Hello, Substack
Cheshir's World was published on June 10, 2024 as a way for me to throw away my worlds forever. I was originally just going to spam-upload all of my writing over the course of three months (the limit of scheduled uploads on Substack) and sign off.
Through some twists and turns, I later decided to seriously produce my novels by myself. Not formally publish, mind you, just produce. Substack's interface is easy to use and Substack itself has a passively warm community that makes it easy to feel welcomed despite the general trend of the site's promotions. It was easy to recognize how I wanted to present my novels through its digital formatting as well. I already had some of the writing, and none of it was going to make it into a traditional book, so I decided to just do it.
So, without further ado, here are June’s uploads:
June Uploads 2024
Reincarnation Junkie
Our protagonist has recently been reincarnated into the wilds of a new world! After being reared by a mothering beast, our protagonist begins to relax and take in their newfound freedom.
Depuis Toujours
Enter this folktale-esque prelude to read the brief and bitter background of a noble family. Light and dramatic, one can imagine the tale being uttered through the mouth of a passing bard of a bygone age.
Returning Home By Chance
In these introductory chapters, we are introduced to Pedring, a man with a mysterious past who has been jetted into space. We are also introduced to a foreign bit of technology: E647, a program that suspends its user’s consciousness and sends them into different worlds. What kind of world has Pedring landed in now?
Short Stories
A first-person narrative on a supernatural incident that happens in an apocalyptic world featuring one zombie, gore, and mild psychological horror. This little story happens to have been written in a day, and you can really tell. Check it out if you don’t mind descriptions of human intestines and assault.
In Other News
I think I’ve finalized how I want my ‘stack’ to look like. If you scroll down and look to the left on the homepage while on desktop, you’ll see a section of text that are actually links to pages where I have listed the table of contents for each of my series. The series names are displayed as acronyms, which I will begin to use in reference to each series in this part of the summaries. Below those links are links to the social accounts that I still have running, namely my Cara account, where I mostly browse other people’s artwork before sparingly posting my own, and my Threads account, which is mainly just me posting about food and things that happened at my workplace before running away. They’re not really worth following, but social media seems to be bigger than what I give it credit for, so I’ve linked them here.
I’ve recently got an itch for drawing, but who knows when I’ll do a little project again. The cover for RHBC was done two days before upload, by the way, and has gone through many iterations. It’s pretty hard to think of a cover that would sell the aspect of quick-transmigration without overshooting my abilities. I’m happy with how it turned out, but I still want to do a better one — I still have several ideas that I want to try out.
As I was drawing that, I looked back at my cover of DT. That one was made maybe a year or so ago, and it’s a bit funky. There’s a line in the middle where two shades of beige meet, and you can really tell what I edited out on Canva. I just wanted a sleek, classic-looking cover image for my fairytale story! Book cover designers are so cool, and the way they compose covers is so intuitive.
Before I go, I’ll mention that I feel quite disenfranchised with the current age, whether in reference to digital culture, arts, economy, even my own emotions. I think that's very obvious in my writing. I hope I'm not "poisoning the waters" by sending my nihilism out to this side of the internet, and that my stories still have some other aspects of comfort or merit to the reader. I like reading my own stories, and I hope that others will also read simply because they like them too.
So, thank you for reading, dear reader.