#maintenance & disassembly (reblogging robot erotica), #robot stuff (reblogging robot art), #my recs (reblogging things people should check out)
#search rule (if i look for a post and find it, i reblog it)
lately i've been working on Vermin Cathexis, an original setting centered on insect vampire hiveminds and a frankly egregiously complicated magic system.
the last big thing i worked on was Hostile Takeover, a longform murder drones fanfic about a lesbian killer robot torn between her directives and her own needs.
my most extensive work is the writings that comprise Black Nerve, a dark fantasy setting where giant insects wield magic that dissolves life and matter, mutant bat-blood and of course esoteric fungi. there's a couple of novels and LOT of lore posts
i have a website which is probably the best place to see all of my stuff:
A website for writings, drawings, and compositions.
but to get a taste of what you can find on that site, keep reading
most people are probably following me for my murder drones stuff.
as mentioned, i write the critically acclaimed J/Uzi fic, Hostile Takeover:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
it's a beyond-novel-length enemies to lovers slowburn, and distinguishes itself by pulling it all off without heavy alteration to canon characterization.
most people are probably put off by the tagged ship, but i've received numerous comments to the effect of "i never liked this ship" or "i didn't think it could be done" followed by "but you somehow pulled it off".
give it a shot!
besides that, i've read a lot of murder drones fanfic, and maintain a page on my website dedicated to indexing and reviewing fics that i'd recommend
Curating the best fanfics for the best web series about angsty murderbots.
several of the people following me are writers, who may be interested in know that i've written several essays on the craft of writing. people tend to find them pretty insightful!
i've written many stories other than Hostile Takeover. you can find them on my site; there's too many to list, but in general, i write nonhuman character near-exclusively. (my friends were only so surprised when i became obsessed with murder drones)
still, HT is my most successful work for a reason, and i'm not certain fans of that will enjoy my earlier writing; i have reservations about recommending most of them. A Chimerical Hope is still cool, i think, though its issues are undeniable
the majority of my site is dedicated its overarching setting: Black Nerve, a dark fantasy world of giant sapient insect ninjas and corrupting fungus and gruesome mutagenic blood magic. there's so much going on there that i just cant get into all of it here. not even sure where you should begin reading
lore posts like "In Dialogue With Plagues", or "Lardsuckers and (What Were) Grubsuckers" give you a taste of just how freaky the setting is, and i think "The Duality of Mantis" is a great look at the weird psychology of the dominant species. but there's so many articles i can't list them all
writing is probably what i've done the most of, but i have other skills :3
i've released four albums of electronic music on bandcamp:
15 track album
and there's more!
i'm sometimes an artist, and there's gallery on my site with over three hundred pieces i've drawn over the years. i mostly draw these weird alien dudes i invented, plus a lot of praying mantises and dragons and pokemon. quality varies a lot and i'm bad about staying in practice, but here are some pieces i think turned out rather well
ok, now is that it?
well, mostly. i have some poetry that's neat, and i recently produced a game demo that's shaping up into something interesting:
Sokoban roguelike. Explore and solve randomly generated levels, collect powerups, and wield awkward tools.
but now, that's probably everything of serious note.
if you read through all of that, i love you. thank you for your time and i hope there's something here you appreciated
do you think spinner ants would be way more equipped to cope with the overwhelming deluge of information symptomatic of the modern internet age, given how hard they lean into the whole extended mind thing
…actually imagining noubugs in the information age is really transfixing me rn
>neverending mantis flame wars
>chorus-roach posters that chatter verging on spam turning every other thread into 1000 post monstrocities that belong in Forum Games or Forum Roleplay
>euvespid hacker that pwns the server and proceeds to do nothing but seamlessly upgrade to the bleeding edge version of bugforo
>therid dramafrog that keeps leaking dms and spinning up rumor mill whisper networks
>rime-scorpion that comes online every eighteen weeks or so and posts nonstop for a few days
>gestaltee bee account that has like 20k posts bc every worker in the hive uses the same login. signs every message with the cheerleader queen's current slogan, even when it really fucks with the tone of the message
>reaver ant troll on the 11th alt account now
>deepkin (centipede) lurkers that seem to be currently viewing every thread. sometimes you see an anonymous post, but if you try to reply, it's gone by the time you refresh. rarely, if you ask a question you'll get a deeply insightful 20 paragraph private message from a throwaway account made with a vpn. it will never reply
>sorrowmoth that drenches every post in apologies and preemptive clarifications. they've memorized every rule and the defensively explanations about why they aren't in violation of rule 7b is raising a lot of questions answered in their post. every one of their messages gets reported (by themselves).
>weevil that refuses to get a computer and sends letters to the site owner's P.O. box
>spinner ant mod team that has to deal with all this shit
what sucks about editing is the fact that you can read back over something and it's like. this needs work and half of it is stuff you can easily write a better version of on the spot. and half of it is just painful to read but it's more painful to try and think of a better way to do it
