How It's *Meant* To Work Together
True Orientation
Document everything, uplift the broken, teach the willing, and raise Standards and raise Legions to fight the darkness
At the moment, all of my everything has been thrown a little off by Operation Exodus. I'm working to restore some kind of daily rhythm, but it's challenging when the Chaos of my life has taken the shape of unlimited opportunity rather than the existential bedlam I've grown so accustomed to.
Baby steps and daily reps...
I still have my dreams, my goals, and my little insanity projects; I just need a little time to get things back in some form of workable order. The vision is "for all things to complement each other, and for all my overall messages to be communicated in a way that's clear and coherent..."
...obviously...
I want to help people...
Now, many things can be true at once. I have been specifically picked out and blessed to undergo the beatings I have endured for a purpose which is bigger than myself alone, and my life has been deeply unfair, cruel even, and incredibly dark in some moments.
On the latter, people, circumstances and events have attempted to snuff me out, yet I have survived and learned many things.
I have fought The Chaos, resisted Apathy, and stood firm against The Darkness of Modernia.
Now I build my canon, and while I believe I will be lighter in mind for having organized it all in the open at the least, I know there will be at least one person who finds some value in the ordering of my madness.
so, for Domus Negri et Albi, and for you, Lector Carissime
This is what I have built, and what I seek to accomplish:
I. Trauma Response
my trauma response is worldbuilding. I dress it in this style and we learn Latin together, or I lose my grip and fall deeper into madness because I'm not getting the voices out of my head. so, welcome to The VERSE, Lesterian by design
I've transformed the lessons of my own collapse into curriculum for others to do battle against Chaos. After my adoption I decided to enlist, and from that time until fairly recently there has been only pain and struggle. I want to share with you, my Route from Ruin.
In my world, I build a living from my own writing of my own stories and my own systems, and I document the curvature of the machine that carries me, that it may be adapted easily and used as well by whoever finds it.
I want to help people, specifically the ones who survived what should have broken them and are now unsure about the Path to Progress from here.
we fill find it together,
These are my works: the actual blueprint I used, mistakes included, as the goal serves both of us at once.
My own freedom will be funded by my own words, and a path behind me will be made clear enough for someone else to adapt and cobble for themselves.
II. Legio Sum; Ordinem Affero.
This is how it's meant to work together:
I write an article. Articles become newsletters, which are podcasts, and videos. From these you have shorts, etc./repeat
Document everything, gatekeep nothing, uplift the broken, teach the willing, and raise Standards and Raise Legions to fight the darkness. The Horrors of Our Modern Day May In Fact, Be Strange And Unrelenting, oh, but Brother, Know This: So Are We
Every piece has one job and feeds one or several other works in a mostly straight line.
My work flows from the rawest of thought that feeds The UnderWriters Network (random things I drop on reddit) into the Open Notes Archive (more or less simple archive and tracking system). Here, I'm able to document everything in a single place.
When ideas are fully formed they become articles for Isaac's Ideas at The Capitol, or are pushed out directly through my non-filter vox via @TrueIsaacLester. Articles become Newsletters, By Order of The Substack Syndicate, and after running through my Whistler Machine (do you know Simon Whistler?) and Interest Media (ever hear of Gary Vee?), and everything is again logged where appropriate within the Archive.
The weeks events are rounded up and organized via a weekly report on The Directory via the BuyMeACoffee platform, where I also intend to house digital products.
soon
The Imperial Triality splits one message into three deliveries.
I see these worlds as enclosures ran mad; we have been programmed with fabrications and bombarded with Chaos, we have been made full on pleasure and made to submit to Apathy.
There are abominations in the streets and demons in the shadow that covers us in this darkness of the daylight.
The Men of Modernia are beset against our will to a spiritual War of Wills for control of of our very minds. If we are not made to consume while being forced to work, we are being indoctrinated as zealots and made to hate those we were made to love.
All this, while Authority observes These Plebian Games from the Emperors Box, and produces our slop and feed, keeping all the land and it's people's affairs under duress, just as intended.
There is darkness, and you must fight it, there are fabrications which enslave you, and you must destroy them, and there are mentalities of Brokenness and Corruption within you, and you must be purged, cleansed, and ReForged... for it will be only those who resist the call of false gods and do what is required to break formation from the masses, who will claim victory in The War of Wills.
The MINDSET Nation carries Frameworks and Constructs for Chaos in service of naming and operating against the entropy and disorder of your life while The Grey Garrison carries the Practices for corrective mental code and effective execution of your actions.
The Dark Church carries the Scriptures and Liturgies required to arm you against the Demons which prey upon the weak during Our Shared Crisis Era, and truth to tread by, that you may never again stray from the Path to Progress.
And all of these tools were purpose built for three unique journeys.
We are ready to fight back and regain control of our lives from the pits below hell, or we are struggling to survive in these worlds drowned in apathy. Else, we are broken, and must become ReForged.
One idea pours once and multiplies across every platform built to catch it, shaped to whatever that House receives that message best.
My Lesterian Canon is the source underneath everything while The Creative Verse is then built and fleshed upon it.
and yes, I've obsessed and tinkered with these ideas for several lifetimes over at this point. find a gap in my work and I may invite you out to meet and write with me
III. On My Digital Empire
The Open Notes Archive
Mirroring a physical registry and several copies, this is the knowledge and records keeping architecture behind all my efforts.
Built in Obsidian, it functions to give my thoughts somewhere to land instead of scattering. Everything routes through it or out of it: Framework Extrapolation pages, full campaign retrospectives, channel and platform inventories, etc.
The public-facing slice of it, delivered through Obsidian Publish, is organized in a manner that allows readers to actually navigate.
And it's all txt files. I'll be able to keep and copy all of my archives relatively easily as time progresses from here along My Adventure.
BMAC: The Legion Directory
I want to make it as easy as possible to discover everything that I'm doing, for multiple styles of interweb user.
There's someone out there, just like me, that needs the details broken down at the base, who will actually take the time to read every single one of the some thousand some pages of the Open Notes Archive as I upload them.
At the same time there is someone else who would be served infinitely better by a simple weekly report of everything that dropped the week prior.
This is that, and as the "Open Notes Archive Lite" for all intents and purposes, I'm working to make it functional and value-based, that it may serve as others require to point them in the appropriate directions.
soon.. I want to have this in order before my next movement, I will
Reddit: The UnderWriters Network
Did you know that chatbots are pulling from sources like Reddit? One might imagine that creating an organized database of searchable information on one's own work may assist them in breaking the veil and beginning to appear in conversations around the planet, even. The Capitol has welcomed some humble visitors from over 25 countries into the folds of my work since sitelaunch, so something of my efforts is clearly working. Ideas, questions, select drafts and platform specific items flow from my brain and are captured here. Not as deep as The Rogue Anthro Project, but deep enough to be able to link to other things that matter.
TheIsaacLester Journal Series
I exist in a state of perpetual internal conversation that I must actively work to control at all times. There are always ideas in my mind, general statements that I want aired, and the like. What you see as a polished piece of material making it's rounds through The Engines began as a disorganized question, observation, funny thought, or maybe even a meme. Reddit is cool in the way that no one is really paying attention until they are, so I feel like this is one place where I can relax and just dump it all as it comes to me.
The Exodus Journal
I've uploaded Discordia in the heat of my anger during the process of the operation, and have been in a state of mild dissociation for the better part of this past two months entirely. I think it'd be best proper to start from here with The Kindness of Strangers and go from there. My mental architecture has not yet caught up to my physical body and I am still shaking internally and visibly jumping at the occasional loud noise, but I will catch the works up to my body, and get my body caught up to my mind, soon
Imperial Ink - r/sketchedbylester
Location redundancy for the images themselves, as well as increased internet spread, and I get to drop each one with the info from the Archive, so it all works out in fleshing my canon. The Archive has the order of draft, so I can publish at will because I'll be linking the posts together chronologically with footer notes anyway. Might even make some audio notes for the Directory, now that I think about it..
Imperial Engineering
I'm working on designing a Minifigure Scale Venator Class Star Destroyer; work in progress pics gotta go somewhere besides The Designers Notes and Official Builders Reports that drop for the House of Bricks via The Syndicate.
The Imperial Triality Journal Series
For all the loose thoughts that don't land as notes on Substack itself, I'll have this space. Same general function as TIL's Journal Series, but specific to Triality work alone.
The X4 Visual Campaign Journal
And lastly, I thought it'd be cool to do a "Clone Wars Campaign Journal"-esque version using the screenshots I've collected over my time with the game. Each set will come with a story and 3-5 images. it's a truly beautiful game
TheMeDotCom: The Capitol
I've always been deeply fascinated and incredibly interested in the idea of having a personal space and home on the internet to keep all the things I found cool.
We don't own interest media platforms and profiles can be wholly deleted in an instant, sometimes without warning even. A site is your own; a single house for projects, ideas, useful finds, and life changing wisdom where books can be written, albums stored, and playlists made.
My Capitol Site is center of all things, where news flows out of all progress made, and course corrections taken can be made public for any and all who follow my journey.
Isaac's Ideas: The Blog
Split into a few categories to cover the current focus of my life and work, my blog is where the wisdom and stories of Lester's Life Lessons, my adventures, hobbies, and more are all laid bare. Here I am able to get the full ideas of my work explained, that they then may be made proper and suitable for newsletter distribution.
Then there's all the fuckery going on with society and all my "High Lesterian Philosophy", of course.
In keeping with the Lesterian Essay Standard, any piece labeled Major Discourse falls under the genre of "Longest Form Grand Essay" and will be formatted with a proper Orientation, complete argument over five main sections, and complete close with Lesterian High Latin, core concepts, key terms, and additional works linked throughout. These build the backbone of my Canon as a whole.
General Dispatches are more akin to the weight of the 5 paragraph essays we were made to draft in High School, and these "Long Form Thesis Examinations" are more aimed at creating digestible material for a wider audience to introduce them to my works and worlds.
Then, Inquiry Statement Pieces are "Short by Comparison Constructive Dispatches", meant to capture the idea and get it out in a coherent manner in under a 10 minute deliverable.
and of course, True Orientations, serving as Master Maps for your reading pleasure. and yes, I know it's a lot. brain no stop, had to force order.
By Order of The Substack Syndicate
If I tried to write under a single publication my thoughts would come out even more insane and scattered than they probably already do.
I have this Lego project going on, where I'm designing a minifigure scale Venator, (and I am grossly delayed...) but I also want to share my lessons learned from surviving the Chaos of my life. This, while my life has currently placed me in Asia, and I am planning my Path to Progress. I write poems, I write short and long form science fiction stories, I write newsletters...
all that shit ain't living under one house.
We'll get to The StoryForge and Imperial Engineering in time, but for now, most of my personal stuff goes to Lester's Letters, and those works go directly to the newsletter of the same title.
When it comes to Chaos, I want to document what I've experienced, as I experienced it, and share how I overcame those struggles and challenges from my first crisis to the last.
I want to share the tools I've discovered which have allowed me to better equip myself for battle against the darkness of the day, and I want to uplift the Broken and point them down the path of ReForging.
My trauma response is worldbuilding.
and I will win, because (I am insane...) only I have this life, and only I Master over it.
The MINDSET Nation:
The MINDSET Nation Newsletter and Morning Thunder Podcast offer The Perspective of Progress, that no matter your current circumstances, you can overcome the darkness of the modern day and resist the pull of Apathy.
I offer Frameworks for Chaos, that any and all who are lost in these worlds may better combat the challenges around them and regain control over their lives.
A new program is required to face the darkness of the day, and win; man must upload new code into his mental operating system.
Frameworks for Chaos exist to show you the mechanisms of Modernia working on you instead of only feeling their weight, for once man can see the constructs he is locked within and understand their mechanisms, he may begin to dismantle the fabrications that enslave him
The Nation is the House of Builders, Crusaders, and Campaigners, and exists to rally those who have committed to the fight for their future. I have saved myself from darkness and clawed my way back from obscurity. I will show you the route from ruin and you will cobble your path to progress.
Here we take drifters and the recently awakened and set them about regaining control over their lives.
The Nation and Morning Thunder share the Five Phases of Reconstruction as well as Frameworks and Constructs for Chaos.
The Grey Garrison:
The Garrison's Iron Lantern delivers The Blunt Perspective, naming the fabrications of Modernia and serving to assist man in cutting them out of himself.
Where Frameworks for Chaos and The Good Word of The MINDSET Nation will set you about building a better foundation for a more desired life, the Garrison arms you for resisting the Sleep of The Mind and fighting back against the Apathy that comes from it.
We shift focus here toward the Axis of Execution, that our actions be forever aligned with our intentions.
The Garrison's domain is action under pressure and this House of The Triality holds Practices for Chaos, as well as Grey Games & Theory.
These tools exist to assist you in moving correctly inside your Construct-or-otherwise situation once you understand it's mechanisms well enough to act.
Where do you stand, and what action actually serves the mission rather than what action merely feels good?
Ficta Moderniae Delenda Est, Socius Carissime.
The Dark Church:
From The Church and the quiet Halls of Reflection flow The Midnight Sermon, and The True Perspective. This is for they who wish to build their route from ruin, but do not know or cannot cobble the Path to Progress for the wounds upon their soul and scars upon their mind.
"If you are Broken, Brother, you MUST become ReForged"
It begins with understanding the nature of Pandora Programs and how your code was corrupted. These ideas that nothing matters and it is pointless to fight for your future, this mentality that your life is simply not meant for great things, these heretical lies that infest our minds...
they must be purged with fire, the houses of these false gods burned to ash and salted over; let Truth cut down the fabrications of Modernia
You must face what happened to you and your part in it that laid you low. You must reckon with reality and come to terms with what was lost. We must harvest the lessons from what was, that we may build what is to be.
Scriptures, Exorcisms, and Liturgies for Chaos identify what has taken root in the soul of a shattered man, and gives him the means of purging it from his code.
Youtube & State Sponsored WeTV
I think about Simon Whistler and go "it'd take a while to get set up, but ... I want to do a version of that... I could totally do my own version of that..." So, where we are now, I have my main channel which will begin to take shape as I now have more time for all things...
As in I'm no longer under immediate threat of crashing tf out from trying to exist in peace...
The raw and unfiltered takes will go to @TrueIsaacLester, while the Triality Houses and other Syndicate works will flow to their native homes and clip centers, once passed through the Drafts channel @ReadByLester
In theory, this should be relatively simple. Everything only goes where it belongs, and I know where it all lives, so I know where to plant what. More exposure can only increase my chances of finding my people and raising my Legions, so I raise Standards and heighten the bar to meet the challenges that think they stand any chance against me.
Facebook: The Lesterian VERSE
Between articles, clips, images, and audio, a coherent image should begin to form in the mind of the viewer of these worlds I build, why, and how. Nothing too crazy here, but more documentation of proof on another public platform, to Raise Standards for all to see.
End
The standard advice is to pick one platform and to work it until it works back. This is favorable for 99% of people. I am not special, only stubborn. Do as I say, not as I do, and start with intention where you can, with all the tools you currently have.
If you are broken, become ReForged. If you are willing, work to tear down the house of the false gods that lord over you. If you are able, fight the darkness with the lessons you've gathered so far that have allowed you to persist up to this point.
My machine is for my madness. Use these works to design your own, and conquer. Go now, and take no quarter in the fight for your future.
- Creator Captain TheIsaacLester
Lux Ex Tenebris
Per Aspera Ad Astra
Legio Sum
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