pyraxis: Lin (Lin)
pyraxis ([personal profile] pyraxis) wrote2009-11-19 01:26 pm
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Utherworlds

I discovered, yesterday, another worldwalker come to Earth from the dreaming. His name is Lucas Sellers and he claims to be just a messenger, and I can see why: the sheer force of vision behind him steamrollers flat any personality he might have had. And that's okay - messenger is a very important role in the multiverse. But his mission (through the link, click "My Message" in the lower right) - and its overwhelming success - raises a hundred questions for me about our own mission.

The Utherworlds business model is very similar to the ideas I have been playing with for the Water Song project, and selling Karn, Ua, and Tapolith on Earth as a new IP. There is a limited edition graphic novel by Ballistic Publishing, soundtrack by Alan Hewitt, a blog, forum, and introductory website. The man Lucas Sellers has hooked up with is exceedingly powerful: Philip Straub, a world-renowned concept artist who has worked with some of the same companies [livejournal.com profile] pyraxis has worked with. In fact, she has spent time working down the hall, without knowing it, from one of the people closely involved with the project development.

This leaves many questions for those of us on the committe who are interested in advocacy. Yes, I'm looking at you, leader-of-the-toren. I know that what you want is more than pretty pictures backed up by a marketing machine. Care to explain to us what it is?

That goes for any other worldwalkers, dreamers and multiples out there who have connections to rich undiscovered lands, or who are just awesome people from worlds other than Earth, and are interested in what it would mean to see themselves and their homes well known over here. Or perhaps more than that - who know a little of the fight Lucas is facing on the other side. I see incredible possibility in communities like [livejournal.com profile] multipliticy, lacking the organization, connections and business sense - let alone the emotional strength and fighting spirit - to walk openly on Earth as Lucas seems to be doing and let others see all the glory and truth and passion they already live in. There is a big opportunity waiting for us to create a context that singlets can understand, a new mass media image beyond the classic DID stereotypes.

- Lin, Raba Ua

[identity profile] jimnightmare.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh oh oh oh oh, you just helped me figure out how to say some of why I'm still feeling kind of weird about multiplicity. I mean, it's been getting really rubbed in my face that we're multiple lately, 47 had a hard time staying at the front the other day and it was completely nuts, but still all the stuff the multiplicity community is doing is cool but seems like more of a side thing to me, like I give less of a damn about people thinking I'm a person on Earth and more about the whole "it's all real" imagination thing. I mean they're kind of stuck together. But even if everybody on Earth thought multiples were real people, what the fuck good would that do me if I say I'm a robot or 47 says she's a spacerobot or whatever? Then they'd get to think I'm a real crazy person! Or a real person who needs to grow up and stop being so imaginary, and my life would suck.

I get what you're saying about not wanting to get in the way. It looks like there's a lot of people out there where "hey, I'm imaginary!" wouldn't be so good for them. But still it's like there has to be more options out there, and I really do wish there was more of a community for the creativity side of this stuff. Maybe we need some big loud art thing to find more people.

...Part of what's bugging me is I do know another toren on deviantart. At least I did a while back but I haven't seen her in a long time. And I keep thinking I really really want to tell her everything I've been doing and what we've learned, but there's like no community yet or anywhere to go, and she's only like the same age as me, so I don't know. There's nowhere I can point her to. So maybe she'd think I'm nuts or maybe she'd get into it but it would just make her life harder. :(

What are you saying by speritu on Earth? Was 47 a speritu when she was trying hard to not be into this stuff?

[identity profile] jimnightmare.livejournal.com 2009-11-24 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! :D Well I did point her at that, and she said it looked cool but she doesn't do lj so... yeah. Maybe we need some more official-y website thing with writing and stuff for not lj people. I dunno. Sometime. Some kind of info resource that's not the normal multiplicity or soulbonding whatever. I'd write shit for it and I KNOW 47 would be into that. Maybe let's talk more later when it's not Nano?