“I’ve always wanted not to give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize that maybe someday I could be one of those stoic badasses whose emotions are mostly comprised of rock music and not being afraid of things.”
- Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half (via quoted-books)
Yay, number 5. Which mostly contains content from the original number 6. There was so much behind the scenes surgery for this one, and yet I find I have little of major importance to say about it, so I just hope you enjoy it!
this strange man in a white van has arrived
I think he’s seen me.
I’ll just going to keep blasting music.
why do people even buy white vans now, or do you just get them at some sort of ‘i’m going to abduct people’ depot?
Sharing a bit of a personal experiment in rewriting (some of) ‘Song Without A Name’, a fanfic I began writing in 2004. May never go further than a few chapters, though if you want to see the/a conclusion written by a version of me ten years younger, it’s the first part of this series and is complete along with its sequel from 2008. Just keep in mind that things have changed. :)
The original summary should still apply and is thus:
“Reincarnation is complicated, and apparently, not a refined system. When the lines between lives are blurry at best, and memories seep in from the person you were, do you stay the person you are? Who do you want to be, and do you want to be seen?”
Even more excessive notes inside~!
So this is the first part of the thing! This has been a really fun experiment. I’ve done three chapters of material so far, and this is just the first one. I’ll be posting the other bits at some relatively close future time. I hope dearly it’s not a disappointment to people who have been excited hearing about it in that it’s not technically a new part of the story, but I did warn you that it was odd. (And I do have something I could give people who want something new, it just has a giant hole in it right now. :X)
This is almost entirely new things, however, and I actually found it really exciting to write it both as a revisiting and a restart. It’s fleshed out and changed quite a bit and I think if you ever just wanted to see more of the world the Homicides lived in, more of their interactions together, and more of their background, you’ll enjoy it.
Sorry, come again? My favorite story in the entirety of existence is being revamped, along with new art and pages upon pages of discussion by the author and fans new and old? And I discovered this literally the day after I decided to take ahold of my life again?
Count me in.
LYX, I have read the original SWAN at least ten times, I kid you not. The most recent one was just a few months ago. And over the years I’ve coaxed three people into reading it who had no idea who these characters even were to start. If it was publishable, I would’ve bought it several times and had a couple of worn copies to myself, not the mention the several I would’ve bought friends. I just….I have to sit down a minute, hang on.
I’m nervous to see the differences and to spot the differences in my OWN life from when I was a teenager too, to see how reading the first one and reading these new chapters change with my new “adult” perspective. But I do declare that I’m along for the ride. So, again, count me in.
Nice to see you again!
I’m glad to see that SWAN has done what it does and come back to you again right at the right time. I’ve been telling lots of people lately that SWAN has always been a bit cyclical.
I hope the differences are good ones for you! *I* don’t think they’re anything to be too nervous about, but I’m writing for me this time rather than anyone else, so of course I feel that way, haha. They’re small at the source, but they end up having a large effect on the overall thing. Two degrees of difference doesn’t look that significant at one corner of the triangle, but the other corners will certainly notice it.
I’m delighted you want to read it at least one more time and I hope you like it just as much this time around. :)
get a writer and an artist together. artist does a sketch, writer writes a handful of paragraphs. they give them to each other.
writer has to write a handful of paragraphs on the scene depicted in the sketch, and it cant be just like, describing it. artist has to draw a new sketch from the writing.
it’d be a neat lil’ flex-the-muscles sort of thing.
