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A Cleanwhiteroom Archive

I’m not CWR. I’m not Elementals. I’m just a silly lil fan having a silly lil time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Archive Update December 17, 2023: The last time I updated this, the news was that early chapters of FoD were getting rewritten - lmfao, over a year later I am BACK and FoD rewrites are done and dusted! She’s LIVE and!?!! Posted to CWR’s Ao3?!!! Go! Give kudos and be merry!!

If you’re just finding this years after reading your last CWR story and confused about what the heck is going on, here’s some recent(ish) updates:

- CWR and elementals have websites again! They are 1. cleanwhiteroom.net (has copies of the original stories once available on Ao3) 2. cleanwhiteroom.blogspot.com (has stories that are in the process of being re-written) 3. CWR’s AO3 (for completed stories) 4. readbyelementals.net (for completed podfic chapters) 5. The Work Feed (for elementals’ in-progress audio for all stories). Come, shed a manly tear with me in celebration of this feast of media before us.

- What do you mean stories being reworked? Well friend, you may remember way back when that CWR wrote stories in the Stargate universe (ha) called Force Over Distance, Mathématique, and Ad Noctum, aka the Multiverse Triptych. CWR has been revisiting them and re-writing them. For what purpose you ask? Only time will tell (but I have my theories 😈). FOD is done and has been posted to AO3, and Maths and AdNo are getting reworked and presumably, eventually, (hopefully, prayerfully) finished.

- There is a sequel to Designations Congruent with Things, CWR’s Pacific Rim Fic (😭), released in early 2021. It’s called Aftermath. It will melt your face off. Go read it immediately.

- The Work Feed is elementals’ RSS feed of in-progress audio drafts for various chapters of the Multiverse Triptych, so you can listen to chapters before they’re nailed down into final versions. It’s pure delight, go listen to elementals giggle up a storm and/or burst out laughing in the middle of reading, I promise you it is a trip. 🥹 I’ve reblogged a link to the feed, but it’s also available on the blogspot in the latest updates post.

- Elementals has posted 2 new chapters of the podfic for DCWT, ch 20 and 21!! 😭😭🥺😭😭

- a few small bits and bobs have been saved to the archive, but all new/reworked chapters from the blogspot have not- you’ll have to get them straight from the source :)

CWR.net has copies of all the original versions of these stories, but just in case I’m still maintaining my hoard of CWR media. This includes both the originals as well as some fun extras:

-Fic: 

Circuit (OG first chapter of the whole Triptych)

Force Over Distance (Triptych part 1 - start here)

Beyond Perception (bonus chapter 51 1/2 of FoD, written by elementals!)

Raptor (FoD side quest)

Mathématique (Triptych the second - can be read before or after Ad Noctum)

Ad Noctum (Triptych the third - see above)

Extras (primarily one-shots and meta from the Multiverse Triptych)

Designations Congruent with Things (the Pacific Rim Fic)

Aftermath (half prequel all Sequel to DCwT)

Out of Many Scattered Things (DCwT prequel one-shots)

Extras (DCwT one-shots salvaged from CWR’s old tumblr)

-Audio: full resolution, from Elementals’ mouth to your lucky ears.

Force Over Distance

Beyond Perception

Raptor

Designations Congruent with Things

The Blue Guitar

Lightcap as List

Like the Twist of a Plot

- Existing discography of the Superconducting Supercolliders, Newt Geiszler’s fictional band turned real. Albums:

Superconduction

Supercollision

Dreaming Correctly

Supercos Unplugged

Extras

Supercos Discography, including Chords and Lyrics

(a note about Supercos - please do not contact the original musicians!)

- Fan Works: This was always the raddest part for me, though I suck at maintaining this section more than any other. If you have engaged with CWR’s work in any way- drawings, covers, mixes, you name it! - I would love to host a copy here, just send it my way. If your work is here and you want it taken down, just shoot me a message I’ll get on it ASAP.

Art

Fanmixes

Covers (audio + video)

Various and sundry

As always, let me know if something isn’t working link-wise, or if you have something to add!

And, as always, my eternal (eternal) thanks to CWR and Elementals. CWR, go take your well deserved nap dude. ❤️

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Raise your hand if you’re DESPERATE TO KNOW HOW HERMANN GOT NEWT OUT OF HONG KONG.

CWR’s blog here

PLEASE come yell with me when you’re done.

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Update THERE’S TWO OF THEM

The writing blog of cleanwhiteroom (CWR). The Multiverse Triptych: Force Over Distance, Mathématique, Ad Noctum. Designations Congruent with

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Raise your hand if you’re DESPERATE TO KNOW HOW HERMANN GOT NEWT OUT OF HONG KONG.

CWR’s blog here

PLEASE come yell with me when you’re done.

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characters mentioned throughout designations congruent with things, aftermath, and out of many scattered things

+ blue guitar with actual axes (but by speaker not by mention)

(counting surnames for particular characters) part of the data analysis i'm running on the series for fun. i really like these, i think they look really cool and you can interpret them decently enough (eg dcwt is 95% just newt and hermann). not 100% set on the colours used but not really sure which i would change to make it look better. not set on the characters chosen either, but both those things are easy to change and rerun my program with if anyone has suggestions!

[cryskir]

also found these notes for an unfinished storyboard for FoD (the part where Rush locks himself in Young's bathroom)

I love drawing scenes where characters are just talking

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I was cleaning out old files and found a bunch of old FoD drawings I don't think I ever posted

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DCWT UNIVERSE REFOMAT

ok so this has been a passion project and a labor of love that i've been working on pretty much since immediately after reading descon for the first time.

I am so happy to share: Designations Congruent with Things, Out of Many Scattered Things, Aftermath and the collected oneshot formatted in the style of a traditionally published book!!!

Included in this google drive are epubs, pdfs and the word documents for each fic, in case anyone else would like to print and handbind them. (This is what I originally started formatting them for)

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hello check the blog cwr is seems to be back to pacrim universe too

Please I am so fragile do not play with my heart 👀🥺

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LMAO WAIT. WAIT I DIDNT CATCH THIS THE FIRST TIME. WAIT. WAIT PLEASE.

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Just thinking thoughts out here in ghost land ignore me but if Maths and DCWT no longer occur on the same brane 👀 then WHAT pray tell is the story of the Young and Rush who so clearly end up together at Berkeley in the DCWT universe? Literally begging for the cliff notes on them and/or headcanons cuz I have SO many ideas

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hello check the blog cwr is seems to be back to pacrim universe too

Please I am so fragile do not play with my heart 👀🥺

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My magnum opus, the jewel of my Binderary round-up, the result of four months of hard work (that is to say, a lot of force applied over distance), the project affectionately known as The Motherfuckers (because it was rather unclear if I was going to finish these books or if they were going to be the end of me).

Force over Distance by cleanwhiteroom. It is currently also on AO3.

I was first introduced to this incredible story by a dear friend, who first sold me on actually watching SGU, and then said that they remember this fic since like 2011, which is always a promising sign. I went digging and found out I was in luck - the story was being rewritten and reuploaded on the author's blog. The next two weeks are described by the same friend as "one of the scariest moments in our cohabitation" as I'd spent literally every waking moment injecting the story directly into my eyeballs, and let me tell you, I'd not been doing a lot of sleeping at that time.

Then I gathered up my courage and reached out to CWR re: my burning desire to bind this story. And the rest, well. Let's dig into it, shall we?

This was my first time typesetting 540k words. Considering I tend to prefer larger font sizes for increased legibility, it was immediately obvious that this was going to be a multivolume project. I settled on three, as it's the relationship between three individuals that forms the core of the story.

I also knew I wanted to keep the typeset in black and white, but play around with light and dark a lot. So I did. One of the first design idea I actually had was the way I wanted to handle projected speech. Mental link between Young, Rush and Destiny is THE most vital part of the story, and I wanted to make it immediatly obvious. I also wanted to be able to take one glance at the page and tell how much of the action is actually just two guys staring each other down :) Hence the blackout effect of thoughts being represented as light over darkness.

I also wanted to preserve as much of my reading experience as possible. So I saved all the chapter quotes/summaries in the TOC, and hid the chapter content warnings in the frame of the gate that marks the beginning of each chapter. For most of the chapter the warnings stay the same, so after a while you stop really noticing them, but then you open a new chapter and see that the familiar shape of the words has changed, and get this UH-OH feeling. Which, I think is very much how it works in my design, because when the warnings change there's usually another line of text added.

For flashbacks and dream sequences I switched from italics to a lighter shade of gray. I woudn't say it's more legible per say, but it's in keeping with the overall light/dark theme.

There are instances of people using handwritten notes in the story. I collected more than a dozen of assorted handwriting fonts, with each character having their own "handwriting". So when, for example, someone begins writing in someone else's hand, you immediately know it.

The most insane, labor-intensive part of the typeset, however, was the way I decided to handle the Ancient translations. CWR's gone through the trouble of setting up hover-to-discover for it, which gives you a very different reading experience than, say, having the translations in the endnotes. So, naturally, I said to myself that I want to replicate that, and footnotes just won't do the trick. So. Every instance of Ancient in the text has an underlay of light gray Ancient script. And an OVERLAY of paper vellum with the translation printed in blue. Now, not to toot my own horn too much, but if looks SICK AS FUCK. You also MAYBE SHOULD NOT LIVE LIKE THIS. For the two copies of this work I had to cut up 10 sheets of vellum into strips, and then spent from 20 minutes to an hour per volume tipping the strips in their proper places. I then had to wear kinetic tape on both my hands to help with the joint pain. (It was worth it.)

Now for the title spread. It is also paper vellum that you see as soon as you turn the first page (the half-title), and see it covering the title of the book and author's name. And then you turn it. And the shields sing the matter wave of Destiny through the black. And yeah, I think that's very, very clever of me, actually.

Then, of course, were the endpapers. All 12 of them are unique abstract paintings done on black cardstock by hand with brush pens and correction tape, I scanned a sample of each set for posterity. All of them are my interpretations of characters' midscapes. For volume 1 I went with the fire wind of Rush's thoughts. Volume 2 was for Young, and I went for the reverse blackout poetry effect (because for all the mental talking they do, the unprojected thoughts are opaque to their counterparts) and all the loops, hairpins and blocks he does. Volume 3 is for the combination - Rush's fire wind, changing its color to match the circuitry pattern of Destiny's AI.

The rest, in comparison, is easy. All volumes are stitched with 3 strands of embroidery floss, a combination of black, blue and silvery-gray. The French double-core endbands are sewn in the same color scheme (though with a different shade of blue and gray switched for white for added contrast). The edges are painted and splattered to look like space.

The covers feature my (signature at this point, I guess) half-cloth river pattern, with the base being dark blue linen and the printed parts being Spitzer telescope images of the W51 star forge, Jack-O'-Lantern Nebula and the Eagle Nebula (courtesy of NASA), waxed by hand for added sheen. The spines are foiled in silver with a foil quill.

Each set is 5 pound of solid hand-crafted book, with one set being my personal copy, and the other sent as a gift to the author.

And that's it, folks! This has been an incredible project to work on, and I'm very proud of what I achieved with it.

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🚨🚨 Mathématique Chapter 67 posted!!! WEEWOO!!! 🚨🚨

Someone reminded me it’s been a year and a half since Maths last updated so I am 🥹 admittedly 🥲 excited 😭🤯🥳

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Also 👀 new math approaches

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Just thinking thoughts out here in ghost land ignore me but if Maths and DCWT no longer occur on the same brane 👀 then WHAT pray tell is the story of the Young and Rush who so clearly end up together at Berkeley in the DCWT universe? Literally begging for the cliff notes on them and/or headcanons cuz I have SO many ideas

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540,000 words later… the entirety of FOD appears to have now been posted to AO3 🤩🥹 nature is healing

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🚨FOD IS DONE AND HAS BEEN POSTED TO AO3🚨

93 chapters later and shock of all shocks, FOD is not only complete on CWR’s blog spot but has been posted to AO3! Go! Give Kudos!!! FRABJOUS DAY!!!

From the desk of CWR (aka the blogspot):

Writing:

Does anyone have glue? I need it for my sanity. [AKA the FoD rewrite is done.]

Latest Releases:

Text: FoD 93 [Dreams of the Multiverse]

Locked audio: FoD7 [Physical Chemistry]

Forecast:

Text: I caaaaaan't [Check back later.]

Audio: Probably FoD11

Current Vibe:

Oh god I need a nap.

[picnokinesis]

For all of those who haven't been on the blogspot for the last year or so - cleanwhiteroom is back and as of today POSTING ON AO3 AGAIN!!

Force Over Distance has been undergoing an overhaul and it has quite extensive edits, as has Math and Ad Noctum, so....basically make sure that you reread it hahaha! The Multiverse Triptych is back!!

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