It's been a minute. I, myself, had no clue of how much I missed the blog until, mid 2024, I started to think about renewing the Domain, if it was worth it, if the Arts had perished, etc.
It hasn't. And it certainly is worth it.
For those reasons, I'd like to share a few news about the blog.
Newborn!
After 4 years of brewing, Newborn! is finally going to the press; the concept stayed the same, but it was necessary for me to accept that the best way to finalize the project was through another, less formal, medium: the zine.
On one end, this project brings about something semi-new in the blog: the visual arts. A multimedium zine, with paintings, drawings, and collages— in the same vein as “Linhas de Trem, Ônibus, e Metrô“, but more formal, and simultaneously more experimental.
The book is in English, it containts old poems in the blog, such as Coisa de gente grande, or in the book "It's a grown up thing".
For now, 10 copies are being printed, and the zine is getting formatted for e-book, for better access— but there's more to come!
New site, new design, new everything
The older attentive reader (and with good memory) will notice that everything here is new. The font, the homepage, the header image... practically everything!
That's because I was a bit tired of the blog's old look. See it as a home renovation; the couch went there, the TV here, but eventually you'll feel at home again.
Despite the new look, the mission stays the same: sharing engaging, challenging and interesting texts, We still have poetry, prose, and opinion. But it's important to remember that the blog is 8 years old; it started in 2016, and in this period a lot has happened (more about that towards the end). Among these things, a new storytelling form has enticed me:
RPG (Roleplaying Games)
It's no longer too uncommon to see RPG in the media— for instance, Stranger Things has shown Dungeons & Dragons in cameras, Dimension 20 and Critical Role are Actual Plays (even if super produced ones) that are notorious outside of Brasil, and there's an increasing amount of RPG content creators around there.
You can't blame me for jumping on the train, right?
Source: Tudum
In 2020, during the most severe part of the Pandemic here in Vancouver, I played Call Of Cthulu for the first time, with my friend João as a Game Master. shortly after, I played Vampire: the Masquerade (GM'd by my friend Arthur) and that was enough for me to completely fall in love with the medium. Today, my physical library spans more than 30 books, and this doesn't even consider the virtual one.
Source: Twitch
That's whym after 4 years of intense play, GM'ing, and reading, I decided to add a RPG section to the blog. The idea is to have a mixture of:
- Game reviews;
- Game-inspired narration;
- Articles about Worldbuilding;
- many other things that will come to mind eventually.
In a personal note
In this 3 year hiatus, a whole lot happened. I decided to stay in Vancouver, finished a degree, started another (which I'm about to finish), left my parent's house, and (certainly more important than all of that) I got married!
Literature aside, I have the pleasure of sharing life with my wife Júlia, who loves books, helps me making character sheets in the day before an RPG session, and supports me in a million ways in normal life, beyond the literary one.
Now that life has quieten down a bit, I have the chance to go back to doing things I miss, such as writing and sharing in this humble site Literatura de Metrô.
One of the forms Ju supports this blog is by introducing me to new forms of creating— which you'll see in the next post Blackout Poetry, still in formatting.
Thanks for reading so far! The next posts will certainly be shorter, and more literary. Until next time!
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