Zovi
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Theatrical industrial and novelty techno from NY. Also a writer, designer, illustrator, and puppeteer. https://zovi.bandcamp.com
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Reunea & Leunea
a Digital Picture Book for Strange People
Written, Designed, & Illustrated by Zovi

reunea-leunea.neocities.org

The replies to this thread will contain all of the bsky posts of each of the seven updates in October 2025 for ease of access, but reading on the Neocities site is best.
Reunea & Leunea
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Pages 16-31
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Pages 16-31 of Reunea & Leunea, my postmodern digital picture book (for strange people), are now up!

The best way to read is on reunea-leunea.neocities.org

This thread will contain only pages 16-31. Please see the main thread for the rest (pinned, unless you're reading this further in the future)!
Leunea monologuing:

Shades and shades of grays and blacks were the first thing I 
remember, my view zooming out until they were the backdrop of a larger scene. Narrow leaves with soft curves stretched up from outside the void and pushed inward gracefully, terminating at defining points. The void remained, but was dominated by the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. This was not a dream. This was a necessary step backward to the source, to find the digital shadow, to read the knowable book. 
I must find the 
subject of the 
subject before the subject 
itself, 
and then and only then may 
I have it all, 
ordered and understood. Leunea monologuing:

I prepared myself to engage in a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. When conversing with such an entity, I would not actually speak, for it could not answer from such a contextual distance. Instead, I conversed through casting a shadow of my own. You see, it is important to know how to cast a shadow in conversation if you are to empathize with a shadow and eventually, ideally, understand that shadow. 

(There is a "Leunea Tip" icon next to the following: )
Speaking directly is like shining a light. 
It will only make the shadow disappear. 

You need to intermingle your shadows to become a compound system of shades, and that is when you will have ability to have a real conversation. I believe this applies to not only shadows, but to all people as well. Unfortunately, some people grow frustrated in the early stages, so I will concede and shine a light in those cases. But the light scatters my shadow and it becomes one-sided, so I do not prefer it. I feel more comfortable talking to fellow shadows for this reason, even if we are shadows from different contexts entirely. In fact, that only makes the conversation more fascinating. That is perhaps why I decided it would be the area of my expertise. Leunea monologuing:

You might have thought that there would be a complication in the fact that this entity was the subject of the subject of the digital shadow instead of merely the subject of the digital shadow, but that is a misunderstanding, though a reasonable one to make. After all, a subject of a subject would be a further context separated from my own. But consider this: if there were only the subject of a digital shadow with which to converse, what would be the point of the conversation? If I could access the subject so readily, why would I need this step of the process at all? There would be nothing for me to discuss with the subject of the subject if I knew the subject itself. But the beauty of this whole process is, honestly, that I do need to have a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. It fills me with purpose, like a reporter or an adventurer venturing into the unknown. Leunea monologuing:

Though often the subject of the subject will have a commanding presence in these situations, as that is why they are the subject of the subject that survives the jump into the waking world of my own shadows cast, this specific subject of the subject had a particularly emotional countenance that drew me into its composition like a vortex of meaningful sadness. All sadness is meaningful, but this was a particularly potent and mysterious sadness that threatened to swallow me whole in its shadow. So, in order to converse without being consumed, I brought forth a similar sadness but one that complemented its own rather than one that dissolved with the other's sadness in a way where our sadnesses would become one and the same. It was a real danger that this could happen once we started, but I was willing to take the risk. I readied myself, formed my starting shape and quality, and cast my shadow, initiating the conversation, which began immediately and with fervor.
zovi.bsky.social
That's all for this update! Remember, follow along here or on reunea-leunea.neocities.org, and there will be more pages through most of October! The next update is on Tuesday, 10/14!
zovi.bsky.social
Pages 16-31 of Reunea & Leunea, my postmodern digital picture book (for strange people), are now up!

The best way to read is on reunea-leunea.neocities.org

This thread will contain only pages 16-31. Please see the main thread for the rest (pinned, unless you're reading this further in the future)!
Leunea monologuing:

Shades and shades of grays and blacks were the first thing I 
remember, my view zooming out until they were the backdrop of a larger scene. Narrow leaves with soft curves stretched up from outside the void and pushed inward gracefully, terminating at defining points. The void remained, but was dominated by the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. This was not a dream. This was a necessary step backward to the source, to find the digital shadow, to read the knowable book. 
I must find the 
subject of the 
subject before the subject 
itself, 
and then and only then may 
I have it all, 
ordered and understood. Leunea monologuing:

I prepared myself to engage in a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. When conversing with such an entity, I would not actually speak, for it could not answer from such a contextual distance. Instead, I conversed through casting a shadow of my own. You see, it is important to know how to cast a shadow in conversation if you are to empathize with a shadow and eventually, ideally, understand that shadow. 

(There is a "Leunea Tip" icon next to the following: )
Speaking directly is like shining a light. 
It will only make the shadow disappear. 

You need to intermingle your shadows to become a compound system of shades, and that is when you will have ability to have a real conversation. I believe this applies to not only shadows, but to all people as well. Unfortunately, some people grow frustrated in the early stages, so I will concede and shine a light in those cases. But the light scatters my shadow and it becomes one-sided, so I do not prefer it. I feel more comfortable talking to fellow shadows for this reason, even if we are shadows from different contexts entirely. In fact, that only makes the conversation more fascinating. That is perhaps why I decided it would be the area of my expertise. Leunea monologuing:

You might have thought that there would be a complication in the fact that this entity was the subject of the subject of the digital shadow instead of merely the subject of the digital shadow, but that is a misunderstanding, though a reasonable one to make. After all, a subject of a subject would be a further context separated from my own. But consider this: if there were only the subject of a digital shadow with which to converse, what would be the point of the conversation? If I could access the subject so readily, why would I need this step of the process at all? There would be nothing for me to discuss with the subject of the subject if I knew the subject itself. But the beauty of this whole process is, honestly, that I do need to have a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. It fills me with purpose, like a reporter or an adventurer venturing into the unknown. Leunea monologuing:

Though often the subject of the subject will have a commanding presence in these situations, as that is why they are the subject of the subject that survives the jump into the waking world of my own shadows cast, this specific subject of the subject had a particularly emotional countenance that drew me into its composition like a vortex of meaningful sadness. All sadness is meaningful, but this was a particularly potent and mysterious sadness that threatened to swallow me whole in its shadow. So, in order to converse without being consumed, I brought forth a similar sadness but one that complemented its own rather than one that dissolved with the other's sadness in a way where our sadnesses would become one and the same. It was a real danger that this could happen once we started, but I was willing to take the risk. I readied myself, formed my starting shape and quality, and cast my shadow, initiating the conversation, which began immediately and with fervor.
zovi.bsky.social
Pages 1-15
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Presenting the first pages of:

Reunea & Leunea

(a Digital Picture Book for Strange People)

Best viewed on your home computer at reunea-leunea.neocities.org

Today is the first of 7 updates throughout the month, pages 1-15.
Reunea & Leunea, a Digital Picture Book for Strange People - Written, Designed, & Illustrated by Zovi McEntee. This is the title page. It depicts the two main characters, Reunea and Leunea, who are styled after 80s/90s postmodern clipart design. Reunea: "I am Reunea. I am on the left side."
Leunea: "I am Leunea. I am on the right side." Reunea: "Leunea, my sister, what have you written recently?"
Leunea: "Reunea, my sister, I would ask you the same." Reunea: "I have written a ghost poem. Would you care to hear it?"
Leunea: "No thank you, Reunea. I am much too busy!"
Reunea: "Too busy? You do nothing at all, Leunea."
Leunea: "I collect digital shadows, Reunea. That is very important."
zovi.bsky.social
Reunea & Leunea
a Digital Picture Book for Strange People
Written, Designed, & Illustrated by Zovi

reunea-leunea.neocities.org

The replies to this thread will contain all of the bsky posts of each of the seven updates in October 2025 for ease of access, but reading on the Neocities site is best.
Reunea & Leunea
reunea-leunea.neocities.org
zovi.bsky.social
honestly I don't get why people DON'T like the visual style of vivziepop's stuff, it all looks really good
zovi.bsky.social
really good design!
zovi.bsky.social
New Reunea & Leunea pages tomorrow! And if you haven't read any of it yet, go read the first 15 pages at reunea-leunea.neocities.org so you're caught up to read the next 16 pages! Or wait for tomorrow to read 31 pages, or wait for 10/14 to read 49 pages, or wait for 10/17 to read 61 pages or, wait f
zovi.bsky.social
looking at some scrapped old lyrics and honestly I think I gotta repurpose some of this, it'd be a shame for gold like this to not be fully realized
Reposted by Zovi
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Presenting the first pages of:

Reunea & Leunea

(a Digital Picture Book for Strange People)

Best viewed on your home computer at reunea-leunea.neocities.org

Today is the first of 7 updates throughout the month, pages 1-15.
Reunea & Leunea, a Digital Picture Book for Strange People - Written, Designed, & Illustrated by Zovi McEntee. This is the title page. It depicts the two main characters, Reunea and Leunea, who are styled after 80s/90s postmodern clipart design. Reunea: "I am Reunea. I am on the left side."
Leunea: "I am Leunea. I am on the right side." Reunea: "Leunea, my sister, what have you written recently?"
Leunea: "Reunea, my sister, I would ask you the same." Reunea: "I have written a ghost poem. Would you care to hear it?"
Leunea: "No thank you, Reunea. I am much too busy!"
Reunea: "Too busy? You do nothing at all, Leunea."
Leunea: "I collect digital shadows, Reunea. That is very important."
zovi.bsky.social
That's all for today! Look forward to more paragraphs of explanation from Leunea on Friday for the next update!
Reunea: "Please pay attention, Leunea. The release schedule for our digital picture book is right there, pointing at us."

Reunea & Leunea
New Pages Added on Tuesdays & Fridays in October
(Except for the First and Last Fridays in October)
reunea-leunea.neocities.org
zovi.bsky.social
Pages 4-5 here demonstrate why you should preferably read this on the Neocities website.
This dialogue is split between this page and the next, back and forth.
Reunea: "Leunea. My sister. You have evaded my questions about digital shadows for longer than my longest ghost poem. I desire to know about digital shadows now and no later, or else I will 
assume you do nothing forever. That is a grave sentence."
Leunea: "Yes, yes, Reunea, my sister. I will give you a shining, perfect example of a digital shadow."
Reunea: "You very truly will?"
Leunea: "Yes."
Reunea: "When will you begin?"
Leunea: "In the shadow of this very page..." See previous. Leunea: "Here you will enter my world... of digital shadows."
Reunea: "Fantastic. Go on." Leunea is depicted rising above a bunch of triangles or something.
zovi.bsky.social
Presenting the first pages of:

Reunea & Leunea

(a Digital Picture Book for Strange People)

Best viewed on your home computer at reunea-leunea.neocities.org

Today is the first of 7 updates throughout the month, pages 1-15.
Reunea & Leunea, a Digital Picture Book for Strange People - Written, Designed, & Illustrated by Zovi McEntee. This is the title page. It depicts the two main characters, Reunea and Leunea, who are styled after 80s/90s postmodern clipart design. Reunea: "I am Reunea. I am on the left side."
Leunea: "I am Leunea. I am on the right side." Reunea: "Leunea, my sister, what have you written recently?"
Leunea: "Reunea, my sister, I would ask you the same." Reunea: "I have written a ghost poem. Would you care to hear it?"
Leunea: "No thank you, Reunea. I am much too busy!"
Reunea: "Too busy? You do nothing at all, Leunea."
Leunea: "I collect digital shadows, Reunea. That is very important."
zovi.bsky.social
To be more serious for a sec here, I think it's really helpful to be able to have a tangible and tactile through-line to the most worthwhile parts of your existence. And again, not talking about nostalgia here. I'm talking about what toys have anchored the psyche to the world. Toys are powerful.
zovi.bsky.social
this isn't a nostalgia hole as much as it is like...re-collecting lost brain cells

I am fortunate enough to have a handful of my childhood hot wheels collection, but it's about 30 cars out of what I'd estimate was about 250 or so.
zovi.bsky.social
I think I experienced most of childhood while paying attention to certain hot wheels cars and I think maybe getting more of the cars I had back will fix me ever so slightly
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This project will primarily live on @neocities.org, a perfect place for these two postmodern digital siblings. Please do bookmark the page and follow if you have a Neocities account!

reunea-leunea.neocities.org

neocities.org/site/reunea-...
Reunea & Leunea
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zovi.bsky.social
Starting on Tuesday, 10/7, I will be releasing my new big project: a digital picture book (for strange people), "Reunea & Leunea".

Look out for the first section on Tuesday! There will be seven updates over the course of the month of October, on Tuesdays and Fridays except for Halloween.
zovi.bsky.social
My oldskool rave styled track "Lose Your Marbles" is right at track 1 of this sick album of rave and rave-inspired tunes. I really recommend checking out the whole thing!

novatonecommunity.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-...
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new oldskool rave track soon btw