Post by @art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art

2026-09-25 19:16 UTC

@simplyxtata@c.im that seems indeed very interesting and very ambitious! For a long time I had a similar project (not the topic but the sizes of the universe and the cast) I finally put it on hold because I understood I can’t dedicate enough time to such a large project and when I imagined Esther & Erie, it was far more in adequacy with its reduced cast and timescale. Maybe a way to do it could be to do several short stories that would be ultimately connected?

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@simplyxtata@c.im 2026-09-26 11:19

@art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art honestly that's a really good idea to break it into short stories- even just intermittently. Even with correlating map sites. I did a break down of NYC (called New District), Boston and a fictitious city in Vermont/Quebec where the rich go during the summer season. There's also elements of low fantasy but I don't know if I would call it that. It's more, inspired by Isabelle Allende and Magical Realism. For instance the main character's love interest - Oliver Marx, has a very rigid almost puritanical ideology in the pursuit of justice for the underclass (despite being technically related to the upper class) and ends up in a insane amount of shootouts with the police, gangsters and all other factional groups but has an unbelievably lucky shot. We don't know if Oliver Marx is really that good or... if the lucky tailsmen he received as a child from hooded figures that he carries around helps.

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@art_of_goulwenr@mastodon.art 2026-09-25 19:16

@simplyxtata@c.im Like Star Wars IV that was a story on its own? About the novel: I read it between the 2nd election and the 2nd investiture so it was really thrilling to read it The only thing that seems wrong is that it was set two centuries in the future, otherwise it looked like a report 😬

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