#monitored activity

But first I need y'all to look at Shaw and Eddie, gorgeously brought to life by the one and only @hrgwin. Second, peep Eddie's keychain. What if I told you that's an actual keychain you can own and is totally not covered in blood? c: There's exactly 20 of them, and each one was handmade by the indomitable @wunderflammer!

From right now until December 3rd, you'll have the chance to pre-order a physical (or digital!) copy of Monitored Activity: a horror book about a serial killer and his 'Final Girl'—both of them extremely underpaid security guards in 2001—and the sentient mall gunning to eat them whole. Also, anomalous surveillance systems? Weird cult shit? And a hell-dimension of perverse delights? There's a lot of shit going on at Prime Plaza.

If you like your yaoi toxic enough to nearly wipe an entire town off the map, with one half being the world's horniest trans guy ready to burn it all for a guy so milquetoast he doesn't even deserve tumblr sexyman status despite fitting the bill? 👍🏽 I gotchu.

WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SHIFT

A state-of-the-art security system arrives with the New Millennium, and shoppers at Prime Plaza can now spend their time and hard earned money with newfound peace of mind. That same luxury doesn’t extend to the mall’s employees. Hallucinations of missing girls and impossible hallways haunt Shaw's every shift. Footage of bloated corpses vomiting sand, violent indiscretions committed by management, and a hell-dimension of perverse delights makes the security guard equal parts sick and turned on. It’s a good thing that Shaw is impervious to shame. There is no serial killer, haunting, or starved alien life-form that can stop him from getting what he wants: PTO, and in his boss' pants.

MONITORED ACTIVITY is an adult horror novella of the queer and freaky kind.

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Not only is this the first official installment of Project Singularity, an unfiction horror webseries, but the only physical copies of this book that will ever exist will be through this campaign. Limited edition is a bit of an understatement, tbh. So if you like:

Sentient malls out to eat people (normal behavior)

Totally straight security guards who are totally not serial killers and totally do not believe themselves "chosen" to be cult leaders

A second security guard, this one a raging transgender homo who wants in Security Guard #1's pants so badly he nearly wipes an entire town off the map (not normal behavior)

Enough '90s & '00s nostalgia to make you want to never touch anything like this ever again

Freaky tech that definitely should not be functioning that way

This bad boy might just be worth checking out!

Like, look at these two chucklefucks.

Absolutely nothing problematic going on between these two at all, I swear. Don't ask about the conveniently shaped (not-pictured) lint roller.

Monitored Activity, (or MonAct), is part of this year's The Book Bazaar! A big collaborative crowdfunding project for indie authors looking to make cool stuff. Check it out, because there's a whole lot of different genres to peruse.

... But you should absolutely follow mine because I've been on tumblr for 13 years so we're all practically neighbors.

I know we all fucking hate emails but if you sign up I promise to only email you when the campaign goes live, when it's about to end, and when it ends for realsies. And when you plug in your email, you instantly get a free digital short story from yours truly. SO GO FORTH. DO THE THING.

⚠️ Only 24 hours left! ⚠️

If you want a physical copy of Monitored Activity, this is your one and only chance. Why? Believe it not, because of lore reasons.

"Lore reasons?" you may ask. "The fuck does that even mean?"

It means that every physical book is an artifact. A piece to a much bigger puzzle the likes of which already has bits and pieces scattered across the internet.

If you're out of the loop, there's no need to worry. Lucky for you, Monitored Activity serves as your starting point to this game. And if you don't want to play? It could be your ending point as well (it is 100% a standalone book; everything else is supplemental).

Passing on the paperback? You're more than welcome to grab the eBook, if you'd prefer.

If you're into casual ARGs, analog horror that borders on cosmic, 90s/00s nostalgia, killer malls, cringefail serial killers and an even bigger cringefail Final Girl who is a guy, cults, uh.... anomalous security systems? And enough gay sex to make sure my parents never talk to me again: Monitored Activity.

Yeah.

we were challenged to Tingler-fy our book titles, cover redesign optional, and turns out i was the only person familiar with this trot beyond "the meme" so i went the extra mile.