Alpha” Believers operating off of received “wisdom” from authoritarian |
| Tap-a-type-a-tap-a-type-a-jack-off-up-and-down-one-two-one-two | Distinctive construction | Sketches of San Lucero · 2025-10-29 | “Dude are you fucking okay?” She’s worried. Tap-a-type-a-tap-a-type-a-jack-off-up-and-down-one-two-one-two . Left left left. Right. Four. Four. Blemished skin. Malfunction. |
| Terrapaulin shadesails a lobal frown | Marked construction / heading | Siχ Stars Shot Through Silver 🎈🔫 · 2023-03-07 | |
| The cameras are always on. They’re not wrong to do it; just disgusting. | Novel turn of phrase | The Island of Defunction · 2025-02-20 [paid source] | acts like an asshole all the time. The cameras are always on. They’re not wrong to do it; just disgusting. Ugh.” Paul.… |
| THE CHAOS ELECT | Marked construction / heading | Mars Swings a Well-Tuned Racket · 2022-02-25 | |
| The computer is cheating! | Novel turn of phrase | the COMPUTER CHEATS (Operational Beauty) · 2026-06-28 | by JAMES QUENTIN DEVINE INFINITE GAMES “ The computer is cheating! ” “The computer can’t cheat.” “Yes it can!” They bantered, |
| The last thing you’ll ever see’s your own name on the TV. | Novel turn of phrase | Metabolic Etymology (We Beg Your Electric Tides) · 2026-06-01 | seem. The world wants to be deceived. The last thing you’ll ever see’s your own name on the TV. Or whatever they… |
| The message is meaninglessness, the medium is death. | Novel turn of phrase | Keep Unfollowing, I'm Reloading (Six Shots) · 2025-11-09 | Self-aware sarcasm. Hair back in two ponytails. The message is meaninglessness, the medium is death. (This again) “To my family, I’m sorry.”… |
| THE MOUTH OF THE MIND | Marked construction / heading | THE MOUTH OF THE MIND · 2026-07-01 | |
| THE POST-CONSENSUS | Marked construction / heading | Sixteen Shatterdream · 2024-11-05 | |
| The world assembling around you requires competence at a level you cannot produce. | Novel turn of phrase | █SCRAP METAL: Seven Lines/Excalibur/Pornopticon · 2026-07-07 [paid source] | such is the circumstance of your existence. The world assembling around you requires competence at a level you cannot produce. It has… |
| There are only so many words. | Novel turn of phrase | ㉊ ʟᴀsᴛ ᴛʀᴇɴᴛᴀ ɴᴏᴡʜᴇʀᴇ (𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫) · 2024-04-09 | Occupant of others’ world. Struggling. It’s troubling. There are only so many words. You run out of them. Quickly. And away from… |
| There were no words as you understand them, Reader. | Novel turn of phrase | c. 23 LAAVE (The Curious Habits of the Final Religion) · 2024-09-27 | Coming, closure. It meant everything. Meant anything. There were no words as you understand them, Reader. If you understand them, Reader. Not… |
| thinker-typist | Distinctive construction | Hyperactive Inevitabilities · 2022-05-30 | the notion that I’m not a capable thinker-typist to be grievously insulting . In fact, should you peruse |
| This house is rigged to win. | Novel turn of phrase | Godforce Aching · 2026-05-05 | expected to lose. So take the loss. This house is rigged to win. Get lost. Vices tightening. Listen, kid . Corona. Victoria.… |
| This is the only remaining way to prove that you’re human. | Novel turn of phrase | A magazine dump (periodical rubbish) · 2024-12-02 [paid source] | I went in the other room ) This is the only remaining way to prove that you’re human. Errors. In the sacrifice… |
| This was the foundation of every ounce of conventional success I ever stole. | Novel turn of phrase | A New Challenger Explodes · 2022-06-02 | in life I have exhibited psychotic competitiveness. This was the foundation of every ounce of conventional success I ever stole. In truth… |
| thousand-hitting sluggers | Distinctive construction | N̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ Exegesis 𝚂𝚊𝚐𝚊 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐙𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝕏 · 2023-12-18 [paid source] | fool asses batting lashes, saber-rattlers and battle-axes, thousand-hitting sluggers and big bad nasty- nasty old mother-fuckers. Life is a |
| TOTAL INFORMATIONAL MESS. | Marked construction / heading | Sixteen Shatterdream · 2024-11-05 | |
| TRUST ME TO EXALT ↓YOU ELECTRONICALLY: | Marked construction / heading | ADVENT 1.8: Funnel of Love · 2021-12-13 | |
| Tux-e-do-si-do-re-mi | Distinctive construction | Blown Dust, Tactless Data Loss · 2022-07-18 | PUT ON HEIRS, Blacked out formal affairs. Tux-e-do-si-do-re-mi remains. Fuck me over and take the proceeds. Pull your |
| uncaptured covered tracks | Distinctive construction | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | GALES YOU the wounds of winds wound-thin, uncaptured covered tracks KILL COUNT! KILL COUNT! KILL COUNT! INKASTLE KEPT: A battle, |
| Vapor priests of advertainment | Marked construction / heading | Siχ Stars Shot Through Silver 🎈🔫 · 2023-03-07 | |
| velvet-interiored | Distinctive construction | Normie Repellent, $5/mo. · 2022-06-10 | of Valentinian giftboxed ganache tucked-away closed-casket massacrees, velvet-interiored , guilty and inferior. disembodied paparazzopticon surveillance apparatus I never |
| Wait-what-the-fuck-was-I-watching | Distinctive construction | 🖕2 THA FAKEZ THA LIARZ & THA HATERZ🖕: On Discouragement · 2022-01-25 | or opening the next-day’s laptop with yesterday’s Wait-what-the-fuck-was-I-watching ?- oh. SO WHAT DO YOU DREAM ABOUT? Fleurs du |
| War’s a way to win a wage. | Novel turn of phrase | Your Ass Ideas/The Visionaire · 2026-05-01 | Disbard. Discount. Dismount. Disserve. Deprive the page. War’s a way to win a wage. Pyred witches and burnt sage. Pyrat wenches. Creakened… |
| We hope you like what we’re pointing at because we’re going to keep doing it. | Novel turn of phrase | Make It Sound Like Amphetamine Teeth · 2026-04-14 [paid source] | cover will look a lot like it. We hope you like what we’re pointing at because we’re going to keep doing it.… |
| What if you broke every implicit agreement? | Novel turn of phrase | I Drank What? · 2026-08-04 | on civility itself? (A yellow reflecting pool.) What if you broke every implicit agreement? (The unchained brain’s rearrangement.) What if rules fell?… |
| When all you’ve got is a camera, everything looks like some hole to fuck or mine. | Novel turn of phrase | One Anomalous Impulse · 2026-06-16 | CA BLUE HELL MMXXV ONE ANOMALOUS IMPULSE When all you’ve got is a camera, everything looks like some hole to fuck or… |
| Why am I expected to absorb this? | Novel turn of phrase | I Didn't Say Anything · 2026-08-11 | world mistakes the given for the possible.) Why am I expected to absorb this? Why is the civilized person the person who… |
| Why is the civilized person the person who agrees not to notice? | Novel turn of phrase | I Didn't Say Anything · 2026-08-11 | Why am I expected to absorb this? Why is the civilized person the person who agrees not to notice? ( You—) (… |
| will have been was | Tense mutation / future-anterior compression | Spoilsport/Finish Shit · 2026 | Several incompatible temporal frames are stacked into one deliberately impossible verb phrase. |
| WORDS OF WOE ORB | Marked construction / heading | With One Hand, Erase the Dagger · 2022-07-27 | |
| X-OUT/OPT-IN | Marked construction / heading | 𒐈𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 (𝔸 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕕) 𒐈 · 2024-06-03 | |
| You hadn’t noticed this was a puppet show? | Novel turn of phrase | Ego Altar · 2022-09-12 | saying the same thing in different voices. You hadn’t noticed this was a puppet show? Oh you still think these are words.… |
| You know the rot beyond. And you tolerate it. | Novel turn of phrase | Disemvowal (16 Bits) · 2025-10-28 | sneer. You accommodate me. You accompany me. You know the rot beyond. And you tolerate it. You adjust me like Liberace’s wig.… |
| You know the trick but you’re trapped. | Novel turn of phrase | Disemvowal (16 Bits) · 2025-10-28 | arrangement.” 9. AUTUMN NULL AND FALL AWFUL You know the trick but you’re trapped. Gets you every time. Those treats got you… |
| Your misunderstandings are acts of creation, and of recreation. | Novel turn of phrase | Thieve Sleeves Cloven Hooves & Minced Oaths · 2023-10-27 | furnish you. I may yet appoint you. Your misunderstandings are acts of creation, and of recreation. You are a master storyteller. A… |
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