It's a virtual glass case for us to show off our polished little flashes of imagination. It's a late-night chat at a 24-hour-diner, where we can take things much too seriously until our thoughts crystalize into insights worth sharing. It's a soapbox blog, where you can stand up and rant about anything and everything - as long as you can be entertaining while you do it.
More than anything, it's a place we want to share with you.
December 25th, 2007
Well, it is a present for most of you. I think perhaps that some of you will not want it.
Just in time for Christmas, Tanko has given her permission for us to post the first Tybalt pictures ever! She drew them for The Tears of Anael when it was published in the YaoiCon 2004 fiction anthology.
Tybalt is very pretty, but in these pictures he is also very naked! Please use your best judgement before you click on the story.
Thank you and Merry Christmas,
~Catboy! =^.^=
December 25th, 2007
Hello everyone!
This is Catboy again. Today I am here to wish you a merry Christmas. If you are part of a religion that celebrates Christmas in a religious way, I hope today is spiritually satisfying for you, and that you may carry feelings of hope, charity, love, and forgiveness throughout the coming year. If you celebrate Christmas as a secular sort of gift-exchanging holiday of togetherness and love, I hope that everybody adores the gifts that you bring to them, that you adore the gifts that people bring to you, and that you eat too much food (but only a little too much!) that is both tasty and nourishing. Of course many people celebrate Christmas in both ways, and to all of you, I wish you both kinds of happiness.
If you are a person who does not celebrate Christmas at all, then I wish you a very happy Tuesday. Everything will be back to normal tomorrow.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
I think I have not forgotten anybody. If you feel that I have forgotten you, please leave a comment and I will wish you an appropriate happiness as quickly as I can.
November 22nd, 2007
With a little luck he will leave one more post to tide you over until his return. He says that he will check in periodically but definitely be back by the end of the month. This is not so very long in the grand scheme of things.
In the meantime I will try to make sure to approve all the comments in a timely way, and also to filter out spam as it may arrive.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
November 5th, 2007
1000 Gears is live now, but not quite complete. I’m still doing a lot of back-end work, trying to get all the miscellaneous pages and code working, and this doesn’t give me much time to write. That said, I have a pretty large archive that I’ve left scattered across the Internet, so I’ll be posting new pieces every couple days.
In the meantime, if you’d like to help me with the debugging, feel free to comment anywhere. If you have questions for me, ask them in the comments here, and I’ll get to them as quickly as I can.
November 2nd, 2007
1000 Gears was created somewhere between my need for a new website and (my softer, fuzzier, and more-optimistic alter-ego) Catboy’s response to the other community/archive sites out there.
We invite all of you to join in. Submit something if you’d like – fiction or commentary, pictures or words – and we’ll see if we can find a place for it. There’s something really magical about the energy that a small group of talented, creative people can find, given the freedom to riff off one another and the world around them.
That energy is really what we’re trying to encourage with 1000 Gears, so we’re going to make a few promises to you right now.
- No ads. No advertisers. Ever.
If we like something and want you to know, we’ll review it. If we don’t, and we want you to know, we’ll review that too.
- No filler.
We will not post unless we have things to say. 1000 Gears should be interesting even if you have no idea who we actually are.
- If it’s not good, we won’t post it.
We may not post it even if it is good, depending on our space and bandwidth concerns, but we won’t post it unless we feel that it’s worth reading.
We may link to Terrible Badness™ if we can find creative ways to mock it, but only if we believe the mockery is worth posting on its own.
I tried to make him be nicer, really I did. This was the best I could do. - Catboy
- Anonymous submissions are anonymous. Period.
If you don’t want to be credited, we’ll delete your personal information once we post your work. Anonymity grants you the freedom to speak freely, and even we won’t know who you were.
- Once it’s up, it’s up.
Of course, should the situation arise, we’ll cooperate fully with courts and/or the appropriate legal notices. Beyond that, though, we’ll stand behind our decisions to post. We believe that artistic merit trumps obscenity, and we believe in the freedom to rip and remix ideas from from the world around us. If Neo-Confederate sympathizers want to complain, they’re more than welcome to submit rebuttals – we’d love to give them equal time if they have interesting things to say – but we certainly won’t delete it without warning.
All of this boils down to two basic points:
- We will be worth reading.
- We won’t sell out.
It’s really that simple.
