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Artist - prev: LEGO, Adidas, AWS, Bankless. Working on /hypercosplay
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Very often I question my progress on this because there's not much published yet, but I can't ignore the gestation period that's taking place. I've been using immense amounts of energy and direction to make this my Magnum Opus, and I'm quite demanding of my own work. I hope the quality match my own expectations.
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One... Fully onchain, so excited, pumped even.
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The biggest challenge for the magic system is that it needs to be embedded into the world building logic. otherwise the magic system will feel fake and just a cosmetic layer of the story. Having a strong world building helps a lot with this and I am glad I finalized (80%) that stage for now.
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Something I started to notice around a couple of years ago, is the lack of volatility of new Noun traits. I remember perfectly the core idea of having weird traits that could look cool in the collection. Now, traits have to go through a lame political process watering down even the initial concept.
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One of the reasons I had to pause the manga development for ~8 months, was because I had a very loose creation myth and magic system. That was enough for the first volume of the manga but not for a manga series 🤷‍♂️ So I had to go back and create this entire cyclocosmic universe with interconnected myths from differe...
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It's time for the magic system 🫠
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Because Nouns are made of ideas, and ideas are bulletproof.
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nouns will never die ⌐◨-◨
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I must say that Nouns changed my life. Not just by funding the ideas I'm still developing (manga), but because they appeared in a weird moment in my life, a moment of mental transition and expansion. It would be sad if the ethos of nouns is forgotten.
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Alright, this is the species chart! I would LOVE to share their names and such, but that would be a major spoiler for the manga. Nouns are located in the tiny red oval. I thought a sub-species chart would be nice, but I think this is enough for the upcoming volumes lol.
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Creating an Onchain Myth is complex, I need to manage the layers of complexity/abstraction without loosing the readers attention, while maintaining the world building logic and magical systems interacting with the characters as they go... Everything wrapped in symbols and metaphors using furries. I fucking love it 🔥
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HyperCosplay is the Nouns mystical scriptures for future folk.
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I feel the pressure to post more to show I'm actively working on my manga, but I'm not here to convince doubters. I was funded to create a work of art and a legacy beyond Nouns. That’s a fact, whether it's understood or not.
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Friendly reminder: Nouns is weird and cool in its core.
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