[ephwhyell] The Embers | 2026 SEPTEMBER

[ephwhyell | The Embers]

THE 2026 SEPTEMBER ISSUE
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The 2026 September Issue:

(not-inclusive and not-limited to)

• The Miserable Life of a Tragedy Writer ['s Life on a Beach]
• poney pouch ii
• scrub brush bag
• underwear as under-outerwear
• zodiac top
• lei-mane dress
• silly shorts (for men)
• ON THE JOB | Day One
• &continued Updates to the "$1,000,000" post

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Post-posting Updates and Additional Bits [part two]

here are more post-posting updates and additional bits for the post "Here's what I'd do if I were a twenty-something working toward her first $1,000,000; luckily for us, I was that twenty-something *hair-flip*"

cause it's getting out of control, y'all, and that post was already 9K+ words long *sweats*

(be sure to refresh often, i'm on here, often)

&you can find "[Part One?]" here

the newest additions are at the top:

"she's obviously part of the Musk-Cult whatever; she never says anything bad about him" [date of posting]

what bad thing do you want me to say about him?

that 

with/through &upon Empire

he has

single-handedly [not literally but ideologically, absolutely]

brought the internet to the women of the world?

oh, and he's not gauging them?

if you do not understand what his companies (all of them, since his very first) are able to bring to the rest of the world

then you're the problem

not him.

what is my business? [date of posting]

our (the bodybuddy/lifemate &i) are in the business of business

in the most-technical, straight-forward terms

we develop business ideas into various stages of development

for instance,

does anyone remember The Devil's Donut Holes?

anyone been around here long enough for those days?

well, let's say you wanted to start a donut business

well, you could buy our business plan at all sorts of various stages of development

("buy" is a loose term here, because we also help you at whatever amount you want/need)

say, the plan alone

or the business ready to walk into and operate

and everything in between.

we do other stuff, these days

like my new sewing endeavors

and we still develop businesses

but these days

our business is structured for figuring out how businesses operate, etc.

we do a lot more poking around the underlying structural organization of business operations, etc.

this is what i do

cause i can do it all day, like breathing, and i do it so much and so easily that i'm willing to do it for free, but obviously, i don't, unless you really need my help and can't pay, no problem

i organize shit

maybe there's some like hoity-toity elitist title for this sorta thing

but i can guarantee you

they are not like me

lol

and i didn't like my mother's idea of organizing people's closets

so i organize business structures

i am not interested in providing too many more details here

for reasons

so i'll leave it at that

if you are not currently an entrepreneur

either because you're "too young" or you just haven't ever considered it

and what i've just described above

makes sense to you

you have a mind for business

just fyi *wink wink*

i am not peddling "advice" [date of posting]

i write about my experience with money

i share my opinion about money

&the only advice that i claim to share is:

LEARN ABOUT MONEY

WHAT IT IS

&HOW IT GROWS

then you will know when/where and why to put your money wherever you ultimately decided to put it.

if others are telling you what to do

they are trying to indoctrinate you

into their system

no different than jesus.

THAT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING, HERE.

HERE, you are ENCOURAGED to seek the Truth.

if you don't like what i have to say here, leave.

if you like some of what i say, take whatever you want.

if you like it all, then do whatever works for you.

why the fuck would i ever care about what you do with your life?

i am not the one who has to live your decisions,

YOU ARE.

why do i love Martha Stewart soooooo much? [24aug2026]

(this is not a mistake, i am reposting this AGAIN, here, too)

She's one of those handful of people who can teach you how to cook

by getting you from 0 to 1

and then beyond

obviously

you gotta learn from her through her own videos

you gotta watch her do it

and you gotta hear her speak about food as she's cooking it

anyone can cook a steak

Martha teaches women how to cook a steak

but better yet, she teaches you why you should be learning how to cook steak

she pays attention to what women pay attention to

and all of her recipes make sense

She is the reigning Master of teaching the "every woman" how to cook

and she does it because she knows how much money it can save you

cause she came from finance, y'all.

She cares more that you learn to cook for yourself in order to save yourself money

She does not care about teaching you how to make money as a "chef" or whatever.

If you listen to what she says, she says things like, [paraphrased] "This is exactly how they do it in those expensive fancy restaurants, and can you believe it, you can do it yourself at home for ten bucks."

Saving you money has always been Martha's true, deep mission

but americans are fickle people

and they resist learning

at every cost

and so

they must be tricked

and this is a type of skill that only a rare few possess

and historically, they've been called "witches"

in a derogatory sense

lol

[added 30aug2026]

also, it was james comey who took her down

just like he took down Hillary Clinton

if he is not the most-anti-feminist man in our recent history

i dunno who is

&i don't like to tell people what to do

so hopefully you know what to do with this information, y'all.

work work work &buy some seeds
dig dig dig &plant them deep
watch watch watch &watch them grow
tend tend tend &tend some more
plant plant plant &share the wealth
grow grow grow &build the world

I AM The Queen of Cups

The Jade Queen, to be precise

poney pouch

i've decided on "poney pouch"
cause like
in korean
it's like 핸드폰
&the pleats are kinda giving "mane"
lol
no pattern
no sketch
just measured some strips
&made a long strand of pleats
&then went from there
^..^

humpty dumpty sat on a wall

when my older brother was in fourth or fifth grade
(i was in third or fourth)
we had a math tutor who would come over to our house
(i wanna say, rosemary clark?)
maybe once a month?
i dunno
&im not about to ask my mom
*vomits*
we never did any "math"
we just sat around &folded paper
she taught us how to fold a single shape
we'd fold multiple of the same shape
then we'd connect all of the one shapes together
 and create a polyhedron
that was it
that was our "math" tutoring
we'd fold a new shape
fold multiples of them
then put them together to create some polyhedron
&i have a four-year degree in art-making
[sculpture specifically]
&i had somehow convinced myself
that i needed to go to "sewing school"

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*weeps*

It's a complete waste of your time to LOOK at me to figure out what it is about me that's so ... you know ... cause what it is that you're trying so hard to 'see' is what's missing.

THERE ARE NO STRINGS ON ME.

a menstruation, mail, &musubi monday w/michelle obama

NOT a library loaner
sorry library
i paid big money for this one

[there will obviously be a Full Feature when i finish the book]

[end note added 25aug2026]

i stopped using tampons when we lived in korea,

cause they were impossible to find

*blech*

once we moved back stateside,

i've had the hardest time finding tampons i can tolerate,

cause the ones i used to use

stopped working up there,

it's a whole thing,

but i recently started using this brand for exercising

and it's alright.

the actual shape of the applicator is better than the picture shows

it has like a bulbous sorta shape,

so like,

i dunno exactly how to describe it

but you can like feel when you've passed the bulbous bit

and it sorta "pops" in

*shrug*

it's nice, as far as tampon insertion is concerned, lol.

my one big gripe is that fucking pull tab, y'all!

yes, i do feel like the fucking thing is gonna get stuck inside me,

cause that fucking string is gonna break,

but the string has not yet broken

"처보, 여기요."

*knocks on wood*

Shut up, Lingerer!

Metal Ox sits back deep on her haunches, "Shut up, Lady."

Walking casually on the ground toward her, "What's the matter?" Ladybug asks, "Why the haunches?"

"What do you mean why?" Metal Ox groans.

Ladybug flops to the ground, exhausted, all six legs splayed out around him, chin resting on the ground, his head bobbing up with every syllable, "What's She done to make you sit on your haunches, Ox?"

"She told us that we were doing 'The Dream'!" Metal Ox shouts.

"You are doing 'The Dream', Ox," Ladybug mimics.

"No." Metal Ox sinks deeper down onto her haunches.

Ladybug laments, "It could take me all year to guess, and you've had us in this holding pattern for months now, as it is. Please, dah-ling, please tell us what's the matter, so that She can deal with it, and then, we can get on with it. Please," Ladybug begs, on all twos, all fours pleading like a weak beggar. 

"She promised no more school! She promised The Dream! We're living my dream, and it was never my dream to make clothes! That's her dream!" Metal Ox finally screams, out of breath, furious.

Ladybug's blown back at Metal Ox's fury, shakes himself off, and with a huff, "Okay, jesus-fucking-christ, relax!"

Ladybug buzzes on over to her, and She swats him away, "---eee" rides on the air.

"Lady!" She shouts as She searches around herself for any sight of Ladybug.

Ladybug buzzes back to her, "You knew I was just over there," he points as he catches his breath.

"Sorry, Lady," She exhales.

"It's okay," Ladybug consoles as he flies up to her shoulder and takes a seat, "So I know what's up with the Ox," he begins.

"What now?" She inquires, halfheartedly.

"Well, according to her, this is not her dream," Ladybug explains.

She ponders this. 

Squirrel loads her another bowl.

She ponders more.

"Tiny Totes, Tiff's T-bags," She whispers.

Ladybug opens a photograph and shows it to her.

"Fuck," She exhales as she hangs her head, "The Ox is fucking right. We're gonna have to go through Tiny Totes Town. This is, in fact, our next destination."

"Well no wonder the road to the Listmaker's Ranch eluded us so," Ladybug shouts like a medieval warrior.

"The fuck, Lady?" She scoffs. 

"What? We didn't know where we were supposed to go next," Ladybug shrugs.

"Well now we fucking do," She stands, frustrated, relieved, aligning toward the heading, "Come on you stubborn motherfucker! You happy now? We're fucking going to fucking Tiny Totes Town!" She shouts loud enough for Metal Ox to hear. She rolls her eyes, "Thanks. Lady."

"What? You wanna be stuck here for more time?" Ladybug asks, seriously. 

"No. I'm ready to get on with it, but there? Why?" She slumps.

"You're living her dream, and before she wanted to make clothes, she wanted to make bags, remember? And it was that girl who got us here," Ladybug remarks, offhandedly, while attending the wing that refuses to fold properly after She smacked him against a wall earlier in "today," remember that?

"Shut up, Lingerer," Ladybug spits while tending to his wing.

"Ugh. I know you're right," She slumps even slumpier this time; "To Tiny Totes Town," She excitedly exclaims, feigned. 

And even though Metal Ox knows that She's being a cunt by rolling her eyes at her she happily thinks to herself, "If I don't make her see this now, it'll come up later."

And She and Ladybug shout in unison, "Shut the fuck up, Lingerer, like, NOW!"

it's true
teenaged tiffany wanted nothing more than to make tiny totes
&when i stopped sewing
about three weeks ago
unable to get back into it
i had to figure out what the fuck was going on
&figure it out we did
&so
we are going to have to take this detour
through Tiny Totes Town
(or as the bodybuddy/lifemate says, "Toteston, you know, like Downton,"
but i am not a british cunt
for i am an american cunt
and thank the good lord Lady
that i am not a british cunt
cause
leave it up to the britons
to figure out the most sinister way
to publicly lynch a black man
without a single trace back to a single individual
cause he was awarded his position
by committee
this is some stone-cold supremacy shit
&yet
nobody seems to really want to speak to it in this light
but just think about it
for one goddamn minute
&you'll realize
that that killing of that professor
was an orchestrated lynching
&if you do not want to accept that these are the lengths
that racist-fucking supremacist britons will go
to send a message
think again)
in order to successfully make it to our desired destination
Designville
&we're all on this ride
together
so no
i do not know how many fucking totes it will take
to satisfy this motherfucker

it's my new "bag" bag
we take all of these shapes/sizes
of reusable bags
to the store with us every time we shop:
one super-extra large
one regular-sized grocery bag
(the size of a brown paper bag)
one "fabric" plastic bag
&one smaller but heavy-duty bag
(for like milk cartons &beer packs)
&i was using a free little plastic thing
&now i get to use this!

aching for The Embers
like my life depends on it
&also
terrified
cause like
what the fuck
this has been one insane year
so far
&for me
The Embers
is when it all starts to "get started"
so i'm holding on for dear life
over here
y'all
*sighs*

hang in there
^..^

the current combi
which means that it's about to change
lol
i wonder what it'll be

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&if you think that it's just like

so weird

to document play time

it's all i know

*shrug*