February 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 will soon be returning to AO3. It promises not to burn anything down on the way there. Or when it arrives. Really, it does.

-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: Mathématique Chapter 89

Pacific Rim: The Breach is shut, kids. I don't plan to reopen it.

Star Wars: LiG Chapter 1

Narrative Updates:

Is that a stargate off the port bow? Hand me a telescope, boatswain!

Current Vibe:

Chipping away at the pile of literary regrets I'll have on my deathbed. 

Wishing you the best,

CWR