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Whoa. It's been quite a while, very few followers that I have. Hello!
First, let's get the Big One out of the way: Rapture The Book is out, book 1 of 2. You can read it online for free through that link, or you can buy a physical copy via Amazon (given in that link). Book 2 (hencetoforthwith called "Disc 2" because Rapture likes to lampshade all the stuff it emulates) will come 2017. Book/Disc 1 is The Cockroach Metamorphosis, contains the first three acts of the original story (final draft) and a very fragmented portion of the sequel, all thrown together in a controlled experimental haze of excess and anxiety. Book/Disc 2 will be put the sun down, containing the second half of everything, where all fall down. You'll try to be prepared for it. You will find that I have been hiding many plot things from my audience all this time, and put the sun down will be where I finally reveal them.
Second, surprisingly, Rapture wasn't the first book I made this year. Here's Topography Genera, you can read its obsolete second draft online or you can buy the book (which also comes with short stories!). It is cheaper and considerably smaller than Rapture, as Genera is just a novella. But it's a dense one. A tale of misdirection and melancholy, this book is a sort of cipher for some of the denser things Rapture will cover. It was deliberately made to be its opposition, in size and in format and in style and in story.
Third, I must have seen Homestuck's ending upwards of fifty times. If you read Homestuck but haven't yet caught up to the ending, especially if you've heard some nonsense about it being thrown-together or an anticlimax or otherwise "sucking," I highly recommend following through. Acts 6 and 7 are self-aware beasts that deconstruct all that had come before and.. well, I think they're made much more for the archival reading experience. You'll know you're in heaven when it starts talking about cherubs. What I'm trying to say here is I'm an evangelist now, I guess. An evangelist for internet fiction.
I'm working with RND Media more, going up to London periodically to work on secret projects (most of which you will never see and are secret only because they're business dealings). If ever that turns into something I can share, I will.
Something I can share, though, is this page right here. Been working on that with Eric for a couple years now. Still working on it. The Dead Fear Group is an important philosophical thing, and the only reason I don't speak more openly about it is because its philosophies are closely linked to something I've been studying all my life. You could say I'm trying to summon EAT into reality, but that sounds sensationalist and crazy. Sounds crazy. Just sounds. <3 Doesn't make it any less true.
Uh god what else have I been doing. Some stuff that's secret, some stuff that's not but that I can't remember. Look, just peruse this page if you want a full list of stuff.
Finally, I end this odd update with a reaffirmation that Hexillith is still love.
See you in, like, another year!
First, let's get the Big One out of the way: Rapture The Book is out, book 1 of 2. You can read it online for free through that link, or you can buy a physical copy via Amazon (given in that link). Book 2 (hencetoforthwith called "Disc 2" because Rapture likes to lampshade all the stuff it emulates) will come 2017. Book/Disc 1 is The Cockroach Metamorphosis, contains the first three acts of the original story (final draft) and a very fragmented portion of the sequel, all thrown together in a controlled experimental haze of excess and anxiety. Book/Disc 2 will be put the sun down, containing the second half of everything, where all fall down. You'll try to be prepared for it. You will find that I have been hiding many plot things from my audience all this time, and put the sun down will be where I finally reveal them.
Second, surprisingly, Rapture wasn't the first book I made this year. Here's Topography Genera, you can read its obsolete second draft online or you can buy the book (which also comes with short stories!). It is cheaper and considerably smaller than Rapture, as Genera is just a novella. But it's a dense one. A tale of misdirection and melancholy, this book is a sort of cipher for some of the denser things Rapture will cover. It was deliberately made to be its opposition, in size and in format and in style and in story.
Third, I must have seen Homestuck's ending upwards of fifty times. If you read Homestuck but haven't yet caught up to the ending, especially if you've heard some nonsense about it being thrown-together or an anticlimax or otherwise "sucking," I highly recommend following through. Acts 6 and 7 are self-aware beasts that deconstruct all that had come before and.. well, I think they're made much more for the archival reading experience. You'll know you're in heaven when it starts talking about cherubs. What I'm trying to say here is I'm an evangelist now, I guess. An evangelist for internet fiction.
I'm working with RND Media more, going up to London periodically to work on secret projects (most of which you will never see and are secret only because they're business dealings). If ever that turns into something I can share, I will.
Something I can share, though, is this page right here. Been working on that with Eric for a couple years now. Still working on it. The Dead Fear Group is an important philosophical thing, and the only reason I don't speak more openly about it is because its philosophies are closely linked to something I've been studying all my life. You could say I'm trying to summon EAT into reality, but that sounds sensationalist and crazy. Sounds crazy. Just sounds. <3 Doesn't make it any less true.
Uh god what else have I been doing. Some stuff that's secret, some stuff that's not but that I can't remember. Look, just peruse this page if you want a full list of stuff.
Finally, I end this odd update with a reaffirmation that Hexillith is still love.
See you in, like, another year!
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Fab Feb
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Hi, deviantArt. Mad Men was a perfect TV show. Maybe even better than The Sopranos. Also I got a signed copy of Danielewski's Only Revolutions. By accident. For dirt cheap. And during Christmas I bought every Radiohead album and all the Brand New and Death Grips albums I didn't already have and all remaining Coldplay albums too. I also got some games: Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine by Tomorrow Corp (best developers, best games), Black Mesa (also best game by best developers), Grim Fandango: Remastered (cannot play it on this machine but at least I have it), and The Dream Machine (LITERAL BEST GAME. SERIOUSLY. YOU WOULD NOT REGRET PLAYING IT). Aaaaand my uncles bought us fucking Rock Band 4. The Band-In-A-Box version. For Xbox One (so I've exported all my songs from the 360). I am.. I am human again. ;w; Fucking 5-star'd "Metropolis." I can pass "The Coma Machine." "Heir Apparent" is amazing. "Dream Genie" is insane. I have rediscovered the joys that are Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? and Rust in Peace. I love.
Here is The Mythology of Empathy. It is a music album, a midi concept album actually, by Eric and myself. The concept is looking at one scene from many different angles. It also has the metaconcept of "It's a Sunsetters album, who are a fictional band." It was a lot of fun to write. And the album art is by Hexillith.
...Hexillith is love.
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Hi, deviantArt. Mad Men was a perfect TV show. Maybe even better than The Sopranos. Also I got a signed copy of Danielewski's Only Revolutions. By accident. For dirt cheap. And during Christmas I bought every Radiohead album and all the Brand New and Death Grips albums I didn't already have and all remaining Coldplay albums too. I also got some games: Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine by Tomorrow Corp (best developers, best games), Black Mesa (also best game by best developers), Grim Fandango: Remastered (cannot play it on this machine but at least I have it), and The Dream Machine (LITERAL BEST GAME. SERIOUSLY. YOU WOULD NOT REGRET PLAYING IT). Aaaaand my uncles bought us fucking Rock Band 4. The Band-In-A-Box version. For Xbox One (so I've exported all my songs from the 360). I am.. I am human again. ;w; Fucking 5-star'd "Metropolis." I can pass "The Coma Machine." "Heir Apparent" is amazing. "Dream Genie" is insane. I have rediscovered the joys that are Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? and Rust in Peace. I love.
Here is The Mythology of Empathy. It is a music album, a midi concept album actually, by Eric and myself. The concept is looking at one scene from many different angles. It also has the metaconcept of "It's a Sunsetters album, who are a fictional band." It was a lot of fun to write. And the album art is by Hexillith.
...Hexillith is love.
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Things still exist?
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This summer has gone from exciting and creative to dull and mind-numbing. The fall hasn't been much better. I've read some more books, at least. Read The Name of the Rose. And the six Scott Pilgrim comics. And also Ghost World, which may be my favourite comic now. Oh, and The Familiar. Volume 2 came out recently and I loved it even more than the first volume. Danielewski is an artistic genius, and I am so happy that there's projected to be another 25 of these things.
I also watched through The Sopranos. Got the box set. I loved it. That was quality television, holy wow. And I got The Beginner's Guide, which is the newest game by the creator of The Stanley Parable. While that one was a comedic abstract marvel, this one is much more.. melancholy, metafictional, a social commentary of sorts. Fucking brilliant.
Writing-wise, I've been editing Rapture yet again. This time incorporating The Cockroach Metamorphosis into the original story. I think it reads a lot better this way. Much of that story depended on the logs' context anyway. You'll get to see that in a big way soon enough. I've also rebooted PLAN 31: RISE OF MCFEAR, this time with an actual plot all planned out, and even a new metanarrative. It's a lot of fun. It has the slender man as a defense attorney, and a different slender man as an incompetent detective. Lots of budding mysteries. Lots of absurd characters sharing philosophical dialogue in nonsensical contexts. Then there's also These Violent Delights, which is the long-awaited sequel to my masterpiece Fearblog of Fear, Dreams and Sleep and Fear. Billy Everyblogger is reborn as noblogger, proxy of The Feared One, and he has much pretentious angst to dole out by the dollop. I also wrote Nobody anymore, never again, which is a visual piece in blog form expressing some of my more.. depressing emotions. Oh yeah, and Topography Genera is complete now. Every bit of it. All done. Ready for reading. Viceking's Graab is still a thing, by the way. A complete blog labyrinth revolving around some bottled up rage and solipsistic grief, presented as an interactive mystery and art exhibit. Actually one of the best things I've ever made.
..really, I'm proud of everything there.
And that's pretty much all that's happened in my life. I read and I write. That's it. I guess. I've definitely been sad.
I also watched through The Sopranos. Got the box set. I loved it. That was quality television, holy wow. And I got The Beginner's Guide, which is the newest game by the creator of The Stanley Parable. While that one was a comedic abstract marvel, this one is much more.. melancholy, metafictional, a social commentary of sorts. Fucking brilliant.
Writing-wise, I've been editing Rapture yet again. This time incorporating The Cockroach Metamorphosis into the original story. I think it reads a lot better this way. Much of that story depended on the logs' context anyway. You'll get to see that in a big way soon enough. I've also rebooted PLAN 31: RISE OF MCFEAR, this time with an actual plot all planned out, and even a new metanarrative. It's a lot of fun. It has the slender man as a defense attorney, and a different slender man as an incompetent detective. Lots of budding mysteries. Lots of absurd characters sharing philosophical dialogue in nonsensical contexts. Then there's also These Violent Delights, which is the long-awaited sequel to my masterpiece Fearblog of Fear, Dreams and Sleep and Fear. Billy Everyblogger is reborn as noblogger, proxy of The Feared One, and he has much pretentious angst to dole out by the dollop. I also wrote Nobody anymore, never again, which is a visual piece in blog form expressing some of my more.. depressing emotions. Oh yeah, and Topography Genera is complete now. Every bit of it. All done. Ready for reading. Viceking's Graab is still a thing, by the way. A complete blog labyrinth revolving around some bottled up rage and solipsistic grief, presented as an interactive mystery and art exhibit. Actually one of the best things I've ever made.
..really, I'm proud of everything there.
And that's pretty much all that's happened in my life. I read and I write. That's it. I guess. I've definitely been sad.
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Pyromind of the Ancients
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Here is Viceking's Graab, my newest work. It is complete, after seven months of periodic and persistent writing, planning, coordinating, reflecting, structuring, and editing. It is whole. It is the ultimate blog. More than a blog, it is an entire blogosphere of its own.
Back in early January, I had written new posts for Topography Genera (my big multi-blog project) and was in the process of putting them up onto their respective blogs when I realized I was really bored of this whole "conventional blogging" thing, where everything is spelled out to the viewer, where narratives and emotional arcs are one and the same, where blogs are separate arcs, where the primary focus is literature. So I thought to myself, "If I could make a blog that was anything I wanted, what would it be?" I thought of The Archangel, a blog Eric Taylor and I made in December (which consists solely of a single post: "Batman punches god," with a picture of the Green Lantern), and its many sequels (which were similar in format). I thought of how that was a more engaging kind of blog for me. Creating that kind of blog is less like writing a story and more like designing a picture. I wanted to do more like that, only with the substance and scope of something like Genera, something like Rapture. I did not want to write a book this time. I wanted to make something that could only exist on the internet.
The subject matter came surprisingly quickly. The reader is lost in a pyramid, a tomb, a labyrinth. There is someone buried in the centre. I knew who was buried there before I even came up with the idea of a maze. The presentation was, at first, entirely inspired by Finnegans Wake (and alliterator's the garden of forking paths). But steadily it grew and grew and grew and grew. The maze turned into a skeleton. The symbolism breathed, ebbed, turned into something else. The form of the Graab dictated its philosophy, which dictated its structure, and then finally its content-- which, in turn, dictated its form.
I just. God.
Regarding its content, there's a lot of grief to it and a lot of solitude and exile. Modernity exiles identity from reality, in turn calls reality into question. Everything usurps the next. In with the old, out with the new. Words are our tomb, though "tomb" is just a word. The central concept that Viceking's Graab explores is the unknown; this was deliberate from the beginning and means many different things. It's a paradox blog. A pyramid blog, a Blog Of The Dead.
I could not be more content with it.
Here is Viceking's Graab, my newest work. It is complete, after seven months of periodic and persistent writing, planning, coordinating, reflecting, structuring, and editing. It is whole. It is the ultimate blog. More than a blog, it is an entire blogosphere of its own.
Back in early January, I had written new posts for Topography Genera (my big multi-blog project) and was in the process of putting them up onto their respective blogs when I realized I was really bored of this whole "conventional blogging" thing, where everything is spelled out to the viewer, where narratives and emotional arcs are one and the same, where blogs are separate arcs, where the primary focus is literature. So I thought to myself, "If I could make a blog that was anything I wanted, what would it be?" I thought of The Archangel, a blog Eric Taylor and I made in December (which consists solely of a single post: "Batman punches god," with a picture of the Green Lantern), and its many sequels (which were similar in format). I thought of how that was a more engaging kind of blog for me. Creating that kind of blog is less like writing a story and more like designing a picture. I wanted to do more like that, only with the substance and scope of something like Genera, something like Rapture. I did not want to write a book this time. I wanted to make something that could only exist on the internet.
The subject matter came surprisingly quickly. The reader is lost in a pyramid, a tomb, a labyrinth. There is someone buried in the centre. I knew who was buried there before I even came up with the idea of a maze. The presentation was, at first, entirely inspired by Finnegans Wake (and alliterator's the garden of forking paths). But steadily it grew and grew and grew and grew. The maze turned into a skeleton. The symbolism breathed, ebbed, turned into something else. The form of the Graab dictated its philosophy, which dictated its structure, and then finally its content-- which, in turn, dictated its form.
I just. God.
Regarding its content, there's a lot of grief to it and a lot of solitude and exile. Modernity exiles identity from reality, in turn calls reality into question. Everything usurps the next. In with the old, out with the new. Words are our tomb, though "tomb" is just a word. The central concept that Viceking's Graab explores is the unknown; this was deliberate from the beginning and means many different things. It's a paradox blog. A pyramid blog, a Blog Of The Dead.
I could not be more content with it.
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Graab of the Viceking
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So I have a tablet now. It's mostly so I can whip up little things that might accentuate my stories without having to bother my lovely artist friends. Somehow it took me a month and a half to realize I can put the things I draw on deviantArt.
Did I mention that I'm done reading Finnegans Wake? Or, okay, I finished one readthrough. I'm on my second. But I'm also now reading The Lord of the Rings, Don Quixote, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ...I really want to buy more copies of the Wake, man. I want the Faber and Faber 1960 hardback. It's beautiful. And red. It'd look nice with my big blue hardback Ulysses (which is an illustrated facsimile of the second edition, holy wow!).
The Fear Mythos is back on the rise. Pr-probably. We now have a chronological list of all Fearblogs (and a separate list for vlogs!), and we have a manifesto, and we have all these new blogs, and a new community... oh, and I'm inching Topography Genera towards its ending! Didn't think that'd ever happen. Still need to get back to Rapture. And to Nine is God. Instead my main Fear focus nowadays is on a SECRET PROJECT! Hohohoh, how many of those have I had? Well, this one uses the chronological list of Fearblogs in order to do something strange. Something that has never been done before in our mythos, though its formatting has (but not that extensively). Picture alliterator mixed with secretcity and Finnegans Wake, with ample dashes of Fear history, wrapped up in a bow of Archangard and Magreat. That is all I'll say. I don't want to hype it up publicly because 1) this will be so cool to just drop on people out of nowhere, and 2) IF IT TURNS OUT I GIVE UP ON THIS PROJECT I DON'T WANT TO LET PEOPLE DOWN.
..oh. I can also say the name of this project: Viceking's Graab. Brush up on your Joyce, look up the Mutt and Jute dialogue, hopefully you'll be able to get the significance.
BUT YEAH. TABLET. ART. There's a lot of that up now. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it going with more?
Did I mention that I'm done reading Finnegans Wake? Or, okay, I finished one readthrough. I'm on my second. But I'm also now reading The Lord of the Rings, Don Quixote, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ...I really want to buy more copies of the Wake, man. I want the Faber and Faber 1960 hardback. It's beautiful. And red. It'd look nice with my big blue hardback Ulysses (which is an illustrated facsimile of the second edition, holy wow!).
The Fear Mythos is back on the rise. Pr-probably. We now have a chronological list of all Fearblogs (and a separate list for vlogs!), and we have a manifesto, and we have all these new blogs, and a new community... oh, and I'm inching Topography Genera towards its ending! Didn't think that'd ever happen. Still need to get back to Rapture. And to Nine is God. Instead my main Fear focus nowadays is on a SECRET PROJECT! Hohohoh, how many of those have I had? Well, this one uses the chronological list of Fearblogs in order to do something strange. Something that has never been done before in our mythos, though its formatting has (but not that extensively). Picture alliterator mixed with secretcity and Finnegans Wake, with ample dashes of Fear history, wrapped up in a bow of Archangard and Magreat. That is all I'll say. I don't want to hype it up publicly because 1) this will be so cool to just drop on people out of nowhere, and 2) IF IT TURNS OUT I GIVE UP ON THIS PROJECT I DON'T WANT TO LET PEOPLE DOWN.
..oh. I can also say the name of this project: Viceking's Graab. Brush up on your Joyce, look up the Mutt and Jute dialogue, hopefully you'll be able to get the significance.
BUT YEAH. TABLET. ART. There's a lot of that up now. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it going with more?
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