okaywolf | You&& ~ Extras (Reply)

Thank you again for reading You&&. If you’re seeing this and wondering what You&& is, you can find out more about my queer, monster-filled novella on its about page. It’s a sequel to my other, queer, monster-filled novella Sometimes The Mountain Buries You.

One day You&& will have a proper name instead of a working title. That’s not today.

First, announcements!

There’s a third instalment in the series already under way, it’s a short story that will be posted December 25th, 2024. It will be 18+, with gore and sexually explicit content

There’s plans for a final, fourth instalment but, honestly, I’m a little tapped out after writing two novellas in a year and losing the place I had been posting them and the rest of my writing. For now, let’s say it’ll start releasing in 2025

I still have plans to edit Sometimes The Mountain Buries You and You&&, to release on my website as well as in epub and pdf formats. Sometimes The Mountain Buries You’s edit got delayed by the cohost shutdown. It’s possible I’ll decide to edit and release one or both before the fourth instalment starts releasing

Now extras!

You&&, a playlist. Fifteen tracks that, honestly, I had started putting together before even finishing Sometimes The Mountain Buries You. Some of them really encapsulated what I was going for, and some of those I don’t feel I hit the mark exactly as I intended but not so far off I’d remove them from the playlist.

While writing You&& I’d listen to it on repeat and would cackle every time the first song came back around.

Screenshot of a plain text file of a tracklist titled “You&&. A playlist” with fifteen tracks listed. The tracks are Life and Death by Lost Dog Street Band, Steamboat by Adrianne Lenker, Rivers & Roads by The Head and The Heart, Peach by Pigeon Pit, Lonesome River by Les Blackwell, Cold Dinner by Long Sought Rest, Dandelion Wine by Gregory Alan Isakov, Anything by Adrianne Lenker, Drinking Song by Haley Heynderickx, The Very Day I’m Gone by Nora Brown, Wild Goose Chase by Dark Dark Dark, Berti May’s Chilly Winds by Nora Brown, Woke Awake by Jake McKelvie & The Countertops, 1914 by Florist, Cabin by Broken Glass Kids.

Listen on: [spotify] [youtube] [last.fm]

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Bingo—! Not actually tho. You&& came so close to a bingo, the grievous injury to kidneys is only implied though.

Screenshot of a plain text file titled “Bingo. Fenrir Cerebellion writing 2024”, with a five by five grid of squares containing common inclusions in Fenrir’s writing. Fifteen squares are marked with red circles, without making a bingo. The marked squares are technically not incorrect autistic grammar, Nightmare Creature, sensory description of metal, forest described as “brush”, the most random common nouns for character names, article of clothing is set on fire, pointedly including a specific food, Free Space (simple statement in its own paragraph), veterinarian, repetition, repetition, basically the Okanagan, that is how doors work, mutilation (negative), out of place detailed description from niche knowledge.

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Screenshot. Contains spoilers!

This is what You&& looks like on my computer, just like Sometimes The Mountain Buries You with the writing each chapter in its own txt file full height and then shrinking down to be a cascade for navigating between.

Screenshot of all twenty chapters of You&&, in narrow plain text files that are arranged in a descending cascade that shows the title bar for each chapter. Each chapter’s title is saved with the chapter number followed by the first sentence of the chapter.

I have confirmed, this is indeed at least one person’s nightmare.

That’s all! I’ll be back with the third instalment on December 25th, 2024. I hope you enjoyed my rumination on home being other people.

You&& ~ Extras

First, announcements!

Now extras!

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