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Progressive rock is hands down one of Needleminder’s biggest influences. God bless prog. Whenever I spend a chunk of pages just posting random images or old-internet sideplots that’s my equivalent of a 5-minute-long synth solo.

2023-05-24, 10-42 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | needleminder music

Today I saw a car with a license plate that said "JOSIE 3" and I am fucking haunted.

2023-05-18, 19-45 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | needleminder

Needleminder, in its current incarnation, is 5 months old!

Feels Fucking Weird Man

#i typed years at first and nearly posted this with all of the confidence in the world. #i owe my life to this story i genuinely dunno if i would have gotten thru the winter otherwise #life is so weird and everything is so weird but xander and josie are out there doing weirder shit

2023-03-28, 00-10 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | needleminder

My need to make a Xander hand puppet has just been rising exponentially by the day, I hate my life

2023-02-14, 19-59 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | crafts needleminder

If you see any of your own behavior in Alex, just know that you are gazing into a fascinating series of funhouse mirrors, of teenage me (at the time undiagnosed) relating to Steven Page (at the time undiagnosed) relating to Brian Wilson (being abused by his psychiatrist). Maybe I'll go more into detail about this later. But I only yesterday learned about the shit with Dr. Landry and it filled me with a strange feeling, that I related to this and didn't even know, just like Steven Page didn't know either.

Reflections are a core theme I'm working on. Shared experiences. Recognition through the other. Relatable without the hashtag. These characters have no resources with which to understand themselves. Alex and Josie relate to each other and have no idea why. God.

2023-02-03, 13-00 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | needleminder mental-health

I have a lot of character playlists for Needleminder (I think I must have like, over 100 songs altogether? Jesus) and most of them are extremely spoilery but I’m wondering how much you guys would enjoy some curated ones. Since the music tie-ins (which I considered initially to be entirely a personal bonus) have actually seemed to interest people.

2023-02-01, 13-04 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | music needleminder

Hi I had to wake up early for a stupid phone call and I feel like I'm gonna die so I'm gonna talk about Needleminder now.

So Xander and Josie2 would (will) have the bestest funniest silliest relationship out of anyone in the cast but the reason I haven't had them interact is because they would instantly solve all conflict by either making out or doing running commentary on everything crazy happening. And that is fun but it is not a story. The repression is the story

One of the funniest injokes I put into the newest update. Is that I referred to a character who has a vow of silence (they're a mime. I have a bad feeling I lost my last chance to ever bring it up in the story) in contrast to Josie who couldn't commit to staying quiet. And this is a reference to that Josie was originally a silent character (not mute disabled. There was stupid lore) and then at some point I just FORGOT

2023-01-23, 08-51 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | needleminder

It makes me so happy that Needleminder inexplicably appeals to my neon furry friends despite the cast being greying-and/or-balding depressed humans in the torture labyrinth. I don’t know WHY it appeals but I will lean into it as much as I can.

2023-01-12, 21-48 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | needleminder

Writing Needleminder has been cool because I can come up with a single joke and go on a days long tangent that started with Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music and still not have progressed the plot at all but now it’s loadbearing character development that I can’t remove. Also I drew Alex’s midriff so someone’s probably gonna like that. Update hopefully tonight or tomorrow!

2023-01-12, 12-56 | brilokuloj@tumblr.com | needleminder writing