#Prog Mountain

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Club 2

28.02.2024

Hello. Trevor here. It’s time to enter the Invisible Club. 16 tracks from 16 artists for how ever long it takes.

The musical keys for this week are D minor, C# minor and D # minor the BPM range is 122-130.

Invisible Club comes out every Wednsday and is a compiment to Invisible Waves with less talk and more action.

This weeks artists are, in order of appearance Ekoplekz, Tommaso Nudo, Baldocaster, Prog Mountain, Erell Ranson, Arkajo, Claude Lavender, Speedy J, Thought Bubble, Moskva-Kassiopeya, Patrick Cowley, Solipsism, Brian Bennett, TFSL, Birds ov Paradise, Wojciech Golczewski and Isfjord. Let’s gooo…

Intro 00:00

Ekoplekz-Brass Tackz 00:33

Tommaso Nudo-Wood Vibrations 04:37

Baldocaster, Prog Mountain-Sudden Departure 11:30

Erell Ranson-Fragments Of Moments 14:17

Arkajo-Rymdkollo 19:49

Claude Lavender-Going Up 27:10

Speedy J-Beam Me Up! - Remastered 2021 29:38

Thought Bubble-Now Boarding 34:56

Moskva-Kassiopeya-Stellarfall 39:12

Patrick Cowley-Love Me Hot 44:42

Solipsism-Human 2.0 49:49

Brian Bennett-Pendulum Force - 7' Edit 54:20

TFSL-The Tale For The Tales 58:21

Birds ov Paradise-Luftiga Ljud 1:08:16

Wojciech Golczewski-Reality Check 1:13:51

Isfjord-Drekktu mig 1:15:38

Outro 1:19:08

[dragonscinders]

Sorry not art but i Have to post about how Julia is actually so the bear from ok goodnight’s album the fox and the bird bc i realized this a few days ago and havnt stopped thinking about it and like AUGUJJHHH OH MY GODD ‼️‼️‼️

(first two are from The Bear last two are from The Mountain)

like….. the almost immediate violent response and steady descent into beasthood in the midst of an ongoing tragedy (for Julia the beast plague obviously and for the bear the drought) because maybe they havn’t known much other than violence so how the hell else are they supposed to be responding to this ??? idk i just think it’s very fun i would be more than willing to explain this further i am just tired and also supposed to be doing classwork rn so im cutting it off here bye

[emotionally-charged-arson]

Political Machinations, Source (Ayreon) Edition

Have some headcanons.

Whatever country on Alpha the story takes place in is a presidential democracy. You never really get into specifics, but there’s two “abnormal” points to consider: legislation moves considerably faster than, say, the US system, and immigrants are allowed to run for president so long as they are naturalized citizens having lived in the country for ten years.

About two years pre-‘Frame takeover, the dominant political party was a group of standard pro-industrialization idiots, whose actions had just come back to bite them in the ass what with the pollution and withdrawal of aid from international powers over petty fights and such. The president (not Russell) eventually resigned halfway through his term in total defeat, kickstarting a new election. This is done two years after another abrupt resignation by Simone Simons (Counselor), his personal therapist, who saw how volatile things had become in the political sphere and didn’t want to be involved anymore.

The next most powerful party in government for the last five years had been a group called the Conservationists, environmentalists led by The Opposition Leader, who we’ll just call Tommy, an argumentative political minister with a history of ecoterrorism early in his career. This is where most of the album characters naturally place their loyalties, on account of them being mostly scientists who like the focus on rejection of unnecessary technology and healing of the planet and such. Said characters form a sort of “inner circle,” existing outside of politics but still using influence to push the party’s agenda, sometimes using underhanded tactics:

The Biologist (Floor) is the technical founder of the party, organizing support and pushing Tommy into politics a little over ten years pre-TDTTWD. She continues influencing policy, public image and recruitment.

The Captain (Tobias) is an engineer with billions in inheritance money and influence over the space program he’s happy to drain into the cause, so long as they entertain his ideas of leaving Alpha entirely. They have an odd, careful agreement that they’ll let him go nuts with his exodus spaceship antics, but only if things are REALLY hopeless. He has personal motivation as well, having known Tommy for over almost twenty years.

He’s also unintentionally helpful to public opinion of the party, as he’s native to the country, while the other “bosses” (Tommy and Floor), are both immigrated.

The Historian (James) conducts funded research in environmental history at the capital city university lots of characters are affiliated with. He’s publicly affiliated with the party, leaving him on thin ice with said uni (on account of them desperately accepting funding from shady sources that support “over-evolution” and rejection of natural preservation as a necessity. This leads to to massive bias in research and teaching within the institution, sometimes going as far as outright censorship). But he’s crafted a very odd strategy to support the Conservationists and still keep his position, that is publishing work with wildly opposing viewpoints so the school can’t accuse him of leaning one way or the other. So like, he’ll write a scathing commentary on increasing lack of breathable air in lower city levels and its causes, and before he can be targeted for it he’ll whip out a journal article about how it’s actually totally fine if all the fish are dying because it’s good for the economy. He feigns neutrality through pure confusion while the actual party uses select research of his to promote their cause.

The Astronomer (Hansi) is in a similar predicament. He’s a high level professor with ties to Floor, who abandoned a teaching career herself to join in on Tommy’s politics and tried to take Hansi with her. He refused initially, too attached to his job security to take a risk like that. He did eventually join in, but only after the party came to more substantial power (and when the state of the planet got substantially worse). His situation is a peculiar one, though. He’s still intent on keeping his job, but uses it for the party’s benefit. In short he preaches their ideology in his completely unrelated astronomy classes, in hopes of educating and swaying younger people (often coming from very wealthy backgrounds) to their efforts. Amazingly, he’s been able to do this for years without being suspected on a large scale. Floor is the only one that even knows about his involvement.

The Prophet and The Preacher (Nils and Zaher) are exactly that. Religious figures that run a local, newly popular religion related to the Universal Migrator.

The Migrator’s existence is a relatively new discovery, made at this capital university, and the nature of it caused people to question already established religions on Alpha. It’s an actual answer to the deepest questions in the known universe, and it destabilized faith in other higher powers while spawning a religion of its own, with Zaher being one of its earliest public figures. A few years later, Nils gained his prescience spontaneously, and attributed it to The Migrator which he learned about through his research in theoretical astronomy. In reality Nils’ visions and the Migrator have almost no relation (it’s actually Time Telepathy but that’s a whole other can of worms), but it’s not like HE knows that. He leaves the university, declares his faith and starts working with Zaher to spread it.

The religion’s popularity skyrockets once Nils gets involved. His visions are, apparently, founded in reality. All at once, the Migrator’s existence and power is proven while also appearing to have more spiritual qualities than its hardcore scientific discovery likes to admit.

More importantly, those visions validate practically everything the Conservationists promote (the end of the world via technology, etc), and at Tommy’s request Nils and Zaher affiliate themselves with him. The party now appeals to a new and LARGE demographic, even if it alienates members of other religions. At this point the Migrator one has become the dominant faith in the country anyways.

Everything is great. We’re influencing politics in a real way. We’re making progress.

Except we’re not doing it fast enough.

So says Russell, some GUY who shows up out of nowhere trying to run for president when Tommy would otherwise have campaigned completely unopposed. His whole shtick, of course, is using the Frame to solve all the world's problems and he presents it in a very hopeful and upbeat tone. He’s recruited the singular competent person from the previous presidential administration, The Diplomat (Mike), who had lots of public favor given that he was the one keeping the shitshow in one piece for years on end. Mike vouches for him and this is very helpful but it’s supplementary to Russell's specific talents.

Against the Conservationists-their endless funding, big name supporters and heaps of evidence and political experience-Russell has something none of them do, even the previous president before him: the ability to pacify the public. Tommy and Floor, two people with insane and unchecked environmental anxiety, are very prone to using scare tactics in their politics. Promises of Alpha's destruction if they don’t heed their warnings combined with Tommy's aggressive rhetoric and tone of voice. The previous president loved deflection and false promises, standard government official behavior. But Russell is a calming, charismatic and genuinely positive person that seems almost docile next to the others, and in that he’s the 'comfortable' option. He makes people feel safe and is offering a fast, even possible solution to their suffering. People LOVE him.

This whips everyone into a panic. The Conservationists supposedly know that the Frame will turn on humanity and out of their fear, that gradually becomes the main focus of their campaign. So much power is turned against Russell that they seem even more aggressive to people than they did before, no matter what they stand for and they start losing credibility. Eventually, obviously, Russell obtains the presidency, a month before TDTTWBD.

As a show of good faith, the losers are invited to Russell's inauguration. Floor, the more reasonable of her group, is hopeful that if they play along for a while then they can corner Russell and talk him out of his Frame plan. All that goes down the drain when Russell lets a snarky comment slip during his speech and Tommy, hopeless and erratic, starts beating his lights out in public. Him and several higher ups on his side are arrested for attempted assassination, setting off a domino effect of trials and investigations (including Hansi and James) over the next few weeks as the party is legally dissolved.

From there, into the main plot, viewpoints of characters begin to unravel. Russell's whole Frame plan existed because he KNEW there was no other option, and soon enough Floor starts understanding that. All of a sudden as the literal apocalypse rages outside, Tobias’ plan has become the most reasonable, the Nils’ visions shift accordingly. Tommy is released from death row on Russell’s orders, and a hinge point of the two’s conflict is wondering if he did that out of actual compassion or because he knew Tommy would have done far more damage as a martyr. Everyone gets to grapple with how little the work they poured their lives into mattered now that Alpha is gone.

Et cetera, et cetera. Sorry I didn’t talk about Chemist, maybe he’ll have his own post. Man is his own mess that doesn’t even become plot relevant until Star of Sirrah.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A DOWNED ALIEN SPACECRAFT IN A LAKE OF MIST: SCI-FI ART IN THE SUPER-SEVENTIES.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a HAWKWIND poster design for the band's fourth studio album, "Hall of the Mountain Grill," released by United Artists in. September 1974. Artwork by Barney Bubbles.

"Before his celebrated designs for Stiff, Radar et al, Barney Bubbles created a spectacular body of work for Hawkwind. The band's manager Doug Smith has called Bubbles 'the most important artist of our generation' for the visual identity he created for artists, whereas Peter Saville has simply said "Barney Bubbles should be canonised.""

-- ROCK-EXPLOSION (Classic original rock and pop posters)

Source: www.rock-explosion.com/catpage6.html.

[gynoidluddite]

"Much like a needle through the heart One day the madness will end The hunters slinking through the bracken Ready to tear this reverie apart

My grief at leaving you is boundless But I must never return So in the forest you will find me there I'll leave a trail that leads you home

Now burn the bridges end to end Fall to the river below For I was nothing but an impostor Wide-eyed and chasing white rainbows

The years of sacrifice erode The warp and weft of my soul Our wretched hovel is devoured By yellow meadows flooding with rose"

Haken - Beneath the White Rainbow

[girl-dot-tzt]

Nice to meetcha!

[This blog will be a conglomeration of the things I like, that includes nsfw stuff so skedadle if you don't like that. (That means minors should kick rocks)]

Hey what's good I'm Tanith (she/her), been on hrt and prog for awhile. I like mountain biking, kink, anime, snowboarding, and shopping! Not on here too much but I like to post when I can!

A song I like alot lately is:

(This song changes regularly so check the bottom for the playlist)

My favorite anime are Jujutsu-Kaisen and Dandadan! I'm a sucker for new gen stuff!

Friendly reminder that this is a "no discourse allowed" page, I will not engage in discourse on this page.

I won't disagree with you, I will just block you. (Also like, if ur trying to glean actual nuanced opinions from an explicitly nsfw focused blog what are you even doing with your life?)

I'm just here to have fun and arguing with people isn't fun.

Cashapp: $ironicallyd3ad

I do this for attention, but I'm not gonna turn ya down if you wanna be generous

I'm a switch, but for most ppl I'd likely be a dom.

Dm me if ya want

This is the playlist with all the songs I've featured for this post, I change the current song regularly ���💃:

I'll make an effort to keep all my content free, I just wanna post because I like the attention. But if you're interested in sending money I won't say no.

(If you've read this far ask me for bike pics)

[astriiformes]

Okay, fun question time. One of the various multimedia elements of the LotR Road Trip AU story is that I am planning on making playlists for each member of the Fellowship, the idea being that they're supposed to be snapshots into everyone's music libraries for when they have the aux cord in the car.

My music taste is pretty all over the place, which helps with a project like this, but I can't claim it's as broad as I would like when trying to represent the music tastes of nine different people. So I would love to solicit some ideas from people--genres, artists, even specific songs. You name it.

Here's generally the vibes I've been curating so far, though I'm not entirely married to all of them:

Frodo -- Indie, acoustic, folk? Probably some instrumentals. Chill beats to carry a cursed artifact to.

Sam -- Generally pretty upbeat. For sure some really traditional folk influences but also like. Folk rock. Should be an extremely feel-good playlist.

Merry -- Nerd music, to put it simply. Folk and filk, as well as some of the found-filk folks out there like Hank Green, probably.

Pippin -- Pop music! He's here to have a good time. Would especially love some input from the Gen Z crowd here since my pop knowledge is a little dated for the youngest member of the Fellowship. What Chappell Roan song would be his favorite.

Boromir -- He is puzzling me. I am keeping in mind that he should have some like. Elder millennial vibes. Currently have Green Day, etc on there but I'm trying to decide if that works.

Aragorn -- Dad rock, plus some modern rock. Think about your dad's road trip playlist (I know mine has several) and you're getting the right picture.

Legolas -- Pop and some indie/acoustic songs. Also a little musical theater. I'll be honest I'm making his eclectic on purpose. Definitely a little cheesy, aro/ace jams encouraged.

Gimli -- Metal, industrial, classical. There is no bigger Trans-Siberian Orchestra fan. Possibly also some labor songs, though I'm thinking more like metal/rock covers.

Gandalf -- Prog rock and other wizard music. I am doing something very dumb and silly and putting classic rock songs with meta references to LotR on his (ex: Led Zeppelin's Misty Mountain Hop), but other suggestions are good too.

Please feel free to totally contradict some of these vibes though. Ideally some of these playlists with be a little more all over the place than I would usually lean towards, since the idea is to represent someone's music taste, not make a true character playlist.

So! Help me out here. What do you all think each Fellowship member would listen to?

[xenoblade-chronicles-brackets]

Submitted propaganda for aBOreSSs

The first part, heard when facing the Prog Ares, is a good representation of Lao's character up to this point, and fits the battle against the mech. The second part is mechanical and straight-up intimidating, which is the Zu Pharg in a nutshell.

You're never escaping Skell options! But also who tf needs A Tragic Decision when you got this piece? This is better.

Black Mountains - Valak Mountain (Day) is a mod addition

[caughtnyact]

On Repeat Tag Game

Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and add the first ten songs, then tag ten people.

Tagged by @the-bear-and-his-sunbird and @mercars-musings <333

This batch of shuffled songs comes from my in-prog Rookanis playlist 👀👀

Coming Down the Mountain - Mipso

Delicate - Damien Rice

Nothing Matters But You - The Young Veins

Dead of Night - Orville Peck

Super Natural - Turnover

Everybody Wants to Love You - Japanese Breakfast

Constant Muse - Denison Witmer

Words and Smiles (Tiger Trap) - QUARTERBACKS

Angels - The xx

We'll Never Have Sex - Leith Ross

No pressure tags: @nevarrantorte @guacamolleee @theyearningghoul @woundedsoul12 @spooky-lil-bee @crimson-and-lavender @lanafofana @draco-illius-noctis @waterdeep-weavemoss @thequeenofthewinter and anyone else that might like to participate <3

[goodluckclove]

I love music so much guys I would love to find more artists to listen to. What do you all listen to?

I'm down for literally anything, but I mainly gravitate to:

folk (acoustic and atmospheric)

classic/prog-rock

chill lofi-ish things

funky and disco stuff

for rap my favorite stuff has been funk/dub based or more spoken-word and instrumental. i haven't found any artist that really does the hard-bass/mumblecore stuff but i'm down to keep trying

i'm finding that i'm down for math rock

shoegaze is great

would love to find more interesting classical pieces

i do like country but so far i've only enjoyed queer country (k.d. lang/brandi carlile)

sad/mad/glad indie

I'd be really interested to see if I can find a metal band I like. I've enjoyed some hardcore bands but I can't remember them. I would also like to hear suggestions for hyperpop bands to enjoy because that is a very hard genre to get into for me but I do like 100 gecs.

Please I need new music to listen to while I write. I can't keep only listening to The Mountain Goats and my Songbird Elegies brainstorming playlist for the rest of my life.

[gragam]

i listened to more current albums this year than i ever have before so i wanna rank them

8. brat remix album - charli xcx

not really much to say about this. its not like i was excited for it but its impressive that not one of them is even really listenable. charli has a knack for picking the worst features imaginable every single time

favorite tracks: :/

7. sophie - sophie

it feels unfair ranking this against all the other ones bcus of the circumstances surrounding its release and im glad the tracks are out in the world but unfortunately none of them really stood out to me. sorry sophie you will always be the queen

favorite tracks: reason why, live in my truth

6. brat - charli xcx

im maybe overly critical of brat because of its reputation but it has a couple songs i really like and a couple i really dont and mostly a bunch that i dont really care about because this album is way too long. overall i guess i like it but it feels half baked in a way that 2 bonus versions couldnt fix. best thing about this album is that it introduced me to her better albums

favorite tracks: sympathy is a knife, everything is romantic, 365, spring breakers

5. imaginal disk - magdalena bay

this album kind of oversells itself with a really incredible first track before settling into something much less interesting but still very listenable. its stretched a little too thin over too many tracks but theres not really any that id skip. just a good album with a couple of great songs

favorite tracks: she looked like me, fear sex, cry for me, the ballad of matt and mica

4. the book of phytoelectron - susumu hirasawa

his instrumentation is as wonderful as ever and i do really like the album but i selfishly wish it was a regular album instead of a guitar album because i think he has like the best singing voice ever. but there were some tracks that reminded me of his old prog rock band that i really like so that was a nice little treat for me

favorite tracks: the history of omnificence in memory grass, area of red flowers on the snowy mountain range, the valley where the blue flowers on expedition take root in the light (damn), pollination charge: vines that go back to the future, remember it will come

3. i lay down my life for you - jpegmafia

seriously awesome production throughout even if the last couple tracks are sorta underwhelming. i know some people dont like this as much as his other albums and im not Super familiar with his other ones but i think this ones my favorite that ive heard. i have kind of a love/hate relationship with sampling but hes uses them in a way i love

favorite tracks: sin miedo, be right there, its dark and hell is hot

2. mahogakko - hakushi hasegawa

honestly im probably putting this too high theres a lot of dead space between the really good tracks but those tracks are like mind expanding and definitely contributed to me expanding my musical horizons this year. one of the most maximalist albums ive ever heard but still very listenable. the contrast between the off the walls instrumentation and their high soft singing voice really works for me

favorite tracks: departed, gone, mouth flash, kyofunohoshi

chromakopia - tyler the creator

kind of a surprise favorite for me ive never listened to a tyler album before and its definitely less ambitious than some of the others on here but i really enjoyed it. a couple of kind of cringey tracks but overall extremely fun and energetic while also being very heartfelt and touching. i will definitely be exploring more of his discography. i also like that sticky sounds exactly like a lisa the painful song

favorite tracks: st chroma, rah tah tah, i killed you, tomorrow, like him

[rastronomicals]

9:06 PM EDT March 12, 2025:

Beck, Bogert & Appice - "Lose Myself With You" From the album Beck, Bogert & Appice (March 26, 1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Top Eleven Power Trios

11. Blue Cheer 10. Beck, Bogert & Appice   9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience   8. Mountain   7. Boris (when they want to be)   6. Rush (through Permanent Waves or so)   5. Triumph   4. Budgie   3. West, Bruce & Laing   2. The Robin Trower Band   1. Cream

And of course, just because you have three members, it doesn't mean you're a Power Trio. New wave conglomeratives with funny haircuts, retro outfits toting along a big standup bass, prog-rockers with their fat stacks of cash and synthesizers, and artsy bands employing a fucking drum machine do not qualify. The Police, ELP, The Soft Machine, The Reverend Horton Heat, Muse, The Nice, Big Black, The Stray Cats, and, for some strange reason, Nirvana, all do not count. ZZ Top barely does.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SPACE CADET REPORTING FOR DUTY IN THE SUPER-SEVENTIES -- READY FOR TAKE OFF.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Lemmy Kilmister of British Space rock band HAWKWIND, performing live in 1974, St. Louis, USA, during Hawkwind's "Hall of the Mountain Grill" North American tour. 📸: David W. Lawwrence.

Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemmy-1974-Hawkwind.png.

[ephemeral-gremlin]

@xirae tagged me to put my repeat playlist on shuffle and post the first 10 songs but since i do not use spotify i'm just gonna post 10 songs

instead of just picking 10 i've been listening to recently tho i want to maintain some of the chaos and whimsy so i'm just going to put my entire bandcamp library on shuffle and find the youtube links to put here

1: song for mountains, les discretes

some good chill blackgaze to start us off (you might sense a theme here)

2: tróndor í gøtu, tyr

good old singalong folk metal. no i don't speak faroese but this song is so catchy and i've listened to it so many times that i can more or less manage

3: Lou tard-biengùt, boisson divine

a slower more laid-back song from their excellent folk metal album la halha

4: subject nation, akira kosemura

a little incidental BOP from one of my favorite otome games - the whole soundtrack is such a banger i bought it on bandcamp. was very tempted to spring for the vinyl but it was too expensive

5: GET OUT, pinkshift

i love pinkshift! one of my favorite modern punk bands. they're just about to start a new tour and i HIGHLY recommend going to see them live if you can, i saw them a couple years ago in detroit and had a blast

6: nom the wise, blind guardian

more incidental music, i guess that's the danger of shuffle. this album is peak blind guardian and blind guardian is peak power metal, if you like power metal and haven't heard nightfall in middle-earth stop everything you're doing and listen to it front to back right now

7: beneath the waves, ayreon

ayreon is a prog metal concept project from arjen anthony lucassen featuring every metal musician you know and love and it rules

8: mettänpeiton valtiaalle, korpiklaani

more folk metal. korpiklaani is just FUN. they're also touring right now with ensiferum and trollfest and i definitely recommend seeing them live - i'll be there for their detroit show next week!

9: against the stream, insomnium

emotional support melodeath, i love this entire album

10: nancy drew, sløtface

another fun punk song. "i've filled my quota of boys with acoustic guitars / but more are born every year" lives in my brain rent-free.

tagging uhhh @songofsaraneth @alimsurana @burgerdrome @xdaringdamselx and @if-only-angels-could-prevail. and also you, the reader of this post, do this if you want to, i always want more music to listen to

[ronthedunedain]

Warning: Long post

Went through my Royal Roads list of webnovels that I liked and it's a sea of endless litRPG/prog trash. Trash I enjoy, but trash nevertheless.

A few standouts that were actually really good:

Palus Somni by Ohmwu

Name of the Rose, but set in a ruined world covered in Lovecraftian monsters. Prepare for the main cast to suffer. Very Bloodborne.

Every night when the sun sets the monstrous Gol, colossal beings with too many teeth, awaken and roam the marshlands. Only those with a faithful heart will be spared. Young acolyte Wille has never seen the walls fail, but when a fellow nun is murdered within their sanctum the very safety of the monastery is thrown into question. Did the Gol find a way to breach their defences, or is there a human traitor amongst them? The answer lies both far in the past and deep beneath the earth, through the maze of ancient catacombs.

SONG of EMBER by Saffron Honey

Don't let the description fool you, this is a doomed, tragic romance between a boy and a siren.

Legends of savage river-folk have been scoffed at for centuries in the valley below Sisters Mountain, but when a young fisherman named Ember sets out to trap a thief, he catches more than he bargained for; a strange acquaintanceship is struck, and when the creature requests his aid to unlock a hidden door in the mountainside, they find themselves trapped within the ruins of an ancient kingdom.

Violent Solutions by Sabaoth

Isekai, but starring an amoral Terminator stuck in a normal human body. Quite gruesome.

A discarded intelligent weapon is thrust into a strange world with little more than a body. The only people he finds shouldn't even be alive. They've been extinct for centuries, killed by their own warlike creations. Yet here they are, as if it never happened, living like they did in their distant past. Creators or not, they are similar enough to the warbreed for his purposes. They have knowledge and weapons that can be stolen or traded for. Their presence can be helpful, and if it isn't, they will be dealt with. They may be hardier than most, but like any human, they can die.

Wander West, in Shadow by CloverCloverClover

A travelogue set in a world where eldritch horrors lurk in abandoned farm houses.

A young wizard journeys west, through dark forests and dangerous lands, searching for something. Accompanied by a wild witch who has secrets of her own, they come across terrible creatures, hauntings, cursed villages, and memories from their past. Who else will they meet along their journey, and to find what he is looking for, how far will the wizard have to wander?

REND by Temple

Worm, but starring a psychopath who does the right things for the wrong reasons.

Erind Hartwell, a first-year law student with psychopathic tendencies and an obsessive compulsion to follow an arbitrary set of Rules, tries to live a normal life in a world where superhumans battle eldritch horrors invading minds. Society frowned on different, and she was content with playing along if the world didn't bother her. That was one of the many Rules she followed. Unfortunately, the world couldn't help but bother Erind's normal life. On the brink of death, an entity offered powers to save her. Left with no other choice, she accepted it, changing into a new form—the first of many that'll allow her to bother the world that bothered her.