Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.8
Added 2025-05-16 23:57:39 +0000 UTCChapter crawls from a cocoon of glass and steel, unfurling wings of wire and light, before fluttering off into the cosmic deep.
https://katalepsis.net/2025/05/16/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-8/
This week's password is: moppet
An epub version of the chapter is linked down below, like always!
Wheeeeeeeee! I feel like the arc is really starting to find its feet now; we're kinda at the end of the beginning, I think? All the elements are on the board, the state of play is ready to unfold, and Maisie is beginning to ... change? Maybe? I'm not sure how she feels about that. She surprised me a few times during this chapter, pushing in directions for which I had not planned. Which is wonderful! I still cannot express how great it is to have her doing all this; I feel like I'm just along for the ride! And so are you, dear readers! I hope you're enjoying it too!
Meanwhile, I have yet more art to share from the discord this week! This one is something real special. Simply titled 'Toxic', (by Cera!) this piece directly illustrates one of Maisie's most defining character moments thus far, to put it lightly. She is a little toxic, don't you think?
And now, without further ado (I'll leave all the ado to Maisie herself), back to the wilds we go ...
Comments
The fanart is so incredible, yeah! I'm just so delighted and flattered whenever anybody feels like drawing art of my characters. And it's perfect for Maisie! Scary scary knife ... Oooh! Very nice to see a reader picking up on the themes I'm exploring here about dolls, personhood, self-creation, artificial bodies, etc. There's a lot of stuff bubbling under the surface, though Maisie makes quite a lot of it more explicit. "Did your maker make your fate?" Indeed!!!
Hazel Young
2025-05-17 15:00:33 +0000 UTCI posted this comment, and it got me thinking about the Boondocks for some reason. Love that show. Before I knew what I was doing, I wrote the following. Enjoy! --- Maisie walks into the Fairy’s castle, the Fairy looking down at her with an evil smile. Fairy: “You want to explain to me what you are doing here?” Maisie: “I came looking for booty.” Fairy: “You came looking for sex, with an otherworldly creature?” Maisie: “Oh naw, I ain't come looking for no little tentacle monsters. I ain't got no milk, no cookies, nothing. I came looking for fairy’s butt.” Fairy: “A fairy’s butt? Excuse me?” Maisie: “Oh I know who you are, Fairy, but see I-I calls you Slut Fairy. I chased you all the way here. So, you can go ahead, bring them traps and minions waiting outside. It don't make me no difference. Now I tell you what… I like ya, and I want ya… Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way, the choice is yours. Fairy: “Well I don't think you and I will be doing anything, any-kind of way.” Maisie: ‘Ok, I-I see you choosin' the hard way.” Fairy, calling to someone in another room: “Okay, cut this isn't working, someone get this girl-” Maisie, tackling the Fairy and pinning her to a table: “Don't make me ruin the butt, Fairy! I'm a warrior!”
Kennyevilmonkey
2025-05-17 12:53:16 +0000 UTCStill betting on Heather popping into a scene of complete chaos, confused about everything going on. When she shows up, the mimic is actually screaming for her help. "Heather, get your crazy sister off of me!!! No, don't tear my clothes off, please, someone, anyone, get this crazy bitch away from me! No, no, I'm a virgin! A virgin!!!"
Kennyevilmonkey
2025-05-17 12:32:22 +0000 UTCThat art is so so fitting it had us cackle to see it. All the horrors of Outside, beware, Maise has a knife! And dolls. Dolly dolls dolled up. There are at least 5 reasons this is our favourite chapter yet, and 6 have to do with the delicious themes and undertones of the Dolls. Purpose and place and personhood, is your past your future? Did your maker make your fate? -Ashely & Ember & Sky
AsheHides
2025-05-17 00:43:25 +0000 UTC
