#echoism

You may not expect one every time you scream

But sometimes, an Echo might surprise you.

Cleft, at hardly the age of twenty, advocated for himself to be the leader of a group that survived a world while it was ran into ruins by a war on magic. Now, he’s had thirty other lives on his shoulders for the last three years, and no choice but to cling onto the hope that the remains of an amusement park provided enough for that number to stay consistent for the rest of a lifetime.

Not much of the ‘amusement’ survived the blasts, but as long as one member of that thirty was his childhood friend (and closest confidante), Osmo, he can still manage to keep it up.

He does have some hobbies that can break up the duties he took on. Such as learning the very magic that started the war.

And arguing with the only member that was forced to fight in it.

Cleft had a good thing going, until an ambush from a group of another base caught him by surprise.

A desperate attempt to save his own life changed everything, so why was history still repeating itself?

ECHOISM is a series that shines a spotlight on what people are left with after the war is over, and looks behind the curtains of even the best actor’s performance.

Someone might never expect just how desperately they’ll cling onto love when they almost had the last of it ripped away overnight.

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Cover Art by Synnöve Rose

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Hej! Do you like post-apocalyptic stories, that might feature a touch of magic, and show the emotional burdens of love that stuck around in a withered world?

* ECHOISM is now in the later stages of editing! On track to be published by Summer 2026.

* This project is strung together with so much heart, and it’s surreal to think of it being experienced by others soon!

* Echoism is a story in fantasy that features a world turned into a wasteland over a war on magic.

~ Synnöve Rose 🥀

I am currently reading this psychology today article outlining the distinctions between a person who is self centered/selfish, and a person that is actually narcissistic. I have a friend that is definitely one of the other that I’m dealing with right now. I like the fact that this article explains the differences in a “all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares” kind of way. Like all narcissists are self-centered/selfish, but not all self-centered/selfish people are narcissists. It helped me understand the distinction between one and the other. My main takeaway so far is that people who are self-centered/selfish are often self-centered/selfish in a very situational way like they can be self-centered/selfish about food, or at work, or about being a leader, but they’re not self-centered/selfish about everything—whereas narcissistic people always want to frame things to be about them. Like a self-centered/selfish person might not help you move, because they don’t want to bother and that doesn’t sound fun for them, but a narcissistic person might actually help you move so that they can use that favor against you to get what they want in the future.

[Obviously when I’m referring to narcissists or narcissism, I am referring to people who are choosing not to try to manage their issue’s impact on other people. I’m not referring to people who are, to make up a term, “in recovery” in dealing with their issue.]

Also, Echoism is really interesting, and I should really go back to sleep: