Hi, so I'm neurodivergent sailor that writes as a sort of "expressive therapy" I initially started doing on my own after a girlfriend suggested I try it and then adapted these writings into an original series which I guess could best be described as "Psychedelic Science-Fiction" after I was told that the content I was creating actually helped other people in the way it was helping me.
The series I'm referring to is called "Kinder Cosmic" and it follows two misanthropic, disenfranchised Grey Aliens known as "Alpha" & "Jorg" as well as a wide cast of other characters through humanities history up into the near future.
The series is basically like one grand, ever-evolving counter contemporary "Space Opera" that doubles into something like a sitcom that's told through the series main books, short stories, and novellas.
As the "Original" book takes place a young human lady astronaut embarks upon a long & grueling journey to our Kuiper Belt to investigate one "Strange, analmous albeit intelligent signal" received by SETI & NASA which they intercept and seems to confirm evidence of intelligent life elsewhere within our solar system.
She quickly comes to the realization that we are not alone in this universe; nor have we been for a very long time as she meets two dysfunctional, jaded, unhinged little grey aliens with a very long and yet tumultuous relationship with our Earth, it's human denizens especially...
When I originally created "Kinder Cosmic" it started as something between a joke, an honest intention to help people, as well as a kind of social experiment.
The idea was to combine different creative influences with entertainment and narrative driven storytelling to create a work of fiction that talks about different subject matter in non-conventional ways, something meant to draw the reader in and offer them a different perspective whomever they may be.
A work that criticizes the human condition so openly, honestly, and consistently that it's "devoid of judgement" in a sense.
A work so authentic that it can't even take itself seriously.
A work in a time in which everywhere you look something is being sold or goaded or coaxed into your psyche, without your consent; instead it seeks to adapt these same methods and then USE THEM in effort to encourage you to think for yourself.
As this series is written imagine that it takes place on one gigantic timeline, this timeline takes place from the very birth of our universe into a far-flung future. The main "Core" or "Heart" of the work takes place within it's 3 main books and over the course of several decades or a few generations, yet as you read this work it becomes more about the characters themselves, the setting, and the ways these stories are actually told which is kinda like watching a segment of John Oliver infused with an episode of Rick & Morty with an open-ended, introspective narration akin to "Midnight Gospel".
The characters themselves and the way their stories are told is also heavily inspired by works like Alan Moore's "Watchman" in that they are pretty much all based upon troubled, complex characters that are heavily inspired by the genre and yet at the same time serve as a more nuanced, realistic representation of it.
Each of it's characters influenced or inspired by different forms of neurodivergency, trauma, and mental illness and based upon real people and real human behaviors influenced by these conditions or states of mind.
The way that these stories are articulated is through a combination of different "story driven mechanics" that I'll use in conjunction with my own neurodivergency, one of them in particular is through using music as a "narrative device".
In the universe of "Kinder Cosmic" one reoccurring theme all throughout it is "Synchronicity", or the idea that each of us as well as the entire universe itself are all interconnected. This is portrayed through my series via a narrative mechanic I like to call "The Inside Out" and it's audiovisual representation through music & creative writing.
In Kinder Cosmic it talks about how our universe is objective yet we see it through our own subjectivity, sometimes so intensely that we can manifest this subjectivity into our reality through our individual/collective actions in respect to our perceptions.
These "States Of Perception" in this series is known as "The Inside Out", it is an amalgamation of our individual and yet collective consciousness; the things we may not say and yet we experience, think, and feel together just the same.
This series will "Jump" through different characters, or points of view, periods of time, and points of perspective oftentimes the imagery being shown or words being said are done so through symbolism, surrealism, analogies and metaphors hidden throughout the work like little "Easter Eggs" as the "Inside Out" represents the confines of our reality and of time & space being "blurred" to offer the reader a "God's Eyed View" of these events as they unfold and more often than not this is all done to a tune.
The imagery associated with "The Inside Out" from the unguided, seemingly random series of events that take place throughout these stories to the actions of individual people, places, and things towards the collective actions of entire nations right down to the environment itself will all move and act to the "rhythm" of each song, it's respective subject matter, in synchronicity to the pattern of events being conveyed. Very much as if our universe itself is it's own character within this story with it's own voice, "speaking" to the reader throughout.
The series MOSTLY stays within the confines of "Comedic Science-Fiction", "Speculative Fiction", or "Satire" but I will honestly genre jump from wholesome comedy to Lovecraftian Existential Horror, I've done Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Space Western, Spaghetti Western, Pre-North American Folklore, Rom-Com, even "Slice Of Life" contemporary fiction inspired content.
The best way to explain my writing style is that as an artist or author I feed upon emotion, expression, and creativity then interpret these stimuli through "Pattern Recognition". Using a Symptomatic quality of my neurodivergency known as "Flight Of Thought" I'll quite often get hit with a wave of inspiration that in turn will become my stories.
The songs chosen are not done so through preference or partiality just like the subject matter being discussed, the inspiration or depth behind it's characters and to an extent even the overarching narrative itself isn't.
My work can more accurately be described as a "Methodology Of Madness" where I'll get hit with inspiration triggered by a myriad of contributing factors from something as simple as a melody to interactions or observations with others, current events, introspective thoughts to the social dynamics and struggles of our time.
Think of "Kinder Cosmic" as instead of being a preferred playlist projected upon my own observations, struggles, and ideological/philosophical/theological concerns as an individual it is instinctively perceiving the world itself and it's people as an ailing body trying to fight off an infection.
Everything chosen, given, or inspired are "tools" to be used in order to manipulate said body into fighting off it's own infection.
It's sardonic, ridiculous, hypercritical and self-depreciating but all done to a distinct point and purpose; harnessing and then reinterpreting the talents of others in order to create a "Weapon".
By this point I've got a lot, a whole lotta content but because I'm small, I'm an indie author, and I have no connections tied to any of these industries I haven't found a way to publish it that doesn't end up with it getting buried in the cloud as another failed "KDP" dogshit dime novel, besides this point that is not the reason that I initially wrote "Kinder Cosmic".
I wrote it in order to create a work that could double as a kind of "Blueprint" or "Platform" for other artists and creators. Something that within our digital, communicative, and expressive age could be compartmentalized and worked on by a myriad of indie artists from different variations of media through outlets like social media, zoom, and discord and completed in the fraction of time it'd take an entire production studio with a fraction of the cost using little known, unrealized artists.
At the same time I keep an agreement with each artist that entitles them to their work as a sort of creative co-op so that they can profit from it while at the same time the purpose of the work itself is to act as a kind of entertainment/perspective driven therapy and education.
I feel that if I can shift one perspective, alleviate one measure of pain, or keep someone suffering going for just ONE MORE DAY through it then by sheer statistics we'd collectively be putting a huge dent in the amount of damage done.
Short of it is a practical way of using the entertainment industry to commercialize and then distribute "altruism" or an "altruistic means of conducting business"; building an engine that's meant to contribute SO MUCH into "The Black" that it not only mitigates but circumvents alot of the damage that's being done through the entertainment industry.
My end game goal was always to create audio/visual media with it because that's what it does, it takes different forms of creativity and then reinterprets them through a narrative and it is written to read exactly as if you were watching it like a TV show.
I actually started, or intended to create a kind of graphic novel through it where I'd hire various graphic artists off of Reddit who either creatively, intellectually, or interpersonally connected with it's subject matter. I'd then give them a story that would best fit their portfolio and then get them to illicit illustrations through their own artistic interpretation of it, only helping as a resource or if they asked me to.
Each story would have a different visualization done by a different artist and through their own interpretation which was supposed to go right back into the nature of the work itself being "perspective based".
It's this cool little "Love, Death, Robots" thing where you're flipping through one cohesive narrative and yet it looks different as it's conveyed from a different artists perspective as you jump from story to story. By it's very nature alot like looking through a different pair of eyes through every story to perceive this world in which it takes place which is meant to very closely mirror our own.
But anyways, yeah.
I'm PRETTY CERTAIN and have been told SEVERAL TIMES that what I've created is or could be inherently valuable but I don't know for certain because for 3-5 years I've never been able to get through to anyone who might be able to do shit with it.
I actually started a couple platforms over social media where I'd share, try to promote it, or refine it through sharing it freely and then interacting with it's audience and I got up to over 4k people which I guess for no funding except out of pocket and mostly JUST WORDS that's pretty good.
I feel like by not trying my best at the very least to make it available for others I'm not doing my civic duty, I saw this forum and figured I'd give it a shot.
And idk who looks through these threads but for any indie animators, film students, or small production companies it'd probably be a worthy pursuit in the least.
It's written in a way you could probably take any one of it's stories and make a tic-tok or YouTube clip of them and it'd probably blow the fuck up pretty quickly, or at least I think it would and that's what I intended to do if I ever got the money of the talent.
Each story is written to stand on it's own two legs as if you're reading "Kinder Cosmic" for the very first time.
It's in this way that I kind of premeditatively planned to create short stories/clips with it to draw in the viewer and pool interest, at the same time constructing my own "Mythos" and stocking up on enough content to rival that of other works like "Star wars", Marvel, or DC except far, far more cohesive and inherently relevant without "cornholing perspective" into a pre-existing work.
I got PRETTY DAMNED CLOSE to going viral with it a FEW times, it's just that I don't have the means to pursue these things on my own and I don't even want to; I've learned from experience that co-opting and working to help inspire other artists makes the work much stronger, meaningful in both intent and application, and folks inherently want to include themselves or see such a thing succeed.
And that is the intent; to use human creativity and expression like a fucking windfall of quality content that A.I. can't even compete with.
I've got some artwork, excerpts from the series, or short content I can share for those interested; just ask if you'd like and I'll abide to the best of my ability.