Welcome to 8r8kspider.
I was asked to write this little memorandum because I traveled the Westbound path myself, and frankly, I shouldn't have. This we8 of narratives is designed to push the limits and challenge the perception of the one engaging with it - that's you, for the record - and I think it's worth giving you a vague idea of what you're in for. There's no shame in turning around and walking away from this place if you know it'll hurt you.
Let's start with the big disclaimers.
- One of 8r8kspider's central mechanics in telling its story is a phenomenon known as narrative hypnosis. This concept revolves around exploiting a reader's investment and immersion in the story to change the way they perceive reality. It's used subtly in some places, far less subtly in others, but it's always present. Always shifting perception just a little 8it. The ideas stick with you like a memetic parasite, and they don't let go. If a constant deconstruction of preconceived reality would have adverse effects on your mental well-being, don't hesit8 to turn around.
- 8r8kspider is not an easy thing to stomach for most. It's unsanitized, it's raw and even confessional at times, and its ideas and presentation are designed to directly challenge the audience. Even for Zampanio standards, it's a lot. If you're not prepared, it might be a bit much Nosy girls might asphyxi8 to handle. Proceed with caution. This is not a place of honor
- 8r8kspider contains overt allusions to NSFW works and should generally be treated as mature media. Neither myself nor the [][][][][][] can functionally limit who engages with it, but discretion is advised. Don't say no one ever warned you about this.
Now that we've gotten the disclaimers out of the
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way, here's a list of things you might encounter to the West that you may find disquieting or disturbing.
Content warnings
- Intense themes of unreality
- Blood
- Cartoonish/animated gore
- Flashing imagery
- Horror
- Identity/ego death
- Themes of abuse and transmisogyny
- Guns and firearms
- Spiders
- Mentions of suicide
- Hypnotic language
- Intense themes of unreality
- Radio signals
- A strange sense of déjà vu
- The number 8
- Lies
- That aren't lies
- Are they?
- Can a lie
- be true,
- Intense themes of [][]reality
- if you want
- it bad enough?
- Mirrors
- Wᴉɹɹoɹs
- Is there any8ody out there?
This place is a message, and part of a system of messages
THE NETWORK HEARS YOU, ANGEL. KEEP MOVING.
DEATH BEFORE YOU LET THEM CLIP YOUR WINGS
I have given up, yet I still dream of it
And in my dreams, I find myself staring into names and faces that I had heard there, in the most hideous of connections -
The Wall, Grace in all Her dread, the We8 of Lies, Dreamo, Outer West, the Curator, the Lady Loveletter, Veau, "8eforus", the twin Truants, GAIAnet and the Builders anterior -
and I am drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to worlds of elder, outer fiction-fact at which the crazed authors of Zampanio had only guessed in the vaguest way
and for those few moments, I am once again the girl I saw in that wondrous slumber
Skipping rocks over the pond of a world she had left behind,
a world I had left behind,
and o, catharsis may well wait around the corner, in that sleepless dream
To shake my hand and show me a realm in ester and neon
hoping I may chase it, under the light of echoing stars.
Along the shore the co8alt 8r8ks
The twin moons sink 8ehind the lake
The shadows lengthen
Through the West Door.
Strange is the night where 8lue stars rise
And angels circle in the skies
8ut stranger still is
The far West Door.
Musicals that the wand'ring sing
Where lay old dreams of 8all-joint wings
Must die unheard in
The lost West Door.
Song of my soul, my dreams lie cold;
Die thou, unsung, as truths untold
Shall fall silent in
My dead West Door.
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Thank you for reading this disclaimer. Continue on, if you must, but always remember. Fiction has teeth.
I had my chance. But you've got to wake up from a dream eventually.
And God help you if you keep dreaming for too long.