Aight, we kept enough silence in the air. What was that random sequel to Sapphic Pussy Rhapsody we dropped out of nowhere?
I mean it was an April Fool’s thing. But let’s explain a bit more what happened.
That was a story I wrote in March 2024. Just like the original SPR it was a bunch of ideas that I had that coalesced just enough to make me want to write things down. But in the moment with it being so short and whatnot, I figured I should just keep it in the backlog until the right time arose.
Then, a few months later, I started my own web novel. Forsaken Gaia. I’m brazen about the fact that it’s just “how I would’ve made a Wild Arms game” but that’s a bit reductive of what it has become and the stuff that comes from me rather than from that franchise, but the point is that I’ve been doing that little by little whenever I have time.
Then, as I am waiting for a bus and out of the house (so my mind is slightly clearer than usual), thinking about things, I realize… April Fool’s is a great excuse to do experimental things, the best stuff to come out of the day are smaller, experimental things that would usually not have space in the regular flow of things. So WIST’s time to come out was clearly finally here.
…that’s it, really. I had a short story sitting around, a story that didn’t need any extra production element to exist and I could put out on my own.
So no, unlike a random comment I saw, Forsaken Gaia is not a VA-11 Hall-A continuation, it’s an unrelated thing that I used to post that short story.
By the way, Forsaken Gaia has 8 chapters as of now plus an extra chapter with someone you might recognize.
Now, onto a different matter, some of you might think I posted it there to promote my own thing… and let’s say for a moment I did, what’s the problem with that if so? How dare I show the people that I assume like my writing the place where some more recent writings lie.
But nah, I was aware from the start that the actual exposure the rest of it would have would be minimal, because people don’t really explore URLs. They get one link and without in-page navigation they don’t have a reason to explore the rest because there’s rarely, if ever, a reason to do so.
And I have the numbers to back it up!
149 is WIST’s page, and 11 is the website’s main homepage (they show like that because they don’t have a title).
Honestly though, aside from me showing the point about URL exploration, thank you so much! 1100+ hits for what’s basically an umprompted, obfuscated, unillustrated, untranslated, unedited April Fool’s post is nothing short of amazing.
Hope those of you that took a chance clicking the link liked what you saw and those that remained in the page had fun with my ongoing project.
Oh! For those wondering about Red-Green Blues. It’s not cancelled or anything, the time just hasn’t been right for a variety of factors, but just like with this short story, its time will come when you least expect it.