A new pantheon for post-postmodernism!
LOOM is a collective of interconnected stories across and beyond the fabric of reality, with three new defenders of TIME, SPACE, and MIND.
Storytelling and myth have, since their dawn, been vehicles for people to better understand the world and one another. Pantheons of gods have been willed into the world, breathing life into phenomena: ideas that were known or felt - but not fully grasped.
From the farthest reaches of the universe, across eons, and betwixt the inner workings of the human mind, the world of LOOM is serves a sandboxfor creators and audiences alike, where imagination can run free - a 'curated infinity' of stories.
But it's not just a set of 'open-source' characters or worldbuilding playthings - LOOM's value lies in its canon. Inarguable, non-democratic - but critical to the shape of the thing. Think of it as a game master of game masters; a cenrtral narrative-weaver responding to the organic subset of stories threading from the shared foundation(s) established here.
LOOM's stories span three primary properties, sprawling across shared world(s).
While a caricature of 'our world' serves as an anchor point, each has its own distinct attitude, domain of ideas, and sub-worlds The world(s) that comprise this show’s universe are rich. They can present an array of diversions for our heroes, with novel characters or creatures appearing as one-offs to illustrate the scope of the universe - but should always be grounded in an interesting exploration of how abstract forces and concepts interplay to shape our lives.
Click into each of the below properties for a deeper dive into the respective domains of our young heroes!
While a pitch for three, let alone seven (including some of the 'looser' premises for an extended Loom-iverse) discrete shows is ambitious - Loom is not an atomic unit
NOW PRESENTING |
Now Presenting helps ‘give shape’ to an ever-changing world in its Fourth Dimension, a psychedelic landscape that dictates the very notion of the now - where Penny must train to prepare against the emerging threat of The Zeitgest; her ghastly precursor and one of Father Time's greatest failures.
At its core, Now Presenting is about the complex choreography of culture and the rapid, endless lyiterating exchange between the world stage and the individual: our relationship with the ever-changing world at large.
This is not a show about time travel. At least, not in the traditional sense. This is a show about the lovably unqualified hero of the Present: a human girl with the unique ability to travel to time, not through time.
PERSONAL SPACE |
Space (and other fundamental forces of the natural world) personified!
Zeke frees X and Y, the previously imprisoned and now depowered deity namesakes of the spatial axes, helping redeem them from their status as 'outlaws of physics,' embarking in a globetrotting adventure to reclaim a powerful set of artifacts with their former abilities imbued.
MINDIORE MANORS |
Mindy discovers she's from a long line of powerful psychics, a rare variant known as 'Manifesters'. While most psychics have a single ability, manifesters are able to summon a familiar reflecting a deep facet of their subconscious, wildly more powerful than their progenitor.
At its core, Mindiore Manors is about the delicate dance of triangulating intent and action. Mindiore Manors explores our relationship with ourselves and one another: how our ideas aggregate and transform - what gets corrupted or bolstered in our headspaces... and what's lost in translation between what we imagine and what we express.
It's an inversion of Now Presenting, with MIND as the "micro" to TIME's "macro."
What in the knockoff-Khan-Academy does this world 'look like?'
...and beyond.
While the above aim to provide ingredients for evergreen
Odds & Ends |
A spiritual and canonical 'prequel' that takes place in the singular moment before the events of the three mainline entries.
Luck and Chance can't be seen by any human - aside from Ev. But each night, Ev is 'restored' of her memories across a once seemingly infinite timeloop - that's about to run out. Each iteration shrinks the window before the next reset by several hours.
With only twelve loops remaining, The Odds (Luck, Chance, and Fortune - who's taken on the guise of mortal, Ev) confront what lies after.
A 'begrudging' cross-over event that spirals into its own beast - and a foray into the MULTIVERSE. (Wait - hold your groans!) Quality Control should feel like two 'complete' and fairly separate works.
I: Penelope, Zeke, and Mindy team up to take down The Order - a shadowy agency that's been observing and subtly manipulating their adventures from behind the scenes. Pardon the triteness but... "This should be the 'Empire Strikes Back' of the franchise!" Our heroes are presented an unwinnable task: the very act of their collaboration , succeeding in 'defeating' The Order splinters reality into loose thematic tangent worlds, paving the way for...
II: Comstance and Variance
REALITY SHOWS |
Reality hosts 'interviews' with the cast of characters from the above works, that take on the aggregate persona of their creators.
SUN.SETTINGS |
Format: Anthology, Ongoing
An ambivalent trio of storyweavers cast judgement on the omniverse of ideas. Val Yu, a quiet, optimistic, mute astronaut of unknown origins, Angel O'Hara, a former Earth starlet cast to the stars - a femme fatale with an unspoken, sordid history, and Tori Stellar, a naive but endlessly kind humanoid alien. The trio must return to their ship, The Waypoint, at sundown - lest they be subject to unspoken consequences... Though will mysteriously appear aboard the vesel the following morning without memory. Like pulp fiction publications, this should be a sampler of science fiction tales with our cast serving as a framing device - each assuming roles, either usurping slots of other characters, or serving as commentators. The framing device should have its own narrative of conflict, with each character having a different take on their role as surveyor of worlds.
THEO ENDS |
Format: Special Presentation
A whodunnit murder mystery that plays like a symposium. Reality and unreality collide at the frayed edges of storytelling.
UNDER OVER |
Format: Mini-Series
Penia the Primordial Slayer takes on the last of the Worldwarks.
A mythic hero in a doomed world that lies at the beginning and end of existence, Penia resolves to stop the Worldwarks from starting anew.
VALENCE |
Format: Film (3 Shorts)
A story about a girl who become the most powerful being in existence.
A Wizard of Oz meets the multiverse tale. A young farmgirl dreams of more, escaping the bounds of reality. As she pursues her dream of stardom , the world she's always known unravels around her - as her self-dampened omniscience begins to reemerge.
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Lumania Cent
The full meta-narrative is revealed. The connectivity between the seemingly disconnected sun.settings and Under Over, which seemed to sit in discrete corners of a loose universe are