#eversion

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Eversion (2008)

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Eversion fanart

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Do you have a sense of what your readers tend to re-read the most? I would be fascinated by the results of that poll!

(For me, it's The Nascent Diplomat because I'm a sucker for different cultures colliding, and I love the exploration of communication and language.)

Hi anon!

It changes over time.

Back in the day it was the SALverse (From the Darkness We Rise & Into Shadows We Fall), and then it was probably Stuck on the Puzzle. In fact to this day I think Stuck on the Puzzle is easily my most reread fic.

Of my original works, I honestly think it will end up being Falling Falling Stars. It's the one people tell me they're rereading the most even now. Before that it was easily The Wildness Within. I definitely think The Nascent Diplomat is a comfort reread fic for quite a few people though! Which is really cool. :D It's one of the reasons why I've always liked running at least one kind of 'softer' fic (FFS / TWW / TND) etc. because I feel like...sometimes we just need more comforting fics - even with their heavy subject matter - alongside some of the more dramatic or dark stories I'm writing!

I might do it as a poll though, that sounds fun :D

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This might just be the most awesome album I've ever seen.

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art request: zee tee from eversion (him. my baby boy. my son)

Okay so I see you meant that little guy (cute)

And here he is!

But I read “eversion” and thought you meant turn the character into an Eevee

So I guess you get a bonus drawing :3

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Eversion: Halloween edition

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hello to all 3 Eversion fans i like thisg ame a not normal amount

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Akira: We finally got the hd version of a classic Tael Loved since it came out. EVERSION!! It's honestly as fun as Tael remembered it. read below if you want our more indepth thoughts as I'm going to get go indepth and technically spoilering things.

Alright for those sticking by, Lemme tell you about Eversion. Basically it was a 2d platformer here you control this flower buddy Zee Tee on his quest to save a princess, pretty vanilla stuff, until you come across the game's main mechanic, Eversion.

Basically you'll find these spots through out the eight seven worlds where you can peel hop between Layers of reality which will change the elements of that world (ex: clouds can be used as platforms, enemies will walk slower.) This for the first few layers seem fine until you start noticing that with each layer peeled away, things seem less and less jolly. The colors get less vibrant, the enemies lose the smiles and the pep to their step (even losing their freaking legs), and even the world itself starts to deteriorate, and that's when you get to layer 5....

The world starts starts turning into a nightmare land, wilted flowers into deadly thorns, now motionless enemies turn slithering monsters, and even this hand like tendrils popping out of pits to try and claw at you. even the ROCKS become monsters It really becomes a challenge. Now a days the idea of a cute game turning out to be a horror game in disguise as been done so much, but back then it was an interesting thing to play and still holds up well. it can be a bit of a pain challenge wise in the later worlds but I'd say it's worth it. If you're curious I'd say go for the steam version (because we're pretty sure any links to the original freeware version are gone at this point) and give the game a run through!

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Wish that was me, Zee Tee

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Reupload Gonanza - Part 45, Section 1 (January, 2023)

tfw every other dimension in Super Paper Mario has a homogenized artstyle, instead of something artistically unique every dimension... of course, wouldn't look like how i drew it... (this is the only SPM topic i wanna listen to after WEEKS of the same Dark Prognosticus lore topics) i don't think i have that template with me

ogh... the madness... how's your day been?

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Eversion, by Alastair Reynolds

Let's try reviewing a book, shall we?

I just finished "Eversion" by Alastair Reynolds, and I have thoughts.

Oh, and everything will be spoilers after the cut...

Dr Silas Coade is the physician aboard the sailship Demeter, which is venturing north to investigate a mystery.

No, Dr Silas Coade is the physician aboard the steamship Demeter, which is sailing south to investigate a mystery in deepest Patagonia.

But no, no, Dr Silas Coade is the physician aboard the airship Demeter, which is shortly due to enter a fissure into the Hollow Earth to investigate a mystery far below the surface of the not-entirely-physically-plausible bauble-planet...

But no, no, no ... this isn't it, is it SILAS? You need to wake up before time runs out, entombed here below the ice-crust on Jupiter's moon Europa - Silas? Silas are you listening? Silas are we about to do this again, and what do you mean Dupin hasn't solved the eversion problem yet -

Cut

As quickly becomes apparent, Silas is apparently stuck in some sort of fantastical loop. Said loop appears to be linked to a story that he is attempting to write, in all iterations of it. The structure of the setting varies - the technology level goes up over each loop, but the nature of each loop is less plausible than the one preceding it. The very first loop is something that could believably have happened. The second loop is starting to stretch things a little - how did this crappy ship get all the way down to Patagonia? - but it's not quite jumped the shark, at least not yet. While it's subtle, the behaviour of gravity inside the Hollow Earth is wrong (there shouldn't be a "down" inside a uniform self-gravitating hollow spehere). Oh, and the shell-planet is also self-evidently absurd, though no-one living there sees it as such. The last, and obviously-delusional, loop is straight out of a '40s SF pulp magazine. (In fact it bore more than a passing resemblance to bits of Triplanetary Patrol by E.E. 'Doc' Smith, which I'm pretty sure was deliberate on the part of the author!)

There are several common features to each loop. Silas is always the ship's physician. Ramos has always suffered some manner of head injury. The Demeter, whatever class of vehicle it is, is always voyaging toward a mysterious destination that can only be reached through a fissure, though the nature of the fissure changes each time. In each stage, Dupin, the young mathematician, is always ill and is always working on a problem related to the concept of "eversion". Dupin's condition also progresses - he visibily deteriorates between each cycle, even though the delusions themselves reset. When the Demeter traverses the fissure, they find a bizarre, menacing construction called the Edifice, which appears to be of inhuman origin and whose purpose is not clear. They also find the wreck of another ship, the Europa, which apparently got there first. The crew of the Demeter discover they have been lied to. Disaster swiftly follows, ending with Silas's death.

Interestingly, in every cycle Silas has experienced some form of psychotropic disorder. Usually this presents as an addiction, which he is hiding from the crew (laudanum, then morphine, then the "Radium draught" from the Hollow Earth episode), though later on it takes the form of a supposed indoctrinal machine called the Plastic Educator. It is clear from these episodes that Silas does not have the full facts of his situation - or, perhaps, is hiding from them - though what exactly the real problem is remains unclear.

Also, there is always lightning.

Enter Ada Cossile. The mysterious woman is not present in absolutely every iteration of the cycle - she's notably absent aboard the Interplanetary Patrol spaceship - but when she is present, she acts both as a critic and somewhat of a temptress-figure to Silas. She critiques his writing, often quite harshly, but she also implies (or outright states) that the world that Silas occupies is a lie. She seems to know more than she should.

It slowly emerges that Cossile is trying to draw Silas back to reality, or at least what she views as reality. They are indeed on board a vehicle called the Demeter, except it is actually a lander from a spacecraft, currently trapped below the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa. It is close to an alien artifact known as the Edifice, and there is another wrecked ship - also called the Europa - nearby, as it appears that a second expedition was launched without the knowledge of Demeter's crew. Also, the crews of both have been abducted and are now trapped inside the Edifice, which is stated to be slowly mind-draining them toward death, and it's up to Ada and Silas to save them.

But the reality of the situation is simply too much, and Silas keeps fleeing from it into a hallucinatory fugue-state.

These are not the only revelations, though I have deliberately not mentioned a few points, so as not to spoil every surprise :)

Eversion is a page-turner - I found it hard to put down. The underlying mystery is interesting, and it poses some hard questions about loss and sacrifice - how much sacrifice is justified to save others? As is often the case with Reynolds novels, there's a theme of forbidden knowledge. It would have been better for everybody if they'd simply ignored the Edifice in the first place and no expedition to Jupiter had ever been launched. When Silas learns the truth, it doesn't make him happy, and in fact he's at his happiest at the very end when he abandons reality for the final time and goes to live permanently in what's implied to be his final fugue-state.

There are also - possibly - some unanswered questions. I'm not 100% convinced we've had the entire truth about who or what Ada Cossile was. There could be some hints that she too either does not know the full facts of her situation, or is presenting an edited version. There's one, brief scene in which Silas perceives her as something monstrous rather than alluring. Also, she's very keen that someone has to remain behind inside the Edifice and she's also very keen for the eversion problem to be solved - and who else might be interested in both these outcomes? After all, the eversion seems to be linked to whatever process via which the Edifice became damaged in the first place - a solution to the eversion could also be beneficial for the Edifice. One can wonder if perhaps it realised that the escape of some of its prisoners was inevitable, so instead it devised a "controlled crash" scenario where it's still able to get at least some of what it wants. (Dupin remains entombed within, and the Edifice has control of the wrecks of both the Europa and the Demeter. And with eversion solved, perhaps it can heal itself.) In this model, one has to wonder whether perhaps Ada has been influenced by the Edifice, or may indeed be an avatar of it? It's interesting that Silas seems to keep feeling a need to flee from her, even while he remains fascinated by her - perhaps on some level, he's sensed that something is "off" about her. It's also notable that Ada has a colour-motif associated with her - yellow! - and this is in a novel that is not generally heavy on strong visual imagery. (I also find myself reminded of the famous King In Yellow, a well-known proto-Lovecraftian work, though perhaps this might be a bit of a reach.)

Anyway, none of this is proved - perhaps Ada's story actually is the truth! - though I think a case can be made for it.

Overall I'd say that Eversion is an interesting, challenging novel, and definitely one worth reading.

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This game has some good backgrounds but I wish layer 6, 7, and 8 weren't all just the same thing but recolored.

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Hello! I don’t know how many times I can reread the works you’ve written but I enjoy them too much to stop 😂 I was wondering if you’d ever thought about expanding on the Eversion universe? I’d love to read more about Luuk, or the past you’d had for North? Or even Markus and Simon!

Hi anon!

I've never felt compelled to write anything else in the Detroit: Become Human universe, honestly. Like, not even shorts. I knew when I finished that last chapter I'd sort of written all I wanted to, and it hasn't really pinged me again since.

I want to use Luuk in some original writing one day, but I never wanted to explore any of the other characters or anything beyond what I did. I'm so sorry!

Eversion is one of those stories where I really just had one specific idea that I wanted to write, that I couldn't find to read. I'd seen a lot of great reverse!AU fanart, and almost no fanfiction that captured that sort of...dubcon / horny quality. So I wrote something that was matching some of the fanart I was seeing at the time, and that was all I wanted to do!

I never stayed very long or got very deep into that fandom. T.T I apologise

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A collection of my recent stream thumbnails since I like the silly little drawings on them :)