I want to make a topic about how snaiad is dead

snowbull

But I can't think of anything to write. I cannot transfer this feeling to a keyboard. My arms hang limp. My mouth dries up. Each breath is stale, and I cannot be rid of it fast enough. The emptiness of my soul is too profound.

Myrmidon

I never got to see it. Which kind of sucks, because it looked interesting.

GLORIOUSLeader

Okay, who the fuck is snaiad and why is he dead, apparently? 

snowbull

Snaiad was an art project back in 2008. It was my favourite fictional work ever. It's flaws were so small as to be almost nonexistant, the fandom was small enough that we had almost no assholes (YMMV about FalconFly), but it was large enough that there was a steady stream of discussion, speculation and fan art.

Then the updates slowed

Then they stopped.

Then the artist's main site went down.

Then Snaiad went down.

And now, 2 years later, I check deviantart every few months to see what little fan art has been made since last I checked.

^^I'm probably viewing it through rose tinted goggles since I last read it more than 2 years ago and I was rather less developed in my tastes, but you may have at least found it interesting.

GLORIOUSLeader

From what I can see, it's a collection of odd-looking alien animals. Interesting. 

snowbull

It's more a collection of the purest form of Freud was Right.

Khwarizmi

It's kind of both, really.

I have to say I was impressed by the amount of thought that seemed to have gone into creatures with names like the "fucker" and the "flipdick".

snowbull

I'm more impressed by how he could painstakingly render such phallic objects using his own saliva and continually claim that absolutely nothing Freudian was going on. That takes talent.

GLORIOUSLeader

using his own saliva

wat

nohaynicklibre

hyrhty

nohaynicklibre

That was me smashing the keyboard enable to think properly

snowbull

He used his saliva instead of water in conjunction with watercolour pencils.

Artistic decision or unconscious urge from the oral stage being acted out?

GLORIOUSLeader

Yes. 

snowbull

I am fucking pissed. I managed to finally find the text on the wayback machine (most of his site is broken as shit on there, so I had to search through the individual URLs), and the internet archive thing only got the images from his main site, not the Snaiad subsite...the images are such a big part of it...I'll probably be able to find most of the whole clade pictures, but the more detailed individual ones are lost...

I almost wish I couldn't find anything.

JHM

That really sucks. It sounds fascinating.

snowbull

Oh god some guy claims he has the pictures saved

holy shit I'm so excited

if this turns out not to be true I'll be crushed

snowbull

I know a double post necro of your own thread is normally punishable by death but the author says he'll put snaiad back up if someone points him to somewhere that'll host HTML documents for free oh god oh man

does such a place exist?

GLORIOUSLeader

:P

Icalasari

^^ There is a geocities revival project. Free hosting