Dorian Zikic's Digital Archive

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I want to overhaul the design of this site so it's a bit more unique! Also I'm using a lot of prebuilt html/css layouts, like ribo.zone's.

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Current Project/s

WRITING, ALWAYS ＿〆(。。)

I want to go to the desert to write on Country, and visit the landscape that will be inspiring one of my projects. I was talking to my friend recently (also a writer) about how I might not actually go to the desert, but the point, she said, was to go to the desert i.e. commit fully to the project, even if it's out of the budget to actually physically go to the desert. I guess the point is just that I want to commit 1000% to this.

Fringe Festival Show

"Tyler's Inferno" is a short show about a descent into a hellish party. The worst guy you know is there (he wears a North Face vest and his name is Tom), the pink pilates princess is there (and she HATES you) and the dealer might be a wizard. Why are you even going!? Oh right, to create meaningful connections. Good luck with that.

Staging in Oct 2025

Anthrocity Game ⋆꙳•̩̩͙❅̩̩͙‧͙ ‧͙̩̩͙❆ ͙͛ ˚₊⋆

Estimated completion: Oct 2025

Collaborative game with Generic Beetle about being a lonely worker in a big city.

See the digital lit / games tab for more info!

Backburner projects

Learning Neocities!.⋆｡⋆☂˚｡⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆.

To do list:

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Simple 3D game :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧

Inspo: Anatomy, How Fish is Made, ps1 Bloodbourne demake, etc.

gifs by eurothug4000

Blender - modelling
Blender - textures
Blender - rigging
Godot? Unity - exporting

bio

Dorian (they/he) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Aoteroa, but grew up and is currently based in Naarm, on the lands of the Yalukit Wilam. They are interested in science fiction, digital literature and language. They are currently working on their MA thesis, on how digital literature expresses notions of Queer time.

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it is currently:

WARING

Or, Wombat Season.

"From April to [July], when morning mists cover the land, nights become longer, and wombats emerge from their burrows it comes into Waring Season. Migrating birds arrive from Tasmania and male bulen-bulen, lyrebirds, begin to display their mounds, their spectacular tail feathers, and their songs to attract a mate. As the solstice approaches, Scorpius, at the heart of which is the reddish star Antares, Balayang (Djuit in Boorong naming), rises at sunset. ‘Two seasonal indicators become tied in together – our closest star [the Sun] and the distant stars [like Antares],’ says Duane."

text source img source, credit to Wayne Lawler

reading

Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher. Very cosy. I feel like it's doing that fantasy thing where race/class is made invisible under the pretence of fantasy, but gender (and particularly gendered violence) is a significant part of the themes and story. It's got a sort of liberal feminist comfort. Women can't rely on men to protect them! Princesses have to save themselves! etc, etc.

Tomie - Junji Ito. Idk how I feel about it. I get that the point is that she is repeatedly victimised, a victim of misogynistic murder again and again, but also like, no one acknowledges that there's a certain way that this murder is shown and her body is displayed. It's giving male gaze. I liked Uzumaki and the Enigma of the Amigara Fault a lot more, though I think they share some of the problems.

playing

Sonic Frontiers - Let's fucking goooo this game's storyline is totally baffling, the voice acting performances are bizarre and confusing and it's 100% of a rip off of the worst parts of Breath of the Wild I am having the time of my life I love Sonicccc