For all intents and purposes, assume that this is out of game. That is to say, this blogpost is not laced with clues that will help with the lore-building and potential alternate-reality-game I may or may not do in the future. (All signs point to no on that, by the way.)
The cover art for 'retcon'.
retcon is a project born out of ambitions that have been trying to come to the surface for years upon years. As a multimedia project, it is necessarily flawed from the jump — you do not seek out to cover multiple mediums at once in a singular artistic work without being someone who can put up with the mess that comes with covering music, visual art, film, literature, et cetera..
With that being said, I fear I have gone way in over my head. As of right now, retcon, as this multimedia project, contains:
It is difficult to say that I enjoy the prospect of knowing that I initially wanted to do way more. It is a nagging sensation that I am not doing enough, despite the objective fact that I am dealing with seven* artworks sharing the same end goal, and I am swamped artistically as a result.
With that being said, other things have taken up my attention in the time since I began retcon. Way too many things. I will spare you the extended version of the diatribe I tend to give people, and just say that I have been preoccupied with my own mental well-being (or lackthereof) due to various traumatic events that have taken place since I began this undertaking back in late 2024. A more spiritual person might think this production is cursed.
retcon has doubtless been informed by these experiences, and everything from this gesamtkunstwerk of mine has provoked feelings of concern in my friends and comrades. I am also continually growing, a process that produces horrors of a Cronenbergian variety in both mental and physical senses. Due to my disposition, puberty nevery really ends.
I have no timeline for when retcon will release. It will probably not come this year, due to both the nature of the project and the mental space I need to breathe properly while doing art. I am doing something with it that I seldom do these days, and I am worried for both myself and the people who look at it. I know all too well how art about trauma can envelop you whole and blind you artistically, and I want to tread very carefully in this regard.
But I know that I need to put this out. I will not be able to sleep at night if I abandon this wholesale. I'm too in deep to chicken out, and I need to move on in the only way I know how.
You will know when it all happens.
This post was published on 24/08/25.