IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND OTHER SUCH THINGS

If you're using this site on a phone, I would recommend turning your screen to landscape mode! The content fits better and you won't have to pan around as much. Also probably zoom out when you visit the "world" page, and when you're reading the comic.

What is this site?

The purpose of this site is to host my webcomic/webnovel (I crave both the precision of the written word, and the tangibility of the image), Rewritten in the Stars. If my story sounds interesting to you, you can read it by clicking on the pages/archive page, and then on the link that says "Chapter 1," or you can go to the world page for maps, and worldbuilding details that are not necessarily plot-relevant, but may contextualize some things and might be interesting to know.

Schedule

The current upload schedule is one page every Wednesday and one every other Saturday. I'd like to be able to post 2-3 pages a week someday, but right now this is the most I can manage while maintaining my buffer.

What is "Rewritten in the Stars" About?

Hey, who put all of these politics and all of this depression in my fun fantasy romp??

That is not an appropriate answer. I apologize.

Rewritten in the Stars includes thinly-veiled religious commentary, themes of isolation, impermanence, subjectivity, and companionship, and a cast of traumatized, emotionally confused teenagers who maybe shouldn't have been left unsupervised, and happen to have all involved themselves in a major political scandal, either directly or implicitly.

Note: This story covers potentially upsetting or triggering material, like death, violence, suicide, self-harm, abuse, and systemic and societal prejudice. I will place warnings regarding specific pages or chapters, but most of the things I just listed are like, major themes and/or plot points, so their stank is kind of all over the story.

Who are you?

My full government name is Cheeseworth Ronald Reginald John Josh Steve Alucard McDude, and I like reliable public transit and walkable city-planning (yes, living on the US West Coast IS difficult for me :,( ), literary/artistic analysis, and putting the fake people I made up in my head into progressively more and more difficult to explain Situations as a way to ease my existential malaise and make convoluted statements about a variety of topics. If you want to ask me questions, you can send me an ask on Tumblr. I also post art on there that doesn't go on this website, like character design sheets, non plot-relevant lore, and sketches. I know Tumblr is not the most widely-used website nowadays (for some understandable reasons), but it's there if you also use it, and I'm afraid I lack the patience for most other social media sites, especially nowadays (they are all getting progressively worse).

TO-DO

PROGRESS

Chapter 1

Total pages: 48

Pages thumbnailed: 33

Pages sketched: 19

Pages lined: 16

Pages colored: 16

Pages finished: 16

CHANGELOG

  • 8/25/25: Added changelog, updated to-do list.
  • 8/27/25: Posted 1-1-2, fudged around with the text spacing on the comment boxes to make it less eyestrain-y, and updated progress log. Also experimented with margins and element sizes. We'll see if this broke the site or not later.
  • 9/3/25: posted 1-1-3.
  • 9/6/25: Posted 1-1-4, updated settings on the comment boxes to fix overflow, and added a warning to the comic-reading-area since I realized that if I wanted to link directly to that, nobody would see the warning in the archive. One of these days I will learn javascript and get the pages to display like a normal webcomic, so it will be way easier to warn people about specific pages, but I was very spoiled by how easy it was to get a hang of html and css, and have forgotten almost everything from the days when I was fluent in python besides the names of different kinds of loops and functions (don't make fun of me; it was what they were teaching at my school), so I'll basically have to start over my programming knowledge from scratch lol. It would be so nice to know java though... it's so useful, I'm just lazy. Maybe if I relearn python (I just have to remember the syntax rules and stuff, so it shouldn't be that hard if I just take a gander at some of my old code), there's a dictionary or something somewhere that will show me how to convert my python into java and I can learn it that way (the lazy person way).
  • 9/10/25: Posted 1-1-5.
  • 9/27/25: Tried to fix the comment/author's note boxes on the comic pages page to have a maximum height and just scroll when they get longer than that so they don't take up so much space. Not sure if it worked or not. I may have accidentally broken the page but we'll see later.
  • 10/1/25: posted 1-1-8.
  • 10/4/25: posted 1-1-9; tried to add a navigation menu to make it easier to find specific places as the chapter gets longer. It is temporarily ugly and broken for reasons unbeknownst to me.
  • 10/5/25: Hesitantly, I say that I THINK I fixed the nav menu. It should no longer be broken but it may still be ugly. I will try to pretty-fy it later.
  • 11/2/25: I have finally, FINALLY fixed the comment boxes! Huzzah! I am not completely incompetent at CSS; I just had a colon where I should have put a semicolon, and didn't notice it FOR MONTHS!