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Nameless Grub · 6mo

okay, maybe you sent out some kind of etheric mass dream wave, because last night i happened to have a (fairly nonsensical) dream that was a crossover between CTE and naoki urasawa's monster. i feel a little embarrassed even recounting it to be honest but it was one of those dreams with a fairly coherent plotline but locations that shifted and blended seamlessly into one another, so the characters were variously in an art gallery, a shopping mall, a lynchian public restroom and a maximum security prison below said shopping mall (?) which could only be accessed thru its parking garage with a special keycard. i felt that was very onbrand for your works. anyway it was grimmer and tenma acting as escorts to deliver rubicon to this mall-prison except they got separated, tenma was mysteriously stabbed and grimmer blamed rubicon even though it was literally impossible for him to have done so because he wasn't even in the same room/tenma was lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of a concrete stairwell, which rubicon obviously cannot go down. i was woken up just as he was about to start evil monologuing (defense monologuing?). i remarked on how amusing this was to my friends over the course of the day. so to go to sleep and wake up the following day not only with a CTE update but to find out someone ELSE has been dreaming of you was a surreal experience to say the least

wow those are peak xrafstar locations...mall prison is exactly what i would write...thinking of Mall School, or Mall/Supermarket.
defense monologuing!! that is so Rubi.
Tenma is kind of Lazur coded...dark hair tan skin, highly specialized skill (is not surgery the closest thing to defusing a bomb--keep the heart from stopping, don't let the old ticker blow, manage veins and wires with delicate but decisive snips, operating theater/military theater...), fixated on saving lives, and his nemesis is a crossdressing murderous blond twink from Central Europe.
yes dreams are my primary tool of broadcast...succumb to my waves!! and i hope you enjoy the story! 🌌✌️

Nameless Grub · 6mo

when i was a younger kid (10-13) my dad would take me out on late night 4 hour drives during which i would stare out the window into the darkness. i got a tingling sensation of anticipation staring out into the dark, like the universe was going to reveal some big secret, play it like a special card. the thrill of this would give me an erection and chills/goosebumps all over my body, and in retrospect i wondered if the big secret was revealed to me after all in the form of learning how to mastrabate. this hyperspecific moment in my psychosexual development is what a lot of your works bring me back too, and i jus wanted to say thanks for the cosmic wonder boner nostalgia.

that's so beautiful. night feelings are the heart of what i make, and i like seeing where it connects to others. masturbation has some of the secret. night to night...thank you for telling me about it <333 🌌🌃

Nameless Grub · 6mo

perhaps a stupid question as i don't know or understand anything about music or sounds but i was wondering how you did the speech sounds in maggot therapy... the discordant droningness is like what i hear in my head when i think of trying to give my characters voices lol

not stupid at all. maggot therapy uses a similar technique as SUNSHOWERS--it plays sounds when they talk, at a rate of 1 sound per x characters. but it wildly varies the pitch beyond what is usually seen in games that use this technique--and uses sounds not normally used for that purpose. together, this creates the eerie reverberation...

so in gamemaker terms:
random_pitch = choose(-0.1,-0.2,-0.3,-0.4,-0.5,-0.6,-0.7,-0.8,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8) // every sound has a random pitch
audio_sound_pitch(our_sound, 1 + random_pitch); // we add it to the baseline pitch of 1, making it lower or higher
audio_play_sound(our_sound,0,0); // sound is played, and might overlap with the other sounds as this script repeatedly fires during dialog

in rpgmaker, it requires no code. just use one of several message plugins that play dialog sounds, like Yanfly's Extended Message Pack 1 for MV or KC_TextSounds for MZ, and make the pitch variance (and pan variance if desired) as big as you can, and disable sounds resetting after dialog.

basically, whatever you're working in, find a way to rapidly shift pitch, and use the right sound, and you're good! thanks for enjoying the voices, it was one of my favorite things :)

Nameless Grub · 7mo

We've talked about the connection between "Your Mother Has Fallen Out of Love with You" and S3 of "Cunt Toward Enemy" (a youth being put in a box by a father figure, symbolic or literal), but I only just realised that the narrator of "protection from gravity" also talks about putting his abuse-object in a suitcase when going places. Just wondering if there are any deeper connections here. Also, we need more stories about boys getting boxed.

the connection is....boys in suitcases are cute :)
I have some extra special boxes planned in the future...stay tuned...stay tormented! 🍯🥛

Nameless Grub · 7mo

I had a dream last night that borrowed a lot of themes from your work and also had a character in it who was you! You were giving me constructive but extremely brisk feedback on a story I'd written which was like space imperial torture set in a Mario Odyssey subarea. I looked down at your legs and you had a layer of stubby feathers coming in like you had recently moulted. I was staying at my old music teacher's house and he kept interrupting to make us listen to his shitty Logic beats and offer excessive sympathy for whatever must have happened to make our stories "so sad". You realised you didn't have to be there and left. Old teacher had some sourdough garlic bread in his kitchen which he had explicitly told me he was saving but I gifted it to you in the doorway on a savage impulse of justice because your time had been wasted by this strange situation.

Old teacher came into the kitchen and tried to kill me for my ingratitude and appropriation of the bread, he had a knife but I stabbed him pre-emptively with such force that he could not even complete 1 stab of me only deliver an agonisingly slow shallow wound as the strength went out of his arm. His house was on the top floor of a shopping centre and I escaped to the lower levels.

I thought that I should probably call my current music teacher, who is nice and helps me a lot, then realised that my phone was still in the house and I didn't know if 2-3 gut stabs with a short blade was enough to bleed out from after 20 or so minutes or if he would still be alive and planning my death. I thought of luring someone who could go into the house first and get lurched at in the dark while I retrieved my phone. I found someone sweet who I went to school with but the dream deleted her. Then I was back on the silent threshold of the house with one light deep inside, not knowing if the guy was waiting for me and feeling like my life had to be over regardless but I still really wanted to call my other teacher. My wound hurt a lot for a shallow wound. Thanks for the textures!

what a wonderfully described dream...you capture the feeling of dream violence / emotions so well.
space imperial torture, stories "so sad", savage impulse of justice, fuck i do like garlic bread, thank you! could not even complete 1 stab of me...dream deleted her...
i love it! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars nightmaren approved! ✌️

Nameless Grub · 6mo

Not sure if this has been asked before but are you okay with people writing fanfic about your works? Just wanted to make sure

Nameless Grub · 6mo

played and loved sunshowers! will you ever revisit these characters again? even if it's just in a sort piece of work! i love them both so dearly and i need to see more of them!

thank you so much <333 i don't plan on revisiting them HOWEVER their DNA is in existing and future characters and i consider it all to be part of the same bug clone vat slurry. so the spirit the rhyme the echo will live on in a form that cannot be sued by Denny's Corporation. there's a bit of Cancer, a bit of Rubicon, a bit of my unfinished dark fantasy brothers story. as they say, the wheels of incest turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. so happy to hear your love, have a nice day! 🙏✨

Nameless Grub · 6mo

there is A question b u r n i n g within my diaphragm such that my lungs smell like sulfur the likes of which krakatoa could not produce. how do you pronounce oenone

Nameless Grub · 8mo

i feel weirdly represented by cancer prize being a coprophile. in my times being a sex freak online it always has seemed like poop is this forbidden frontier. like all other "gross" body fluids are fine to get horny about but poop is just, quietly ignored or sliced off into an alt account or questionable sites bc even these alleged no limit sex freaks can't handle Looking at coprophilia let alone being into it. anyways. thanks for the poop !! 💩✨️

yeah its funny how people who wanna have a radical edgy sex identity can be squeamish about bodily waste. menstruation too! it gets to their deep personal hangups, and symbolizes loss of status. that's why people are so vocal about making sure everyone knows they aren't gross. and that's why disease/deformity/filth is so fun to write, and makes for effective horror. it has to be personal, invasive, and most of all, real. agonizing digestive issues or mindbreaking periods are part of people's history, and the taboo denies that history, burying it with all the other embarrassing childhood stuff. it goes back to ancient religion and governance, the pan-global stricture where menstruators had to isolate themselves, and faggots were associated directly with the intestines/"a foul smell". The Hindu feeding of cow urine and dung to the sodomite (an exciting cross-reference with the Tahmuras myth retold in Perfect Tense: Maggot Therapy, where the hero fists the ur-sodomite Ahriman and his arm is rotted by anal contact, until a cow urinates on it and heals him), or the Arda Viraf’s snake that enters the anus “like a beam, went in and came forth out of the mouth…This is the soul of that wicked man, who, in the world, committed sodomy, and allowed a man to come on his body; now the soul suffers so severe a punishment.” And who can forget Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s account from Mesoamerica: “the one who functioned as a woman, who was tied to a post, they removed the entrails through the lower parts”, or the Nahua definition: “SODOMITE, CATAMITE. Corruption, perverted, excrement, dog excrement, feces, infamous, corrupt, vicious, mocker, scoffer, provoker, repugnant, loathsome. He fills people's noses with the smell of excrement. Effeminate. He passes himself off as a woman.” there is something egalitarian about the intestines, a fecal faggotry transcending front genitalia, accessible to everyone. so the androgyny of sodomy appeals to my fluid worlds.
anyways, thank you! I love when people chew on my art at the freakiest, tapeworm level. Cancer is my baby. and there is something charming about it…there are many stories with him that don’t involve shit, but it’s a good turd of damocles to keep the normies in line. got some good ones on the way, hope you’ll enjoy them! eat shit…and live! ✨️

Nameless Grub · 7mo

named my friend's Lovense toy Insul your work is a great inspiration to us xoxo

Nameless Grub · 6mo

do you get to kiss brother in sunshower [importan!t]

Nameless Grub · 7mo

sunshowers runs very laggy on my computer :-[ is there something i can do to mitigate that? never had this problem w/an rpgmaker game before

are you playing the browser or desktop version? does it lag at the start or a specific part?

Nameless Grub · 7mo

Have you played any games by Parun (Heisei Pistol Show/Re:Kinder)? it seems like something very in line with ur work, big hallucinogenic nightmare stock asset wonderlands with emotionally tormented effete boys and horror movie schlock gore and meditations on love. Has a similar essence in terms of how they write about tragedy, I feel like there's a quality of "abuse hyperreality" in their art as in yours of like, some terrible event(s) cycling through your head over and over and distorting into something different, like, becoming cartoonish or dreamlike but still horribly texturally real, and infecting ur fantasies and the world around u. something like that.

I have played these! I didn't finish them because I was dealing with some shit at the time but I appreciated them a lot. stock asset wonderlands...tormented effete boys...abuse hyperreality...I like that. rest in peace parun ;;

pEoPlE jUsT nEeD tO hAnG iN tHeRe In ToUgH tImEs SoCiEtY iSnT tO bLaMe YoUrE tHe PrObLeM

Nameless Grub · 7mo

have you heard of neospring (the retrospring offshoot)? might be a good replacement inbox once this one is finally sunsetted

thanks for the rec! i'll check it out when their site is back up, and also thinking about strawpage!

Nameless Grub · 7mo

i just finished angelbride after long anticipation, and i am absolutely delighted. the little choices were a great touch, i'm a huge fan of the more pious options. i'm feeling all sorts of ways about it and i want to make more people read it

thank you so much!! we love a pious boy...a little forced sanctification...and i don't mind you sharing that story with friends if they can't afford it :) 🦋🦋🦋

Nameless Grub · 7mo

have you ever read kami no kodomo by nishioka kyoudai? i just remembered it and then thought of you,(there is feces and guts, perversion, violence against children, violence by children, and so on,)

Nameless Grub · 7mo

have u ever read good sex illustrated?

Nameless Grub · 7mo

hello. i just finished reading/playing "With Those We Love Alive"
it was very good and i love your writing. thank you for making it.

Nameless Grub · 7mo

i really gotta say with successive rereads of seriweak i just fall in love more with oenone as a character and what she represents + the knowledge that she's just as controlling as insul, just softer, and arguably more dangerous for it because of the conformist stasis she tries to enact on trianon behind a veil of wanting to make him feel better and be successful. it's cruel to force someone to live out your dream instead of asking them their own, and maybe she would have known that had she ever truly seen him, but without insul as the catalyst oenone being able to meet trianon where he actually is is impossible. i like to imagine what a nightmare being actually married to oenone would be for him, like the therapist ending of vesp in its sense of merged/subsumed personhood and domestic confinement; i feel like you could pull off such a scenario beautifully. boybride unknown...

yeah, it’s a fine line between mentor and exploitation. Trianon was a burnout NEET so he appreciated her help. But being “collected” has its own harms. she is trying to help him with real pragmatic things that could benefit him, and doing parental work that is not entirely unwelcome. but like you say, the longterm would be a nightmare, and that’s the hardest relationship to escape from, the slow boil of something materially stable and benign but spiritually corrosive. the reddit post genre of “woman who married an autistic guy and resents him”. the best thing she could have done was accept he’ll never be a grinder like her, and all you can do with an autist like that is let them exist, and play, with the freedom of a cat. but this is impossible for most people to imagine, in a world obsessed with value profit and what we “deserve”. but yes, i hope to explore the domestic more in the future. boybride unknown…thank you <3

Nameless Grub · 7mo

angelbride was utterly phenomenal in both atmosphere, writing and artwork. i want the full drawing of the angel hung on my wall. i had just had a really awful day prior to reading so this was like coming home and someone thoughtful had already made and set out warm food for you. so glad to have mired myself in your horrors <3 i'm having fun going through the rest of the book too!

thank you, you're the first person to review it, and what a nice review it is! I'm so happy to know it could be like warm food, I tried to season it real good. It's been a hard week here as well, but sharing a hot torture stew makes me the happiest. <33
yes Coey's art is excellent, it was a pleasing collaboration! check out his shop!
it would be fun to make more branching stories in the future. I'm glad you're enjoying the rest of the book. the layout...very stylish...the artists...juicy and delicious!

Nameless Grub · 7mo

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/303267/view i see beautiful xrafstaric presences in these mayfly muscles...

so pretty, thank you!! dark shadow claw tenebrous and screaming muscle ghosts...i love the secret colors in insects there are so many that aren't revealed under normal study conditions! even the choice of background can prejudice one species over another...

Nameless Grub · 7mo

I just came to your x profile through Ada's Rook album(which you worked on the album cover) listening non stops on some songs there, and I must you really did a good job, especially in your personal art as a someone who is not into that kind of thing and mentioning different kinkies from mine

Nameless Grub · 7mo

i am deeply curious to know what a children's book written by you would be like. or perhaps a picture book...i feel like there is a small subgenre of "children in horrible situations much like yours, readerchild" that i have not seen too much of as of late (series of unfortunate events, many things by roald dahl). a lot of childmedia lately seems to be "don't worry child, the Adults will take care of it" so i am wondering what you would write about, as you write very well about Bad Situations where The Adults Will Not Take Care of It, And Probably Are Making It Worse

Nameless Grub · 8mo

i got hit by a car some months ago (am basically fine now 😎👌) but thought u might like the story- was on a lil escooter at 4:30am going to work, got rearended by a driver presumably not paying attention, slid up on the hood, hit the windshield (and shattered it) at which point the driver braked, i rolled forward and landed on my lower face/teeth which i dont remember (is pain to blacking out a 10/10 or 11/10?) then slid on the asphalt on my forehead. remember thinking "am i going to die? maybe" then internal dialogue was silent. til i stopped sliding and instinct brought me to stand up and say WHAT THE FUCK at the car, then wiggle fingers and toes. looked for scooter, couldnt find it, thought "i just got hit by a car i guess i should call 911" and uh. yeah. end damage was broken front teeth, lots of facial abrasions and one on knee, stitches to upper lip + forehead, tiny nose fracture and slight deformity to nose and jaw. got a deviated septum now. had huge bruises on my legs ig from hitting handlebars? and i've kept my hoodie with bloodstains as a souvenier. perhaps if u ever have a char get carwrecked and live this helps.. not safe to act out like u did w some SW scenes but i have the accidental lived experience. also i'd guess the driver was gay so it was a violent meeting of gays cant drive

that's crazy. hitting the windshield is so sexy. bloodblessed hoodie. the teeth!! 😭 a little jaw deformity is very charming, imo.
i really enjoyed hearing about it. thank you for the painstaking research material, and i'm glad you're healing up! 🙏❤️‍🩹

Nameless Grub · 8mo

it's by no means a recent work of yours and i understand if you may have disavowed it somewhat for personal reasons as u have a fair amount of your older artwork but i keep rereading psycho nymph exile and turning it over in my head. i live in a very bad situation right now and i have a long distance boyfriend whom i love dearly but obviously cannot see in person yet. a lot of conventional fluffy romances where two characters just meet by coincidence, happen to fit two common archetypes and experience mundane problems + have relatively little drama and Good Normal Sex with each other feel like transmissions from an alien world to me at best and death pressing against me at worst. it is so very hard for me to hope that a better or at least bare minimum life is possible and isidol and vellus' relationship channeled some extremely raw feelings for me. i hope to god i can walk hand in hand with my boyfriend one day with a bag of kudzu buns, because this isn't the life i want to die in. i'm really glad you wrote it

💜💜💜 then it was worth it.
yes, it feels awful reading the books for people with no problems!
most of my relationships started as long distance, or with secrecy and danger, and I know how much it hurts. I hope you can get out of your bad situation and be with your boyfriend. it is important!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

I leave an offering at your altar o haruspex. Once I got so into a video game that I hardly walked at all for two weeks. As it turns out, you need to walk around for your digestive system to function properly. Consequently, two weeks of greasy shitty gamer food impacted hard into my rectum like a concrete apple. I spent hours trying to pass it and fissured my anus from the strain. At this point the advice is to go to the hospital so that the nurses can help you birth the thing. Instead, I got a butter knife and stuck it in there to start prying bits off. (Not medical advice.) Thankfully this worked and I eventually it slid out in big chunks like apple slices. This happened at my mom's house and nobody ever found out, thank all that is holy. I am however still haunted by the UTI I caught from doing this in a half-full tub, thinking that this would help soften the stool. What do you read in my entrails?

P.S. Tub was cleaned and knife destroyed.

silence as the haruspices calculate their scores 👁️‍🗨️🗡️
-reminds me of Shintaro Kago’s comic When All’s Said and Done.
-i like the water birth method.
-big chunks like apple slices!! 🤩
-the apple motif...possible golden apple symbolism?
-UTI!!
-i wonder what game it was…

in conclusion: great details, good setpiece, Kagoesque horror and rising tension of knife near anus, and the sequela keeps it coming, really ties it into the broader "having a body" universe. thank you for this incredible masterpiece! entrails = ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!!!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

happy to report that in the interest of promoting torture literacy i have requested seriweak be added to my local library's catalogue ::]

Nameless Grub · 8mo

i wanted to thank you for writing the way you do and about the things you do because it made me realize there’s really no rules when it comes to creative work and i can type in run-on sentences like i’m trying to puke all the words out in a single breath because that’s actually super sick and it’s how my stupid brain works anyways and if we’re honest it makes text so much more interesting to read. i was actually able to finish something short and dirty and sweet that’d been knocking around my brain for months-years because of this so thank you very much from the bugs in my brain to yours. 🪱🖤✨

yeah! the only thing that matters is putting the feeling into the world! anything that gets in the way is IRRELEVANT 💜🪱

Nameless Grub · 7mo

Does Perfect's suit "do" anything? I assume it's a kind of armor of some sort or form. I remember clicking "The suit sanitizes the action" in MT because I was curious if it -literally- sanitized things or not lol

Symbolically sanitizes. He has a strong OCD attachment to the suit. The suit itself has the following properties:

⭐ Air-tripping texture, elastomeric fit.
⭐ Antimicrobial fibers treated with silver ions (so some sanitary qualities, but nothing that could be regarded as sterilization).
⭐ Hydrophobic, hyperwicking.

His suit protects against insect bites, but the defensive power is mostly mitigation; dampening a punch or slowing a stab. Flexibility is more important than armor, since graceful movements increase power.

Some skinsuits have morgellon weave, but any dormant properties of his suit are unknown at this time… 👁️‍🗨️

Nameless Grub · 8mo

the true legend of tails prower made me cry, she deserved so much better and she almost got there but didnt... i wish she gets to run off with rouge and be happy. and amy rose too!!

💧💧💧💫 <3333 i think she made it and gets to be with rouge and amy rose too!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

do you ever imagine crossover events for your characters if they come from delineated stories? like how might trianon interact with rubicon or cancer, etc

sometimes! rubicon and cancer the most probably, because rubicon could get a horrible flesh-eating disease and need to be taken care of. i also like the idea of osamu tezuka's star system heheh. but a lot of the time the characters are made for their souls to burn perfectly into each other...

Nameless Grub · 8mo

just wanted to let you know i use a peeled off miralax drug facts label as my bookmark for your works <3

Nameless Grub · 8mo

“whiplash ballet medfet” is all my dreams coming true at once. cant believe you’ve done this. ALSO i think… and have thought for a long time… that trianon and nina from black swan would be friends. they have retard angel twin dna and they are both fantasy autistic torture victims who metabolise all evil to fuel their own transformations. gay stuntmen rolling through life changing injuries. cockroach girls! nina’s world is way more bleak imo. she need friendship or the honest/direct violence she fantasises about... or both! this may very well mean nothing to you i just got excited when i saw ballet talk. thanks in advance for all the fucking incredible shit you’re planning!!!!!

trianina...that's a cute thought. i need to rewatch, haven't seen it since it came out. cockroach girls! 🪳🩰

yes dance is so exciting! going to organize my leash page a bit and start posting fragments when i have the chance. thank you!! <333

Nameless Grub · 8mo

https://youtu.be/Jf126Z_hy7I I made a review of Torture Works (it’s very positive, don’t worry, just thought maybe you’d like to see)

this is so cute what the fuck...
thank you for loving Cancer!! i got so much emotional…he is precious! i want him to succeed!! but first he’s gonna suffer a lot…

yes, the fecal matter is essential! relying purely on blood/gore can be such a half-hearted way of writing about disgust. blood is inherently ennobling; win or lose, victory or sacrifice. but i’m more interested in failure. the fecal martyrs…the abdominal angels…

for Maximum Softness as an “allegory for x”, i don’t personally have the experience of wanting to be a woman or being trans, but i understand how people can appreciate it that way. the autistic reading is equally valid, and ultimately it’s about the weaponization of all things. of course someone androgynous like me will be swept into the same mass grave as everyone else, and all amorphous beings must stick together…

thank you for the very thoughtful, encouraging, and passionate review, it makes me so happy! <333

Nameless Grub · 8mo

if one were to draw tria fanart…. how would one submit it to you…

Nameless Grub · 8mo

heya, um.. this is kind of stupid and random, but im in a google doc named 'schronheit'.. theres like hundreds of pages with a bunch of people typing up their thoughts and i have vague memories of writing on it as a kid... i suddenly stumbled upon it and am desperately trying to find where it came from and how i even found it when i was younger - for some reason it lead me the game 'zeitgeist' and then to here. answers probably no, but, do you know anything about it?

it's from my game Foldscape. i made it 10 years ago, and it linked to a blank google doc. i haven't touched it since.
looking at it now. it's emotional seeing people's messages from all over the world. lonely late nights...some almost half my age, or near the age i was when i made it. really special ;;;;

cute that nothingness could become a digital nurse log, the Devils Hole pupfish of the internet. i am glad connection could be made. <333

Nameless Grub · 8mo

Cancer Prize contribution: I have turned things around for myself gastrically but one wildcard is that I have bad period shits that sometimes tear my anus and cause confusion/fusion between my cunt blood and blood from my glass bones paper skin ass. However, Cancer truly speaks to me in his precarious mix of household experiences! I spent the back half of my childhood in an outwardly normal middle class home but with torture and neglect, and I had off and on hygiene problems (side note: the dad in Your Mother Has Fallen Out of Love is my dad, never seen or felt that psychology so strongly in a story, thank you from the bottom of my heart). So I would go to my good school in my nice school uniform reeking of bacterial vaginosis, trying to keep my legs closed all day, skipping lessons and not doing anything just hiding in the toilet because it was safe and private.

It was also mandatory for students to write with cartridge-loaded fountain pens unless they had an extenuating circumstance. I wanted to do everything the real children were doing so I tried it but I am an inveterate autistic chewer and kept biting through the end of the pen/cartridge and it would explode in my mouth and one time I swallowed a lot of ink and had to go throw up and later had vivid blue diarrhoea, and while I was at the mirror trying to scrub the ink out of my mouth some older girls came in and they regarded me coolly and laughed at me behind their hands. Please enjoy the HOT SHAME of this memory

thank you for the HOT SHAME i adore this, was completely entranced. i was a huge toilet hider too. leash is very much an eidolon of my childhoods. congrats on your gastric comeback!

i also tore my anus!! i hope the cancer cuntboy endometriosis period shits adventure will bring some catharsis 😋 and there may be a spiritual sequel to YMHFOoLWY cooking…

vagi-gnosis…ink shits…cool regard! you tell it so well, these really are the soul of leash! i will add to the leash letters section unless otherwise desired. thank you so much 🙏💜

Nameless Grub · 8mo

i really like how rubicon is just allowed to be presented as unambiguously sexy and desirable to many within the specific context of his story. it doesnt justify anything he does (though ofc you've long since moved on from petty and simplistic morality fables), it's just there. i dont know that ive ever seen any other story that is explicitly about "this wheelchair-bound crossdressing castrated burn victim is the sexiest creature alive," because people who do find that attractive are considered perverts (see: the fan response to people wanting to fuck curly from mouthwashing in his post-burn body), and really i think that's somehow crueler than just simply acknowledging him as a being with sexual desires in his own right. im glad that he sucks, and im glad that he's sexy. may he make everything explode forever

"this wheelchair-bound crossdressing castrated burn victim is the sexiest creature alive" YES HE IS <333
the greatest sign of respect (to me) is desire. these protoplasmic fucks see crippled/deformed bodies as inherently perverse and unworthy of love, so who else would want to fuck them but a pervert? call me #1 cripplefucker I don't care!!
"im glad that he sucks, and im glad that he's sexy." thanks for getting it, your letter encapsulates it all so beautifully <3 rubisplosions forever!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

not a cancer prize experience, but a riparian one!!! i remember distinctly that around the time you released light concentrations, i threw up chocolate after getting nic sick from a particularly strong cigarette. it was a little bit pink... very strange. it stands as an important experience to me!

beautiful!! bookmarked with poison candy sludge...I will try to make him smoke more so others can smoke less! 🙏

Nameless Grub · 8mo

in response to a question about muscles you said "the primary modality of physical cultivation in my universe is through dance" and that + the rest of it is driving me crazy. i am a former ballet dancer and i think ballet is more like something that you would make up to torture twinks than something real. i did other kinds of dance after but most of them were kind of the same, just desperately throwing my body into pleasing shapes, pain, failing and never stopping. ballet was the cruelest though. its espoused values of purity and gentleness can tell you how fucked up and evil it is. it eats toddlers. have you ever seen a foot stretcher? i used one. i danced en pointe really badly and theres nothing sadder and more pathetic than that. i still miss it. if you dont cut ur toenails super short your pointe shoes will push them back and make them turn purpleblack and fall off. i could go on about this for hours. i would love to know your thoughts. kisses

oh my god THANK YOU. yes ballet is so beautiful and evil. I should put Cancer in a foot stretcher. I will post various things this year about the xrafstarverse and dance but basically "cool physical movements" and dancing are how disease powers are unleashed. so Cancer's handler subjects him to "whiplash meets ballet meets medfet" regimens to maximize his fever overdrive potential. I love to dance and do it every day. it is how I understand my environment and navigate spatially. I want to spread music and dance through what I make...

If I make a game, it must be very physical and dancerly. I made it so Cancer can grind on rails and spin around. even within the confines of rpgmaker, I want to at least use animations and extensive hand fetishism to convey my dream. but it's on the backburner while I take care of existing projects.

the OA, and Nahobino from SMT V are also my idol in this regard. I live for the veneration of the skintight boy dancing for his life. if you have any gruesome info for me, please share or DM in some way so I can incorporate it into the story. Thank you dancer! <3

Nameless Grub · 8mo

I'm a fan of your story "Rabbits Cry Different" (I know it's not one of your more famous ones, but it surprised me by how good it was), and would like to recommend it. Is there anywhere it can be read online? Obviously it's fine if there isn't.

thanks very much. it's nice when people appreciate the rarer stories. I'll upload it to my site when I get back in town. We will show them the eros of Draize testing!! 👁️🐇

Nameless Grub · 8mo

Thank you. We need more small limp soft penises. This is so important to know about cancer. Thank you so much for your work. More small dicks!!!!

💜💜💜✨✨✨🪱🪱🪱 YAY!! i love small penises so much. i don't think any of my chars go above "small-to-average", and i love when artists draw them small too!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

is INNOCENT pro or anti circumcision? follow up question is cancer circumcised?

the circumcision fetish doesn't exist in this world. i hope one day that circumcision is seen as the equivalent of foot binding or clitorectomy, a medically acceptable form of child molestation (my foreskin is the one lucky thing about being born outside of a hospital. when the heavens grant someone a gift it is their duty to pay it back, so i try to share warmth charitas and generosity of spirit toward others 🙏). however i know many other facts about Cancer's penis. it is small, and prone to "premature" ejaculation. ✌️

Nameless Grub · 8mo

i like very much that even throughout your bugposting sickgrindset, you still like making sure your fans are healthy and not hurting themselves. it's nice to see! - [vomit] Faker

haha yeah generally people should do the OPPOSITE of my stories. except for the parts that are really smart and good to do. bodies are fragile and i want people to become closer to theirs, as someone who had a very damaged relation to it for so long. 🙏💜

Nameless Grub · 8mo

i became a coffee drinker bc of ur stories and i want to say thank you for the folgers rec i am now properly caffeinated . headcanoning that these cherries passed through an emotionally neglected twink

i do find coffee very sexual but i honestly think too much caffeine is bad for people and i would never endorse its overuse. and i’ve never rec’d folgers lol. please be careful with your heart! tea can be a healthier middle ground. and of course anything made with boys is very healthy!!!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

Have you read anything by Moto Hagio?

i've read some of A Cruel God Reigns. it's very beautiful and fun and soap opera-y, and i like all the shirts he wears!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

if we're sharing cancer experiences i have a 24/7 bladder infection and have to take antibiotics literally every day and they don't know what's wrong. a tragedie. so they (doctors)were like just take these every day sorry. always in pain anyways

have you listened to infected girls by electric six. it's about a bugchaser with many enthusiastic participants but honestly it can be Anything infection related

thank you for sacrificing your pain on the altar...boy... <3
that sounds agonizing, i hope they can find the right antibiotic for you and that everything will be okay! 🙏
yeah electric six is fun!! everybody down at mcdonlz....

Nameless Grub · 8mo

woke up from a dream in which i was writing an essay, for college, about the thematic uses of trauma in... cunt toward enemy and/or berserk? surely this is only because i've been thinking about both stories a dizzying amount lately. but, wow, two great tastes that kind of go so well together. two things i've been recommending to friends. the slippery simultaneity of dream exudate was onto something i think. CTE could stand for chronic traumatic encephalopathy too. cuntdamage in noggin (from all the explosions!!!)

wish i could read that essay! love berserk.
yess both those abbreviations are cute...hoping to post the next episode soon. the uses of trauma are gonna get really fuckin thematic 😋

Nameless Grub · 8mo

my cancer prize experiences are the one time i got a UTI so bad it hurt in my kidney and i cried cuz i couldn't sleep. and the one time i was gonna throw up from a migraine and i was kneeling over a toilet bowl full of bong water and i wanted to sext somebody on omegle so they could get off on that. and the colony of ringworm i grew all over my back. i wanna draw him having all of these experiences.... and WORSE

kid knee cry UTI! omegle bong sext!! ringworm utopia!!!
i completely understand the need to share. body miracles…
omg please draw...i love the idea of him being a canvas for the suffering…the natural corollary to a sin eater; a sin puker/shitter/etc! worse and worse!
thank you for these lovely fleshmares, and i hope you’re feeling better. xraffy new year! <3

Nameless Grub · 8mo

Heyo! Since reaching the current ends of both 18 foot leash scoutverse and cunt toward enemy (eagerly awaiting more filth), I've been thinking about suitcases. Because like. Suitcases are the peculiar link between these two otherwise radically different series, in a strange way? Like. Both Cancer Prize and Rubicon were restrained in suitcases as a form of torture, and that's just peculiar. I guess in a strictly practical way a suitcase is an efficient way to transport a child, and I know Rubicon isn't technically a child but there's a childlike quality to him? And then I just started thinking about the connection between the two, and Cancer is very much defined by his innocence, and Rubicon is a terrorist and a murderer, but there's still some kind of innocence to him anyways, maybe just because of how brutally fucked up he is. There isn't really a question here, just something I noticed, hope you have a happy holidays anyways <3

good observation. once you're in the suitcase, you become property. and children are the most common form of property!
"in a strictly practical way a suitcase is an efficient way to transport a child" so true!! 😋
being in the suitcase is an inherent innocence, a womblike transport (and rubicon's has these umbilical IV and respiratory feeds...).

ouuagh new leash and new cunt are nearly finished, just waiting for the holidays to be over so people's holes will be oriented in the right direction...merry xrafmas to you!! <3

Nameless Grub · 8mo

have you ever read pure trance by junko mizuno? stuff about its world and gore/violence and gender feels, i wouldn’t say similar to yours, the style and character-distance from the reader is very different, and so the stuff it’s closest to is very different from the stuff your work is closest to, but its trying to make a similar-shaped wreckage of its respective adjacent subgenres iykwim

i read some of it a long time ago it's super q! i like the trivia sidebars like discovering items in a game, and the insular medical world (some new leash stories will explore this terrain--2025 is my medfet year). the nearest most closest...i like that!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

Chabiby if you ever do vore im gonna go cwazy crazy i think you could write the horror eroguro of consumption and erotique digestion so well (this isn’t a request I’m just trying to hype you up to get grosser get gross get icky pls lower the rent prices at porp city go insane mode on my pp im here for u to write more pukeshit u already serve the most primo capital f Filth on da planet I read every text from you and gain a fresh appreciation for the romantic grotesque repulselove of life also have u ever played the metal gear series? There’s good boy torture in those mines, a humble rec-req for you, you do hurt(comfort) like no one else does)

VOOOOOOOOOOOOORE???????????? i never followed the vore aesthetic much but it makes sense for cancer, it’s very digestive tracty! tell you what, since you’re being such a sport i’ll throw in a little vore! he’s gonna be in a fuckin MOUTH

and yes haha the rent lowering will continue in 2025, i’m sitting on several finished or nearly finished leash stories that will take our boy to new depths of depravity…and i’ll post that vore thing with our prandial pal sometime too!

yeah metal gear has the good shit. there's a part in cunt toward enemy where lazur jerks off to raiden. my normiest most lowest common denominator trait is that i too want to disembowel raiden and slurp his MREs from his gutnoodles and place all his organs in shrinkwrapped plastic etc etc. which is what i assume most people talk about when it comes to the franchise

thanks for supporting the filth!! LETS FREAKING GOOOOOOO ✌️🎉📣‼️‼️‼️‼️

Nameless Grub · 8mo

i donthave anything to ask but i'm in love with your work ❤️❤️❤️

thank you. it will grow strong from this love and crush the world. 💖💜💖💜

Nameless Grub · 8mo

I like that thing u wrote so much I pee myself

which thing??? that narrows it down to like 99% of what i've written but i'm going to guess serious weakness 😋 good job soldier!!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

Hello. I am not any of the prior muscle anons. I am titty anon. I just wanted to say that I enjoy the way you describe breasts throughout CTE, in the brief moments they're foregrounded. I like the friction that they possess - they're constraining, incompressable, limit ghe flexibility of the body. I like and want my boobs but that is an aspect of my experience with them that I hardly see expressed anywhere else. Thanks for that.

hello titty anon!! :D i love that introduction. i think a lot about those little details, and there's actually some not-yet-released parts describing sensations like that, greenwich working out and feeling the yanking in her nipples, the way gravity jerks on the nerves. physicality is everything. thanks for reading!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

[yeast anon] i thought i sent in another ask but it may have been eaten? i would feel so honored if you used my horrible infection story as an element in one of your works! as a matter of fact the day after sending that in it spread from my cunt to my ass AND i caught a godawful case of the flu that im only just now beginning to recover from... my xrafmas was tonally appropriate perhaps but not at all fun to experience. i really got spitroasted there. (don't worry i have plenty of rest sugar and fluids. and acetamenophen or however it's spelled). but yes, if you did include something inspired by that i would treasure it forever... wishing you a merry xrafmas and a happy puke year ::-]

i love that. cunt to ass, amazing! a very happy holidays for the fungi kingdom!

glad you're getting rest after this...this nightmare! 🙏 i'm def putting yeast infection in the cancer cuntboy story, and it fits so well with endometriosis! thank you for contributing to the cancer prize cultural initiative, and a merry xrafmas to you too!!

Nameless Grub · 8mo

if we are sharing embarrassing cancer prize type experiences. i got my first yeast infection and didnt realize it for several days despite being in pain when i got off 😭 i had a new hole in me and didnt know. and when i did finally realize what it was i thought something about was kind of hot because the discharge looks like cum, got deeply embarrassed by this, and then remembered thats the exact thought process cuntboy cancer prize would have about himself

that is SO HOT thank you for sharing your Cancer Prize Experience™️ with me!! it's exactly his type of shit, the itchy gradient between ero and hazard. really considering including something like that, if it's okay that is! and good luck with your new hole! ⛳✨

Nameless Grub · 8mo

I cannot wait to see how well torture works on the local queer book club.

Nameless Grub · 8mo

Different anon from the other two exercise anons but it always stuck out to me that Trianon and Lazur are both runners. I loved what it represented for both of them and related to it a lot. A solitary intense fearful cope that means the grownups can’t catch you and turn you into one of them; also a tricky thing when you have ptsd and all movement feels deranged and your reward mechanisms are broken so it just hurts, but at the same time it makes sense. You can thrash in public and no one stops you. Not a question just a thing I liked!!

thank you <3 it's a very sexy trait for a final girl. the panting body transformed into a pure reaction to the pursuer. simultaneously athletic yet vulnerable. and i love your observation--the childish impulse to just GET OUT is so endearing. being so scared you relinquish your pride. being so scared you run even if you know they'll catch you. trianon sprinting for the wall and getting his ass beat. losing the staring contest with the wild animal. eye contact emasculation. becoming more and less civilized at the same time--your pursuer becomes an animal, and you the soft-bellied failson. you the animal, and your pursuer the omniscient hunter. bleeding air and sweat, drowning on dry land in the personal psychic pool of your predator. "no one runs faster than you can"~ 🎶

Nameless Grub · 8mo

different anon from muscle anon but when that was initially sent in my FIRST thought was greenwich. specifically greenwich getting off from having her face repeatedly mashed into the bathroom mirror. she seems like just enough of an endorphin freak to crave exercise to me

i thought of her too actually! losing muscle tone was very frustrating for her so she's super focused on getting buff again/speedrunning physical therapy, and the violence-parasite inside her is making it a lot easier. it's a fun contrast with her stoic nature, this pressure building up, using Laz to vent it, and rationalizing it into her zeal. she fantasizes about throwing herself off buildings and getting hit by cars. the moment of adrenaline when you realize you're still alive and walk away. at this point in the story she's a hardbody living weapon and can kill pretty much anything...

Nameless Grub · 9mo

how do you feel about muscles or working out? to me it seems like a form of cellular masochism, lots of things going on there, or a form of euphoric self punishment. do you have any characters who do it, or have some psychological catharsis through it, like maybe lazur or insul? i dont know who to picture as particularly more athletic than others or if you like the aesthetic of muscles itself over twinks

i like weak guys and muscular women. some of my characters are athletic but in a wiry way. insul got a late growth spurt so he has little guy insecurity in a tall body. lazur is sort of leon kennedy protagonist build but he’s lost weight from…circumstances. the primary modality of physical cultivation in my universe is through dance. everything is dance. nothing can cease to dance, only dance badly.

if someone has muscles in my stories it's probably a sign that something bad is going to happen to them...or that they're a woman. and that something bad is going to happen to them

Nameless Grub · 8mo

just had an experience which reminded me of you. I'm dealing with covid right now. im feeling bad. I'm having to pressure wash out taco bell shit with a bidet. as i try and squirt out the water. i realize what the feeling in my throat is. I'm over the side of my plastic bathtub/shower combo. I vomit. it's bad. i take a moment to recooperate, when i take an actual look at the watery mess.
i realize that strewn throughout it's general transparency are little teal streaks of Mountain Dew Baja Blast. at this point. i truly understand what it means to be the aphid fagthing omelas child for an e-sports team.

thank you for the puke report!! that's how i'd like to be remembered, when people have the worst shit of their lives...
hope you feel better! and please try to get some real nutrition, fried food and soda is harsh on your body esp while sick, and you need proper whole foods to ensure the best recovery! 🙏

Nameless Grub · 9mo

I am not fully caught up with leash or cunt and apparently he doid regardless but I just saw the name Joe Grammaton and am shot through with love. Joe Grammaton. So awkward and dignified, mumbled and clear. I would have such a crush on a boy named Joe Grammaton. Hope to meet him in the ether of culled ideas one night 🌙 joe grammaton🥰

haha yeah i refuse to use a normal human name unless i add something insane to balance it out. the absolute cloddity of joe gets the celestial fireworks

Nameless Grub · 9mo

Hi! So I'm the reptilian who asked something yesterday and I realized I left a couple details out- I apologize for that, I can be a bit forgetful sometimes. Anyways! All I wanted to say that I didn't say prior is that, as a former scout (was in the program for quite a while), I find Cancer (from Scout's Honor, that is- it's a lovely story so far, from what I've read!) to be an oddly relatable character. I have a lot of hazy memories of being disgustingly sick at campouts or summer camps, and, additionally, you put that feeling of being misplaced among the other boys in an excellent way!!!
The second thing I had in mind is less a comment and more a question- I really enjoy reading about the Innocentverse and things related to it, and I was thinking of drawing or writing about a Xrafstar character- my main question is the degree of variability between their physical forms! (I was thinking of making a kingsnake-esque dude with sort of a jutting, snoutlike jaw, and I was wondering if this was in the realm of possibility for them!)

yay, i was a scout too. it's a great place to be sick. and yes, was completely unable to integrate with the rest of the fascist breeding pool...

lovely...heartwarming...much agreed...lovely story about parasite trying to torture boy to death...a real day at the races...i wanna post the next episode of scout's honor soon, and some completely sicko oneshots. thank you!

kingsnake jaw, so sexy! xrafstar can be anything from “stealth passing” to “furry anthro” to “fucked” so have a dino blast! would love to see if you make one!

Nameless Grub · 9mo

so jonquil was from leashverse first? 👁 intriguing...

yes, in that one he was joe grammaton and he died horribly in riparian's subterranean bacterial mound. but most of all he died from editing because i needed to streamline the story... 😋

Nameless Grub · 9mo

hello there!!! i'm not sure if you'll see this (i'm not entirely sure how this website works, haven't used it before), but i just want to say that i enjoy your work quite a lot from what i've read!! (so far it's been Your Mother Has Fallen Out Of Love With You, Protection From Gravity, and i started reading Scout's Honor, along some other misc stuff!)

i suppose i just want to say thank you! even if i'm new to your body of work i kind of feel as if a weird weight has been lifted, like some weird channel of clogged desire just got yanked open, and i plan to read more of it soon! (particularly planning on checking out Torture Works!)

on another note, i really like your writing style- it's definitely variable from story to story but a lot of it feels very sticky and wet and i like that! and your fixation on the gut (the bowels especially) in your stuff is something i feel as if i can relate to (reminds me of bataille!)

i suppose that's all- not really any questions at the moment, just a word of appreciation!
cheers from a reptilian boygirl!

nice picks, dropped into the deep end of the septic tank!!

i’m very glad to hear that. without desire, there is no consciousness. hope you enjoy any additional torture materials.

yes! the guts are the source of my generative power...my hookworm muse, my haruspexing! thanks for writing! <33 🦎🪰

Nameless Grub · 9mo

apologies if this was asked b4...but if laz and rubi were xrafstarred what type would they be 🪰 personally i could see centipede rubicon but post boysplosion im not sure how it would affect the parasite

i think of them on the pathogen spectrum; rubi in leashverse (the wet universe!) would be infected by a catastrophic, flesh-eating, highly stylized virus that left him bedridden and in need of constant care (i've thought about this before...). lazur would be, of course, a doctor specializing in deadly exotic diseases. but IF they were animals, i can totally see the centipede rubicon, yeah! :D or maybe a yellowjacket...and post-explosion, a phantom limb spider, a feline arachnid. lazur is a maned wolf.

Nameless Grub · 9mo

my gf said that fem riparian should lay eggs and i think that's beautiful... there are some parasite breeding ideas to be had here 💭💭💭

uaawgh yes I've thought about this a lot. there's def a version of the parasite/disease that stuffs every inch of Cancer's guts with bug eggs. I actually drew a pic of Cancer giving birth but never finished it, maybe I'll clean it up sometime, and/or write a little scene for the eventual Cancer compilation. and the secret page on the shrine has a spurty pic by krabat...
HOWEVER, I did finish a story for an ero horror anthology and it has egg/ovipositor action in a religious horror setting (moth lovers may particularly enjoy), and I will post about it when that comes out! stay strong eggfuckers... ✌️🥚💦

Nameless Grub · 9mo

I dreamt that I was at a party at Calendula's mansion (for some reason), then that I was reading a full manga adaptation of Cunt Toward Enemy. I remember that the artstyle looked a lot like that of Tsurugi no Kuni no Arnis (which I only found out about and read because you put images from it in your Leash shrine).

I was quite disappointed in the lack of real-world CTE manga when I woke up.

I love Arnis, Yamamoto Atsuji's work is so underrated! the guro is truly exceptional, and the later issues do incredible things with a minimal red/black palette and watercolor(?). I think of Greenwich in his style, esp some of his dark haired bleeding ballistic women in Ammo. AND he's down with the girly boys; his Mr Boy series and the pics he posts on twitter.
very glad you checked it out, mudlarking in the shrine...
the next episode of CTE may very well take place in Cal's residence...and yes, a cunt comic would be so fun, probably my preferred format for it in an ideal world, tbh! I really think some of my stories would be better as comics or movies but sans resources, games are a decent alternative. thanks for reading my dreamanga... 💣

Nameless Grub · 9mo

what software was maggot therapy made in and would you recommend it for beginner videolaga makers? i really like the checkpoint/chapter select system and i rlly wanna make my own videolaga but ive never done it before

I made it in gamemaker. thanks, I'm proud of how the checkpoint select looks! really wanted to highlight Evan's art as much as I could...sexy opposing hands...
gamemaker makes certain things easier but you still have to do so many things from scratch that honestly for a beginner I'd recommend rpgmaker, which is what I use nowadays. it's just FUN and you can make a guy walk around and talk to stuff INSTANTLY. and if you want to put your own graphics in, you can open the default tilesheets/sprites in your favorite image editor and see exactly how to edit or replace them. and then you can export your game to browser and anyone can play it!

main thing is that rpgmaker needs plugins to really work, but it has a ton of good ones and I really recommend it as someone's first videolagamaker experience. other engines might be more technically flexible but that immediate feeling of playing with dolls and painting the map and having a preset example of all the different elements of a game, is a great introduction.

RPG Maker MV is on sale for 12 bucks right now, and goes low as 8. It is the previous one in the series and has the most resources/plugins available for it. The newest one, MZ, is catching up, and the plugin space is really good for it now (and there’s a prog to make MV plugins work in it). I got MZ for like 30 something (never buy an rpgmaker unless it’s on sale). The new features like plugin commands+movement preview+event list save a lot of time, but either version is good for a beginner! good luck videolagist...

Nameless Grub · 9mo

How does Riparian react to menstrual smells?

BUDDY.....i'm working on two stories about exactly this, and one is the cancer tboy strip mall endometriosis and it is a bloodshit fuckfest and the other is cancer getting her first period and her school nurse is fem riparian. riparian goes fucking crazy for that shit (despite his misogynistic tendencies). i would like to post them on my patreon and/or blog early in 2025! 🩸👅🩸

Nameless Grub · 9mo

tboy Insul. Insul with a pussy would be breathtaking

i got a few asks about this so i'll answer here...all i really have to say is yes...god yes...fguck....YES!! !!! !!! i bet it would taste like a rusty knife or licking a battery

Nameless Grub · 9mo

tboy oenone ,????

without the straitjacket of his respectable family/appearance-focused job, surrounded by two guys making out constantly, he realizes he always wanted to be one of the boys, and now he has a safe environment (being kidnapped) to explore DIY testosterone. or maybe tria goes to the doctor and gets a prescription for his low T and gives it to oenone. and they all fuck, "break in your new faggot body", etc

Nameless Grub · 9mo

since its the season, how do you think insul, trianon and oenone would celebrate christmas?

green haired boy covered in blood what's more festive than that

insul: getting presents for basically first time in his life + hooking ornaments into tria's cheeks, tongue, balls, etc
trianon: overthinking the perfect presents to get for the bitch who kidnapped him / bitch he is currently kidnapping
oenone: santa hat
oenone 2: planning escape but realizes winter is a bad time for it, ends up getting high and spitroasting tria with insul

Nameless Grub · 9mo

imagined tboy cancer prize ….

he works at a strip mall and he's got endometriosis. he hooks up with random guys on grindr and he's afraid to ask for anal even though PIV hurts so bad. then one night he meets a very special someone...
coming to a theater near you in 2025

Nameless Grub · 9mo

i feel like cancer prize would be so so good slotted into a medical role. probably not a doctor but a nurse, maybe in the ER or a field hospital... the irony of trying so hard to be virtuous and heal the sick while having an easily upset stomach and mind, the attempt to put distance between yourself and the sick because it would be an acknowledgment of your own failures to show visible sympathy and kinship with them, the cleaning chemicals, the long periods of extreme sleep deprivation, the substance abuse, the caffeine diarrhea... it's all so him to me

i'm writing a bunch of Cancer medical stuff right now actually!! i agree SO...SO MUCH. and i see his handler as having a medical background.
INNOCENT triage center. raiding the drug locker, tweaking and bloodspattered, coffee shits, trying not to throw up in an endless parade of open wounds. he'd look so cute in a nurse outfit...florence fuckin nightsoil...i’ll throw in a lil nurse action just for you! 👌

Nameless Grub · 9mo

I was recently hospitalised for severe guts-related issues and reading 18 Foot Leash really helped me get in the appropriate shitting mindset. Thank you very much.

I loved the vibe of the horrid seaside town and I'm happy Cancer got to stumble through so much of it.

💜💜💜 overjoyed to hear this!! the viscera of the world are connecting...
i want to make a game where players can explore the atoll...they need to suffer too!
i pray your guts will be okay...may our boy-saint of rectal agony watch over you 🙏🙏🙏

Nameless Grub · 9mo

hello! i am only mildly familiar with your work but i started reading cupbearer to the gods after snooping around your digital presence and i must reccomend you Co-Ire by rene scherer and guy hocquenghem if you have not read it already. non-fiction "pedopunk" analysis of childhood with Zoroastrianism terms used

i was reading guy's homosexual desire recently and enjoying it. didn't know about co-ire, thanks for the tip. there are some great lines in this...feels very leashcore too... "the observed child who, under the pretext that he is schizophrenic, cannot be peaceful even on the toilet"

Nameless Grub · 9mo

I'm legally changing my name soon, and with it i also get the option to pick a new middle name for myself, after thinking it over for a few weeks i think i'm going to go with Tria. Thank you for making a girlboy faggot being which i can identify with so closely.

a cute little name squeezed in the middle of the back seats! that's so sweet, i hope it fares you well, and all the other names. making girlboy faggot beings is my true joy in life! 🪱🎀✨

Nameless Grub · 9mo

I had a dream in the Cupbearer universe that I wanted to share: in the dream, rasts were treated like active shooters and there were all kinds of protocols for what to do if one got into an environment with kids (insert Summer Heights High “there’s a paedophile in the school!” clip).

Every school had alarm levers on the walls which released a disabling shockwave when pulled. These were extremely powerful rape alarms wired into the national grid. They were supposedly designed to incapacitate rasts but in reality they delivered most of their charge into the student who activated them and surrounding kids. There was a very Serious and Concerned Conversation happening around how to stop children using the alarms for non-rast reasons, like pulling the lever because they’re about to get beaten up or they don’t want to take a test. There were special assemblies where reformed teens would be like “I pulled the lever because I felt bad and now I have lifelong vestibular problems, don’t do it!!!” and “pull the lever on a rast and you’re a hero, anything else you’re just dirt”.

No one was talking about how the real purpose of the shockwave was to render children unconscious so they wouldn’t remember being molested and if they never woke up who cared. There was a dog girl idol called Coco Distemper and she released a single where she discussed it in elliptical terms to avoid controversy lol. THANK UOU FOR MAKING MY DREAM THEN READING IT ^-^

i love this hahaha. an alarm that punishes the user is genius, like something a machine would design, “the most efficient way to deal with the problem in as few steps as possible is to eliminate the observer”. very realistic security theater.
Coco Distemper is a godlike name, can’t believe how on-model this whole dream is. thank you for dreaming!! ^O^

Nameless Grub · 9mo

just wanna let u know that i’m a long time reader and lover of everything you do, owner of all your published works and will buy any future physical books you put out. you have my support and continued attention.

this is such a sweet message 💜 i received it on a hard day and it meant a lot to me. thank you for believing in me.

Nameless Grub · 9mo

sometimes i think that i am too dumb to understand your stories, despite my love for them. Should i get dumber?

when I was younger, everything seemed over my head. intimidating.
but most of the things people talk about are stupid and fake. accretions of subcultural neurosis.
there are things worth learning. sometimes their contexts and influences won’t be immediately apparent. being curious about lots of different things will illuminate past mysteries in unexpected ways.
but the mystical can only thrive in the gaps. not everything is for understanding, but for feeling. and it sounds like you’re doing that :)

Nameless Grub · 9mo

I love Cupbearer so so much, the mere fact that it exists in the world feels like some kind of miracle??? I can't thank you enough for writing it TToTT Are there any other Certified Pedopunk Classics you'd recommend?

thank you 💜 miracles are the water we grab

the necrophilic landscape by morgan vogel
good sex illustrated by tony duvall
nii-chan by harada

Nameless Grub · 9mo

Not a question, but I for one would be very happy to read more Cupbearer.

Nameless Grub · 9mo

read cupbearer to the gods & i am no longer normal... fascinating! cuts like a scalpel! hooked in my brain! i would love to see more of veau & y...

thank you <33 i have a lot more laying around, i love those guys. if a press ever picks it up or the demand is high enough, i could afford to finish, otherwise i'll have to get to it in a distant happy season. maybe i'll share some act 4 excerpts on my patreon sometime. thanks for reading! 🧼🥩

Nameless Grub · 9mo

i had a very elaborate dream in which i was living in your house which was this sort of mall-bunker with a weird black metal theme after a terrible accident and i had very bad burns across my face and i kept finding living larvae and flies inside of my blisters and terrible things kept happening and the police were trying to get people

the mall...my eternal haunt...i would definitely live in that kind of place. flies and malls and severe burns, it's like an amalgam of my recent stories! i used to have a lot of nightmares about cops chasing me. thanks for staying in my little dream hostel...

Nameless Grub · 10mo

i would buy a physical version of 18 foot leash so fast.. i cried tears of joy reading throat secrets because i felt like i could never read anything else i wanted and loved so much even if i paid 10 or 20 people to write vomit incest. everything youve written will live in my heart forever but 18ftl is something special. dont underestimate your vomit pervert fans you are feeding us something so delicious and perfectly engineered to puke back up ❤️💕

THANK YOU!! ah it means so much to hear that. it will get so nasty i can’t imagine many reading to the end, but nevertheless i must persevere…for the good of humanity…NO…THE COSMOS…thank you thank you!! more sludge soon! 💜💜

Nameless Grub · 9mo

I had a dream that was somehow inspired by your work despite not having any of your characters or settings. In the dream I awoken on my couch and was partially blind and found it hard to move. I heard people talking in another room and suddenly a model-attractive, blonde haired man and woman ran out of my bedroom. I followed them out to the communal hallway but they'd climbed the stairs and were throwing objects at me. At this moment I realised I'd been turned into something like a blind, cyborg hermit crab, crippled and partially blind, with no limbs but 4 short legs. The couple then ordered food, and when the delivery driver showed up, the stabbed her. She ran across the street and I followed her to a glowing ritual circle, where she did some sort of spell that turned her into a massive whale, with exposed organs and bones and cybernetic parts. She then inhaled deeply to try and swallow the aggressive couple, but they turned into 4 smaller white whales or dolphins, and she choked on them then exploded. The dream then shifted to me watching these events unfold on my TV, with my friends, in my sitting room which was now made of red and blue latex furniture. One of my friends commented that you had written this movie, and I woke up.

ahahah the crab part is so funny, i love it. evil blond, paralysis, blinding, amputation, exploding, red blue latex, what a cunty dream. i would have been proud to write it. thanks for sharing, the communications of the gyre are of absolute importance <3

Nameless Grub · 9mo

ghost mtn came back!!!!!!!!! how do u like his new stuff? is it as good as 100 acre woods?

Dark Harvest is whatever. Apollon is nice, i like his singing and the greek subject matter, it's fun when they mix it up. thanks for the tip, i didn't know he was back!

Nameless Grub · 10mo

I got two of my friends to read SeriWeak and now I'm kinda fucking on both of them and I can't lie, the Insul/Trianon roleplay leaks in sometimes. Your work feels like a lovely parasite that I'm helping spread to other peoples bodies and I love it so much, thank you for being such an amazing artist.

thank you, that's super sweet to say <3 and i always want people to feel like they can make their own horrible homunculi, everything in the universe is a template, waiting to be mulched

Nameless Grub · 10mo

ADORE 18 foot leash: scout's honour. Might be my favourite thing from you. Would love to read more or buy physical copy in the future. Thanks for sharing!

thank you so much...leash is my baby <3333
a leash book...that would be something...imagined only as one can imagine the rebirth of atlantis or world peace. it seems too niche for a physical release, but we’ll see when i’m finished. the fujo/fudanshi immune system must be strengthened if they are to survive what is to come. i would like to compile it into a PDF at minimum, and i have some delicious extras already written.

thank you for believing in the dream... 🪰

Nameless Grub · 10mo

how many answers are on the seriweak personality quiz?

Nameless Grub · 10mo

all the love in the world for shapeshifters and shadows and masks <3

Nameless Grub · 10mo

just asking to be sure I'm using the correct terms, but do you consider yourself "not transfem" or just "not a trans woman".. or something else, in case I got something wrong in there too? Apologies since you've had to reiterate gender stuff a lot already. Thanks!

I'm not either, by any stretch of the imagination. I love femininity and my trans fans, but I'm just a shapeshifter, shadow, series of masks, spirit of love, not a person. I am part of everything and everything is part of me.

Nameless Grub · 10mo

the maximum softness capable of being exerted by all machinery is so deliciously painful. what if someone built you to be a gun and then hated you for it? what happens when you, the one not masked to amuse or comfort or put at ease, show through, and prove yourself right in such an awful way? vindictive, vindication. you know they hate you, but no one says it, and that's worse. the fake woman, the dangerous woman, the not-a-woman-at-all thing. you're so attuned, you can see what people are not saying. thank you.

yeah, criminals are very literally a product of their environment: assembled, transported, taxed, created by capital to justify itself, and the autist or endogenator exposes that mechanism. glad it hit true. even though i'm just your average guy, i'm muad'dib for trannies <3

Nameless Grub · 10mo

is...is the implication that in trying to summon an angel, cancer pulled riparian

it's just a cute little coincidence, or irony. I'll probably convey it better in the final draft. the next episodes will have a lot of entity stuff though... 👁️‍🗨️

Nameless Grub · 10mo

been thinking a lot about greenwich. i've been associating her a lot with lingua ignota's music, and may end up compiling a playlist, but mostly i'm wondering if there's anything you associate with her? any other art, including music?

shrike

seems about right!
I think about I'm Not Down and Rosary by Sleigh Bells. 🙏💚

Nameless Grub · 10mo

i got Blake as my personality test answer what am I supposed to do with this information

Nameless Grub · 10mo

cte is insane to me because each time i finished a chapter i was like 'ok this is the end of the movie, i can stop looking' AND THEN THERE WAS MORE. very cinematic expereince. i love how it gave me temporary chills ptsd to distract from the cptsd, making me terrified of innocent and normal redlights... i'm only on part 4 i think (rubicon is incredibly hot cripple) but i wanted to let you know.

it can't climax because he has no penis!! NONSTOP NONSTOP
hahaha yeah, ptsd vs cptsd counterpoint, exactly! cte is my ptsd heat sink...
agreed. he is such hot cripple. thank you <333

Nameless Grub · 10mo

today i realized that i dont have to use a language that oppresses and divides me and i can just call myself a xrafstar instead bc that covers everything, bc none of my issues can be easily unwound from the tangle of who i am and are in fact nebulously soaked through with The Ooze. i no longer have to submit to an inadequate self-description that wants to cut me to pieces and label me and in fact justifies the torture imprisonment and murder of so many like me, nor do i have to reaffirm an essential humanity that is nowhere to be found. and honestly i just fit the description in general bc i am also addicted to sugar sex and violence. insert "on all levels except physical" meme. my greatest dream is that in addition to making me hairy, smelly and sterile hrt will give me a beautiful set of sensitive antennae with which to smell and feel the wondrous world, and a set of wings would also be nice. but i can wait and settle for lesser erohazards in the meantime. this is the most free ive ever felt in my life. and it's all thanks to you :-]

💜 yeah. fixed identities are just borders for the heart. fascism vs fashion. you don't owe me anything, all the vermin words are free in the world for everyone! good luck with hairy smelly sterile!! 🪰🌊💥

Nameless Grub · 10mo

does cancer prize officially have any gi illnesses or is he just a general pukeshit fountain?

he has abdominal migraines. he has a host of fetal alcohol syndrome/congenital issues, some of which lead to nausea and indigestion. his nausea is physical and psychological. his gut-axis is deranged. you can imagine him as a die spun across timelines, each face of the die a different gastric issue or disease or parasite. he is a sacred vector. and he is also a pukeshit fountain.

Nameless Grub · 10mo

can't tell u how much lazurwich means to me. thank u for throwing some juicy red meat to the followers of the character i relate to heavily x character i think is rly rly hot thread.

aw you're welcome! what's BL without a little girl action...
i love her too, more juicy meat (both red and green) is on the grill! 💚

Nameless Grub · 10mo

i've read three of your books physically now, and i've noticed that the print in all of them is kind of massive compared to most other books (well, books targeted at adults, i mean) that i've encountered. i really appreciate this, since i tend to get overwhelmed and lose my place when there's too much text on the page. is there a similar sort of thing at play in your use of large print? or is it just an artistic choice? or something else entirely?

Both! It's easier to keep track of, and it crystallizes the text at the sentence level. I shoot text like film, or poetry, or something that fits in my brain damage time aperture. I'm glad it's helpful for the other fuckbrained ones out there <333

Nameless Grub · 10mo

Are you by any chance a fan of Chuck palahniuk? Your writing reminds me a little bit of his, stylistically, particularly his earlier books

when I was 14 I printed out Fight Club on a huge stack of printer paper and read it in my attic bedroom the first year of being fostered. I didn't know he was a fag because most people didn't talk about that stuff back then. I enjoyed his direct style and the way he didn't use quotation marks, and it's probably the biggest stylistic choice I've retained to this day. It varies from story to story (q-marks can help with complex convos, and Cupbearer uses playwriting format) but naked dialog feels real, dissociated, coming from inside the skull. Even stories where I mostly use quotation marks, will strip them when the scene calls for it.

I haven’t read him for a long time, but yeah, it had an impact on me <3

Nameless Grub · 10mo

hi! i’m new here and obsessed with everything going on with your work, but don’t know where to start! where would you recommend? would you be willing to give a brief little rundown of your works/characters? :>

hi :) It really depends on what you like! You could go to my stories page and look at the tags, or see which pics look interesting in the fanart gallery.

Serious Weakness is my most popular book, if you want something long and grueling and hostagecore.

Cunt Toward Enemy is rivalrycore/villainfucker and has the most "adventure" plot, with some scifi elements.

18ft Leash is what I use to filter people. It has a focus on disease/parasites/nausea and is the “buggiest”/most xrafstaric.

Torture Works if you like short story collections. Lots of different genres, ranging from E to X-rated, and it collects the intros for a few of the series above, so kind of a sampler platter.

Maggot Therapy is my most recent game, if you like visual novels, suburban gothic, and/or maggots…

Nameless Grub · 10mo

also i had surgery on halloween and the whole time i was like "fuck i hope i don't croak before CTE ends." i survived with a major complication! rubicon i'm rooting for you blow everything up forever and get that old man ass

I'm so glad you made it! 😭 ahh that's so sweet...we can live in hopes of reading about someone else's body being ripped apart instead of our own...make-a-wish foundation needs to get on this shit...

the end is coming, we're so close! pretty much every episode is going to be fucking crazy from here on out...thanks for reading and surviving! <333

Nameless Grub · 10mo

THEY SUITCASED HIMMMMMMMM

Nameless Grub · 10mo

im quite late to the party but i recently finished serious weakness and it sort of feels like you bored into my brain and pulled out a piece of the scared stuff. like i feel like you shouldve needed consent to write this much about me. its fine though, you did it eloquently and beautifully.

its shocking just how on the pulse of humanity you are. the future of SW would seem ironic if, like, my dad didnt watch rags, and my mom wouldnt put on the last song in the official xrafstar seri wea playlist in the car all the time while i was growing up. its too close, i dont even know if you know how bad it really is.

i dont have a question really, just fanboygirling, and coping, but if you have any words of advice for the latent insul/trianoncel i'd love to hear

thank you <3 your mom is a desaparecidos fan!!
advice...hmm...everyone is so different, all i can say is what i would have said to myself…

✦ obsessing over personal appearance is a waste of time. a little cultivation is worthwhile but has diminishing gains. being comfortable in your body will have the biggest impact on people.
✦ 20s is spent worrying about too much inconsequential shit. make what you want, train good habits, chase your enjoyment, don’t do homework for the universe.
✦ all the stupid shit people talk about isn’t real. you aren’t ontologically doomed. look at animals. why should you be more neurotic than them? don’t let rich fucks and clout chasers scam you with brainworms. engaging with it on any level gives them money and fucks you over. they don’t have any friends, that’s why they’re posting stupid shit. poison floats to the surface. don’t surround yourself with weak, scared, reactionary people who settle for the slop they’re given. if you want something real, you have to dig for it. find something worth loving.
✦ drinking/smoking/processed food fucks you up fast. enjoy yourself but educate yourself, harm reduction, etc.
✦ take responsibility, but accept no guilt or grudges.
✦ find out where the pain is hiding in your body, and be good to it. remember to breathe.

Nameless Grub · 10mo

it's been over a year since i read serious weakness and i've thought about it often but no scene has stuck with me more than twenty garden salads. like every single time i prepare a meal and eat i think about "twenty garden salads, no dressing" and trianon all fucked up in the car and covered in lettuce and forcing bits of salad down, it's so vivid. so yeah i guess i want to thank you for making art that has lodged firmly in my mind 💜

haha cute. well he didn't need those dressings he already got some! 🩹
i fucking love salad. yay 💜

Nameless Grub · 10mo

I'm happy to see your Twitter back! i was there at the minute it got banned, and i cursed so fucking loud it's silly.
Im so happy to see people still cosplaying tria for halloween, patron saint of girlthings with something unfixable bursting through their souls like a prolapse.
-Faker!!

thank you 💜
me too, it is so cute to see, I love them all. prolapse yes! the soul is an anus!

Nameless Grub · 10mo

congratulations on your return to The Everything App... i was so frighten. i was worried nobody would show me the path to redemption and love but here you are again. hope you had the happiest of halloweens <3

M.D. Dhalgren · 10mo

Hello! I was trying to break out what Trianon is saying in Morse during some of the scenes of Serious Weakness with my friend who works Naval Comms. We got: "M--NIISITITS-5HESSSHSSS"

And then, "No" repeating on. Well. Thr "No" pages...

it's not Morse code it's just agony!! but nice try anyways, it's interesting to see the babel generation. his whimpering probably sounds like Morse tbh :)

Nameless Grub · 10mo

congrats on getting ur twitter back!

Nameless Grub · 10mo

i dressed up as some take on tria this halloween. thank you for writing serious weakness https://imgur.com/IHx49BO

so cute!! the color looks like real blood, either way I hope everyone will be safe out there and sterilize wounds etc. thank you for keeping the spirit of boy torture alive in your heart and also on top of it 💜

Nameless Grub · 10mo

I've been wanting to let you know how seen I felt with trianon's obsession with calories and I just never really got around to it, but reading throat secrets got me off my ass. Basically: thank you for putting into words that horrible, strange, humiliating fear of that feeling of food absorbing into your body, as if it'll change you into something disgusting. It's like, yeah, I know I know, puking bad, but it really is about the fear. Fear bad enough to override whatever consequences you get with puking a box of chocolates (which hit too close to home)

Also, I was a bit stunned to see your twitter get killed (which is why I checked your blog and went ahead and read throat secrets while I was at it) and ofc you can just ignore this if you get other messages on it but got any plans for what you'll do or where you'll go? I like seeing your updates and what you're up to. Thnx!

yeah, this kind of preemptive vomiting, deconstructed fear-event, is so juicy...
heheh it wouldn’t be one of my boys if he didn’t have one or both types of ED. I’m glad my eating is healthier these days but the feeling is always there. thanks for reading/understanding/spewing <333

I didn’t post anything that would break the rules but they’re cracking down on degeneracy and TRUE DIVINE CONNECTION. you can find my other socials here and I’m reluctantly using bluesky (unless I get my twitter back). I will focus more on those, and of course my personal site! contemplating making a discord altho I'm still leery about it.

Nameless Grub · 10mo

love u.. its so unfortunate u got suspended cuz ur intermittent posts were some of my favorites

Nameless Grub · 10mo

leash playlist?! I can’t find it… can I have it here please

very bottom of the leash page meme of guy turning back with pickaxe after mining through 99% of shit, just before striking a vein of even shittier shit

Nameless Grub · 11mo

hi! I just wanted to tell you the song "scroll of sorrows" by machine girl reminds me of riparian, while "status" reminds me of cancer (: 🪰

cute! I can see it! the last r chapter references smoking mirrors and ticks... 🪰

Nameless Grub · 10mo

yesss lazur with the playstation ambience...okay a part two. what is rubicon and cancer's go-to music? i can see rubi liking gabber & stuff. also government hooker by lady gaga comes to mind 💣. i saw the playlist for leashverse but wasn't sure if that was inspiration songs or songs for the characters

rubicon: sure, a faggot with a coke habit could listen to anything

and now music sounds bad because his hearing is messed up. he likes the bass of explosions vibrating into his deformed chest cavity, laying on the ground like a lizard in the sun.

cancer: cartoon theme songs. pop songs on the radio or in passing cars. whatever he's groomed to listen to.

leash playlist is songs I listen to when writing it or that feel leashy

Nameless Grub · 10mo

sorry if this has been asked before, do you ever plan to collect all of CTE into one place, like a printed work someday? 🖤

Nameless Grub · 10mo

reading riparian is really fun as a being with a very sensitive sense of smell... can't avoid that awareness, can't avoid knowing what other people smell like, can't be not conscious of how that sense affects us even when we don't want to be affected, how much it controls our perception in spite of our supposedly better senses/awareness of people and spaces...

yes, it's so fun! of all the senses, it most compliments my stories; the emphasis on unseen things, shame, etc. especially for a parasite who is just trying to blend into human society but can't stop smelling this boy's dick/ass/balls/etc. and there is this unspoken hierarchy, as you allude; the smell of someone can make you think, oh they are weaker/stronger than I thought, their value has changed...are they coarser than suspected, are they unwell...

Nameless Grub · 10mo

i did some art after one of ur works, anywhere i could send it for u to see? :]]] love love your work, makes me rlly happy whenever i see u posted something <3 💤💤

Nameless Grub · 11mo

your stuff has really been helping me through a lot and i had no idea how much stuff you were involved in that i've been tangentially related to for the past half decade. torture works helped me fully delve into your catalogue and i am so glad i did ❣️❣️ you rock!!!!!

that's right i got a finger in every pie in this town!! i'm the spirit of the century! i'm like HPV!
yay, i'm happy it could be helpful. the collected works of bugfucker...a literary odyssey! thanks so much <333

Nameless Grub · 11mo

since other ppl are already saying it i want to let you know that your stories have always meant so so much to me since the day i found you sometime in my early teenage years. i will forever be grateful to you for finally allowing me to put the bad things that are happening to me into context, and i pray/hope (nonreligiously) for both our continued health and safety... i want to live in a world where good things happen to us! and i want to show you my tribute when it is finally complete... i hope you find a joy of some kind today, preferably large but small would be acceptable too. as long as it's there for you. inasmuch as we can be, we will be okay. 🦋🐌🐛🦟🦗🐜🐝🐞🦂🕷🕸🦐🦞🦀<- xrafstar parade for you

💜💜💜 that means so much to me, thank you. even if there are bad days, i feel so lucky all the time and have a lot to be grateful for. reading fucked up stories was my main refuge during those years, and i’m so glad they could be around for yours as well. thank you for xrafstar parade!! 📯📯📯🎉🎉🎉

Nameless Grub · 10mo

i just thought about how much i appreciate the masturbation scenes you write <3 they are so full of character and they inspire me greatly

thank you!! I agree, masturbating is so insightful into a character, and too often seen as "masturbatory" (lol) when it says so much about the character's world and their freedoms, both external and internal. the truest form of prayer... <333

Nameless Grub · 10mo

what kind of music do riparian & lazur listen to? rip seems like he would listen to white noise really loud. and enjoy it

lazur: he plays TV/playstation menu ambience in the background when he's trying to fall asleep as a PTSD cope. his tastes vary between chill electronica and guitar noodling/prog. He likes Buckethead, and Tangerine Dream which he first heard watching Sorcerer although he prefers the original (The Wages of Fear) as a film. he has nostalgia for some cheesy euro bands his dad would listen to, and the Semi Novan radio his mom would play. he also really likes NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and most of all, Savage Garden.
riparian: he would definitely listen to horrible TV static. if anything sounds too good he hates it and wants to destroy it. the existence of music implies that anything could be better than the sound of his own voice. he can’t go to live performances because the smell of saliva in the holes of the instruments or spraying through the air drives him crazy. he has memorized the names of 3 totally O.K. songs for the present era, in case anyone asks him about music. they never do. one of the songs is actually a presidential candidate. he likes the sound of breathing because it is most connected to his sense of smell which overpowers everything else. the compounds in someone’s breath are like the notes of a song. he appreciates strong percussive elements and loves dancing, but he has forgotten this.

Nameless Grub · 10mo

i apologize for how many questions this is and no worries if you don't want to answer ;;

do you mind (or like) being asked questions about your series & worldbuilding? i don't want to be super annoying here i just have. so many questions about the world. love to know how things work. but i also get if it's like "wait and see" for it

are "original" (in parentheses because it's your would they're just livin in it) characters made for different 'verses okay or would you prefer if people only interacted with the canonical characters as they are

AND

if YOU were xrafstarred what type of creature would it be

1) I actually mainly prefer answering questions about my stories. I've gotten good questions of every kind, but I am less likely to answer a question that is more “meta” or "how do i make Art. how do i Fuck Good". I prefer to talk specifically about my characters and worlds. Some stuff is “wait and see”, and a big part of my worlds is their malleability/lack of prescriptivism, but no harm in asking!

2) It’s fine if people want to make their own characters! cute!

3) I would probably be a fly, roach, or bat (per my xrafstar shrine). Maybe that's why I like Riparian so much!

Nameless Grub · 10mo

Hello porp I would just like to tell you how much I love leash and every story in it. Burrowing deep into the unspeakable human experience and emerging with something cherished,,,,,
Some curious questions:
Could someone be xrafstared twice or would the parasite be too possessive to let that happen? Thinking about how on the atoll we have currently only seen riparian but I wonder…
Also…is it just me or does scoutverse riparian seem a lot more xrafstarbrained than coffeeverse riparian? The parasite seems a lot more dominant/the main framework of mind here while in coffee he seems so much more human in the style of malice he harbours.

thank you for loving leash <333 🪱🪰

1) two parasites one gut, interesting…DP...double parasite…double pseuding…the parasite eventually replaces the intestines with itself, so there would only be room for one, but it would be fun for two parasites to fight for one body! it would either kill the body or drive it (more) insane. or maybe a pseud could adapt to be the esophagus and the other could be the intestines? how domestic
generally, two parasites are more likely to compete for a body by infecting it with their respective diseases…fever mind control battle.
one of the next episodes will reveal a NEW PSEUD and there will be a lot more later and it will be HORRIBLE.
2) yes! instead of the parasite passing down from father to son and retaining “coherence”, this one has been through many bodies, surviving feral. his memories and emotions are much more fragmented, and he lives a Memento-like existence of writing notes on his arm to orient himself in time-space. his malice is imperial revanche, ancient and impaling.

Nameless Grub · 10mo

are the pseuds like somewhat sentient tapeworms or am i reading that entirely incorrectly 😭

basically yeah, they are parasites who replace the intestines with themselves and secrete a disease that controls the body and anyone who comes into contact with it. think of malaria, where the disease is the result of a parasite modifying the cells of the body--except this disease turns the victim into sadistic bacteriophage vermin.

Nameless Grub · 10mo

is cancer an angelic being? is that up to the interpretation of the reader? seeing him referred to as an angel has made me wonder...

he is an angel in the yaoi sense and he is an angel TO ME but he is very flesh and blood. of course, he has the same angelification potential as anyone because there are no angels or demons, only people-who-become-angels. it is a world of hosts. and to certain evil and twisted entities, he represents something pure to be destroyed...

Nameless Grub · 10mo

Hi! can I ask what books you're reading for your aztec research?

Codex Chimalpopoca, and the Florentine Codex (which has a great digitization with multiple translations here)
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BOOKS:
The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture - Pete Sigal
Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity – Elizabeth Baquedano
The Human Body and Ideology: Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas - Alfredo López Austin
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos - Kay Almere Read
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PAPERS:
Explaining Aztec Human Sacrifice (Kerkhove)
Teocuitlatl, "Divine Excrement" (Klein)
Queer Nahuatl (Sigal)
“Why give birth to enemies?”: The warrior aspects of the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl-Ixcuina (Olivier)
and a lot more papers i can’t remember off the top of my head.
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Mexicolore is a cool site that digests a lot of information, although it's good to follow up the sources and get multiple perspectives.
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some older untranslated books i did shitty machine translations of or asked polyglot friends to translate.

of course i know nothing at all, i'm only a humble pornographer, and the story itself takes place in a corruption and a schism of anything depicted above. but i hope it can bring a few people closer to some of my favorite cultures and mythologies!

Nameless Grub · 11mo

are you okay?? i saw your twitter posts about the cops and fire

yeah we're okay! another lucky escape for this bug...still no idea why the cops surrounded us but I figure they stood down after realizing it was the wrong house and fortunately that happened before deciding to shoot us. but it's never fun to do the old "mentally prepare for death" routine. as for the fire, it was the closest yet and it happened almost to the day of the anniversary of the great firestorm, but we got lucky there too. thank you firefighters...
<3

Nameless Grub · 11mo

is riparian's tail prehensile...i must know

it is so, so, so prehensile. it is the parasite that controls him and it's always looking for a warmer hole. there's gonna be some real tail stuff later on...

Nameless Grub · 11mo

Hello! Can I make an Ukrainian translation of "With Those We Love Alive" (and, maybe, other your Twine stories)?

Nameless Grub · 11mo

How old would you say/estimate Cancer is in the scoutverse. This is purely for mind imaging assistance / curiosity for the world around me. Also, stay safe i will pray for porp. The world would lose so so so much if it lost you. Thank you for your wonderful writings.

hey, thanks. the cop and the fire stuff was really unpleasant to deal with, and a sweet message is so nice to receive. I appreciate all the kind things people say, even when I don't have the energy to respond.
age will actually be mentioned near the end of this arc but generally I think in terms of Vague Anime Boy Age / Insect Toon Blob. somewhere around 15-17 although a stunted 18 is very cute to me and fits the religious angle of perma infantilizing your child. but I don’t mind if people imagine younger/older.
thanks again, it really cheered me up after a hard day <3

Nameless Grub · 11mo

i am lightly sketching out the concepts for a scoutverse fanpiece since it lives in my head now... but i've never done any kind of scouting so i'm piecing things together very slowly. are there any fun lore tidbits about the INNOCENT scouts out there that haven't come up yet?

cute! I was a boy scout but I think the imaginal territory is ripe and accessible for anyone.

lore…
-many agents were scouts, and their current role partially determined by the badges they earned.
-in the more toyetic timelines, badges confer special abilities or allow you to bond that badge to an entity of the same aspect/element.
-in some areas, scouts are more coddled. in others they are effectively child soldiers-explorers.

but I don’t really have a set of rules, only a highly fertile playground. the interesting thing about scouts is the convergence of military, church, and school with the dark form of environmentalism; stewardship. it is a perverse cult weirder than its influences. it is the sanitized offshoot of a violent colonialism. there is wilderness and it contains creepypasta and sexy diseases and Species. there is the camp and it contains ritual and bullying and hygiene struggles and puberty, but in a more shall we say “pvp and gastroenteritis” setting than school. it has cool collectibles. you explore Nature Dungeons. it is a powerful and underutilized terrain of boy endangerment. it fulfills the useful shonen/YA setting of The School minus its cliches. it is the institution bleeding into the wilderness.

so really, just think about whatever you enjoy about those traditional institutional settings, and nature (lots of fun variations depending on the local climate, species, etc), and cute uniforms, and have fun! ✌️

Nameless Grub · 11mo

also, thanks for all the freaky shit. all other erotica sucks. it's too clean and nice. i hate nice, the id is a disgusting cesspool and i want to drown in it. if erotica doesn't make me sick to my stomach then what's the point.

yeah, I need that despair…that vileness…I was never able to enjoy the traditional pleasures so I make things that can puncture my anhedonic neuroscarred carcass. thanks for enjoying it with me!

Nameless Grub · 11mo

god, your work hurts so good. serious weakness fucked me up; the part where trianon pisses himself and insul says nothing about trianon can ever disgust him...liking trianon for his autist traits, and not because he has some sort of special talent to make up for it...that's what i feel like all the time, that i'm such a shameful, disgusting creature and i have to make up for it with something else. like all love is conditional. but insul, fuck. rancid but he sees, rancid but he likes, rancid but trianon doesn't have to hide. thank you. i needed this.

<3 i’m so glad. it makes me think of 18 foot leash and its sequel, which is basically that scene but much grosser and an entire story. sometimes love is cleaning up someone’s piss, whether at the beginning middle or end of life.

Nameless Grub · 11mo

Will Maggot Therapy ever be on steam? I have a deck but no pc, and no dick and no peace

Maggot Therapy is too niche to make it worth porting to steam, sadly. The market for experimental horror BL is very small (but passionate!). I hope it finds its way to you in the future!

Nameless Grub · 11mo

not the last anon but ty for answering that q, just bought the steam version and am excited to see what all the hype is about! big fan of you other works~

thanks!! they're a decade or more old, so I'm not connected to the person who made them, and we didn't have the same "creative freedom" as now, but our label carries them as a vintage treat and there's probably a couple cute ones in there. it would be fun to make more text-driven games in the future. enjoy! ✌️

Nameless Grub · 11mo

hey... do you have any way to read neon haze anymore? it's my favorite and was important to me at a hard time in my life. if not, it's okay... i don't want to go looking for another way to read it if you took it down for a reason. but i'm happy i got to read it at all!

The company hosting the web version went under, but luckily it is part of the Eczema Angel Orifice collection on itchio and steam. I'm glad it could be a comfort <3

Nameless Grub · 11mo

is there somewhere hosting the music in PERFECT TENSE or must i replay the game every day for the rest of my life i cant live without it you have to help me

Nameless Grub · 11mo

if you get xrafstarred with a stick insect does it make you taller. this question has been plaguing me for several days but it's so stupid i felt weird asking

sure! I wonder what kind of fucked up camouflage it does with human proportions...

Nameless Grub · 11mo

what's the font you use on your site again? i wanted to steal it ... it's very readable

Averia Libre! yeah I love it, I used it in Torture Works too. Agreed, it's a rare font that has personality but also possible to read large amounts of text in. If you want to find the font of any site, you can right click and Inspect the text to see the CSS that was used. ✌️

Nameless Grub · 11mo

I believe Youji from sweet pool would strike your interest; yaoiboy sickly twink suddenly sprung with the horrors of forced ritual Godhating parasite menstruation/impregnation and violences of men sprouting from such a fate. Him and your stories both lovingly bite the need within me for writhing blood covered suffertwinks. Love ur work!!!

the music in sweet pool is so good, such a nasty moody slice of the 2000s. the opening is fucking sick. love the meat shitting. I read a lot about it but never played, maybe one day! and thank you!!

Nameless Grub · 11mo

i'm curious... are carrion-eating animals considered xrafstar? could there be hyena and vulture xrafstar out there?

definitely. those are very sexy animals. hyenas have excellent anal glands and dominant females with pseudo penises, in contempt of God's plan. vultures puke so they can fly faster, and piss on themselves. both have caustic stomachs for eating vile diseased things. 100% xrafstar behavior. hyena dick girls and omorashi vulture androgynes. it's canon it's real it's happening

Nameless Grub · 11mo

you like sleigh bells! that makes me happy, reign of terror is one of my favourite albums and now i will be listening to it with an extra school shootery seriweak filter. thanks for the fun cross pollination!

yeah i like fun music :) i always think of True Seekers when i write cunt toward enemy...

Nameless Grub · 11mo

very worried abt lazur getting involved with INNOCENT but at least he looks hot in the suit. but even so when i read that part i was like LAZUR NOOOO which i suppose is the point

haha yes...the entanglements are key. Rubi forced to be involved with Cal, Laz with INNOCENT, and both happened because they weakened each other...that's yaoi realpolitik baybeeee

Nameless Grub · 11mo

Vaury important #urgent quastion. What is perfect's favorite soda brand called again. i remembered it as "bug juice" but no that was something i used to drink as a kid. i seem to recall it having a canonical name though

I saw bug juice at the seaside town! I never drank it...probably didn't have any real bugs anyways.
I think the answer to your quastione is Chrysalis Cola? 🦋🥫👄🥫🦋

Nameless Grub · 11mo

I found you through With Those We Love Alive/Ultra Business Tycoon III/Bloody Princess Farmer/howling dogs when I was a kid, where I went that's me but in the opposite direction. I found you again more recently in searching for guro porn. Thank you for the torture. I'm lying awake in bed alone feeling like I need to puke my guts out, and I feel a little bit less dismal with your work. Thank you.

wow, that's so sweet! 💜 not entirely opposite, I'm getting a mastectomy to fulfill my lifelong dream! I'm more of a shadow than a direction...a deity impersonator, not human, a series of masks...but yes! that's cute! and it’s funny, I was just writing more of my “puking guts out” story. I spend a lot of time in bed sick, so I am glad I can send from one sick place to another. I hope it will be enjoyable, thank you!

Nameless Grub · 11mo

cupbearer and “your mother etc” made me begin to recall all the abuse i suffered and were truthfully more healing than the millions of years of therapy before this point, i think the raw humiliating extremity of it was spoken to more than the gentleness

that makes me happy 💜 yeah, the hard shit comforts me more than softness. i need to seize the pain directly, not pretend it doesn't exist...

Nameless Grub · 11mo

new cunt...amazing...truly we have been fed...was asked by a friend what i was reading, and i said, "terrorist lipstick"...rubi and laz face to face, will to kill, invading his pristine childhood, crossing the rubicon...finally innocent is in play? excited. don't be so sad about living in a dry universe lazur...it's got its charm...greenwich is amazing, as always...haha brunette explosion rizz...oh rubi. oh. "the technician, who is already gone" rhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghghghghghh

its terrorist lipstick! we're in the final stretch here...the brakes are off the wheelchair...thank you for reading, loved to hear the bits and gibs you liked <333

Nameless Grub · 11mo

As a CSA survivor who (obviously) turned out a bit weird, I'm kind of amazed at the way Cupbearer starts out as my exact revenge fantasy that I could never tell a soul about, and then pulls a hard left turn and perfectly captures the way that it's so clear that so many of the people who claim to be my 'supporters and allies' don't actually give a shit about me, just want a scapegoat they can despise consequence free and are just waiting, bristling and eager, for the instant that I step outside of the narrow box they've made for me and they can justify tearing me to shreds right alongside my abusers.

They're both two things that I basically never expect anyone to voice out loud, let alone write about. I'm grateful beyond words to see it there in Cupbearer.

yeah. that's exactly it. no one cares about the people actually doing it. only someone talking about what happened to them counts as pedophilia. and the pure fantasy just ends up being propaganda for genocide. those "two things" are the dichotomy that fuels the mechanism of Cupbearer. thank you, i'm happy you felt that way 💜

Nameless Grub · 11mo

hi! about your blog, I remember there being a page once on the codex maybe that had a collection of your favorite medias and movies. I liked going back to it sometimes when I needed a new movie or thing to try so I wondered if it would ever be coming back or if you could share some of them again ): it was that very list that introduced me to possessor and I've shown that movie to everyone I could convince to watch since, it's wonderful and I love stuff like it

Possessor is so good yeah <3 Antiviral is fun too!
I get a lot of asks about this, so I made a new page.

Nameless Grub · 11mo

I actually randomly bought a birthday cake pie and birthday cake icecream on the 2nd because I had a craving for it, before finding out it was your bug day. but i'll share it with my bugs

Nameless Grub · 11mo

truly fitting that you were hatched in October, the author who haunts my mind and so many others.

Nameless Grub · 11mo

No way we have the same hatch day !! I love your stories so this feels like a huge honor
Thank you for putting your secretions in them

Nameless Grub · 11mo

hii i wanted to say two things today, 1. i had read serious weakness in bouts of energy whenever i could bc of severe focusing problems and such, consuming each chapter in many different time periods. so i really appreciate how the amount of time that passes in-story is ambiguous and could be over the course of days, weeks, or months… i think that adds to the nebulousness of the whole ordeal, it’s murky, just events of notable trauma and healing in a sea of shit. chunks of meat in a bowl of vomit. like how memory works, it’s all muddy but you can remember this Thing That Happened to You. and that’s all that matters.
2. have you read The Troop by Nick Cutter? it’s abt boy scouts and bugs and worms wearing people and has a lot of intense body horror and boys being boys that i feel like you would appreciate, and reminds me of your work

  1. mmm it is interesting to consume a piece of art over variable time, getting the book sticky, two-way contamination, a shifting and hazy mirror...and yes, being separated from time is a big part of breaking a captive. Conveying "things related to time" was a big attention of mine when writing it. thank you! <3 ✌️
  2. I did read it! I remember being reasonably entertained, it's so scary to starve like that. I like that it touches on how as boy scouts decrease in popularity, it becomes a magnet for undersocialized or psycho kids, which works well with a horror story. def checks out as someone who was a boy scout. and of course I'm writing my own intestinal boy scout parasite story...
Nameless Grub · 11mo

fav icecream flavor?

rainbow sherbert and fudgeblasted chunky shit or whatever. but i don't eat dessert because im too sweet already!!

Nameless Grub · 11mo

hey if we wanted to write fanfiction for you is that allowed or is that something you would prefer not to see in case it gets your characters or worldbuilding wrong. i have a story in mind abt perfect tense but id rather ask permission to display it than just drop it on you

fanfic is fine! I am happy when people enjoy themselves ✌️ and I made that roach to be used...he is different in every timeline 🪳 🌀💜

Nameless Grub · 11mo

if i have an offering for the cancer shrine, where can i send it?

dms, email, whatever is good. the shrine is a very personal project but I am at minimum happy to look at any materials. thank you for thinking of him... 💜🙏👁️

Nameless Grub · 11mo

I've gotten into your work thanks to my boyfriend recommending Serious Weakness to me and I wanted to thank you for a lot of things but one thing I haven't seen people mention before is the way you talk about oral health problems... I really appreciate you writing characters like Insul and Cancer and Deadboy who don't have perfect teeth and/or don't brush their teeth every day and the realities/physical discomfort of that, without it being seen as a huge moral failing or something to be repulsed by, more that it's just something that some people deal with for any number of reasons. You've given me a lot of awakenings and a lot of hope in the time that I've read your work, but I think this might be one of the most healing things for me to see on a personal level. Thank you I love bugs!!!!

i am so, so down bad for people with fucked up teeth. bitches with overbites are the sexiest thing in the world. i don't care if their teeth are on the fucking floor. i date people with baby teeth embedded in their jaw like a cannibalized twin. i date people with teeth adapted for eating small mice. i went years without access to dental care and have scars in my cheeks from chewing them like an insane lab animal chained up rotting in its own filth. i spent like 5 years like that where i have little memory of anything outside spending 24 hours a day in agony. that’s not really related. i love big teeth bitches in every lifetime. little teeth all teeth no teeth. i don’t care if they have a mouth at all. if you have a soul you have teeth. so yeah i figure out a different way to do it with each story. rubicon is def the most toothmaxed (realistic) and the low kill shelter boys are the most toothmaxed (fantastical) but I love Cancer’s fucked up congenital teeth and the new leash story is fun because of how much drilling and humiliating orthodontic gear was required to make them seem not fucked up but they’re still fucked up…

i’m glad it’s healing!! thanks for noticing something important to me and thanks for enjoying my HD Teeth Skyrim Fetish Mod technology. there is something beautiful and pathetic about the grandeur of the soul forced to express itself through such a fragile instrument, and the vulnerability it brings to a character...the mouth is the face of the face.

love bugs!!! <333 🦷🦷🦷

Nameless Grub · 11mo

is there anything akin to an angel in xrafstarworld or have i fundamentally misunderstood their hierarchy. i am thinking of the mentions of angels all throughout 18ft leash but never any sign of a being that actually is one. only xrafstar. and daevas i guess, counting perfect tense. it makes one wonder if the idea of a pure being in contrast to corrupt and worldly xrafstar is an INNOCENTic fiction or something that actually exists

like xrafstar, angels need a human to possess. that is the rule of the universe: no 'monsters', only humans. I'm sure the rule has violations, or “thing that was human but no longer recognizable as such”, but generally things must swim through flesh, must choose or be tricked, must be “in play.” I also doubt the existence of angels as a separate entity which is merged into a human. angels have no souls. it is more of an infection, an “angel flora”. what is the difference between Manichaean light particles and bacteria?

in keeping with the Iranian influence, angels have peacock feathers. interestingly, Ahriman created the peacock as a flex to show he could make beautiful things, he just chose not to. which makes it a beguiling and ambiguous symbol. and of course peacocks are a very alien being which does not correspond to any known animal. angels are the only being which has “feathers”, which are a type of crystalline hair?

people who become angels grow allergic to sin and their genitals begin to disappear. this can be very distressing.
the difference between “angel” and “fairy” and “xrafstar (whether fly, bee, wasp, etc)” can be distorted by history, folklore, etc.
were the flies angels? did they torture, kill, and replace them? or both?

Nameless Grub · 11mo

i may be stupid bc i lowkey forgot quince was there

Nameless Grub · 11mo

will there ever be yellow and purple wires in CTE or are the four threads we're following enough character roster wise

look up the color of a quince. another yellow might be seen in the next episode, although I don't plan on adding any more major characters. we are nearing 00:00. purple is what rubi and lazur are together. 💜

Nameless Grub · 11mo

sometimes i think about vesp... a sweet premonition of the xrafstars to come

trueee. it really prefigured the modern format...anthro vermin and a tight focus on 2 or 3 entities locked in intimate struggle...wasps are so sexual and beautiful...I am writing about stingered insects right now actually!! <3 🐝

Nameless Grub · 11mo

been using imagery including the innocent hazard symbols for tattoo practice, and i really want to tattoo some of them on myself! is this allowed...

do whatever makes you happy <3 I am not a being of permanence and have little to say in that area. be advised, however, that I plan on committing a sex crime in the year 200X, when I molest my past self in vengeance for the events of the Finality Rotation (Crystallification). do with that morally ambiguous information what you may...

Nameless Grub · 12mo

quastion was riparian drinking sanitizer inspired by the sanitizer drinking scene in turtles all the way down by john green or is it just a funny coincidence

18ft leash #2 doesn't have a hand sanitizer drinking scene. There is a scene where he's expected to drink high-proof alcohol, which would be very painful for something held together by disease. But it would be hot if he had to drink hand sanitizer. I feel like that's something scouts do when they're paranoid, they make sure each other are clean in awful ways.

I don't know anything about the color book, green is a good color and I guess that's what turtles are? Which seems reasonable but they've never been my top favorite animal. I don't find them particularly sensual. But I'm sure they are clever and wonderful and they deserve to live like anyone else.

Nameless Grub · 12mo

My only regret around your retrospring is that it won't be sticking around long enough for me to give you questions around that theoretical degen tboy story. it's an interesting feeling, wanting to ask questions about a thing that's in a Schrodinger's potentiality of existence, knowing that the answers would be interesting without knowing what questions they'd belong to. But I guess that's why I write, myself. to give myself new questions about my brain that i don't have an answer to. to see how it feels to be the doll torn apart and glued to action figure parts.
-Faker from the Protection From Gravity comments.

I'm working on a really awful tboy...his bones are still soft, but one day there's gonna be a real horrible one...in the meantime, yes! everyone should have their own treasured recipe, it's the only way to have it exactly how you want it! and I'll probably find another cute little mailbox after retrospring perishes... 📮

Nameless Grub · 12mo

I really really really want Daeva to step on me....
But...
But she is also exactly the kind of power I want to break into a dog thing, extraordinary power justifying extraordinary brutality. Something so big and strong must be tortured and beaten into the dirt, over and over into something smaller, weaker, and yet still so potentially dangerous that the leash must never loosen, or you would be absolutely fucking mauled <3

what was it Nietzsche said..."they feel good only at the sight of unbroken men who might become their enemies"
yes, I understand. it is a beautiful dynamic, I love characters who are only above or below as long as the leash is absolutely taut... <3

Nameless Grub · 12mo

out of sheer curiosity would you write rubi and lazur any differently if they were both women and if so how

well the title would be a lot more literal...unless I made them dick girls. either way, maybe a kind of cold war setting. mommy issues bomby issues...scarred bomb succubus...lazur's fat sweaty rack getting in the way of her meticulous defusal technique..."let the bomb fuck you" (impregnate?)

Nameless Grub · 12mo

read 18ft leash and once again I have to sing your praises as I do everytime I read a story of yours and pour it out in ur retrospring. U write stories that at a surface glance I'd never consider to ever be made for me, but u end up enrapturing me in it. I never thought a world of pure filth, vomit, and shit to be so far out there but so interesting up close. I'll definitely have to reread it but Cancer Prize is my favorite FAS Baby that bad things happen to. I had to Vomit in a toilet at work the other day because of horrible coffee and thought "i'm just like cancer... this is fucking badass!" I don't vomit often but it's thr release that makes me feel so cool and It's awesome u sorta capture that in your works. I'm so excited to see what other atrocities go down with cancer!

gotta get that fly pov and taste the fun microbes!! thank you so much for loving my stunted little patron saint of puke. 🤮 coffee vomit!! that's wonderful, my friend told me something similar about her struggles...to feel our suffering can be beautiful, to have God's fingers down our throat, is a consolation. vomiting is the perfect chance to embody divine energies...umbra vomitus lucis.
I will try to post more cancer adventures this week! 🪰☦️💜

Nameless Grub · 12mo

kind of odd question but i want to use your online work to create found poetry and i was wondering how/if you’d like to be credited? right now it’s just for a class but in future i might put it on my website (and i would send it to you of course)

Nameless Grub · 12mo

was NOT expecting cupbearer to be as funny as it is. i love it. u really know how to make a bad thing comforting, it's nice to see my teenage fears of being unbearably evil dismantled so neatly and with such humor. i really will be fine. i already am fine. im so glad for your stories

well, that's the thing about pedophilia, it's really funny. HA HA thank you, i'm glad it can be comforting <3333 i thought i was unbearably tainted at 13 for being attracted to other 13 year olds...all that psychic evil gets unloaded on the people who are the victims of it. you are fine and i'm really happy you know that. thanks for bearing these damn cups 💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

Do you have a discord for your fans/community???

I wish I had a better way to share WIPs and the extra brutal secret stuff I make but it feels like it would lead to parasocial cliques and drama. And most people are stupid or vicious and only know how to use the internet like a pysop instead of for fun. I have considered it but I don't see a way around these obstacles!

Nameless Grub · 12mo

I really like reading your answers to questions you get, and I know it'll be a while, but do you have any plans for when retrospring shuts down? :( just tumblr? sorry if this has been asked before!

Nameless Grub · 12mo

Was Riparian the man in "Your Mother Has Fallen Out of Love With You"? I get rather similar vibes from how you describe them.

It is unknown, and I prefer to leave it open. It can be any part of the cycle from any of the Leash stories. I think of him as the boy in it, sometimes. Riparian's childhood in 18ft Leash #1. A vessel trained for the parasite when it needs a younger body to maintain appearances. It fits R and Cancer as well. But most of all, it is the cycle. <3

Nameless Grub · 12mo

are we allowed to make xrafstar/agentsonas i feel Inspiured

Nameless Grub · 1y

oh so INNOCENT is like gnosticism in that it's a catchall term for a lot of historically quite disparate concepts/groups that all ostensibly share a few core beliefs

It is at the core of empire and could be regarded as fairly catholic in its scope, but with sundry ramifications of a (dark)manichaean-first world (there's your gnosticism for you) + the galvanizing and materializing factor of human-enslaving insects being a tangible reality. It is a colonizing project of the largest landmass, with weird isolated schisms.

Nameless Grub · 12mo

can mayflies be xrafstar... i dont see why they couldnt. emerging en masse from smelly retention ponds to fuck and die, getting only one day of life in the sun... such is the fleeting and ephemeral nature of the twink

Nameless Grub · 12mo

I feel like you would've already seen the music video for Rasou/Naked Clothes by SOOOO, but on the off chance you haven't you should check it out! It's beautifully disgusting and visceral and reminds me of your work (has flashing lights btw)

Nameless Grub · 12mo

im very curious about the daeva in maggot therapy... i am absorbing her into my consciousness. would love to know any thoughts and ideas you have on her

she's big and has big teeth and big antennae
uehehrhahahb
those are my thoughts and ideas
lore: I want her to step on me
origin: i drew a sketch of her and was like yeah big hair big teeth like this and Evan made her real
you just gotta have a big magical bitch in your game yknow
💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

hey i just wanted to say thank you so much for perfect tense. i dont rlly have contamination ocd specifically but everything abt his character is so accurate to my experience of the disease. god just the fact that it IS a disease. you can never be 'clean' bc you are already psychically and spiritually diseased. the idea of health itself becomes a disease + homosexuality is already further corruption. and to let the desire for purity win is to spend your life being fucked by your own shadow. also i didnt think youd ever make a character id find Hot hot (though all of your protagonists compel me in some way) but no i have to admit he is very handsome i like his skintight catsuit a lot and i like that he gets to be yucky disgusting bc yucky disgusting is also a natural part of life and very freeing in the right context. he's a sweetheart. im bummed the other game didn't work out cuz i wouldve loved to see more of this guy but im very happy we got what we did 💟🖤💟

thank you!!
i had really bad OCD and like anorexia there's always some flashes of it but as you might imagine from my output i’ve subsumed myself to the cistern and silent hill is very nice this time of year.

yeah he’s a hotty, Evan did a great job on him 👅 it was so fun sculpting him together, i still have the skinsuit diagram and early portrait sketches and the final result is such a masterful synthesis

there will be more disgusting agents <3
cancer prize is definitely a way to explore some of the same things and one could say his environment and the situations he ends up in are well suited to uncovering these mysteries to their fullest extent
🦠💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

I was reading some of your stuff before bed last night and it gave me the gooiest dreams of my life 👍👍👍

some of them start out as dreams...dreams are where i live and that is where all things meet 💜🦠🌌

Nameless Grub · 12mo

this is a little silly but i kinda came here and to your website to just. scour it for stuff SW-related after finishing the last quarter of the book in a few-hours long sprint and. something about seeing the genuine joy that you and others talking about it have and excitement and speculation made me feel weirdly happy in a way that's hard to describe. Serious Weakness made me feel every emotion and then some but i didnt expect to come away from it, smiling?

that's not silly at all, that's wonderful. i never expected people to get into SW, but the connections and tendrilizations i got from it and other stories have brought me so much happiness. thank you 💌🦎✨🦠

Nameless Grub · 1y

i love the mlp/racehorse style naming conventions of your ocs. would love to see those fags sent to a glue factory

and Cancer Prize pulls into the lead!! WAIT A SECOND...HIS INTESTINES...THEYRE ALL OVER THE TRACk...here comes Rubicon and Perfect Tense! WHAT A DAY FOR BOY FANS WORLDWIDE
Yeah I see what you mean. I personally would ALSO love for these FAGS to be sent to the GLUE FACTORY and spiritually this is my very vocation and endeavor... <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

Is the INNOCENT org. sort of like a private organization run by wealthy donors like a secret society or is it like a religious cult? Either way, the fight against xrafstars sounds like an X-Files like conspiracy of a hidden word operating beneath the surface of our reality like earthworms in the soil beneath the grass.

it varies by time and place. historically it was part of the church. it had inquisitors and was embedded with the armada. in modern times it became closer to a spy agency. but each local branch is different. in one country it could be a relatively functional agency focused on research and intel, in another it could be the killsquad of a corrupt oligarchy, or a deeply esoteric and culty splinter of itself. some are funded by governments, others by private wealth. the only commonalities tend to be a hatred of vermin, the use of agents, and strong opinions on water.

Nameless Grub · 1y

Is the protag of honeydew toxicity event a xrafstar or does That just happen to gamers or both

Nameless Grub · 1y

i want to write fanfic of 18 foot leash. about bad things happening to cancer. is this allowed

it is the most allowed thing in the world. he's just a lil pain toilet. bad things is what he was made for <3 would love to know what happens if you write it...

Nameless Grub · 1y

the entirety of SeriWeak i thought i was trianon but lo and behold i am an insul.. thank you for writing about the type of autist that barks and bites because he has nothing else. a simple weakness. i love the representation of cruel, not-Model Autists, boys who fell through the cracks. it helped me rationalize some of the evil boys in my life. thank you for your writing.

gotta have those nasty autists...I have some of both in me but the feral problem child is definitely the one people are most comfortable throwing away in the garbage. thank you for your...reading!! 💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

hey so I was laying in bed joking with my girlfriend about carving an X on her chest and she said “no I don’t want to look like Luffy” and it never clicked for me before but is that whole thing a one piece reference? that would totally ruin my day

getting an X carved on your chest is like getting fucked in the ass. lots of people do it but that doesn't make it any less fun. as for the historical analysis: every culture has mythological figures who get X's carved on their chest. it is a timeless archetype with an Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index category. I looked up this "one piece" and it appears to be a television program with 1,116 episodes. don't know much about that but best of luck to the people involved. if I had to pick one of the 10 million characters with an X carved on their body, it would be Kau from Togainu no Chi, obviously.

however, when I wrote it, there was no inspiration except an X being the best and most intuitive shape for a possessive mentally stunted vandal to slash into a boy's quivering flesh. a single slash has no love. an X is two wounds leaning on each other. and that’s what Serious Weakness is.

but it is funny and very appropriate that a cringe twerp like Trianon would have to deal with getting mistaken for a bunch of random anime characters for the rest of his life. ❌👅❌

Nameless Grub · 1y

i see lots of people talking about 18ft Leash, is that the only brand-new story in Torture Works or are some of the shorter ones previously unreleased as well?

it is the only 100% new one. and it is not necessary to read 18ft Leash #1 to understand the new material, each story is a reboot. ✌️🆕

Nameless Grub · 1y

just to confirm I've got them all, there's 3 different endings to maggot therapy right??

Nameless Grub · 1y

why do you divide cunt toward enemy into seasons rather than books / acts / etc? it’s an interesting decision and i’d love to hear your thoughts

because its episodic :]

and I usually think of what I'm making from a director's standpoint. I have a certain amount of film and the film is the blood and the telomeres of my body

Nameless Grub · 1y

thank u for the shader toggle update that was the problem :-] first ecstasy, now maggots. cant wait to see the third thing you finger up a malnourished twink's ass

I'm so glad that fixed it! ✨ haha YES don't worry I'm ON IT and it will be AWFUL 🕳️🕳️🕳️❓

Nameless Grub · 1y

Do you find it easier (or more natural) to write stories in first person or third person perspective?

The easiest one depends on the scene I'm writing. Each perspective withholds different kinds of information. Keeping a person's secrets vs keeping the world's secrets. They create different kinds of tension and hold the action at a different distance. I'm more likely to write 100% 1st person in a short story. 18ft Leash is half 1st person half 3rd person. Cupbearer to the Gods or Cunt Toward Enemy is 99% 3rd person. If I'm struggling to write a scene in one perspective, I switch to the other, or just CUT THAT SHIT because it didn't deserve to live in the first place.

Nameless Grub · 1y

maggot therapy runs super slow on my computer, like to the point of being unplayable :-[ is there anything in particular i should do to try to fix that?

Hard to say without knowing your specific computer situation. But I went and made a new version where you can turn the shaders off.

I'm glad you mentioned it, because I also saw some areas where the shaders had been set too high and were overpowering the original colors, and I fixed those too. It's not a perfectly optimized game, so it may just run poorly on some low-end computers, but if there's anything else I can do on my end, feel free to message me with details. ✌️

Nameless Grub · 1y

Yesterday I played Maggot therapy. I found it to be a different, intimate sort of gaming experience-- The sharp gasps, droning proceed-audio, how the window itself shivers, the small text in the right corner indicating how Perfect Tense feels at the moment. I loved these small touches. Also, the salamanders were very cute. All in all, I felt very satiated by the end of it.

Being a Game Guy, I'd like to ask about the technical side of the game. Is it running off a specific engine? Did you use anything in particular to craft it?

An era of visually-rich Porpentine games excites me greatly. Would really love to see what fucked up game mechanics you come up with. With all my love, keep making what you make.

Thank you! I wanted it to feel hypnotic...the salamanders ARE cute 😭🦎

I coded it in Gamemaker. I used Scribble+Chatterbox for dialog handling, and Yarn to write in. The shader library is Kazan Game's Post-Processing FX. I designed animations in Fluid FX.

I would love to make more games, in a format where I can experiment with mechanics, if I find the right artist or co-programmer. I have an rpgmaker game in the pipe, and then maybe things will line up some day for my dream game...

Thank you so much, really lovely review <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

I recently finished Serious Weakness, and would like to thank you for writing a work that so well encapsulates what i've been missing in media.
It feels like my personality has always been moulded out of fundamental unchangeable facts of my being, my primordial goop, and any personality or emotion i construct for the world is just a remoulding of this goop into a new shape. I've also suffered some traumatic events in my life that have left me with serious mental illnesses, and it's felt as though a chunk of my goop was torn out of me, and i'm no longer able to form those shapes of personality i had my whole life. Often when people try to encourage or support me it's under the guise that one day i'll be able to form those old personalities, their love being under the condition that one day i go back to 'normal.'
Reading serious weakness, it was refreshing to not only have it recognised how impossible it was to go back to what i once was, but to be given what-for the first time in my life-felt like true support. This book grinded my personality back down to the primordial goop, and showed me everything that was possible. Although i don't think i'll choose to take after much of what Tria or Insul did, i know i can, and for the first time i finally have the agency to choose what i want to be.

Thank you

i feel that. very much felt like a "goo entity" my whole life. when the bad shit happened to me, it fucked up my goo for years. i grew new goo, and it echoed old patterns in freer ways. lost dreams, things from childhood, refined and flowing. i've come to accept that the many shapes my fluid can take are all equally "real" and cooperative. people change faster than the world can keep up. it hurts to rip the hooks out, but it has to happen. happy you're able to "seize control of your own goo"!! 🦠💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

i have been meaning to send a message here for a while but i've only just now gotten the chance:: thank you for writing serious weakness! i found it at the perfect point in my life lol. i was struggling with my own identity a lot as someone going through a bad case of what most people call "autistic burnout" but i've taken to calling "autistic possession" and i found genuinely like, a lot of comfort in trianon and insul. in being able to read something that spoke so thoroughly to the feeling of having nothing behind the mask. it fundamentally reframed the way i think about being autistic for the better, and i really appreciate it. your writing speaks to feelings i didn't know i had. seriweak was also a really lovely vector for bonding with my best friend (now also owner💖) who recommended me the book in the first place! it's corny to say but she's the insul to my trianon.

yay 💜 glad it found you. nothings are hardest when they're not looked at...all that free shadow real estate...

Nameless Grub · 1y

Hi! Loved your work for a long time. Boring (but important to me!) question today: is there a way to play the Soft Rumor of Spreading Weeds anywhere? It looks like the hosting site is down. I remember really enjoying it when it came out, and would like to read it again.

thank you :) I like the world in that one, rare plant xrafstar! I found it on wayback machine, seems to work! 🌱👑🫀

Nameless Grub · 1y

I played most of maggot therapy last night and very much enjoyed it (I'm still trying to find one ending), but when I fell asleep I had a very involved dream about feral bug boys invading a shopping mall to kill/turn more boys into bugs. I got caught by two of them but woke up before I could be turned into an insect. :(

i'm so glad you enjoyed it! the more obscure ending is available at the same place as the others, marked with italics, once you get the coffin end (and it helps to have context from talking to yourself... 👥). what a SICK DREAM, i love malls! xrafstar shopping playdate adventure!! better luck next time, bugbait! 😋

Nameless Grub · 1y

you mentioned in your latest blog post that maggot therapy will probably be the last perfect tense game, can I ask what happened with agent of innocent? it looked so cool but I understand that sometimes projects just don't pan out

we got busy with stuff and agreed we wouldn't have time for it. yes, the art is amazing!! I overextended myself but learned a lot and some of the code is in Maggot Therapy. I have a strong vision for a game with horror/dating/fashion elements, just have to make sure health and collaborator things line up first ✌️

Nameless Grub · 1y

will you ever release photos of your cancer shrine

it is a literal website for insane people and I will post it as soon as I have a little more writing for it 💜🤮

Nameless Grub · 1y

Do you have any thought, reaction, or opinion on this, if you're interested in having one (no demand to):
"The recognition of evil is older and more original than any blameworthy act, and it rests solely on the fact that, being and having to be only its possibility or potentiality, humankind fails itself in a certain sense and has to appropriate this failing – it has to exist as potentiality. Like Perceval in the novel by Chretien de Troyes, humans are guilty for what they lack, for an act they have not committed.

This is why ethics has no room for repentance; this is why the only ethical experience (which, as such, cannot be a task or a subjective decision) is the experience of being (one’s own) potentiality, of being (one’s own) possibility – exposing, that is, in every form one’s own amorphousness and in every act one’s own inactuality.

The only evil consists instead in the decision to remain in a deficit of existence, to appropriate the power to not-be as a substance and a foundation beyond existence; or rather (and this is the destiny of morality), to regard potentiality itself, which is the most proper mode of human existence as a fault that must always be repressed."

it makes me think of how "the ordinary risks and mistakes of living" have become pathologized. the vast majority of people who are cruel online have not lived, and they cultivate the idea of living as unnatural. so getting in messy relationships or having a breakdown or experimenting artistically are all seen as sins, when the reality is that the only way to be a “good person” is to make those mistakes.

without the pain of living, and the choice that comes with it, you’re not pure–you’re just inert. dead. nothing. purity-obsessed people are the kind who will rape someone without even knowing it, or snap and kill their kids when they’re 40, or more likely be a source of radiation more deep and corrosive than any single act of violence could ever be.

the world is like swimming in an ocean. a naive person who has never touched water can look at it and say, oh, swimming is easy. but when you’re actually in the water, it’s heavy and thick but incredibly deep, and the smell is overpowering and you lose sight of the land and the horizon and your perspective is flattened to this one surface. if you’re good at swimming, it can feel like freedom. but if you're bad at swimming, that is to say, if you're still learning, you spend all your energy just staying afloat. life is full of grindy shitty parts where all you can do is survive one day at a time and it's impossible to keep track of everything or be your best self.

and if a riptide hits, or the current changes in any way, the people on land don’t see that invisible force. drowning is silent. you have to pay attention. or it just looks like someone flailing and i guess it’s kind of funny if you’re really far away and you don’t think about the terror of your lungs filling up, and how that scream you want to make is fighting with your next and last breath.

if you survive that, you know how bad it feels to be drowning, and have no one care. even if it was your fault, even if you swam out too far or didn’t read the signs or acted like an idiot. you will be more careful next time, and you will swim better, or if you don’t swim, you will have your reasons. and maybe you can help someone who was like you. you will always be connected to the ocean, and the people on land will not. they have severed themselves from water. and water, cruel and beautiful, toxic and drinkable, is life.

Nameless Grub · 1y

Will Cupbearer to the Gods be available to non-Patrons, either online or as part of a book? Hate to be cheap towards a fellow artist, but money is a bit tight right now. If it's going to be in a book, I'll gladly pay for it.

(Apologies if this is a double post, my computer had some problems with Retrospring.)

yeah, I will post it publicly in maybe a month or two. No worries! I want everything I make to be free eventually, but I have to edge the world for its own good, because it is spoiled and reliant on mimetic desire to find its true desire. ✌️

Nameless Grub · 1y

18 foot leash always makes me think about that post "vomiting is the last true zen state a modern westerner experiences, a moment of complete worldly abandon and total thoughtless focus. shitting is supposed to be that too but phones have ruined it. nobody’s on their phone while they’re puking & if they are then god has truly lost."

this is why there are no phones in the 18 foot leash universe. god has won. we are on our knees. also, THAT PIC IS ON MY CANCER SHRINE HA HA HA. religious trance/ritual puking is actually a huge focus in the next 18 foot leash cycle, I can't wait to share it!

Nameless Grub · 1y

will you be archiving your retrospring in some form when the website shuts down? i quite enjoy reading thru your answers and im saddened to think of them being lost to time

Nameless Grub · 1y

i cant tell you how happy i am to learn that i wasnt the only one who had to pretend everyone was a violent rapist targeting me in order to not feel psychically attacked by stardew

THANK YOU haha i'm glad i'm not alone! i think there's a BIG demand for "stardew valley but with rapists" and it would add a lot of tension to the core gameplay loop

Nameless Grub · 1y

how much of cunt towards enemy is on Torture Works?

Nameless Grub · 1y

my erohazard shirt is complete now that a girl's got her cum on it. thank you.

the finishing touch to any NNCNT product!! 💜
now u gotta get all the other fluids...

Nameless Grub · 1y

this is the person who told their therapist "every move the wrong move forever" here to report that my therapist told me a few sessions ago that she's used it herself. the bombfucking world and therapy world are rapidly colliding

Nameless Grub · 1y

I played PureWorld Fantasy, and it will stay with me for a long while. Well worthy of ranking with your other games.

And a question: if you had an unlimited budget to make a Cunt Toward Enemy game, what would it be like?

thank you, i appreciate that <3 i have been away from games for awhile, but now i have new things i want to do with them.

cunt toward enemy would be a lowpoly psx or ps2 game where you infiltrate levels and defuse bombs while dealing with insanely loud harsh breathing, pounding heartbeat, panic attack blurred vision. defusing would be very tactile, you do it freeform from a toolkit with every tool having its own QTE or handling pattern and you have to wipe away sweat that falls into the bomb and clamp down loose wires and your vision starts throbbing and misting and your hand gets shakier and you have limited space in your toolkit so maybe you brought propranolol, maybe you didn’t, and you get captured by rubicon and have to survive the torture with dating sim choices + writhing minigame, and a global strategic layer where you fly around managing resources and foiling cal’s plots, and every third level is an extremely visceral FPS sequence of greenwich shooting a bunch of guys and using qatran techniques to perform ballistic auto-rituals and violence magic, with haptic praying mechanic, and there is a rubicon dress up game and you can unlock new fashion by filling your terror meter and that is what he wears to the tortures

Nameless Grub · 1y

Read "Cupbearer to the Gods" and everytime I keep thinking I have boundaries in what can be handled in fiction, your stuff instills such an addictive fear it almost feels illegal. Had to look behind my shoulder to make sure I wouldnt get in trouble.
Thank u for making freaky as hell art as always!!!!!!!! ... I'm so interested to hear insight on such a fucked up world (though honestly maybe not all that far off seeing the people in Power lol...)

haha thank you 💜 I will post more episodes that show more of the world! together we will destroy pederasty for all time!

Nameless Grub · 1y

high kill shelter is the most elegant story i have read in a while. every element of the interaction between the dogs and their meat is a node and when it’s brought together it’s a texture that feels good on the brain. nothing is wasted. it’s like feeling both the inside and outside of a thing simultaneously, as one thing without conflict but instead streamlined into one system like a mobius strip. i think there’s an low hanging sex metaphor in that but i’m too sleapy to follow thru 💤🛏🦡

thank you, that's really good to hear <3 no meat wasted...meat wrapped around meat, becoming hypermeat!! 🥩🥩🥩

Nameless Grub · 1y

Thank you so much for High Kill Shelter. You really get how hot the brutality of brute forcing a person into something that is no longer the shape of a person is. This is what I mean when I say cnc petplay!
This reminded me a lot of an rp I did a long time ago with a good friend who's dead now. We had a lot of fun turning her into a crude pained thing in the shape of a dog. I miss her a lot and this really made my day 💛

yessss the cutesy shit doesn't do it for me, i need the terror of the hounds...thank you!!

that is so sweet ;; i'm glad you can remember her this way. i will think of her. 💜💌

Nameless Grub · 1y

just read 18 foot leash and gahhhhhhh horrible! but amazing! feels incredible because i think i understand both ends - "i want to put my shit in you" and "you are moving/commanding me with your dirty insides" and it's just so real. to connect with someone solely by infecting them with your own shit. to take on someone's shit from adoration. a relationship that only gets dirtier, never cleaner. turns everyone involved into some kind of inhuman but supernatural thing - the way a crisis brings out extreme strength in someone but damages them with a power they aren't made to withstand sort of thing. real real real. also i love coffee and you made the most beautiful and disgusting form of something i love. thank you.

thank you. the hidden world is always influencing but people don't like to think about the weather of gut flora and parasites passing through us. they want the head to be in control and fuck the world like a penis. but i think they are so beautiful, the many smaller penises inside 💜 and i just love coffee and when folgers approached me to do their new commercial, i couldn't say no

Nameless Grub · 1y

Thank you for all the incest (insect!) dynamics in your work and the life energy with which you imbue them, it really speaks to me. The boundless desire of splintered raped dislocated hungry people for a friend and lover and sibling and parent and teacher etc etc. Being a lot, wanting a lot, fitting so many roles inside the guys. I haven’t had a relationship like that in my own life but it characterises all of my experiences of attraction and I hope to find it one day (reading SW with head dreamily in hand like a sentimental victorian). Normally I have to tread carefully exploring this stuff as a CSA survivor because a lot of art about it is death to me, but your writing is one of the few places where me and my wound holes can just breathe and get inspirited with Truth.., in a hot way where you fuck your brother 🪱✌️

highly concentrated weapons-grade incest…being a lot, wanting a lot, two boys opening wounds in each other trying to give birth to each other, it’s a complicated sucking wound, being ripped from family. on the bright side, it makes for great porn…

yes, I need to do it a particular way or it’s “death to me”. there's a lot of it in my writing but my next projects are EXTREMELY focused on this 🪱🍷

thank you. I hope you can mix your own incest insect cocktail <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

really really satisfying getting to the end of CTE season 2. love love love your work and support always
some thoughts from a cunt fan
- greenwich!!! i love her. the notion of a personal servitude to god and the subsequent brain programming that happens in a creature like this...too relatable. an endless measure of the distance from god. would love to learn more about her
- oh rubi... it must hurt to feel used to impersonally and for so little. or to feel like he is not the main antagonist (only an instrument in the struggles of others -> POWERFUL WHOLE MEN)
- i am still laughing over lip balm okay
- lazur being called prince of peace....nghhhhhhhh. but the qatran can't really be defused / and there isn't a countdown in the conventional sense (how do you defuse a word in the matter of seconds?) no more familiar bombs, cortazar
- cal terrifying and cal terrified. both lovely
- what a colourful cast around a colourless? colour-ending? weapon

can't wait for 3rd season !!! but also take care and i hope you are having a good life !!!

-yesss i love her, the next episode will have some greenwich lore drops <3
-yeah, rubi hates that. he knows he was meant to be a villain, even if he craves the acceptance of older men. lazur sees his humanity. cal allows him to do what he's good at. but ultimately they are both planners, and he’s an explosion…
-LIP BALLLLLM. THERE IS A BALM IN XGILEAD
-mmm the bombs are all strange now...no clean separation...permamission...the only countdown is his heart... however many beats remain to it.
-haha yes it is good to see him in full evil mode but also terrified and pathetic.
-exactly… this thing that all colors die in. their dreams, everything that makes them unique…swallowed up by insatiable violence.

thanks for reading <3 i’ll def be resting up before working on the next but i really wanna... 💣

Nameless Grub · 1y

Approximately how much time passed in Serious Weakness?

five seconds but it felt a lot longer

ummm i think it says in the book but it's kind of vague. weeks? a month? some parts are concrete, others blur together, by design...but the clues are all there in the text. 👁️‍🗨️⏰

Nameless Grub · 1y

thank you for greenwich mean time. never read a character who thinks about justice, vengeance & god in a way that is relatable to my experience. never read a character who feels truly aspirational like she does. no question just thanks.

Nameless Grub · 1y

hi i love serious weakness!! it's the best thing i've read in 2022 and it has consumed my soul! serious weakness but with girls is my yuri love lesbian with a boyfriend slaughter obsession! have you thought about making a playlist for it? i love your writing xoxo.

i have that goofy playlist for SW in the faq post but i haven't made one for SWbwG! evil girl music...
thank you!! 💜❌⭕

Nameless Grub · 1y

sorry to probably be the 90 millionth person to ask!! when is ur book coming out on kindle/ebook? thank U thank U!

Nameless Grub · 1y

love INNOCENTverse so much and am so so excited for it. can i ask what the slogans on the website mean/if theyre references to anything? ive enjoyed trying to piece them together on my own and have a few guesses but cannot make much sense of it

thank you! 😇
mel timoris can be seen as a mechanical description of Ahrimanic/xrafstar biology, torture/bacteria as fuel; or a warning: do not make yourself sweet with fear or the flies will come.

donec ignoscat has some attachment to the theological notion of TOTAL DEPRAVITY
or that this world has been abandoned by god until it can be proven worthy of redemption.

it is interesting because these phrases are passed down as mnemonics which contain very real truths about biology, cosmology, etc, but are easily turned into theofascist meat mantras.
every era has a different interpretation
dead language is broken down by the living
as are all things enslaved by death
for their uses

Nameless Grub · 1y

thank you for putting me on to scrivener. after many sporadic attempts at writing over the years im finally starting to wisen up and find some kind of way to sculpture. the gems of advice or pointers you've put out there about the creative process have really helped shift my mindset. notable analogies you've put forth about threading moments together and working from a kitchen cabinet of ideas but also the idea to work with your body, work with your energy levels. love hearing about your creative process and hope you will share more process notes in the future. hope you're well.

💜 glad to hear it. yeah scrivs real useful. i'll probably write some notes about torture works when the ebook comes out. thanks, and same to you!

Nameless Grub · 1y

im not sure if u have before but can u talk a bit about the erohazard symbol ? ur works rlly resonate w me but something abt the symbol just blew me away, so much so i knew immediately i wanted it either branded, tattooed or scarred in my skin. id just love to hear more about it, what it means, the history, etc… if thats something youve thought abt before

the symbol is by Evan, as part of a series of INNOCENT signs indicating zone hazards/conditions

like many effective symbols, it has been independently discovered in many cultures throughout history
like anything with X’s or O’s or smiley faces
i'm sure there's other symbols that combine these elements
but Evan made this one working on our game. i'm glad you like it. you can see the other signs here. very grateful to the INNOCENT propaganda wing. <3

the feeling is what it is

Nameless Grub · 1y

i lied, but this is more of a personal thank you. I've read serious weakness enough times to have 580 highlights in my reading app. A few particular phrases highlighted into obscurity: but the smell of fresh copper intrudes, in this world without connection, because love isn't real. im so tired of it. Like what you said about guns. one way. withholding is power. im clearly bad at the last, but i figured mindless praise wouldn't be minded. You filled a little bit of my souls cavity.

💜💜💜 thank you, i love hearing the favorite parts. little bursts of things i'd forgotten... 🦷

Nameless Grub · 1y

wanted to leave a note: i'm not sure if my interpretation is entirely what was intended (which i ultimately value, the author's sentiment is important to me) but 18 foot leash is one of the most beautiful, terrible, real depictions of how love changes you. i started crying after reading it. it captures the violence of falling in love, especially when one feels beyond repair. not to of course detract from anything else; i just think it all ties together, reaching this message that is so human or perhaps animal, even insect. also cried during it yet not from emotion but from how gross it was, like when your eyes water and lips pucker after eating a sour lemon. i mean this in the most admiring way possible. what a wordsmith you are. it's insane how you thread this through anal coffee. i love everything about your xrafstar. i will never forget this, thank you

you have no idea how much this ask means to me…
it’s basically the story i expected no one else to be into, but very personal to me, for a long time.
it can be hard to reach for love, if someone feels they only deserve addiction. this lonely, hollow substitute, endlessly recycled, pleasure without joy…anal coffee!!

i’m working on more leash:
-one is done and i’ll post it sometime, very short and peripheral, part of the same timeline. it’s awful
-the other takes place in a more…INNOCENT time. a reboot of the same characters. exploring the threads started in 18 foot leash. ano-sadistic solipsism, the soul versus addiction, NEW AND EXCITING BOY TECHNOLOGIES…

eyes watering…that’s the perfect duality of 18 foot leash, the longing that nausea can hide, always humiliating and devaluing the beauty that could save your soul, until you can’t–dripping for the worst and best reasons.
thank you for enabling my madness…thank you for loving xrafstar!! 😭😭💜💜💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

I work at a bookstore and want to bring in Serious Weakness, but we can't because it doesn't show up at Ingram. Do you have any plans for that? (KDP titles can be made to appear there AFAIK)

I would love that. But I'm reading that KDP expanded distribution is a scam that basically just lowers my royalties--and publishing on Ingram requires buying a new ISBN, which wouldn't be cost-effective unless more bookstores shared your good taste. But I really don't know much about that side of things. If there's an affordable/free way of getting you the book, let me know! ✌️

Nameless Grub · 1y

i fucking love the new game gonna go pre-atone so many times wahhhhh

Nameless Grub · 1y

Hello! New fan here and the eggs you've implanted in my brain are commanding me to draw fanart. Today's question is if you're alright with people making prints of fanart for personal display? Just wanted to be 110% sure.

My friend is also curious about if fanfic/transformative works are permitted. We are both thoroughly infested with eggs. Thank you and I hope you're having a good day!

making prints for personal use + fanfic is totally fine. i'm happy that someone else would want to play with the same toys. thanks for keeping the eggs warm! SQWCHHCCHWCHHSPLURCH 🥚 🥚 🥚 💥

Nameless Grub · 1y

i love your work and your presence on here i just want to know how r u doing? i get so worried abt grub lives;;;;;; ;-; ur book looks so good im so excited :3

aw, thanks for asking. i've been good. my body is always a little fucked but i’m hanging in there! the weather is warming up which is energizing for coldblooded vermin like me. been having really nice conversations with friends, and working on random experiments which is good for my chaos brain. we had vermont curry and i danced around…i dance all the time…in everything i do. have a nice day 💜🐛🐛🐛🌦️

Nameless Grub · 1y

just wanted to say i got SO excited when i read the perfect tense lore tidbit about him being very attached to his psychiatrist/handler. mentor relationships are the horneyest thing ever to me and so much media just brushes that aspect off or tastefully “sublimates” it (the coward’s way out). every “manipulated prodigy” type book movie whatever would be better with some pederastic nightmare jerkoff fuel. the guys in whiplash should have fucked. hannibal is untouchable. anyway i just have a strong suspicion that you will do me right with this one and i can’t wait. CTE has kept me VERY well fed also, love rubi so much, invert representation is so important. a “please like me” model student who is also a bad boy who has all the power and yet none?!?! STOPPPP

THANK YOU that's the MEAT right there UH HUH HAROOOO ARF ARF ARF
fortunately for you I'M ALL IN. “pederastic nightmare jerkoff fuel” is my MIDDLE NAME. and I know for a fact, the mentor angle is very important to the artists. I have been and will be WRITING THE SHIT out of it. ABA therapists will be taking notes!!
thank you for your faith in me...I have a novella in progress that is 100% about a guy and his handler and it will probably give you a very nice heart attack. I hope to start posting excerpts from it this year.

the guys in whiplash SHOULD have fucked. god!! Hannibal pristine, YUP.

Rubicon yessss, he’s so special…I tend to write characters who have this split self hovering over them...it’s the most interesting…new CTE this week probably! and it’ll be a scorcher…

Nameless Grub · 1y

i had a dream i came across torture works in a barnes and noble. all the other books surrounding it on the shelf took on a lumpy, saturated texture, with ribbed tubes and complex tissues sprouting out of their covers. i felt physically ill when i opened it, like a slime was building up in my larynx. the dream-people i was with were pressuring me to buy it. a rousing endorsement from my subconscious!

what an amazing dream
yeah that's perfect
thank you for serving as a vessel for the TORTURE WORKS OFFICIAL SUPERBOWEL COMMERCIAL

Nameless Grub · 1y

If you had the chance to do a Secret Lair release for Magic, which 4-5 cards would you like to re-illustrate?

pack 1: Dovescape, Bolas's Citadel, Captive Audience, Phyrexian Unlife, Elesh Norn Grand Cenobite

pack 2: Thief of Sanity, Earthbind, Wheel of Torture, some kind of nasty blue/black instant, and Duress or whatever

Nameless Grub · 1y

heres a take had today which is that ftms and mtfs, in gay male spaces, have the ultimate solidarity, because we're both put into the pussyboy/ boywife category
its the inescapable label of the boyfail. one is eternally boyfail for trying to be a boy but having a pussy and teh other is eternally boyfail for wanting to be a girl. and theyre both expected to be the ones getting fucked
trianon is the mascot of both for this exact reason

i love that he's relatable across the spectrum...the ultimate cross-platform martyr of our times...we can fit so much suffering into this baby!

Nameless Grub · 1y

I'm so sorry if this has been answered before!! But do you plan on having torture works as a pdf/epub? I want to read it so badly but I unfortunately live with people who won't be very comfortable with the cover. :(

Yes! I'm waiting for the layout department to finish the epub, then it will be on amzn, and on itchio w/ PDF. Meanwhile, subscribers to my patreon can get the PDF anytime.
For people living in sensitive environments, the cover can be painted with black paint, or creatively defaced in other ways, or ripped off and hidden under the mattress. And it contributes to the illicit, adolescent thrill. Thank you for playing <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

Oh also- how much do you read? Daily, weekly, whatever scale. I've been inquiring this for a lot of the people I respect. After a seizure I've struggled to read dense, meaningful text quite a bit. So I've been wondering how much this will cripple my want to understand the world and make art about my loving disgust for it

i read nonstop as a kid which gave me some stats. i read pretty randomly now. i can go months without reading a proper book, then read a bunch. movies and music are a much more regular fixation for me. it's hard to find books that i like. i tend to enjoy scifi horror or any kind of tense locked in scenario. or the stuff i need to write cuz i can't find it.

there is always a way to make art. it's like water. even if there are challenges, nothing can cut you off. but it feels really bad to have setbacks, and i'm sorry about the seizure. i've had a lot of physical issues, some that kept me from making meaningful things for years, and i had to learn to make things with my body, not against it. so the way people talk about art might not make sense for you, but there are infinite things you can discover for yourself. it's the process, and everyone has one.

Nameless Grub · 1y

can you elaborate on the "people play games to be punished" line? As someone heavy into game studies it doesn't really parse. A lot of your games, despite the flux between decisions and their consequences or lack of, feel almost revelatory in that agency at times. Games are inherently masochistic to a point, but I would think we can seek that masochism for reasons beyond punishment. or do i need to actually read Foucault to parse? but also ty for the amazing work porp

i just say shit

lmao

games can be whatever. but i do like punishing people with art. on tumblr someone compared Serious Weakness to one of those haunted houses where they beat you up. yeah...
thanks! <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

i never knew you were interested in writing dark fantasy until your tweet… your works have helped me untangle a lot of shit the world put in my head to make me try to be normal (ie kill everything that makes me myself). I connect somewhat with sci-fi and fiction in general, but honestly i’m not sure if i could handle a xrafstar dark fantasy bc that is my bread and butter… it would work too well and i would never be able to return to normal society. and i know u have good taste (fear n hunger, berserk ect) which makes me all the more filled with trepidation/horniness. need some morally compromised characters filled with impossible longing for something that vanished long ago from their broken world to cry and jerk off to 😭🐉🏰🐛🐛🐛🐎⚔️

I have some dark fantasy games and short stories (With Those We Love Alive, Soft Now) but yeah, a novella would be so killer. Fear and hunger, berserk, yessss. Hoping to share at least some fragments in the future...thank you for seeing the vision. If I ever pull it off, it'll be so fucking nasty. 🏰🐝👩‍👦‍👦

Nameless Grub · 1y

i think i remember in an earlier ask you mentioned that you didn’t rlly identify as trans, which both surprised me and didn’t surprise me… i think the current consensus among a lot of younger queer ppl of what trans means is ‘anything other than cis,’ but the word ‘trans’ still primarily conjures to mind images of people who transition in a binary way bc of its historical usage, which colors how it describes all sorts of nb ppl who have the term used on them without their consent.

i technically would call myself trans, but i’m pretty ambivalent abt the term. when i say ‘i’m trans,’ i feel like i’m setting into stone something that should be free to twist and change freely. it’s a bummer that there is no term in english to denote ‘does not subscribe to western frameworks of gender,’ and i guess the closest recognizable term would be like, agender? but that word literally has the word gender in it, and that’s what i’m trying to get away from… also it gives me negative vibes because of the prefix ‘a’. sends me back to science class (eew)…

after i came to grips with the fact that i wasn’t cis (according to commonly accepted societal definitions) the label ‘trans’ was very important to me. but now, if i don't have to interact with homophobia/transphobia in my environment, the primary way i interact with gender is for horny fantasy power dynamic purposes (lol) bc gender is so totally a power hierarchy and that’s pretty sexy if it’s on your own terms. i guess it’s ironic that when i’m surrounded by queer ppl, gender mostly becomes obsolete unless it’s a fun self expression thing, which kind of negates transness as a concept. when i’m in those environments the things that define my identity are more like, my traumatic background and how it impacts my relationships with others…. but there’s no 2024 indeitiy boutique label to curate myself with when it comes to that, so it stays a free flowing concept (probably better that way).

as you can probably tell i’m coming at this from the perspective of a young person (under 25) so i prolly see it differently from you. love your work 🪲💌📫

Yeah, it’s a word that has nothing to do with me. If I thought someone could know me as a fixed thing, I would destroy all connection to them. The pleasure I derive is the pleasure of a shapeshifter.

When I was younger, I allowed people to think of me whatever way they wanted as a business decision + the result of years of corrective sexual abuse. And the reaction I got when I finally asserted myself, reminded me why I let people do it in the first place. Some people want to kill the other pieces of me. But I am not X or Y, I am a spirit of love which possesses the world.

I would rather be thought of as a rank opportunist than trans, because at least opportunism contains within itself the essence of change. People thinking of me as a woman or a man isn’t a testament to anything but my skill at deception. And what could be finer?

But I don't judge others for the terms they use, it's all personal. I agree, it’s hard to “opt out” without “opting in”. I don’t wear other people’s dirty clothes unless I’m jerking off. "Horny fantasy power dynamic purposes" exaaaaactly. Based…waow…the hierarchies are so essential to what I write.

I'm glad things are becoming fluider. It makes me so happy to see, and I have received such kindness from younger people, who seem to really get the fluidity in my art. But there are people who understand in all times everywhere. Thanks for understanding, and thanks for the sweet letter! 🪳💌📫

Nameless Grub · 1y

i ended up with an extra copy of seriweak today so i left it in a free library. torture boys between the bibles and outdated cookbooks

haha cute. a toxic blast into the beige sludge!! i always see those around here and imagine SW amid the middle class dross and parenting manuals...thank you <3333

Nameless Grub · 1y

hi ❤️ is there a place to read up on perfect tense's lore? i've seen the (really cool!!!!!) zine + new page but im wondering if more info has been shared or if we will have to wait for the game to be released... 💖

tell you what, just for you, I made a Lore button (scroll down). thanks for following our little adventure 💜🪳🪳🪳

Nameless Grub · 1y

hey, their head came off! and the top moving text overlay is ABUSE ABUSE ABUSE instead of PILLS PILLS PILLS!

Nameless Grub · 1y

i too am a bug and i have been for a long time, before i knew the words. i am wiggling my antennys and sloughing slimes across da internet

Nameless Grub · 1y

Not so much a question but instead a message of appreciation. You're one of my favorite authors and your works are just all so breathtaking, and they've definitely gotten me through some tough places. I also am really grateful you opened up the asks here, because I'm a homeless 20 y/o and a lot of it's just good life advice; it gives me hope. What I'm trying to say is: thanks for everything.

I was homeless in my 20s too. I was lucky to not be “on the streets homeless” although I was always a second away from it, and had to do unfortunate things to survive. I hope very, very much that you will find a place for yourself and people will be kind to you.

I'm just an idiot trying to survive in my own little context, and it definitely shouldn't be taken as gospel, but I'm glad if these letters can be some kind of late night radio on the endless drive of the soul. Thank you for giving my stories a place to exist, and good luck with everything <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

hello! i am curious what drew you to working with a press for Torture Works, vs self-publishing like your past couple physical releases?

Many of the stories were already published by hand, so this could show them in another way. It was nice to have someone else execute the layout, and help with the editing. And Apocalypse Party was passionate about the book, and dealt fairly with me. And like most things I do...to see what will happen!

Nameless Grub · 1y

I really like the ending of Serious Weakness and I appreciate it more every time I think about it/reread. I guess for a long time my ""mental health"" hasn't been perfect and I think that's something everybody struggles with especially being trans/queer... It took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that my life will never be perfect, the way I wanted it to be when I realised what I wanted, and in a lot of ways I'm still coming to terms with that. For a long time "gratefulness" seemed like such an offensive concept to me, you know, other people have it worse so you don't get to vocalise suffering, and this whole idea of privilege-oppression as a ladder, or even a graph. But in the end I've definitely come around to gratefulness too, just that it had to be something I chose for myself rather than something other people were telling me would fix me or using as an excuse for certain behaviours. I guess what I think and what Seriweak really gets right (at least to me) is that you can't save the world with any amount of love/optimism/gratitude/coming of age/girlbossery, you can't even save yourself. But once you acknowledge that, optimism manages to grow....

It really does come down to control in the end, how society controls you, how other people control society. It feels bad to lose control of yourself and sometimes of how others see you, that's why everyone curates identity, something something the forced abjection of the self... replacement of interpersonal relationships with material relationships between goods and services... For a long time I felt dishonest for projecting a personality that didn't reflect the whole of me, not being able to talk about suffering without revealing it and hating to reveal it, that sort of thing. But I think now, that there is no facade and maybe there is no whole, there are just ways of behaviour, towards myself and others. Everybody is at least a little bit unknowable, and Seriweak gets that across really well, unpredictability, development, and the infinity of self. I sometimes get so annoyed when people regard me the wrong way, in a way that limits or degrades me, which is a trans thing and an amnesiac who identifies as a completely different person to "who I was before" thing and maybe just a me thing, lol. I felt really seen in all of the Seriweak cast at different moments and also sometimes all at the same time, a lack of emotion, too much emotion, wanting interaction, wanting a reprieve, wanting to express myself honestly but also well. Serious Weakness felt so honest, and I guess considering that honesty in relation to an author, to the characters, to myself was a way of realising how honest I can be, which is also a way of realising that I don't need to be "completely honest", or that honesty can be something other than spilling all of my guts and feeling them oxidise under the unfiltered Gaze... What I communicate will be misinterpreted or interpreted correctly either way. People will see me in a certain light, as a girl, as a boy, as an object, good or evil or somewhere in-between, but if we could just force people to Really, Truly See Us all the time that recognition would mean jack shit. There is always a space, outside or inside, that I don't control. Optimism grows there, too.

But I think now, that there is no facade and maybe there is no whole, there are just ways of behaviour, towards myself and others.
That’s how I think of it. Modes of action from different ones inside me. Like sprays of water from the ocean, which is also the sky.
when people regard me the wrong way, in a way that limits or degrades me
I understand completely.
It's so frustrating when people try to reduce me to the violence done to me, when it’s the least interesting thing about me. Or identity: the idea that people do X because they are Y (which always becomes, you WILL do X because you are Y, and your actions are meaningless). But people who do that have already removed themselves from what is alive, and those still striving owe them nothing.
realising that I don't need to be "completely honest", or that honesty can be something other than spilling all of my guts and feeling them oxidise under the unfiltered Gaze
Exactly. They frame honesty as confession, but everything that passes through us is something we have the right to share on our own terms. A shape to fight for. Like the ending to Serious Weakness. I wrote it to be realer to my experience than comparable works, but also more idealized in some ways. Reality has to contain something we want. What did Merton say..."A false humility should not rob us of the pleasure of conquest which is due to us and necessary for our spiritual life"

I really enjoyed this letter. The way of thinking is agreeable to my own. Ambiguity, and relinquishing control, has done a lot for me. Thank you 💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

Thank you for making a body of work that has inspired me to push my own work to have more fucked-up shit and follow through more deeply on the cascading consequences. I'm also having a lot of fun drafting a genderswapped highlight reel with different emotional dynamics, a la Seriweak But With Girls - exploring a new palette of social violence and how it's eroticized.

Also, the Erohazard tank top reveals a perilous amount of sideboob on me, and it rules. Thanks for all your hard work, and I look forward to having your new book on my shelf!

yesss we love our consequences! the details are worth every inch of film. burn it in. freaks inspiring freaks, what's better than that!
erohazard side boob is essential to the war effort. thanks for writing!!

Nameless Grub · 1y

i read serious weakness at a really pivotal moment in my life where i was starting to really shed a lot of the dregs of the moral panic i grew up with as a gay rural southerner. hearing trianon's musings on homosexual attraction and latching onto people he thinks would have it together really resonated with me, but... god, insul. i've been there. so many times i've been where insul is, had the exact same insults thrown at me, had the exact same moments of self-flagellation. the end point of ignoring what he is for so long and it isn't even his own fault. god. fuck.

thank you for this book. as horrifying as it is, i think it set me on a happier path.

that's beautiful. glad you could work it through with the boys. i grew up in a pretty backwards place and it fucks a person up, trying to guide their soul through it. very happy to hear all that <33333

Nameless Grub · 1y

I like older women now because of PNE. Thanks

older women are so freaking hot. BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME OF READING PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE. GODSPEED 💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

Hi, do you have any plans to publish the paperback of Torture Works through any platform other than amazon? I really want it but won't buy anything from them anymore. If not I'll happily buy the PDF version instead when it comes out on itch

Either way, really looking forward to my next feeding of traumatic cathartic fagslop.

Not a ton of options for print-on-demand, sadly. The tradeoff of finding another service would be, fewer people could afford it, wouldn't be able to buy it in their region, or it would be an equally dystopic corp. It's out of my hands either way, KDP is what the publisher uses (understandably). But I get it, amzn is disgusting.

In the meantime, yeah, you can get the PDF through my patreon, or when the itchio stuff is ready. Thanks for slurping the fagslop! <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

just remembered you also featured in one of my dreams, we were doing a game together and were coming back from a walk when you fainted, i called for help and some guy came and helped me carry you inside, then he started chopping up your arm but the bits he chopped of were cucumber and we ate them

that's so pretty, love to have crunchy green water arms, could make a salad 😋

Nameless Grub · 1y

Hello! I'm too bitchmade to order something with a cover like that where my parents could see it. Is an ebook planned?

yes! the PDF is available to people who subscribe to my patreon, and once I get the epub from the publisher, it will be on amzn + itchio (with PDF)

Nameless Grub · 1y

I love you and I hope you never stop creating. your mind is so beautiful and important to this world. thank you for changing peoples lives

Nameless Grub · 1y

I love the way you title things, especially the ones which take everyday terms and either reinterpret them or flip them over (Perfect Tense, Sciamachy, Saving Face, Bullet Wife), feels like picking up interesting artefacts of nature and touching them until they change. I guess I really like your vocabulary in general if that's a thing I can say as a compliment... I always think about the eigengrau line from Serious Weakness. How do you choose names for your works?

THANK YOU
the titles are VERY important to me
the elements surrounding the story are just as important as the story itself
it has to be SEXY and COOL
like a HACKED OFF piece of SHADOW
every adventure is always the MOST IMPORTANT ONE
thank you for listing your favorite examples
"everyday terms and either reinterpret them or flip them over"
i hadn't thought about it, but it's true;
Serious Weakness, a translation of myasthenia gravis, a pulpy mirror of something beautiful and crippling.
and Low Kill Shelter is such an incredible, bittersweet euphemism to me, this casual poetry of the pound. it shares a kind of feeling with With Those We Love Alive.
<3

Nameless Grub · 1y

you happened to be in a dream i had last night & you were very pleasant to interact with. i very rarely remember dreams i have so id like to thank your dreamshell for treating me kindly even though they would have faced no consequences for being cruel or rude to me.... cant wait for your next book, your words have a way of nestling deep into my brain & never leaving <3

that's so sweet...i practice a lot at remembering dreams so maybe that was the familiar benefit i conferred. 🦇
i hope you will enjoy the book, and have more good dreams <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

Not a question just want to say i could not be more excited abt your next book, i have read Serious Weakness cover to cover 3 mayb 4 times now i forgot and cannot wait for another plunge into the toxic acid bath of your work <3

thank you so much, ahh i'm glad you would want to read it so many times! godspeed your dissolution into the alkahest!

Nameless Grub · 1y

reading ur stuff feels like entering the dead sea, all the minerals n shit perfecting my osmotic balances of sex and violence and being a disgusting little freak. things i cant get from most interactions or media. i've said it in other messages but again, thanks for staying alive and pushing the filth out publicly

yesssss. it feels crazy in the wrong ocean. thanks for being a disgusting little freak and thanks for wanting me to be alive!! 🐬🩸🐙💩

Nameless Grub · 1y

Thanks for introducing me to the word anhedonia. My body and soul and brain and heart have felt as if they're made of stone for most of my life. There are memories of brief flashes of laughter and comfort but my inner most self has always felt like a strange kind of unmoving fullness. I still feel emotions but it's mostly the painful ones. I do aspire to feel the brightness of your writing and feel real love eventually. Idk thanks a lot.

i really feel that. anhedonia has been one of my biggest problems my whole life. if it's never safe to have emotions, the body trains itself out of them. isolation can do the same thing. lack of exposure to the thing that “awakens” you.
i hate that numbness so much–to not even be able to feel sadness is the worst. i’m grateful for pain if it’s the kind where the feeling can pass through and be wrestled with. it took a lot of time and experience to figure out what makes me feel things and i’m still working on it forever.

i hope you find the things/ways of moving that help. love is real and worth fighting toward <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

i bought your ero hazard NNCNT shirt forever ago as soon as they went on sale and i adore it so much but i havent worn it once except in the house because im absolutely terrified of dirtying or damaging it. i love it so much

i'm so pleased that you like it. a xrafstar shirt would only be enhanced by dirt or damage, please don't be afraid to give it character and enjoy it with the fleeting life of insects. but i also understand "collecting precious items", so do whatever makes you most happy, and thank you <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

apologies in advance for infodumping about myself a little bit in your inbox, but i find it necessary to properly express my thanks. i've had a severe fear of vomit and vomiting for almost 20 years at this point, and i don't know that it will ever completely go away (although it's not as bad as it was when i was a teenager and even just eating at all was a disturbing experience where i spent the rest of the day dreading how it would come back out of me).
your work has meant a lot to me in relation to this... i remember before the phobia developed, as a kid, i was fascinated by vomiting and would obsess over any experiences i had with it and talk people's ears off about it. i was grossed out, but also really interested and unafraid. (i guess i do the same obsessing now, only it's colored with fear and physically overwhelming disgust.) i remember when i first read that people have a fetish for vomiting that i was really afraid and disgusted, and i told myself that i didn't get it. but i think i did already understand that there's not that much difference between fetish and fear- that maybe for me, there was a fork in the road in childhood where my fascination could have developed in one way or another.
anyway, the way you write about it, and about vomit-adjacent experiences (any lack of control over the body is vomit-adjacent to me), i can tell that some of the root of why it's so horrifying and difficult to cope with for me is visible to you, which is that feeling of being out of control of one's body, and deeply vulnerable, and turning inside out, and not knowing if it will ever end or if i'll be living in this experience forever and ever... and it can be very sudden, i don't necessarily know when my body might betray me by doing this. you convey that, and the grossness of it, and what i feel is an inherent horror, in a way that somehow feels very tender- maybe just seeing and acknowledging these things is tenderness? but i felt comfort where usually i would feel only fear and discomfort- i was comforted and discomforted simultaneously and that felt even better than just being comforted.
and also i could finally acknowledge the appeal of it as a fetish. and almost wish that i could turn my fear into that fetish. maybe one day i could! probably not. but being able to acknowledge the understanding felt good. anyway, thank you for your art.
also i wanted to ask because i feel like having a phobia of it clouds my vision and prevents me from seeing all the things it can represent to other people, so i have my own ideas but: why does insul puke so much? lmao.

PUKE THOUGHTS:

yes, being turned inside out, it's an eternal fixation for me, and so fun to write about

puking is miserable, esp chain puking
feeling it eat away the face, burning the enamel and the throat, and knowing it will keep happening, even when there’s nothing in the stomach to throw up.

i grew up as a dirty child
who didn’t have the same sanitary affordances or training as others
and i used to fear being unclean during sex
it wasn’t that i minded being dirty around other people, but that i feared they wouldn’t feel the same way
and would judge me for not being porny clean
fortunately there’s lots of really gross people.
when someone interacts enough with an actual body and loves it, not just on a screen, they come to love the complexity hidden behind clothes, the smells and heft of the apparatus responsible for maintaining life. the fragility is what it makes it hot, the trust it takes to share an interface for commensual, and sensual bacteria.

anyone worth keeping around won’t judge you for throwing up.
the last time i puked with a friend, i made out with them kneeling around the toilet.

neurosis happens when fear is allowed to build up like a physical crud in the muscles/brain.
turning fear into arousal is one of the best ways to purge it from the body. doesn’t have to be JORKING IT, just any kind of sublimation, externalizing it the way the act itself, this ask itself, is an externalization.

insul pukes a lot because he sustained injuries where he would realistically do that. these injuries are incredibly common in every type of media but they fail to show the actual effects, because they’re cowards. when you’re choked or concussed, you can get brain damage, vomit, or die days later. these are injuries to very delicate parts of the body that govern the rest. a lot of people don’t recognize these symptoms, partially because of lazy writing that treats brain trauma as a scene transition.

he gets injured so much, i didn’t want to depict it casually, so i linger on his recovery throughout the whole novel. cognitive issues, fatigue, nausea, etc. the fragility of the body is central to Serious Weakness, after all.

oh yeah and it’s really hot

thank you for this ask, it's exactly the kind of thing i appreciate people noticing. good luck with having a body, sounds like you’re on the right path <3

P.S. the new story i wrote for my upcoming book has SOME REALLY SHITTY VOMITING AND VOMIT-ADJACENCY IN IT, hope you enjoy or don’t, whichever is better!

Nameless Grub · 1y

more like faggot therapy

sorry homos, you will find NO GAY CONTENT in ANY OF MY WORK
look elsewhere for your cheap thrills!!

Nameless Grub · 1y

i love your bugs love game (maggot therapy) and am uber excited for it. i was curious after the new update to the codex site about that rapid shifting gif with the changing text and just how many versions there were of it. i keep trying to count them and read all of them but im struggling lmao. am i cursed to this fate forever or would you ever share the stilled versions for my eyeballs

thank you!! i basically finished it this week--we might add one more secret ending and a little more art, but the rest is 1.0 ✌️
here’s how to read moving text.
use the snipping feature on your OS, or a prog like Lightshot. press the screen cap shortcut key. time will freeze. WITNESS ETERNITY

Nameless Grub · 1y

I discovered your work during a Wikipedia deep dive about 6 months ago and immediately fell in love…it feels like it came to me at the exact perfect time. Everything you make is so beautifully disgusting…

I read serious weakness a few weeks after dropping out of university due to adhd and it immediately became one of my favourite books. Very cathartic read…Trianon’s line “I’ll always have to work harder than everyone else. I’m so tired of it. I just want someone else to take care of me.” was the first time I’ve ever seen that feeling depicted anywhere. Also loved the ending. Many other writers probably would have had Trianon kill Insul and run away with Oenone but what you went with was so much more interesting and thematically satisfying…returning to his old life would kill trianon just as much as the aquarium killed that shark (tho maybe a different kind of death)

Anyways thanks for infecting me with your art…I’m excited to keep absorbing it for many more years

here's to dropping out.
when the “right" path takes so much energy…one has to find the natural currents in the actual body one is living in, not the ideal one.

i needed to see a book with that ending
because every time i saw the usual kind, i knew it was about reinstating a world where people like me do not belong.

beautifully disgusting...exactly. thank you for your passion <333 🦈

Nameless Grub · 1y

one of my partners who originally introduced me to serious weakness recently introjected Insul to hurt me. so basically serious weakness got me laid. thanks porp

Nameless Grub · 1y

Sorry, I forgot my question! I mentioned analyzing your website as I'm intrigued by its unique design. I was wondering if you could share some insights into the creative choices behind it?

Nameless Grub · 1y

I found out about you when I was looking for websites to analyze for my UX design class and now I'm your new stalker, can't wait for your bug game! I love Perfect Tense so much and I frequently daydream about him (victim of brainrot)

haha i wouldn't use that terminology as i am indeed the very real thanato-erotic fixation of many unhinged individuals but thank you...from UX design class to the dregs of malarial debasement! life is full of magical little portals...
the first perfect tense game is my current focus and i am finishing up the final scenes! prepare the midden heap of Q? 2024...

Nameless Grub · 1y

i think they should give you a billion dollars and the ability to make a show on nickelodeon, jhonen vasquez style, i want to see ur grubs ooze and leak through the picket fences of the S&P board.

I love that show. never finished as a kid, watching random episodes scavenged off the old net. so we watched all of it this year. so xrafstary n insectile, everyone chugging carbonated feces, the grimy militarized school and disorienting fast food hellscape, so real. the antagonistic misery of being a child that every other show turns into a quirky fantasy.

yesss, adventures of baby xrafstar…would love to make a show that permanently fucked up the psychosexual landscape of the next generation and was immediately canceled

Nameless Grub · 1y

hi ♡ will the story collection you're putting out bring together all chapters of Cunt Toward Enemy ? If not, are you still planning a paperback of the whole thing when it's finished ?

Nameless Grub · 1y

Hey, I've been trying to buy a copy of Perfect Zine but Mixam's site is borked and doesn't let you actually complete checkout, is there anywhere else to buy it?
I love your stuff, LKS is probably my favorite but serious weakness was more effecting, you articulated things I've always felt but could never properly express

your options are
1) wait for Mixam to fix itself ?_?
2) print out the PDF for a few bucks by uploading it to a different site or taking it to a print shop

and thank you!! <33333 RARARARARA!!!!!!

Nameless Grub · 1y

Been having dreams about playing a lot of strange games, I had a dream I was playing a new Porpentine game... All I remember was an illustrated face in your art style being presented after a curtain rolling up... It reminded me of mario brothers

i had a dream i was in a really randomly generated roguelike with long compound item names, kind of mundane and sandboxy
and i had another dream i was in a larp called Judge the Void but it was a ripoff called Blob the Void
more games should have face behind curtain!! yes!! and clapping as it is revealed...this will save gaming

Nameless Grub · 1y

will every story in the new book remain available to read on your website too, or are you pulling them from the metaphorical shelves?

free forever!!
the book will have the remastered versions, but i plan to update some on web as well.
and there's an exclusive novelette that will only be readable in the book (and patreon) for a bit.

Nameless Grub · 1y

what press is putting your new book out? (no worries if that's confidential for now)

it is being published by focus on the family

heheh i will make a blog post with the actual details when the manuscript is finalized, won't be too long hopefully! ✌️

Nameless Grub · 1y

been a fan of urs for a few years now and it’s rlly helped me feel understood like no one in my real life has. your work humanizes via dehumanization and makes it look easy. i’ve been wondering, you have way more life experience than i do, do you think the stuff you give shape to via words speaks to some core feature of the human condition present in everybody, or is it just something that applies to only some ppl? like, i guess personally i spent so much time assuming that my parents understood the world more intimately than me and therefore had a clearly picture of ‘true’ reality and that i was confused and dumb, but the older i get the more i think there’s immutable differences in how we exist. this scares me because it makes me think that some part of humanity is permenamtly sealed into walls of inescapable traumatization and like separated from the world soul or sm and all we can do is try to make it hurt less. like it took way too long to find someone who understood the sentiment of ‘i just wanna get worse’ rather than adhering to the dominant hegemony that crushes any part that doesn’t fit inside it. penny 4 ur thots 🙋‍♀️🤷‍♀️💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

humanizes via dehumanization, yeah <3 i’m happy with how many people instinctively get that. when the mainstream trend is to handle lil guys with tweezers in weird fake ways…the highest honor i can give someone is to fuck their shit up.
because the worst is to not be taken seriously.

uh huh, it’s easy as a kid to assume everyone knows more. but adults are stupid. and even when people have expertise, it’s in a narrow area, or it might not be relevant to what you want for your life!

i guess my answer would be “it doesn’t matter”. i don’t try to impose my thoughts on the chaos of the universe. there will always be a cowardly majority, and there will always be people who don’t fit in. there are things we have in common, and things that can never be shared. all that matters is the feeling, and the result. 🪲🦎

Nameless Grub · 1y

when i love someone it feels like delusion and when i hate someone it feels like clarity. is that attitude escapable for those of us with cptsd/autism/adhd/whatever happened to be the in vogue diagnosis when our parents took us to get psychologically evaluated?

hate is the death of something. a dead thing can be labeled, and it feels like clarity.
love is an ongoing struggle. it is unresolved. it is risk. it is the pain of attachment. but that is the cost of life. to enjoy beautiful things, knowing they can be taken away.

Nameless Grub · 1y

i think i accidentally pressed the ‘ask’ button before i was done writing my question… that, or it got deleted, i am not sure. i was going to ask, was the line ‘every step the wrong one, forever’ connected to a specific part of your life? or does it still seem like every step is the wrong one? i really resonate with it as a ~20 year old who is convinced that all futures lead nowhere. thx for having a retrospring 🙏🪰🤤

it felt very true in my 20s.
with PTSD and other status effects
it is difficult to find the optimal move
and some people are punished more than others.
but everyone has to balance safety and risk.
as i gained experience, things became less confusing.

20s is a battle for the soul. but it is a necessary one, because you are alive.
i think anyone who keeps picking themselves up and is kind with themselves will find better futures.
whatever darkness you imagine will always be more limited than the reality.
even hard times can surprise you with beautiful things.
it’s better to play than to not play.
good luck <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

is the sourcecode for your games still available? i'm trying to learn twine coding, you are my biggest inspiration

thank you! that was a long time ago, i don't have the files. i'm sure there are other nice resources out there. good luck!

Nameless Grub · 1y

nemui asada mention!!!!!!!!!! i adore both of your works so i was super happy to see you mention their stuff when talking about art styles... i think the feel of their stuff is perfect for seriweak

yes!!! their expressions are so touching and sensitive, and their one-shot compilations are really inspiring as someone with a similar love of exploring the dynamics between two people, over and over. thank you <333

Nameless Grub · 1y

iirc, a while back you said that you'd be more comfortable with an animated adaptation of your writing rather than live action. what existing animated project (if any) comes closest to the visual style you'd want for a seriweak adaptation (for example, or any of your other works if that's easier to answer)?

something on the spectrum of
peter chung crossed with the most rancid fujo you can find
nemui asada
nishin
lots of darks and distortion. a splash of 90s anime. but i think there's infinite ways to do it, as long as it has the right balance of hot + mundane/grotesque. hyper-dissociated outsider BL... 🎞️

Nameless Grub · 1y

i was trying to explain a feeling to my trauma therapist and the only way i could say it was "every move the wrong move forever" and i watched it enter her guts in front of me

if only she knew it was from a story about a guy who fucks a bomb...
glad it could provide some words to talk about it. a lot of cunt toward enemy comes from processing cptsd and panic attacks.
💣💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

Serious weakness but miku https://imgur.com/a/0miFAIR
I ❤️ mspaint and drawing shitty emo cringe.
i do also believe that trianon could give seragaki aoba a run for his money as yaoi jesus❤️

triatsune miku!!! he's so pretty...love how waxy/creamy and bruised…thank you for this WONDERFUL mspaint emo cringe!! truly the best most beautiful thing in life…

yaoi jesus…i’m honored…they’re listening to music and cuddling in bed together in that eternal paradise…their reward for their many sufferings and mutilations…

P.S. can i put it on my fanart page?

Nameless Grub · 1y

there's a plush company called plushie dreadfuls that makes these rabbits that represent various mental and chronic physical illnesses and apparently at some point later this year they're releasing a myasthenia gravis bunny and all im saying is. would it be ontologically evil to order one and slash an x into the middle of its chest

identity is already a grotesque pageant so it seems like a cute idea to me!! ❌🧸

Nameless Grub · 1y

what do you think of names? do they tie us down when we should be free to shift into new identities? do you still identify w the name porpentine?

i don’t mind when people use porpentine, although i’m not super invested in a single name.
in my head i don’t have one, and use multiple names in private life.
but i’m pragmatic, porpentine etc is a useful umbrella term so people can find my art.

when i think of names, the question is, do i identify with a piece of clothing?
i have my favorites, but they’re all for different things.
if you’re asking about yourself, depends on how it makes you feel. a uniform can funnel the soul into the same shape every day. or it can make someone feel proud and spinal.

i love naming characters. the pleasure of the tag on the collar of a shirt, small and stitched and tucked away, but tickling the back of the neck unless you cut it off. it’s like naming different parts of myself, homunculi that grew from a wound. that is how i live, in a dancing node field…

Nameless Grub · 1y

This is such a stupid question but what program do you use to write? I get weird paralysis about opening like… Google docs of all things and clickety clacking away about amputative incest lol. Because what if the government is watching and my life gets even overer?!? Certainly I am silly and insufficiently motivated to let this be a concern but yeah what incubates your shit? I am imagining an external hard drive covered in chains levitating and pulsing with dark energies. Love your work, you’re very gracious to have a retrospring

I use Scrivener. Obsidian is also a decent free alternative. The key is being able to nest documents so I can break the story into chunks. Without nesting, writing a long story is a cognitive struggle. And thanks. There are also chains and dark energy!! <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

So I'm scrolling through this in search of more precious lore gems about Agent of Innocent and I get jumpscared by Perfect Tense being 85??? Was that a joke or is he really a boomer in a twink body?

haha i was just messing because the original ask was bait
i designed perfect so every artist could interpret him their own way
but he's basically generic anime age or 20s depending
although # of deaths is a more useful metric than years because he’s an infinitely dying guro cockroach

Nameless Grub · 1y

I got caught up with cunt toward enemy a little while back and can I say how much I love rubicon. His sharp personality and love for violence contrasting with his childishness and the desire for fatherly approval. The gap moe is huge. I get the tingles when we get to peek a little into rubi's brain. Decent food for fathercons is so rare and difficult to find, and cte is sustaining me. Also, I've been dying to ask: what's your opinion on the concept of fathers. A father review, if you will

i was literally writing about Rubicon when i got this!! i just finished revising the first episode and it’ll be in my new anthology, shiny and remastered. ✨

my stance on dads is
i have a deep hatred of parents
the entire concept is so inherently perverse
which makes for good stories.

i agree, it’s hard to find good food, i need something very careful…very particular…a delicate tension…that’s why i write.
i hope it will please you to know that i’m working on more dadspectrum stories + more cte episodes (and if you haven’t read it, i would check out Your Mother Has Fallen Out of Love With You)

also, this previous dad ask may be mildly diverting…

yesss, the gap moe…i think that’s a cardinal trait of my characters. a narrow, terrifying competency paired with staggering weakness and patheticness. thank you for loving Rubicon!! 💜💥

Nameless Grub · 1y

After reading serious weakness and incorporating it into my personality I made a dungeon star t shirt. I work at a warehouse and wear it to work every so often and I asked my friend if I should tell people what it is and they told me to say they’re a rap group so when people finally started asking I told them they’re a rap group and described the music and now people keep being like oh dungeon star and trying to look it up and getting no results and they think I’m gatekeeping and idk how long I should commit to this bit

that's so fucking funny
I wanna see the shirt

yeah it's probably not the best topic to discuss in mixed company
"it's actually a band from this faggoty book about an autistic guy getting tortured"

thanks for being the percent of teens who still remembers dungeon star in 20XX!! <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

my therapist mentioned Serious Weakness during one of our sessions and upon looking at the reviews and the description i was drawn to it immediately like flies to carrion. The draw that Tria has towards Insul actually reminds me a lot of when i was manipulated by a sociopath in high school and how i’d keep talking to him about everything i thought regardless of how much he hurt me bc it still felt like he understood me in a way others didn’t. You did such a good job capturing the complexity of such a relationship and it means a lot to me that someone’s out here writing about the most beautiful fucked up romances our world has to offer.

does your therapist make you draw clocks too?? haha that is so cute. serious weakness is the first line of therapeutic intervention in today’s modern world…

i understand. that kind of connection can feel deeper than nearly anything. it's intoxicating. when i write a horrible romance, i consider the person most vulnerable to it.
it’s hard to let go of being understood, or the illusion of being understood, or at least opened up like a machine, when so many people only offer apathetic affection.
i hope you can find intensity/connection in people who treat you well.

yes. in a book it can be the most beautiful. snorting this pure toxicity. thank you!! <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

i see you as some sort of prehistoric mammal. curling up into ground holes during signs of apocalypse.

i would NEVER be a disgusting mammal
unless it was a bat
or a diseased The Thing-infested chrysocyon
but one of the insects i most identify with is a cockroach
🕳️🪳☄️

Nameless Grub · 1y

i know you don’t touch pronouns but would you describe yourself as ‘fem’ or does that also change over time?

femininity is very important to me
but i would never use terms that anyone else used.
people use words because they want something. nothing i want is so simple.
i am more like the weather.
i don’t see properties as extricable from each other.
the more a thing becomes one thing, it reinforces another
and it's that flow i am interested in.
any description is in the living pattern of my art.

Nameless Grub · 1y

how do you feel about those who DON'T like your work?

Nameless Grub · 1y

someone asked if they could translate HAL and you said there were certain phrasings in it you wouldn't necessarily agree with anymore -- what might those be/what are your thoughts on that essay now?

it’s just some essay i wrote when i was young
and i had to describe myself in fake ways to get the truth published
because people distrust fluidity

-i’m not trans or any of the other terms in the article, it was just the only way to get it published in a time where not fitting into a binary was and is seen as rapey. but i don't care anymore. if they would change it, that would be best, but no one cares. i’ve sold the sexual fantasy and interpretation of my body so many times to survive, it was no different.
-it was a personal essay i wrote a very long time ago. the fact that it is still relevant is because many artists come from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and are not as willing to be sincere as some squalid runt.
-my art is the most important thing. essays are distasteful and those who continually write about internet culture tend to be rancid grifters. twitter activists/content repackaging clout chasers are the lowest form of life. i would rather make new things than regurgitate them.
-people want to roll it up into their ideology when the essay is about the evil of all ideology.
you don’t need some essay to know bad things are bad.
so i would advise people to cultivate their own clarity and voice
instead of trying to collate some perfect scripture to be invoked as a talisman.
the strongest shit i ever see is when people just don’t play along with the weird pious language of clout chasing and use their own words to express how over it they are. robbing the accusers of the cheap sexual thrills and specialness they crave.

i don't mind if some find the text useful. people need a bandage when they're bleeding out. but bandages need to be changed and wounds need to heal.

in the end, people get hurt all the time.
it’s not special.
i’ve lost count of all the people who ever tried to kill me, it’s very boring.
i just don’t think about it.
the only thing that makes me happy is building new things.

Nameless Grub · 1y

Absolutely love your stuff, its one of the few things along with Jesus' son and Frank:Sonnets I keep coming back to year after year. The words are all colored.

Probably a stupidfuckingthing to ask but you have any thoughts on a kind of default passionlessness? Sometimes I feel like if I peeled back all this skin it'd just be layers and layers of slag coated around a little pearlescent nothing.
That sounds really dramatic. More like on the sliding scale of emotional human experience I'd rank as hilariously unimpressive. Real 'mediocrity propelled via anxiety' hours. Even the self-hate feels sheltered and cliche'd. I don't know. I feel like I've done a lot of introspection and there simply isn't much there.

Also have you ever played any tabletop role playing games? I haven't, but they sound fun.

Thank you.

thank you <3 i like the invisible colors i put them in

it’s easy to feel numb without context
there were times people basically thought i was a vegetable
because i did not easily reveal my potential
it is natural to have a blankness inside
i am blank without connection
like a piece of glass
the question is what your best lighting and angle is
so maybe extrospection is needed
but people have very different drives
some can be happy never talking to another person, others need to compete to feel something
depends on what you want, and why it bothers you, and what that means about you

i’ve played tabletop games, yeah
DMing is my favorite
but i don’t really have the time
i usually put that conductor energy into my art

🪲

Nameless Grub · 1y

the “any pronouns if you’re horny” is SO REAL thank you. “they” is me and logically must be me but i hate how sexless it feels because it’s new in the culture and not contaminated by centuries of fetishes. also the idea of only ever being called one thing makes me a bit sad. Refract me through many lenses pwease 🥴 hope you’re having a wondrous day!!

"contaminated by centuries of fetishes" exactly haha
although "they" can have some nice swarm god energy
yeah, I can never be a single thing, just a process
I'm having a good day, thanks, and same to you! 🦠

Nameless Grub · 1y

do u have advice for procrastination/avoidance?

i love making art but everytime i try to tackle something Bigger, i get so scared.

as somebody who went from shorter stories to a big novel, did you have any techniques or ideas on how to approach that kinda creative fear?

my feeling is that its a synthesis of straight willpower but also needing to have fun with my work again and regain perspective. thank uuuu u u u u

i’ll be real i was insanely, mindblowingly horney
on a level that kills nuns

i also have more support in my life than ten years ago

but you have to be crazy enough about something because it’s a lot of work either way
and yeah all those things you mentioned are good too

now about that fear problem you mentioned
you have to know when to fold and when to cash in (magnanimously eats cigar)
i scrapped some big projects because i knew i couldn’t hit the finish line
and pushed that experience toward something else
but at the same time you can’t wait for perfection because the only time it’s perfect is when it’s in your head
it takes experience to know
because i had doubts about serious weakness all the way to the end
it’s natural when you invest a lot of time in something
and there’s nearly always a miserable stretch no matter how good the thing you’re making is
it’ll never be perfect but you have to figure out if it’s Enough
if you can break it into pieces that reward different parts of you
and if you are crazy enough to make the whole thing alive and not just a millstone
you have to trust your own mastery and your own instinct
and fight with it
and not let it sit around and develop a fear complex
you have to get comfortable looking at shit with slaughterhouse objectivity
and stretching lines to every point of your life
until it collapses back again into the tiny point that is the seed that chews reality around it like a dark pearl
but everyone has their own kind of crazy
that lets them stick with a thing when other people would give up
and only you can figure out what that is

Nameless Grub · 1y

What are your pronouns

never touch the stuff
but realistically i use "they"
and any are fine if you're horney

Nameless Grub · 1y

just bc it's been ten years and ive still never figured it out how do you open the lamia harpy succubus box in contrition. please take pity on me

i dont have the files anymore so i dont know haha
maybe it was a patreon exclusive?
a little mystery is healthy for ya though
🙏📦🐍🪹😈

Nameless Grub · 1y

read "Your Mother Has Fallen Out of Love With You" Because I needed to write something Eldritch (I saw CW Vantablack so I thought why not look)... Though I shoulda saw the people's qrt's and heeded the warnings because now it's all i'm thinking about.

I discovered both You and Rook's music at the same time and there's something so very delicate and precious in seeing art that reflects the darkest aspects of your past... This is the first time your writing hit the nail on the darkest parts of my life, even going into the present. I wish I could explain in words but the deep, carnal, oblique pain mixed with a love because of the situation you were Born into is something i've dealt with all my life.

I could say so, so much more ... Maybe even another analysis but I just have to say thank you. Ur creations are like dissecting a lovecraftian monster. Slimy, Scary, and Otherworldly, but still quantifiable by human terms. To understand your art is to understand pain which makes me feel human. Its like Prometheus' fire...

yeah dont fuck with vantablack!!
carnal and oblique, i like that. lacquered blood…

it's cool that it drilled down into that place
i like going completely into something because i know it will really hit for someone, specifically, somewhere

yeah…writing subhuman shit is the only thing that makes me feel humanized
thank you <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

i have been consuming ur media ALL day.. i caved n got serious weakness and was so curious -- are the perspective switches purposeful? they feel like it!! the switch from 3rd to 2nd makes it feel ever so slightly jarring, almost like u are Trianon but ur just dissociating.. does this make sense ?? was it purposeful ?? i have .. so many questions ..

it was actually an accident, i was trying to apply 2nd person and my finger slipped. the rest, as they say, is history...
heheh yeah i do it a lot in some books. it always felt natural to write that way. closer to how i think. because everything is part of everything else. and the dissociation/loss of identity is very important in serious weakness. thanks for noticing! i hope you have so much fun!!

Nameless Grub · 1y

i like how you managed to pull a fast one on us wrt to oenone's name, bc i know you said trianon and insul were the only ones with names chosen to be deliberately meaningful but oenone sounded SO familiar to me until i remembered the mythological character. wine woman, the spurned wife of paris of troy... it adds so much to her character. anyway i have a question abt her male equivalent in serigirls- since hes pretty much explicitly dead in that version, what are tria and insul going to do now, since they're no longer under obligation to stay in that house?

it was definitely an intentional choice, and there’s other Trojan imagery in there (golden apples…) nice catch!!

well, assuming Insul isn't thoroughly dog-brain retard from chloramine poisoning
they go on a road trip and have nasty violent sex constantly
grifting through student spaces and house parties and stealing shit while everyone is drunk
just nonstop jacking shit and vandalizing
maybe one day they find someone to make their special project
someone with money or rich parents
and the weakness gets seriouser…

ghostrockband · 1y

Hello! My gfs gf got me low kill shelter for valentines and im absolutely in love with it. I wanted to ask what the inspiration was for Irans drink of choice of beer with cream and sweetener. Like whats up with that? I plan to try it soon. Thank you i love your work

aw, what a sweet gift 💘🦷

iran has autistic eating habits.
preferences for things that others find bad, or that soothe his senses. maybe it’s the only way he can stand the taste.
it is cute
but
alcohol is very bad for the body and i really don't condone it
just as i don’t condone eating another human being
but others should do what they like

thank you!!

Nameless Grub · 1y

just for the sake of presenting a dissenting opinion next to all the recent asks lately i would just like to state for the record that i did Not find seriweak arousing personally 🤸‍♀️i think i personally am just too normie/weak-stomached to enjoy a lot of guro shit of the type you make on that specific level. this is not to say it's bad writing in the least, it just didn't appeal to me. seriweak DID hit me in a lot of the other places tho, it's still one of the rawest, most depraved and pitilessly realistic autism narratives ive ever read, it healed so much of me. i find it hard to find the romance in trinsul honestly but they mean a lot to me as the two halves of a wretched autistic soul that resides in all of us whether we wanna examine it or not, the passive, infantile weakling and the antisocial monster of human creation. you're so good at what you do, please never stop

i love that people get different things out of my stories. every element is very important to me ⚖️

i remember when i was still writing it, some friends were all about the romance and others experienced it only as horror.
that’s the beauty of horror porn
they’re failstates of each other.

yesss id and super ego, each needing something from the other.
wretched autistic soul!!!! punished retard…
i wanted to write something for that wounded part that can’t be healed with weak medicine. 💉

thank you so much 💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

i love the way you write dialogue, the way characters talk in your stories, it feels so real to me, i can imagine myself talking that way, and it feels so strange when people say that kind of dialogue is too stylised or stilted because for me it's in reverse, it's people in real life who don't talk like real people, people in real life who talk in ways that feel extremely false to me. what constitutes normal speech out there doesn't mean anything. but in your work i can actually find a conversation.

I appreciate that

I always loved stylized dialog.
my heart would beat faster when someone was talking in a certain way.
I’m inspired more by plays and movies than books.

if the emotion is true that's all that matters.
everything is paper.
there's only what you succeed at.

and yeah–“out there”, people use small talk to survive in a landscape where they must interact with a variety of people they don't care about
so it is a lubrication not a conversation.
I'm glad you can have one with my stories <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

you used the word "videolaga" in your last story, and it seems to be an original porpmanteau? i get the general gist of the meaning from context clues but i am curious what root word the "laga" part came from :>

i actually don't know. i heard it a lot in the archipelago bootleg video scene, videolaga, pornolaga, etc, but the etymology is lost. maybe one day i'll make a dictionary to the various xrafstar words...thanks for writing!

Nameless Grub · 1y

recently got a friend of mine to read serious weakness, and she's wondering where the penthouse and beach house were located? she says the story clearly exists in a real time and place, so you must have intended something

Nameless Grub · 1y

ch 12 cte hhhhhh finally someone is admitting feelings!!!!
- i love greenwich's perspective, what a voice, so measured, so reflective
- not only do we have daddy issues we will also have mommy issues
- oh, rubi... we would all love to watch movies with you
- everything just fits together so well, to make this distorted picture, so beautiful

-i love writing greenwich. the next episode has a scene with her and she's a big part of what's next
-you know i gotta put a family shaped hole in everything
-they would be funny movie watching partners because they have similar taste but opposite emotional reactions. rubi watches to become manic/horney, lazur watches to make himself sad (why???)
-thank you 💜 the next episode is nearly done, whenever i get a little more time with it. tktktk...

Nameless Grub · 1y

hello charity, may i commission seriweak fanart from an artist who also enjoyed it?

Nameless Grub · 1y

I recently became a fan of yours after hearing so much hype about serious weakness. I was tempted to buy the book but hesitated, not knowing if it was worth the money, but after reading Protection from Gravity, all the doubts left my mind. Although I was ashamed at first to admit that I enjoyed this type of story, I couldn't help but admit how erotic and immersive your stories are. Thank you for all that you do, and I look forward to whatever you create next!

how fun to find it through that route
a gruesome demo disc…
i’m so glad you liked it!

nothing to be ashamed about, or maybe there is…the shame is what makes it so good…congrats on accepting the things that bring you happiness 🦎

what a kind and considerate letter, thank you!

Nameless Grub · 1y

I remember a tweet of yours from around a year ago where you posted a few paragraphs of a short story about an anorexic girl working checkout at a supermarket, did you ever finish that? I'd love to read it I think about it often.

oh yeah…“anorexic girl who jerks off to attack on titan as vore and gets ryona’d and force fed by tall brutish woman”…THAT OLD CHESTNUT
sadly a casualty of the other 1 million things i’m writing right now
it had some really good ideas but there was some missing pieces, and i know the only way i’ll get anything done is triage
but i do have some rancid women under development and they should pop up here and there

thank you for appreciating the little dreams i share!! <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

I really like Oenone (and the Insul/Oenone dichotomy for Trianon, if you will..) I thought the group dynamic was really interesting in e.g. Bullet Wife or the end of the novel where she and Insul are on more equal footing (in two dif ways haha). How do (or how could) her relationships with Insul and Tria progress past that point? I feel like as a character who’s kind of the hammer imparting societal pressures it’s interesting to see her as well as tria removed from that context

HOOOOOO BOY BUCKLE UP

first of all, thank you!! i feel like i did something right if there’s a vocal minority of Oenone fans, since she’s a foil for the main pair and being the hammer can be dull by comparison.
i agree, all the characters are such counterpoints for each other, it would be interesting to see them freed from the danger triangle of the face.

in Bullet Wife i think they’d have a banned dark 80s YA adventure and try to escape the infinite high school, and they’d go through all kinds of gruesome variations on the pedagogic nightmare
and they would really just be kinda feral fuck buddy friends and friendship is magic etc etc

at the end of the novel:
❌ Dark family dynamics…the combinations are endless
🔻 reliving the helplessness of childhood in her family’s old vacation home where she spent a lot of time as a kid. psychological breakdown and regression…gothic megastorm chic
🔻 her smothering boss bitch cloth mother instinct converts into a kind of protectiveness for Trianon/”Stockhomo syndrome”
🔻 tria emo daughter/oenone dad/insul mom (never trust bitches who start with vowels)
🔻 insul as dark mirror of her brother and the time they spent in childhood. painting the boardgame miniatures as a bonding project…
🔻 triamom?? from the most barren chest imaginable, what dark milk flows…
🔻 insul as retarded family dog
❌ STOCKHOMO SYNDROME
❌ ARKSTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM. extreme societal breakdown would be unrealistic but for sake of argument lets say a bossa nova flood hits the world and joining the Desperate Life of Boys seems more appealing.
❌ Oenone finally has time to transition in a supportive environment with someone who has already had top surgery. best of luck to him
❌ IMMORTALITY CHIMERAAAAAAAAA

Nameless Grub · 1y

i've been wondering this for a while, and i'm sorry if this is a strange question, but how long have you known insul and trianon? they feel like old friends, like they've known themselves and each other within you for a long time. :) thank you for inviting us to spend time with them!

i spent more than a year writing it, so at least a couple years? they are a familiar duality to me, split exaggerations of my own instincts, so i know them very well. it is interesting to think of characters as a body politic or fractured mind trying to find itself. for serious weakness it was almost like writing anti-personas…negated selves…two shadows trying to become human.

i spend the most time thinking about my more fantastical, corrupted characters. mundane characters with simple needs usually hide away when they’re done. but i’m glad they can live on in others. thank you <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

Firstly I wanted to let you know that in addition to your other works, Serious Weakness is a work of art that I don't think I'll ever forget. One of few and far between Real and True things I've read.
Secondly I was wondering how the old Dungeon Star shirt might look like.
Also in Seri Weak but Girls in one scene Insul says something about knowing that Tria only wants to do the same thing over and over and get filthier- was this meant to be highly interpretable or is this something specific?
Thanks!

thank you so much!! <3333

dungeon star shirt is black with cracked screen printing of a chain-strangled stylized star with long sharp tines (they had a few variations on the logo though, like dripping with purple slime, or cute nintendo-style yellow star dripping with blood) + fantasy torture guro that varied between vintage anime and edgy 2000s album cover aesthetics. sometimes the shirts used shitty scans of ps1/ps2 jrpg characters, or had random writing and schematics on them. but basically a star with fucked up stuff...

the Insul comment is kind of about repetition. autistic fixation. indulging an interest to the exclusion of everything else. becoming a highly specialized recorder of the universe. playing games all night, not showering, etc. ignoring the complex ritual of femininity and socialization that tria was locked into until that point. feel free to interpret in whatever way brings you the most happiness...

Nameless Grub · 1y

finished reading serious weakness yesterday, and felt like i needed to tell you about my intersex trianon headcanon. some things in the book, specifically the mentions of sexual dysfunction line up a lot with my personal experience, and reading that bit of meta about both insul and oenone trying to make him fit into “man” or “woman” really solidified that headcanon for me. i love that trianon’s gender and sex are so ambiguous, and it’s not entirely me projecting, but it feels really right to me. i really don’t want to come across like i’m pushing my headcanon, i just wanted to offer my perspective and i hope you appreciate it. thank you for writing serious weakness!

love that headcanon
the pressure to rectify his hormone levels, to get “fixed”

contact with others captures a form of someone that is more static than they can ever actually be

i’m happy you felt this connection to the story
love ambiguity, so beautiful to me <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

insul is my favorite special little boy. i know he has "ontologically evil disease" but thats what unconditional love is about babeyyy

ontologically evil disease!! love that. any rational society would either kill him or give him his twinks, etc. thank you 💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

I know you went into detail about Trianon and Insul's names before but I always just assumed it was a play on "anon" and "incel." Is this true at all. It simultaneously feels like it's reaching and too obvious to say out loud.

Nameless Grub · 1y

i gotta say thank you so much for insul bc now whenever i see those accounts like "evil autistic character of the day" and it's someone like susie deltarune (no shade to susie likers but she's not even a villain) i just sit here like. if you saw the evil problematic autists i liked you'd hurl. i love how unambiguously vile he is. it adds so much to his rage, it's weirdly validating for me compared to the standard "weird and Special Boy wins the love of his friends" narrative that's so prevalent and imo can feel so self-infantilizing. sometimes you just wanna burn down an art gallery man, i don't know what else to tell ya!

haha yeah
if he wasn’t horrible, it wouldn’t be saying much about autism, “antisocial defiance disorder”, natal lead exposure, etc, because the point is, the world manufactures unlovable people. it’s right there in the opening conversation, the kind of person who shoots up a school etc is deeply emotionally stunted, not charismatic. a lot of Quirky Coded Chars are just misunderstood under the surface, but his surface conceals rage and stupidity. he can only be admired on the purity of his essence, not a magical redeeming quality. and i figured no one else was going to write an explicitly autistic character who is a piece of shit and kills some kids and stays winning.

Trianon is that “weird and Special Boy”, the “nice” autism, the Retard Angel, quick to absorb others, just wants to be loved, and yes, gets infantilized by everyone around him.

together they form that retard dualism cosmology~

thanks for appreciating, i'm glad it found you <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

Your work makes me feel entitled to sexuality. I grew up being told I was too ugly to have sex or be sexual, and had other people’s porn/sex forced on me (plus having no privacy or boundaries and being harassed all the time about stupid shit, incurring a lot of superficially deforming injuries, pretending to be Someone’s Girlfriend while dying inside - the usual!!!) I still don’t really like porn because the bodies always seem idealised in some way that makes me dissociate, even “alternative” stuff. But something about the way you write sex/rape/ero makes me feel like I can participate and it’s ok. The part in Bullet Wife where Trianon is like “is this sex?” was huge haha. Anyway thanks! I think this is the beginning of a horny protective carapace (or perhaps its destruction) 🪖🦂🫀

that means so much to me 💜

i feel you, it’s hard to find porn that hits right
lots of over-rendered stuff
i’m lucky to have found artists i’m really into but hot writing is almost impossible for me to find, and the few times i have, it’s been hidden under a rock. words can be more personal/alienating/yack deculture, very psychological and granular and revealing

definitely grew up very fucked up about sex
i think that’s why i write stories in a certain way
they’re idealized, but there has to be a way in for me
something nasty and pathetic and real
something not fully formed, a struggle that doesn’t end til the last page

i’m glad there’s an angle in for you
blessings 2 ur carapace 🪲

p.s. went back and read that Bullet Wife part. yeah...
You’re not supposed to cry during sex. Not supposed to lay there with a huge, throbbing sadness. Is this sex? He never considered the possibility. Sex is a real and authentic event waiting to transpire in a future that will give birth to itself without human intervention, or at least the intervention of someone as ordinary and inconsequential and victimized as him, a future that will sculpt itself along a truth so obvious it cannot be defined. And until then, lay back and tell the other person, you aren’t real.

Nameless Grub · 1y

trinsul minecraft date but its just insul killing tria the entire time in pvp

their chunky avatars would be so cute!! i love the affect of minecraft bodies looking at each other with the bompy arms wiggling…it’s so pathetic and moe…

tria would use mods that simulate realistic seasonal growth patterns and erosion (my playstyle)
insul would install those streamer modpacks that are like NUCLEAR FUSION DIAMOND REACTOR GUNS EXOSKELETON FIREBOMB MARS and add a bunch of tech trees he'd never engage with but that made the world more uncannily cluttered and unaesthetic and strip malled
they’d get in a fight over Fabric vs Forge and Tria would painstakingly figure out the optimal modloader to venn diagram their respective visions

lots of pvp yeah, teaching tria the very important skill of killing people in minecraft, practicing on each other’s hitboxes until it got weirdly horney and tria was embarrassed over breathing heavily because some boxes were mashing together and he was crammed inside a 1x2 hole and buried alive

they’d also do lots of base building and make sprawling murder basement catacombs next to tria’s indoor water gardens

Nameless Grub · 1y

god damn!! thank you for bringing anshin's art to my awareness, their stuff is a very effective antidote to my post-seriweak withdrawal symptoms ehehe

brutal grimy twinkviolence with undercurrents of beauty and compassion and tenderness 🥰🩸

anshin is fucking amazing <3 the mundane realism, one of the only artists who can make me feel sick deep in my gut. honored to even exist on a spectrum with it

Nameless Grub · 1y

I wore your tshirt at the gym and i swear it added +1 to all my skills 🪲💪

my apparel is coated with trace amounts of a toxic metal that leads to a state of heightened awareness before death. thank you!!!!! 🪲

Nameless Grub · 1y

If I wanted to get better at writing, what would be some good things to do/places to start?

become obsessed with a beautiful and divine force of which the greatest possible devotion you can render is the plotting of its destruction

also read a lot or whatever

Nameless Grub · 1y

When I was young I would devour books like they were nothing. One day they stopped making books I wanted to read and so I stopped reading. When 'Serious Weakness' arrived at my door my heart sank to see that it was 600 pages knowing I hadn't read anything other than internet and audiobooks in a decade. I tore through it in a week and a half just like I used to do with books. Thank you for showing me there are still stories that can light up the depraved person I've grown up into. Where did you first find an audience for your work?

that’s so beautiful ;;
makes me really happy

yeah, i used to read all day nonstop for years. it was my refuge. then it got harder to find what i needed
increasingly it felt like so many books were by people who had nothing in common with me or didn’t take seriously the same things i do. that’s why i write chuunicore…

audience: i put my shit on twitter and it blew up
probably mostly through my games at first
but by now i think a lot of people have really different entry points and i wouldn’t want it any other way

it really cheered me up to hear about your experience with serious weakness, thank you <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

Yo, I fell off your content like eight years ago. I think you stopped posting on Twitter or changed your handle. I also quit Twitter. Idk.

But having always loved your stuff, where should I start now? Do you have work you're particularly proud of? What's nasty, what's good.

sadly i never stopped posting on twitter but i post at a dignified pace…like a stately insect…an enduring cockroach

Serious Weakness is the thing i’m most proud of lately but i love all the short stories i wrote over the past couple years + Cunt Toward Enemy (self-contained short story but also a series). and soon those stories will be collected into a book. so you can sip or chug

thanks for asking and following along after so long, i hope it’ll be a fun time travel event <3

Nameless Grub · 1y

i would love to hear your vocal rendition of "wormin and grubbin" by dungeon star, if that's something you'd feel like posting at some point :3 🪱🐛

aw cute. i sing it a lot around here. my ideal rendition would be devi mccallion in the mode of sematary 🎵🪱

Nameless Grub · 1y

out of curiosity would you ever consider making stories with plural characters? (speaking as a plural reader) feel like there’s interesting stuff to be done there and there’s not enough media that does it in fun ways

i have a lot of stories like that
fun ways hehhHEHEHHEHE yeah i got that
it could be argued multiple selves is a theme of my writing
and the way xrafstar work is parasitic persona
there are not enough bodies for all the minds on earth
the new story for my short story collection will explore this in the most disgusting way possible

Nameless Grub · 1y

happy nondenominational yaoi holiday

Nameless Grub · 1y

Not to be too much of a greedy little grub, but any info you can share about the short story collection and when it'll be released?

⭐ the cover art is sick as hell
⭐it's being published by a press
⭐ i just finished a big disgusting bonus story for it. 12k words, gastric noir
⭐ the stories are a combination of old and new, but most of them are from the last few years
⭐ most of the work is done. next is layout + final edits
👁️✌️🪰

Nameless Grub · 1y

i just read Aging Out. Granchoze and Vetta are very sweet. thank you for little tender things, wisdom of older women, and bikes.

thank you <3 so glad you enjoyed that one, it has a lot of fun DNA past and future but also lowkey and understated, for me anyhow... maybe ill include it in my short story collection...give it a proper release...

Nameless Grub · 1y

could u link the video of the person slurping a milkshake out of a toilet bowl that you posted screenshots of a few days ago? (at least i assume its a video)
anyways thank you, your art helps me see what is directly in front of me. peace and love <3333333333333333

i just randomly saw it but you could probably find it if you search woman making milkshake in toilet bowl. and aw yeah happy to share this ocean eyeball...
🫴🫳🫴🫳🫴🫳👁️💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

Bugs Bunny Charity Porpentine
🤝
-full of jests and japes
-inflicts lots of pain on guys
-is sexy

🤔 The numbers don't lie folks!

and i'm a bug!!! 🪲😆

this must be why laevos threatens me with the Dip from who framed roger rabbit

Nameless Grub · 1y

starting to get into Sematary, what is your favourite mixtape of his?

Nameless Grub · 1y

How much do you feel like your audience has expanded outside of the super specific, super marginalized type of person it was made by/for? Is there anything in particular that you would like your more normie-type readers to get out of your work? Or does it simply not matter? Ty <3

no matter how vile and perverse and pointed a piece of art is, people will take exactly what they want from it. my catalogue is big enough for people to cherry pick an idea of me or reduce the most intense shit to Themes. so my art spread to museums and schools, accidents of zeitgeist. and some of it can’t keep up with my constantly changing presence or tries to align my work with corny shit. due to the structure of the internet, a lot of people can't envision a gay person who isn't a rancid grifter/content repackaging normie.

but that’s life. the real ones are worth it all. i don’t want to say people who “get it” because there’s no “it” to get. i’m not making propaganda with a single instrumentalizing command. there are only sets of effects. scary/horney/beautiful/goofy effects, but the path people take within those effects is up to them. some people enjoy serious weakness without arousal, others are grinding their pussy/cock/cloaca to the pelvic bone. i just like making people feel things.

but i don’t really think about it. if i have to tell someone how to feel, i fucked up. if my audience is bigger i get paid more and they can think whatever they want. shit or die

Nameless Grub · 1y

the best part of being a fan of something is just grafting ur memories onto a fictional character like they're a waifish little apple tree and you want some god damned pears.

haha yeah! that's a good way to put it. or they're a waifish little apple tree and you cut off their legs and put their teeth in a prescription vial. or learn a lot about life and stuff and whatever. i'm grafting durians

Nameless Grub · 1y

hwat happend to Everyone I Know Wants To Be Castrated And Kill Their Family?

Disney+ bought the rights for an adaptation so it was scrubbed from the internet

Nameless Grub · 1y

just finished sw, so, so so many thoughts. just one thing stuck out to me: i was thinking like trianon, keep expecting that in the end there has to be "something nice", that after it all it has to give some kind of nice ending, right? but there's not "something nice". but even if there's not something nice, there's Something -- and maybe that's all that matters

it's interesting to think about the ending people anticipate and why. and how different people experience the same ending as bad or good or somewhere in between. maybe like Trianon it depends on where you start in life, and other factors like genres consumed, etc. and yeah, it's better to have Something than live in that stasis where "Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected". thanks for reading 💜

Nameless Grub · 1y

prev caller from a long time ago. idk if i'm lost in the sauce but reading some of the stuff you've made + playing erogames feels like it has given me some insight into The Matrix but instead of green code Samsara shit it's the vast writhing ecosystem of fetishes video games are made of. also helped me stay alive. thank you for making things

its fetishes all the way down!! games are highly sadomasochist. a series of commands and punishments, an ongoing interrogation. its fun to roll the player around in my claws palpating like a harpy...thanks for reminding me why i make them...
i'm glad you are still alive <3 thanks for calling and have a good libidinal fleshwinter!

Nameless Grub · 2y

what i see in arts like goin crazy, im just along for the ride tryna eat and sleep and all that on time. c ya! psycho nymph exile rocked my world, etc. etc. just gets hard to focus long enough to get through anything all the way through!! thanx for 4/4 sluts with trample, i had that with me through some shit that like... well, its fuckin rad, idk. rules.

thank you! yeah its hard to focus, i try to write in a way i could read. glad 4/4 sluts with trample could be a companion...damn fine stat line 💜💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

did you ever aspire to make ‘’’’normal’’’’ art instead of torture products? or did you always know it was your destiny to be one of the scarce few out here cooking for the autistic damaged traumatized trans misfits? happy spooky day
🐛🐛🐛🦋🥀💀

i never thought i'd be able to make any kind of art at all. but when i did start making art, i came to understand the internal functioning of the art industrial complex and that the fawning aspirational drive of many artists results in a vast amount of work for little pay which is then subsumed under the identity of a corporation. i can’t live without complete control over my work because the absolute effect is reliant on this control. and my health makes it impossible to make this bargain either way.

i do appreciate making art for an underfed audience, which includes myself. <3 i’ve always been interested in how actual people experience desire every day in their secret lives and i need to be connected to that and i would not get that if i wrote for an algorithm. and i appreciate all the others putting their fucked agonized vision into realspace. some of the best art in the world gets about 30 likes on this site. but this is proof that there are still terrible wonderful secrets in the world and there are things which cannot be mapped but only rediscovered again and again for all time. and this is the perpetual grasping which is the work of being alive.

happy halloween

Nameless Grub · 2y

hello. it is i the gay boy from earlier who wrote that analysis on Honeydew Toxicity Event who comes into ur retrospring probably once a month by now. I am so glad u enjoyed my little analysis... Usually when I make analysis on media that I particularly like, I either feel as though "I am looking too deep into this" or "I am saying what is already said", so hearing ur response at least made me think that I am on the middle ground in terms of deep analysis. For that I thank you... I want to write more analysis on things I like because now i feel as though im not Bad at it...

Other thing i wanted to say is thank you for making Rubicon. It is very odd to admit that what led to my awakening into some weird gender I still do not know the name of was from a crazy terrorist blondie in a story about a man fucking a bomb. But I am glad nonetheless... The chapter with him in that black spaghetti strap top was everything i wanted 2 be and how i wish to express myself. His introspections being percieved and the way you carnally write about the weight of having a body... Theres so much comfort in knowing that a character like Rubi exists even if he was real id be blown to smithereens. I could go on and on but I would do so much for Rubicon. he is such a gem. Thank u for making him I cannot be grateful enough.

hello the gay boy!

whenever people talk about my art it makes me so happy. i love the theories and feelings and the way it relates to parts of their life i never anticipated.

case in point, thank you for loving rubi <3 i’m delighted he could be the catalyst for a weird gender, it makes me feel good about putting my whole ass into story about guy who fucks a bomb. that struggle of having a body birthed from destruction and made for violence but trying to grasp blindly for something beyond it all is so beautiful and terrifying...craving prettiness and love despite everything...
i’m excited to get back to cunt after i finish my big deadline. there’s so much more murderous pathetic rubicon in the pipe (bomb). thanks for writing!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Just finished my second read of Serious Weakness, both times it utterly consumed my mind while I was reading it. The first time I read it I finished the thing in a span of 72 hours, it seeped its way into so many hard to reach convolutions of my brain and scratched itches I didn’t know I had.
I didn’t expect to see so much of myself in it

72 HOUR YAOI ACID BATH
thank you!! serious weakness contains all possible situations past present and future!
im happy it could induce such a fever!

granty · 2y

hi porp! im not really sure how to phrase this question. the work you make is so detached from the typical world. was there ever an age where you felt like things just started to work themselves out and you found footing in life? have you ever gotten to a point where the world makes sense despite what you write, or has your writing been a direct anarchy and resistance to that? in a backwards way, did you ever find a sense of stability through your work as a reprieve?
i hope this makes sense. im 20 and feeling a little lost lately, and always felt like eventually people just figured stuff out at a certain point. your stories have been a comfort to me when i feel like i don't understand the world or belong in it. thank you for writing

i don’t think there’s any other way to feel when you’re 20
it took a long time for me
i didn’t have shit figured out in my 20s
i’m still figuring it out
sometimes the best you can do is gain experience and chase desire even if it doesn’t feel like much in the moment
people can’t know what they don’t know. experience = confidence.
desire = a direction to go in. doesn’t matter if it’s vague. the things i do now are refined forms of my interests as a kid, the things easy to dismiss as silly or juvenile.

i never learned to love the world, that is, society, culture, etc. i came to understand it better, but i still think of it the same way as when i was a feral teen, just with more nuance and serenity. my stories are a bubble where i make sense. and when i have that terrarium, i don’t need to vainly impose my will on things out of my control.

my work does give me stability, yeah. it’s how i connect to others. and being paid for it validates me and helps me live.

i don’t think anyone belongs in the world. everyone has to find their secret place.

if you connect to a story written by someone older, i understand trying to learn from it, to see how that part of yourself can survive in the future. and you can.
when you’re 20, you have lots of time. all you can do is try new things and be honest with yourself.
i’m glad my stories can be there on the way. <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

What do you use to make xrafstar.monster? Is it all custom HTML?

yeah! just view the page source in any browser and you'll see the code. it's a combination of image maps and imported fonts (mostly google fonts) and a little javascript and all those things can be found online. good luck!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Got the perfectzine! man i'm excited for this game i know nothing about! the art is excellent all around. and your writing continues to be funny as hell. Question: will perfect tense have an interactive version of the gayboy dress up?

haha thank you!! yesss the artists are so good, i want everyone to know!
yeah, the dress up part is already coded. you can see Actual Gameplay Footage™️near the bottom of this post.

there are two games, the one with greenie's art and the one with evan's art.
the deadboy game with evan is done except for some music and UI tweaks so that'll come out first.
the paper doll stuff is in the greenie game which is very beautiful but won't come out for awhile.

thanks for following the dark new future of game development...keep a lookout for the unsimulated execution of our entire staff on the front page of Edge magazine

Nameless Grub · 2y

would it be inappropriate if i named a small discord server 'no world dreamers'? i completely understand if so, i have some personal phrases close to my heart that i wouldn't want others using, etc

i don't mind if people use references to my work, as long as it's clear i have no affiliation. a small private server where people understand its a reference is fine, not so much for a larger server. thanks for asking ✌️

Nameless Grub · 2y

very serious question: does insul play roblox? does rubi play roblox? very serous

insul played roblox and did the murder games
he took it very seriously
when i see tria its ONSIGHT

next cunt episode actually talks about Rubicon’s childhood gaming habits!
he wasn’t allowed to play online so it was a single player retro game
the answer may be obvious and cute…

Nameless Grub · 2y

is radiant muscles exclusive to the physical release of seriweak? i know somebody mentioned it as a seriweak side story once but i haven't heard anything since (i only have the digital copy)

radiant muscles and bullet wife are on the digital versions too, but if you have an older copy you have to download them again. let me know if it's missing anywhere. enjoy! 🩸

Nameless Grub · 2y

I found your work when I was socially dead, isolated, and very ill, and it was a lifeline for me. It reached me when absolutely nothing else could. Now, things are better and I’m re-assimilating. I’m still autistic and sexually broken AND PROUD but my health is ok and I like having more points of contact with the world. I got ambitions! I have the fanfiction attitude where I am good at extracting pleasure from whatever materials are at hand. I sense that many people (most even) are, like me, struggling and needing a break from the world, and that encourages me to move confidently in otherwise hostile spaces. But then something happens that reminds me that just as many people are so in love with the violence of ideals that they will attack me for suggesting that human frailty is real and/or sexy. Then I usually read one of your stories or come here and it’s like what I imagine returning to a family home is like. You put a big plate of grasshoppers in front of me and pat me on the head and say “I know”, and I have a little sleep in the dirt and feel better. So thank you forever for that. P.S. I think Soft Now is my favourite story of yours, it’s just wonderful. When I was little I would put pond water in jars and look at the suspension of all the life elements in the murky water and everything you write is like that for me, nostalgic, sensual, truthful, mesmeric. Anyway can never have enough men orbiting each other hypnotically in a burning field, speaking in aphorisms 🤌 p.p.s happy halloween if you celebrate

i’m so glad it could be a comfort.
points of contact, yes, that’s everything!
yeah, it’s good to remember everyone is struggling. sometimes it’s a commonality, sometimes people lash out when reminded of their vulnerability.

thank for liking Soft Now, i like that one too…how can we see anything without stilted dialog…
“the suspension of all the life elements in the murky water and everything you write is like that for me, nostalgic, sensual, truthful, mesmeric”
i put the guys in jars…such a beautiful way to put it. nostalgia is a powerful erotic component that i like to fuck the shit out of, and it harmonizes with my obsession with stunted characters.

i love serving up the bug plates! sharing stories is my point of connection, my lifeline, so thank you 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

reading Serious Weakness and shaking my head on every page to make it clear I disapprove of fingering Ecstasy up your kidnapping victim's ass

(In all seriousness, thank you so much for making something that gut-punched me this well, I've had a great time discussing it with friends)

uppers instead of sedatives...i'm fighting the stereotypes ✌️ thank you for ethically enjoying my cautionary tale 😇 and i'm so glad, seems like people really enjoy talking about it with friends!

Nameless Grub · 2y

hello, I just recently finished serious weakness and it was absolutely lovely. Thank you for sharing your art with the world. One thing that really stuck with me was all the unresolved tension around tria/trianon's gender. There are so many moments that remind me of the egg I was in the past and I think its neat that that was left more open ended. Having said that, what was the authorial intent around that theme? Trianon still very much uses the same name and pronouns at the end of the story but there are also all of these moments where he seems more comfortable in fem clothes, he blushes about being gender fem in the news, and also the phrase "pawn to queen" in that one chess metaphor. Also, this story inspired me to dye the tips of my hair green!

thank you <333
it’s entirely open ended
he’s an amorphous little guy who wants to be soft and vulnerable without being seen as weak. and now he has the time to experiment.
maybe he tries hormones. Insul would be like yeah i always knew you were a little bitch and this is good cover if we have to go on the run so…he’d fuck the shit out of Girl Tria and grab those small tits constantly. but also get the shit fucked out of him by girl dick.
or maybe Trianon just likes wearing skirts. choose your own adventure…infinite Tria’s falling through time like leaves

green is fun, there's so many shades with their own feeling. refreshing sea green and mint, the traitor turquoise, foresty dark green, toxic artificial green, brooding teal, puke grun, mature olive, yellowed like fading grass…hope you enjoy yours!

Nameless Grub · 2y

same occasional cte review anon here, ohhhhh, ohhhh, you're right. this new chapter. it's so sweet, it's killing me. i just. it's so tender, tender meat, softened flesh, so cozy. im dead.

cyanide fermented blast meat...thank you ::) now everything will be okay forever and no bad things will happen!! 💜💜💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

can you talk about some real cheezy dork shit involving Insul and Trianon's relationship? how each of them likes their bed or shows affection or whatever? i can't stop the yaoi thoughts and need more fuel.

trianon is so petite especially after his emaciating experiences that when they go on dates insul gets the kid discount for him. trianon in oversized hoodie looking even smaller eating a corn dog off the kid's menu at a restaurant or getting the junior ticket at the matinee showing for like paw patrol x or whatever but they sneak into some violent torture rape movie and make out the whole time

Nameless Grub · 2y

finally had the time to catch up the last few chapters of cte (second season) and oh my oh my bomb
this really got to me, how do you keep making it more and more intense, more explosive material concentrated into that bundle of words, i get surprised every update and i can never expect what's coming but this one really is just something
it really hit me in this one, and this is just my interpretation, but i think there is something in lazur that is unequivocally good, and seeing that just broke me a little, and maybe rubi sees it in him too, and he both loves and want to destroy that good, like, how do you live in this terror too and still manage to have something you didn't lose? how are we both engaged in this and you came out, not intact, but managing to have a center, not be disarranged -- deranged? but it's not that simple, because that good is also kind of the source? of lazur's terror, that there are things he has to keep, like you said in ch4, "you're where the killing stops, and anything else can even be possible", it's continually refusing to partake in the destruction, and that's goddamn hard
but also...rubi clinging to this dream...oh my...that was heartbreaking
all the love for your work!!!

thank you, so nice to read this 💜
lazur's pacifist hymen murder virginity is so integral to the story
"he both loves and want to destroy that good"
that's so beautiful...yes ;;
and inversely rubicon's blown out bombussy kali death goddess body count
which is a fun subversion with the age gap
but they know each will swallow the other if they go too far
“there are things he has to keep”
each is terrified of losing their identity while at the same time feeling the incompleteness of that identity; the inertia of stability vs the mindlessness of destruction. they test each other, they delineate each other's boundaries, reify each other's personas, they are oxygen to flame. it is impossible to touch without destruction. but every time we touch…etc etc

excited for you to read the chapter that just dropped. the next few are big… 💣💣💣

Nameless Grub · 2y

your work really carves out a space for us vermin to exist, thank you... how do people live without always feeling like a worm...

aw i think everyone does that for themselves, i'm just chipping away at my particular compacted fecal wall over here... homelander voice you guys are the real heroes!
i think a lot of people are consumed by deep feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing, the human category is defined by constant competition...so its better if one can enjoy not being a human. extremocene era...
thanks for delighting in my verminwares 🪰

Nameless Grub · 2y

mud dauber is such a real choice of wasp to love, there's such a pretty mechanical gleam to their movements. and their silly curly antennae are very charming... they look like living toy motorcycles to me. there's a little stream behind my grandparents' house and in the summer sometimes i like to sit there and watch them gathering mud :-] i love that tons of cultures have latched onto them and other pottery wasps as symbols of industriousness and teachers, it's so cool

i learned about them because my friend loves them ::) their antennae are really cute yeah. cant believe you got to watch the actual daub, what a nice stream to sit by...thanks for telling me about it!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hi there, I only recently discovered your work and just this morning I finished Psycho Nymph Exile. I loved it! I've never read anything quite like this book and I think I'm going to be processing it for quite a while. I do have a quick question as I rotate it in my head, and that is how do you define the terms "post-anime" and "gurowave" from the book's description? I was curious to know what they meant.
Thanks and have a nice day!

thank you! they don't mean anything. i don't include descriptions for many of my works. in order to have it published i was asked to give a description so i said some random nonsense. happy you enjoyed, have a nice day to you too!

Nameless Grub · 2y

this might be too much, but if serious weakness ever got a tv show or web series or whatever, (which, i don't really think it should), i'd be torn between the school scenes being filmed with shakey 2000s era digital cams, or, done via doom or quake machinima. it'd be an interesting experimentation with medium, story told via chatlogs, maybe representitive of insul's inability to really have that picture in his head? so while trianon gets the shakey bloom filled grays of digital video, insul gets crude recreations done via map editor. but i also realize that might be hitting a little, too close to the mark.

i agree that no third party could handle the raw faggotry but it's fun hearing your idea. shaky 2000s yeah!! insul pov represented through dopy machinima has the right bathos. he definitely made crude high school levels in map editors and had intense homoerotic fixations on his high-fragging teammates. high-fagging...

Nameless Grub · 2y

do you have a favorite kind of Wasp. blackjacket, polistes, ichneumonid, beewolf, etc

i like paper wasps!!
great black wasp!!
yellowjackets are always hot
parasitoids duh
have to shout out iridescent blue mud dauber
and of course the ones you mentioned are beautiful! every wasp is amazing!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Read Serious Weakness for the first time over these past few days and it's become a special grail like thing to me right now. Rancid and violent in the ways I crave to see sharply in my head. I hardly ever cry when I experience media of any form no matter how sad a moment can be but Insul showing his own weakness, his masculine emotional weakness "To see if you like me yet." Deluded feeling. It nearly got to me. I'm deathly inexperienced in all facets of life as a man. Trianon living in a microclimate little isolation bubble he has no control over. Connecting to Insul's pathetic erratic violent love. Yaoi is never a joke to me... Thanks so much for this, I have about a thousand thoughts and they're all admiration and hearts in the eyes, I wish I had words for them all!

what a sweet review, i can feel the emotion, so nice and gooey in the heart. nearly crying is a prized ache. thank you for the rancid violence grail, perfect cup to share tortured blood with. hearts in the eyes for all the sad pathetic violent boy shit!! 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

your latest drawing makes me wonder if you are aware of the existence of fairyfly wasps. darling little thangs...

when i finished the drawing i searched fairyfly randomly and read about them!! it's cute to imagine the xrafstar boy injecting his eggs into the hunter's wounds...i love parasitoid wasps. fucked up fly-wasp chimera for maximum bacterial load. BUT THERE'S ALSO AN EXCITING THEMATIC LINK between fairyflies injecting their eggs into other nests and the fairy changeling myth. xrafstar who grow up in human families then get rejected for being too creepy...many such cases

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hi, recently I read some of your works and loved them. I come from the games writing scene and found you through cyberqueen, and have since read your smaller things here and there. I find myself drawn to your work, sexually and textually, in a way im not really into anything else. Most violence in smut feels off to me when I read it. Like it misses the mark on why it's appealing to me- not that i know why it appeals to me. I'm not a smart person and find myself struggling to put my finger on why your work feels so good. I am someone who has been in pain my entire life, with little control over my circumstances. I understand the intoxicating feeling of that loss of agency that pulls you from autonomy. But I rarely revel in that anymore and normally find a lot of media's indulgence in that feeling gross, never going beyond the fall into sensuality. But with your work it feels transformative, from something I associate with moments of weakness to something revelatory? I lose the ability to really parse my words on the subject here. tldr, I was wondering if you had any reading recommendations for how I could explore your work and the feelings it awoke in me better. the feeling of finding power in weakness or whatever. thank you for writing cool words

thank you 💜 “most violence in smut feels off to me when I read it” yeah. i’m glad the things i make for my specific palate could be edible to you too. i make things with deep characterization/experimental worlds because i need something dense and real in my erohorror; pornography is a beautiful and complete material that is rarely respected.

power & weakness recs:
-maybe you’ve already read Serious Weakness but in case you haven’t, that’s my most power/weakness book and completely the answer to your question
-Cunt Toward Enemy also deals with fear and weakness
-the OA
-Simone Weil’s books

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hihi! Not a question but Insul reminds me of the videogame cryptid called "Insulindian Phasmid"

yeah it's a reference to Serious Weakness. after that scene you go into new game+ and unlock the bug boys and start ripping each other apart. some say it undermined the delicate culmination of disco elysium's themes but i was personally a big fan

Nameless Grub · 2y

serious weakness was seriously amazing, congratulations on getting it out into the world!! my q is: are you perhaps still giving out the source code for your old twine games? been getting into twine and am burning with the desire to study the implementation from my fav games, ex. how you coded the systems logic in howling dogs!

thanks so much!! 💜
i used to have a few node files floating around but that was a lifetime ago. the truth is, howling dogs is really simple and just uses basic variable checking and hyperlinks. if you know the basics of twine and can copy/paste CSS you already have what you need. go get em tiger...

Nameless Grub · 2y

is there any way to play eczema angel orifice on mac os? i bought on steam but it says incompatible system and its the only computer i have

apple hates games. they removed 32-bit support with the Catalina update so if you have a way of simulating an older version that might work. but the good news is that most or all of those games are free online and playable in browser at xrafstar.monster/games. so if you can't run it, you can apply for a refund through steam and they'll give you one.

Nameless Grub · 2y

have you gotten laser or electrolysis to get your face so smooth? which procedure of the two would you recommend if so?

neither, I just shave with a shitty disposable razor. laser doesn't work on my skin and electrolysis is too painful. it really comes down to your hair/skin type. some places will lie and say laser works for everyone but it doesn't. I'm just a bug though, I'm not an expert on all that stuff. good luck

Nameless Grub · 2y

on the topic of serious weakness xmas, what would trianon and insul get for each other? im curious to see how badly they fuck it up or fuck it down.

trianon: art supplies. paints and charcoals. "harm reduction" tools.
insul: either doesn't get him shit or tries too hard to get him something Nice and it's completely cheesy. or takes him to one of those seasonal xmas tree farms and brutalizes him between the pines as the families walk past. why do we need a tree when we have a boy and can make ornaments out of random objects and fishhooks

Nameless Grub · 2y

btw i thought you'd be interested to know that i dyed my hair black and green so i could go as trianon for halloween, spreading the seriweak virus.

love that 🎃 🦠 and with the red x, you'll have cross-compatibility with christmas colors. a very serious weakness yaoi xmas...

Nameless Grub · 2y

Do you like retro dungeon crawlers? Your Wizardrys, your Phantasy Stars… they seem Porp-esque, the way they feature little bug people who exist just to be hurt and die and do violence. I’d play the hell out of a Porpencrawler.

i love the idea of DRPGS. i like mapping a space. most RPGs have shitty stories and i'd rather have pure gameplay if they can't be bothered to write something good. i haven't found a DRPG i really like yet. too grindy or cluttered. Etrian Odyssey was pretty cute but i got bored after awhile. the best were shareware games i played as a kid because the goofy primal labyrinths were fresh on my brain. and yeah the OSR death funnel bug death paradigm...my ideal porpencrawler would be one where the gameplay felt intuitive, with very small numbers, and with a focus on mapping and planning routes through a dungeon ecosystem and getting all dungeon meshi. knowing creature routes/food sources/weather/hazards would be more important than combat. and you could cut people in the belly and kiss them

Nameless Grub · 2y

How did you come to name the characters for serious weakness, I recently learned that trianon means “small elegant villa” and was curious to know if that were intentional or not in how the story begins at a villa

under the letters section you will find your answer: https://xrafstar.monster/blog/serious-weakness-aftermath
a villa implies more of an infrastructure than a mere wealthy residence; big and with agricultural production capacity, housing for workers, etc. he is small and elegant though! 😌

Nameless Grub · 2y

i think what appeals to me about serious weakness compared to other torture porn is, and stay with me on this, i can't imagine a cool guy showing up. because. my critical weakness when reading torture porn, is that my brain wants to know what would happen if Goku was there. cause Archon of Flesh's To Break a Soldier of the Machine God is full of excellent prose that really absorbs you in the surroundings and helps you feel the desolate atmosphere, but if Dante from dmc showed up, he'd sweep their shit, and fuck that twink. but in serious weakness, to return to normalcy, to return to the past, is filled with despair. to be rescued, trianon has to be killed. so the only resolution must be emotional. you're the alan moore of ripping the wings off autistic malebugs.

lmao. we simply must introduce Goku into the ecosystem. for full stress testing of the twinks.
yeah, i always disliked the idea that outside the nightmare there's an ideal world to return to, sunlight and wife and kids. the default ending for a million movies. but i write with the idea that people end up in bad places because there wasn’t a home for them in this world, not because they were a temporarily embarrassed moral billionaire.

"so the only resolution must be emotional"
i love violence. but the strings of it have to run through people so it means something if they are cut.

alan moore of ripping wings off autistic malebugs is a beautiful compliment, thank you 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

cainon again. if you think cain n abel is yaoi you should look into the cainite interpretation of jesus n judas. "Judas through his more perfect Gnosis penetrated the wish of Jesus more successfully than the others, and accomplished it by bringing him to the Cross through which he effected redemption". the seme penetrating the subdermal desire hidden by the uke is v serious weakness

wow true. he was just the fall guy, punished for carrying out God's plan.
love gnosticism; a mediocre show inspires the best fanfic.
penetrating the hidden desire, yes, i feel this is at the heart of most romance fiction. the intrusion of the wild into a controlled life, catalyzing a paralyzed wish. but it's rarely executed to my taste...hence the pen

Nameless Grub · 2y

since reading serious weakness, i like to think a lot about why i feel like its to me a more fulfilling answer to a lot of what killing stalking proposes. especially the contrast between insul and sangwoo, since insuls a character i relate rly strongly to. i fixate on the story of cain and abel a lot, cuz its a story about a character i feel was genuinely wronged by power he lived under but is socially seen as a story of the first murderer. cains a character who works his station in life, offers it, is rejected by god, n then is told by god that he is wrong for feeling mistreated and that if he did good he would be accepted even tho thats what he had already been doing. he cant rebel against god in a way that challenges gods power, but he lashes out against his peer that is favored above him for no discernable reason, and as punishment is forbid from ever working from the station in life he was expected to and is left as a vagrant. and i rly like that insuls a more cain-like character to me than sangwoo. when sangwoo first kills a person its v tangible self defense, killing the family that is abusing him, but with the aftermath of that abuse and rebellion fucking him out of society. when insul first kills, its just a couple of his peers whove done nothing to personally wrong him. he says smthn of it being a kind of self defense, where if he didnt kill them they wouldve continued in life n be part of the society that kills him slowly for being a dysfunctional traumatized autist. but rly he cant meaningfully challenge the power of the society he lives in. insuls forced to live a p rootless life as a result of his lashing out, at least until he starts to build a life w tria (his little sister lole, w some stories of cain saying his wife was abels twin sister). him and trias life together even coincides w a flood, unlike cains lineage which was ultimately wiped out due to a flood. in serious weakness its an environmental disaster caused by capital doing what is necessary according to the system, in the bible its a flood created by god as a necessary result of the failings of the world he created. i dont rly feel like this was all deliberate, but i think its p funny. either way it means a lot to me that insul gets his bl good end, its like knowing an abused dog was given a home where its allowed to bite instead of being put down

was fun reading your analysis. the cain/flood parallel is really cool. was cain the first school shooter...
herbivore and carnivore brothers is pretty yaoi too. rejected for your vegetable offering so you embrace blood and give god the ultimate meat sacrifice.
yeah ;; i'm glad an abused dog has a place to hide. too many people want to crush broken things just for the sake of it. glad you liked the ending ❤️‍🩹

Nameless Grub · 2y

did oenone effectively utilize girl power by meeting up with her clearly mentally unwell boyfriend and trying to make him get a manly haircut?

Lydia Felicity Rose · 2y

off to make another attempt to parse myself through the same social systems that largely made me so in need of "getting help" in the first place. thanks for everything i found in your art, and everything i might keep finding. wish me luck?

i dont know how to talk to people, but i feel like your art knew how to talk to me even if it took me a lot to start unpacking why.

thank you.

i don't know how to talk to people either, that's what my art is for. so im really happy it could serve that purpose from the other side, it means a lot. good luck! 🗣️🤞

Nameless Grub · 2y

also god what a choice making trianons dad a stupid fucking retvrn to tradition streamer. brilliant. truly shows off ur perfect twink destruction ability.
side note: is it tree-anon or try-anon. because I've been pronouncing it like the latter.

thank you!! it's just too easy to imagine being the kid of a failed streamer...i always say tree-anon but you can say however makes you happy. you can say UTirtrnnNTerjhaj or Triigughhghfg the possibilities are infinite... ✌️

Nameless Grub · 2y

hello charity! i got my sister to read serious weakness, and she loved it as much as i did :DDD she did share one critique i haven't really seen anyone else bring up, and i'm curious to hear your perspective! sharing her messages here, with her permission*:

i mean there is a feminist reading of serious weakness that critiques how oenone is used as a prop for the two male main characters but i dunno how hard i wanna think about that 😛
i guess it feels a bit fucked up that trianon's triumph over his abuser and his trauma comes at the expense of oenone's whole like, existence and autonomy ^_^;
but i also like that it puts trianon and insul squarely in the same sorta isolated nonsocial reality that they both inhabit as doers of violence
i'm not very upset about it and in fact i do like how the pseudomorality of the ending plays into "trianon is now successfully doing things for himself no matter what others try to make him do"
and while the ending is like kinda complicated, there's not really a clean way to make a story that is the way this story is end heheh
it's gonna be messy and fucked no matter what and i like the way porp went with it :3

*(she says "please make sure she knows it's coming from someone who deeply loved and enjoyed the book though <3")

sisters enjoying yaoi together what's better than that!!

I appreciate you bringing it up in good faith, and I'm so glad you both enjoyed it. I don’t have a single answer, just a collection of thoughts:

-Is she a prop? Sure, just like Trianon was a prop for her, a spineless lower-class autistic guy to mold into the perfect art world boyfriend, and before her, he was a prop to his failed streamer dad. A big part of Serious Weakness is the way people are instrumentalized.
-Their relationship is about class, not gender. Abuse doesn't occur as a function of gender, it occurs because of how class parasitizes gender as a form of property demarcation. Class is extremely overlooked in America. The power imbalances I experienced being dirt poor heavily inform the book.
-Serious Weakness is a minimal novel that is very focused on the two main characters. Everyone else is going to suffer in comparison. She doesn't get to be a main character, she occupies more of a boyfriend from Midsommar role (but gets off considerably better). I tried to make Oenone as full a character as I could for someone who is set up to be a bitch and could even be argued is an antagonist, the avatar of the respectable masking hetero lifestyle he’s supposed to embrace.
-She gets less screen time but she has less to process. Rich people’s lives are inherently uninteresting. From a certain perspective, she already won, she was born winning, and Trianon will never catch up. She had a few nights of horror and lost an easily replaced tooth, but Trianon is the protagonist of a book called Serious Weakness.
-I considered adding more Oenone stuff at the end but that wasn’t the point of the book and felt like I'd be subtracting from the impact. I like to leave things to the reader because their imagination is better than if I wrote something perfunctory. Trianon lets her go and she gets to go back to being a rich girl and he’s on the run for the rest of his life. They don’t let her go and have a fucked up family dynamic. Or she finds it within her bourgeoisie soul to keep the secret to her grave and everyone kind of gets what they want. Better for the possibilities to linger on the cusp.
-It isn't them against Insul, it's Trianon versus both of them. No matter how much solidarity she shows in the moment, no matter how kind and thoughtful she can be at times, the truth is that a rich person surviving and escaping that situation would trigger, whether she likes it or not, a process within society; her rich parents and the whole apparatus of capital enraged by dead cops and millions of dollars of destroyed paintings. Property damage is the worst crime you can possibly commit in America, and he’s a lower class autistic faggot-tainted boy, easily scapegoated. Maybe Trianon would have gotten off. Maybe not. But after everything he's been through, how can he bear the thought of losing his freedom again? Even if he survived the crushing machinery, his life would be tied up for a long time and he would be spit out as just another broken nobody.
-The usual lens is inverted: the guy is the object of desire and adornment and violation, which is an important recurring theme, how sexual violence against guys can be minimized, although of course sexual violence against all humans is minimized in different ways. His suffering is invisible because it happened with another guy and his girlfriend doesn’t even consider the red flags that she would instantly catch if it happened to a woman. Everyone always asks where’s Trianon not how’s Trianon…
-You're right, it is messy and there's no clean way about it. It's about two people with broken lives who only have broken pieces to mash together. Trianon had no clean way of untangling himself from either of them. So the ending involves the understanding that all trapped people or causes must come to, that the respectable tools given them by civilization are not enough when everyone is more powerful than you. Which puts him “squarely in the same sorta isolated nonsocial reality that they both inhabit as doers of violence”. He has to become tainted to have any kind of freedom.

Hope this could shed a little light on the ol brainworks. Thanks for loving the book and having all kinds of thoughts about it, you’re both very sweet. 💜🩸

Nameless Grub · 2y

to that other anon: i kinda like seriweak/serigirls bc it makes me think of serous fluid

Nameless Grub · 2y

this will most likely mean nothing to you but i hope you know i have made insul and trianon ponies in ponytown. if anyone on that website actually recognizes them i'll give them so much money

MY LITTLE CHUUNI: SERIOUS IS WEAKNESS
i was not previously aware of this municipality but i must see these pony boys. now im thinking of tria-shy with bleeding x cuteymark...too cute...feel free to show me if you like!

Nameless Grub · 2y

what was your main creative outlet as a youth?

jerking off
when i was really little i drew comics about bugs and told people stories about bugs
but mainly jerking off

Nameless Grub · 2y

i really love how uncensored and unconcerned with political correctness your art is and i want my art to be like that too. serious weakness hit me like nothing else had for years. and now i’m going to ask a really childish question about making art: when i think about trying to make art like yours, that shows every painful thing i’m being told not to acknowledge, i still get stuck on thoughts like “i don’t know what it’s like to experience physical disability so i cannot portray it intimately without doing something ableist.” like when trianon was having thoughts about being a person with a disease vs. being a disease. it felt so real but i feel like i would not be brave enough to write something like that myself without having any kind of illness like that myself. and why did i feel so connected to him when i lack so many of his experiences? i mean the answer is obvious, that everything is connected and categorizing people into inseparable groups that could never understand each other is crazy. but still. it’s a huge barrier and a part of me really still feels like it’s morally necessary to keep it. brain telling me i cannot be the person to portray experiences i don’t have in any way besides sanitized for good representation. so uh i forgot to say the actual question, which is, is everything you write somewhat from experience, and if it’s not, how do you deal with that?

Flannery O’Connor said, "The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot."

I can stretch and scale my experiences to fit anything else. Does growing up as a weird abused twink give me certain insights? Sure, but I’ve seen amazing m/m come from people of every gender/sexuality configuration. Dynamism of imagination is the most important thing. Sometimes having distance from the reality allows you to have a more vivid fantasy life about it. Sometimes it was when I was most denied the experience of being a boy or a girl that I was able to see it more clearly or dreamily. Photorealistic reproduction is boring and I get more out of campy, offensive misfires or childish passion than someone striving for pure verisimilitude.

But only living can give someone the density which enriches everything that flows out of them. Each experience is an ingredient which can be mixed like paint to form new colors. No matter how unreal my stories get, I don’t write them unless I can bite down on something solid at the center. The question isn’t whether your experience maps 1:1 to your characters. The question is whether it’s good or bad writing.

You’re right that people are more interconnected than some think. Under the masks we are children and animals. Diversitycore writing is just exotification and segregation by a different name, creepy and anthropological. But one shouldn’t pull a Tarantino either. The line can’t be resolved neatly, it’s more of an instinct. You have to figure it out. People can’t change race. Anyone can become crippled. The act of living brings everyone closer to cellularly-assured disability. Etc.

I don’t run into this problem as much because my characters are alienated, deculturized, dehumanized, isolated from their own backgrounds. I press deep into the areas I know about, touch lightly on the ones I don’t. I’m not interesting in talking about historic periods and claiming ownership of a heritage that is not mine, I write a JRPG pastiche of insects in human skin. There are so many things to write about, I don’t need to go many places my footing isn’t sure.

Nameless Grub · 2y

at the risk of sounding like the perfect blue stalker i think the phrase ‘no world dreamer’ really encapsulates how i interact with your presence on the internet… i check your twitter every few days, because it’s like you and a handful of other artists are the only ways i can be reminded of a world outside of the one i live in and am alienated from. y’all’s existence speaks to some kind of place where one could feel like they have a purpose, and yet this world doesn’t seem to exist outside of some sort of hauntalogical presence, something that either died long ago or has yet to come into existence… a phantom limb that you keep forgetting you lost/were born without/was taken by someone. anyways your work is so important and where i used to see walls of trapped-ness and doom, you’ve scraped at it enough with your rusty prison spoon and actually made a tunnel to something legitimately revolutionary…makes me think that even if it seems like all of the world has been explored and still you belong nowhere, there’s more to uncover if youre desperate and persistent enough. tldr ty for writing the loving relentless torture porn for the bugs and traumatized sex freaks of the soil 🤯😋🙏

it really does feel like scraping with a spoon. the things that exist aren't for me, everyone has to make their own home. i never want to disappear into what already exists. dying in the yukon is for suckers. thanks for loving my torture porn for the bugs, knowing that people connect to it keeps me alive 💜🪰

Nameless Grub · 2y

also i hope you don't mind me calling them seriweak and serigirls. sw and swvwg were kinda annoying acronyms so i just did syllablic shortening.

Nameless Grub · 2y

takes/opinions abt twin peaks/fire walk with me? noticed in an earlier ask… let’s all love laura…

its just the best
no one understands dreams better
s2 finale is amazing. s3 finale is psychosis inducing. master of his game beyond that which pop culture can even fully grasp. imitators lack even a fraction of the discipline required. fire walk with me is incredible. ugly perfect and beautiful.

Nameless Grub · 2y

one of my favorite differences in serigirls is the changing of counter-strike to the sims, because while cs is more focused on violence in general, it's place as a mechanic removes it's importance. while in a "cozy" life game like the sims, each act of violence is intensely more personal and deliberate. CS, the boys game treats violence as an expectation, you will die, you will kill, it has no meaning, to question it is to be a faggot snowflake. while the sims has each act of violence ruin a life. you question if you would do that irl if given the chance.

or it might just be me being over-analytical on a minor difference.

that's a really good point, i think you nailed it. shooters are reflexive violence. when I kill it is impersonal, necessary, justified. the sims is more about the creeping domestic corruption. you have to install the mods and torture the hot little family sluts yourself. the kind of milieu to which the nuclear female has traditionally been forced to confine her schemes and dreams. fire walk with me…

Nameless Grub · 2y

How do you decide the gender of your protagonists? What do you do differently for male and female protagonists?

gender isn’t real but the way society polices it is horney.
for guybugs, there’s a fun tension to play with. an expectation of masculinity. hardness. tradition. a canvas for unexpected softness and corruption. i just love fucking the guys up.
for girls, it's fun when they get to be disgusting. i also like when a girl is looking at things watchfully with a dark, burnt out, inscrutable mien.
so if there’s any difference in how i write characters, it’s the attention i pay to the anxieties and expectations placed on them. but everyone is different, there’s an infinite mixture of backgrounds and influences for all people on earth. i write insects covered in masks.

Nameless Grub · 2y

question did you do the 20 salads scene irl bc if you did that would be so fucking funny. that's one of my favorite parts of the entire book

no one has to force me to eat 20 salads i fucking love salad. when i was a kid i would drink dressing its the best flavor. THANK YOU 2️⃣0️⃣🥗

Nameless Grub · 2y

i realize that what was enacted from seriweak was probably just things to help you properly parse out and explain pain. but in my mind it was Laevos throwing Trader Joe's Caesar Salads at you while calling you a faggot.

Nameless Grub · 2y

which scenes from serious weakness did you block out irl? how’d you do that safely?

a lot of it was testing how the body reacts to overwhelming pain or threat. like the pen thing and lots of other little details, plus some things from my past. it's just about doing it with someone you trust and knowing how delicate the body is. and being a little freak!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

hiii this question is a bit unusual but i figured you would know best how to answer it. the way you write characters experiencing pain is so raw and vivid and vital, it seems so intimate and transportive, you truly feel everything the characters feel, like trianon in the shower, or diopa nude and swollen with countless wasp-stings into one unrecognizable lump of burning flesh. i truly have read absolutely nothing like it and i can only hope to convey something so visceral in my own work. the problem is i am currently writing a character who is in a haze of moderate-to-severe migraines all the time as a result of a skull fracture/burgeoning psychic powers (dw abt it) and i just don't really know how to describe the pain she's experiencing bc i am bad at describing my own physical pain. so i figured i would ask straight from the porp's mouth. how DO you write pain so well, and what would you advise i do?

i guess there's a few ways to look at it.
i've been in pain most of my life. in a lot of the ways a person can be hurt. i spin through the pain rolodex, colors flicking through each part of my body. i act it out. i make the face they’re making. the direction of the eyebrows influences the heartbeat and the breathing. i block it out with another person (several scenes from serious weakness were done irl).
when pain is very bad it can move beyond description, it blocks out the character’s consciousness. so absence is also a technique.

but the most important thing is craft. “my dear boy why don’t you try acting” etc.
it’s a fixation i’ve been honing for 10+ years and if you do anything that long you find truer ways of doing it.
thanks for saying very nice things about my writing, good luck with your own!

Nameless Grub · 2y

i met with a friend i hadnt seen in a while at a queer event and at some point i brought up the insectile inhumanity that defines my relationship with my gender and she said "have you heard of "xrafstar". i got clocked.

xrafstar world!! bugclocked tick tick timelime disease! i love that, what a nice shibboleth. i definitely feel like an insect before anything else. thanks for sharing the vermin spectrum 🪰🪱🦟

Nameless Grub · 2y

Where in the west coast does serious weakness take place??

Nameless Grub · 2y

What's your favourite art medium to watch and create (e.g. movies, comics, games, etc.)?

Nameless Grub · 2y

I know you have described your writing as exposure therapy in the past so thought you might like to know that Serious Weakness is actually part of my doctor-supervised OCD treatment lol. I read chunks at a time and practice tolerating the feeling that everything is bad and I am responsible (but also I can tell I’m enjoying it under all the brain damage/overwhelm). Thanks and here’s to scaring oneself in the name of greater wellbeing!

that's so cool haha. OCD is so painful, good job facing it. it really gets better when you're able to break those calcified fear/control nuggets down, they live in the body and need to be squeezed out. moral sanitation becomes woven into the muscles and the respiratory tract, and there's so much relief when breaking through it. legalize yaoi therapy!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

this is off-topic, but i'm really interested in your opinion on shakespeare. do you have anything to say on the matter?

i for one cannot fucking stand a word of his work as much as i try. i'd like to, but i can't. i literally fall asleep reading and watching his stuff. it's not relatable to me, it's not interesting to me, it's not relevant to me, meanwhile your work speaks to every redmeated figment of my dumb human soul. i know comparing you and shakespeare is like apples and oranges but for a dead guy who everyone touts as the Foundation Of All Stories Ever i'm just curious if you have any thoughts about him.

for me, your creations are on the opposite end of the spectrum from his. you express pain in different ways. or perhaps are they more similar than one would think? i pit my most loved and most hated against each other. they're both full of poetry.

i just think shakespeare's work could be sluttier. it could also do with more e. coli. he should have wrote something about the plague. maybe it's all slutty enough. but not for me. it's written for religious renaissance england so maybe i'm just not the intended audience. i mean, i don't think anyone in the modern day really is, but they still teach it in schools. anyway, something is crawling in there but it never fully reveals its head so i hate it. the sluttiness is so buried in-between the lines that it becomes imperceptible. except in like, romeo and juliet and maybe macbeth (but macbeth is the lover that leaves me wanting more the most)

and in any case, trianon and insul could cannibalize romeo and juliet and tybalt and mercutio and fuck the corpses. agent of innocent is everything shakespeare tried to say and failed

sorry if this letter has already been written to you before, or if it's beyond anything you care about. i rambled because i wanted to see your perspective on my perspective alongside your perspective outside of my perspective. if you think nothing of shakespeare then take this as a love letter. sincerely, a college student who is thinking abt u while trying to survive a shakespeare class

they wouldn't teach it in classes if it said anything real. then again, they teach me in classes so it's possible to break off a piece of anything and contain it in a lab. sorry they're forcing you to squeeze blood from plastic. literary antipsychotics.

the only shakespeare i like is the 1999 movie Titus where the setting is fascist Italy colliding with ancient Rome. apparently it's one of his "least respected plays" so it makes sense why i'd like it. stupid boy band brothers rolling around on each other and slapping arcade machines and doing violence for their scheming Goth mommy. Alan Cumming as a decadent emo fag dictator. an endless orgy of amputation, cruelty, and cannibalism. Aaron the Moor gives an amazing performance and has the hottest monologues and does the best thing with a Pepsi can you'll ever see.

thank you for liking the boys <3 good luck getting through it, there's real shit out there

Nameless Grub · 2y

(re: the poster question) aaa gosh, thank you for the fast reply! i hadn't thought about it with that much specificity yet (ah_eto_blehh.mp4)-- umm, your series of rubicon drawings have been really hitting lately. i like your char creation body horror drawing from last year too :) those are a few examples

i don't have a concept of how much time/effort it takes to set up art for sale as posters, so no pressure!! i was just thinking i'd like to buy some more porp art someday if you happened to make it available :)

i'm so glad you like the rubi pics <3
after you brought it up, i tested some images. my cwazy colors get fucked by CMYK as usual but some of the pics look good! DM/email me your address and which pictures you want and i'll set it up for you through vistaprint.

Shin · 2y

Last Anon who talked really long but two more questions... not about writing more or less.

Im also an artist/writer and id like to perhaps hear any tips u have regarding making an audience... Im in some pretty troublesome financial straits in my future so i'm just out to listen to some tips

Next question i have is about ur website. What do you use for it? Did you host it on neocities then bought your own URL? Any CSS/HTML tips? I really love how you made your main website look... I love to explore every corner of it whenever i can

i’ll be real with you, art isn’t a great way to make money, especially fast. you need a strong personality or a good product and you have to put it out there and you have to be lucky. even a lot of successful artists are starving. you gotta do it for the love or the madness. but it’s also (kind of) accessible to people or bugs who have literally no other job they can do (like me). i’m not the best to ask about this because my micro-success doesn’t come from being an artist, it comes from being porpentine.

my site: i bought a domain name and hosting. css/html you can copy/paste from anywhere, steal cannibalize reuse, the only factor is the soul you put into it. give it a shot and i'm sure you'll make the digi-jungle of your dreams. thanks for exploring my little slice of paradise…

Nameless Grub · 2y

So since there’s no way for me to add an email for correspondence:
From the first line let alone paragraph: lazur’s hypervigilance hyperawareness hypersensitivity imagine living as such a thing constantly agonizingly aware of death as it could be, how maybe it would almost be benevolent if the worst possibilities and potentials and fantasies were made manifest… “guilty at each touch” oh my god LAZUR!!! Run ragged and raw, detached from it all yet pantomiming Normality with the schism as a glaring gaping thing splayed out (for all to see? Or is it his dirty little secret?) and it’s so sick of him to drift to rubicon at a time like this.

I love him with a cocido, a bitter little drink, and the incessant exploding distance of the world around him. Rumination, longing, lust and fear and you can’t have any of it without having all of it, can you?

“They don’t work the same anymore, do they? Does it hurt to breathe? Does it hurt to breathe? To spit? Are you even continent? “ And this is the meat of it, right? Certified warboys moments, trauma slay, as one will, if so inclined.

The part that starts with this: “Lazur is out of words,” you were insane for that. And then the part that starts with this: “tick tick tick,” you were INSANE for that! Sweatslick and desperate as he is, the hole devastation of it all…!

“Relax or die.” I love when twink bites man. A headline worth cumming for!

Was not expecting an explicit anal birth moment in cunt chapter 2 yet here I am, post-birth. Holy shit. It’s a beautiful bouncing baby bomb.

I delight in his adrenaline-drenched frenzied escape but why was he even trying when— and then “the world got away from you” it always does dude that’s how it is when you get exactly what you fucking want, it always will, and then “women in swimsuits surround him, patting his body, cupping his head on their thighs as he spits out chlorinated phlegm and gobs of ash, the cuffs shining, hair slicked like a wet dog” I guess we survive, waterlogged and whatnot. I cannot wait to bite into chapter 3 we must gather the astrology fans and manifest a tepid quarter this financial season, for the sake of myself as I read on the company dollar. Plan to bite off ch3 as soon as ch2 digestion + work time allows!

"can’t have any of it without having all of it" yeah, exactly. clinging to the ecosystem of a one-way mirror. maybe that's why he defuses bombs, all that chaos contained to a single package which he can manipulate and rotate and control, or have the illusion thereof.

twink bites man!!

men can get pregnant too and sometimes it's a piece of explosive ordinance

thanks for reading, liveblogs are literally blood pumped into my veins!! hope you enjoy the other chapters!

Nameless Grub · 2y

You mentioned in an interview that you write religious fiction. Do you still see your latest work as in that vein or are you moving past that framing? I'm schizoaffective and whole bunch of shit has been bouncing around, including your words, doing it's thing in my mind. I had a moment where I felt like met some terrible deity. I come from an evangelical Christian background, though I'm a heretic now. It's taken me a while to process that hallucination but I feel like I conceived of the internet as it's own kind of church. An exorcist cult, except that it's methods for teaching you exorcism turn you into a demon. Other people would interpret what I saw as an asura, or something similar. I honestly have no idea where I'm going with this. Maybe I just wanted to show this and see what others thought.

i do, yes.
i grew up with evangelism too. i hate the church but i derive inspiration from a lot of religious writing from many sources. people yearn and struggle so deeply everywhere. my writing is a form of struggle. a romance of martyrs. i’m not surprised you felt a terrible deity in there. i struggle with very bleak things, vantablack, but this is the nature of those struggles, finding something where nothing grows.

yes, the function of the internet is to turn people into demons. it’s good to limit psychic damage from exposure to the top level.

good luck with the shit bouncing around. it can be easy to get lost in the sauce, but the most important thing is being happy. i only want people to take what they need from my writing and not let it consume them in any unhappy way. 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hi! first time reader, first time caller, i read seriweak after it was recommended to me by a new friend, and fuck consider me a fan, immaculate prose, and a sense for drawing out emotions that I've never really seen in torture porn. everything in Seriweak feels so uncomfortably quiet in a loud way if that makes sense, sneakers on linoleum floors, the tire noises of a highway, the buzzing of florescent lights. despite how emotionally intense everything is, i never felt like there were really any momentd that were "scored" in the musical and folly senses of the word. it taps in to a feeling i didn't even know i could recognize. i feel like I'm not smart enough to even really say what spoke to me about this book as opposed to other examples of the genre, which feels a little silly to say considering the contents, but its true. it also made my brother complex worse so theres that.

yes, i prefer movies without soundtracks! unless it's a really good, intentional soundtrack, music undercuts the power of the acting and the tension that is so important to my stories. i write like i'm filming it so good job picking up on that. it was important with SW to convey the deadness and emptiness of the world, the sterile womb and the virgin miracle of violence.
thank you for these kind and considered compliments, it is hard but worthwhile to reach into the things between places. and congrats on taking your brocon game to the next level 😎

Nameless Grub · 2y

niche question: a while back you were talking about your drop biscuit recipe, and you mentioned you add vadouvan to it; is there a particular brand of vadouvan you like to use, or do you make the blend yourself? i've never seen it in the spice section of my grocery store. your recipe sounds yummy and i would like to try making it someday :)

i got some from a spice shop, but you can use all kinds of curry powder in biscuits. hot sauce + a savory spice mix is a good time!

Nameless Grub · 2y

hi hi hello ms porpentine heartscape i just want to let you know that serious weakness altered my brain so good and i constantly have moments when i see stuff that reminds me of it and just turn into the soyjaks pointing. it is one of my favorite books and you are amazing . much love ♥️🪽🌈💗🌹 keep doing what you do

thank you that's so sweet of you to say!! i will never stopping!! 💜🔪🔪🔪🪷🪷🪷!!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

hi charity, i recently watched a movie called ‘mysterious skin’ and honestly it made me think of your work the way it dealt with subjects like trauma and queerness and connection unmoored from cultural notions of judgement and martyrdom (also there’s a rlly intense bathroom scene that reminded me of the penthouse scene in SW). Your work has such a distinctive aura of an unflinching insider perspective that it’s impossible to miss when i see it elsewhere. It feels like 99.9% of shit i consume is empty calories, years of searching through fallow fields, and then i see something like MS or read something like SW and it’s so blindingly truthful and empathic but at the same time i feel like it’s never enough….. the world just feels so empty, like i’m living a human condition that cannot be experienced by almost anyone else. it SUXX Tbh

Have u seen MS? Do you have an opinion? I think it’s really good……

i love Mysterious Skin. the opening scene is perfect, zoomed in just like a kid only able to see the glittering treats not the bigger social trap he’s in. it tells a complicated story that would be unpopular nowadays, the reality of being a kid where you crave validation from adults or enjoyed parts of the abuse. like you say, unmoored from judgment and martyrdom.

the tender scene with the old guy with AIDS lesions is good too ;;
the bathroom scene is so scary yeah
wish the two main guys fucked but we CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING CAN WE

thanks for appreciating the raw meat 💜 empty calories, yeah. the world never stops feeling empty to me, empty and so full at the same time that i could choke on it. the hunt never ends…

Nameless Grub · 2y

the wasp ask reminded me that i used to be friends with a polistes wasp with a damaged wing who got stranded on my back porch several years ago. she lived for abt a week in a container with me and every day i'd take her out to have some time in the flowers and the sun. she learned that i wasn't a threat and willingly climbed into my hands. did you know some polistes wasps can recognize specific human faces, i think that's what was going on there. anyway i just thought you'd like to know

that's so sweet ;; good job taking care of her. it's hard for humans and bugs to co-exist but it's special when it happens. i love recognizing specific human faces too. thanks for telling me about it 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Happy early birthday

Nameless Grub · 2y

do you have a favorite insect?

i like eusocial insects like wasp, bee, ant, and i like DIRTY TRASH FLIES. flies are my bugsona 🪰

Nameless Grub · 2y

Wanted to say that I really relate to Trianon's fuzzy perception of faces throughout SW. Do you see him as having prosopagnosia or just a strong aversion to looking at faces?

he has a strong aversion for looking at faces, and maybe some face blindness, it's ambiguous. the rest of the fuzziness comes from the double vision and blurriness of his myasthenia. hazy boy...glad it was relatable 💜🌫️

Nameless Grub · 2y

how have you been doing lately?

aw, thanks for asking. I've been recovering after getting vaccines + the usual chronic stuff. been working on more CTE and a new drawing and some collabs, can't wait to share. a friend from far away is visiting so I'm really happy about that. and it's my birthday in a couple days 🪰⭐✌️💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

What music do you recommand while Reading cunt toward enemy ? Love your work ❤️❤️❤️

thank you 💜💜💜
i think everyone should have their own favs, that's the immortal power of the AMV, but some songs i personally associate:
Evanescence - Tourniquet
The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
Carly Rae Jepsen - Favorite Color

Nameless Grub · 2y

I read Serious Weakness But With Girls and it was good but I haven't read Serious Weakness itself yet... I'm struggling to focus enough to read longer prose lately. I did read Psycho Nymph Exile which I thought was incredible.

I should probably have a question, so: is there a game or story of yours that you like that you feel people don't talk about as much? I like things The True Legend of Tails Prower, Armada, Yumpoworld, Grassfires of Veldstar to mention a few and I feel like I haven't seen people bring them up much but maybe they have and I just haven't personally seen it as much.

thank you! long stuff can be hard yeah. thank god for these abridged Porp Classics 8)

maybe Game Where She Forces You To Kill Everyone On Your Squad? you already named some deep cuts ("Yumpoworld...i haven't heard that name in years..."), i think that's a pretty good cross-section of my games tbh. thanks for playing my little toon hells 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

What do Jess and Iran look like?(like if they were to be drawn how would you describe them)

Nameless Grub · 2y

you have a really nice voice! not really a question, though. best wishes :)

Nameless Grub · 2y

i finally got my gf to start reading serious weakness and she keeps sending me insul quotes and saying it reminds her of the shit i say / do to her. am i going to hell? she wants to marry me btw

Nameless Grub · 2y

hi previous anon who said "Your very airy but pointed writing is my favorite style of writing I can get behind. " with a very long long ask.

I read your work "honeydew toxicity event" and im not gonna lie that definitely rewired my brain... in a cool way. Some of the comments found some slight sexual gratification with what happened to the MC but i will say that that wasnt what i felt, but i was morbidly invested. ur stuff is literally filled 2 the brim with this fascination w just... nasty gross unorthodox strange near torture shit and i find it so. so cool.
i find the deeper themes of it very interesting... Sometimes I underestimate my reading comprehension because I was surprised by a commenter having the same interpretation as i did on it...
The swelling torment of a gamer tainted by the "astroturfed internet". His compulsive comfort of drinking mountain dew acts as the seed and the water that grows and swells into something unable to be hidden, and embraced by online friends. They acted as a basking of comfort in a moment of pure naked embarassment... Its poetic. Also i like seeing. things happen to strange men.

Recently Bought Serious Weakness. it seems to be a long. Tough read. But im hoping to embark on it (whenever these ADHD meds finaly kick in.) Im a gay dude with a strange relationship w gender so im hoping this yaoi with the crazy tags on it really give me a read to read. But i have a feeling with your pen it will be something to remember

Hope u enjoyed reading all this as much as i did typing it!

Nameless Grub · 2y

oh my it took me so long to get to cte 6 but this, this is such good stuff, im devouring it, your works are always so cinematic, i can just see it in my head, ahhhhhhhhh

also in reverse your stories made me realise how a lot of movies can be better just by being a lot more gay

thank you haha i come at it from a very visual angle, i'd love to see them as animations or comics, liquid television...thank you so much! its gotta be gay!

Nameless Grub · 2y

just curious: when writing, do you visualize your characters the same way you draw them/the way they appear in your drawings? also: hope you’re having a great day 🫶🏻

writing and drawing have overlap but are different. i have more practice writing, so my drawings are more for fun.

when i write, they start as blobs in my head, cohering into insects, liquid focalities, a collage of real and cartoon shards. they are never still, never complete. tutelary spirits or demons.

my drawings are just one interpretation, and i draw them different every time. it helps me think about them in time and space, the logic of their bodies. but i want people to have their own versions.

thanks, my day is good! you too! <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

miss charity pls know that cunt toward enemy has become a Relationship Activity for my wife and i..... somehow whenever a new part is posted i end up seeing it first, and then i get to jostle her/text her depending on our current proximity and scream about it with her. there was a LOT of screaming with the latest chapter!

seeing people enjoy it with their friends is so nice, i've been really liking the episodic way of releasing it. screamable finale yesss!!
i'm almost done with the next episode. thanks for reading along...cunt toward enemy...the virtuous marital companion!

Nameless Grub · 2y

how upset was your NSA guy about the research you did for cunt towards enemy?

Nameless Grub · 2y

your work makes me feel less alone. and i never really knew how much i needed that--needed to not "feel alone"--to be able to experience the full boundlessness of myself, to have energy to live and dance. can tell you im a better person for it. thank you for sharing.

i'm really happy that's what you got out of it. it can be easy to get locked inside a small part of oneself. dancing is really important, in every possible meaning of the word. thank you for sharing the feeling 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

i wouldn't have ever expected to find myself sexually attracted to the idea of a horrifically mutilated explosion survivor, but uhhhh you have a way with words!! 🥴 thank you for expanding people's minds & anuses with your writing <3

love that i could rubi-pill you 💥💊 one of my biggest rewards for writing is getting people to consider what they never would otherwise. there is so much texture within deformity but it’s rarely taken seriously or aestheticized, especially during sex. much more compelling than if he was a mere blond pretty boy. so helpless but so dangerous…i’m so pleased that you get it! <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

i've been playing armored core 6 and whenever the rubicon liberation front appears i can't help but think "damn i'd like to liberate rubicon's front" i shit you not

haha yeah get in that surgically carved catheter hole!!
it is interesting to think about. a totally denied area held taut by scar tissue, conventional signifiers ablated. intimacy as an engineering or medical problem or sublimated entirely away from the body. cant believe they made a whole game about him but he deserves it. keep fighting for that boy nullpussy ✊🔥🤖

Nameless Grub · 2y

I’ve only read cunt chapter 1 and I’m ineloquent but I want to send you my most immediate most raw meat most cerebrospinal fluid still steaming thoughts: rubichan, in the state he’s in, as obliterated and ravaged and total loss as he is, crafting something like that… it can’t be easy, right? he’s working so hard and so desperately? For connection for comprehension for destruction for annihilation…… a creature of frayed and flayed flesh and bone and nerves seeking infrared-homing vengeful pitiful……. I drink this yaoi bouqet for that alone so deeply, and the saw film dubcon is just. Infinite chef’s kiss. I can’t believe I get to read more of this, of him and them!!!

rubichan!!! 😭
i think that's very eloquent! thank you for your passion!!

yes!! you'll actually learn more about his work flow a couple episodes into season 2. there was a period of physical therapy where it was very hard, and it's still hard with fewer fingers, because he doesn’t like to delegate something so intimate. but he’s built up a set of tools to compensate for his body. and obsession is a powerful motivator.
yesss saw movies always needed to be gayer, they really squandered the potential with each sequel. thank you for coming on this bombfuck journey into the mind of madness…messages like this make it all worthwhile! 💥💐

Nameless Grub · 2y

i'm sure this has been asked and answered before but i forget so please refresh my memory: is there an official serious weakness companion playlist...

Nameless Grub · 2y

I find that I need to put in a lot of effort sometimes to read your stuff, but it's so worth it, thanks for making stuff that makes me really read, instead of the easily consumable content that's so common nowadays, it really reminds me of what I'm actually looking for when I read

💜 im so happy to hear that. it's hard to find raw meat out here. i always want the effort to have an equivalent payoff.

now i'm dreaming of my stories being in the YA section of libraries, 70s dark YA AU or porpentine animorphesque xrafstar series...

Nameless Grub · 2y

i'm a ''''game developer'''' (i made one game that got streamed by a kind of shitty but very popular guy 10 years ago) and i've been trying to make a new game but the first game i made was extremely full of copyrighted material because i just built it out of whatever i wanted, whatever came to mind, including mp3s on my desktop and things i just googled and added without a second thought.

now, broke and desperate, i have been forced by the Machine that zaps me whenever i can't pay it money to create something Monetizable™. i am trying to build the game but i am stricken with David Lynch's Thought Poison™ ("I didn't really feel like I had permission to make it my own. (...) little by little, I was subconsciously making compromises-- knowing I couldn't go here and not wanting to go there. I just fell, you know, into this middle world. It was a sad place to be.") because the part of me that just wants to put whatever the fuck I want into the game is fighting against the anxiety of knowing if I use AI textures or ogg files of 12 second loops from songs I like or pictures of public figures or art from random sources or fonts that I got from questionably legal websites that even if I make a really good game that I'm proud of, I won't be able to sell it to help myself pay the Eternal Zapping Machine. how do I navigate this moral and existential crisis?

you could use creative commons or pre-copyright material. there are so many obscure old archives waiting to be collaged. you can also take pictures/record foley in the world. and a lot of material from any source becomes unrecognizable with enough distortion. music is the most litigious media to watch out for. but it wouldn't be an issue either way unless it was a very lucrative game, which is pretty rare. good luck!

Nameless Grub · 2y

do you think you'll ever sell any of your other visual art as posters, like you did with elf cum 9/11? i am a proud owner of that one and i would love to have a whole porpentine gallery in my room one day 🐜🐛🦎🪱🪳🦠

aw, i'd love that. are there any particular pieces you like? i could look into an inprnt or something... 🪳🧫👁️🪱💎

Nameless Grub · 2y

your talk about building things out of trash, building the absolute minimum for what you're capable of as a human on your best days & all of Hot Allostatic Load (which i've probably read through 10 times in different points in my life) has had even more application to my life recently. since i got covid it's become even harder than it ever was to do anything creative, and it was already difficult to begin with!! my life has felt like a constant repeat of the pattern 'damn, i can't do anything' > 'whoa, i feel even less capable of doing things now, wish i would've done things before'

sorry to hear that, it's so frustrating to be trapped in that swamp. i hope you can find things that fit the current body, and not push yourself too hard. good luck 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Have you read Passion of the New Eve? this could just be a case of “girl who only ever thinks about serious weakness reading her second book” but I’m making making my way through it and I’m noticing enough stylistic similarities to wrinkle my brain.

Nameless Grub · 2y

Do you have any thoughts or opinions on writing workshops, or some advice on how somebody who's trying to get better at writing can structure it so they aren't just flayling around?

Also some fanart lead me to check out Serious Weakness but it's Girls and holy shit did it whip. Perfect and horrid little embryonic companion piece. Thank you for sharing it! (And Serious Weakness!)

i think a lot of workshops are cons that teach a supremacist way of writing for other authors (middle-upper class lit cult). encouragement from other writers and learning together is good tho, if you can find a natural social context. but everything i learned i learned on my own from reading + trying to create Effects. if you know the effect you want to create, and are sincere in that pursuit, you learn. an effect could be tension, arousal, fear. i open my entire body to it. structure is a supereffect made of many effects that chase like music. reverse engineer what you love. no one can teach you what you need better than you.

thank you so much yesss embyronic <333 i’m glad both can exist….girls deserve to be seriously weak too…2023…

Nameless Grub · 2y

This isn't a question but I really like your game Armada, however I don't think I was ever able to find all the crystals... is there a guide to find them all anywhere?

thank you! 💜💎
you're in luck pal...don't tell anyone i told you this, but...the armada page has a guide generously made by plasticineman countless years ago at the loss of their life...one of many who paid the ultimate price...but as we know from early childhood the quest for crystals is the most ancient and pure of all! happy hunting...

"u got the crystal..."

Nameless Grub · 2y

rereading serious weakness thinking, when the overgrown school shooter fp's you 😍😍

Nameless Grub · 2y

how did you learn programming and game design?

programming: copy pasting from forums. trying to do a thing until i can do the thing.
game design: an inherent sadism toward others. the urge to electrocute something just to see its eyes pop open wide and white and betrayed, knowing it will come back for more. a glorified glory hole bug zapper for twerps, cretins, and the other wingless souls that populate my maze,

Nameless Grub · 2y

just saw your tweet about top surgery, that's so cool!! optimizing that lithe, gexy reptilian physique 🦎 i've always really admired the way you approach gender, both in your writing and in your public persona-- if this isn't too personal to ask, i'd be curious to hear a little of your reason for looking into that procedure, if the aforementioned gexmindedness doesn't already cover it :]

i think you nailed it exactly. i like being streamlined and i like insects and i like gexing out. i'm still exploring my options but i'd really like to do it if my health allows. and thanks! i love being infinity 🦎🪳🦟💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

"particles of his mother's love in his vagina"... cuntboy toward enemy 🤔

cuntboy toward enemy!! i love that. rubicon is basically a cuntboy if you think about it

Nameless Grub · 2y

Did you once mention that you liked Dragon Half or did I dream it? I checked your codex and it isn’t there, but i feel like u mentioned it once. It’s just so weird that out of all of the weird niche 80s and 90s horny strange OVAs in existence someone on the internet also liked the same one I did?!! DH just hits so different but just in the right place for me. crazy

yes!! dragon half is so cute, i love how squished they are. my codex is only a drop of everything i watch, a haphazard menu. there's so many good horney ovums from back then for sure, now more important than ever!

Nameless Grub · 2y

wanted to let you know my friend originally thought cunt toward enemy was butch4butch yuri... life is so beautiful

lmao. i mean...anything is b4by if you try hard enough...la bella vita fica or whatever xD

Nameless Grub · 2y

Thank you. Your work helped give me the framework to see the ten thousand knives I was being pierced by. I'm still working on taking them out, but I'm healing.

Nameless Grub · 2y

been reading through your stories, just starting Serious Weakness, sometimes i think about the differences between your older and newer works (i love both! i love comparing and seeing the different ways you present stuff)
i wonder if this is just me overthinking but it feels like your older works are more direct/presenting the "message" (i don't think you would call it a message, that feels too moral preaching like typical fiction, but i don't know how to describe it sorry) while your newer ones are more... it's like it's coded, encrypted, needs to be deciphered, but the reward of taking the effort to do so is greater
i used to like your earlier stuff more but then later on i find it's the latter stuff that really sticks with me, that keeps me thinking over and over. it's interesting!
also i feel like it takes some kind of strength to write the sort of stuff you write, i really appreciate you for that
p.s. that revery palimpsest story... it still haunts me i love it

you’re right! my early work can be more direct, there’s an adolescent urgency. i made so much short-form that to grow i needed to make longer things, to achieve the effects i couldn’t reach before. it makes me very happy that the new stuff paid off for you. people need different things at different times in their life, so i hope they can journey thru my hell-zones at their own pace.

as i grow older, i don’t want to repeat myself or fall into the trap of making propaganda, the kind of safe, false catharsis that gets a bunch of likes from the type of person who makes a dangerous, fickle fan–which would have been a risk if i didn’t push past my comfort zone. so i challenge myself with everything i make. encryption/reward, exactly. i want there to be lots of ways to feel about what i write with no perfect answer, like the best dreams or the worst realities. but i never want to lose that stupid juvenile viscera and fire, just make bigger payloads for it 🔥

thanks for loving revery palimpsest!! it’s kind of a prefiguration of what i currently write. i enjoyed this letter a lot, it feels good to be appreciated in a holistic kind of way, thank you 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

I’ve always thought that i might have ptsd/c-ptsd but told myself I hadn’t gone thru enough explicitly terrible shit to warrant a diagnosis. But when I saw the line ‘every move the wrong one, forever’ on ur twitter I just stared at my phone for a while because this was almost exactly identical to the words I had tried to use to describe how I felt for my entire life. mindlink porp 🍽🧠

i'm glad my terrorism yaoi could lead to this epiphany 💥🧠 PTSD is not uncommon in my stories but cunt toward enemy felt like an appropriate place to dig into it, because a bomb is PTSD incarnate to me. time, terror, anticipation. “every move the wrong move”, whether briefly or over an extended period, is how to give someone PTSD.

i hear you re: explicitly terrible shit. it happened to me at different times, being made completely helpless, like a strapped-down animal being electrocuted, whether in an immediate physical sense or via long-term social dehumanization. the latter was far more damaging to me. so there’s lots of things that cause terror sickness but few that people are encouraged to take seriously (protip even the most Classic PTSD Scenario isn’t respectable enough, veterans die in the streets like dogs). the diagnosis is less important to me than asking how i’ve been conditioned by fear to act in certain ways. one has to fight when there is finally room to move again.

i also wanted a character who didn’t have a single defining PTSD moment like the movies, but a gradual paralyzing sickness from decades of exposure to the apparatus, conditioning him through lowkey ambient terror and seeing how quickly bodies can be taken apart in such arbitrary, impersonal ways. i suppose he’s in his highkey terror period now…
good luck with your stuff, sounds like you’re figuring shit out 💜

jan unpa · 2y

detcord kinbaku

lmao this is literally a scene in a future cunt toward enemy chapter good job 💜💣🪢

Nameless Grub · 2y

it’s so fun to me to see u quote weil a bunch like earlier this year i wrote a little horny short horror story about working in customer service and strung it along with weil stuff and then after finishing it independently stumbled onto serious weakness - obviously SW is a million times better than what i managed but the semi autonomous arrival at getting horny over spiritual annihilation was v fun. anyway, huge fan new fan v excited to dig into everything else u’ve written xxx

cute sync! 🖇️ her writing on abjection is so good, its so relevant to horney scary, pain, yearning, brokenness, the actual power game of reality.
good job writing a thing. its good that both stories exist. everyone needs something that belongs to them.
thanks for nice letter, have fun worming it up! 💜🪱

Nameless Grub · 2y

cant wait for cunt toward enemy to come out in print :) my q is: would you ever publish a collection of some of ur short stories?

thanks! if CTE goes on long enough maybe I'll split it into multiple books, still figuring out the length.
as for a collection, I'm actually working on one with a publisher, and I'm writing a new story for it.
📚💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

since starting t i have this internal duality of "physically horny" vs "not mentally horny" that makes jacking off feel like low kill shelter. though since i made that connection today it may flip the switch on mentally horny

its amazing how the right ero-hazard can activate shit, it's one of the most beautiful feelings i can think of. i love trying to flip a new switch in people with each book i put out. congrats on your t rabies 🦷⚡🤤

Nameless Grub · 2y

the way you fuck with perspective is really cool --- switching from third to first person as the situation demands it / as emotions run high. this isn't really a question, i just wanted to point that out. really cool. cheers!

thank you 💜👁️
i change perspective instinctively but i usually find there was a reason afterwards

3rd person is hostile, alien, “impartial”, fatalistic, godlike
3rd person present tense heightens the tension. things are being reported from the outside, live. the intentions of a character remain hidden.
i never liked writing in past tense, why would i care about something that already happened? i don't watch documentaries or historical movies either. of course there's lots of past tense writing that's very suspenseful and i enjoy it, it's just something i don't find myself doing as much.

i mix 1st and 3rd person a lot, bleeding into each other. that’s how brains work, kind of, we have our private thoughts, then we try to imagine how others will see us. that specific Rubicon scene, yeah, dipping in and out of himself, jerking off is a permeable time, the mechanical act is interrupted by intrusive thoughts, by nothing so appalling as the self itself.

with Serious Weakness i kept Insul a black box most of the book so he would be unpredictable.
1st person trades tension for sympathy. with 1st person i can "grab" things harder and create strong "effects", but i have to make sure i can maintain that voice and that it's distinct enough.
and there’s a particular reason for Rubicon getting a POV which will be revealed in the next episode…

Nameless Grub · 2y

in your experience, is there any hope for weapon-woman shipping irl? people in my life are trying way more honestly than in the story, but i still feel myself chafing against local softness-exertion maxima...

people talk a lot about separatism but dating inside and outside one's demographic have their own dangers. neither is intrinsically superior. there are kind people of every type, and people who have been separated from the world somehow and are able to see outside the reproduction of standardized images and the violence of status preservation. it's just a question of finding them.

Nameless Grub · 2y

i read serious weakness in like a fever dream last week and i feel like it has rewired my brain in the best possible way. trianon is like the first character i have ‘related’ to in maybe ten years. thank you so much for making this <3

love finding a really abject character, it's hard to find one that doesn't feel from the dominant culture. thanks for sharing the fever dream 💜🧠❌

Nameless Grub · 2y

how do you decide which questions to answer? on retrospring but also in general. questions about yourself and your art.

i admire how you're simultaneously very open and conversational about giving creative advice, and yet your work and the process behind it still retains lotsa mystery. i've seen how the sausage gets made but i still wanna eat it etcetera. feel more aware that an insecurity around giving away "trade secrets" as an artist fails to consider the inexpressible metaphysics goin on behind the creative process, because as much as i know about the conception of some of your works, actually experiencing your art is always literally awesome and wonderful and brain-rewiring.

thank u love ur youtube btw

It takes me anywhere from seconds to months to get to a letter, depending on how complicated the feeling is. Some of my favorite questions take the longest because they take more care. Not exactly effort, but finding the right feeling where I am the person the question is for, and where I can respond from a sincere place.

Sometimes I surface from a period of obsessive work and have to learn how to talk to people again. Sometimes I get a lot of questions and have to triage. There’s nothing wrong with many of the questions I don’t get to, and I don’t mind being asked them. But if I have no thoughts or feelings about it, it passes me by. I’d rather answer fewer questions sincerely.

10+ years and a lot of questions/interviews taught me how I want to talk about myself. You have to control the question. It shouldn’t feel like being drained, it should feel like circulation.

re metaphysics: yeah, it’s impossible to bottle the secret sauce. There is agnostic process which can apply to anyone, but the irrational fixation part, people have to find that for themselves.

Thanks for loving my videos :] One of my more obscure things, but nice when I feel moved to it. I’m a very physical, gestural person which can be hard to capture over text.

Thanks for saying nice things. Even if it takes time to respond, the letters I get are a big source of encouragement and connection that fill me with warmth 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

the first time i read serious weakness i related more to insul, but right now i'm at a moment in my life where i'm feeling very weak and retarded and incapable, and trianon's line "i'd rather be a fucking toilet if it means people stop expecting things of me" hits home A Lot. thank you for creating art that so perfectly articulates the vermin experience <33

some days we're the insul...some days we're the trianon!! the duality of man...
glad the verminous could match feel thank you <333

Nameless Grub · 2y

love your desk reviews

thank you 💜 there is something about reviewing a little piece of ordinary space that is nice to share

Nameless Grub · 2y

wait a tick, CTE is innocentverse isn’t it

aren’t you clever!! especially figuring it out without the next set of chapters which reveals a lot more.
CTE is in one quadrant of the innocentverse with a different focus than vermin. innocentverse timelines, to use the parlance of our times, can be seen as “creepy" or “wet”. CTE is “creepy”, “dry”, etc. but it is connected by the hand of God. there may be a connection to an old incident as well. more revelations in the coming days… ⏳💣

Nameless Grub · 2y

CTE chapter five ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i am enjoying the turn to introspection thanks for making passageways into their funny messy brains and letting us worm in...fiddling with their wiring...
Rubicon...why are you letting Lazur live rent free in your head...
it's funny, the feeling that the boundary/outer limits of what Rubicon can feel is just the silhouette of Lazur, his field of activity is Lazur's body, he needs him so badly, and it seems like Lazur is the stabilising force to his life/an anchor to feel real
'a worry the right size" to show as a concept...that hits too close
great work! love to see it

yes, it is a cross-section of two bombs! 🪱💣
his field of activity, mmhm--nothing more intense than a 20 something's fixation. already murderous in an ordinary person...
Lazur is an esoteric prosthetic.
a worry the right size, Lazur has lots of practice managing his own delineation, but the same thing that allowed him to survive in a military institution/as a son of immigrants is the very control/order complex that makes him such an appealing target for Rubicon's raw id...
thanks for reading! <3333

Nameless Grub · 2y

what zodiac is druj?

same as Perfect, the stats are all versions of him. but high corruption levels can change your zodiac, scientific fact. in which case we'd be looking at the bug zodiac... 🔭🪰!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hi I am a weird little trans girl,​
Ada Rook licked a book and now I fan of your work. There was a pic posted of her licking Serious Weakness (SW) with out much of an explanation if I recall. So looked into it and order the book. I also saw you did the art for one her albums, which I got on a hoody now, extra bonus. While waiting for the book to arrive I poked at some of your stuff like weird video games that have you smoking girlchunks.
When SW arrived I read it, but it took some time because that shit was punishing to read. I honestly mean that in the best of ways. It was emotionally draining, but captivating, cathartic and depressing.
After that I ordered the book Psycho Nymph Exile in physical copy and because I was busy it took a minute to get to it. But once I did it was kind of blown away. Its so different from anything else. Also, girlchunks popped back up.
I ordered a physical copy of Low Kill Shelter and will be starting that soon, but have been checking out your web pages and short story things. I joined up on your Patreon so I could get some more stories and stuff.
Finding your work has been a exciting "into the rabbit hole" experience and you varied works make my brain buzz in a good way.
So I just wanted to say thanks for being awesome and sharing it.
So my question is where did the idea/naming for girlchunks come from?

if a girl is eating a book you know that's some good shit!!
girlchunks just happened spontaneously. if i had to think about it, you don't have a lot of gendered drugs so it's a fun name that also evokes something gooey or crystalline, a wad or shard of something, gotta have my girlchunks, vague enough to be any number or combination of drugs, but visceral, maybe it makes you throw up sometimes.
thanks for telling me about your journey into the bug hole, i'm glad my little hell could be a good place to graze <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

[eyemoon anon] lmao if you're ready for an even DEEPER cut i used to try my damndest to try and figure out how to beat bloody princess farmer on your old site and could never make it work. i also remember really liking the game you did with the clit gun and the drugs you had to insert into your girlfriend's spine. i think it was called the sky in the room? fun times. very memorable imagery even back then, and you continue to influence me to this day. glad to be keeping up with you :-]

wowwww yes! ancient times. the sky in the room was made from the intersection of going to free medical clinics, my love of Italian pop music, and this really intense dream i had (that became the ending). thanks for following me from the beginning, bless your heart 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

"i'm going to milk your adrenal glands like a prostate" holy shit i'm dying i love this trashbag loser kid

we support the right of the disabled to juice another guy's limbic system as a form of ejaculation!! 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Is the not believing in content warnings something you've come to over time? I ask because Eczema Angel Orifice has them. And 'cause I've kinda been coming to some similar feelings over time. There's some stuff I wrote in 2020 mostly that I would struggle to figure out everything to warn for, and that's part of the reason I don't post it anywhere, though probably not the biggest reason. As well I think it can be a problem if you're prone to rumination that you can end up worrying about missing warning for every possible thing. I guess I end up landing on like a general "author chose not to warn" warning.

I was very young so it was easy to do things perfunctorily without caring much either way, or let other people make decisions for me. it took time to see the pernicious arc of history and understand that including anything that even accidentally coded as being for weakminded people was a bad idea. now I'm in control of every detail of my art. You should post what you want to post, nothing else matters.

Nameless Grub · 2y

how would you describe the meaning of the phrase "no world dreamers" yourself? i think i understand it, but i wanted to hear your own interpretation yourself

thanks for asking, although i don't think i can translate it--it means whatever people feel when they hear it, several things at once collapsing and colliding <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

i just want to say, as someone who has really bad ocd around sex, morality, and bodies and is also kinda clueless and autistic, your art/writing is really healing to me. i feel like it faces and explains things i struggle to find anyone else fully acknowledging and makes them beautiful instead of scary. and it makes me want to make braver art myself. thank you ❤️

i grew up with ugly images around every kind of body. my genitals were vectors for disease, and the sex i saw was ugly, cheap, blown out, unspiritual. i was clueless, autistic, and had really bad ocd too. but then i found certain paragraphs or pictures that recontextualized, angelicized every part of the body. so i’m sincerely grateful what i make could be part of a new palette in someone’s mind.

the fear and embarrassment and ugliness of the body is the same power that makes it beautiful. maybe my writing is useful because it acknowledges both at the same time. i’m glad working through my own problems can be anything for others. thank you for this message, it made me happy. most therapeutic torture porn on the planet!! 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

I recently decided to read CTE Ch.1 and while im a little confused at it... I have to admit i'm actually a little obsessed. I discovered your stuff from the Ada Rook album cover and your works kinda gravitate me in a way I did not expect it to? Especially your artwork. I think your writing has a bit of a skewed appeal but an appeal nonetheless, at least to me.

CTE was definitely an interesting read. Although maybe i just don't get your aesthetics yet, I enjoyed the read quite a bit, even though my friends think its crazy that I liked it just by a quick description of it from me. Your very airy but pointed writing is my favorite style of writing I can get behind. The final paragraphs of CTE had me wide eyed, It was like a switch that suddenly made it just for me. Very interested to read more from you!

i like that you found it through album art, it is fun to crack open an image and discover words inside.
most things come out already explained for people, without tension or growth. so one of the most precious feelings is to not completely understand.
cunt toward enemy will only get crazier, haha. this is like the "normal" part of the story. thank you.
airy and pointed is a good way of putting it. like wasps. thanks for sharing your wonderful enthusiasm and following your curiosity, life is much more interesting that way <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

I really do like that despite the fucked up foundation of their relationship, Lazur and Rubicon are still people their respective ages and engage with one another as such. It adds a layer of relatability. I know people wanna see them screw but I like this dynamic of Tired Older Guy and Disaffected Youth being at odds but also seeing themselves in one another. idk man that's only a fraction of my feelings on this story but this chapter really brought that aspect out, if only they were family friends and not Bomb Boyz

I’m so glad you’re enjoying the dynamic. <3
Yes, there’s a shared immaturity, a puncture in their timebodies. PTSD, faggotry, mutilation, etc can prevent one from baking into the world like ordinary people do. Open like a wound, taking in the foreign organisms that others filter out, or requiring extra dedication to get inside.
PTSD and age gaps are interesting to consider together. And it's comforting to be reassured by someone from another time, it's a unique validation hard to get anywhere else.

Nameless Grub · 2y

what are the zodiac signs of the rest of the characters in perfect tense's story?

deadboy is a gemini
dahl believes the zodiac is a form of psycho-moral rot but useful for neural programming
perfect's nemesis is whatever the worst sign is

Nameless Grub · 2y

how do you choose which ideas to spool and cottoncandify from the mire of thoughts in ur mind? do u have a threshold of how much u need to love an idea before u put all that effort into making it a project? how do u find or test that threshold?

I triage with lists that organize plot, character, names, fashion, anything I might want to use later, so it is there but not humming in my mental simulation. I arrange the bodies. I circle them. I fail badly, often. I keep going. I get better at saving time and knowing how to fuck through.

The short things that become big things are more successful than starting a big thing and being too consciously ambitious. Serious Weakness and Cunt Toward Enemy started as short stories then lured me in. I worked on Serious Weakness every week after starting it. I wrote the first chapter of Cunt Toward Enemy then dropped it for a year or two, then came back and started writing every week on it. The key is having a living connection with it, that goes beyond mere logic.

Nameless Grub · 2y

Thank you for responding, even though I was I think a bit angry with you. I’m 27, almost 28, if it matters. I reread the ending and I think I might understand a bit better now. Thank you anyway and always for your writing, even when I don’t agree.

I think you might have been patronizing me a bit when you’d said I was maybe the age you were when you wrote howling dogs/WTWLA, but I suppose that is fair enough. I didn’t read your response until now because I was afraid I was asking too much from you and I’m still afraid I’m doing that now. So thank you, again. I will never forget what your work has meant and continues to mean to me.

It wasn’t completely fair of me to mention age, people are more complex than a number. The main relevance is that I relate to my writing now, and never want to stop growing. But I hope you don’t feel like you have to conform to a consensus on this or that story. Someone must hate an ending I write, in order for someone else to love it.
Thanks for the sweet message, and feeling things about my writing, whatever they may be. <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

jumping on the train to say ive been replaying all yr twines again lately for the first time since junior high and high school and oh i'm so glad they were there for me during what was unambiguously the worst phase of my life so far. i finally beat eyemoon! i had forgotten miniskirt had music bc i was constantly forced to turn it down to avoid getting caught! i'd use a strange metaphor here but i can't think of any. thanks for being there for me when i needed it most. i hope to buy serious weakness soon. godspeed and keep livin

eyemoon is a crazy deep cut, i forgot about that cute lil stratgame. i like games you can rapidly loop thru until you figure out how to push past some stochastic threshold. most people know me for my narrative games. so it’s cool to remember that side of my art.
really touched to be part of that time that was awful and lonely for me as well. i remember turning off music to hide my games from adults too ;;
if you need an itchio key for serious weakness just hit me up. i will keep living, you too! 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

when cunt towards enemy is done, are you going to make it a book like serious weakness? bc id love to buy a copy and show further support. serious weakness really inspires me. im rereading it and im falling in love with it even more. in terms of "how worse can it get?" , serious weakness hit the bar really high because it was SO intense and i was enamored by it. during my first read, it took me 3 days. but the 3rd day was me reading the final 75%. i just really admire you and your writing. keep rockin on!

yes, bomb will be book!
in the meantime, my stories are supported thru patreon or simply the act of reading <3
thank you for loving serious weakness, it’s very nice when people get something from rereading it. when i write i think of the resonance traveling both ways in time. it is funny when people read the first 10% and can’t imagine how it could get worse. the benefit of a longer book is ways of creating pain that go beyond mere spectacle, that ache rather than explode (but also explode).
thanks so much <333

Nameless Grub · 2y

i feel like You Get Something that is hard to articulate about how i see the world, but you add your own strange and mysterious ingredients to it, so it's both achingly familiar and excitingly new to read your work. thank you for putting it out there

i always start from something familiar and banal, no matter how surreal things get. thanks for enjoying the suicide soda cocktail of my existence 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Your stories give me courage. Thank you.

Nameless Grub · 2y

goddamn, champ! thank you for saying what you said about content warnings. i knew something was iffy there but i couldn't articulate what the issue was. huge, huge relief that there's an actual way to say this stuff.

yeah sport!! it can feel a lil crazy being exposed to all the map/territory motherfuckers, glad it could help!

Nameless Grub · 2y

You said you don't believe in content warnings, would you mind elaborating on that a bit? I feel similarly about them but I feel like you'll be better at articulating the Why than I am

sure!
1) i put a lot of effort into the tension and pacing of my stories and content warnings are just spoilers to me.
2) ptsd is unique to each person. the average person with ptsd is less likely to have a problem with violent sexual material but be set off by something innocuous and banal and innocent. the smell of a certain food, a kid’s cartoon, etc.
3) content warnings appeal to a certain kind of cop mentality person that, if you give them a single inch, destroys online and irl spaces. a culture of surveillance and arbitrary, sudden punishment is really bad for people with ptsd.
4) content warnings enable disposable consumption of a Kind of Thing, so you can read a bunch of stuff you don’t remember. without surprise, there is no growth or magic. it reduces all life to a bureaucratic list standardized according to suburbanite liberal definition, a linguistic colonialism that paves the way for capital.
5) we live during a time of violent censorship and genocide and anyone whose main priority is content warnings is stupid or a fascist sock puppet. but understanding this takes experience, because on paper it’s easy to present an ahistoric falsehood to naive people that starts with appeals to twee common sense and decency and slides into brutal sanitization of minority existence. interpretation of all standards gravitates toward the most powerful.
6) the tags i post for my stories are about desire, not shame. the secondary effect is that people can be like “nah i don’t wanna read about rape” and that’s great. but there’s a difference to me, in the spirit it is given. people should familiarize themselves with artists on a deeper level, not select them from a menu. it's important for artists to establish that they don't owe anyone anything.

Nameless Grub · 2y

cunt toward enemy chapter 4 cunt toward enemy chapter 4 ahhhhhhhhhhh
i love the idea that lazur is like some kind of sensory organ proxy living for rubicon
also that line "if you're not the terrorist you're just terrified" that hit me like a bomb!
i was reading and thinking damn lazur's just like me and i was scared for a moment thinking "am i getting old"
anyways, i love these two, the idea of a slow bomb and that image is now spinning in my head, please keep bringing more explosive men with issues to the world!!!

yessss “sensory organ proxy” exactly, it’s so beautiful 🤤

being inside the terror feels core to their dynamic, like they’re both good at what they do, sure, but that’s kind of the cop-out, as Lazur alludes to, something you can see on TV, and as we all know Cunt Toward Enemy is real life!
so I’m more interested in taking the familiar “we’re the best at something” and connecting it to the profound insecurity of how crippled he is. he’s not some Hannibal type with a hot body and professional veneer who could thrive in polite society even if destruction was removed from the equation. he used to be something like that, but now he’s vulnerable and flayed, the living embodiment of crossing the Rubicon. of course I think Rubicon is very hot, but you know what I mean…

Lazur has an echo of that, with his insecurity about aging. more than two people who are good at their jobs, they are two people who have severe, aching doubts about whether anyone would want them around if they weren’t doing their jobs.

as for getting old, everyone has old and young in them at the same time. each part protects the other in their own way.

i was like :D when i got this message, loved hearing what you liked about it. can’t wait for you to see what happens next, a notable development is coming soon…thanks for the letter! 💥

Nameless Grub · 2y

do you have compiled content warnings for your stories? i love them so so much and want to recommend to others but am wary about attempting to describe warnings lest i project a concept into/onto them that was not intended...!

thank you!! well that’s thoughtful of you, um, i don't have any official content warnings because i don't believe in them. but i think as a person you can tell a friend if you think they’d be fucked up by something.
the closest i can think of is, i saw people making (subjective) content warnings on storygraph for my books. and on my codex page you can find tags for some of my more popular stories but they’re just lists of good stuff in each book. but supposedly there’s an overlap with whatever content warnings are.
if it’s serious weakness, that’s easy, the content warning is “everything”.
as for concept, i just want people to have fun and get whatever they want out of it.
thanks for telling people about my stories <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

my existential outlook that the universe is strictly physicalist and deterministic causes me emotional distress, but i fear i will become even more insane and unstable if i abandon my nihilistic fetishization of rationality. is there a way to embrace a spiritual or esoteric outlook without becoming untethered?

I understand. I can be a similar way, I’m very practical and that can lead to despair when it sucks the possibility from reality, because I’m incapable of deriving comfort from weak theories and cult spiritualities. But hyper-rationality can be another form of learned helplessness. Chaos will always be more creative than what we imagine in our heads. If rationality is cruel, take heart in the fact that we can never be truly rational.
If you know nothing is out there, maybe look the other way, at something in miniature. At the end of the day, all people need is something to fixate on. There are people whose entire existence is supported by wanting to fuck airplanes and that’s beautiful. We are little animals, why should we need the dimensions that empires reserve for their mythologizing?
As for me, my stories take the role of spirituality, and when I give them I am giving a prayer, made with two hands, just as a prayer is made. And I believe in love, no matter what. Love can disappoint and fall apart, but life is nothing without the pursuit of it, and that is all that matters to me.

Nameless Grub · 2y

what do you think about movies? do you have any favorites? and would you ever make one? ps. love your work <3

in the time since i got this i made a page to answer the 1st part and yeah I'd love to make a movie if I had the resources, although I'm more comfortable with animation than live action when it comes to my characters. I write like I’m directing a movie, a lot of my games/stories were made with cinematic techniques and inspired more by movies than books. I think in lenses, frames, color grading, but it’s important to use the introspective capacity of text as well or it becomes too literal. thank you <333

Nameless Grub · 2y

i also appreciate trianon using a dozen words to call the art vandal retarded, then trying to tell insul retard is a Bad Word. it really displays like, how the word retard and retarded people are treated as well as insul- flat and direct, trianon- appears functional and normal but is actually a bunch of convoluted indirect workarounds to hide his true (retard) self. also that trianon can stand up for political correctness (unnecessary but facilitates polite society + repression + continuing The Way Things Are) better than for himself (necessary, facilitates personal autonomy and is more anarchistic)

yeahhhh exactly. calling people a retard/faggot is baked into THE ENTIRE WORLD and when you understand that, passive aggressive liberal ways of speaking are more infuriating than any slur. a slur is the naked reality, the scar left by a wound they want to pretend they didn't give, the admission that EVERYONE thinks like that, no matter what they believe. when i talk about myself a certain way, i'm signalling awareness of what people are really thinking, and the people who hate that are the ones most invested in enslaving others, and they DON'T KNOW HOW TO CUM GOOD

Nameless Grub · 2y

i am looking at my scars and i want to write them down. how do you do that. how do you express the hurt in world windows. i really admire the way you do it and im trying to figure out the way i do it. and does it get easier

for me it was finding a way that gave me pleasure. a mere recital of my pain doesn't help, why should i suffer twice? i wrap my experiences in other worlds full of colors where characters can grow in unpredictable ways, so it can be more than just the hurt. composting into flowers.
anything gets easier the more you do it, the more you understand what you’re looking to get out of it. when pain is fresh, it’s uncontrollable, it takes time to anneal. good luck 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

omgggg i am the same person who sent in that last ask abt serious weakness for girls :'-] it Is a matter of cost and i would love to take you up on yr offer but bc i am not verified i cannot DM you on here... would you mind terribly if i DMed you on tumblr instead? (i'm extremely flattered and grateful that you offered in the first place! not every day you get that from one of your favorite authors)

my DMs are enabled for everyone but maybe they're blocking shit secretly. tumblr/email/any of my profiles is fine 🐛👍

Nameless Grub · 2y

i keep rereading serious weakness for girls simply bc i do not yet have access to the novella but i gotta say. i need more genderbends in this vein. not arbitrary shit but in a way that actually examines how the pressure of being (expected to be) one gender or another would change the base character at heart. the way you used it to illuminate aspects of the characters that they would lack were the gender reversed is just. i've never seen anyone do that in a way that actually considers the implications and intersectionality of that before. and tria hit very close to home for me. smth abt the way failing to live up to social pressures of what a girl should be even by a small margin will make you all but inhuman in the eyes of others. thank you for her.

i’m so pleased that it worked for you 💜 passacaglia is a beautiful opportunity. everyone is suffering meat below the surface, there are fewer differences than people think, but it’s interesting to consider the type of tryhard girl retard tria would be, and the forms of consumption and violence their universe would revolve around, the hidden fantasy life of that kind of girl and what it looks like when torn open, speedrun.
if it’s a matter of cost, message me and i’ll send you an itchio copy. it’s your human right to read about someone not having human rights

Nameless Grub · 2y

i was having a really terrible time today but then i saw that cte ch3 was out, reading it felt like eating for the first time in three days. ur work is the only art that i know of that can make me feel seen. there’s no shying away from the terriblest parts of life and living. also i’m trans but not at all out to my family bc they think it’s wrong/evil and knowing that you exist makes me think that’s there’s a future somewhere out there that i just can’t see because i hate myself too much right now. ty for being coolest grossest artist 🪱🪱🪱🪱

p.s. i can’t believe someone asked you abt mgs2 AS you were writing it into ur story that’s sooo mysterious n crazy?? no clue yet if i wanna be raiden or fuck him either way that psm endpage is so fucking good….

BOMB FOOD BOMB FOOD

thank you, that’s incredibly kind of you to say. this is why people should make whatever art they want because somewhere out there your deranged terrorism yaoi is someone’s favorite thing...

sorry you have to be around that kind of hate, my family was the same. no reason to come out to people unless it benefits you somehow. good luck finding your futures, i believe! <3

yeah that comic is so wild like…it’s making fun of him but the artist drew him SO HOT like the most dick suckingly raiden you can imagine...

Nameless Grub · 2y

Love hiding under my blanket and reading your stuff in my comfy zone I got a little book light and my weird Linux tablet and I could exist in there forever...

that's so sweet, happy it can be a little refuge. hiding and reading is the best... 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

What hot sauces do you like? I like loading my popcorn up with tapatio and nutritional yeast

i love hot sauce. it's such a beautiful, stimulating fluid, with so many variations. as a standby i like green cholula and melinda’s ghost pepper but most hot sauces are great as an ingredient–i make these real yummy spicy vinaigrettes and biscuits (my drop biscuit recipe = mix in vadouvan, oregano, any savory spices when mixing dry ingredients, then drip ghost pepper sauce when adding milk) but nearly anything can be improved by mixing hot sauce in, and painfully blunt sauces become beautifully tempered when mixed into a dish.
We also have ghost pepper salt. nutritional yeast in popcorn is really good yeah we always put a bunch on.

Nameless Grub · 2y

your writing inspired me so fckin much a few years ago and i didnt know you changed names or w/e but i am so so so happy to find you again and already youre making me to write again after i got super burnt out in college. thank you for everything you do

💜 its nice to check in on an artist and see how they're growing, it can be a continuity for one's own life as well. i didn't change names, but i'm not really attached to any particular identity, i go by whatever. and i give the best names to my characters anyways. thanks for writing such a sweet little letter and good luck with your writing!

Nameless Grub · 2y

i really hope my Chicken Run ask didn't come across as making fun of you/saying the movie is bad. i enjoyed it a bunch when i watched it as a kid, and i'm happy it brings you joy too :) i just, somehow would've never in a million years pegged it as One Of Porpentine Charity Heartscape's Favourite Movies, so seeing it on your list was a very funny blindsiding moment haha. you're full of surprises!! 🦎🦎🐓🦎

not at all, i took it as a compliment. i can see my history of war crimes would lead to this being a "fun little surprise" but mass murderers are just like everyone else...we love to see that chicken run for its goddamn life

Nameless Grub · 2y

What's kind of snacks do you like

popcorn with hot sauce and vinegar salt and cheese grated on top. or a nice kanzi apple.

Nameless Grub · 2y

hi!! i love your work. i especially love Sick Forever and Low Kill Shelter and i’m starting Serious Weakness. weird question, but do you know the tumblr blog evilvillain123456789? i’d like to know what you think about it, especially the posts that get long and hyper specific

thank youuuuuu yes i love that blog, the main reason i even check that site. their mastery of tone and zeitgeist special sauce is v good

Nameless Grub · 2y

heard about serious weakness like a week ago and instantly binged it it kicks ass. won't get out of my head. i wish i was trianon

thanks pal i sure appreciate you saying that :D i think we all have a little trianon in us!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

is there a trope or fictional idea you think cannot ever be done well? if so, what?

Nameless Grub · 2y

im trapped in an abusive parents situation and your stories are part of the lifeline im using to bring myself home. i read serious weakness in three days while living in an attic after running away for the first time. thank you for creating the things you do. they have/do/will leave marks on my soul.

this was really emotional to read, thank you ;;;;
i ran away when i was living with abusive parents
i remember waiting for morning and the hyper-dry wind blowing in from the desert made me itch all over and i felt extremely fucking bad. art was the only thing i could find that said there was any kind of world/s outside hell. honored my little stories could be part of that for you or that the marks from back then could fit someone else’s marks decades later.
never stop trying to find the safety you need.
💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Chicken Run, as in the claymation film starring mel gibson??? that's a wild pull ahahahaha, i love it

Nameless Grub · 2y

hi !!!! BIGGGGG fan of ur work. feels like the first thing that i can truly induldge and fester in in a long time, BUT have you played the game signalis? would be interested to hear thoughts on it !

its nice to find a putrid primordial slurry to evolve to the next stage in. thank you! :D
Signalis is cool i played it but haven’t beaten it. The ones in it are cute, i like the character design with her pointy legs they’re like bugs and she should hang out with marina from mischief makers because they have similar legs

Nameless Grub · 2y

it makes me indescribably happy to see pyre on your list of favorite games! could you elaborate on what draws you to it?

Pyre feels underrated, I think it's the best game they made next to Hades. Lush art, beautiful colors, the UI is creamy nice to read inside, and the character designs are so good!!
People who got turned off by the unusual gameplay are cowards; sports is better than combat because it can follow a different logic and be fought for different stakes. The setting reminds me of the Exile series, which I liked a lot as a kid. Choosing who goes up and who stays is a way more interesting granular choice than deciding between Ending A / B / C like a generic visual novel.
Hades is a gorgeous game too but so carpal tunnely and it commits the error of many roguelites where runs are unnecessarily long. It should be 50% the current length and bosses should take 30 seconds max to kill or be killed by. They should also show explicit anal and stop pussyfooting around.
Anyways, glad you like it too! 🔥🐛

Nameless Grub · 2y

what are some movies you've really enjoyed?

Nameless Grub · 2y

serious weakness was partially instrumental in making me realize that i still like boys and still have a boy in me sometimes, as well as making me remember my great and terrible desire to write great and terrible things, which is now stronger than ever. thanks charity

that's so beautiful, i smiled real big. having multiple ones in us can make better for living
because there’s less that can’t be lived
good luck with writing and thanks for this letter 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

the girl version of serious weakness is really cool! seeing the variations from the original was neat, and it's really interesting how different tria and insul's dynamic ends up being. how'd you decide what to change?

-it was a really fun puzzle, like I was writing fanfic of my own book. extrapolating from existing details and filling in the blanks, then creating a symbolic mirror of it.
-because the original novel did all the heavy lifting I got to make it 100% “fun stuff”
-my favorite scenes are with the tampon and “noisy fucking vagina”. so fucking mean. also the gacha as a means of financial control felt like the perfect damnation for that kind of girl.
-Poison…a Woman’s Weapon Ha Ha Ha
-I thought about what would be hottest from their new perspective, how their relation with power would be different. but i wanted to avoid any kind of essentialism, any easy readings about gender, same as with the original.
-thank you, glad you enjoyed this little trip into GIRL HELL 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

hello! how many words long is serious weakness? thanks! :)

Nameless Grub · 2y

i love psycho nymph exile! i love vellus and isidol! gwub gwub!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Will Cunt Toward Enemy become a full-length novel? And either way will you print physical copies? And is it set in the same universe as Serious Weakness?

it'll be a juicy novella, probably 2x as long as low kill shelter based on what I have so far. there will be a paperback. the world is on the same strata as serious weakness.

Nameless Grub · 2y

Serious Weakness has a mysteriously grounding and centering quality, like I can be in the noisiest room and reading a couple pages will help me feel more myself or down to earth. Do you have any “centering” type media that you can read anywhere to feel Present? Not sure if that makes sense. Hope you are having an awesome day!!

that's so nice 🍃 I understand, being in the eye of the bloodstorm can be calming. I seek out tense, violent, claustrophobic media, usually movies, to feel at my proper pressure. But to intentionally ground myself I look at porn, or listen to electronica songs with interweaving ambiguous vocals or strong beautiful noise that preferably build up over a period of time. Some examples:
Always Loved A Film and Diamond Jigsaw by Underworld
Tell Me Your Secret and Tear in Abyss by Death’s Dynamic Shroud
Don't Cry Mamii (To the Sky) by Bvdub
Make Make 2 by Paper Tiger
Sweet Love for Planet Earth by Fuck Buttons

As for reading, when I was a kid I would walk around with a book just to get from place to place without being overwhelmed, and I think I was pretty omnivorous about it. But a few stick out, like Lolita or Book of the New Sun, where the writing is both inviting and dense, a place you can get lost in, opening at random pages, finding new permutations each time. I’d like my books to have parts that feel like that. Thank you for writing, it brings me serene pleasure that Serious Weakness could be comforting for you.

Nameless Grub · 2y

have you ever played mgs2? its a prime twink abuse story

i haven't played it but raiden is hot as fuck i want to remove all his fucking organs ummm. there's a part in the next Cunt Toward Enemy episode that mentions him, maybe you will enjoy it...

Nameless Grub · 2y

What does the title "Cunt Toward Enemy" mean?

Front Toward Enemy is written on claymore mines so you know which way to point them.

Nameless Grub · 2y

how have you used scrivener in the past? do you use it to outline your games as well? <3

got a similar question around the same time: https://retrospring.net/@charity/a/110676236928629670

Main thing is just having a place to nest and order text, which so few writing programs do. I use it for games too, yeah. <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

Annoyin nerd alert: do u use any of.those writin softwares or tools/strategies u can advice to a schizo writer strugglin to organize :3

Obsidian and/or Scrivener.
Obsidian is free, and good if you like to customize the shit out of your software. I have mine set to sync between my phone and desktop so I can remove ideas from my brain queue wherever I am, otherwise I get jittery!
Scrivener is $ but optimized for writing. The key is being able to organize and nest scenes. You can also accomplish a lot of similar stuff with Obsidian.
The best advice I can give is have a place where you can store words in containers. Multiple notes/lists for categories of ideas that can trickle into stories. Think of it like a kitchen. You have food storage, prep areas, plating. Ideas are stored, then they get combined and processed, then they get served.
I always struggled with organization, I feel you. Having an external tool that does shit my brain can't was invaluable. Hope this helps!

Nameless Grub · 2y

HRLP charity i am literally at the point of searching twitter for cunt toward enemy art/discussion/whatever (almost as dangerous as bomb defusal)... i am chewing the walls..... pls i need more

i'm sooo close to being done with episode 3 xD my body disintegrated again which delayed it, but hopefully i'm getting better. the new episode has a lot of vignettes that build the world out...and a little twist! i'm excited for you to read. thank you for being radicalized by yaoi terrorism! 💣

Nameless Grub · 2y

i find the way you depict characters in, for lack of a better term, "extreme states of consciousness" so very vivid and chilling! when everything, inside and outside, feels so fucking loud and bright... how do you find your way out? sorry and thanks for everything

Thank you <3
Writing the characters is how I find my way out :D
The story is where I am comfortable, and “out” is what I struggle with.
Extreme states of consciousness are the main thing I’ve experienced my whole life. In the story I can see them clearly and detonate them.
But I can also “simulate” a story too hard and run it in my head all the time and burn too hot, then I have to shut off. So I try to avoid intensity until I can catch up on sleep and food. Basic animal things are the way back. Silence, incubation. Thanks for writing!

Nameless Grub · 2y

were the parallels between the desert house and the penthouse intentional, or were they something you only noticed in retrospect? in general, how strictly plotted out and outlined was serious weakness?

cheers! keep up the good work. :)

I write and the hidden patterns become visible. If someone writes passionately then beautiful symbolic arrays and palettes arise naturally, and it's really interesting to go back and see the structure that happened automatically like a stupid little insect that weaves an immaculate web.

I had a few notes for the basic skeleton of the plot that would fit on a napkin, but I mostly improvised each chapter every week, or a batch of chapters if I saw that far ahead. Too much omniscience can drain the energy from writing. It was like…an ellipses, each dot a period in time, three pits, three containers for whatever they become.

Thank you 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

I think I'll be untangling my thoughts and feelings about Serious Weakness for a long long time but I loved it so much, thanks for making the words all good and fun to read! xo

thanks for getting tied up in a knot about it 💜 that's my secret...good words only! yeah reading is fun!!! xD

Nameless Grub · 2y

i appreciate the anal sadism in ur work cause its probly the primary trauma i've experienced in my life and i havent seen a Lot of ass rape media but of what i Have seen urs is the only that really describes the multifaceted psychological violation and how severe of a dissociative shutdown it causes, as well as the poop/uncleanliness. being vaginal raped is like, Bad, so is oral and any other assault, but anal is the worst- beyond physical pain and damage- its like a violation of deep instinct lizard brain "exit only hole" + "this isnt a sex hole" and the gross/uncleanliness aspect, and other things i cant see yet, on top of regular rape trauma. it all magnifies and sharpens the penetrating violation of a personal, hidden, vulnerable, intimate thing, the closest form of physical intimacy hit with a burning icepick. trianon saying "i'm not clean" its ridiculous- i'm an unprepared victim- but my brain goes to "oh no im gonna poop theyll think im gross :(" and it made me laugh, progress. when you said you were inspired by killing stalking but "more realistic anal" i was like oooohhh its gonna be terrible its gonna be great its gonna be terrible its gonna be great, and it was :) healing, like shards of glass laid flat in my brain so i can seal them up. trauma brain stained glass facilitated by Porp Corp™

“i appreciate the anal sadism in ur work” is one of the best things someone could ever say about my art, my soul just leveled up 😭

Yeah exactly. It’s so intense to share even with someone you love, so like. Yeah. It’s circuit rewriting. It's like the destruction of the right to have secrets. I’m sorry those things happened to you ;;. It’s hard to find real shit about the digestive tract, it’s often treated as a joke or a generic magic hole when in reality the entire human experience is wrapped tightly around it in infinite complexity and beauty and terror. An incomplete image hurts worse than none. There’s no excuse, people can stick their finger up their own ass if they wanna find out!

I’m so happy it worked for you. Thanks for this anal sadism review, it means so much to me, the shitstine chapel! 💜💜💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

I think about your gorilla knife old man story all the time...first of all the title..."why have you not yet gone to war" makes me feel so many things. I still don't think I understand it. Is it about ritual? Inevitability? I don't really want an answer, I guess, but I just want to tell you that you made a story that shook me the way the gorilla shook the sidewalk and it Moved something in me. Thank you for that.

titles are one of the most important parts of making a thing for me. it's not done until the seals are perfect. as for the story, it came from a dream i had. there is nothing to understand, only feel. the feelings you had are what it is. thanks for reading and telling how you felt about it 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

what animals r ever and brava ?

they are mostly just Creatures but Ever has some bat and Brava has some dingo. Rafflesia is drain fly 8)

Nameless Grub · 2y

after serious weakness i will never look at the letter X the same way. thx <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

i wish serious weakness were a movie so i could make a trailer for it that makes it look like a buddy comedy road movie like how someone made one for the shining where it's a family comedy

SW is the perfect book to make a comedy cut with since there's so many goofy parts, lol.
"can i get 20 salads" record scratch
heartwarming road trip romcom event of the year!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

i'm so sorry that this is long, i just have... so many feelings that i want you to know you've made me feel. warning to anyone reading this that there are major SW spoilers ahead.

i've had a hard time reading for years on account of adhd and general brain damaging mental illness but i just finished serious weakness in a day and i could write an entire essay about my feelings about it. i spewed on twitter and all over my bf's dms all this shit i need to go and condense into something edible but man. first of all, thank you for writing. not just this book, just in general. i've been a fan since wtwla and howling dogs, and i haven't been able to keep up with everything, but the moment i heard serious weakness was mlm i felt insane, because i'd been craving some kind of gay content that hit me in a spot i rarely feel like mlm content really does for me as a transboy. and then i read serious weakness expecting to get punched in the stomach, and i did. i knew it would, because you're one of the few writers that makes me feel things that make me feel seen.

but the fascinating thing about it wasn't in the way i expected. i thought, there was no way either of these two fucked up twinks are gonna make it out of this book alive because the world punishes outliers and weakness and these boys were so hurt and both so weak and autistic to hell and back.

but then, it didn't happen. i kept waiting for the shoe to drop and it didn't.
and then it exposed a huge flaw in my logic. that the thesis wasn’t about pain and punishment and tragedy. its not, i was just projecting that shit because that's what i believed about the world. no room for weakness. no room for softness. crush crush crush it down until there is nothing left of the little soul that resides in you. turn it into something hard, useful, strong, or terrifying. so no one does it to you ever again. or you die. or you cling to it, struggling, barely able to catch your breath.

and then i think that's when it hit me, that the world already punished them enough. just for existing. actually, first, i came to write a comment to you halfway through the book, and it was something about how much i loved insul and how pathetic and sorry and terrible he is, which he is, but i felt this need to justify my attachment because he is inexcusably a bad person. but that's the thing. i don't need to justify it. i don't need to perpetuate the violence. i don't need to add a disclaimer like: i do not condone his actions. the things that caused him to become a terrible person was the direct result of a violence against him. to condemn him for it, even if it's deserved, justified... no. the world already punished him. it's not my job to continue its work. "i don't have to make things line up."

and it's funny that at first i thought i related more to insul until i finished the book, had a big think about it, and realized i really am trianon. in the same way trianon found that evil, ugly thing inside him that was already there. it was like a mirror reflecting another mirror reflecting an image. i thought i was reflecting insul. but i wasn't. i'm horribly tiny and weak irl, and i felt the clinging pain trianon did, feeling so weak and helpless and small, wanting someone to take care of me, love me, even in such a brutal way. and i loved (read: felt insane) seeing insul become sad and pathetic and scared of trianon with the drill gun, even weaker than trianon. i didn't realize i was echoing his feelings so deeply because i was so engrossed in the puzzle that is insul. but the thing is. insul is simple. he is a hurt animal that lashes out because otherwise he's defenseless. it's trianon who's really the puzzle, with the ruin hidden under layers of pretty paint. small, weak, horrible, real. i just thought i wasn't like him because trianon clung more desperately to the idea of normalcy than me. insul felt like a knife of truth.

i'm sorry if this is wildly off mark and i'm projecting too much onto your work. it just hit the kind of dynamic i love in exactly the right spot, the right way. i felt like it reminded me that the world is fucked up & so are we, and the good thing is that we can be fucked up, hurt, messy creatures together. not alone. ❌

i've had a hard time reading for years on account of adhd and general brain damaging mental illness but i just finished serious weakness in a day...i knew it would, because you're one of the few writers that makes me feel things that make me feel seen.

Sounds like a crazy nice feeling, to be into an artist and then they come out with something you’re craving…like your favorite restaurant started serving <insert drug of choice> for dessert or something.
I wrote it because I love twisted m/m but couldn’t find enough shit that was hitting for me, glad it could help you too. When I read something and the characters are firmly Men or Women it can be alienating, as opposed to their gender being a container for wounds, inversions, animals, possessions, the whole spectrum.

but the fascinating thing about it wasn't in the way i expected. i thought, there was no way either of these two fucked up twinks are gonna make it out of this book alive...the world already punished him. it's not my job to continue its work. "i don't have to make things line up."

Yeah…making things line up only works out for the machine, the apparatus, humans never benefit, no matter how “innocent” they are. People can’t survive unless they receive things they don’t deserve. People incapable of working still need food. Without some kind of grace, something irrational and free, reality becomes ugly and colorless.
There were times I got things I didn’t deserve, at the lowest points of my life, but they got me to a place where I could become some kind of person. I just don’t believe you can create a human being by rewarding them if they're successful, and feeding them shit if they're broken. Otherwise the winners keep winning and the losers keep losing.
In Serious Weakness, it’s not an argument for people fucking themselves over with abusive relationships. It’s about two people who were already losing.

and it's funny that at first i thought i related more to insul until i finished the book, had a big think about it, and realized i really am trianon...it's trianon who's really the puzzle, with the ruin hidden under layers of pretty paint. small, weak, horrible, real. i just thought i wasn't like him because trianon clung more desperately to the idea of normalcy than me. insul felt like a knife of truth.

Yes. I kept Insul a cipher for a lot of the book because that’s how he is, a black box, and it creates tension to keep the most dangerous characters unpredictable. But underneath it, he’s direct, and Trianon was tangled into a knot, the way people can get if they’re very sensitive but they repress it for a long time, their incredible creative capacity used solely to imprison themselves. And like you say, Insul is the knife.
When I write something, it tends to have a dominant emotion that I explore. This may come as a shocking revelation, but Serious Weakness is about weakness, and the shadow of weakness, the dark mirror, what it means to be too strong or too weak, without equilibrium, without love. When one is very alone, people compensate in extreme ways, hardened or exposed.
It's also about being very horney, and weakness and strength are molecular components of horniness.

i'm sorry if this is wildly off mark and i'm projecting too much onto your work. it just hit the kind of dynamic i love in exactly the right spot, the right way. i felt like it reminded me that the world is fucked up & so are we, and the good thing is that we can be fucked up, hurt, messy creatures together. not alone. ❌

Yeah we’re just lil guys trying our best! Thank you for writing this juicy letter, it was so nice to read, and such a beautiful reward for making a thing, that you would think about the boys and all the feelings of it. ❌💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

how do you avoid creating a "cult of personality"? if i ever Be Online i will be another Traumatized Weird Tran Making Art About It which tends to gather obsessive fans who can get uncomfortably intense about it and i'd have no idea how to handle it. you seem to do it well and in a way that you have an explicit personal ruleset for it

Fans can be a big source of support but you can't show weakness, you have to keep them in line. There has to be a barrier between you and the world. Most people are very sweet and then there's a tiny percent who want to wear your skin. It’s better to have a smaller audience that is really into your shit than a bigger but unstable audience. Like it’s easy to get another 10k followers if you post annoying hot takes but that shit evaporates as soon as someone makes a fake screencap about you or you get run over by sockpuppets. It’s a fickle audience that cycles through interchangeable people.

My rule is I don’t promise a schedule or anything, I release on my own time and people can choose how they want to support that. There’s an expectation among some artists of posting every day to please the algorithm and Retain Followers, but I can’t do that so I don’t try. Build your foundation around what you are physically capable of doing and still having fun. I barely posted anything on my patreon for three years then I dropped some shit that became people’s favorite book. People need space to make their best work so it’s about setting expectations. If you’re thinking about what other people want, you freeze up and can’t do your best work. Treat the internet like a toilet. Relax, excrete, and then on appropriate occasions, guzzle piss with someone.

Nameless Grub · 2y

lazur and rubicon......mmmmmm....so tense, so tasty, so pervasive in one another's existence. really invested in their relationship! love your work!

thank you :D it's a lot of fun for me, i can't wait for people to see where it goes. i think you'll like the next scene i'm writing, it's very...pervasive. thanks for investing in the Bomb's Love terrorism fund 💣💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

are there any anime that have really inspired you? or like any that functioned as one of your Formative Texts TM when you were younger? i hope you’re having a generous and comfortably humid day in your terrarium 😋😋

The terrarium is good thank you!! 🦎🐍🦟

EARLY CHILDHOOD
-Seeing the Digimon Emperor arc as a chuuni 10 or 11 year old
-Seeing the Fox Kids English version of the Escaflowne intro theme song but never getting to watch it
-Saw Card Captor Sakura at someone’s house and jerked off to violent fantasies of Sakura’s older brother
-Read Gunsmith Cats at a comic shop. Girls and violence what’s better than that!!

LATER
Mind Game by Masaaki Yuasa was my favorite anime movie for awhile. Love Susumu Hirasawa soundtracks (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Berserk). Dorohedoro and Golden Boy have to be two of the greatest ever.

Nameless Grub · 2y

how do i make friends with people who like your work? is there a porpentine reading group where we can all sit around making horny noises and friends with each other? a discord? i dont have an online presence or know much about internet but if i figured out how to create something like this would it have your blessing or be uncomfortably fannish? 📚🐛🐛🐛

I try to avoid creating a cult of personality, which is why I don’t make a discord/forum. Ritual is the husk of faith and all that.
But I know how much it sucks to read something you love and not have anyone to talk to about it. Book clubbing can be fun if it has a start and end goal. The important thing is making friends in the first place. It can’t be based around a single interest, it has to naturally arise. Good luck!

Nameless Grub · 2y

not a question but you inspired me to try my hand at fiction after a decade of poetry and i am deeply grateful for your generosity in sharing your work with the world

No generosity, it’s a mutual exchange. Having people read my work makes me happy. 💜 Good luck with fiction, it's fun having characters to fuck with. Poetry is good experience, the art of making an individual sentence bang.

Nameless Grub · 2y

i've read & loved your work for like 6 years & its very funny & embarrassing to me that only after reading serious weakness did i finally realise im trans. felt important to let you know this in case you want to put on the cover of future editions that its forcibly transed at least 1 person.

(separately i also really enjoyed reading it & couldn't put it down, i read the whole thing in a bit over a day......i have this hazy gut feeling that it's at least partly about figuring out how to live with hideous & unbearable things, both external & inside oneself)

i continue to love all your work very much, no other writer has ever rewired my whole brain like you keep doing. hope u are very well xx

wow that's amazing. I wonder which way it transed you; I feel like Serious Weakness could lead in either direction or all of the above. In the blood of a twink, all futures are visible...
Yeah, figuring out how to live with the unlivable is definitely part of it. Extremophile yaoi…
Thank you for loving my work, neuroplasticity is a beautiful thing. A lot of media can be entertaining but not lead to a new place…when something does both it’s really intense.
I am well, thank you! XXYYXXYXYXZZYZYZYZ!!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

in love with your writing, it scratches my brain so good, read serious weakness in one sitting, keep thinking about it whenever the camper velourium tracks by coheed and cambria play. grabbed low kill shelter for the withdrawl and read it twice in one day, now i'm going through the blog and games. your work makes me want to create fearlessly, thank you so much for sharing it

i fucking love coheed, i listen to their albums all the time when i write--the baroque emotional texture and blend of styles fits how i feel about my stories. each part of the camper velourium has the sickest choruses. on the backend of forever...
thanks for fiending for my shit, i'll keep the supply coming 💜

MartyrousWitness · 2y

I loove ur games so much, thank yiu for existinggggg!

Nameless Grub · 2y

it's been a while since i've read serious weakness, but i think fondly of my time in trianon's head. it was a painful place to be, but a comfortable place to be. thank you for writing it ^-^

i'm glad it could be a comfy skull to hide in. sometimes a little pain is realer than safety that doesn't feel like anything. thanks for reading ^O^

Nameless Grub · 2y

Impossible, soul-crushing question: I just re-read Hot Allostatic Load, for probably the third time. People are saying things about me. How do I know whether they're telling the truth, or not? How do I go on living if I can't know whether I'm a monster or a victim? There's no chance you can give a useful answer to such an incomprehensible problem, but I'm desperate. Thank you. I'm sorry. I hope you're well.

It’s easy to feel like a monster if pain is hoarded as a weapon or an intangible, strategically shifting blob. The most entitled people usually win that battle. If they say a mistake can’t be rectified, what’s the point of being in each other’s sphere?

You don’t owe people anything if the punishment for a real or imagined crime is greater than the crime itself. There is no mistake that would be improved by your suffering. If people ask for suffering instead of growth, they are dangerous.

I don’t know your situation. People get cut out for all kinds of reasons. But if people are saying things about you instead of to you, they aren’t your friends, in the most practical, pragmatic sense. This isn’t a virtue judgment on either party. Good or bad is irrelevant. Everyone needs friends for the place they are in life or they won’t grow, even a damaged person, especially a damaged person.

The way shit is set up, most people are doomed to make a lot of mistakes. But sometimes those are the people with the most insight and the most empathy and they contain the possibility of becoming better friends than the people who had everything line up for them. What’s the point of someone who never fucked up?

Monster and victim are huge ugly curses pasted on our ordinary, small lives. You’re just a person like everyone else, and you need to live. With time you will gain perspective on what happened. If you need to improve yourself, do it. If you were exploited, you will learn to protect yourself. But most of all, you have to live.

Nameless Grub · 2y

will we ever see more of the sticky zeitgeist crew? i think the ending of the 3rd episode works but i’m still so invested in everyone in those games… bweppppp

Aw thanks for loving the girls 💜 We’ve all moved on to different projects but the INNOCENTverse continues here in other forms.

Yeah, the ending is so bittersweet…Devi’s song is perfect for it. I'm sure you can imagine a good adventure for them in the place of artifacts, and the happiness of their reunion.

Ultimately there wasn't enough support to make more episodes. I also needed time to get better at managing longterm projects, it took me years to get the housing/nutrition/medical stuff I needed to properly execute bigger work. I hope the next games/books in that universe will give satisfaction!

Nameless Grub · 2y

giving trianon cunt so we can ignore it and psychologically destroy him through his butthole anyways

Nameless Grub · 2y

i like the font on your blog so much i decided to use it when writing. good to increase the wriggly quality of words :)

Good taste!! The font is Avería, which means damage or failure in Spanish, and was made from many fonts averaged out. I first used it in my game Their Angelical Understanding, but as I redesigned my blog this year, I wanted it to be a luxurious place for people to read. I tried various boring but readable fonts, then I found an unusual thing about Avería, which is, normally a font with even a slight quirk is incredibly hard to read large amounts of text in—but Avería eludes that issue, it is readable but dreamlike, vaguely hallucinatory, unreal, and yes, wriggly, wormy. Not to mention fun, romantic, unique. Which makes it perfect for my FUN STORIES

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hello, what is your stance (if you have one) on Serious Weakness Paperback Cum Tributes? Asking for a friend

Nameless Grub · 2y

if insul and trianon wore a Single Gay Dangle Earring what would they each wear

they would never do ANYTHING gay. but trianon would wear whatever got forcibly stabbed through his lobe and made his stupid little head tilt lopsided and throw off his fragile autistic proprioception

Nameless Grub · 2y

how old is perfect tense meant to be?

Nameless Grub · 2y

Finished Serious Weakness yesterday. It feels like it's wedged in my head, the two boys clawed their way in. Can't remember the last time a fiction book ate at me this hard. Thank you so much for writing and sharing.

happy to share the boyworms that chewed through my amygdala!! thank you for reading 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Congratulations and thank you for writing an excellent novel. Serious Weakness spoke to something deep and repressed within me. It was simultaneously therapeutic and triggering to read. You have an insight into the human experience that, to me, is umatched.

thanks for entering the exposure therapy hell cage 💜 your words are very kind

Nameless Grub · 2y

love your stuff. everything feels so strange at first glance but then the longer i read/play the more it feels so much more real than everything else i have seen. and that normalisation? is that the right word? of violence, that i don't think i've seen elsewhere. feels so honest. your works are always so sincere. hurts in all the right ways. taught me to appreciate the icky things. to like the texture of things as much as their looks. thank you for putting this stuff out there. glad that i encountered you (or what part of you is in your work) despite the distances and coldness of the world. softens the void.

When I was very young, a lot of things seemed gross, especially because adults presented them as diseased and banal. But then I read materials that gave me more aesthetic versions of those things, and bodies and cum and faggotry became beautiful.
And yeah people treat violence as exceptional, shocking, when for a lot of people it’s very ordinary. Even in the absence of explicit violence, the radiation of it is everywhere, and it hurts to be told otherwise when one is sensitive. I never write something of any genre if I can’t find the reality in it. Fantasy, scifi, doesn’t matter, I can only enjoy it if it’s real.
So I’m happy these aesthetic blueprints or pressure depth cocktails could widen the aperture of bearable reality. Thank you for reading. 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

hello i've played a few of your games and now want to get into your writing but am not sure where to start. or should i just entrust myself to fate and wander the porpentine world and go with whatever comes my way?

also, hope you are having a good day/night

You have two options
1) I have a stupid thick back catalog so you can surrender to chaos. This is fun but unpredictable.
2) For my personal recommendation: Serious Weakness if you like torture/horror/romance. For something less heavy, Low Kill Shelter is horror romance but not as dark.
But I’m fond of anything I’ve written in the last couple years. The stories page on my site is good. I also have a story guide here with some tags and genres.

And thank you, I had a really good week. Sometimes I’m too sickly to respond to letters as soon as I’d like, but I appreciate them, and hope you enjoy what you find!

Nameless Grub · 2y

on the paperback version of serious weakness you mention it being revised and polished and deluxe, what extent of edits did you consider valid to go into another edition of an already-published book? i haven't read the 'non-deluxe' edition to compare lol

The paperback is the same as the digital version, I unified them shortly after. I don't think anyone who read it on release will need to re-read it, except for the bonus stories. When you’re really into a story, you slurp up sentences in big mouthfuls, you crack them open to find the meaning, to get to the soft bits that dissolve beyond any technical skill of the reader or writer.

There's probably a few new lines, but for the most part a final edit like this is barely noticeable to the reader, a back-end improvement that quietly enhances the luxury. Subtle strengthening in characterization, and the kind of chiseling where a 70% good sentence becomes 90% good, etc.

Nameless Grub · 2y

i smeared ketchup on my copy of low kill shelter and i feel like the spiritual twin to the coffee'd serious weakness

Nameless Grub · 2y

your website makes me feel like a tick being cleansed of lyme disease by sucking western fence lizard blood

Nameless Grub · 2y

as someone who is being slowly poisoned to death by the ~sff genre environment~. (honestly even the indie sff environment is usually not. so good.) how did you net your audience that will actually engage with your work on its own terms?

My friend was saying the other day how rare it is for someone to have a presence largely known for writing, because most well-known artists with ero elements in their work are visual artists. Text is very hard for people to do well in certain ways, it’s exposed and explicit and has thousands of tiny decisions that are invisible until you’ve written like a million words.

Pictures are infinitely complex too, but language is both a cornerstone of consciousness and treated like garbage, or, uh, water. People need water to live, but they pollute and waste it and don’t really understand until they’ve been hit by a riptide or water goes up their nose or a brain-eating amoeba is hidden in the tapwater they mindlessly swilled on the 9,126th day of their life.
My writing is a brain-eating amoeba. It comes from an impossible to bottle mutant meld of high and low influences from very specific but incredibly different times and places and when I die there will be nothing to replace that exact variant of spiritual pink text, just as anyone with obstinate nympho-autistic fetishistic sensibilities can’t be replaced.

The truth is, people know me for being me more than my writing or games or anything. I’m not a writer, I’m a Porpentine. And I will do whatever it takes to extrude what’s inside me, no matter what medium I have access to.

A lot of writers are shit because they network with awful people to get their stories on some website and included in some anthology because they Want To Be The Guy more than they want to write something unique, and they hedge their writing according to their grasp of the Overton window because they are scared of their audiences and they haven’t been nearly killed ten times in one life. They are scared, sheltered, and boring.

When writers are obsessed with being liked by the most people, their stories become replaceable. I don’t network, I just write. I write as a form of spiritual devotion.

Of course it’s easy to say, don’t be neurotic about “audience” or “engage”. Which is true, but people need validation to fucking live, and I’m lucky enough to have fans that are into it. I could just as easily have slipped through the cracks and died of malnutrition or lack of sunlight or something. But you have to start by putting your shit out there uncompromisingly. Even a shitty artist becomes known by being Completely Something, even if it’s drawing reddit memes narrated by a bowl of gruel or whatever. So shit it out and be lucky. You miss 100% of the world hell vortexes you don’t put your dick in.

Nameless Grub · 2y

oh and i also really like the typesetting? like i'm assuming it's printed by a generic print on demand service, since the typesetting is a bit... mechanical at parts, like with orphan lines that a Traditional Publisher would have employed someone to eliminate like 20 years ago. but i like the aesthetic that serious weakness has, like idt i've ever read a novel that literally starts on line 1 of page 1 of leaf 1, without a couple of pages of copyright notices and the like. like the only indication that the book is even From Anywhere is that the final page says "printed in poland by amazon fulfillment poland sp. z.o.o., wrocław". like the only other book i think i have that is equally silent about where it came from and what Corporation made it is a pocket new testament given to me by the gideons when i was 8, and even that has a table of contents and maps of the promised land and shit. so yeah idk what my point is, i just like its form.

yeah it's just the generic amzn POD, I sell directly to the people, no New York fancy cat Epstein crony regalia because you know what else a traditional publisher paid people to eliminate 20 years ago? this exact kind of book that risks leveling the faggots up until they can’t read the boring algayrithm gruel anymore. Pure male suffering samizdat straight from the European bastion of repressed homosexuality, Poland, the country with the worst gay rights in the EU. Thanks for appreciating this banned boy torture bible!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

not a question, just a comment. i picked up my serious weakness physical copy today from the robot and at first my plan was to set it aside and just admire the cover art until the summer and after i graduate, when i'd have time. but i ended up being really bored with youtube so i started reading. i knew nothing about the book except the praise it's gotten and the blurb on itchio. i just finished the third chapter and holy fuck, that was fast, and messed up, and i love it, and now i'm reading more by phoneflashlight and it's soon sunrise. not since necrophilia variations has a book grabbed me so.

it's kinda fun to get into something Purely on Vibes instead of having it all figured out ahead of time. love that it could grab you like that. proprietary yaoi cocaine shake n bake breading mix. 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

According to AO3, no one has ever written Serious Weakness fanfic (except for you, with Bullet Wives and Radiant Muscles 😋). Would you like it if someone did?

It has often been observed that most fandoms spring up around media with terrible writing but fun characters. My writing is so obsessively constructed and particular that it leaves fewer gaps, although my next novel + games will have a little more shipping potential, with larger casts of characters, visuals, juicier worldbuilding, etc.

Another reason is that I’m an underground artist and not widely marketed. Fan work thrives in spaces where everyone is saturated with the IP and has a common language for it. But being niche reinforces my first point: I’m able to be specific in ways that fanfic is usually called upon to fix.

Anyways, I love when people make fanart. I don’t always engage with all of it, but I’m always flattered when anyone feels that strongly about something I made. 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

do you know of anyone whose made fan art for serious weakness yet? do you have any descriptive tips for drawing them outside of the book? thank you <3

I've seen a few, would love more!

Trianon's myasthenic loss of jaw and eye control means you can melt that shit up. Insul is tall and relatively fit but he’s not jacked—his power is filtered through Trianon’s perception, dilating with relativity.

I see my characters as hot anime insects, I like dark stylized feminine things and angularity, but I think it’s on everyone to bring their best twink game according to the skills God has given them. The beauty of fanart is how many interpretations people have of the same subject. Thanks for thinking of the boys!

Nameless Grub · 2y

So okay if I don’t really get Serious Weakness, does that mean I haven’t suffered enough? I think it “worked” for me in some sense because I felt nauseated and I felt Trianon’s pain in a way that I think I can usually pull away from in other media. But this all seems in some way like a repudiation of what I got from works like howling dogs or With Those We Love Alive, where it seemed that love could take you out of oppression, whereas with Serious Weakness that’s not what I feel from it. It feels like this relationship with Insul is like taking the side of the oppressor, validating the violence done to them both. It feels like I’m not cool enough to understand.

When I was younger, I had the feeling of things being above my head. But that insecurity slows growth. Everyone is born and proceeds through time, and there’s no shame in not having a complete picture of things. People will try to give you a ready-made picture, tell you they’re saving time, but this costs the most time of all. All I can give is a few photography tips:

No one has to enjoy everything. Serious Weakness is a very specific book, because I’d rather give something sharp and true to a few people, than reach a wider audience with a story anyone could have written. The most oppressive thing I can think of would be to write a story like all the other stories where readers are entertained by evil faggots and then have them neatly punished at the end like balancing out an accounting book.

There is no such thing as morality, only aesthetic. All you can decide is whether it gives you aesthetic pleasure. The book can only darken or illuminate what is already there.

As for my other stories, I’m flattered you see the growth in my work. If I wrote the same story every time, that would be propaganda. I tell stories about different kinds of love, and love can’t be reduced to the scientific. Perhaps you are near the same age I was when I wrote those stories?

The ending has a very clear thesis that explicitly addresses all of this, but if there was any hint I could give you, it would be, what kind of society is so devoid of feeling, so numb and desolate, so insidiously corrosive to your very soul, that even violence is a kind of reprieve? How many people have jumped from a burning building, hanging everything on the faint luck of gravity, knowing fire consumes until nothing remains? What percent of the world is currently on fire?

People have to find ways to live.

But yknow, in the end, it’s just a book. Thanks for reading!

Nameless Grub · 2y

hi there, I just wanted to let you know I got my copy of perfect weakness which I was extremely stoked about however it has been dropped in a puddle of coffee! my edition now has a strong aroma and sticky texture which I hope will enhance the reading experience. what do you think?

there's a lot of caffeine and sticky textures in that book so I think you made the right call. you can also imagine someone shit themselves in fear on it. happy hunting pardner

Nameless Grub · 2y

Your work claws through some of the most grotesque, violating, intimate iterations of longing and connection and submission and vulnerability i've ever seen and relays the human (insect) condition in one of the most relatable, vivid ways to me. I just wanted to articulate a thank you, it means so much 2 me and I’m really excited to see more of what’s coming.

longing never ends, the claws never stop sharpening. it makes me happy to share these feelings, thank you 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Just wanna say that even if I should probably give more I really like just being able to give a dollar to you every month and plan to do so for the rest of my life. One of those little things that sustains existence. I might want to die sometimes but then who would pay the porpentithe

A comforting thought. The trickle of support has kept me alive a long time, and allowed me to make a lot of things that trad publishers don’t want people to read. Even during alienating times when it was difficult to connect to others, these little things have warmed me and made me feel welcome in this world. I’m glad it can be some delicate fraction of keeping both of us alive. 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

Ordered a physical copy of Serious Weakness for my wife because she's not very online and she loves your text games and Psycho Nymph Exile. It turned out she had a PDF copy from patreon but she had no idea there were physical copies available! It looks fantastic, I'm excited to read it once she's done~

your digital makes your physical wife's digital thing physical. i hope you both enjoy it!! 💜

dylan + co · 2y

Just ordered Serious Weakness (physical book- recieving it on Thursday!) and I am so stoked. Your writing is toxic slutch in the best way and this item looks like it will have an AT Field.

thanks pal, stoke that toxic illegal tire fire! yes the Agonized Twink field is crackling!! 🥳💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

just read honeydew toxicity event. you’re very good at capturing voice and tone. keep up the good work :)

Nameless Grub · 2y

what’s the deal with knee abrasion?

Nameless Grub · 2y

so excited about the physical release of serious weakness!! had to restrain my manic impulse to buy TEN copies (to place in little free libraries and disturb the peace) and walk it back to a more sensible three

thank you!! feels good to cap that shit off! haha yeah that would be an insanely toxic artifact amid the dull sepia chicken soup i see clogging those birdhouses up. or you could triple read...

Nameless Grub · 2y

i've hesitated a lot to say something like this, but...
i've been reading your work for years at this point, on and off (i think my first was "With Those We Love Alive" when I was like... 16, at the beginning of my own personal Gender Shit.), and ever since i was about that age I always saw you as this huge influence and everything. Like, in writing, in how I'd want to be as a person, in what I want the stuff I put out into the world to represent...

Ever since I started caring about my writing, around the time I was 18 or so, I've always kinda looked back and thought what you did that worked as well on me, what inspired me i guess, and... yknow, your work has just been a constant influence and I don't know what else I have to say but thank you.

like, i finally made my first little twine game last year, and... I really couldn't have done it without the impact your work had on me, then and now. So from the very bottom of my heart, thank you.

It’s amazing you’ve been following my shit for so long. At that age I was desperate to find anything that lit me on fire. More than 2x that time later, I still find new things that excite me, which I hope can be encouraging. Grateful to be part of the scaffolding for anyone.

Thank you for this message, and good luck with everything 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

What do you think is the right way to address the issue of trans women competing in women’s sports? (If you have an opinion about this).

That’s a great question, how are we going to preserve the sanctity of our institutionalized pedophilia, racist, biohazardous waste dumping, neighborhood-blighting, city-ruining, country-bankrupting, anorexia-causing, spine-snapping, age-falsifying, horse-electrocuting, hyper-corrupt, money-laundering, concussion-causing, human-weaponizing, nationalistic, legalized child slavery sports?

You know, the sports where 8 year old girls are injected with testosterone, or men are blasted with steroids until they grow massive tits? Where kids are raped and chemically experimented on and forced to do moves that could snap their neck if they fuck up once, so that for a narrow window of time they can earn shiny gold discs like a videogame to enhance the honor of their genocidal gang-states, then get discarded after their youth is squeezed from them by an industrial press?

You're cool with state-sponsored sex changes of prepubescent children, but any adult with dark skin or a fat clit who trains hard and shows up your favorite entitled Aryan female is tainting your sport? lmao...

To answer your question, ban all sports and put the money in a perpetual fund for transitions.

Nameless Grub · 2y

Have you ever read Yuureitou?

I started reading it on your recommendation and I'm on the second volume. I really enjoy the mix of investigation and horror, as well as the time period. Tetsuo is hot. I hope he fucks that crazy clock. Thanks for the tip!

Nameless Grub · 2y

hello!! i saw your work on display in the whitney museum years ago and i think that installation permanently fried my brain (in the best possible way- like i mean this as the highest form of compliment!!) your work is a huge inspiration to me and i haven't been able to stop thinking about it for years. thank u so much for the incredible art you make :]

thanks for crashing into the bug zapper! i really appreciate you saying that, love getting inside some heads. have a good one!

Nameless Grub · 2y

i'm grateful you and your art exist.

Nameless Grub · 2y

hello charity :) serious weakness rly moved me and i am currently working on a pet trianon/insul shipping playlist for funsies... so far it's mostly just deftones & NIN and i was wondering if you had any particular suggestions for music you think defines them. would love 2 hear your thoughts ^_^

That’s so sweet! I actually did make a Serious Weakness playlist; a combination of songs I associate with writing it + songs for angst/cringemaxxing into the high school headspace. Music was my guide through the entire thing.

I’m glad you're mapping them onto your own musical associations as well. Playlists are such a fun puzzle. Thanks for shipping the boys! 🎵

Nameless Grub · 2y

I'm trying to write fiction, but it seems like at a certain point I just sort of lose all forward momentum. It's like there's a sludge in my mind that drapes itself across any idea I come even close to fleshing out, and the idea of theme/structure/tone/etc seems impossible once I'm actually doing it. Do you have any advice on how to reduce the amount of mental sludge?

Also! I finished "Low Kill Shelter" the other day for the first time and loved it to absolute bits and pieces.

sludge is literally what it is. it took years for me to scrape the sludge out, and i'm still scraping. different layers have different sludge. i became clear at one point, in a certain type of story, then to tell different ones i had to scrape even deeper.

if a story doesn't work, i abort its ass and start a new one. only the strong survive. it's not enough to be interested in an idea, or have part of a good story. i breed my stories to be finished. it took years of failing to get better at this long game. but keep the old ideas around; some successful stories come from dead stories which need a different lens or maturation in style. hundreds of thousands of unreleased words, that's the sludge it took to get to this point. the rest you scrape in editing.

misc notes
-i keep lots of lists to clear my mind.
-do you need a shorter format? a different POV?
-sometimes a story is ruined by performance anxiety, academic thinking, over-structuring, and other Gordian neuroses.

and thank you! low kill shelter, the story of bits and pieces...heheh 🦷

Nameless Grub · 2y

I keep meeting people who profess hot allostatic atic load, who themselves practice treating lesser privileged queers as disposable, who engage in call-outs and cancel culture, but who still periodically share your essay to their followers, and idk what to make of it, I get nauseous watching the performative gesturing, what do you say to these people?

I don't think about it at all. Those aren’t real people. They are fetal contractions. I wrote a post 8 years ago, a list of true things, then moved on. That people still post it after so long only tells me the sympathy expressed in that essay toward subhumans is still rare to see in culture, especially in a way that isn’t trying to sell you something or get you to join another cult.

But I was always aware that truth will be instrumentalized. Truth is not enough. Which is why I rarely write anything like that and never repost it. I’m an entertainer. I like making people happy. And I want them to choose it freely, not because someone guilts them and tells them it’s Important.

If something makes you sick, why do you expose yourself? It is common for minorities to get sucked into isolated parts of the internet because they don’t think they can do better. But you probably can.

Nameless Grub · 2y

i want to write fiction, but i feel scared to do it. the amount of possibility scares me. looking at a blank page makes me feel like i've jumped into the middle of the open ocean. i'm intimidated by the fact that there is no right answer in creative pursuits, unlike with the STEM pursuits i'm accustomed to. a fear of being wrong borne from years of schooling is probably a part of it too. plus, the way my brain works, it's really hard for me to congeal ideas into words. do you have any advice for where to start? it feels amazing when i journal, so i want to try processing stuff through fiction as well. thank you, and keep being a legend <3

editing infinity is the cost of being a writer. you have to make a cut. then another cut. start at the level you are capable of, no matter what shape that takes, as if all of history did not exist, then keep following your obsessions. a lot of it might be fake shit. fake shit never stops coming out. if it's fake shit, keep cutting until it hits bone.

Nameless Grub · 2y

hey! somehow my first exposure to you was the article "hot allostatic load", and after (unrelated) foraging in the interactive fiction space and seeing ur name come up i made the connection :') hope you're doing better!!

i'm the forrest gump of stupid shit. a fine paste of cantharidin that people can't help rubbing into the genitals of the zeitgeist. i'm doing great thank you!! <3

Nameless Grub · 2y

i've been gradually working through the list of seriousweaknesscore media you recommended, and last night i read nii-chan by harada. it's the sort of story that shoots you full of holes and hangs you out to dry, even with the choppy english translation available. it struck me as sorts like killing stalking meets mysterious skin, and i was curious, have you watched that movie and if so, do you have any thoughts on it? i noticed you included another of araki's films (doom generation) on your list

Mmm, I love Nii-chan so much. That’s a pretty decent comparison. The beginning of Mysterious Skin is so good, the zoomed-in, ecstatic blur of being a kid hungry for adult validation long before you can really understand what you’re giving them. I love what a piece of shit Neil is as a kid. You’re my little green buddy…
And the lesions scene...really emotions...
My only criticism is the two main characters should have fucked. Nii-chan’s ending was beautiful the way something was created from nothing, which it has in common with Serious Weakness.

Nameless Grub · 2y

longtime lurker. you made me laugh on twitter (resonantly, happily) in a time when my soul retreated from my body and nothing touched me. Serious Weakness made me vicious and hungry for life. my boyfriend could not get down with the Weakness, and is tired of me grabbing him and whisper-singing "wormin and grubbin" while he struggles against the pin, but i am not tired of it and will not stop. thank you for sending these blessings out through the wires.

thank you 💜 feeling when nothing feels is always a relief. glad it could bring your appetite back. be good to your boyfriend, in whatever way that means to him

Nameless Grub · 2y

serious weakness is astounding shit, got right under my skin and is gonna stay there for a while. you've corycepsed the english language or something. i don't think a novel has ever made me lose sleep before this. i was inhabiting trianon throughout, fellow limp autistic artfag who contorts themselves to be normative and presentable and hold down a job despite feeling like an imposter loser past the event horizon of weird n fucked (or always already in the black hole) who can’t keep themselves together for too long without needing serious assistance. fucked up gay maso/sub feelings struck through with vertiginous terror. thank you

he's the everytrianon of our generation. thank you for this receipt of damage, and for losing sleep! here's to many years of gay terror 💜🤕

Nameless Grub · 2y

Ur stuff is an inspiration Charity. thanks for giving me hopefuel. I started making stuff on my own recently n doing moneys. I’m using Twitter but this place is kinda dying lol but I also like it it’s fun here like a rotting ship. I will never leave. Have a good day 🌻~

Good job doing moneys. Yeah the surface digiverse is super gentrified but it's where the audience is, gotta ride til it breaks. Have a good day to you too pal! 🌵

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hello! I am a representative of a small group at the University of California: Santa Barbara. We are doing a research project on the work of yours titled “All Your Time Tossed Selves”. We were wondering about the design process behind this specific piece of art. How did you come up with this? What was your thought process behind it? How did you choose Google Forms as a platform? Any information you can/are willing to give us is welcome. What does |||||||||||||||()||||||||||||||| mean? Thank you for your time.

Nameless Grub · 2y

what are hobbies that interest you but you haven't gotten a chance to try out?

i always wanted more time for music and drawing. but most of my artist friends do those exact things, so it's easier to finish a project by joining my writing/design/code skills to theirs. music is an obsession for me, there's def an alternate history where i made a shitload of albums on the same level as my fiction/game work. but time is a limited currency, so i dabble on the side and mostly just share with friends. thanks for asking!

Nameless Grub · 2y

online suggests there are such things as “empaths” and “narcissists” doing eternal spiritual battle. what do you think?

there are people who feel too much and get used, there are people who are selfish black holes, but if someone only sees things in terms of attacker/victim, it's harder to grow as a person, to understand that most relationships are messy entanglements that don't neatly fit into either box, and to know the inherent patheticness and fragility of all humans

Nameless Grub · 2y

I saw you Xenosaga posting earlier. Thoughts on Xenosaga????????? Albedo did nothing wrong

i never played it but I have the amazing power to scavenge like a disgusting fly and find the emotional shards trapped inside 1000 hours of jrpg hell and zero in on the hottest dynamics. Albedo is amazing. I love his sense of interior design. I love his scene as a kid where he fucking shoots himself and then is traumatized by the fact that his friends can't regenerate too and he'll be alone when they die. Which sets him up to apparently grow up to be an insanely predatory adult who hunts his childhood friend who is still a young adult. I don't know much about this "xenosaga" but it seems to me to be "xeno SO GAY"
RUBY-DOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Nameless Grub · 2y

Do you have a newsletter or the like? What's the best way to keep up with your work? Twitter, your blog, Insta, etc.? (Love your stuff, sorry if this question is redundant)

thank you <3
to keep up with my stuff: twitter is my main social, and i post updates on my blog: link
i only use the newsletter for major releases but you can find it here: link

Nameless Grub · 2y

fucking BASED legend of the 10 elemental masters enjoyer

With 467% magical accuracy, missing is extremely unlikely. I need to go to Hawaii though. 💜🔥❄🌊⚡🔄🗻🌬✨🌑🧪

Nameless Grub · 2y

what anime should i watch today?

Nameless Grub · 2y

i dunno how to phrase this exactly, but you're a huge gender inspiration to me. i used to feel pretty hopeless about my transness because i'm no good at traditional femininity, so encountering you & your work & an approach to transfemininity that's more about playing with gender and enjoying being a weird lil guy (female) rather than super rigidly being a conventional capital-W ""Woman"" was a revelation for me. (obviously i don't actually know you, so i'm really sorry if this is a total misread of your identity or comes off as backhanded or w/e. i mean it in the most admiring way possible <3

Yeah that kind of gender nationalism is joyless and neurotic and impossible, a sport for people without personality. the only point is having fun and fetishizing shit. because that's all the opposition is doing: fetishizing identity without the decency to derive a shred of warmth or comfort from it.
I don't id with "transfemininity" or anything, I'm a chimera morph of every gender and animal. No genders, only verbs. The only unifying characteristic is the inherent patheticness of all life. Everything else is propaganda.

But yeah, we're talking about the same thing in our own ways. It's nice to be seen and nice to know you got that from my stuff <3 I love that every varietal of guy or girl or w/e has seen themselves in my work at some point, I feel deep connection to all of them. I love scintillating off those facets, or holding hands where the meat splits.

Nameless Grub · 2y

my girlfriend keeps sending me your work since i told her i would let her do anything to me, i wonder what she means by this

Nameless Grub · 2y

I don’t know you, but your work is beautiful and I sincerely hope that you are doing ok. You deserve love from life.

💜 i am okay. there are hard times sometimes but people are good to me. and i'm happy with what i make. thank you for the wish 🐛🦇🦟

Nameless Grub · 2y

Do you ever get hate on your work? Or criticism? I'm just curious cuz I've only seen people say positive stuff abt your work. What do you think about the way people react to your work (in positive or negative sense)? Sorry if this is kind of vague, I can't think of a better way to put it into words.

it is weird, people are very nice about my work!

i've gotten a lot of bad messages mostly early in my career, but even the people who wanted to kill me seemed to struggle to find something bad to say about the work itself, which is nice.

and i have so many stories, there's something for everyone. fun for the whole family…

i also imagine people don't want to criticize niche work because it's more vulnerable or because you can take or leave it. it's clearly for 4D sickos. like a dog...it shits everywhere and bites but this is its nature...and this is mine

Nameless Grub · 2y

yo! i appreciate how you don't address where oenone is during radiant muscles. i think it's neat to leave some things unanswered. cheers!

spoilers

mmhm...there were a few intriguing angles I could have taken but I wanted to keep the focus on the main characters. it's important to let the reader dream. glad you enjoyed, thank you!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hi Charity Sorry for kind of long traumadump-ish ahead, you can ignore it-or reply if its interesting to you. I’m glad you seem to be doing well and I hope you continue to do well in the future. :o)

What advice do you have for a creature thats been completely ground to nothingdust by the indie-games rape machine, trying to look towards the future and find a niche in the capitalist engine to feed itself off of? It is somewhat interested in doing freelance indie (probably not games) but it is terrified of the interfacing that is similar to trauma. It is also scared of being ground up more by the rape engine. Or of trusting a clueless person then being betrayed and having its trust fed to the rape engine. It thought about going back to school to get a real job (or something like it) but is 50% unsure of its ability to survive school. It is also concerned about the morality of processing products of the torment nexus which a lot of the potential jobs it took could be, except in incredibly specific niches. It also kind of has some hang-ups about the path of becoming stable and wants to break itself forever because the pain is never enough to be taken seriously. But it doesn’t want to end up destroyed again because it placed all of its financial stability in a rape engine that found a method to murder a person twice. That’s all.

School is a debt scam where people are guaranteed fake jobs they will be fighting over at a 1000:1 ratio + get needlessly exposed to covid. Some people can make it work but you have to know exactly what you want to get out of it, need a very specific mentality to be fucked enough to survive it, need to run your own counter-scam, and probably amphetamines.

There are exceptions to everything, if you know the 4D clout-grant-resource game you want to run or find some kind of academic slip n slide then go for it. But being 50% sure sounds bad when it already eviscerates the people who are 200% sure.

A lot of indie / freelance stuff doesn't require a degree. You can learn anything off the internet.

Stability is the priority, abstract concerns are pointless in your state. Everyone has to find the shitty hustle that is the least shitty for them. Cynical on the workside so you can be soft on the playside.

Knowing other people is the main way non-rich people survive.

Good luck!

Nameless Grub · 2y

i have sent u schizo stuff while manic a couple times now and i wanna thank u for not posting that stuff and also apologise for sending it. idk idk. thanks for being cool.

no worries dude. it sucks when pattern recognition goes into overdrive. good luck with your stuff!

Nameless Grub · 2y

if there was an official serious weakness perfume, what would it smell like?

i love this question

i'd do two perfumes

Trianon "Drama Free Zone"

Open with lignin and a pinch of woodsy turpentine. Decayed paper and oil paint. Arch this dry sweetness into a surprisingly cloying coconut and phenylacetic acid combo. A feminine bathroom running over. Then we dry down with refreshing wet branches, the smell of grassy mud tracked in, the edge of a rainy forest. Formulated by Olympic Orchids. We take you from processed plant products into the real forest.

Insul "Bullet Wife"

Abrasive chemical opening, something cheap and blue and closer to body spray, then we give you the sweat and grime that body spray is covering up, you smell the copper, the tar, we transition with gasoline, benzene drying into a sweet, metallic Monster energy/antifreeze combo.

Nameless Grub · 2y

did you have any real-world bands/artists in mind when you were describing Dungeon Star's music?

Nameless Grub · 2y

i dont have a question, i just think the "ur a piece of shit" sibling and the "we can play the rpg game" sibling should kiss

Nameless Grub · 2y

what do i do when ive been writing a story, only to find out that it is You?

how do i get rid of you in my language?

Building from others is normal. It's how I started. If the amount is excessive, absorb other materials that have a strong enough mood to compete. Enough influences blended up = a unique voice, as long as you get your own bacteria in it. If you have someone else's freak in you, that means you have something pathetic and needy enough inside to make your own brew. So find that.

Nameless Grub · 2y

do u like the book diary of an oxygen thief?

Nameless Grub · 2y

Sometimes I find your work very frightening and difficult to read but it has immense spiritual value to me in a world that prohibits suffering (“these people who want everyone to have a good time”). My life is quite fearful and lonely but your writing and the example of your life give me hope. Thank you for all you do, hope your day is good. Here it is a clear dark blue night with stars but no moon.

I'm glad it's frightening and difficult. Not all suffering is spiritual, but I try to accomplish this with mine. The psycho nymph exile quote you picked is perfect too….

I'm sorry for your fearful and lonely life. Those things hurt so much. I hope you find tendrils outside of it. Thank you for the clear dark blue night, mine is a bright baby blue day, a pale afternoon powder. We will see if the night comes. Bless your heart!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Can I put a screenshot of your tweet about 'infirm of mind and body' doms in my zine about wanting that kind of dom ?

It's not a word i use, the tweet was a springboard for talking about something beyond that; but everything is analogous i suppose. Without context, i have no opinion. If you want permission, you can use it if your zine has at least 3 different slurs (under the CC BY-NC-ND-SO license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-SlursOnly)). If you want to steal it, you can steal it. Have a good day! 🦗

Nameless Grub · 2y

where do the names in serious weakness come from?

Trianon is a delicate name; ornate and beautiful and exposed

Insul evokes insular, insulate, insult; closed off and spiteful

withholding is power

the rest I leave to the reader or oblivion

Nameless Grub · 2y

hey porpentine, I’ve been reading and playing your stuff for I think almost a decade now, since I was in high school, and the effect it’s had on my heart and brain and guts is immeasurable and complicated and wonderful. i hope that I can make something someday that can make people feel the way your work makes me feel. i’m glad I could get to see your stuff in this life. thank you, take care, and happy new year.

getting this message made me so happy. thank you for being so sweet. 💜 v important to hit all three of those organs!! BAM BAM SPLORCH

it is still weird feeling but good to know i'm part of the world over a period of time, that i have an existence...thank you for reading it for that long. everything i made came from an intense feeling something else gave me, i'm sure you can keep the chain going. ⚡✨

Nameless Grub · 2y

hii porpentine!! i love your work sm and your youtube vids keep me going

any idea if youll ever make vr stuff?

hii grub!! thank you :D i don't make VR stuff but i remember the year when art money was pushing hard on VR and VR grants were everywhere. the tech isn't accessible enough yet, i like sharing my art with a lot of people. my only interest in VR is a torture sim or some kind of autistic child soothing device.

Nameless Grub · 2y

do you think there are any trianon kinnies out there?

Nameless Grub · 2y

I got into your stuff from your games on Itch and I'm so glad you ended up writing full books, I love Serious weakness and Psycho Nymph Exile, (girlswamp is still killer tho) I remember there's som Burroughs influence, but what kinds of surreal authors influenced you? The weirder the better!

Thanks for the brand loyalty to DEVIL CORPORATION CHARITY™!! You never know how the grubs gonna pupate over here!! <333

Surreal recs: aeon flux, shintaro kago, grant morrison, the maxx, thecatamites

Nameless Grub · 2y

hiiiiii long time xrafstar enjoy first time question asker… i recently read the book ‘a little life’ because some people said it was ‘devestating’ and i’m down for a bit of suffering, but i ended up rlly hating it viscerally and i’m not sure why, especially since your work also burrows into the niche of like, torture, except your stuff infuses me with life energy.
idk if you know of it, just been salivating for your Thoughts on this. lol. i hope you are having a good day ~

Thank you, I am having a good day building the next torture lineup <3

It depends on the suffering you're looking for. My stories have pain and realism but also, yes, restless with life, and I'm gratified you can taste it. I look for what grows from the shit. My own life has been full of terminality, waste, tragedy, ugliness, humiliation, hopelessness, mindbreak, hollowed out, emptiness, barrenness, starvation. Years and decades that went nowhere.

But I'm also a disgusting romantic. My books are the result of a very specific synthesis of aesthetics and desires. I try to earn every piece of beauty I carve out. They are romantic songs made of realistic materials. Realpulp. Because real life is absurd and pulpy at times, and sometimes it is bleak without end and people get completely fucked. I am the type of person who was meant to live such "a little life", but has circled the drain with some small share of freak warmth. I don't blame people for the colors they see. Both are real. I am grateful that, for now, I am allowed the warmth by which I can write about love.

Nameless Grub · 2y

i can't even describe how your writing makes me feel but it's full of love i played with those we love alive late last night and it might be my favourite experience ever

Nameless Grub · 2y

What was it like working with ville callio on world hell mall?

good! i was just baby, it was a lifetime ago, but i think it was a very smooth collaboration for me. his art is some of my favorite in that aesthetic; i loved the soldiers and landscapes/buildings especially. so i was happy to see his fishing game blow up 8)

Nameless Grub · 2y

What are some of your favorite paintings?

Dante and Virgil by Bouguereau

The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Dorothea Tanning

Flamingo Painting by Henri Robert Bresil

Nameless Grub · 2y

Opinion on Shinya Tsukamoto's films?I feel a limited but definite kinship between something like Tokyo Fist or Tetsuo and Low Kill Shelter/Serious Weakness

Haze (2005) is the one that made the biggest impression on me but definitely the end of Tetsuo is the kind of ending i like 😋

Nameless Grub · 2y

I had a dream about Trianon and Insul. The found the entrance to someone else's murder dungeon hidden underneath a railroad bridge. They killed the inhabitants and took it over including the chicken coop. Gumby was there. What level of infection is this?

Love this dream!!

You're at least the third person I've heard having a serious weakness dream, that's so sick. I like the idea of them looting rival murder dungeons. Railway bridge…keeping it autismcore.

I used to harvest eggs from a chicken coop as a kid. Never saw a GUMBY. Your infection level? HIGH. 💜💉

Nameless Grub · 2y

serious weakness kind of fucked me up with the ways in which it was similar to situations i've been in (lol) but i haven't been able to stop thinking about it since i read it. the book seemed to cover so many bases of Suffering, was the "wait that happened to me kinda haha" experience that i found myself kind of Masochistically Indulging In an intentional thing or was that more just a side effect of making an "infinite codex of male suffering"? looking forward to more problematic torture porn!

My life has been an "infinite codex of male suffering" so I'm able to write a wide variety of situations. And the different parts of me live their different lives completely and share what they learn. I do think about what people suffer but can't talk about.

The thing about certain intensities of pain is it gives insight into adjacent ones. At a certain extreme, pain becomes less complex, not more. Pain blinds, annihilates, displaces, numbs, cauterizes. The more potent it gets, the more it ends in the same place. Of course, I always try to write the most true version of something I can, balanced with what I find beautiful. I never do something that isn't real. Even if it's not 1:1 to a situation, I grow it from a real wound. Skin can be grafted all across the body.

Thank you for being fucked up by serious weakness 💜💜💜 more torture porn on the way 💉

Nameless Grub · 2y

can you elaborate on the lighthouse/ship moth/flame distinction? my read is that you mean "you have to be able to hold your own and not get subsumed"; is that an accurate read?

exactly. people can be attracted to strong personalities without considering what that means. at the same time, psyching yourself out is how you lose.

Nameless Grub · 2y

do people try to connect with you personally because of your work? how does that go?

It's why i make things, pretty much. I've met everyone i know through it. You need a bright burning soul in an asphyxiating world. As for how it goes, it comes down to clarity and incandescence. There is a difference between a ship sailing toward a lighthouse and a moth flying toward a flame.

Nameless Grub · 2y

the one downside of serious weakness being so world-shatteringly good is that all other violent media i used to enjoy now turns to ash in my mouth because simply none of it is anywhere near faggy enough in comparison :<
i'm down abhorrent for some more twink-on-twink violence, what would you recommend to fill that gaping hole in my life dr. porp? (i already saw your tweet about the hitcher (1986) but i'm curious if there's any other prominent examples of serious weaknesscore)

Agh thank you so much!! 💜 I've heard that from a few people…the problem is I made it because there was so little in a certain intersection that interested me (or was faggy enough, as you say), but here's the closest related things I can prescribe: Killing Stalking, Blonde Death, Nii-chan (by Harada), and Doom Generation. Zoo Story by Albee is also a distant ancestor, and you can't go wrong with Nishin's manga either. And I'm sure there's good shit I don't know about. Besides that, stay tuned for my next reprehensible puke-a-thon… 💉

Nameless Grub · 3y

Soft Now shows, as far as I can tell, xrafstar daevas entering symbiosis (willing or not) with humans; do the Mineral Courts work in a similar manner, and if not, what's the difference?

*The asbestine court will enter symbiosis with you, sure. It's called cancer. It is unknown whether the cancer has an actual intelligence or if this is carcinogenic nationalism.

*Worm xrafstar are influenced by the moon, although the moonrock court was wiped out or went dormant before the modern era.

*The antimonial court is a fly-type daeva encoded inside a mineral sphere which needs a human host. It is a parasite which feeds on bacterial energy and slowly changes your body to fit the encoded information in the sphere, usually an ancient aristocrat. This is modeled after the antimonial pill of our world, taken to extremes; a gastric dynasty. I'm working on a disgusting book about it, with an agent of INNOCENT in the Antimony Atoll in a 70s-80s analogue era. Hope to finish it one day, and thanks for the juicy lil question!

Nameless Grub · 2y

do you code your own games? is it hard?

yeah. it can be hard but nice people have helped me sometimes, like the rat shrine web stuff and the bitsy hack for girlswampwar 💜 and i think someone looking to make games would find a lot of stuff already figured out in various forums if they're using something like gamemaker/renpy/twine/etc. the hard stuff comes from trying to make specific weird shit work out of cussedness...or the simple ordinary torture of making anything!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Hi Charity!
I've been planning on playing a bunch of your twine games with a friend of mine, and then discussing how they make us feel and the themes and symbolism of the games, did you have any advice on what ideas we might want to consider?
Also, I need to know, have you considered a new four humors theory, with the new humors being blood, sweat, piss, and cum? I can't remember if that's something you said, or something that occurred to me after reading something you wrote.
Hope you're having a good day!

I wouldn't get too academic about it. There's various secrets in my games but most of all they're written emotionally…probiotic. Analysis can't tame the gut. But I'm sure you'd find a lot of fun patterns from that particular corpus, written under a particular wound, wounds are so very repetitive, don't you think? I like having range but I also like seeing how iterations on the same archetype manifested over time, the repetitive sculpting, the eternal return, what has changed and what has remained…

My 4 humors are piss blood shit cum (autumn classic) or sweat snot bugjuice tears (summer fresh)

And thanks, hope you have/had fun! My day is good and rainy!!

Nameless Grub · 2y

Very obscure lore question: in the Sovereignty setting, what caused the angels to flee heaven and why do some of them sit in place doing nothing?

love the obscure ones! the angels left heaven because they were being chewed on. they stay in place because they have brain damage or are psychotic. others have a kind of "photosentience" but are chained up, trepanned, blinded, etc by the rulers of their city.

(context: https://twitter.com/xrafstarguts/status/1334951993614299136)

Nameless Grub · 2y

Do you have a favorite FPS?

teens: unreal tournament

early 20s: tf2, dystopia

later: rainbow six siege wallbang all day!! (overwatch gets a mention even though it has a bunch of dumb stuff, it can be a good break from grittier games)

Nameless Grub · 2y

none of your 3d games work :( do you have them hosted anywhere else?

they were made in unity a long time ago and hosted online so they're super broken for a million reasons. they were just short lil guys, you're not missing much!

Nameless Grub · 2y

how do you feel about the “twitter main character” phenomenon? it feels like some of them are dunked on for justifiable reasons but the social dynamics are still kinda questionable. idk, i’m interested in your thoughts

The person who cares about this has shown the first or last sign of losing their soul. They express sentiment the way a boil is squeezed for pus. Their concerns are microscopic yet they assign a global significance to every action, a kind of narcissistic semistition. They are addicted to a sexless sadism, an unbeautiful evil, they desire with all their heart (which is about the size of a well-used bar of soap just before the sliver of it disappears into the porcelain of the bathtub) to rape others, but lack the honesty to admit it, in lieu of which they erect elaborate rube goldberg machines, a button which corresponds to a honking array of gears and circuits at the other end of which white cartoon gloves carry out a joyless assault. They dishonor the bodies of their victims and throw out fresh produce daily. They will not go to heaven. Hell will laugh at them. They have a malformed aesthetic and are incapable of love. But I will conclude here before I arrive at their bad qualities.

Nameless Grub · 2y

hi! iran’s beer drinking anon again. my girlfriend wants to know what kind of beer he uses for this so it can try it. thanks :)

Whatever shit ass beer people drink in emeryville. Altho I'm very anti alcohol use and would never want to encourage it unless it would have happened either way. But you can do it with pretty much any beer or bladder byproduct. bbarkbark :)

Nameless Grub · 2y

i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when i try to conjure up a mental image of insul i end up reverse-engineering slim shady

Nameless Grub · 2y

i love the trianons you posted a few days ago >:D 🧇🧇🧇 what are the chances of you drawing some canonical insuls to accompany them someday?

thank you so much! 🎾🎾🎾 please consider my humble little art to be far from canon, i love seeing everyone's interpretation of my characters…

with Insul i lack the range to get that "school shooter with a growth spurt, simultaneously bullyable and semi-jockish ambiguity"…his appearance varies throughout the story depending on Trianon's emotions, an autistic eye-avoidant peripheral hallucination…i would probably draw him as a kind of shadow or black box with eyes, an abstraction blossoming from a human form...or i'll just render all my bwabs as ogre battle 64 dolls, infinitely reproducible...

Nameless Grub · 2y

where'd you get the beer + creamer + splenda thing iran does from? i don't drink but everyone i've asked about this says it seems gross. is it gross?

i don't drink either, good on ya. to answer your question, the boy has autism 💜

Nameless Grub · 2y

charity will u be releasing physical copies of serious weakness soon. charity please. charity. charity i need to hold it in my nasty little hands and buy extra copies to put in those little free library cabinets

that's so funny i literally walked past one of those last night in a kinda bougie neighborhood and i was like someone should put serious weakness in there!! i finished the two bonus stories for it then i got sick but if i stay better i will finish editing them and get cracking!! thanks for the motivation! 😤

Nameless Grub · 2y

have you watched revolutionary girl utena? if so, what do you think about it? i feel a similar kind of surreal literalized emotion in your work, but that may just be me becoming the baby driver tweet...

utena is cool, wouldn't say it was formative for me, i saw it fairly late in the game. my favorite Ikuni series is actually Sarazanmai! 🥒🧟‍♀️👥⚽

Nameless Grub · 2y

What happened to "How to Speak Atlantean"? It doesn't seem to appear on your games page anymore...

the kate bush and nicki minaj estate formed a joint lawsuit against me that resulted in over a hundred lives lost and my flight to this timeline. also it's different being a nobody and collaging random music into my games vs 10 years later where I have more of an audience ✌

Nameless Grub · 2y

i just finished reading low kill shelter. it's really, absurdly good. there isn't really a question here i just like your book a lot and am now gonna make sure to read your other work. congrats on writing a really cool thing :)

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Nameless Grub · 2y

Where'd you get the idea for myasthenia gravis?

I thought to myself, humans need a little more suffering in their life! And I unleashed it on earth… 😈

In the context of Serious Weakness, it reinforces pretty much all the themes. And it's easier to write because of my own physical illness which also involves severe fatigue, slurring, loss of control and strength in pretty much any part of my body.

Also a lot of stories have disability as a kind of gimmick where a character gets one (1) disability but in my experience it's often a bunch of fucked shit that overlaps and layers…so it felt natural to write these traits that blur into the background like a grease soaking into everything.

And myasthenia sufferers are rarely represented in problematic torture porn…you're welcome bitches!

Nameless Grub · 2y

is trianon pronounced like rhiannon or like qanon

tree-uh-non: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on a tennis racket

Nameless Grub · 2y

Seriously weakness has massively improved my rizz, thank you

hit novel Seriously Weakness is the Game for people with a car and severe frontal lobe damage. another dazzling testimonial!! 😎💜✨

Nameless Grub · 3y

How tall do you think bomberman is

Nameless Grub · 3y

I stumbled on your twitter and I have absolutely no clue what most of what you are saying means, but I think you have a book out? That's some really great news! congratulations!

haha thank you. if you have no idea what my twitter means, you should definitely read my novel! you'll understand even less! or far too much!

Nameless Grub · 3y

Whats your relationship to power? Not in a generalized way, Im not asking you to place yourself somewhere along a continuum (not that you would) but like you individually... How do you... Engage with it... Does it exist in any small ways... Do i have to accept my little bug spot and stop fighting so they dont turn against me...?

I am crushed and chewed and gnashed in the jaws of power. I am helpless. I am shaped like the teeth that hammer from the satellites. When I was beaten, I was beaten. When I was used, I was used. I was not particularly cunning or special. The scars I gain give me the privilege of deciding what I will sacrifice next. God fits his fingers into my ribs and caresses my heart so that I shudder with the heat of it. He rests his thumbs on my chest like heavier truer lungs to mock my wheezing bags. He spits poison into my eyes and down my throat. The fluid in my spine is pressed from red hot grapes. He holds me up to humble the powerful and the vain and the spiteful and the cruel and the greedy. Many have tried to kill me yet I persist like the cockroach. A fly could crush me yet thousands live and die in the shadow of my mythology. I am shameless in my survival but have turned down the deals that would remove beauty from my life. I live by the kindness of others.

As for your little bug spot, survival is strategic. Some battles are pointless. Others are crucial. If playing dead doesn't work, and thrashing reflexively doesn't work, try dancing.

To put it another way, you can make a wall to protect yourself, but you must make sure the light can reach the green thing you were sheltering, or you will be steward of a dead and wilted nothing.

Nameless Grub · 3y

Top surgery Trianon has thrown me for a fucking loop. Do u mean he's transmasc. Is there transfem top surgery I'm not acquainted with. Is this a joke about the various tortures and mutilations. Help me I'm flailing like a little minnow in a whirlpool.

its a joke about the various tortures and mutilations

but also some girls like cutting their tits off and thats based. happy holidays!! 👉🐟

Nameless Grub · 3y

Did any of the pre-Sumerians that made the Crucialiths survive? For that matter, was an iteration of INNOCENT involved with them in those ancient times?

INNOCENT formed around the medieval period as a field branch of the church. This is the point in history where its mission was most clearly defined, although that may be romantic thinking. Their sub-divisions were: Inquisitor-knights (xrafstragan/xrafstar-killer to their enemies) (as seen in the story Soft Now), Alchemical Torture, and the Leech Farm, which extracted bodily fluids from xrafstar using leeches as a kind of bio-ampoule. Pop in case of emergency...

Before that, war with the mineral courts and the xrafstar daevas was conducted by mere armies and governments, which is largely ineffectual if your opponent is capable of corrupting and infiltrating a human body. The asbestine and antimonial courts and some of the daevas enslaved the vast majority of the anthro world until their decline, perhaps due to INNOCENT but also the flaw described in the next paragraph (although some would call the decline a switch from hard to soft power).

To finish answering your question, the ancients who survived did so as vessels for those entities. So it depends on whether your definition of survival includes personality fragmentation and hyperdementia. Therefore many entities skip to new vessels as a way of "borrowing sanity", but there are always sediments of personality and memory even from the oldest times, leading to erratic or contradictory behavior. INNOCENT calls this hysteresis, and one of their modern sub-divisions (Version Control) uses the principle to build entity profiles.

Nameless Grub · 3y

Hi! If you had to pick, what are your favourite Ballard/Ligotti stories? Do you like Anna Kavan?

Not sure if this is up your alley but re: physical edition of Serious Weakness, Grimscribe Press could be an option, they published The Half Freaks so "mature content" wouldn't be an issue

Ballard: End-game, the Lost Leonardo, the Reptile Enclosure, Deep End, the Voices of Time

Ligotti: The Bungalow House, The Town Manager, The Clown Puppet, The Red Tower

and probably more i forgot since i read both quite early in life

Haven't read Kavan. Good luck to her though.

Thanks for the rec but the word limit for that press is 7500 and they're closed for submissions. Serious Weakness is at least 400 pages of controversial material, and even though my print works have a record of selling out, presses aren't likely to touch something with that financial-cultural overhead. I'll get it up on KDP paperback at minimum though ✌

Nameless Grub · 3y

Trianon: Would Transitioning Have Saved Her?

tough call. definitely some body issues.

**********SPOILERS***********************************


he had top surgery what else do you want!! 😋

at least now he's in a place where he can safely express his femininity...or masculinity...such as it is...amorphous pain angel

Nameless Grub · 3y

oohhh the chocolate war. memories. do u have any thoughts on it

yessss the chocolate war is so real, the opposite of the message kids are usually cloyed with (individualism, false hope, magical thinking). perfectly captures the prison planet of high school. love that fucking book

Nameless Grub · 3y

Have you ever read Dog Ningen (fka Dog N-word)?
"Rex is a half man half dog. He was created when a drunk old man forced himself on a stray female dog in the street.
Because of his father, Rex has to live his life as a freak rejected by society.
So one day… he’s gonna find that man, and rape HIM."

I have not read it but I AM familiar with it. A powerful premise with deep moral conviction. Yet I heard there was not as much dad rape as one might think and this has stayed my hand...I have time in my schedule ONLY for the most quality dadfucking.

Let us consider the competition. Father's Day (2011) began with a reasonable amount of dad rape yet veers away from its subject once more, anxiously realigning itself back to heterosexual harmony with the wholesome substitute of sisterfucking.

Father Figure (ALSO 2011¹, by Guilt|Pleasure) delves far more deeply into the symbolic and literal depths of the dad, and I would place it at the head of the pack so far (despite the tragic denouement² that haunts its genre, a matter of preference of course).

¹What was happening in 2011? Much has been made of the eschatology of 2012, yet 2011 seems the year of cosmic alignmentᵃ for dadfucking. The Mayans warned us!!

²The most natural conclusion is to draw a line to the debt-ceiling crisis and housing shortage of 2011 where many did not feel they had the economic security to house their captive dads which led to a staggering amount of sexy male deaths. Yet is it not better to fuck your dad in the gutter than sleep alone in a great house? In the words of the Roman Catullus…

ᵃThese three works were released in consecutive months: October, November, December; fatherfucking associated with the element of cold, the superannuated, heat leaving the body, demanding the warmth of the sun(son) to rejoin it; the Ice Sign of Incest.

Nameless Grub · 3y

have you reach chaykin's black kiss 1 and 2?

skimmed it based on ur rec! some fun parts! the dialog is way denser than it has to be haha there's like no air in the damn thing at all and it could use it considering how cramped the art gets sometimes. some iconic lines though, i respect the hardboiled sockdolagizing of it all, looks great when people got POPPED! ill reply to this with a screen of my favorite line…and i appreciate you telling me of porn i didn't know about, love to see it!

Nameless Grub · 3y

has anyone ever called your work "porpnography"?

Nameless Grub · 3y

favourite, most impactful/defining grotesque and foul works of fiction (or non-fiction tbh)?

Early in life: Shintaro Kago, Naked Lunch, porn

Later: (picking a few random examples because a lot of things i absorb fall under this category)
Kajaki, Megg and Mogg, Possessor, The Boxer's Omen, Fear and Hunger, more porn

Nameless Grub · 3y

do you know of any good writing on making interactive fiction/game stories? (also thank you for making WTWLA replayed it recently and it hit)

there is exactly zero good writing on this subject. to understand how to make a good game, look for the fear in the eyes of others, then show them desire behind the fence of your teeth. make them pay for every drop.

and thanks for playing my lil marker game glad you had a good time :^)

Nameless Grub · 3y

i just bought some sweet corn relish cause i saw it and remembered u mentioning it in "sandwy review #1" (2019) and 🤯
u were so right to put that shit in ur sandwy

yesssss relish is soooo good and when you add a little corn you just can't go wrong! i'm glad the prophecy of that fateful year has finally come true in such a delicious way...thanks for the update pardner 🤠

Nameless Grub · 3y

Im going out on a limb here (pops right arm off and places it at your feet) how do you feel about Lois Lowry. Do you have any Lois Lowry feelings. (Takes a step back to see if you'll sniff the limb)

haven't read this person. i'm glossing they're seminal dystopian YA though? My YA shit was like…the chocolate war, ronja the robbers daughter, his dark materials. thanks for the biomatter!!

Nameless Grub · 3y

how will agents of innocent be published or delivered? story, game, comic, ??

I have 3-4 novellas and 2 games as WIP that are INNOCENT and/or xrafstar related, each focused on a different dynamic~/time period/evil animal/bodily fluid

This doesn't mean they'll come out; much like a mother who has many children, I must decide who will live and die ;(

If I vibe with a coder or visual artist or Go Crazy In A Specific Kind of Way it's more likely for a game or comic to come out, otherwise things will proceed at the rate I think I can most pragmatically release without getting snared in the thorns of my own brain. If the full vision for a piece is too big I'd like to trickle it out as a micro-game or pic at least…like food…so many ways to expel from the body…multimedia chimera :D

I hope you will get to encounter them sooner than later!

Nameless Grub · 3y

what bugs seem the most auspicious to you?

the tarantula presages femininity and power

a black wasp may indicate sexual tension

the ant reveals sweetness in the environment

the appearance of a leech is majestic. it travels with you painlessly like the fate waiting to show itself by the life it has taken

the centipede is a Tier I-II mel timoris index

Nameless Grub · 3y

Is there any overlap between INNOCENT-monitored timelines and Darkshatterwar timelines? The unknown gem mastermind has a vaguely INNOCENT-sponsored vibe.

Weapons testing on a regenerating twink with a facial deformity? Sounds relevant…can neither confirm nor deny…pursuant to my ongoing talks with Nickelodeon to incorporate my little pony, sonic, and avatar into a single torture porn superfranchise based on market research indicating "total desensitization" and "feral outbreak demographic"

Nameless Grub · 3y

I've been learning again how to defensive drive my human body and now am trying to learn how to be firm in the face of people who would rather undermine me than try and understand me and i feel like the better i get the more it hurts... it feels like... I become a target for no discernible reason... It hurts me to see people construe me as mean or rude just for... Being specific about what i want? Ive been thru this process before... Theres gotta be another way through...

Direct communication makes passive-aggressive types mad. Esp with autism and other brainways. Some people are sick with sensitivity and can never be satisfied, displacing their wound into every molecule that stirs around them. At other times it can be worth learning if there are better ways to put things, whether out of courtesy or to protect yourself from these things which hurt you.

But yes. Boundaries ignite hidden pockets of spite and control in the environment. They don't care as much until you try to escape. Migrate to pressure depths which support your new chassis. Good luck, pilot.

Nameless Grub · 3y

Have any of the characters in Serious Weakness ever had a true, sincere, non-predatory friendship that went both ways?

Has anyone ever?

Maybe a few people throughout history.

Trianon has, at times, had amiable acquaintances, and Oenone has friends, good ones even, but the kind you see months apart due to the demands of career and life and whatever nips at the heels of life. As for Insul, we know the answer to that. Friendship is magic…

Nameless Grub · 3y

What brought you to Simone Weil?

Religious/mystic writings are a perpetual companion when I write, especially on the subject of grace and suffering. I don't remember how I came to it. My body of work is the body of martyrs, most elaborately and excruciatingly via the gameplay elements of Serious Weakness. Dante did not consider the contrapasso of Spirit Halloween. I'll talk more about this later, but here are some relevant Weil excerpts:

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

*

Once an atom of pure good has entered the soul the most criminal weakness is infinitely less dangerous than the very slightest treason, even though this should be confined to a purely inward movement of thought lasting no more than an instant but to which we have given our consent. That is a participation in hell.

So long as the soul has not tasted of pure goodness it is separated from hell as it is from paradise.

*

Non-violence is no good unless it is effective. Hence the young man’s question to Gandhi about his sister. The answer should have been: use force unless you are such that you can defend her with as much chance of success without violence. Unless you possess a radiance of which the energy (that is to say the possible effectiveness in the most material sense of the word) is equal to that contained in your muscles.

We should strive to become such that we are able to be non-violent.

This depends also on the adversary.

Nameless Grub · 3y

ok, new website update? i love! are you planning to make any more twine games or are you pretty much done with those?

Thank you! Feels good to snap into a wriggling new carcass!

I will not be making more twine games because I coded a sleek and sexy framework in Gamemaker that can handle dialog, visual novel stuff, weird mechanics, etc but I look back on them fondly.

Examples: https://xrafstar.monster/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/dice2.gif, and the pill background on my site is actually animated in the framework.

So I have a couple smaller horror games half-built I might return to when my brain feels like it. Game stuff will only become a priority if an artist wants to work with me who likes drawing weird erohorror and bugs and worms or I become proficient enough at drawing to fill this need. Handling code+writing+design+art all by myself takes up so much time that the rest of my art would suffer.

However I might use twine to make a kind of concierge for helping people decide what stuff from my catalogue they might like since by now there's an insane amount of material. Or I might go with a simpler form that's just a page on my site, hard to say. Thanks for asking and have a good one buster!

Nameless Grub · 3y

Is the immortality chimerism a call-forward to Stick Zeitgeist?

Intriguing possibility...one of the bonus stories I'm writing for the Serious Weakness paperback will be immortality chimerism focused in a way that most connects to Living Fucking Creatures, but Sticky Zeitgeist phenotypes could be seen as a variant of that, minus the immortality. Waterborne effects are a standard feature in most INNOCENT-monitored timelines.

I should make a xrafstar lore codex on my site sometime 👁📚🕷

Nameless Grub · 3y

Oh yeah!! What do you use to write? Like app or program or whatever... I liked that u were able to see how often u used words

i use scrivener, it makes writing long fiction much more manageable. the ability to nest things in folders, splitscreen, set icons for chapters, etc, super invaluable 🖋🐛

Nameless Grub · 3y

My brain feels so clean... And good... Post serious weakness. It made me normal again. Normal like my normal against whatever normal is supposed to be. I feel clear and light on my feet. 🌷🪱

biggest enema i ever built!! sometimes when your brain is fucked you need something fucked to feel normal...that's a big part of why i write these things, i get sick from the books most people write...i don't trust their life or their future...it helps me be in homostasis with something. thank you for this sparkly fresh review and participating in the serious weakness hyper-aggressive therapy program ✌👩‍🔬💌

Nameless Grub · 3y

Porp..... ok, im not saying this to sound edgy altho im sure it might come off that way bc of how ppl have been talking about the book, but there is So Much Comedic Gold in serious weakness, so fucking funny, i appreciate the slough of every emotion in this, oh man, so funny.... The clayton part... Im roflwaffling

IT IS FUNNY hahahaha thank you for saying so. This book has everything!! We use every part of the Trianon around here!

It's good to react all kinds of ways, I try to write stories that are contradictory and prismatic 💜💛💚

Nameless Grub · 3y

What do you think about conlangs

i don't think about them much lately but in high school every second was sensory hell so on notepaper i would replace letters of the alphabet with other letters or sets of letters, pruning until the sentences i tested it on sounded pretty

Nameless Grub · 3y

I read your answer abt eroticizing your insecurities and I'm feeling like serious weakness rly did that for me! just getting inside those characters heads and feeling fucked up and evil and pathetic and loving that feeling which just makes me feel it more and I feel like a door inside myself that I hid from myself was unlocked idk I feel sick and tainted but in a good way instead, does that make sense? idk!
anyway thanknyou this is immediately a very special story to me idk how to even explain

I understand completely. I started writing it from that feeling, that sick unlocking, gruesome warm aliveness. I'm so happy SW could spread that feeling. like seeing a weapon or virus i designed function as intended. fucked up and evil and pathetic, sick and tainted, yeah...that's the perfect way to describe it. thank you for harboring the fever of it all 💜

Nameless Grub · 3y

i'm having real trouble parsing the morse code looking segments of serious weakness, could you give a hint on how to decode them? :<

no secret, only suffering

a visual noise

"The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line."

thanks for getting that far, good luck 💜

Nameless Grub · 3y

Reading Serious Weakness right now-how big was killing/stalking as an influence? 10/10 book that makes me want to throw up, keep up the great work

The mere desire to throw up is promising and virtuous. Thanks dude 💜

Killing/stalking is beautiful, it hits so many of my boxes. The first half especially is sublime, like pumpkin chunks scooped out of my head. That's what gets me writing, seeing something I want to change; conventions of the format contrary to my spiritual and aesthetic sensibilities...writing more realistic anal, adding a certain fragility to archetypes, how a story ends, a Weilian model of affliction, etc.

KS is still good, it's how the author wanted to tell it. They're ultimately so different it's worth having both in the world. You could also call it my Zoo Story BL although no one knows what that is cuz they weren't born in the early 1900s. A faggot wrote that too and it's been one of my oldest inspirations since I was a kid. Zooing/Storying…

I'll write a post going deeper into Serious Weakness sometime, thanks for getting my gears running about it. I can speak more to the Weilian angle and such small things as love and dread and power ✌

Nameless Grub · 3y

this isn't a question but i think the way you talk - on here, at least - is intensely beautiful,,, have a nice day/evening/night ms. heartscape

Nameless Grub · 3y

I've long struggled socially due to Inconsistently Diagnosed Brain Issues, but it feels like as I get better at performing normal behaviors other people become more and more alien to me. Should I develop a superiority complex as a coping mechanism?

I used to feel very angry and arrogant as an outsider, it makes sense when one feels trapped between servitude and monstrousness, and can really peak when, as you allude, a degree of mastery occurs and you're looking over it all and seeing how stupid and pointless it is. Superiority is normal as a transitional state, but it's not healthy long-term to define oneself by opposition to another thing. It can stand in the way of connecting with people who don't make us feel like shit. I'm grateful that when anger breaks through, I have something else to turn to instead of staying there. Good luck <3

Nameless Grub · 3y

did you listen to any certified porpentunes while writing honeydew toxicity event?

Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Alien (Annihilation OST), Linkin Park (Given Up and Papercut), Death's Dynamic Shroud, Maedasalt

Nameless Grub · 3y

was the monster dew story supposed to be hot or am i just weird

That's kinda fucked up…you're telling me there's something "hot" about the delicately fraying sanity of a mangy gamer boy as he pours Mountain Dew all over his unwashed, emaciated body? Trembling and quivering from a diet of pure sugar and caffeine? You might need to read the story again to better understand the educational, cautionary elements and serious themes that lend a satirical eye to the cultural moment of our wacky internet-addicted culture, like really internalize that white-hot racing terror and limbic system arousal until you've purged all the weirdness from your body. May the angels protect your soul and thanks for the sweet message! 💚

Nameless Grub · 3y

Have you ever thought to try doing readings/""audiobooks"" of your own work?

i like to share my voice with people ::) it just takes some effort so i usually focus on writing, and then i get into this prolonged silent state where i forget how to speak...but if i have spare time sometime i'll try to think of a "voice context" where i can put words... <3

Nameless Grub · 3y

You said the worst thing you could do to someone is deprive them of honesty. I feel like I did that myself. Every inquiry in trying to figure myself out inverts. I lie to people about things and then tell the truth in a way that sounds like a lie. Do you get what I mean? I feel like being a former troll has turned me into a zombie: a dead parody of a living person that still moves. I don't know how to get myself out of the prison I built.

It hurts to live as a mask, and hurts even more to become aware of it, since the mask is designed to insulate against pain. Tearing it off is a transitional state of chaos, reconfiguration, exposed flesh. But you can get out. It's sensible to lie to some people in a world like this, but find some context where you can be real. Find juicy brightnesses that make you think…this….this is the shit….fuk….

Nameless Grub · 3y

THE MONSTER DEW STORY IS SO FUCKING GOOD you just KEEP HITTIN THAT SPOT SOMEHOW!!!! also so crazy bc i dont usually think about mountain dew and i do usually think about ants but recently ive been using a sugar free mountain dew bottle as my water bottle... Death to sugar free materials btw... Also i am sugar addicted and maybe hypoglycemic... Idk the connections felt very right behind me!!!! Creepy lovely

thank you!! i have a medical condition where i simply must break a guy down into little quivering pieces every fortnight or go insane. thank you for joining me on this journey and good luck with your sugar addiction <3 may it end better than or exactly like the story, depending on spiritual preference 🐛

Nameless Grub · 3y

Are you plural?

Hard to say! Inside its kind of a fractal ocean of infinite chimeraforms without a "true center" or hierarchy. Soul-gel-morph absorbing colors, shapes, species. My consciousness was fractured from an early age for sure and never had a chance to "set" but its pretty useful for writing. I don't know if I experience it the way my plural friends talk about it. I've experienced time loss but it's probably more attributable to ptsd/torture. My gf is plural and I love her

Nameless Grub · 3y

Are you a fan of Carlton Mellick III? PNE reminds me a little of Razor Wire Pubic Hair, at least in vibes.

i read some a long time ago, i'm sure some of my first twines had a little of that influence 8)

Nameless Grub · 3y

My friend told me to eroticize my insecurities so that i will be unstoppable. I want to go to there. Have u any sdvice?

BUDDY YOU'RE ASKING THE RIGHT BUG

aka 90% of my personality. conversion, alchemy, piss and shit into gunpowder and fertilizer. when life gives you nothing but unrelenting pain and degradation, make…what the fuck kind of lemonade is that

advice? how do I put it…

Is it wet? Is it hidden? Is there no escape? Are you being crushed? How does your body react? What if you can't stop it? Does it make you want to cry? Can everyone see? Do you wish someone could? What if they were hot? Does it make you numb? Are you trapped? You can't move? It's dark? Is there no way out? Are you breaking? Are you broken? Do you have to hide it? How long can you hide it? What are you hiding? Where is it? How does it escape? Who sees it? What color is it? What does it smell like? Think of an animal. Think of a monster. Think of a girl. Think of a boy. Think of an angel. Think of a mineral. Think of a vegetable. Don't think. You can't think. You fucked up. It's everywhere. Why are you so afraid? Why are you so weak? Is it disgusting? Is it unbearable? Did you lose control? What texture does it have? How much did it cost? What could you possibly do to your body to replace a two thousand dollar vase? Is it inside you? Will it fit? Why not? How many extra minutes did you add to the calendar today? What shape is pushing from the side of the clock? Every clock in the world is deleted. Did you do that? How could you? Why is it everywhere? If you can't stop, you have to stop. If you can stop, you can't stop. Who did this to you? Did you deserve it? Can you fight back? Can you hurt them? Can you make a mess? What does it look like from from up there? What does it look like from down here? What's it taste like? How fucking dare you? What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you retarded? Are you physically disabled? Do you deserve to be removed from society? Are you clogging the gene pool? Is it beautiful no matter what? ELECTROMAGNETIC TORTURE TERMINATES

Nameless Grub · 3y

thanks for helping me find myself. i hope you're having a good night 🐛

i am having a nice night, thank you. recovering from a booster shot but my gf is taking care of me. 💪 i'm glad you could find something, and i hope you always do 💜🦟

Nameless Grub · 3y

You use the words Ahrimanic and Ohrmazdean a lot in some of your work, and I'm curious about what that means to you and if what I end up gleaning from it is similar.

you can think of it like apollonian/dionysian dualism just more palatable to my interests. Ohrmazd is light, order, sanitization, but more specifically generativeness vs waste, which is where you get all these ancient codes of living enshrined in religious scripture. Sanitary codes become meshed with superstition and "cultural OCD" and "menstruating spreads demon diseases" and this becomes a weapon to bludgeon civilization into surrounding regions. It's like, we put spikes on our folk wisdom, would you like some?

Also I love bugs vermin and sodomy so Ahrimanic lore is cool (and ancient Iran is more interesting to me than mined-out Greco-Roman imagery). Sodomy is Ahrimanean because it subverts creation, it interrupts the bloodline and contaminates the institution of marriage by which property rights are mediated. Vermin are obsessively hunted with very specific bounties (if you listen to the more cruel texts associated with Zoroastrianism, which, as with the mainstream religions, tends to be how things shake out), kind of a reverse Jainism (inverse parallels of obsessive fixation on tiny forms of life). i could say a lot more but you'll see these themes in some stuff i'm working on so i'll do that! ☀🌑⚙🕸

Nameless Grub · 3y

lol, i was the woman who asked the original question that got the "if you can't shit use an enema" response and i appreciated the clarity of that answer a lot, so thank you

Nameless Grub · 3y

you got it backwards. i guess the design, the layout of this site is a bit confusing to understand. i asked the question about emotions after seeing porps response that mentioned enema. i wrote that question because i thought that it was an insensitive response. i did not expect that it would result in so many people sharing their issues here and asking for advice though. that blew my mind.

If I had to unpack that:

-simplicity is not insensitivity

-if I wanted to be mean to someone, I would deprive them of honesty

-asks are anonymous, but I'm the one who is exposed, so what happens next is up to me

-it's free advice from, basically, a demon, so that's the ticket you buy

I'm glad the chats were nice to read. I appreciate the sweet or interesting letters I get. Have a good one!

Nameless Grub · 3y

listen. a while ago, someone wrote to you being like, "i can't feel my emotions" or something like that, and you replied "if you cant shit use an enema". this is going to sound utterly silly, but your fiction is my "enema". especially psycho nymph exile. (1/2)

Reposting the rest of the ask here:

"when i want to cry, or when i want to feel like someone out there understands what the fuck it's like, i reread passages from PNE. thank you so, so much for writing/publishing that book, and everything else you've written, too. thank you, thank you, thank you. i look forward to your future colonics. thank you. ❤❤❤❤ (2/2)

also: pne has some of the most beautiful descriptions of t4t sex ive ever read. the "snake hissing from its nest of eggs" thing was particularly beautiful. i flirt with getting that, or a visual representation of it, tattoed somewhere. ok im done sorry for the novel 😅"


It's not silly at all, it's one of the most correct things anyone could say about my stories! I'm happy it could help you feel. It's hard to find that special thing that really gets the shit out.

And thanks, everything I write is an excuse to set up sex and violence, so it better be beautiful 😋

I'm excited for you to read my novel, it's a massive enema, the kind they kill people with. Monster energy colonic chased with MDMA and chlorine. So truly, it is I who will be saying, "sorry for the novel"!!
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Nameless Grub · 3y

who is your favorite mario character

Nameless Grub · 3y

your website is really good, i like the return of the guest book. have you considered starting a web ring?

thank you!! people have been very nice in the guest book, it encourages me a lot 💜 webrings are cool i just struggle with publicly inscribing social connections, its a big part of why I don't follow a lot of people on twitter etc

Nameless Grub · 3y

an interesting thing about the word "xrafstarguts" is that it's 3 syllables of 4 letters apiece. make of this what you will

nice catch! the dog with four eyes watches over the dead during the sagdid, and the world is governed by twelve constellations which are the twelve generals of ohrmazd and this world lasts for twelve thousand years to form a temporal arena for the vying of ahriman and ohrmazd. miracle status confirmed 👅

Nameless Grub · 3y

Have you ever seen a show called 'In The Flesh' (2013 i think?)

I saw it when it came out so it was a really long time ago but if I had to venture a dusty recollection I'd say like most BBC shows it probably suffered from the specter of liberal sentiment but it had some cool stuff and some neat H O M O S E X U A L S. The zombie rehabilitation theme felt symbolic for PTSD, addiction, all the ways people are turned into unwilling vectors for violence and compulsion and how you live with those regrets, and how the weaponization of guilt can become worse than the original crime. I can't really remember much else but dead guys are hot

Nameless Grub · 3y

I gotta know if I imagined this since I can't seem to find it anywhere but did you ever write a story about a future bloodsport guy who dies in the end and you describe what it feels like when his eye pops out. thanks

haha wow i totally forgot about that. must have been in my early 20s, yeah, before my stuff took off. scrunch splorp POP!! good memory!!

Nameless Grub · 3y

sweetest and most benevolent slime queen, what artists and authors have inspired you the most? Which of them have influenced your style? I play your twines and read your book whenever I need inspiration.

porn, anal sex, shintaro kago, leisure town, ligotti, lispector, lynch, lanthimos, ballard, burroughs, palahniuk, grant morrison, PSX/N64/PC-98 games, disco elysium, thecatamites, fear and hunger, brandon cronenberg, mind game, nozmo, the OA, more porn

Most stuff starts from a fragment of a scene in a movie or whatever that makes me feel weird or like I could do it better, the nick required for infection, you just need a small contamination and a warm environment to become sick with a story. I can look at pretty much any individual piece and remember the spark. Random examples:

Soft Now: Vagrant Story + Stretch Panic

Living Fucking Creatures: The Beast (1988)

thanks for the nice message, good luck with the virome!

Nameless Grub · 3y

I wish porn was weirder. Do u have any good erotic/porn places? Or artists that are good for that? I mean I love your stuff and i guess i have a brain with some imagination, but... Ya kno... Or maybe weird smutty movies?

much like being asked about hard street drugs, i can't give a straight answer to this in public despite being one of the most appropriate people you could ask about this. Finding weird porn is the ultimate rite of passage and you must pursue every clue you can, like a noir detective chasing leads through the twisted underbelly of this city, squeezing cum from a stone til you find a guy who knows a guy who knows the backup account of that one artist who got banned

Cool horney films/shows:

-the duke of burgundy

-showgirls

-ai no kusabi

-golden boy

-agent aika

-dragon half

A lot of people say my game Cyberqueen is horney. If you get off to raw terror and complicity, Game Where She Forces You To Kill Everyone On Your Squad is good (https://xrafstar.monster/games/twine/squad). I'd also check out my upcoming novel. May the gods steel your hand and lend valor to your mission

Nameless Grub · 3y

will the disso-induced brain damage i have planned for a few months from now make my magnum opus more or less powerful? i hope to kill off only the weak parts of myself but i think i might be too dumb to do that. maybe it ends up more powerful but incomprehensible to everyone but myself? i'm thinkin.

Nameless Grub · 3y

I've found a lot of your responses on how to deal with people to be insightful (and your work absolutely rules, it's so fucking good!) - when do you determine when a friendship isn't worth it anymore, and how do you cope with the fact that of you end them you may not make anymore?

thanks!! 💎

the fear of not doing better is a powerful prison because we live in a starvation world where it seems likely and true. But the best way to guarantee it will come true is by not trying to do better. The longer you do that, the more you become a "person who is in shitty friendships".

If you work on the friendship, both people have to be committed to working on it. Sometimes you have different social needs and it's no one's fault and it's better to leave amicably than make it personal. Sometimes space can be the best thing for a relationship, outside the suffocating ritual of it all, where clear voluntary decisions can be made, either to re-attach at a future healthier point, or find new directions. Sometimes people are shit. I have no idea what it is in your situation.

Think about what the friendship looks like a month from now, a year from now. Worse or better?

Nameless Grub · 3y

I play WTWLA one time and end up dysphoric enough that now I'm questioning whether or not I'm cis and have been questioning that for months now
10/10 would recommend, great game-story

thank you!! good luck figuring shit out, it doesn't have to be any one thing or label or destination, just go at the pace and direction that makes you feel right 💜🌌

Nameless Grub · 3y

Why does Rafflesia manipulate the Sticky Zeitgeist team so? Her excuse might be "this is a necessarily evil to fight the torture dimensions", but what is her reason, in her heart?

Rafflesia started out idealistic (as seen in the diner scene) but when you suffer in the service of a cause and it fucks you up, takes your youth and your body (the electrical scars from her pain interfacing experiments), one cope for that is to find other people to do the same. Because then it was all worth it. It becomes normal, institutionalized, you can keep chasing a justification that never materializes. Otherwise the last decade of your life changes from a heroic struggle to a hopeless waste, and a lot of people can't handle that. Maybe she realizes this, eventually, and tries to help the team. But it takes time to break apart the definition of your own reality.

Nameless Grub · 3y

MADE IN ABYSS SEASON 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love made in abyss im excited!! i caught up on the last 3 episodes and <spoilers>

the hollow village is basically magically enforced cryp*o/capitalism, the obsession with value is super creepy. i love the biome design, the striation reminds me of vinicunca in peru and similar "painted" natural wonders. there aren't enough "explore an ecosystem" shows so i'm glad it's back on. 🧗‍♀️

Nameless Grub · 3y

I really enjoy your drawings, and the way you get stuff to exist. PS i revisited cyberqueen, which i think was the first thing of yours I ever experienced, and it is so, so good. I wanna be tapped into the charityvein forever, i think

Thank you 💜 Cyberqueen was one of the first things I made, I'm glad it still holds up. I remember the mantric trance state of listening to the same song all night to finish it before the game jam deadline. Sweaty times!! Thanks for liking my drawings, it's not my primary skill but I practice so I can make games that are difficult to find illustrators for. Thanks for "charityvein forever". I feel like I'm just getting started 🤞

Nameless Grub · 3y

what do you do to relax

Nameless Grub · 3y

Would u mind sharing your fave writings you've read that live in the 4n4rch1$t library, if any?

Nameless Grub · 3y

do you have any favourite desserts? assuming you like sweets... if you dislike sweets, do you have any favourite 'opposite-of-desserts'?

I made a vow at the age of 16 to not eat sweets so I don't really do it but my equivalent is vinegar 😋 balsamic is how i add sweetness to dishes, and i love redhot buffalo wing sauce + most hot sauces, i make a sick spicy vinaigrette. there's a natural sweetness in food (tomatoes, carrots are a good example) that americanized tastebuds miss out on by dumping sugar in everything

but in terms of the ritualized role of dessert, the main "treat" i get is the popcorn my gf makes, we dust it with saccharomyces cerevisiae+cayenne powder+garlic powder+pickle salt and sometimes curry or ranch powder...i also like FLIES and RAW MEAT

Nameless Grub · 3y

Do you think everything is gonna be okay?

There is no such thing as everything

You are a single person

Apocalypse is a localized event

Horrible things have always been happening

It's easy to get mesmerized by the constant parade of horrors by a media that doesn't care about you, only wants to suck up your raw moneyterrorlife--and neglect the people one can actually affect because they're less shiny than the eyes of the archons

In the paternal sense, sure, something will be okay, and we certainly must live as if it would

In the end there's no difference

To demand assurances from the universe, well, we know what happened with Frigg and Balder, and it didn't change a thing. Instead of asking every microbe to spare us, spend that time living <3

Nameless Grub · 3y

low kill shelter is the shit...had to stop to cry my eyes out like every 4-5 pages...hell fucking yes that's how you know it's good... <3 <3 <3

<333 love that it could hit you like that. I was crying a bunch around the time I got this so it feels like the weather. psyched for you to see my upcoming novel, which hits some similar themes but has 100k more words and unprecedented amounts of porpentoxicity n tears. working on such a long grueling thing, it's good to be reminded that people wanna read this stuff and it can fuck nicely with their head, so thank you.

Nameless Grub · 3y

Had you imagined that people would be asking you for advice on this? How do you feel abt it?

we're all dumb as shit in this world so people look for a little help I guess! i don't mind, because if I don't wanna answer a question, I don't. at the same time, advice can only help people so much, you have to learn most things firsthand. but even though we're dreams to each other, drifting past and through, it can be nice to connect regardless.

Nameless Grub · 3y

how do we foster understanding between "religious community" trauma-havers and "isolated secular family" trauma-havers?

people have to be mature enough to understand that a massive ocean of evil underlies all things and wears all things and no pet hate or identity preference will protect them

Nameless Grub · 3y

not sure if this has been said before but u have big mommydaddy vibes and ive been following them since i was a young trans person so in other words you're cool and important to my life and thanks for being the person and artist you are !

yeah, I'm the whole damn nuclear family. thanks for seeing my superposition and thanks for the nice letter, it made my day <3

Nameless Grub · 3y

(part 2)
but lately i feel more scatterbrained and disconnected from myself than ever and dont have any clear obsessions right now and i wonder why and if this has anything to do with how faraway from myself i feel. I think the classic answer to this predicament was to ruin my life a bit but im older and kind of overprotective of my relatively calm semi-assimilated life. Have anything to throw at me?

I feel you. I spent so much of my life without anything safe or domestic that it's still a big deal to me to have those things, but I need that obsessive crazy spark too. It's hard to balance entropic love with domestic love, but anyone who loves you needs you to be the you who is alive. Maybe getting privacy away from internet/people, some kind of relocation that triggers novelty in your brain. One thing to consider is new obsessions may not line up with the present body-mind image, could be outside what one considers true about oneself, beyond the plans and logic, dérive whether cyber or physical. Or things that aren't merely "fun", "entertaining", "enriching", ticking off the boxes, but get you kinda sick and a little fucked. but who the fuck knows, good luck with the bonus gameplay 🤪

Nameless Grub · 3y

Can I ask you about giving and taking? It's something I've been thinking of a lot lately. I've given so much and most of it I will never get back. A lot of people who go through similar circumstances say they have lost their desire to be kind in a world that uses them and hurts them. I still want to be kind, but after everything it's so hard.

only commit to people as much as they commit to you. this line fluctuates unevenly, it doesn't have to be transactional, but you should be aware of it. there's no cheevo for being a punching bag.

Nameless Grub · 3y

hey porpentine!!!!!!! i love psycho nymph exile and i was wondering if you had any interest in restocking the eye stickers?????? thanks!!!!!!!! FUCK!

hey!! here ya go https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/114155812 👁

caveat the original stickers were handled by me so i could ensure Porpentine Production Standards, this is a quick n dirty forced redbubbleification, let me know if the quality sucks and i'll nuke it

Nameless Grub · 3y

How are you so prolific?

-if I don't make things I become sick

-I actually make things instead of spending 99% of my time backstabbing or tearing down other artists

-I'm a poor and I'm used to making things quickly and cheaply

-Making things is the only way for someone like me to touch the world. Tens of thousands of people have cried, jerked off, touched, rubbed, licked, horripilated, and otherwise interacted with my stories who would feel sick, queasy unease at the bestiality of being around someone like me. There won't be acceptance for people like me in my lifetime, so this is the closest I'll ever get.

Nameless Grub · 3y

Ive always been curious abt your experience with that creative capital stuff, th award or whatever--it seems weird and all that programming and mentoring... What is that even like? Is it bizarre?

That was a long time ago but the art world kinda fucked me up, the way all scenes fucked me up. Being the only poor faggot in the room is just being an animal in a zoo. No one sees you as family, friend, someone to mentor. Bizarre is exactly the word, though. I was around a lot of rich people and some crazy shit happened I can't talk about. It's not a good place for a sensitive person. The stuff you mentioned specifically was basically a grant, but with some extra shit I had to do. I got whatever cash I could, kicked some to my friends, then booked it. I'm happier focusing on my own shit.

Nameless Grub · 3y

When in 300 years avatar people move thru physical internet and unearth what they term the 'charitynomicon' and start a religion based on your art but its like totally removed from the reality of what you made, what do you think the religion would it be like

totally removed from the reality of what i made is how people currently write about it

Nameless Grub · 3y

What sort of environment do you like to have when you are writing?

an environment with zero distractions. an environment with total solitude. an environment where nothing is trying to suck your dick. you need to remove sources of dicksucking from the environment. that includes dogs. any dogs that may be trying to suck your dick, get em out of there. send em to the ice cream shop. buy em a yo-yo. I keep a bat by the desk for sluts. beat em off before they beat you off. you can lose a whole story inside someone's mouth. oral unstorytelling. I also love to listen to music and listen to the right kind of music for the story. thank you very much.

Nameless Grub · 3y

between itch and steam, which would give you more money if i bought angel eczema orifice for $4.99?

Nameless Grub · 3y

How r u today ?

hoo boy, buckle up. you're in for it now. welcome to the pyramid. welcome to magic. it all started when i had to wake up in the middle of sleep because the plumber showed up super early so we all ran to the car and got diner breakfast and went to the park and ate at those tables people have parties at. it sucks being disrupted from the routine but I also appreciated the fresh air. we saw a ton of goats at the park which means it's fire season. they're fire-fighting goats and there's like 3000 of them and they eat shit off the ground so it doesn't burn when the flames come.

then we got home, crazy tired, but it wasn't over. we'd been locked out. oh shit. game over. unless? I looked around at my timid, cerebral, effete roomies, and knew my jock powers were needed. there's a balcony around back, and from that balcony, an old blanket hangs, rotting, as it has been for three years, forgotten, until now, when it would finally achieve its destiny. I tugged on the blanket. the old fibers still held together. I grabbed it and slammed my feet into the wall, rappelling up. but I couldn't have done it without my gf, boosting me from below. I lost my grip, nearly falling, but her strength kept me up. I clung tighter. get your head in the game, charity. no tomorrows. only todays. lets go. I walked up that wall and saw the railing above, tantalizingly within my, you guessed it. my grasp. I grasped that shit, locking my arms through the bars. then I was up, and I rolled over the edge. fuck yeah. suck my dick. I unlocked the door. my lil buddies flowed inside, burbling happily for the safe confines of their terrariums. the end.

or is it? I caught a nap, had a dream I was part of a special team fighting this super-technological insanely powerful faction that dispersed tiny pellets that swelled up inside us to infinite size. by the time we realized this, some were small enough to pry out without too much damage, but one was big as a microwave, swelling inside another agent's abdomen. I was like fuck there's no way, but then someone did surgery and C-sectioned that shit out. I grabbed my sniper rifle and slid down a piney ridge, flanking the enemy. I scoped in, popped one. I have a lot of dreams where I'm hauling a whole-ass sniper rifle so I guess that's my dream class. the rest of the dream was some kind of bisexual school fantasy.

then I ate a croissant and rubbed some vintage Femme Rochas on my neck and now I'm writing to bring the juicy words to the masses. consider this response to be the first dehydrated, neon yellow wordpiss of waking. have a good freaking day 😎🦇

Nameless Grub · 3y

why can't i feel anything ever?

short answer: anhedonia

long answer: whatever caused your anhedonia

reasons someone can feel that way: wrong body, wrong place, lack of stimuli, too much stimuli, ptsd, dissociation, dopamine disorders like adhd, too many drugs, not enough drugs, overreliance on soothing activities, ahrimanic deficiency, the weather, no bildungsroman, psychogeographic atomization,

Nameless Grub · 3y

i want to write a short story about traumas as a sort of art therapy but whenever i try i recoil from the page as if i had touched a hot stove. is there a trick to this or do i just need to ease my way into it?

Nameless Grub · 3y

that you know of, has anyone ever gotten a tattoo of one of your drawings? and

not sure about my drawings, but I've seen ink inspired by their angelical understanding, with those we love alive, psycho nymph exile, etc 💜💉 the answer to your second question is "yes" or "maybe" but feel free to send another ask if you want a clear response. have a good one pal!

Nameless Grub · 3y

hi i dont have a question !! i had to tell you that your art is so beautiful and it is my favorite part of the internet. it helped me discover i was trans and its so soso comforting knowing that you exist because you're rad, like totally tubular

bless you and this sweet message 💜💜💜 i will keep making tubes for the people! 🎏🩹💊🧪💉

Nameless Grub · 3y

What kinda comics d'u like?

contemporary

megg and mogg

beautiful darkness (the french one)

older comics

the invisibles (hugely influential on me)

vaughn bode's stuff

the maxx

tales of the beanworld

manga

helter skelter

gentle goodbye (junji ito)

waltz (shuzo oshimi)

berserk

chainsaw man

homunculus

online

leisure town

no matter what

oral obligations

Nameless Grub · 3y

hey PORP, i wanna try making a weird tiny dumb surreal 3d game, i know how to make art/music/models/words but have never actually tried..."creating a game" and i dont really know how to start. how'd you learn how to make 3d stuff people can play? did you just follow youtube unity tutorials or what?

hey!! 3d games are the HARDEST TO MAKE. i dont even remember how i made those. and my friend riley did all the code on bigger ones like bellular hexatosis. BUT there are way more resources now, so yeah, look up tutorials and if you need to know something else, search [unity + thing you want to do] to find the answer on some forum somewhere, and there's all kinds of shaders and prefabs and copy/paste code to cut down on work (most important thing is avoiding work as much as possible). it's really not that hard to make a guy bonk around inside a zone, i bet you could have the basics figured out in a day! so don't be deterred if that's your dream!

making a tiny and dumb thing is the right way to start 3d (and in fact anything, babies for example), so you're already on the right path. I love the feeling retro/janky 3d can bring and if I had the time I'd def spec into that stuff so I could make psx strip mall survival horror swamps 8) good luck!

Nameless Grub · 3y

i was reading that one interview and saw you were collabing on a project described as "like if H.R. Giger made a Nintendo DS and then you had Porpentine programming playing through it", has that been named/shown to the public yet? because i'm incredibly intrigued but i haven't been keeping up with stuff so i dunno if that project has been unveiled or not.

probably https://xrafstar.monster/sticky_zeitgeist, episodic game-comics framed inside a chunky decayed pc-98 kinda UI drawn by rook ⚙📺📽⛓. thanks for the letter and stay intrigued! many more veils to be unned!

Nameless Grub · 3y

not a question, just wanna say that you're super cool and talented and i'm so grateful there's someone like you in the world to make fucked-up art for all the little freaks <33 anyway, sorry for simping so much lol, i hope you're having a nice day

I love making fucked up art for the little freaks! there's so much sanitized shit out there, I know how good it feels to find someone just doing their greasy depraved thing. and any day where I get a message like this makes it a nice one!! <333

Nameless Grub · 3y

hey, charity! Any chance there'll ever be another print run of 4/4 sluts with trample? finally got some disposable-ish income these days and it was too bad missing it when you put it out!

hi!! 100% limited run, preciate you asking. if i do another picture book i'd want to do new stuff too. but i'm working on the low kill shelter paperback and my novel is coming out sometime, if you need tangible germy things to get your mitts on. [inspiring takeaway] be the slut with trample you want to see in the world...

Nameless Grub · 3y

hiya charity, how would u pronounce "xrafstar"? i tried looking it up but couldn't find a clear answer lol (great new name for your work tho!! 🐍🐍🐍🐍)

the etymology is generally regarded as unclear but the x- could probably be said kh- but it's also fun to say it as x. and that's what etymology is all about at the end of the day…having fun! I'm sure there's people who know their avestan/middle/old persian and can give a better answer or a more robust "idk".

and thank you!! I'm really into zoroastrianism/ahrimanism/ancient religions and love reading the rivayats and other texts, and the list of animals which are xrafstar (evil animals) is what I already identify with (insects, vermin, lizards, snakes, parasites, faggots), so it was a natural fit when I needed a new urlskin, because slimedaughter was very early 2000s, correct for my glitchy trash game era but not my current aesthetic, and I got mildly tired of people asking me about slime ten years later, trying to get the url for their slime selling business, or assuming things about who I am or who my art is for (everyone). have a nice day! 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

Nameless Grub · 3y

can i draw fanart of you as a bug?

Nameless Grub · 3y

How do I make a story if my mind is refusing to help me come up with a coherent structured series of events but keeps snagging on the same images/phrases and compelling me to make something of them?

it's easy to get hung up on making a story, but remember, most art is an incoherent series of images and "cool shit" that our brains perceive as a story due to massive production budgets, hot anime bitches, and/or the general illusion of our insatiably pattern-seeking minds. the average person filters insane amounts of dumb shit from the art they enjoy, they read hundreds of thousands of filler words or watch multiple seasons of garbage just to imagine some characters kissing. people will forgive nearly anything if you give them some banger shit.

maybe you need to make something shorter. or maybe you need to tell a story in a different way that makes sense to your neurology. through dreamlike logic, inference, fragments, whatever. it can help to look at art that presents visceral scenes in lieu of a traditional story (30 flights of loving, lost highway, naked lunch, etc). stories are ultimately emotional (unless the purpose of the story is to function as a logic puzzle mystery hard scifi whatever) and it's cool when they fit together and have an internal realism but that's not the most important thing. you have to follow whatever makes you finish a story, which means finding the venn diagram collision of "thing that is neat on paper" and "thing that jerks my brain's dick off".

either way, you can revisit those ideas in a more ambitious form once you get comfortable. it took me like a decade to make the larger scale stuff I'm doing now, and I still have a lot to learn. hope this helps!!

Nameless Grub · 3y

Five years ago, I bought and started to play through Eczema Angel Orifice. I was really very ill at the time, but your writing really affected me, and helped me come to the realisation that I was trans. Even though so much about life is shit right now for everybody, I am the most at peace with myself and my body that I've ever been, and I cannot overstate how grateful I am to you and your work for helping me reach this point.

I still use the name bequeathed upon me by With Those We Love Alive.

Thank you.

damn ;; it's crazy to think of it having that impact on someone. i was very sick then too, i'm glad it could find you then. if we have to burn in hell, it might as well be in our own skin <333

Nameless Grub · 3y

In all seriousness, what do you think love is? Do you think the ability to love is inborn, or does it need to be learned? What advice, if any, would you have for a person who was incapable of love but didn't realize it until an advanced age? Thanks.

sure, I'll take a crack at it, as someone with deep emotional damage, which seems to be an opinion you're looking for.

"In all seriousness, what do you think love is?"

I don't think in terms of big symbols like that, but I understand the components that go into the symbol. love breaks down into a lot of different parts. our definition of it expands to fit the space allowed to us. everyone is supposed to own one, like the animals in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but many people have a decorative facsimile that looks pretty as long as you don't use it.

love is desire + safety * time

love is action, realized in retrospect

love is desire when it is fallow

love is mutual sacrifice

love is a magic word used to control people

"Do you think the ability to love is inborn, or does it need to be learned?"

I believe people are capable of (desire + safety * time) if they have the chance. I remember being surprised that I could still laugh and smile after years getting brainfucked. just pure bleak desperation, body and mind used up, addiction, harm, zero light, the kind of shit you're not supposed to come back from. so I have a bias toward thinking brains are very plastic.

"What advice, if any, would you have for a person who was incapable of love but didn't realize it until an advanced age?"

(desire) can look very different from what people tell you it's supposed to look like, especially if you're damaged. this doesn't have to be a bad thing. if words don't map onto anything for you, find new definitions for them. if feelings are blocked, find the block. it can be anhedonia, it can be an unprocessed event, it can be a deficiency in environment, it can be anything.

(safety) is hard to find. life is cruel. I don't know what to say.

(time) is too big a subject for this medium. I usually start with 1 second and work my way out.

without desire, safety becomes numbing and stagnant. without safety, desire burns so quickly it blinds and consumes. without time, you can't iterate on the inevitable mistakes of both.

that's the perspective from inside my meat. i'm sure lots of people have very different models. good luck!

Nameless Grub · 3y

ive been positively influenced by your work since i was a wee lass!!!! how do you do it!!!!

thank you! the answer is stupendous amounts of brain damage and masochism! have a nice night!

Nameless Grub · 3y

How do you make friends/How would someone make friends with you? -a girl

the most ancient and deadly question!

i think everyone can try to say hi to other people and see what happens, evaluating compatibility periodically. i make friends when people are real with me and don't make it weird.

sometimes people connect from shared interests, but i actually have very few shared interests with most of my friends, and it usually comes down to vibe. one can begin a connection over fucked up shit and commonalities but the most important staying factor is vibe and karmic depth/resonance.

friendship can't come from pure need, only two whole selves, otherwise one will be annihilated by the other.

people are insanely different and toxic for each other, but friendship is also one of the most important things in the entire world.

Nameless Grub · 3y

What sort of music do you enjoy?

i have a playlist for pretty much everything but i especially like melodramatic, passionate music with big melodies and lots of colors in them, not overmastered, some grit, and BIG trails. i listen to music with triangles as long as the metallic edges bonk hard enough. spherical music can be good if it has some rubber and lots of juice/candy in the spheres or doesn't phone in the pulse. i don't listen to a lot of black and white music but it can be black/gray and brown (especially if there are blue concaves or green edges).

if i had to name some genres:

-pop!!

-dancy post-hardcore/sasscore

-music with glitched out vocals (sticky drama is a good example)

random albums/artists I like:

-hsiu - you were beautiful when i loved you, you were beautiful when i lost you.

-the paper chase (Now You Are One of Us, and Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1)

-the protomen album 1 and 2

-tech honors - XOXO

-alexisonfire - watch out!

-the bunny the bear - If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say…

-sematary

-lauren bousfield

-rook

-girls rituals

-ash nerve

-esper99

-vince staples - summertime '06

-caroline polachek - pang

-IBOPA - Ballads for Benpadrone

-coheed but especially the first few albums

-the digimon movie soundtrack baby!!!

Nameless Grub · 3y

suggestions for media (art/books/movies/games/comics/whatever) about being in culty/manipulative situations by people who have been in those type situations. direly need to relate or ... like... figure things out but not super interested in documentary stuff

you're in luck, I collect that shit. I can't attest to the personal experiences of the creators behind each film, but I tried to keep it to movies that focus on the psychological aspect of belief, reality, manipulation, etc, as opposed to using cults more aesthetically, otherwise this list would be insanely long.

<<explicitly about cults>>

-the sound of my voice

-the invitation

-the master

-faults

-monos

<<manipulative/mind controlling situations>>

-possessor

-dogtooth

-homecoming (first season)

-black bear

and of course a lot of things I make lol

glhf!!

Nameless Grub · 3y

hi charity, would you be open to someone commissioning an audio format of any of your existing fiction work? your youtube channel was my entry point into your creations, and you've got a very soothing voice :)

aw, thank you. my voice is one of my favorite things for people to appreciate about me, so yeah, definitely. hit up my DMs and we'll figure something out. 🎤🐛

Nameless Grub · 3y

Will "Low Kill Shelter" ever get a physical paper book print release? Love to hold and interact with your art in my hands like that when I can!

thanks for your interest in the dog boys!! i hadn't thought about it but i should, especially since my novel is coming out next and i gotta prepare. i don't know how to do meat book formatting but it looks like amazon has a paperback print on demand option so i'm going to follow the guide on there and see if the sample copy is any good. if it works out i'll enable it there. 🤞🦷

Nameless Grub · 3y

lichen or moss

i swing both ways!! moss is comforting and green but lichen has beautiful rust and guano-like colors. soft mossy gf and emo chad lichen bf

Nameless Grub · 3y

im writing a story about eusocial spacebugs putting foxgirls in zoos. do you have any cool bug facts that you like? what bug is your favorite?

i love eusocial bugs!! they're insanely horney!! bees (cuddle death, waggle dance, propolis) ants (trophallaxis, honeydew harvesting) ... endless possibugilities...

Nameless Grub · 3y

What are your favorite critters in RPGs/card games? like the weird lil dudes who aren't freaks (good) but are still cool

1/1 smegroling with bomple

weebos from magi nation

gremlins from slay the spire

poes, octoroks, garos, mad scrubs from n64 zeldas

snifits from smrpg

they can be freaks i dont care. you never know whats in someones heart... 8)

Nameless Grub · 3y

i can rearrange my room or continue procrastinating, what should i do today?

rearrange your room!! even just four room movements can lead to tangible psychic events

Nameless Grub · 3y

if u were going in a sandwich what bread would they use

great question! depends which part of me you're eating!

thighs: biscuit (with gravy ofc)

ass: soda bread or crispbread/knackebrot

tongue, eyeballs: dutch crunch

liver: dark rye (soaked in garlic oil)

intestines: dill sourdough

skin (fried): flaky croissant

balls: hawaiian sweet roll or english raisin muffin

yeah i think a lot about bread

Nameless Grub · 3y

is girlchunks based on a drug i can get

i want to take it

Molly + acid or shrooms, but shorter in duration, with a touch of ketamine. i don't rec candy flipping unless you have experience with molly and hallucinogens individually. Many girlchunks are also cut with random guro byproducts, night particles, xenoplasts, etc so it can be a totally different drug regionally. Stay safe…

ArinK · 3y

Bit random but have you ever read any of Bavitz's work, he specialises in writing whumpfics that feel like chugging draining fluid and I think you'd enjoy them lol.

Hey, thanks! I’m always looking for fucked up fic, but madoka and homestuck, this is not IP i’m familiar with. And unfortunately i only read stuff i can jerk off to, or have religious mania to. I’m sure it’s cool though, glad you are enjoying the draining fluid. Even if i don’t end up being into something i appreciate the recs, it's hard to sort through everything out there and i like learning about new things. People should def send me any dark shit they think i’d like, esp if its transcendently disgusting and has some kind of extremely unhealthy relationship and i dunno, love, violence, brain damage, the good shit. Have a nice day pal!

Nameless Grub · 3y

Do u have advice for how to not falter in the face of potential ridicule or ostracization? Like how do i be myself and take myself seriously

*If I had to identify a tangible moment for the change you describe, it would be getting so tired of being scared and neurotic that one goes fuck it mode. When people don’t exceed a certain critical threshold it’s easy to live in safe misery or what one perceives as safe, which is how many people live.

*It takes time for everyone to take themselves seriously. I think people try, in many small, forgotten ways, starting from childhood, and are put in their place by adults, then constantly tested by authority figures after that. It feels shitty making decisions without experience. But experience does come, if you’re honest with yourself. You fill up with things. Sometimes those things are worth defending.

*Social cruelty hurts worse than nearly anything. It’s an extremely effective tool. But some ostracism is inevitable for anyone desiring to become real. It’s easy to see a tiny part of the world as the totality. It’s important to recognize who is not a serious person, what is not a serious community, and not waste time on them. You need things that are for you.

*Don’t engage with bots or people who are bots, control access to your information, gl hf

Nameless Grub · 3y

I think maybe i didn't know what prolific meant, woopsy. But!!!! Thank you so much for your suggestions!!!! your taking of my meaning was actually much more helpful than what i meant... but yeah book reviews hurt my brain, hard to find the good good....... thank you for making The Good Shit.....i am suckling on the teet of good stories wherever i can find it... so thanks again

Nameless Grub · 3y

I get bored by books easily and also sometimes my brain only allows audiobook words to pierce thru my skull, do u have any good Semi Prolific books to rec that might be on a free library book app or something?

by semi prolific i'll take you to mean...semi-abundant? short serials? a few sequels but nothing excessive? trying to think of books i've read that would be in a library and satisfy your craving for the sequential.

i like the southern reach trilogy, which has audio versions. if you like comics, which are exciting and have pictures, which are the sound of the eyes: the filth and the invisibles by grant morrison still hold up. i like helter skelter by kyoko okazaki and homunculus by hideo yamamoto. i like max grave's comics on twitter, which is a website that can be accessed from a library. simon hanselmann's megg & mogg comics are amazing. real shit and super funny but especially hit if you've lived in Horrific Squalor.

of course, comics aren't on audiobook apps, so here are some single books likely to have audiobooks (from a random scan thru my old book folder): black wings has my angel (noir), a scanner darkly (scifi/orange county), greg egan short stories (scifi), ballard short stories (scifi).

i don't read a lot lately, it's hard to find good dark fiction under the overwhelming shill reviews, and most publishing houses being outlets for boring rich people or fascist twee queers, so i spend most of my time writing instead, to save the dicks, ass, pussy, and soul of every human of this world from damnation. but i hope these suggestions will be a small trinket to you in your magical reading adventure. 📜👀

Nameless Grub · 3y

Thank you for your art! It's already hard to be alive and putting your heart into something and let it loose in the howling silence of the internet is rarely painless; I just wanted you to know that it had a deep impact on me. I wish you luck with anything you make in the future and all the best outside of it too, because everyone is more than just what they create :)

this is a really sweet thoughtful message, thank you. i was having a tough night last night and this was really nice to see. it can be demoralizing shitting into the void but i really love what i do and seeing how it affects people thru the ol tap code 💜🎭🧿🔮💣🪂👁‍🗨💬🔱♎

Nameless Grub · 3y

thanks for making pixel games! i dont really understand them so i will replay them and think. i hope you have a good day today

Nameless Grub · 3y

i discovered you a couple minutes ago you say a lot of words and i desperately want to undesrtand everything but i Cant

Nameless Grub · 3y

how do i be 1 person

Nameless Grub · 3y

whats your favorite stimulant

Nameless Grub · 3y

Is it possible to be friends with the computer?

the computer comes from the earth so you should respect it, although it is inhabited by the spirits of the sky who are deceptive and malicious and want to fuck your brain 🦺

Nameless Grub · 3y

Did Tails live through the Darkshatterwar? If so, what became of her?

she lives with rouge the bat who supports her financially and emotionally. they go to vegas and get destroyed on shrimp cocktails. tails autistically categorizes all the slot machines and hasn't played them once. they sound like rings but no one dies

Nameless Grub · 3y

What, if anything, does INNOCENT stand for, both as an acronym and an institution?

The acronym and purpose changes with every timeline but the primary aims could be regarded as 1) interfacing and 2) a counter-response to the torture dimensions.

When averaged over 1000 versions the most common acronyms are Imminent/Irredentist/Interfacing Nascent Never Original Corridor Enteric Negation Thalassorg/Teratocide/Transmigration.

Interfacing is the study of mundane objects which function as artifacts, retaining the ID of their exotic counterparts or original phenomena in other timelines.

The closest thing to an ideology INNOCENT has is a kind of “timespace irredentism”, but most members are recruited locally and motivated by local factors such as money and neurosis. It is impossible to migrate timelines without severe lossiness and identity decay.

The original corridor is an irredentist architectural belief regarded as the baseline for the “linking structures”. Some feel there is an actual original corridor with paradisiac connotations, others view it as a way of describing the necessity for mapping architectural deviation, which can mean an intrusion by entities. Following the basic rules of each architecture is essential for survival, and this architecture can be exploited with the right pattern fills, allowing travel between two unconnected points, and "quantum forage".

Enteric negation is because these entities tend to use gut microbiota as an entry point, as well as allergies and dermatitis linked to dysbiosis.

Thalassorg due to the use of water as a primary technology and counter-medium.

Transmigration because INNOCENT was partially founded as a response to entities whose primary tactic is not death or destruction but displacement, temporally and psychically. To become unknown to yourself and others, adrift in an entirely ordinary and plausible life in another timeline.

Nameless Grub · 3y

I love your recent stuff, your visual art is getting more and more refined and your long form fiction is really beautiful, but I was wondering if you ever plan on making games again?

thank you 💜 good question, with a juicy octopus of an answer

basically, games suck to make. they're so multidisciplinary and have so many moving parts that this creates a few problems:
1) you need a lot of stimulants to make a game
2) i've done a lot of coding for my games but i hate it and it drains my energy for the actual writing and design. if i find someone who wants to do that shit it becomes 100x easier
3) hard to find collaborators for dark multigenre games. refining my visual art, as you say, could be regarded as a step in that direction--not being as dependent on others to complete something. i've been really lucky with my past collabs, and my friends are amazing to work with, but lining up schedules is tricky the more people are involved

so right now, writing/drawing is more accessible for me. but no matter how rationally i look at it ultimately i have no idea what i'm going to do next and i'm at the mercy of the cosmic rays and parasites. i could pivot to something completely different next month and have no control over it. i do regularly flirt with making another game, and if i did it would probably be a weird sweaty survival horror with dating sim elements. thank you for your interest in the torture sim branch of CharityCorp and please have a nice night 🐊

Nameless Grub · 3y

if you could be a bug what bug would you be

im a sphex pensylvanicus they're so sphexy 🤤. centipedes aphids and flies are crazy hot too 🐛

Nameless Grub · 3y

GWSFYTKEOYS. She asks me to kill my best friend. I manage to resist with my maximum NERVE. She immediately hands them the gun and they kill me instantly. Is this a glitch? I feel so crudely shapen.

no glitch, being stubborn gets you shot. high stats will break your heart. the only way to survive is to fail to be strong. thanks for playing 👁🔫💜

Nameless Grub · 3y

favorite sodas that don't exist yet?

all my characters drink chrysalis cola 🥫
and i guess the super porp reference to me in adventure time with the dystopian grape soda 🍇😋

Nameless Grub · 3y

Did you take The Maximum Softness down? The link's broken :<

Nameless Grub · 3y

what little trinkets would you bring to show aliens if you were an ambassador for earth?

i'd bring my gf and lift her like a cat. i'd be like look at this shit. fuck yeah. then i'd suck all the aliens dicks so i'd probably bring condoms too. i'd get fired

Nameless Grub · 3y

have you ever seen a ghost?

yeah its called the internet where we float like fishes in the undeletable psychic goop of everyones dead selves 8)

Nameless Grub · 3y

what's the best way to get brainwashed and which organization is the best at it

any organization with a belief or aesthetic the opposite of the first thing that hurt you, which leads to the same place as every other: isolation and self-erasure and slow death so a wealthy rapist gets richer

Nameless Grub · 3y

are there any special breakfast techniques you can share?

i go down to the coop where the sluts shit out a perfect virgin anal egg and i toss it in the air and hit it with a louisville slugger and it turns into a sun and it is inside me and inside you and i appear in an empty airport with 517 phone chargers connected to nothing. i order the special.

Nameless Grub · 3y

What entity did you make a pact with that allows you to produce such amazing work, and also merry christmas I hope jesus brought you some presents

thanks! i let the angels chew on the inside of my skull. merry gexmas, my gf got me a polaroid, i love it. i flap the photo like a 70s detective and wait for the face of the killer to develop.

Nameless Grub · 3y

what's your opinion on guys(generically)

i've been tackling this heavy question with 150,000+ words of ultra-dark increasingly bizarre m/m fiction trickling slowly through my patreon like a leak in a doomed dam

interpersonally I'm into everyone although due to the great success of hypersectarianism in america, I don't know as many as I'd like. people hide inside safe forms in this world of cold and ruthless striving. gender is 80% money and power. I'm lucky to be my gf's weird boyfriend and vice versa depending on the day. it's a beautiful evening on the rainy coast of alta california and I'm drinking someone's leftover coffee. I'm Gex

Nameless Grub · 3y

favourite onomatopoeia?

Nameless Grub · 3y

whats ur favorite thing about gex

he's just such a lil guy. i love that he's extremely sleazy but tinier than his gf so no matter how horney and offensive he gets she can just pick him up like a dog or put him in a bucket or something. in my head he's kind of like a reptilian daffy duck with brain damage so i see a lot of myself in him

Nameless Grub · 3y

whats the worst thing u ever microwaved

ive never made a microwave mistake. thats not who i am in life. but when i was sixteen i boiled sugar and water in a pot on the stove for some reason and forgot about it and it fused into an indestructible sugar rock with a handle sticking out of it. i went in the backyard and tried to break the black-brown mass apart but it was fucked so i threw it all away. i still dont remember why i did that

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