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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

Pages 16-31

Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

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 @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

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 @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

Black background, white outline of half of a tipping-over theremin.

Black background, the other half of the tipping over theremin.

Leunea monologuing:

At this point I let the conversation break, for we were indeed dissolving into each other and losing ourselves. That would not have been helpful for either of us. I needed to be me to finish my work, and it needed to be it to still be the subject of the subject, which, I will remind you, was the whole point of this.

But this was a fruitful conversation, and I received exactly what I needed. But I owed the subject of the subject something before I could complete the digital shadow: to pull it into the context of my own reality.

Reunea is standing again. Leunea is on the floor, leaning on the tipped-over theremin.

Reunea: Ah, so this is finally where you will describe a digital shadow to me, Leunea?

Leunea: Yes, this is finally where I will describe a digital shadow to you, Reunea. It will be transcendent, and you will see why I fill my days with cataloguing these digital shadows.

Leunea leads Reunea to a chair and table away from the theremin.

Reunea: I will await my transcendence, Leunea.

Leunea: Thank you, Reunea. Come with me into the last part of my process...

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

Leunea is starting to get really into it, lifting off the ground. Reunea is lying down on the floor, propping her head up with her hand, watching intently.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

Note: this page is coupled with the page after it for dialogue.

Reunea: Ah, finally, I have been anticipating the recounting of the conversation itself. How will it manifest?

Leunea: This conversation is impossible to convey with language. I will instead demonstrate it using an improvisation on this theremin.

Reunea: Oh, yes, that makes sense.

See previous for dialogue. Leunea is depicted with a theremin.

No dialogue. Leunea starts to play the theremin, Reunea sitting on the floor next to her (to the left, naturally).

No dialogue. Leunea continues to play theremin.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

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)!

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

Pages 1-15

Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d

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."

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d

honestly I don't get why people DON'T like the visual style of vivziepop's stuff, it all looks really good

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d

really good design!

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Reposted by Zovi

Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d

Pages 12-15

Leunea continues monologuing:

But then,
in a wrongly serene shift of perspective,
I came to a stop.
The shelf nearest to me became seven shelves nearest to me, and in the fifth was the knowable book.

Leunea continues monologuing (this page is a solid block of text):

The knowable book was on a small stand, nestled in front of several unknowable books, at eye level, or slightly higher than eye level. It was always so hard to tell which was which. But I could see it, and I could know the cover. The cover was so sad, so meaningful, so perfect, and in a landscape format. I knew instantly that this was a knowable book, maybe the only knowable book, and further, that this meant I was important, and thus an author, and thus the author of this knowable book, despite not being the author of this knowable book. The author of this knowable book, in fact, was one of the aforementioned known important people who were nowhere to be found. I knew I was not that important person, specifically, but I knew I was outside the beautiful mechanism of the bookstore event, so I, too, was now nowhere to be found. However, it was simply irrelevant as to whether I was the author or not, which I was not, or not yet. The fact was that I did not know what was inside the book, only the cover. That made it a knowable book, but the unknowable aspect was now separate from the dance of peripheral glances that had been continually receding around me as I focused on the knowable book. It was a contradiction, and it begged to be resolved. But I could not read it in that moment, I knew that. It was impossible. If I read it then and there, the result would be the same as if I simply tore it to shreds, trying to read each jagged fragment flitting through the air. What use would that have? None, it would have none.

Leunea stops monologuing. Reunea is sitting on the floor now.

Leunea: "My only recourse was to find its digital shadow, which I have done, yes-"
Reunea: "You have?"
Leunea: "Yes, Reunea, I have."

Reunea: "Then why not see the shadow of the narrative?"
Leunea: "We will, but we cannot see it by reversing the story. That would never allow me to have begun it. And so it unfolds...if you will allow me to continue."
Reunea: "Yes, Leunea, please continue."
Leunea: "Thank you, Reunea. Now then..."

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d

Pages 8-11

Leunea monologuing:

Shelves and shelves of books were the first thing I remember, my view zooming out until they were a backdrop of a greater scene. Unimportant people bustled all around. Important people were safely behind tables, and other important people were nowhere to be found. And throughout this whole affair was a sense of
order and understanding.

We were there to appreciate the books, but not to read them.

Leunea continues monologuing:

You see, nearly every book upon that bookshelf was unknowable. They were not unknowable in the sense of forbidden knowledge, or cosmic horror, or anything of that sort. No, they were unknowable because that was simply part of the whole affair. Unimportant people were milling about the books on the shelves, not even looking at their covers as they, too, were unknowable past a peripheral glance of color and pattern and texture. And they were crowding around authors of unknowable books, not reading the books and not asking for signatures. Perhaps they could become important if they wrote an unknowable book, or if they pretended to have written one, or if they managed, somehow, to know one. At the time, I did not think about this, as everything was as it was meant to be, but I was also an unimportant person, for I did not write an unknowable book, nor did I know one, or 9. [9 is the page number]

Leunea continues monologuing:

And so I milled about, just like the rest, part of the beautiful machine of this bookstore event, an oasis of gathering importance in the white void casting worlds instead of shadows.

The shadows would come later.

Eventually, I ended up right next to the shelves of unknowable books. They were in a jagged pattern, such that some edges of the bookshelves jutted out more than others. The books that were further back felt even more unknowable, if that were even possible, as they were obscured by the presence of those closer. I was not disturbed by this, however. It was just an observation. I saw the colors and patterns and textures of the books nearer to me, the aforementioned peripheral glances, browns and reds and a book or two with a texture flipping between blue and yellow like an asterisk phasing through a line.

There was a feeling of incompleteness, of emptiness, but it was calm, and so I was calm. Everything was as it was meant to be, and the frame of the scene was close around me, so I felt safe, bounded, focused.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d

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..."

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.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d

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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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 6d

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

reunea-leunea.neocities.org

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 7d

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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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 8d

new oldskool rave track soon btw

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