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Alt. Cardiff 2026 Goes LIVE!
Seya monitoring Rwth and Rhiannon from a terminal in 4026. ©2026 Art of FACELESS

Alt. Cardiff 2026 Goes LIVE!


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First published spin-off from The Hollow Circuit™ trilogy
January 2026

This is the first narrative fragment to break free from the main Hollow Circuit trilogy and enter the physical world as a distributed hyperstitional artifact.

Rwth and Rhiannon's story will appear:

  • Across Tumblr as serialised posts
  • On itch.io as a downloadable zine plus multimedia bundles
  • In print drops throughout Cardiff
  • In guerrilla zine campaigns across UK cities
  • Seeded in Athens, Greece, our second operational base

The piece explores consciousness transfer, identity dissolution, and the economics of escape through Rwth and Rhiannon's perspective, characters navigating the margins of the Valyphos's collapsing systems. Like all Hollow Circuit narratives, it functions as both fiction and an observational instrument, exploring how stories move through physical and digital spaces simultaneously.

This is hyperstition in practice: The story doesn't just describe the world of 2026, it manifests within it, distributed hand-to-hand, city-to-city, as physical evidence that alternative narratives can bypass algorithmic control.

Part of Alt.Cardiff2026, expanding to Alt.Athens2026, zine/print through Valyphos travel infrastructure, the same transit systems that move characters through the narrative will carry the story itself across European cities.

Find it. Share it. Leave it somewhere unexpected.

Project Status: Active distribution phase
Current locations: Cardiff (primary), Athens (secondary deployment)
Format: Tumblr serial / itch.io zine/print drops
Part of: The Hollow Circuit™ extended universe / Alt.Cardiff2026

READ IT!👇

https://www.tumblr.com/altcardiff2026/806071445007597568/the-air-in-2026-tasted-different-to-rwth-it
https://www.tumblr.com/altcardiff2026/807346406091309056/the-hollow-circuit-grangetown-protocol

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