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My sixth music track (including music video) release, “Concrete Amazon,” is now available on the Free Music Archive, Bandcamp, Patreon (audio and video), SoundCloud, and YouTube.

My fifth music track (including music video) release, “Plastic Nightmare,” is now available on the Free Music Archive, Bandcamp, Patreon (audio and video), SoundCloud, and YouTube.

I have not been able to access Neovel. Neovel is one of many platforms I use(d) to self-publish my stories from Absurd Realms. Unfortunately, it does not appear to work anymore. According to a review on Google Play for its Android app, it has not been working since late June. Since they did not answer my past inquiry (unrelated to this), I can assume the platform is either abandoned or experiencing serious operational issues for the foreseeable future. As a heads-up, I will no longer...

The Gender field, which you can optionally set in your account details, represents your gender identity. The only practical purpose this field serves is to indicate to others whether they should refer to you using mars masculine or venus feminine pronouns. You may also choose to unset your gender.

Excluding staff, the forums rank users using a ladder of nine titles based on trophy points. You get trophy points by earning trophies. The purpose of this is to display meritocratic social status. There is a total of 19,146 points and 43 trophies (these numbers have no special significance). There are 10 ranks on the ladder: Title Trophy points Stranger 0 Newcomer 10 Regular 30 Socialite 100 Elite 300 Dignitary 700 Magnate 2000 Legend 4000 Paragon 8000 Titan 13,000...

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The forums discipline users who violate the rules using warnings, exclusions, and in severe or habitual cases — bans. Warnings Whenever staff find a user guilty of violating a rule, they issue them a warning. Each warning adds a certain number of warning points to the offender's account for a definite or indefinite period. Some violations have a statute of limitations (i.e. generally only punished if committed and observable within the last X number of days) to discourage "grave-digging"...

Staff should treat users fairly, with equal opportunity to participate based on merit. However, as staff are people and therefore imperfect, they (including myself) may make mistakes, leading to mistreating users. Whether intentional or not, staff should avoid (while taking common sense into account) replicating the following examples (with correct behaviour provided): John insults Jane, and she insults him back. Staff punish John for insulting Jane, but Jane receives no punishment. This is...

You can now receive emails on new releases from my Substack. This just serves as an additional way of tracking releases and does not affect the availability of my work anywhere else.

“The King’s Republic,” the opening scene of “Exodus,” the fourth short story in Anthology I, is now available here.

The compendium, the official in-universe guide to Absurd Realms, intended to replace the now defunct Schizoid Nightmares Wiki, is now available here. It is currently barebones and will remain an incremental work in progress. I log changes to the compendium here.

“Premonition,” the second scene of “Exodus,” the fourth short story in Anthology I, is now available here.

As my fiction has evolved, so has the complexity of its universe. Until “Exodus,” I could manage all the story details in my confining brain. Now, there are too many to keep track of in there. Writing “Exodus” has required me to engage in heavy-duty worldbuilding, where I’ve had to explore various software to aid me in this task. Initially, I thought I could rely solely on developing the compendium. While it is suitable for reading, it lacks for use in development. Finding the least worst...

You can now follow updates from me on Bluesky (@schizoidnightmares.com). This just serves as another means of keeping track of news from me and does not replace existing means.

PlotBible, a proprietary online worldbuilding subscription service, is now in active development. While admittedly, I’m not very business-orientated, after carefully considering all reasonable options, I have settled on developing my first proprietary service. This breaks from my tradition of exclusively developing open-source/free-cultural content, but financial and technical realities force this change. In truth, it requires me to go against my own instincts or “gut sense.” However, I see...