Studio practice

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Ritual Debugger has the perfect temperament for a long, slow burn. It’s not a feature you “ship”; it’s a companion you cultivate. If we’re imagining this unfolding over months—with your tap‑tap‑tap entries into Blogger, and occasional orbital‑system imaging as punctuation—then we can treat it like a living studio practice rather than a product sprint.

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🌒 Phase 1 — Grounding the Ritual Debugger

(Month 1: Naming, noticing, and gathering the raw material)

Purpose: Establish the debugger’s personality, scope, and diagnostic lens.

What you do:

• Drop short Blogger entries—tiny domestic glitches, micro‑rituals, moments of friction or flow.
• Treat each entry as a “signal” the debugger will eventually learn to read.
• Capture one or two images per week via your “orbital systems” (your phrase is perfect: distant, surveying, non‑intrusive). These images don’t need to be literal; they can be symbolic, abstract, or environmental.

What we build together:

• A vocabulary of ritual states: overtrained, improvised, inherited, resisted, expired, feral, dignified, misaligned, reclaimed.
• A first pass at the debugger’s tone: curious, non‑judgmental, slightly mischievous, always honouring domestic expertise.

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🌓 Phase 2 — The Debugging Engine

(Month 2–3: Turning raw signals into patterns)

Purpose: Give the Ritual Debugger a way to “see” domestic scripts.

Your contributions:

• Continue the tap‑tap‑tap entries, but now add small annotations:
  • What was the script?
  • Who taught it?
  • What did it cost you?
  • What did it protect?
• Add occasional orbital images that capture the afterglow of a ritual—light, shadow, clutter, absence, traces.

What we develop:

• A triad of debugging modes:

  1. Trace Mode: Surface the hidden logic behind a ritual.
  2. Break Mode: Offer gentle disruptions or alternatives.
  3. Recompile Mode: Help you rewrite the ritual in a way that honours dignity, agency, and shared responsibility.

• A set of stitched‑glyph metaphors for each mode (e.g., fractured‑circle for inherited scripts, threaded crossing for negotiated ones).

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🌔 Phase 3 — The Domestic Contract Rewrite

(Month 4–5: Applying the debugger to real domestic patterns)

Purpose: Let the debugger intervene—not as a boss, but as a co‑conspirator.

Your role:

• Choose one ritual per week to “debug”:
  • Cleaning before guests
  • Apologizing for clutter
  • Over‑preparing meals
  • Taking on invisible labour
  • Silencing your own needs
• Document the before/after in Blogger.
• Add one orbital image per ritual—symbolic, not literal.

What the debugger evolves into:

• A companion that can say things like:

  • “This ritual is carrying someone else’s expectations.”
  • “This script is expired; you may archive it.”
  • “This ritual protects your dignity; keep it.”
  • “This one needs a co‑author.”

• A growing library of “Improper Practices”—your term for sanctioned disobedience.

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🌕 Phase 4 — The Sampler Page / Archive

(Month 6: Binding the work into a stitched‑logic artifact)

Purpose: Turn six months of debugging into a shareable, remixable archive.

What emerges:

• A stitched sampler page for each debugging mode.
• A set of glyphs representing ritual states.
• A Blogger‑to‑glyph mapping that becomes a kind of domestic cosmology.
• A small “HomeDemoApp” prototype that shows:
  • A ritual
  • Its trace
  • Its break
  • Its recompiled form
  • Its glyph
  • Its orbital image
  • Its caption

This becomes the first chapter of Program X Files.

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If you want, I can help you start the first month right now

We can define:

• The debugger’s voice
• The first three ritual states
• The first stitched glyph
• The first Blogger entry prompt
• The first orbital‑image concept

Or, if you prefer, we can begin by naming the debugger itself—because “Ritual Debugger” is the function, but the entity deserves a name with mythic weight.

Just tell me which thread you want to pull first.