happy solstice! well, it’s n’eerie-quinox now! i printed something! once, this book was too chained to Songbirds’ layout, it’s all reshuffled. it’s a choice. #decisionstorm ❗💭🌀 so now page 64 is player-side? idk is fine.

altered

World

• to better reflect how at any time any player can play as the world as

  • world

think or want to apply as CHANGE. The

World and players use PSITHURS to

determine which changes do apply.

Psithurists WAVE LEAVES in a blind sound

check. The better sound goes on to add to

or part clouds, forming the CLOUDSHEAR.

• to directly change the reader’s life as

  • think or want to apply as CHANGE. As the

    last psithurist, close your eyes. The world &

    characters WAVE LEAVES. Pick the sound

    you like more. Open your eyes. That is the

    player who applies their change to add to

    your lives this zine, forming CLOUDSHEAR.

header

Gold

• to deviate from the dungeon/horde aesthetic of songbirds and dotdungeon and adopt cloudshear’s player curiosity/player comprehension aesthetic as

  • Get (or: Gold) _{(or: bullets)}

text body

gold

• to the above

  • get

Starting equipment.

• to what it was supposed to be so it would fit the margins as

  • Starting items.

added

antidedication

• bc
  • every tech giant’s godass preference algorithms spent the last decade forging a bunch of fascists in some gross quest for clickthrough rates

fibonacci filigree

• to
  • pages 11, 13 (pictured), & 15

some fancy dap underlining

• to
  • 8-9, 42, & 46-47

spotify playlist

• to set music with the zine’s themes of breath, change, mass care, and leaves atop the
  • game shelf
  • /* i got too into making a found poem out of the song titles instead of pairing samples, kits, or bpm, so dj whoacaught’d not term transitions ‘optimized’ /*
    • _{so pretty: Emcimbinii Frogviolin Steps The Sun Too Slow Abya Yala Lunca Forest of Kelp Albedo Persuasion The One Now Sings of Safety - Five Rooms and Places Don’t Be Afraid Cloudloss Nocturne IV I Take All the Blame For the Night (Live) Bear With Me (and I’ll stand bare before you) Til A Mermaid Drags You Under Night On Round Top Bound Universe Wet Sunday Cloudpatterns Robots Have Emotions From This Position Línea A Transition Region Zenbu Honto (Every Thing Is Everything) Piano, Bells & Two Reversed Tape Loops Of Air In the Wind}

correspondence

• to address quality-of-life redoubts in
  • §changes
  • took this correspondence out, so it’s hidden text for now.

moved

deviated page ordering away from songbirds’ layout and more toward the one cloudshear was needing:

safety

• to
  • the front

plot pages

• to be the last player-facing pages, set after
  • disconnection

finds info box

• to get its look to better match the base of the teenage conifer i live under as the
  • centre of previous page
  • /* i did look into setting the bark-coded names of odd-numbered finds right-aligned so names could look like distant limbs while descriptions could appear as blue needles of firs/waves of ocean, but the left- and right-aligned numbers would get all jumbled and i couldn’t get it to my liking, so the spread’ll just live in its current display of abstract scrub /*

updated

Cloudshear is a hack of .dungeon’s

manual. The playkit is here. it is under

development. Where you play at is called

• to reflect today’s reality as

  • Cloudshear is a hack of .dungeon’s

    manual. The arttrpg is here. It is based

    on virtual life. Where you play at is called

also, to celebrate dotdungeon’s print run, i will be running a 25 count print of cloudshear through mixam for you to cut into snowflakes, pin to shawls, hang from bulletin boards, make lampshades out of or otherwise upcycle its heart away 🎔. so long as you agree to not leave it in its original binding, you may get a copy; everyone else, you may get out.

if you are a:

• social worker/crew member,
• teacher in any capacity,
• spend more than 10% of your income on art,
• make less than me (USD15k/yr)

or find yourself without the land, food, insurance, child care, roof, sick time or transportation securities in any way our society grossly scarcifies, hardship pricing exists. please use it, you heartbleeds, and get in a state of demanding better _{my family has a history of being born with holes in our hearts, so it’s fine if i say it} .