Cenobite - NicheInterests/mistfunk GitHub Wiki

Cenobite was the name of a lit group run out of area code 604 by Schtroumpf, whose fandom apparently included Clive Barker as well as Peyo. Its WHQ was The Screaming Tomato and it apparently released three lit packs between Oct '96 and Feb '97 (with a March release suggested in its infofile but not findable in the archives), though artwork celebrating its brand was dropping in other groups' releases from July of 1996 through to as late as a year later. In addition to sharing a home base with Mist Classic, the two crews were close enough that several Mist poets (eg. [Cthulu], [Crowkeeper]) released guest poems with them and some (well, [Bast]) even held dual membership for a time. (Finally, recognition by some outside authority of the quality of our writers' literary offerings!)

In addition to offering some of the highest-quality lit in the artscene, their lit packs also featured top-notch art in their infofiles etc. donated by generous artscene talents. Their infofiles also included some rare commentaries and insights regarding the comings and goings in the lit corner of the artscene -- vanishingly rare analysis on the lit community even among its participants. (Wayback Machine spelunking of lit.org might reveal more, but I can't imagine that is investigation that anyone is ever going to conduct for any reason whatsoever.)

Cenobite ran into some friction when the ACiD artpacks archive determined that lit packs were external to the artpacks sphere and churlishly refused to support them -- a somewhat ironic, hypocritical position for them to hold given the uncomfortable position they'd been put in themselves when [Trixter] and the [Hornet] demoscene FTP archive had decided to stop hosting artpacks. (And researching this blurb, I see that the Hornet Archive as well got a taste of this treatment down the line themselves, when their Wikipedia article was removed for being external to, well, notability.)

(Unlike most lit writers, Schtroumpf did eventually publish a book, 2020's "Who Ate all The Squid?: Football Adventures in South Korea" from Pitch Publishing.)

At one point they had a homepage up at http://www.ultranet.ca/cenobite/cenobite.html, but it was not mirrored by the Wayback Machine.