so i have to tone down my website as you guys keep spamming me with hits lately. i’ve made accounts with SUBSTACK and PATREON and will mirror a lot of content there (some free, some paywalled) while i’m password protecting even more of my stuff here and putting this link tree ‘id card’ up as a holding page.
feel free to roam all of those outlets, get in touch or involved. i’ll also publish the infamous draft magazine through some of the above channels.
another open letter. this time re: takedown of draft magazine from amazon yesterday. started with a typical redshill-style coercive antic executed by an upstart button hero and was followed by a more professional ‘doubling down’ by mauren after i’d replied such essentially editorial decisons will result in my taking down all draft issues as a result.
hope this is found enlightening for many.
Hi Mauren,
so I regard your email as being the ‘official’ confirmation of Vaisakh’s earlier decision to block the draft literary magazine issue from being available for sale on Amazon by a higher instance within the Amazon framework? Is this reading correct?
As I clarified earlier, there hasn’t been an issue for many years with this. All I have done is tweak commas and republish the ‘culprit’. What changed?
As to your ‘guidelines’ as such – well, I have to say as long as it isn’t stated what specifically triggered the alarm bells – what is it? the dwarves offering sweets to the goddess, her not wearing any pants, the hideous cretins imprisoned between her legs in an earth buried trail emanating from the horizon, the ghostly fun fair without humans entertained in it whatsoever? – I do not feel confident publishing anything anymore in the future with you guys. Most of the things I know and say can be ‘bent’ to infringing empty ‘guidelines’ if taken out of intellectual discourse that is art and fiction. If sticklers and hypocrites are at work hiding behind their pathetic buttons.
Mind you – you didn’t have a problem listing a publication that was specifically produced as ‘pornography’ (Rear Entry by Eros Comix / Fantagraphics) as apparently having been authored by me – even though I have only been contributing with 5 pages as a graphic novel ‘illustrator’ (authored anonymously by an ex-girlfriend) and it has de-facto been authored – uncredited, as editor in chief – by Michael Dowers. And I’m certain this hasn’t changed at all. Listing is still up and deceiving just fine, lol. (And I don’t have a problem if credits are adjusted and depicted accurately for listings as this to be available on Amazon.)
Which is to say while you make a fuzz about first class artwork that is not at all considered ‘pornographic’ by anyone with a fine art education (slandering it insinuatingly, not daring to do it explicitly, as if it wasn’t clear to anyone how professionally and considerately this artwork has been created) – you turn a blind eye on the really important things such as those of copyright and credits.
And here comes the greatest irony of our present discourse – the plot twist that only those who read with a pure heart were able to see from the get-go – pieces of art such as this (as well as other artworks along those borderlines using people’s buried anxieties and desires, stirring psychological undercurrents both of vileness and goodness) raise precisely the entire issue of child abuse and women objectification – opening wide the darkest abyss – in a literary context that has the full backing of professional psychology.
Wouldn’t you then call this present head-slapping episode ‘hypocrisy’ by human standards and ‘professional misconduct’ by intellectual ones? What is an author of literary fiction today if they’re lectured by rogue unprofessionalism pretending to uphold ‘content guidelines’ while in reality they’re with self-righteous impunity enforcing extremely serious censorship of creative expression and thus partaining editorial license to an independent author’s creative work?
i’ve again been suspended because people hit my page with too many clicks. so now i made nearly all ‘important’ posts – those that found their save haven in my printed books – protected with a password. again, if you trouble yourself to internet your way back (as long as they don’t take the memory machine offline for real, lol), you can still view everything ‘for free’. and again, you’re very welcome to leave any amount of tip at my donation page for the multi-pass in return. but obviously, i even more strongly recommend buying the hard copies. (LULU – all of them and preferred) & (AMAZON – only earlier versions and more convenient for you but less profitable for me).
owning objects means having something in hand that has an intrinsic and symbolic value. this value can alter dramatically with the fluctuating exchange rate that unfolding reality is imbuing it with. that value determines whether you have exchanged well the amount you put forth on lulu (or amazon). and if you did – you can drive home a profit. why? because i’m holding the rights as the author to determine the ‘floor price’. as long as print-on-demand scarcity is the law of its circulation (which i can not see changing anymore in the future, my limited editions and hand-crafted editions of the past having been outlived), i have the freedom to determine this floor price completely independent from any external restrictors (publishers / distributors / competition etc). isn’t this exactly the same as it is with NFT’s?
which brings us directly to the current nft game. it’s exactly the same principle, really, only the tangible item comes in the form of an unalterable ethereum block chain entry instead of an item one holds in their hands. again, i’m owning the rights as the author to determine the floor price. no publisher, no distributor, no intermediary or regulator. and again, the fluctuating value imbued by ‘reality’ can alter quite dramatically. i think what nft’s can teach today’s people, especially the younger generation, is how trade used to work for rich people. i have already mentioned this in my earlier post.
so the above screenshot is my new shop for the NFT’s that i’m minting. thanks to the fantastic support from rarible.com, it was all accomplished astonishingly quick. to be honest, i still can’t believe how easy it ultimately was. and i even linked to my domain directly for convenience, via cloudflare.
i’m very excited, feeling like a teenager again, lol. what i’m increasingly seeing is that this might work extremely well not just for myself. but also for a lot of other people who can sense the potential. put their money where their mouth is. welcome to web3. connect your wallet.
winter 2024
so, yeah, i finally also jumped on the NFT train, only i didn’t plan it or even expect. like nearly everything in my life now, this new path came right to me, paved itself in front of me and all i had to do was just walking it. it’s an interesting development in so many ways and i’ll surely elaborate a lot more about the manifold angles of it in the future.
for now i’m sharing a registered etherium address (reinhardschleining.eth) to serve as the official announcement of my getting a foot into the metaverse and i’ll begin to share some of the available NFT’s i’ve been minting from my two portfolios (old style & new style):
just a quick note – i’m getting too much traffic lately, so that my provider keeps reprimanding me. yeah, funny situation. but anyway, puts reality straight. the worthless is pushed and hustled and shared millionfold while the pearls are meant to be low key and laid low. it seems a universal law and makes totally sense to me.
as a result, i’m password protecting most of the fiction work (my main art) and some of the non-fiction. i think you’re better off having the hard copy in your hand, anyway, also considering the very likely blackout of the internet the moment ‘truth’ hits the critical cue on the game theory perception management algos.
some people think that they’re right because what they believe in is quite dramatically ancient. yet what about those truths even older?
nuwa & fuxi
do i see compass & square with depictions of black sun and white sun amidst cosmic constellations? male & female / yin & yang (even buddha & dao!) traversing the universe peacefully while leaving behind a star-studded (or particle / matter studded) trail of double-helix?
i’ve been doing some writing in the form of daily commentaries on all sorts of relevant things that pop up. interesting and powerful project on x | twitter. it does provide quite some valuable insights for anyone ‘reading’ into what immediate, tangible ‘reality’ we’re really facing and how it presently unfolds.
there are lots of dots connected. areas are vast. angles are deep. why not tune in? link on picture.
on facebook i’ve been doing my WEEKEND FUNNIES project for many months now. all the craziest memes i come across every week i’m sharing there (link on picture).
it’s quite fascinating that humour can express things that can’t be uttered with words anymore. time being what it is now. so many sensitive topics. so outrageous the anger and laughter and general state of the world. it can truly bring about epiphany and i’m not boasting. see for yourself?
amidst all this censorship nonsense, corporate headslapping and prepotent babysitting, telegram has certainly emerged as the hub where every intelligent and openminded person will come to. “i can breathe”, lol.
draft MAGAZINE is a neat new space. for now, i’ve uploaded all the major promotional activities. as you know, so far, everything happened on-site and directly.
[ an attempt to find consoling words and perhaps offer a real way out ]
I – SPEAKING OUT
This came-up in my life recently full-on and hard-core. It is very hard to talk about it, even though the topic only exists in this world because no one talks about it, especially not the victims who’re threatened with unimaginable penalties including the loss of their lives. I’ve hit upon it a few years ago, when I shared work of Fritz Springmeier (mainly on facebook where I’ve continuously been writing draft magazine). He was one of the earlier brave researchers digging and talking. He ‘saved’ quite a few victims. Another related topic I shared was Cathy o’Brian who was very lucky to be saved from sex slavery within high-level political circles and then openly talked about her experiences and the wisdom attained for many years now. A lot of people in the truth community know about her.
really glad to announce that i’m starting to promote my edgy, psychology-backed comic strip series, published 2010 as above pictured lavish-production booklet.
on the telegram page from the link, i’ve put up all 104 strips (2 series of 52 each) as little video snippets. tried to do the same on instagram but after two days in, working around bugs and mind games, the upload was stopped at no. 26 from the second series. rather than deleting the account myself, i thought of using the mind games of this persecution to expose the intent and method instead …
the original edition of this lovely booklet is still available for £ 35,- including postage anywhere in the world (+ £ 10,- for recorded delivery). contact me to inquire and order or buy right away on my
***UPDATE – a slightly more polished and beautifully typeset version is part of the SYSTEMICS II book.
(made available to read online for free once-in-a-while or generally with a donation based password.)
[ a fictional dialogue, written for draft magazine – issue 000 “unspeakable” ]
Reinhard: Hey, Rimantas, how’re you doing?
Rimantas: Cool, cool. Very busy. But all good. And you?
Reinhard: Not bad, either. Cultivating diligently. Lots of changes inside. Outside, it all seems to have come to a standstill. While Clown Chaos enshrouds the so-called ‘World’.
Rimantas: Haha, yeah, really seems like that.
