Sometimes you’re at the beach – and after eight years the swell of emotions are too great for even a hardened heart to handle. I guess it’s possible you can be too relaxed, confused, or overwhelmed to do anything functional and/or helpful for anyone, but email updates arrive every month, just like Japanese trains.
Let’s be on time together:
Vaporwave’s come a long way since its emergence but a few years ago – perhaps it’s what we were all expecting from the 80’s: a distillation of a time that went too quickly.
A bit of humor here is that I regularly loved to make fun of the genre en masse in a heretofore unpublished novel – You’ll see it again one day, and for the sake of artistic integrity I’ll still be making fun of it when it’s available.
Younger people will look at their own childhoods and feel the same way about these days, I’d imagine: one’s only 10 years old but once in a lifetime, after all. Saint Pepsi has been around for some time punching out these excellent atmospheric experiences, so I hope you enjoy him.
Anyway, let’s get down to the real important stuff of the month.
Your vote is needed: The First-Annual Holyverse Fanart Competition:
At first I told myself “no matter how bad it goes I’ll do this every year to encourage people,” but things went great, in fact even I participated in it, as a treat. Vote on your favorites – you have up til the 1st of August to cast your vote, but sooner better than later, if you ask me.
To cast your vote, hop into our discord server at https://discord.gg/UeNhd2HjQQ and head over to the #fan-art-contest-voting channel. There, just star emoji your favorite entry – the one with the most stars at the end of the voting period wins!
Since there’s only four entries, we don’t need to worry too much about the extra reward tiers: so a straight-up vote off should do the trick.
Here’s the entries, in order of first to last posted:
Mei ( https://twitter.com/Zmeinir ):
Law and Order (hehehe) sitting along the halls of New Reinen as a recreation of the scene from The Courts Divided
Illiumo:
A stylish looking piece of Ree The Bloodless practicing the Sanguimancy she knows best
Nozk3ll: ( https://nozk3ll.carrd.co/ ):
“Lost letters” is the title of this one. Looks like Delivery Minion’s having some inventory problems…
And last but not least: Me:
Behold, and yield to the might of my artistic prowess!
I call this one “Lil Chaos, riding a slightly taller Order while going by a tea shop”
I know, I know, I’m the clear winner, but you can’t vote for me because I made the contest, so no matter how many times you vote for me it won’t make a difference.
Now, hop in and cast your vote at: https://discord.gg/UeNhd2HjQQ ! Thanks everyone for your hard work and participation!
Moving on:
Nothing too big!
I mean, really!
Sometimes you get to go on vacation, and during said vacation you’ve finally managed to relax yourself after a multitude of grand adventures this year, and at times like that it becomes double hard to put new things together for you all.
As far as updates are concerned:
-I’ve received an encouragingly-worded call for submissions to an anthology, led by one of my favorite independent publishing houses
-XForce Book 2’s editing will be done and prepped for launch in just a few weeks from now
-I got the main menu and most of backgrounds done on the secret definitely-not-a-game-project type project
Keep working hard on creating beautiful things for the world.
All the best,
Kell
