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About Me Senior Member General Fiction Writer Phillip M.E.24/Male/Australia Groups group avatar #SutureHQ
 
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Publications

Pieces that have been published in online/print journals around the world.

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My various (newbie) attempts at photography :B

Critiques


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Oh come on, you requested critique on this? Well okay, if you insist... L1 I'd find a new word for 'flies', since '...

Reviews

:heart: These are reviews of my work written by my very closest friends and readers of my work. I love all of them! :love: :heart:

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`apocathary's works contain sentences which are in turn made up of words. The words, in a manner which reveals their function, are entirely composed of letters which can be said to belong to an alphabet. Occasionally numbers are present, but these are rare and generally considered to be mistakes. `apocathary has shown he is able to take these building blocks and place them in such a way as to construct paragraphs, however it is uncertain if this is deliberate or merely accidental in the manner of a monkey brushing up against the return key. In any case, the paragraphs are commonly found to be loosely related in such a way as to suggest an overall narrative, but these relations are often tenuous or nonsensical.

--*TheKingofFall

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If there is one word that can sum up `apocathary's body of work, it would be 'bewildering'. Bewildering in the sense that one must wonder whether he has actually read any of his work before releasing it, like a rank fart, on the wider community. My beret could write with more skill than him; has done so in fact, with George Tsatsiki quoted as saying my beret's poems 'Have a fine weave about them.' In any case, if I were `apocathary I would be leaning back and having a good head scratch, literally, to check if he has suffered any brain-damaging head wounds lately.

--`PoeticWar

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I just think it's so wonderful to see a writer like `apocathary trying so hard to improve his writing. His stories are just so...special. They're like seeing that guy with no legs crossing the finishing line at the paralympics. While he may not ever write like you or I, he's doing his best in his own unique way. A tear wells in my eye everytime I see something new from him. But they aren't tears of sadness, nor happiness really; more a kind of pity that he'll never be able to write like a normal person. Good on you, `apocathary! You keep doing whatever it is you might call what you're doing!

--=Calyptra

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`apocathary's body of work is like being stranded alone in the darkest bar in the worst part of town, and all of a sudden a massive, tattooed guy wearing a dress comes up to you and asks you to dance. You know you gotta do it, but you also know that at some point you're going to feel dirty. Real dirty. Dirty like rape. Fist rape. Brass-knuckle fist rape. Spiked brass knuckle fist rape. By Oprah. `apocathary's writing is like getting spiked brass knuckle fist raped by Oprah.

--*hell-on-a-stick

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Journal Entry: Wed Dec 9, 2009, 7:40 PM




I'm very grateful to the deviant who donated a subscription sorry, ' premium membership' to me this morning. I certainly wasn't expecting it and I got a little thrill when I saw it. So thank you, mystery stranger-type person! :love:

As you can see, I've changed my journal skin in appreciation, to something that more reflects my general state of mind when I write anything at all. Since I have to squeeze my hobby in between university and random social events, I'm almost always accompanied by coffee and a scrappy piece of notepaper with a hastily scribbled idea when I do sit down and pen something. So there you go, APPROPRIATE!

In news that most recently rocked me, *suture is back and looking to impress in the form of #SutureHQ, a group supergroup (psst what's difference, anybody?) headed up by `nonculture (thankyou fleet!) `ndifference, a litster and ex-GD from way back. Good things will be in store, let me assure you!

I haven't uploaded anything for a while, but that'll probably change in the next few weeks. I've got an idea of submitting to a new Perth-based lit mag (dotdotdash) with a piece that'll hopefully satisfy their 'home' theme enough for them to want to publish it in delicious paper print. I've also finished the first piece in a collaboration with the talented Mr. ~Pru-kin-ski. Everything's trundling along there quite fine, quite fine indeed. And of course I still have to revise those pieces that you guys gave me such excellent critique on. So yeah, something'll make it's way up here soon! YESSSS, fuckin' WRITINGGGG.

How about you guys? What projects and personal goals have you got for the run up 'til the end of the year?



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  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: God is an Astronaut
  • Reading: Darkmans
  • Watching: South Park
  • Playing: Borderlands/Gyromancer
  • Eating: Muffins
  • Drinking: Tea
Skin by =Starke-Haz (modified by `apocathary)

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My name is Phill and I'm a PhD student operating out of Perth, Western Australia. I've been here on dA for quite some time, and have been involved in all sorts of activites including, but not limited to: hosting a workshop at #Writers-Workshop, drunken teamspeak story deliveries, hosting multiple competitions including the Ugly and Dream Journal contests, watching almost a dozen GD/GMs do their time, being the patron of three clubs (one of which even survived), alias trolling the forums, posting ill-thought-through dramallama-tastic journal entries, suggesting about a dozen DDs, receiving four DDs myself, moving accounts once, being staff at *ProsePlease, *suture, ~Wordspill, and ~LitFFS, quitting dA twice, coming back twice, declaring jihad on the ';P emoticon, and much much more. I'm aligned strongly with the camp that uses dA to try and improve their writing through feedback, but I'm as open to entertainment and socialising as anyone that joins the wild and wooly world of the forums and chats!

I've been spending progressively larger chunks of my spare time working on my stories. I'll let the reader make the call as to whether the extra time has been effective. :B

I'm always on the look out for being part of collaborations with visual artists. Whether it's providing the wordy part of your comic series, or something a bit more experimental. Give me a shout if you think I'm your man (:

My publication credits include Voiceworks, Soundzine, 365tomorrows, The Clearfield Review, and verb-ate-him. I really want to boost that record this year with submissions to a bunch of publications, but in order to do that I've got to write the words first!

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  • Current Residence: Perth, Western Australia
  • Tools of the Trade: Lamy, laptop

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thank you for the massive attack of favs :D

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Hmm... Why am I not watching you?
This must be amended.

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so, what the heck. seems like all the guys who were new around the time of the beginning of my absence or whatever are old-hat now with little things by their names.
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hey thanks a lot for favouriting my "æouroboros" sculpture.
take care...drive safely

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