The full thing is here: https://inivekin.github.io/abosa/

About 1.5-2 hours of reading if you like that kind of thing - or just skim the pics if you like.

I read Beowulf and thought I could do better. I guess I probably didn't but I gave it a shot and I'm pretty proud of a few things in there. I'd like to record it in a sing-songy way someday...

a futuristic astronaut laying on the rocks in front of distant mountains with a parachute attached to him.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm severely impressed with what you've done here, both artistically and poetically. What an epic project!

Did you invent the alien script as well? It appears to be a letter-by-letter substitution of the English text, so technically quite learnable :)

I've only read a few sections into it, but I've enjoyed what I've seen, so I'm going to come back and give it a little time when I have some. I'd love a pdf/epub etc for an e-reader (or a paper copy!), though it might be hard to get the image/text flow right - and I imagine quite some effort to rearrange the html document into a page-turning format.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    The font is simply Elian script. Luckily this nice person made it a font so I didn't have to do so.

    I do have a pdf and epub version which I made a generator for from the html. My EPUB gen is a bit sus and I haven't got it working right yet but I've pushed the pdf to the main git repo here. Good idea, will try improve them and I should add a link to them from the page itself.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Holy moly! I'll save this for later for sure. Beautiful art direction is what I can see now.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thankyou! I tried to make it the kind of thing that's consumable in one afternoon, but I did also try to chunk it up and make it navigable for shorter reading sessions too.

    If you think I could make it more approachable somehow, feel free to let me know. I have mind of an audio version but want it in a certain way that I'm not yet skilled enough to achieve.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You should make a weird sci-fi manga

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not a reaction I expected lmao

    Any recommendations?

    I'm not very familiar with manga, what would be the main differentiator between this and one of those? Less words more drawings?

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