#goodbye strangers

[shidraoftheworldpillar]

@ink-the-axolotl-rabbit you inspired me

[drdoktormd]

STRANGERS

I think everybody should check out the extraordinary longterm project of my friend Felix over at https://strangers.atrocityland.com/

It is a surreal, multidimensional fiction with an iconic artstyle, fascinating characters, an insane directory of semimaterial phenomena and some of the coolest concepts I've ever encountered in fiction. Every single page is a work of art, from the indexes to the individual entries.

There are hours' worth of content here and the rabbit hole goes deep with lots of secrets to uncover. If you like weird fiction and cool art, check it out.

[daily-stranger-posts]

Day 11

ah hell naw look who's at the embassy

[empty-heart-princess]

i have become obsessed with goodbye strangers. have a lazy little dodomuri to keep you company

[whodrownedthefish]

I’m off to the showers I suppose. Hope I slip and die. 😔

[defaultfelix]

Goodbye Strangers project update

After a somewhat lengthy hiatus from actively working on Goodbye Strangers, I've been regaining my connection with the project and its fictional world, and have decided to start working on the next site update in earnest. Which means, it's time for a general update on where things stand.

At some point last year, I started on a redesign of the site's central index and story pages, with the intention of making the content more organized and accessible. Though I had a general idea in mind for how I wanted to tackle this, it was a pretty daunting task – and coupled with health concerns, as well as various life events, and my own shyness towards sharing my work – at some point, I put the redesign aside, and took a hiatus from the website.

I've been gaining confidence in myself and my work however, and want to re-approach things in a way that aligns with my current focus and abilities. So, my intention is to start with the material that most clearly lays out the structure/metaphysics of the world/project, my own relationship with the work, as well as what I see as the "core" of the narrative (so, Default and Bracey's story threads in Space Madness, as well as details that flesh out their personalities and relationship to one another). I also want to use this as an opportunity to come out of my shell in terms of sharing work that is more vulnerable/personal, and/or more kinky/sexual; so, there will be new material that relates to myself (and how Goodbye Strangers relates to my understanding of reality), as well as new content that is NC-17/X-rated.

Once this "foundation" is established, I'll continue filling in the project/narrative by character/story thread, as I gradually integrate content from both the website's current incarnation, and previous content that has not yet been converted to the new code – such as The Known Unknowns, or the missing Module 2 entries. This will also give me a chance to organize and incorporate the extensive amounts of unfinished/unreleased content, which will be added to the site as the various sections are expanded.

Because this is something that that will take place in stages, not all of the material from the old site will be initially available. As such, the current version of the site will not be taken offline until all material has been incorporated into the new structure. At present, there is no timeline for this; as I am presently managing long-term physical and mental health conditions, I don't want to hold myself to an external schedule that causes needless stress. Nevertheless, I'm feeling optimistic about the project's future, and look forward to sharing new material.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, or want to get involved in the process – and above all, thank you so much for supporting my work 💙

[magnesia]

14TH

[cbsorgeartworks]

Officially denouncing my work on Goodbye Strangers

I want to bring up why I left the Goodbye Strangers project because I want to issue a general warning that if you work with Felix Kramer you will most likely have a bad time. I only wish to mention my experience to give others a heads up, like an exit review. This is from someone who has known Felix since 2004, was a fan of the project since its inception in 2008, helped fund it via Patreon up to 2017, and worked directly with Felix on the project for 2 years (2019-2021). There are tons of specifics and aspects to this I do not go over here, but it was all a huge shitty mess.

The only concrete thing he is being accused of specifically is being a lying asshole (who will go to MASSIVE lengths to manipulate people) and a gross creep.

You do not need to take my word for it - I am confident that he will prove these claims with his own behavior and public content again and again.

I was deeply hurt and disturbed by his behavior. I considered him my best friend, but it is now clear that he bonded with me only to get me to do the parts of the project he didn’t want to do. He took advantage of my vulnerabilities (previous narcissistic trauma clouding judgement, etc). I expect him to continue this pattern with others.

I quit the project in April 2021 after finding out he had lied substantially about fundamental parts of our relationship, about how he was treating others, and about his intentions with the project.

He shut down the site after I left and never unpaused the Patreon. And only after I quit did I learn even more concerning information regarding him. I could now see all the red flags I had missed. I am deeply regretful and disgusted that I ever had anything to do with him, and that I ignored or rationalized all the troubling warning signs.

I also want to mention that his partner and supporters severely harassed others and I who had worked on the project after we cut ties with him. Especially targeted was one of the youngest members (19 years old at the time) of the team. I received threatening emails and lots of “legal-ese” scaremongering.

I fully denounce and disapprove of any support for the Goodbye Strangers project. Please note that I also denounce any harassment or doxxing of Felix, and have from the beginning encouraged all former volunteers and fans simply to cut contact and just ignore him.

I would like to sincerely apologize for supporting something with content that I now understand to be abhorrent, cruel, fascist, and bigoted. I regret giving him and the project so much support and propagating the project’s growth when I see now that it has such harmful ideas (the strangers act as a fascist purification fantasy tormenting and disposing of marginalized people, and also exist as a way to depict “vegan animal abuse”) and was used in an abusive way (intentionally making people uncomfortable and exposing them to sexualized content without their awareness or consent). I am hoping that this message will help undo some of the damage.

I don’t know what Felix did with his share of the income, but all mine from the project went to helping my husband and I pay the bills while we dealt with the covid layoffs of 2020-2021. Because of that, regardless of everything else, I am endlessly thankful for people’s support during that time.

Even though Felix turned out to be awful, I am also thankful to have met many wonderful people through the project, who have become fantastic friends.

I recommend NOT supporting or sharing Goodbye Strangers or any of Felix Kramer’s work. It features disturbing, hateful, fascist, objectifying content.

my feelings are: I do not care what he does going forward, i have moved on to new things and am busy forgetting this ever happened. uhg wtf