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Wonder: After the Awakening - A New Glitch-Fic
I'll keep this first part brief because TL;DR
When I first realized you could write and drop notes in Glitch for other people to read I instantly knew that I wanted to start writing stories and songs and poems and all other manner of things to leave for random Glitchen to find. I wanted to be a world famous author... in Ur.
Well, four months later the game shut down and that never really happened. I, like all of you, was pretty distraught and was looking for an outlet. That's when I got the idea for this story. It's still a work in progress and it's become much longer than I thought it would be, but I'm having fun writing it and it's a good distraction from the fact that the game is no longer around.
Because of it's length and the fact that I don't know how long it will take to finish I've decided to start a blog where I can post it episodically. I set the blog up this morning with the prologue. I'm still tweaking some aspects of it so it's not 100% finished, but the beginning of the story is posted for all to enjoy. My goal at the moment is to post a new chapter every week. Hopefully that will give me plenty of time to get it written and revised.
If you're interested--and I hope you are--you can find it here:
Wonder: After the Awakening
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Now, I have what you might consider an unusual question but I'd like your opinions on it because you are an open-minded and considerate community. This story is about a single Glitchen and their assorted friends. Glitchen are inherently genderless--sex is determined by wardrobe, actions or a Glitchen's own admission--and I would like this story to be accessible in such a way that anyone reading it might put themselves in the main character's shoes. I considered using the indefinite pronoun "it," but that just reads weird and I don't like it. I've considered a few options such as posting two versions of each chapter, one where the main character is male, the other where she is female; using pronoun forms like (s)he, him/her; or alternating pronoun use after each chapter.
My question to you, oh fine community, is what do you think is the best option OR do you think it's even worth the bother?
If you're still not sure you want to click the link to the blog I have posted the prologue for you to read here as well. Then you can decide if it's worth your time.
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Legend tells of a whimsical land called Ur that was formed in a dream shared by eleven sleeping Giants. It was full of funny creatures called Glitchen who did all manner of ridiculous things. They mined and cooked, blended and petted, jumped and splanked, all in the name of fun and imagination. They played for a good long while and wanted to believe that their fun would never end.
But then one day the Giants began to wake up.
As we all know time passes much slower for the dreamee than it does for the dreamer, so as the Giants awoke it was not a sudden and shocking ending of the world; instead the Glitchen were aware of what was happening and they knew they didn’t have much time left.
The day the first trembles were felt was a day of great mourning. Some Glitchen were angry, some begged for more time and some denied that anything was happening at all. They reasoned that the world still existed, so what evidence was there that the Giants were waking up at all?
In the end no manner of bargaining or begging could change the fate of Ur, however. The Giants did stir from their sleep and on the last day there was a great celebration. It was a party to end all parties since technically it was the end of all parties. Glitchen shared food and drinks; danced in their favorite places and made whatever peace they could with a situation they could neither control nor fully understand.
On that last day the Giants spoke into the minds and hearts of all the Glitchen for the Giants loved their creations, but knew the Glitchen could not exist in a dream world without the dreamers. Some of the Giants offered words of kindness; some, words of regret; while other reminded the Glitchen to be strong and rejoice for the time they had been given. When the end approached there were many hugs, kisses and tearful goodbyes but everyone was anxious to know what would happen next. As the last Giant opened its eyes the entire world held its breath and then... it was all just gone.
But then something altogether unexpected happened. In the midst of the crying and praying, just as existence was blinking out for the inhabitants of Ur, somewhere in Groddle Forest a Glitchen sat up and opened its eyes for the first time.
