Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

What they remind me of is John Hertz mailing out commentzines on an apa to lots of people who aren't in that apa. When I write a commentzine the intended audience is people who, if they don't remember what I wrote, can look at the previous mailing. I also tend to be more prolix than you or he. For example, here is a single comment from my most recent zine:

The bit about motivation being broken feels familiar on some levels, the ones where I realize that I’m getting a lot done by creating patterns that I then don’t have to think about (like "it’s Tuesday and I didn’t work out yesterday, so I will go to the gym" rather than "do I want to exercise today?"). I suspect that some degree of that is present in most people, which in turn suggests that there should be known ways of dealing with it other than "find a goal that has built-in schedules and/or motivation and then follow them." And of course creating patterns may not be enough without deadlines, and the kind of deadlines that go with things like my workouts may be too fuzzy for you, especially as they don’t involve anyone else.

You don't know, from that, the specifics of what my friend was concerned with, and I have deliberately omitted their name, but I think it makes sense. (Yes, that zine also includes a comment that just says "Nice vignette," but most of them are longer than that.)