diff --git a/.loom/event-log.md b/.loom/event-log.md
index fd1e445..9e95acc 100644
--- a/.loom/event-log.md
+++ b/.loom/event-log.md
@@ -171,3 +171,20 @@ thing preventing that, which is thin.*
 day.* **Documenting a format that does not exist yet is the same mistake as
 publishing into a repository nobody can read** — *it passes every check available
 to the writer.*
+
+---
+
+## Declined: keeping the venue section
+
+**`bedrock` publishes `venues.md` now**, *so this document's four-line section had
+become the second saying of a rule owned elsewhere.*
+
+**Kept: the one sentence that is genuinely about externals** — *put a choice where
+reconciliation will look for it.* **That is a claim about `.usages.md`**, *which is
+this document's, and it happens to be the sentence that tells you when **not** to
+write a venue file.*
+
+*Everything else went, including the "things you cannot fetch" framing.* **That
+heading was wrong and had been since it was written:** *a venue is not defined by
+being unfetchable — it is defined by your having decided something.* **Kafka's
+documentation is extremely fetchable.**
diff --git a/.loom/published/externals.md b/.loom/published/externals.md
index 50673cc..772c67f 100644
--- a/.loom/published/externals.md
+++ b/.loom/published/externals.md
@@ -147,13 +147,16 @@ do; a closed gap is what you needed and got.*
 **The new copy replaces the old pair wholesale.** *There is no merging a document
 you do not own.*
 
-## Venues, for things you cannot fetch
+## A choice about something you adopted does not go in a venue file
 
-**`.loom/venues/<name>.md`** — *Kafka, React, HTTP.* **Choices we made about
-something with no document to hang them on.**
+**Put a choice where reconciliation will look for it.** *When the thing you
+decided about publishes a document you hold a copy of, the choice belongs in the
+`.usages.md` beside that copy* — **because that is the file somebody opens when
+the document moves.**
 
-*If there is a document, hang it there instead: **put a choice where
-reconciliation will look for it.***
+*Venues are for what is left: things that constrain you without publishing
+anything you could adopt.* **See
+[venues](https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/venues.md).**
 
 ## Gaps that belong to nobody