About

The imaginary world of Eluthisura is my latest foray into encyclopedic fiction. I chose to index using WordPress and a theme reminiscent of Wikipedia; I find the appearance and organization helpful in visualizing it as a ‘real place.’ Additionally, looking like an established fact-site gives my imaginary – and occasionally ludicrous – facts an element of ‘reality’ and legitimacy they would not otherwise have.

This work exists in the overlap between parafiction¹A performance or otherwise artistic representation of fiction as fact (as defined by art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty). and hyperfiction,²A broader term that includes hypertext fiction. Generally understood as online work meant to be navigated non-linearly by the viewer using hyperlinks. though it may be most accurately categorized as superfiction.³Defined as a work appropriating elements of a preexisting organization or fictitious individual in order to appear ‘real.’ A famous example of this is H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. Or, in the case of Eluthisura: Wikipedia.

This website exists as a framework, allowing the viewer to gain the context necessary for understanding other related works. For instance, I have written and drawn more traditionally formatted stories and comics set in Eluthisura; while they can be read on their own, the intricacy of the worldbuilding grounds each individual work in a single timeline. Aside from defining the world as a character in and of itself, this website functions as a backdrop to stage the actual work.

The intention is to allow you, the viewer, to navigate this site in the same manner you might curiously explore Wikipedia articles.⁴Jumping from one to the next and not, necessarily, reading each in its entirety. As an ongoing work,⁵Updates currently roll out on a daily-to-weekly basis. context and the specificity of events might change as I ‘discover’ new pieces of the world.

It is not realistically possible to create a world completely separate from ours – or the pieces of ours with which I am familiar. I do my best to show⁶Without appropriating or stereotyping. diversity, something at which I know I am not perfect. This world is a sort of sandbox escapism; it is idealized, anachronistic, and concerned with being engaging over scientific accuracy. The alternate timeline and existence of magic gives significant leeway there, but it remains eyebrow-raising at some points.

Hopefully, regardless of these complications, it’s fun to look through and speculate about!

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Works like Eluthisura

Installations by Meow Wolf, including The House of Eternal Return.⁷More textbook-executed superfiction, the majority of its installation and related paraphernalia refers to it as the scene of a factual investigation.

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  A performance or otherwise artistic representation of fiction as fact (as defined by art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty).
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  A broader term that includes hypertext fiction. Generally understood as online work meant to be navigated non-linearly by the viewer using hyperlinks.
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  Defined as a work appropriating elements of a preexisting organization or fictitious individual in order to appear ‘real.’ A famous example of this is H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. Or, in the case of Eluthisura: Wikipedia.
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  Jumping from one to the next and not, necessarily, reading each in its entirety.
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  Updates currently roll out on a daily-to-weekly basis.
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  Without appropriating or stereotyping.
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  More textbook-executed superfiction, the majority of its installation and related paraphernalia refers to it as the scene of a factual investigation.