https://ouroboros.cafe An RSS feed keeping you updated about the good and free art of ouroborista en-gb Etched by hand into the rotting walls of these datacombs https://ouroboros.cafe https://ouroboros.cafe/ourolog_symcrop.png Ouro Lastname telomagnetics@protonmail.com (ouro) Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:30 +02:00 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:10 +02:00 20000 It's over. We did it and while there's certainly a lot to be improved next time around, casualties were kept to a minimum. If you cannot be fucked to read through a whole month of largely unpolished poetry produced under time pressure, my personal favourite from the challenge was day 7's Osmogenesia though a number of the othere ones also have their charms. https://ouroboros.cafe/epigramarch26.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:10 +02:00 I'll be writing poems throughout the month and you should too https://ouroboros.cafe/epigramarch26.html Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:55 +01:00 In the spirit of that recent magnus video i decided to write a little conceptual horror story as I labour away on larger projects. I also drew a pretty cool Ianthe Tridentarius from the Locked Tomb to somehwat fill out the misc-art-section of the webstite. Aditionally, while i assume that all of you have read Aisle Five by now, it got published in the Impression.Zone zine, which i intend to keep contributing to. https://ouroboros.cafe/stories/andthen.html Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:02 +01:00 Remember when I used to do youtube? I remember that. What i didn't remember was what a pain video editing is. Anyway, here's a piece on the magnus archives filmed in my old spooky basement https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M9iLPgLxBUA Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:05 +01:00 People kept messaging me about the canonical homestuck class-pairs, and it was getting annoying, so here you have a just-polished-enough statement about it so that I may get back to doing other things. other videos even. Probably not very relevant to you unelss you are crammed tight into a baseball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhqaukVMSE Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:45 +01:00 Exorcist Tipline is a short interactive fiction about a traveling exorcist solving paranormal mysteries. Made by Distracted Mosfet, Asha a.m and me for ECTOCOMP 2025, we technically had a month to finish this game but due to a variety of more quotidian horrors it ended up being completed in closer to a week. Still, it's an intresting little piece, we might expand upon it later and you can play it right now in your browser. If you like it you may even want to vote for it in ECTOCOMP. I may even be happy if you do that. https://distractedmosfet.itch.io/exorcist-tipline Sat, 1 Nov 2025 16:55 +01:00 Did any of you attend the final StuckAtHomeCon? I know I did, not least of all because I had the great pleasure of working on its accompanying zine, which is now finally public. Go treat yourself to some phenomenal artwork and marvel at the fact that they allowed me to writre one of the vignettes entirely in iambic pentameter as a joke. https://sahcon.neocities.org/assets/SAHCON_ZINE.pdf Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:00 +01:00 Aparently forgot to write an rss update, but last week i wrote an analysis of my recent comic. Fun little exercize. So, if you were confused by aisle five, or even better if you felt like you got it, here's some context https://ouroboros.cafe/isarnom_small.jpg https://ouroboros.cafe/articles/isarnom.html Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:40 +01:00 I would like to say that i drew a comic, though that would likely evoke entirely the wrong impression. It is more correct to say that i had a nervous breakdown some months ago and storyboarded something. Then, for a while i was too sane to actually do the idea justice. Now i am finding myself, for better and worse, back amidst those halls which know all names but yours and so found the wherewithal to put lines and colours to said feverdream. Content warnings for needles, blood and fairly mild body horror https://ouroboros.cafe/isarnom_small.jpg https://ouroboros.cafe/isarnom.html Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:14 +01:00 A short story about the contents of a satellite and probably one of the most conceptually interesting things i've written. My original draft for the story was concerned with the actual happenings that the second-to-last paragraph of this one glosses over and then decided to write it from the perspective of a far off ovserver who knows nothing instead. Does it work? Who knows, but it was fun to do. https://ouroboros.cafe/stories/remember Wed, 30 July 2025 19:39 +02:00 Critter, craning neck with awe At havens cut from feeble law And stumbles on unsteady feet Through stories, old and incomplete It's sleeping badly, waking worse A sheep soul clad in wolven furs And baring teeth it cut by hand To guard this hoard of haunted sand Still glad for moments soon forgot Errata agnate Ararat So future, past and passing shapes May not be bound by rules for apes May blink away the rising tide In gestures long undignified And longer still with stifled rage Cast ink to judge each passing age To wear some day the floral wreath Some blades the righteous may not sheathe A critter feeding pigeons bread To not lose hope and not lose head Hopefully there will be a more substantial update before i leave for dublin on saturday. If not then soon after. on the slim chance that any of you happen to be in dublin between the 13th and the 15th: hit me up, we can grab a coffee. https://ouroboros.cafe/poems#ephemeris Mon, 07 July 2025 18:13 +02:00 Setting up my own spin on Escapiril for next year and hoping people will want to join. In other news i added a few names to the classpecting guide, added the "playing ball" item to the users manual and the "beowolf cluster" item to the glossary. Also minorly updated the robots.txt file and fixed some typos. More significant things are in the works, happy pride! https://ouroboros.cafe/epigramarch Wed, 04 June 2025 19:21 +02:00 One more escapril behind me and while I had the experience of really wanting to go to sleep but needing to still write something a lot more frequently than i would have liked to, i did manage to persevere and am happy with the results. The month produced fewer individual pieces that i feel very strongly positively about than 2024 did. That's a result of having less time to scrap a first idea and start over from scratch, but training the muscle that just gets the thing done anyway is not exactly a meritless exercize to my mind. On a more macro view there's a lot more genuinely disciplined metre this time around as opposed to the slapdash drifting in and out of amphibrach that characterized last year and it's not like there weren't any gems here. If you're only gonna read one of them I recommend day 22's "In the distance, a small shape". Now that the month is wrapped up, the Escapril2025 page will persist and exist alongside a new Escapril2024 page. These are both complete and can be accessed via the poems page which now only contains a curated though extensive selection from each challenge. https://ouroboros.cafe/poems Fri, 02 May 2025 21:02 +02:00 Escapril is an inktober-style yearly poetry challenge that i had great fun with last year, but which is apparently cancelled. It might not come as a surprise to you that i will not let this fact stop me and if anyone decides to join: Even better. https://ouroboros.cafe/escapril2025 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:25 +02:00 A hopefully intuitive answer for why everything is a fucking scam now. This is an article that I promised to some friends months ago, but which took some time to get out since any time I looked at the first draft I couldn't decide whether the style I had chosen to write it in was overwrought in a fun way or overwrought in an exhausting way. Definitely made to be read as a script, so a video-version might follow in the indeterminate future. https://ouroboros.cafe/articles/nothing Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:25 +02:00 Added a section on a very high-effort social debugging strat i had to develop a few months ago to the users manual, fixed a few typos in the watch article and the glossary. Hurtbox Calibration Experimental. I've only really done group calibration once and as such am neither very practised in it, nor very confident that this actually works. Mostly a last ditch recovery tactic when conversations within a group have grown intensely taxing, daunting and dysfunctional due to repeated costly failures or periods of prolonged interpersonal stress, while not communicating is not an acceptable outcome to anyone involved for a number of emotional or practical reasons. The scheme goes thus: Any time a situation, statement, word-choice etc deals you any amount of emotional damage, however slight, you flag it publicly and immediately in the form of a severity assessment (mild to extreme, one to ten, whatever scale or granularity suits you), and a short explanation of why you felt hurt, if you have one. We don't always have perfect insight into why we feel certain things immediately and saying "I don't know" or making clear that you are speculating about possible reasons is perfectly acceptable. You don't have to hash out what happened and how to avoid it in the future right then and there (in my own run this was somewhat rare actually), unless the offended party calls for it. They may also call for a specific different time to talk this through. I believe that hurtbox calibration is a good debugging technique because it forces you to build a better model of where people's sensitivities, sometimes including your own, actually lie. In high stress scenarios it is common to dig oneself stubbornly into false subconscious theories of the dynamics at play which cause you to do harm repeatedly without noticing and to "make concessions" that no one is actually asking for while growing frustrated about the fact that they are going unappreciated. Consistent, immediate feedback on where the sore spots actually are and how your tight-held model is wrong seems like a good way out of those trauma-frozen patterns. It is also a very immediate way of seeing how everyone is taking damage, not just you, and especially how some people are getting damaged by you. Lastly, bringing up every single ache every single time makes you feel heard, because you quite literally are, and not feeling heard can be among the most damaging facets of such situations. The downside of hurtbox calibration is that every single interaction for a while will take twice as long at a minimum, and actually flagging your ouchies, especially if they are minor, sound silly, or if you cannot explain them properly is hard and exhausting. More accurately, many of the items you'll have to raise would be minor in isolation while being excruciating in the context of all the other crap that has built up. They are a light slap onto a broken rib, and that is a perfectly reasonable thing to complain about. It takes a lot of vigilance and a lot of usually-unacceptable interruptions, and especially if you are the sort of person who habitually (and maybe even with some pride) tanks large amounts of pain silently in order to make things go smoothly, it will be severely ego-dystonic. If you are that type of person however, you are the most likely to have ended up in this spot in the first place. https://ouroboros.cafe/manual#hurtbox Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:04 +01:00 Brief little article about the woes of insomnia, glamours, circadian alienation and the neat wrist watch i got for graduation https://ouroboros.cafe/articles/watch Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:10 +01:00 I used to occasionally write weird horoscopes around five years ago. Felt like making one of those again. Additionally, if you wonder where the pcp doujin went: I don't know. I noticed that the link was dead, and while i have a digital version, i don't feel comfortable to re-upload it if ben saw fit to take down the original. https://ouroboros.cafe/images/horo3.jpg https://ouroboros.cafe/images/horo3.jpg Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:54 +01:00 Wrote a handy guidebook of explanations, strategies and assurances should you ever find yourself in the unfortunate position of being in a situation that involves me, as well as a glossary to supplement both this specifically and my speech generally. This is not really a post per se and more of a look-up doc. Unless you find such artifacts inherently interesing it will probably not be a very riveting piece of prose. https://ouroboros.cafe/manual https://ouroboros.cafe/glossary Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:30 +01:00 I drew some fanart for hit video game ofthedevil which I'm quite happy with. If you like good writing, mysteries which respect your intelligence, and evil women: Play this game. https://ouroboros.cafe/images/adonai_small.png https://ouroboros.cafe/images/adonai_small.png Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:10 +01:00 A model for understanding what is art and what is science as well as some funky additional genders https://ouroboros.cafe/articles/aesa Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:20 +01:00 Wrote a poem, added madesuki to the collection of site-buttons and updated the bookshelf You once-fearsome yearning You feverish whisper Since back when we parted What lives have you led? What loss laced your movements What lust licked your canines Has unceasing hunger Been keeping you fed? Oh where are my manners Still tar-black, no sugar? Still scalding your tongue As you tilt it all back? These questions must bore you To leave your lips quiet Come what stopped your fingers So dead in their track? You have nothing you say? Only objects and comfort No horrible spark burning holes in its slave? What weight bends your ribcage? What bills pay your lodging? What barrenness calls you To shop for a grave? Are you held or still holding beheld or beholden To masters or morals Or stories you've told As a youth? As a soldier? As days came and passed you You've grown like this coffee Quite bitter and cold https://ouroboros.cafe/poems#reunion Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:28 +01:00 A short story about someone killing god while thinking abbout a poem. May be considered a tie-in to a video essay coming out at some point in the unforseeable forever https://ouroboros.cafe/stories/lord Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:35 +01:00 Have you ever wanted to stay abreast of the things i am reading as well as the things i have read in the past? Some freaks apparently do. Here you go, freaks. https://ouroboros.cafe/bookshelf Thu, 7 Nov 2024 22:54 +01:00 Added the poem "I need you to do the most painful thing on earth" and added the script for Glass Cages (episode 5) back into the demiurge diaries, since it apparently got lost during the move. The poem feels relevant. Good luck and my deepest condolences to everyone in Statesia! Save innocents where you can, destroy what needs destroying. Red in tooth and claw. https://ouroboros.cafe/poems#hell Wed, 6 Nov 2024 23:49 +01:00 this site, formerly known as ouroborista.neocities.org, now goes by ouroboros.cafe and thus everyone who wanted to got to my old new (now defunct) site ends up here. I also fixed an issue with the css for tables and updated the Treatise on classpecting with some more examples and some notes that fell out of discussions in the youtube comments and elsewhere. The document grew by one page total. https://ouroboros.cafe/articles/Treatise_on_Classpecting.pdf Tue, 5 Nov 2024 23:00 +01:00 The short story Baptism was added to the new site and the final batch of fictions got their re-design https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/baptism https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/sea Mon, 4 Nov 2024 20:31 +01:00 Apparently the feed was broken, but hopefully it works again now. mea culpa. The Rot undying was added to the new site and more stories got their design updated https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/rot https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/reunion https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/regilith https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/nomad https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/soldier Sun, 3 Nov 2024 19:08 +01:00 Updated the design on more stories and merged all Fragments-vignettes into a single document with anchors https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/glaring https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/chimera https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/rasten https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/funeral https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/lightnovel Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:51 +01:00 Added the demiurge diaries scripts the new site, updated the design on the last few articles and the first few stories https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/demidia https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/twilight https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/neurotyping https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/bridge https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories/oracle Fri, 1 Nov 2024 20:32 +01:00 Added "P.I.L.E.S." and the meditation guide to the new site, updated the design on yet more articles https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/piles https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/meditation https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/teeth https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/train https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/telomagnetics Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:33 +01:00 Added "we who were moloch" and "Etymortal" to the new site, updated the design on a couple more articles https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/moloch https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/etymortal https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/sisyphus https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/milk https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/screen-dive Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:14 +01:00 updated the design of some articles that were already on the site https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/anarch https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/vriska https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/cc https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/cities https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/land Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:13 +01:00 Both the Sky-Out preview-page and the actual novel have been updated to the new design https://ouroborista.neocities.org/skyout https://ouroborista.neocities.org/skyoutfree Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:09 +01:00 The stories and articles sub-pages got a more conventional makeover while the Poetry page is now no longer a menu put a single page containing all of the poems which may be navigated via anchor tags. The poetry page is fully up to date, while the other two still have broken links for the newer pieces of writings which were never added to the neocities site. https://ouroborista.neocities.org/poems https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles https://ouroborista.neocities.org/stories Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:41 +01:00 The "who the fuck am I"-page now has the new design as well as an updated Q&A. The "page not found"-page has been updated to the new design. The License page has been updated to the new design. The Denpa-Webring as well as some extra neocities-friendos have been added to the landing page. https://ouroborista.neocities.org/ouro https://ouroborista.neocities.org/license https://ouroborista.neocities.org/not_found Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:52 +01:00 laid the groundwork for article stylization, created a new, much nicer version of the cospay guide and added some mouse-over text https://ouroborista.neocities.org/cosplay Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:06 +02:00 the updated main page is now the actual landing page, miscellaneous sub-page added, web-ring/friends section added https://ouroborista.neocities.org https://ouroborista.neocities.org/miscellaneous Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:23 +02:00 what it says on the tin https://ouroborista.neocities.org/homestuck Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:42 +02:00 images glow now https://ouroborista.neocities.org/index2 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:30 +02:00