what’s tudl? your note on the tolkien post piqued my interest :0
LOL It’s one of my personal projects. I’ve really only posted about it a few times on Patreon, and shown it in parts to maybe three friends off that platform. I’m really wary of public engagement with my original works so you’re not likely to see any of the development for TUDL or any other of my serious projects unless you’re on my Patreon or a close enough trusted friend that I show you stuff over chat or Discord.
I’ll at least tell you that TUDL stands for The Upside-Down Lord, and it’s a historical low fantasy political romance novella set in medieval magical!Mongolia. Except it’s also a modern era young academic’s re-translation of an ancient classical pulp novel that is in and of itself a bastardized version of various accounts from surviving extant documents of the era. Which are all attempts to understand what really went on behind the scenes when the succession of the last unbroken noble bloodline of the nation was broken when the lord married his captain of the guard seemingly out of nowhere, to everyone’s exasperation. And the narrative framework expands on how that historical event shook things up culturally and still affects the modern day centuries later. And also it’s just gaysian magical realism.
I mainly worked on TUDL in 2016 and may eventually compile all of my writing and designs from then into its own folio. Maybe!!
