Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Ecury

n.
a conversation that spans huge intervals of time, kept alive by contributors who casually overlay their thoughts as if no time had passed, which effectively compresses it all into a poignant temporal mash—an online thread that waits years between replies, a constitution being amended by successive generations, or a cave painting fleshed out in sessions ten thousand years apart, by artists who might each have been using the same discarded piece of charcoal.

Basque ekurrikatz, a piece of charcoal used for drawing. Pronounced “ek-yuh-ree.”

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Thrapt

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The Til

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Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Falesia

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Idlewild

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Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Dorgone

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Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Proluctance

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