The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.


'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'


thaliarchus
@thaliarchus

Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, this millennium's best giant robot yuri space opera, is complete. To release it, I'm going to read CWKB aloud on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus), in instalments, from start to finish.

The whole poem has been revised and improved, but on Saturday 19 October we will hit material that hasn't been published yet. From that point on, the books premiered each week will be added to the files available on Itch, in PDF and epub.

VODs will be available on Twitch for anyone who can't make it but is keen to follow along or catch up.

Once finished, the poem will remain free / pay-what-you-want.

Schedule

Streams will be on Saturdays, on the following schedule, in which all times are in GMT / UTC / Zulu:

  • 1900 UTC Sat 7 September: Book 1
  • 1900 UTC Sat 14 September: Books 2 & 3
  • 1900 UTC Sat 21 September: Books 4 & 5
  • 1900 UTC Sat 28 September: Books 6 & 7
  • 1900 UTC Sat 5 October: Book 8
  • 1900 UTC Sat 12 October: Books 9 & 10
  • 1900 UTC Sat 19 October: Books 11 & 12
  • 1900 UTC Sat 26 October: Books 13 & 14
  • 2000 UTC Sat 2 November: Books 15 & 16
  • 2000 UTC Sat 9 November: Books 17 & 18 [the end!]

Note the UTC time change from 2 November on: this keeps the stream consistent at 8 PM London time, and might well keep it consistent for you too, if you live somewhere where the clocks are changing in the same direction.

Please circulate to anyone who might be interested!


Glorious cover art by Szkin, @szkin-art.


hecker
@hecker

An epic poem mostly (but not totally) in blank verse, featuring mecha fights, yuri love affairs, and plot beats from the Aeneid and similar sources, all conveyed in language reminiscent of Beowulf. Surely there are a few people on cohost who are at the intersection of that particular Venn diagram?

P.S. I reviewed it a while back.


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