Custodians of the obvious.
Gatekeepers of the beige.
Self-appointed alchemists
who turn other people’s risk
into their own recycled similes.
They stab with adjectives
and call it insight.
They curate disdain
like it’s a virtue.
They write not to open a door —
but to prove they’ve never walked through one.
No one remembers their names.
Only the blood on the page.
The Hollow Circuit: Book One Second Edition
Later this year, Chronicles will be available as full audiobooks through the Art of FACELESS shop. Subscribers get both formats: the ePUB edition, illustrated by Awen, and the audiobook .mp3 — no DRM, no lock-in, yours to keep either way.
What is Biopunk? Biopunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction that explores the implications of biotechnology on society. Often reflecting concerns about the ethical and moral grounds of manipulating living systems, biopunk stories delve into a world where genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and environmental change are prominent. This genre has
a short story by Awen Null The Hollow Circuit // Fiction Signal 01 The Witnesses A psychological dystopia about authorship, surveillance, and the small, casual jokes that become a country’s next infrastructure. Content note: intrusive surveillance, psychological distress, and a world in which privacy becomes evidence of guilt. By 2030,
The operationalisation of Hyperstition Architecture® relies on bridging closed narrative loops (e.g., local application states such as a Steam visual novel executable) with open-network, persistent reality anchors. To facilitate non-linear player progression across The Hollow Circuit Book One, the network deploys an out-of-game compilation framework
We are consolidating all studio communication into channels where discourse can be curated responsibly, and signal takes precedence over noise:
TXN: /the-receipt Art of FACELESS · punk publishing The Receipt What Your Outrage Actually Costs the Grid Harm = energy × uses That's the missing word from the card. You found it. Now let's add up what it costs, all of it, for all of us. HARM = ENERGY
Spend a little time in the comment threads, and you'll find a lot of non-disabled people speaking on behalf of disabled people. They explain what disabled artists need and don't need, which tools are acceptable for them and which aren't.
The software cannot tell the difference between twenty hours of manual Photoshop brushwork and a five-second prompt string. It simply measures mathematical variance, encounters a saturated palette, and defames the artist.
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