#seveneves

(to be corrected once the digital release drops, that's how I remember it)

Recently I was thinking about the meaning of this exchange, also "The light thinks ant therefore we are" and remembered another quote that I found relevant: "People can only meet you as deeply as they have met themselves".

We are all interpreting what we experienced through our own prisms, angles and lenses. I am currently writing a longer article where I draw lines between Iron Lung and Seveneves, Oblivion (movie), Firewatch, The Locked Tomb series, Disco fucking Elysium, and more, because those are all works that left a strong impression on me. Strong enough that I could recognise reflections of the media I loved in Iron Lung.

I thrive seeing people share their interpretations also, that Laika homage?? My heart!! I love reading how Iron Lung inspired someone to share what resonates with them. Writing, art, cosplay, every little thing is a love song.

Might be just my internet bubble, but media felt rather shallow recently. I don't go to cinema often, I don't watch a lot of reels, long-format youtube essays are my current go-to leisure watch. I can't remember being this excited about a movie (Godzilla Minus One was the one before this, I think) and Iron Lung leaving so much for interpretation and discussion is such a delicious breath of fresh air (pun not intended) for a starved mind. I love the wild goose chase we've all collectively gone on. Mark and the team achieved something beautiful and I am glad to be in this moment in time when it happened.

For example Im reading a Neal Stephenson book for the first time in years and the blast of pure libertarian techbroery is just blasting me out of my chair. This sort of this seemed harmlessly stupid a few years ago but right now? Well.

In Seveneves a disaster has destroyed the Earth - and to be fair, the disaster is pretty cool - and only science can save us. The existing international space station is leveraged to create a sort of Ark. But this is quickly subsumed by the intervention of two people, a techbro hero who is obviously Elon Musk who uses his brilliance and vast wealth to fly into space and save humanity all on his own, and the evil female president of the united states, who sneaks onto the Ark and tries to take it over with her wicked Politics. The general non-scientist population of idealistic young people are innocent stooges to her power grab manipulated by her talk of human rights and representation. When clearly everyone should sit back and obey her replacement president of the world, an unelected techbro science hero who is completely benevolent and saving humanity.

Science is completely pure and untainted because it's just facts and truth, with no perspective or agenda. Sociology is simply divisionary. Cant wait for Capitalism to be reinvented in space for no reason.

Happy Webcomic Day!!

As a special promotion, and to help celebrate all things webcomics, I'm sharing the first act of the first chapter of my first webcomic, SEVENEVES! This story will be a queer romantic dramedy, filled with magic, love and laughter!

These pages were previously uploaded to my Patreon, where it continues to update! If you like what you see, there's already five additional pages available to read right now, with a minimum $3 pledge! Chapter 1 will be fifty-four pages in length, and with your support, I can comfortably make my deadline of Halloween 2024!

it’s not 5000 years later, it’s ~20 years later, and this is a homebrew spec-fiction RPG created and played by the first generation of space-babies.

of course everybody has cool racial abilities. Nobody wants to play a vanilla human when they can be a space orc or a magic paranoia gnome or a beautiful shapeshifter with cat-eyes

of course the adventuring party starts by meeting one another in a space-tavern before embarking on a journey across Earth-but-with-cool-new-different-islands

of course all the “human races” are versions of My Mom’s Personality Times A Billion. It’s kids making up a story and populating it with people they know

of course most of the player characters are male. “Men” are, to this first generation of space-children, not unlike elves— a kind of person who existed long ago, but never in their lifetimes. They’re an intriguing mystery, and who doesn’t want a Mysterious character?

(the kid playing Memi, apparently)

actually, maybe Memi is one of those characters you create when you’re only vaguely invested in the game and you anticipate not making it to many of the sessions—“we can just say I was there and casting healing spells on Doc the whole time”. Once the plot picks up and they meet the Diggers, the kid who plays Memi is suddenly super interested and begs the DM to let them kill Memi off and make a new character named Sonar Taxlaw

SEVENEVES Chapter 1 launches on Halloween, which means it's about time to give a proper introduction to our protagonists!

Meet Hazel and Liv, the main characters of our story!