Serpentine Squiggles

A serpent rises, whiter than the root
Of some venefic bloom in darkness grown,
And gazes up with green‍-​lit eyes that seem
Like drops of cold, congealing poison.

‍—‍ Clark Ashton Smith, “The Hashish‍-​Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil”

A den for compositions of words, sound and pixels. We’ve written and , drawn , composed , and even started work on some . This site hosts them all.

Notable among them:

  • In Vermin Cathexis, a dark fantasy world of monstrous desire and parasitic transformation, exploring the biology, culture, and life of a vampire‍-​hivemind species.
  • Weave Me Another Cocoon, a semi‍-​interactive short story about change and hunger.
  • Even in Debt — Dreams, a murder drones fanfic, novella‍-​length and the first story we’ve completed, about a murderous robot at the mercy of one she failed to kill.
  • Hostile Takeover, a murder drones fanfic, one of our longest and most successful works, about a sapphic robot torn between her directives and her own needs.
  • Murder Drones Fic Recs, a curated list of recommended works in the fandom.
  • Lore Archive, a dark fantasy world of giant insects, blood and fungus, with unique, richly developed magic system and society. Years in the making, this stands among our proudest creations.
  • Pushro, a puzzle roguelike where you push blocks and collect items in randomly generated levels.
  • _prefigurations, our newest album, with several tracks we’re quite proud of.
  • Collected Poems showcasing some verses we’ve written.
  • for sites and creations by friends and adjacents.

You may wonder where we stand on the generative models often called “AI”. We do not use such technology for our work. for more thoughts on the matter.

This site is built using a hand‍-​crafted static site generator, with markdown source files compiled to HTML using many custom scripts. Some of this is discussed in , but a fuller treatment‍ ‍‍—‍ a proper “colophon” explaining how our pages are put together‍ ‍‍—‍ remains on our to‍-​do list.

Contact and Connect

We’d love to hear from readers of this site‍ ‍‍—‍ are there any out there?

Emailserpentsquiggle@proton.me
Discordsnuggle_squiggle@https://discord.gg/tqHjHK7
tumblr@snugglesquiggle
Bluesky@serpentsquiggles.neocities.org
Fediverse@frozendominion@mastodon.cloud

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If you enjoy what this site has to offer, please consider donating on Ko‍-​fi or Patreon. It’s nice to eat things other than lentils and rice.


Singing songs of serpent silence
While snakes devour time and tail
As act of great defiance

‍—‍ Schammasch, “Serpent Silence”