It was a messy, fascinating read from start to finish.
Like its mysterious and fractured narrative, it feels like there are many things that Ribboncutter is, and many things Ribboncutter is in the process of being.
The characters feel aware at times of their many beginnings, endings, death, and reinventions.
In reading Ribboncutter, I felt like I understood many of the supplementary art pieces, which I previously could only speculate upon.
I recommend it - both as an existential and surrealist story of apocalyptic yearning, and as the realization of eight years of thought, draft, revision, and intention finally gathered and presented with minimal filtering.
Creative orange juice. Full pulp.
M.D. Dhalgren
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I have never experienced a more humanizing account of living tangent to war. This is a story that is lived-in, soft, warm, sincere, ominous.
It's an experience, and it is masterfully made.
I think its soundtrack and audio are perhaps its strongest piece beyond its very tender delivery.
The developmental and author commentary is also worth reading, because I feel the story tastes very sweetly of the journey embarked to make it.
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One of the most traumatic pieces of media I've read in a long time. I ate this in a singular voracious week while isolated on a ship. I finished it with an immense darkness in my stomach. The ship served corndogs, that night.
It's good. It's really, really good.
It's difficult to recommend. If I tell you anything about it beyond "This is a story about a damage assessor being kidnapped by a vandal," you won't read it.
You've gotta read it.
You didn't get here by accident.
Now that I finally have an Itch.io Account, I can tell you that "Good Morning Is a Social Construct" is a beautiful and sincere project. Small little pieces of it, like the Miya's daydreaming over dinner have just become small staples of my everyday life. I think everyone who reads this will relate to Miya but aspire to be Sara.
...When I first booted it up, I was hoping Miya and Hina kissed.
I read Victim Doll with a friend last weekend. I related immensely to Ines' sexual frustration and genderlessness. The story was so traumatic it gave me a stomach ache, and I loved it, all the same. Victim Doll is unmarketable, disgusting, sincere, evocative, thought-provoking, romantic, tragic.
It sat in me like a brick, and I am still going back to it and re-reading it, and discussing it with friends.
Victim Doll will make you feel - and that is how you know it is a masterfully executed work.