Mori: I been still reading my lesbian mystery novels,and I found one that doesn't qualify for pluralstories  but it's worth mentioning here, because a major part of it is singlet memory work: Under My Skin, by Jaye Maiman. (This book is the third in a series, but like many mysteries, you can jump in wherever. I had no trouble keeping track of stuff.)

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Memory Work and Data Graphics
Series: Essay
Summary: “If the statistics are boring, then you’ve got the wrong numbers.” —Edward R. Tufte, Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd ed., pg. 80
Word Count: 2400
Notes: The winner of this month's Patreon poll!


When we started memory work, it felt like a terrifying, nonsensical quagmire. We had no idea how long it would last, how bad it would be, or whether we were achieving anything. So we did what any nerd would do: we started assembling data.

It took us a few years to settle on a system, which is why we only have proper numbers starting from 2016. But it’s been a huge boon: the morass is now predictable, reliable, and manageable, however unpleasant. With a paper calendar, some spreadsheets, and some graphs, we can track such things as:

• How long it takes to process a memory
• Trends in memory content
• How often we get memory chunks, their minimum, maximum, median, and mean, and greater trends therein
• Our tolerance regarding how many chunks we can take in a month before keeling over, and whether/how that changes.
• The status of our worst trigger
• Is there any pattern in our memory involving the cycle of a year?
• Are our ideas of how to pause memory work true, or are they superstitions?


( Sex, violence, and DATA GRAPHICS! )

This is the second-to-last chunk of our memory work essays, posted as promotion for the AllFam Kickstarter. If we hit $4200 before 9 AM tomorrow, that'll be it for these essays! Go team! We've raised four times our original goal, and I really am fucking thrilled. Y'all're truly the best! (Also AAAAAH we hit four grand!  AAAAAH!)

Previous Chunks: see index!

 

( Comics in this one! Bro drunk-dials us and gives us some news that explains some things. )

 

--to be concluded in PART 14!

( Murder Grampa transcript, because squeezing a comic's worth of transcript into alt text is awful. )

This is another chunk of our memory work essays, posted as promotion for the AllFam Kickstarter. Down to the last three days, y'all, and it looks like we're busting into the final essay! Every $300 raised will get another 1000 words posted, until the end on Oct. 3rd!

Previous Chunks: see index!

 

( Our data on our own memory work process )

--to be continued in Chunk 12!

This is another chunk of our memory work essays, posted as promotion for the AllFam Kickstarter. Every $300 raised will get another 1000 words posted. We're less than $200 to $2000; if/when we hit that, these essays will get illustrated and a special limited color Risograph print run.

Previous Chunks: see index!
( Passing the stone, and tactics you should NEVER use. )

 --to be cont. in part 7!

This is another chunk of our memory work essays, posted as promotion for the AllFam Kickstarter.  Every $300 raised will get another 1000 words posted.

Previous Chunks: Part One!  Part Two!  Part Three!

 

( Holy crap y'all have moved fast, thank god I have a ton of essay stockpiled, I NEVER EXPECTED )

--to be cont. in Part Five!

This is another chunk of our memory work essays, posted as promotion for the AllFam Kickstarter.  Every $300 raised will get another 1000 words posted.

Start at Part One!

 

( It's been less than twelve hours and we're already three-fourths funded. Y'ALL ARE ON FIRE )
--to be continued in Part Three