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Theatrical industrial and novelty techno from NY. Also a writer, designer, illustrator, and puppeteer. https://zovi.bandcamp.com
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
Reunea & Leunea
a Digital Picture Book for Strange People
Written, Designed, & Illustrated by Zovi

reunea-leunea.neocities.org

The replies to this thread will contain all of the bsky posts of each of the seven updates in October 2025 for ease of access, but reading on the Neocities site is best.
Reunea & Leunea
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3h
ok, I will tell my friends I am pokey the penguin
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 6h
Really excited to show Part Two of Reunea & Leunea, it has so many of my favorite illustrations/designs that I did for this project!
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 21h
I don't talk about cars much I guess because I don't drive, but I've always kinda had a fascination with them. I usually like the oddball weird cars, but I guess the Viper is my obligatory sports car of interest.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 22h
But it's been a fascination for me since I was a kid. Something about how it looks, how it was featured in the *NSYNC Bye Bye Bye music video, how I really love my childhood Matchbox version that I still have (it's on my desk right now), and how wild the car really is learning about it more
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 22h
idiot brain that likes cars but doesn't drive: I really want to drive a first gen dodge viper one day, I think I could handle it

(I don't think I could actually handle it)
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Pages 32-49 of Reunea & Leunea, my postmodern digital picture book (for strange people), are now up!

The best way to read is on reunea-leunea.neocities.org

This thread will contain only pages 32-49. Please see the main thread for the rest (pinned, unless you're reading this further in the future)!
Leunea monologuing: Lines and lines of black and white would come first, and then the shades and shades, and then the shelves and shelves, but all in due time, and soon enough. I may not like writing by hand, but illustration is another matter, especially when I am dealing with the subject of the subject of a digital shadow. Drawing with my own hand, and thus casting a shadow over the surface below, is the most honest way to bring the subject of the subject into my own local context by fully realizing it as well as I possibly can, in order to finally and initially order and to finally and initially understand. Leunea monologuing: It was necessary that this step came after the conversation, because if I had illustrated the subject of the subject of the digital shadow first, the subject of the subject would have been already within my context far removed from its original context and thus would have been a layer of subject in the wrong direction, on the other side of the digital shadow. Having the conversation with the subject of the subject itself, fresh from its context and unfettered by my waking world of shadows that would intermingle and overpower its delicate nature, ensured that the digital shadow would be as accurate as possible. And yes, it is delicate, even though it was so potent. A shadow can have such definition and draw itself longer and longer while retaining it, but it could still be scattered in an instant. That is why I follow the steps and take the precautions that I do. I take this profession seriously and solemnly. Leunea monologuing: Seriously and solemnly, I drew the first arc: small, dark, a mound to contain the spirit. A larger arc shoots across westward, far across the total composition, landing upon the void of a future leaf. I complete the outer form, the massive physical encapsulation, with large vortexes like black holes. And I bestow upon the smaller, thinking, feeling mound, the head, a set of eyes, dark and limitless as the expanse of the soul, to mark the sadness I saw in the most-and-least-real context of the subject of the subject. This was the most specific aspect, and it needed to be exactly right, and yet it was the one I was most self-assured about because these eyes were the reason I decided to go through this process with this digital shadow in particular. I knew those eyes, I knew them deeply and I knew them truly, and I knew I could do them justice, and I did just that. Everything else flowed into place from there: the antennae, the feet, the ferns, and finally the shades and shades. Shadows descended upon the white void that was left until I knew it was the subject of the subject of the digital shadow with which I had almost lost myself in the previous step, and at that point I was satisfied. It was finally time to capture the digital shadow itself. Reunea, looking down at Leunea's work: Let me see, my sister, what it is you... Hmm...
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Pages 32-49
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Pages 32-49 of Reunea & Leunea, my postmodern digital picture book (for strange people), are now up!

The best way to read is on reunea-leunea.neocities.org

This thread will contain only pages 32-49. Please see the main thread for the rest (pinned, unless you're reading this further in the future)!
Leunea monologuing: Lines and lines of black and white would come first, and then the shades and shades, and then the shelves and shelves, but all in due time, and soon enough. I may not like writing by hand, but illustration is another matter, especially when I am dealing with the subject of the subject of a digital shadow. Drawing with my own hand, and thus casting a shadow over the surface below, is the most honest way to bring the subject of the subject into my own local context by fully realizing it as well as I possibly can, in order to finally and initially order and to finally and initially understand. Leunea monologuing: It was necessary that this step came after the conversation, because if I had illustrated the subject of the subject of the digital shadow first, the subject of the subject would have been already within my context far removed from its original context and thus would have been a layer of subject in the wrong direction, on the other side of the digital shadow. Having the conversation with the subject of the subject itself, fresh from its context and unfettered by my waking world of shadows that would intermingle and overpower its delicate nature, ensured that the digital shadow would be as accurate as possible. And yes, it is delicate, even though it was so potent. A shadow can have such definition and draw itself longer and longer while retaining it, but it could still be scattered in an instant. That is why I follow the steps and take the precautions that I do. I take this profession seriously and solemnly. Leunea monologuing: Seriously and solemnly, I drew the first arc: small, dark, a mound to contain the spirit. A larger arc shoots across westward, far across the total composition, landing upon the void of a future leaf. I complete the outer form, the massive physical encapsulation, with large vortexes like black holes. And I bestow upon the smaller, thinking, feeling mound, the head, a set of eyes, dark and limitless as the expanse of the soul, to mark the sadness I saw in the most-and-least-real context of the subject of the subject. This was the most specific aspect, and it needed to be exactly right, and yet it was the one I was most self-assured about because these eyes were the reason I decided to go through this process with this digital shadow in particular. I knew those eyes, I knew them deeply and I knew them truly, and I knew I could do them justice, and I did just that. Everything else flowed into place from there: the antennae, the feet, the ferns, and finally the shades and shades. Shadows descended upon the white void that was left until I knew it was the subject of the subject of the digital shadow with which I had almost lost myself in the previous step, and at that point I was satisfied. It was finally time to capture the digital shadow itself. Reunea, looking down at Leunea's work: Let me see, my sister, what it is you... Hmm...
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Part Two will begin on Friday and comprise the remaining 4 updates! Will Reunea finally get to talk at length? What about that ghost poetry she mentioned? Keep reading to find out!
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Reunea, backwards: You could have just said it was this book. Leunea, backwards: Yes, it is this book, Reunea. Reunea, backwards: Thank you, Leunea. This is the ending of Part One.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Reunea: What you have shown so far is strange, but interesting. However, you only presented to me the subject of the digital shadow, Leunea. You did not show me the digital shadow itself. Leunea: I did. And I did not. A bit of a chaotic page design, their heads floating above a pile of the art. Reunea: What do you mean, my sister? Leunea: I did in a way, but it is impossible to do fully. You see...the digital shadow is... [this part is scatted across the page] where we are right now! Reunea looks at Leunea. Leunea looks at Reunea.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Reunea: Am I to believe, from your rather long and labyrinthine description of events, that a perfect and ideal example of your main activity in life, which I understand is collecting what you call digital shadows, is having a dream about seeing a book with a sad ladybug on the cover... Leunea: Yes... Reunea: ...letting it completely invade your thoughts all day... Leunea: Yes... Reunea: ...drawing the ladybug on the cover... Leunea: Yes... Reunea: ...and...hmm... Leunea: Yes...?
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Reunea: I will let you finish, Leunea. but I will have questions. Leunea: The major part of capturing the digital shadow has already been expressed in its realized form. I had simply already done it, and you have already seen its order and understood it. All that remains, now, is the question of the unknown contents of the knowable book, the solution and closure to the contradiction posed in the digital shadow. And I received my answer, and filed it here and away, for the subject of the subject of the digital shadow did, in fact, reveal to me the subject of the digital shadow, which I have recorded by bridging our contexts and bridging them again, each way and all ways, until I knew the contents of that knowable book in a way that can, incredibly (and, for me, expectedly), be found entirely in my illustration of that hauntingly sad ladybug on the cover of the only knowable book on display at a bookstore event in the void of the unknowable, filed away, neatly and completely, ordered and understood. Reunea: Is this the ending, Leunea, my sister? Leunea: Yes, Reunea, my sister.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
A glorious monochrome drawing of a ladybug fills the spread.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 1d
Pages 32-49 of Reunea & Leunea, my postmodern digital picture book (for strange people), are now up!

The best way to read is on reunea-leunea.neocities.org

This thread will contain only pages 32-49. Please see the main thread for the rest (pinned, unless you're reading this further in the future)!
Leunea monologuing: Lines and lines of black and white would come first, and then the shades and shades, and then the shelves and shelves, but all in due time, and soon enough. I may not like writing by hand, but illustration is another matter, especially when I am dealing with the subject of the subject of a digital shadow. Drawing with my own hand, and thus casting a shadow over the surface below, is the most honest way to bring the subject of the subject into my own local context by fully realizing it as well as I possibly can, in order to finally and initially order and to finally and initially understand. Leunea monologuing: It was necessary that this step came after the conversation, because if I had illustrated the subject of the subject of the digital shadow first, the subject of the subject would have been already within my context far removed from its original context and thus would have been a layer of subject in the wrong direction, on the other side of the digital shadow. Having the conversation with the subject of the subject itself, fresh from its context and unfettered by my waking world of shadows that would intermingle and overpower its delicate nature, ensured that the digital shadow would be as accurate as possible. And yes, it is delicate, even though it was so potent. A shadow can have such definition and draw itself longer and longer while retaining it, but it could still be scattered in an instant. That is why I follow the steps and take the precautions that I do. I take this profession seriously and solemnly. Leunea monologuing: Seriously and solemnly, I drew the first arc: small, dark, a mound to contain the spirit. A larger arc shoots across westward, far across the total composition, landing upon the void of a future leaf. I complete the outer form, the massive physical encapsulation, with large vortexes like black holes. And I bestow upon the smaller, thinking, feeling mound, the head, a set of eyes, dark and limitless as the expanse of the soul, to mark the sadness I saw in the most-and-least-real context of the subject of the subject. This was the most specific aspect, and it needed to be exactly right, and yet it was the one I was most self-assured about because these eyes were the reason I decided to go through this process with this digital shadow in particular. I knew those eyes, I knew them deeply and I knew them truly, and I knew I could do them justice, and I did just that. Everything else flowed into place from there: the antennae, the feet, the ferns, and finally the shades and shades. Shadows descended upon the white void that was left until I knew it was the subject of the subject of the digital shadow with which I had almost lost myself in the previous step, and at that point I was satisfied. It was finally time to capture the digital shadow itself. Reunea, looking down at Leunea's work: Let me see, my sister, what it is you... Hmm...
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 2d
this is so lovely I watched it 5 times in a row
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🎴squp @squp.bsky.social · 25d
💃💃💃💃💃💃 #memamorkin
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d
How I felt at the grocery store when there was an insane deal on the exact jar pasta sauce I like, walking out of there with so much sauce
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d
Their first 23 albums were all on a label named "turtle issue"
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 3d
Had a dream that smash mouth had released 75 albums and I was searching through them to find their song about how to milk a goat
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
Pages 16-31
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
Pages 16-31 of Reunea & Leunea, my postmodern digital picture book (for strange people), are now up!

The best way to read is on reunea-leunea.neocities.org

This thread will contain only pages 16-31. Please see the main thread for the rest (pinned, unless you're reading this further in the future)!
Leunea monologuing: Shades and shades of grays and blacks were the first thing I remember, my view zooming out until they were the backdrop of a larger scene. Narrow leaves with soft curves stretched up from outside the void and pushed inward gracefully, terminating at defining points. The void remained, but was dominated by the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. This was not a dream. This was a necessary step backward to the source, to find the digital shadow, to read the knowable book. I must find the subject of the subject before the subject itself, and then and only then may I have it all, ordered and understood. Leunea monologuing: I prepared myself to engage in a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. When conversing with such an entity, I would not actually speak, for it could not answer from such a contextual distance. Instead, I conversed through casting a shadow of my own. You see, it is important to know how to cast a shadow in conversation if you are to empathize with a shadow and eventually, ideally, understand that shadow. (There is a "Leunea Tip" icon next to the following: ) Speaking directly is like shining a light. It will only make the shadow disappear. You need to intermingle your shadows to become a compound system of shades, and that is when you will have ability to have a real conversation. I believe this applies to not only shadows, but to all people as well. Unfortunately, some people grow frustrated in the early stages, so I will concede and shine a light in those cases. But the light scatters my shadow and it becomes one-sided, so I do not prefer it. I feel more comfortable talking to fellow shadows for this reason, even if we are shadows from different contexts entirely. In fact, that only makes the conversation more fascinating. That is perhaps why I decided it would be the area of my expertise. Leunea monologuing: You might have thought that there would be a complication in the fact that this entity was the subject of the subject of the digital shadow instead of merely the subject of the digital shadow, but that is a misunderstanding, though a reasonable one to make. After all, a subject of a subject would be a further context separated from my own. But consider this: if there were only the subject of a digital shadow with which to converse, what would be the point of the conversation? If I could access the subject so readily, why would I need this step of the process at all? There would be nothing for me to discuss with the subject of the subject if I knew the subject itself. But the beauty of this whole process is, honestly, that I do need to have a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. It fills me with purpose, like a reporter or an adventurer venturing into the unknown. Leunea monologuing: Though often the subject of the subject will have a commanding presence in these situations, as that is why they are the subject of the subject that survives the jump into the waking world of my own shadows cast, this specific subject of the subject had a particularly emotional countenance that drew me into its composition like a vortex of meaningful sadness. All sadness is meaningful, but this was a particularly potent and mysterious sadness that threatened to swallow me whole in its shadow. So, in order to converse without being consumed, I brought forth a similar sadness but one that complemented its own rather than one that dissolved with the other's sadness in a way where our sadnesses would become one and the same. It was a real danger that this could happen once we started, but I was willing to take the risk. I readied myself, formed my starting shape and quality, and cast my shadow, initiating the conversation, which began immediately and with fervor.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
That's all for this update! Remember, follow along here or on reunea-leunea.neocities.org, and there will be more pages through most of October! The next update is on Tuesday, 10/14!
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
Black background, white outline of half of a tipping-over theremin. Black background, the other half of the tipping over theremin. Leunea monologuing: At this point I let the conversation break, for we were indeed dissolving into each other and losing ourselves. That would not have been helpful for either of us. I needed to be me to finish my work, and it needed to be it to still be the subject of the subject, which, I will remind you, was the whole point of this. But this was a fruitful conversation, and I received exactly what I needed. But I owed the subject of the subject something before I could complete the digital shadow: to pull it into the context of my own reality. Reunea is standing again. Leunea is on the floor, leaning on the tipped-over theremin. Reunea: Ah, so this is finally where you will describe a digital shadow to me, Leunea? Leunea: Yes, this is finally where I will describe a digital shadow to you, Reunea. It will be transcendent, and you will see why I fill my days with cataloguing these digital shadows. Leunea leads Reunea to a chair and table away from the theremin. Reunea: I will await my transcendence, Leunea. Leunea: Thank you, Reunea. Come with me into the last part of my process...
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
Leunea is starting to get really into it, lifting off the ground. Reunea is lying down on the floor, propping her head up with her hand, watching intently. Leunea is going too far. Uh oh.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
Note: this page is coupled with the page after it for dialogue. Reunea: Ah, finally, I have been anticipating the recounting of the conversation itself. How will it manifest? Leunea: This conversation is impossible to convey with language. I will instead demonstrate it using an improvisation on this theremin. Reunea: Oh, yes, that makes sense. See previous for dialogue. Leunea is depicted with a theremin. No dialogue. Leunea starts to play the theremin, Reunea sitting on the floor next to her (to the left, naturally). No dialogue. Leunea continues to play theremin.
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Zovi @zovi.bsky.social · 5d
Pages 16-31 of Reunea & Leunea, my postmodern digital picture book (for strange people), are now up!

The best way to read is on reunea-leunea.neocities.org

This thread will contain only pages 16-31. Please see the main thread for the rest (pinned, unless you're reading this further in the future)!
Leunea monologuing: Shades and shades of grays and blacks were the first thing I remember, my view zooming out until they were the backdrop of a larger scene. Narrow leaves with soft curves stretched up from outside the void and pushed inward gracefully, terminating at defining points. The void remained, but was dominated by the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. This was not a dream. This was a necessary step backward to the source, to find the digital shadow, to read the knowable book. I must find the subject of the subject before the subject itself, and then and only then may I have it all, ordered and understood. Leunea monologuing: I prepared myself to engage in a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. When conversing with such an entity, I would not actually speak, for it could not answer from such a contextual distance. Instead, I conversed through casting a shadow of my own. You see, it is important to know how to cast a shadow in conversation if you are to empathize with a shadow and eventually, ideally, understand that shadow. (There is a "Leunea Tip" icon next to the following: ) Speaking directly is like shining a light. It will only make the shadow disappear. You need to intermingle your shadows to become a compound system of shades, and that is when you will have ability to have a real conversation. I believe this applies to not only shadows, but to all people as well. Unfortunately, some people grow frustrated in the early stages, so I will concede and shine a light in those cases. But the light scatters my shadow and it becomes one-sided, so I do not prefer it. I feel more comfortable talking to fellow shadows for this reason, even if we are shadows from different contexts entirely. In fact, that only makes the conversation more fascinating. That is perhaps why I decided it would be the area of my expertise. Leunea monologuing: You might have thought that there would be a complication in the fact that this entity was the subject of the subject of the digital shadow instead of merely the subject of the digital shadow, but that is a misunderstanding, though a reasonable one to make. After all, a subject of a subject would be a further context separated from my own. But consider this: if there were only the subject of a digital shadow with which to converse, what would be the point of the conversation? If I could access the subject so readily, why would I need this step of the process at all? There would be nothing for me to discuss with the subject of the subject if I knew the subject itself. But the beauty of this whole process is, honestly, that I do need to have a conversation with the subject of the subject of the digital shadow. It fills me with purpose, like a reporter or an adventurer venturing into the unknown. Leunea monologuing: Though often the subject of the subject will have a commanding presence in these situations, as that is why they are the subject of the subject that survives the jump into the waking world of my own shadows cast, this specific subject of the subject had a particularly emotional countenance that drew me into its composition like a vortex of meaningful sadness. All sadness is meaningful, but this was a particularly potent and mysterious sadness that threatened to swallow me whole in its shadow. So, in order to converse without being consumed, I brought forth a similar sadness but one that complemented its own rather than one that dissolved with the other's sadness in a way where our sadnesses would become one and the same. It was a real danger that this could happen once we started, but I was willing to take the risk. I readied myself, formed my starting shape and quality, and cast my shadow, initiating the conversation, which began immediately and with fervor.
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