Thank you Substack! 1 year!

20-06-2025 Thank you Substack! ❤❤❤1 year!

I created my account on Substack almost 1 year ago. I go first with “twoone” then “two one” then “wotan” then “whatever guys” now “Epimedes”,

Epimedes = The Middle Finger of the Great Goddess Rhea

I didn’t know then that in a year I would write around 200k words in 4 books.

I didn’t know how many times I would cry writing and reading my own emotional tantrums after.

I didn’t know that you can have only one fervent reader who would read you again and again without losing the pleasure or the gusto for it, even if this reader is still the same as the writer, aka “myself.”

I didn’t know that you can believe so much in yourself that the world has zero importance—what it does, what it doesn’t, what it says, or what it doesn’t.

I discovered somebody greater than me in myself.

I discovered that if I die any moment, I would die with a smile on my face—what I discovered inside myself is the eternal part.

I’m probably a guy just imbued with myself.

My writing is pretty shit, but I don’t care because I love it, and it’s enough.

This is not false modesty: I know for a fact that I can lift a soul to the moon, that I can make it cry, that I can make it fall in love, that I can make it sweat in desire…

I know that I can be an extraordinary speculative physicist, an excellent tavern philosopher, a dream leader for a change that will never come.

I know all that, and probably nobody will take the time or the interest to read all this. It’s fine, I don’t care, really.

If anyone is still curious about my work, I go by the name Arseniux Vox on Amazon. My last book, Never Stop Praying, is not so bad. My first, The Last Human, might be pretty bad, but who cares?

I just left here my realisation: I had a free reader on my book and he read 2 pages, meaning 1 cent for me! How many people in this world can be happy to earn 1 cent? Well… I’m happy!

Thank you to the reader I will never know who turned the first page! Blessed be you forever!

Mucho love to everybody!

And really, thank you to the guys from Substack, this non-flawless platform which tries and succeeds in part to fill the world with authenticity—authenticity we need the most in this world of AI-mashed brain potatoes.

Thank you from all my heart! ❤❤❤❤