Thread:Dr0Shadow/@comment-1988716-20141106110347/@comment-1988716-20141118181319

Elaboration: Tourist: making the question more generic, as in where on the Internet are people creating "fan-fics" supposed to put them? Should they just sent it to you, or put up on a separate thing?

Blogger? Tumblr? WordPress? Your Userblog on the Wiki? Anywhere a Fearblog is usually put, then documented on this Wiki. I can share it on the blindrapture Tumblr, as I share just about anything that's related to my stuff.



Why did you decide to make The Cockroach Metamorphosis a story of Jordan dealing with PTSD? Did you have any outside sources on this matter (like Slaughterhouse-Five)?

I have outside sources for everything in the Rapture Cycle, in the sense that it's all metaphors for something or other real that I need to process and say. I had a questionable childhood, and around the age of fourteen it turned outright traumatic. When I was sixteen I tried to run away to America. I made it four months before I realized I had run away into an even worse household, one that threatened my brother just as much as it threatened me, so I begged my dad to take me back. Those four months roughly comprise the core of what the logs represented (though I expanded the logs to five months to coincide it with Harold Camping's Rapture claims). Over the next few years, life got better, but my mind steadily got worse. So I kept Rapture going by writing a sequel about trying to live with that.

Why did you use Lovecraftian gods in The Cockroach Metamorphosis?

While I roughly knew what Jordan's personal arc would cover, Omega's epic Mephi inspired the direction I'd take with the surface details-- I'd explore time travel and attempt to give the world and its gods more of a sense of scope, and I'd give the Lovecraftian gods more of a focus (they had appeared in the logs, but their appearances were purely for comedic effect. Except Nyarlathotep who blinds Eric).