#written by unsuspiciousperson

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Chart with infinite axes.

I assume we are all familiar with the concept of Emotions. (If you don't know what that is, now is your chance to educate yourself.) Emotions are widely considered to be an important part of the human experience. Happiness, Sadness, Anger, etc. Sometimes, however, we may experience more... "niche" emotions.

And more vauge, complicated emotions. Is there a part of the feeling of "putting down a glass and being unable to see where it is" that we are unable to describe with known words for emotions? It's not anxiety as it is on a different scale, but it is not panic as one is not actively going crazy about it, the best one can say is that it is confusion, but the added element of awe and fear makes that label inappropriate. What about the feeling of engaging in mutual shitposting? It involves a very specific version of the joy conferred by jokes (which is more specific than just delightedness) which is involved in the experience of reading and enjoying online meme humour, mixed with the feeling of being in a conversation, which is unarguably a distinct emotion, but unfitting of any known singular word that can describe emotions. Every combination of factors leads to a slightly different overall holistic emotional flavour. Each little factor in the formation of these emotions is like a vector quantity, they all add up in a vector sum, and each end result is an unique position on a chart with infinite axes. This is not a new idea: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has been running since 2009, forming and defining many new words based on highly specific emotional cocktails of grief, doubt and the feelings of missing out. This idea about the existence of such niche emotional states had occured to me independantly, and I had known about the existence of the Dictionary since a while back, but only recently have I realized that the two concepts are highly related. I suppose there's a deeper underlying idea here: the words we generally use for emotions lack a way to convey nuance, they are generalizations. This is not to say they are useless. Generalized words for non-quantifiable phenomenons are often very helpful. I suppose I am saying: there is untapped potential for anyone wanting to start a new Dictionary Of Highly Specific Emotions, a new frontier of non-rigid self expression.

actually this article is a disguise for a subconcious activation agent that will force you to buy my Dictionary Of Highly Specific Emotions

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Who are you?

greetings. i'm unsuspiciousperson. i'm a 16 year old (at the time of this writing) from india. i semi-specialize in a field of design that sometimes touches the boundaries of "hostile design" and "anti-design", but largely does not dip into them. i am often a fan of both types of designs. you may have been able to tell that if you have seen the homepage of this blog. as with most people in my age and demographic, my main creative ideas involve developing video games. you can Witness me trying to do that here. the best way to contact me for any purposes is to reach me on Discord: unsuspiciousperson#5801.

although most of the writing in each blogpost is largely to be done by me, a friend of mine, Raz, is also helping in editing and beta-reading this blog. Raz is a fellow Thinky Puzzler who has a vested interest in graphic design and cryptic puzzles/lateral thinking rulesets. you can find some of his works here and his Mastodon account here.

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Why are you running this blog?

Hey, fuck off, I wouldn't ask you your reason for living.

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What can I expect out of this blog?

I like the aesthetic of people who perform research into random, niche, small topics. YouTube documentarians, basically. I like the vibes emmited by people putting too much effort into trivial matters. Think of pet projects by your close friends, or long internet post chains that contain too many good, fleshed out ideas to have been orginated from mere 3AM shitposts. I also like documentarianistic content that weaves a sense of narrative into its purely factual matter. Internet Historian, EmpLemon, Jacob Geller, Electron Dance, etc. would be some of my go-to examples for that kind of style. Of course, my attempt at creating such information will not be a carbon copy of their style, I am merely inspired by their works. Creating such content that presents interesting information, or my own thoughts and opinions, will be the main intent of this blog, alongside me having fun. I'm still experimenting with the exact style that this blog wants to go at, so expect the early few(?) posts to be somewhat... UUUUobbly. on the vibes.

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Welcome to unsuspciousperson's unhelpful unaction ununcollection (unsuspiciousperson -> That's me!) (unhelpful -> don't expect this blog to save your life, your relationships, or even be entertaining 100% of the time. i mean, man, i will be trying but i'm just starting out with this "writing" stuff.) unaction -> inaction. these are basically the thoughts i've had over my life whenever i've had thoughts instead of doing the stuff that needed to be done.) (if you read this, hi) (Ununcollection -> Un {opposite} Un {opposite} Collection. Opposite of Opposite of Collection => Collection. this is the part where i lose a reader or two.).

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