"They weren't building a model," Charlie said. "They were building a contract."
"A contract?" Abby asked.
"A marriage license," Charlie said. "That was always the trade."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
VR_240
Threads of the City - Pretty City
COMING FRIDAY
#Ambient #ProgressiveElectronic #Dreampunk
First post on my new Substack. Dyslexic & ADHD writers are being caught in a net built for plagiarists. Those aren't the same problem. They shouldn't share the same solution. carlmfreeman.substack.com #dyslexia #ADHD #dreampunk #amwriting
Faculty of Matter starts here; a world where the image arrived before the fact, and the fact never caught up. The lie doesn't need to win. It just needs the truth to feel like it's still loading. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
This is the exact mechanism Faculty of Matter is built on; not that the lie wins, but that truth becomes too exhausting to defend. Once universal skepticism sets in, narrative control is effortless. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
His parents left their signature in his skull before he could read. He spent twenty years learning what it said. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
Above him the dream flux moved like a river of signatures — thousands of sleeping minds sliding past, smeared light and private static. Most nights it was background. Tonight it looked oversaturated. Something just felt wrong. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
Full video guide to the essential albums in the Ghost Tech genre is out now.
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I remember discussing this with you, it was before or during our interview. (Or may be after I’m getting more forgetful). It’s a #dreampunk work of art!
Abby as she had been — small, hidden behind debris, trying to be brave enough not to make a sound. Jay felt her shock course through her like electricity, the kind that makes your whole body go cold. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
He saw his child self pinned under the panel, face smeared with dirt, eyes wide. He saw his parents only metres away, lifeless, bodies thrown into shapes no one should have to recognise. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
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I thought of Jeff Noon in particular for this because the premise reminded me of a story he wrote for Somniscope involving the main character's many faces.
cliffjonesjr.com/somniscope #dreampunk #cyberpunk #weirdFiction #weirdLit #JeffNoon #books #booksky #fiction #sf #sff #sffh #scifi #horror
Faculty of Matter is set exactly here; a world where the image came first and the truth had to fight to catch up. The lie doesn't need to win. It just needs to slow the truth down enough. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
n Faculty of Matter the NESTs don't need to invent the crisis; they just need to own the announcement. Urgency without verification is just another word for compliance. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
In Faculty of Matter the Encoding is marketed exactly this way; optimised for short-term compliance, not long-term human agency. The covenant always looked like help. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
In Faculty of Matter the Encoding is marketed exactly this way; optimised for short-term compliance, not long-term human agency. The covenant always looked like help. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Humanity didn't need a warning. It needed to have been paying attention. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
He let the rain hit his face and tried not to think about how thin the line had become between witness and thief. He needed the truth. He needed her. He wasn't sure anymore which need scared him more. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
People did not want the truth most of the time. They wanted the version that let the next day happen cleanly. A film over the lens is easier than what's behind it. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
"You don't get to love me like I'm somewhere to hide." #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Like a film peeling back from something that had always been underneath. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The Dream Tower always greeted him the same way: rain on rock, and the sound of it — patient, steady, honest. Jay could turn it off if he wanted to. He almost never did. #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The Dream Tower always greeted him the same way: rain on rock, and the sound of it — patient, steady, honest. Jay could turn it off if he wanted to. He almost never did. #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The world in Faculty of Matter looks exactly like this; not apocalypse, just normalised scarcity. The love story happens inside that. Not despite the collapse, because of it. Extinction pressure clarifies what actually matters. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
The pattern in Faculty of Matter is exactly this; technology marketed as salvation, adopted before the contract terms were read. The covenant always looked voluntary. #dreampunk #AIethics
Jay's parents didn't build the Covenant to be original. They built it because no one else would. Non-annihilation; the only rule left standing, once every other had been used to make the lie feel inevitable. #WIPSnips #sciencefiction #dreampunk
This hits differently when you're writing a novel about exactly this — the real world falling apart while the dream layer becomes the only place left to fight for meaning. It's all one journey. @cliffjones.bsky.social just posted a Covenant thread today on that idea if you're curious 🧵 #dreampunk
