November 2026 Updates

Okay Kids,

On Navigating the Blog:

-Initial posts were backdated to preserve the order of the blog (in the style of Eternalism or Carlo Rovelli). As content expands, temporal accuracy turns increasingly useful. As of July 2024, dates are real.

-All blog posts are drafts. Their status is noted at the top of the post under the heading "text iteration." Temporal metaphors describe the maturity status of a draft. "Witching hour" is the earliest version of a draft; "midnight" implies edits are complete.

Fiction:

-The 2022 Director's Cut of Force over Distance is archived on AO3 if you'd like to say hi. Every so often, I comb its hair (i.e., fix a typo).

-Mathématique is also archived on AO3. It's fully restored with new additions, but remains a work in progress because it's a Guillermo del Toro monster living in my closet and draining my life force as I complete it.

-Ad Noctum has returned to AO3. It didn't burn anything down on the way there. It's not burning anything down now. It promises.

-Designations Congruent with Things returned to AO3 on January 12, 2025. Its sequel/prequel (Aftermath) and its prequel sequel (Out of Many Scattered Things) are there as well. A collection of unfinished tales and song lyrics in the style of JRR Tolkien has been added to the blog. It's called I Hope The Eldritch Horror Learns My Name (And Other Bad Ideas). Available here and nowhere else! For now, at least.

-Light in Glass, a multi-chapter Star Wars story (may the Force be with me), is making a slow and low-key debut.

Audio:

Check out readbyelementals for completed chapters or stream The Work Feed (a podcast of audio drafts maintained by elementals) by pasting this RSS feed into a podcast app that supports private URLs (Spotify won’t, Apple will…): https://www.readbyelementals.net/t/proofpod/proofpod.xml

Other Magic:

Ril of Mythril Thread Books has hand-bound Force over Distance into a stunning work of art.

Latest Releases:

Stargate: Ad Noctum: Brigade! (Part 2)

Pacific Rim: The Breach is shut, kids.

Star Wars: LiG Chapter 1

Narrative Updates:

AO3 is down, I see. Well, it's a good thing I have this blog, though I'd have guessed that, of the two, AO3 would be the more reliable. It's been some time since I updated here, I've been revising and catching up to myself again.

I now consider my transformative work to be fully "restored." It's only taken four years? Congratulations to me? Pour one on the floor the 1.6 million words of prose I've revised as of October 2026? All the editing I've learned about has made me a slower writer, as you've no doubt realized. Hopefully a better one.

It's weird to do spend so much time and effort (and blood and tears) doing something that so few people take note of. Which is not to say that I desire renewed exposure to the madding crowd, and, to be clear, I very much appreciate the comments you kids occasionally leave, but there is a special kind of insanity I believe I've unlocked by first trying to destroy something I created and then restoring it on a word-by-word level of detail. Maybe at some point I'll have something interesting to say about that.

In the relative near-term, it's finally time for me to try and thread a narrative needle. We're about to enter the arc of Maths that necessitated the Great Triptych Rewrite. I've been imagining this for years. Can I do it? We'll find out. 

Current Vibe:

New Maths chapter will drop in the near term.

Wishing you the best,

CWR