Thread:Nanepul/@comment-1988716-20141012012301

So from a lot of your views on Fears and storytelling, and from you mentioning you think it's cool how much influence Foolamancer took from prog rock and rock operas in general, I feel like it might be appropriate to link you to OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING. It's my attempt at many things (like defining what the Fear Mythos means to me and how heavily that definition changes over time), but Fear-wise I incorporate every single Fear (between 2011 and 2013) and portray them however I see fit. A lot of them stick fairly close to expected, but by the time it's halfway through there are very few Fears who are unchanged. Then again, it's a story all about change. And it's heavily influenced by as much music as I was passionate about at the time. Just as some obvious examples, a frequent motif is parallels with the story to Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (and also their "Supper's Ready"), and many Fears are outright named for music (EAT becomes Salmacis, which is originally from Greek mythology but here it's mostly influenced by "The Fountain of Salmacis"; The Blind Man becomes Tiresias, again from Greek mythology but here a refernece to "The Cinema Show"; The Empty City sorrrrta becomes this thing called Xanadu, a name from poetry and classic film and also a damn good Rush song; and hell, a Dying Man shard is named The Devil as a reference to Brand New's The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me-- that reference itself an allusion to CuteWithoutThe's original Dying Man blogs which were partly one big celebration of Brand New's music; the point is I show my influences but I also mask their exact significance).

Plus Rapture has an awful lot of art by some wonderful artists; it's arguably the story that brought the most art into our mythos. As well as an important story in the ongoing introspection of our mythos and its systems as a whole. I basically used Rapture as a vessel to explore Fears to their fullest potential. It just.. starts off very narrow and simple horror/black comedy, but I wrote it over the course of two years and so it.. well, it expands. Scope-wise and concept-wise.

I basically really think you might want to give it a shot. I'm currently editing it into its final draft (which will be a physical book!), but that'll likely be a while, so I'll link you to a place where you can read or download the previous draft.

..but it's up to you. Just wanted to drop the link here and give context. Check it out if you want. 